Caught between genius and restraint
Amy Beach
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The muddle ground of British arts
In House
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Commerce concealing an artist
Conversations with Billy Wilder
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Hitler goes to Hollywood
Francis Ford Coppola
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Things can only get better
British Cinema of the 90s
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Modernity ushered in with a bang
India's Nuclear Bomb - New Nukes
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The cutting words of a gentle man
Talking Films
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Vulgar views in sterile ideas
Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!
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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 modest Swiss autobiographer: " I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which,...
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No Marx for young Mosley
Dumbing Down - The Idea of Culture
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Education has changed - but who changed it?
Reforming Higher Education
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Sports science: 25 years old
Tom Reilly, professor of sports science at Liverpool John Moores University, was a staff member at LJMU (then a polytechnic) when it set up Britain's first sports science degree in 1975. The...
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A peace of the action
For an expert on war, Michael Howard is much taken with the bits in between - peace. Harriet Swain talks to him It is a warm day and Sir Michael Howard suggests we take our tea - the shorter silver...
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A peaceful look at sights for war eyes
Jonathan Black looks at how working-class artists depicted British Tommys Sculptors face numerous problems when tackling the subject of war in peacetime. After the first world war, for example, they...
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Racial tolerance on a wartime ration
Britain stood alone against the Nazis in 1940, but as Sonya Rose explains, the thousands of blacks who came to its aid discovered racism and injustice and that the cliffs at Dover were very, very...