'Pugh's book is full of errors'
On June 11 2000, The Observer published an article with the headline "Diary reveals lesbian love trysts of suffragette leaders". It referred to Martin Pugh's forthcoming book, which the newspaper...
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'Purvis's claims damage herself'
It is good policy not to criticise books on the basis of newspaper articles written 18 months before publication. In The Pankhursts I do not say that Emmeline or Christabel Pankhurst were lesbians;...
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The Pankhursts - politics and passion
The women's suffrage movement provoked strong reactions and emotions at the beginning of the 20th century. At the start of the 21st century, debate about the topic is just as heated, says Harriet...
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Next on the agenda: genocide. Then drinks
Almost exactly 60 years ago, in a grand villa in elegant and cosmopolitan Berlin-Wannsee, 15 senior officials met to chat about mass murder. The invitations had come from Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's...
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Where was God when evil struck?
To mark National Holocaust Memorial Day, Dan Cohn-Sherbok looks at how Jewish and Christian theologians have radically reconsidered God and His relation to man in light of Nazi horrors, while Mark...
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Is a child soldier a 'child' in the eyes of the law?
As the UN prepares to publish its report on the aftermath of war in Sierra Leone, Richard Wilson reports on the difficulties of intervention in third-world countries and the potential for abuse by...
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Professor, politician, and man of peace
Sari Nusseibeh's career straddles politics and academia, an approach he believes is essential in the pursuit of peace between Palestine and Israel. Helena Flusfeder reports. Sari Nusseibeh, president...
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Still seduced by the final theory
Brian Pippard looks for God between the arcs of a double rainbow. Steven Weinberg is a distinguished physicist who has found time in recent years to write for a more general readership, and his books...
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Taking stock of the market
The Case against the Global Economy and for a Turn Towards Localization - Private Planet
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Everything owes a debt to nothing
Zero - The Book of Nothing
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It's a funny business
Dr Strangelove's Game
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Opportunity knocks equality
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume II
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Era of alphabet soup for aliens
Regulating Financial Services and Markets in the 21st Century
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Measures of man
Measuring and Weighing in Ancient Times