1 Blackstone’s Statutes on Property Law 2008-2009 edited by Meryl Thomas Oxford University Press, £14.99 ISBN 97801992381252 Blackstone’s Statutes on Public Law and Human Rights 2008-2009 edited by...
The Reith Lectures have long been a premier platform for public intellectuals, but, Matthew Reisz asks, are scholarly communicators endangered in an era of dumbing down, media fragmentation and...
Like the communities they serve, Northern Ireland's two universities have put inclusiveness and cohesion at the top of the agenda. But some elements of the past linger, Hannah Fearn finds
The culture shock experienced by non-religious state-educated undergraduates at elite universities sometimes sends them running into the arms of Christian Unions. In seeking supportive friends, they...
Sian Moore finds an examination of the biased press coverage of the miners' strike instructive
As Jacalyn Duffin points out, it is rare to find a modern Western medical clinician studying the role of religion in medicine and healing. She addresses this taboo head-on in her analysis of records...
In 1960 a young American-Jewish historian published a monograph that revolutionised not only our current understanding of Jewish immigration to England a century ago, but also our approach to the...
History holds clues to coping with contemporary crises, but a rigorous approach is essential, says Margaret MacMillan. She talks to Matthew Reisz
Why did they do it? Frank Furedi on the erosion of civil rights in the post-9/11 US
The Wal-Mart story illustrates sea changes in US culture, writes Rebekah Peeples Massengill
There is a view reaching back to Plato that art produces second-rate knowledge. Howard Cannatella seeks to demonstrate that the mimetic approach found in art education embodies a more valuable form...
It is likely that anyone familiar with Spanish, Portuguese or Jewish history will have come across the case of the Marranos or Conversos, Iberian Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism under...
The story of how genetic profiling revolutionised forensic science enthrals Charalambos P. Kyriacou
"We love death the way you love life." These words uttered by Shehzad Tanweer, one of the London suicide bombers, in a video issued on the first anniversary of the attacks on the city's transport...
Goth, it seems, is having a bit of a moment. Last season's catwalks were full of dark and sinister confections, subsequently copied by high-street retailers from Urban Outfitters to Marks &...