The lure of facts and artefacts
Douglas Millard on the clocks, maps, gears and valves that sparked academics' love of science
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The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Following its devastating defeat in the Seven Years' War, France wanted to re-establish its American empire. What it needed was a new and better New France. The Duc de Choiseul settled on Kourou in...
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Her Husband Was a Woman: Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
I never thought I'd say this, but this book won me over as a fan of News of the World. By opening up six decades' worth of representations of women's cross-dressing to be found in the pages of the...
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When the future was Orange
A juicy account of England's links with Holland is missing a few segments, Anthony Milton discovers
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History Lesson: A Race Odyssey
Mary Lefkowitz's History Lesson ostensibly concerns itself with academic freedom of speech, relativism and hate speech but serves as a fascinating example of the ways in which race is played out in...
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Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture
I want to love this book. Really, I do. I have been pacing around my office listening to Marlene Dietrich and Amy Winehouse and wondering what to write that is generous to the project of Geek Chic,...
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The book of the week: The Kingdom of Infinite Space: A Fantastical Journey around Your Head
Chris McManus on our spitting image
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The week in books
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose, Volume III 1949-1955 edited by Edward Mendelson, professor of English and comparative literature and Lionel Trilling professor in the humanities, Columbia...
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Published this week
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century...
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Cash flows when academic passion is shared, says philanthropy tsar
Billion-dollar fundraiser counters the 'myth' that Britain lacks a tradition of giving. John Gill reports
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QCs say bid to mull morality of Israeli links breaches law
UCU cautioned on debating issue by legal counsel for anti-boycott group. Melanie Newman reports
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Pro-Israel academic barred from union forum
A leading campaigner against an academic boycott of Israel has been barred from a University and College Union online forum, prompting claims that debate on the issue is being suppressed.David Hirsh...
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Birkbeck mulls 'new opportunities' to soften blow of ELQ funding cuts
Mergers, fast-track degrees and new provision aim to 'sustain mission'. Rebecca Attwood reports
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University of Glamorgan - Chair in crisis planning created
A professorship in disaster management and emergency response is one of eight new interdisciplinary chairs being created by the University of Glamorgan. The university is organising an international...
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University of East Anglia - Green warning, silver prize
Climate-change scientists have won a silver medal for their debut garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show with a design that modelled possible futures for UK gardeners. The University of East Anglia...