Presidential libraries are spreading like pustules across the US. "Library" is a misleading name for these curious institutions. On the one hand, they are publicly maintained and regulated archives...
The research assessment exercise is a competition in which Britain's cleverest people fight for hundreds of millions of pounds of public money. So it is bound to be an unsettling experience for many...
Reform of Oxford University's ancient governance structures may have faltered, but modernisation is in the air for some of the institution's business students, who no longer have to wear the...
In reference to the attacks on me ("Row erupts over suffragette tale", January 26), how can there be a "row" over an article that has barely been published? Why cannot June Purvis and her friends...
I would agree with and congratulate both June Purvis and Antonia Byatt in their stance of observing history in its context. I would challenge Christopher Bearman's thesis on the part played by the...
It was ungracious of you to be so sneering at Christopher Bearman when he pointed out that some suffragettes used terrorism as a tactic to achieve their ends. That's what terrorism is: a tactic. Dr...
I was somewhat surprised by your article and editorial comment on the suffragette row. The tone is that Christopher Bearman is some kind of "amateur" historian and that his views are crude and merely...
The letter signed by a number of University and College Union members commenting on the union's response to the All-Parliamentary report on anti-semitism (Letters, January 19) refers to the academic...
Secretary of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, and UCU member As a rank-and-file member with a deep concern for social justice I have been considering the issue of the proposed...
A sentence from Samuel Beckett's Murphy came to mind on reading David Wilson's welcome article (Opinion, January 26): "Those little phrases that seem so innocuous and, once you let them in, pollute...
Bill Rammell's article (Opinion, December 22/29) was well timed, coming as it did not long before David Wilson's opinion article. The former anticipates "robust" and "quality", even getting them side...
Howard Moss (Letters, January 26) is quite right to urge members to vote in the forthcoming election for the general secretary of University and College Union. Nothing would be worse than a tiny vote...
My letter about a headline introducing an inaccurate and misleading report on the 2006 York St John institutional audit was headed "Audit concerns" (Letters, January 19). At risk of being repetitive...
Is there a 'real' woman behind exaggerated performances of femininity enacted by Kylie and Jordan? Hatty Oliver investigates This month, the Victoria and Albert Museum launches Kylie - The Exhibition...
Britain led the way in abolishing slavery 200 years ago, but also profited vastly from the slave trade. James Walvin challenges historians to delve into this puzzling conundrum Last October, Brown...