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Sex, sea craft and insanity
Classic Biographies series
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Too right to redress wrongs
The Intellectuals and the Flag
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a West Indian writer: "One grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about...
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Beauty in world's oldest literature
Gilgamesh - The Literature of Ancient Sumer
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Tommy's massive leap into dataage
Colossus
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Fairweather fixers of US war machine
The Jasons
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Enough ideas to fill a Tardis
The Science of Doctor Who
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A healer with star quality
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
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Of an age intent on controlling nature
The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain
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The hothouse that wilted imperial ambitions
Before the Bauhaus
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Staff are silenced by fear of reprisals
Poll shows lecturers are alarmed at growing threats to their academic freedom, reports Jessica Shepherd Four in ten academics say their freedom to express controversial or unpopular opinions is under...
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Academics use salsa to shake off stress
Stressed academics might prefer to unwind in the pub, but an initiative at Birmingham University offered them the chance to chill out at a "workplace wellbeing day", with salsa classes and meditation...
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'A greater reputation makes alumni's degrees much more valuable'
US fundraiser Joe Beyel has taken up the post of director of development at Nottingham University Joe Beyel has been responsible for fundraising campaigns totalling well over $735 million (£392...
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On the move...
* Greenwich University has announced that Catherine Pettengell and Kate Anderson have joined the alumni and development team, part of the Development and Communications Office. Ms Pettengell comes...