First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the story of a doomed marriage: "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already...
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Kaleidoscopic view of our common past
The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914
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Truth gets lost at sea
The Crimean War
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Blowing the dust off royal records
The Struggle for Mastery
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School tie went quite a long way
The Guardsmen
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Midwife of the welfare state
Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience
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Poet who made ancient India sing for moderns
The Oxford India Ramanujan
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Easier? Maybe it's better taught 1
Some A levels are easier to obtain than others, according to research by Peter Tymms, ("Study calls for grading reform", September 3). In particular, sociology is identified as "easier" than 16 other...
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Easier? Maybe it's better taught 2
Some A-level subjects are easier than others based on comparisons with GCSE results? Are we assuming all GCSEs are equally difficult but not all A levels? This could go on for some time. Richard Kamm...
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Disputed words 2
Your report on the pulping of an official history by London Metropolitan University came as no surprise ("Book pulped at LondonMet", August ). The university appears to make a habit of banning books...
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Disputed words 1
Even by your standards, the article concerning the indus-trial dispute at this university marks a new low in journal-istic integrity and cannot go unchallenged ("V-c: I will sack rebel staff",...
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Don't do as we do
John Wakeford (Letters, September 3) is right to point out that plagiarism isn't confined to undergraduates. The online guidelines for essay writing produced by the School of Art History and...