Ravi Balakrishna has just completed an economics PhD at the London School of Economics and is about to take up a post at the Bank of England. "It's unlikely that I'll be an academic in the future...
Unless pay soars, there will be no British economists teaching in universities by 2009, warn Stephen Machin and Andrew Oswald Gavyn Davies looks dull. He is of average height, has greyish brown hair...
For almost three-quarters of a century, the Anglo-American Conference of Historians, held annually at the Institute of Historical Research in London, has been the setting for both up-to-date gossip...
Lisa Jardine says that beliefs about horses hold the key to early-modern thinking about race A 16th-century painting by Titian shows the Habsburg prince, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, secular head...
Slavery was established in parts of the world aeons before the US was even a twinkle in Washington's eye and it was rarely restricted to one race or group. So how, asks David Brion Davis, did chattel...
Why do so few black actors land the top parts in television dramas? Stephen Bourne investigates In 1996, a young journalist asked me who Paul Robeson was. My heart sank. I remembered something I had...
New racial hostilities are surfacing towards those whose difference is hard to pin down. By Paul Gilroy Discussions of race pose moral challenges that historians must be prepared to explore....
Artists helped create the notion of a human hierarchy based on facial characteristics, argues David Bindman Race emerged as a scientific concept in the late 18th century, and continued throughout the...
Native American identity is constantly shifting and redefining itself to survive the challenges of different ages, says Jonathan King In a 1996 American movie Mars Attacks!, Martians are portrayed as...
Concentrating on ethnicity as the driving force in recent Balkan history distorts the picture, says Nergis Canefe History is not a science. According to the etymological roots of the word, it is the...
A Moscow State University student taking a lunchtime walk through the campus park died when an unknown attacker slashed her throat with a knife. Zukhra Saitova, a 19-year-old third-year philosophy...
LIFE PEERS Sir Ronald Oxburgh, KBE, rector, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine; Vivien Stern, secretary general, Penal Reform International. KNIGHTS William Adsetts, OBE, chair of...
The College of Law has launched its own student loan scheme in collaboration with NatWest bank. Under a special deal, students can take out loans currently fixed at 6.25 per cent or variable loans at...
(Photograph) - Nick Bower, a student at Sheffield Hallam University, who during a placement at South Yorkshire Passenger Transport helped develop QUEST, a bus location system. People waiting at bus...
The privately funded Islamic University of Rotterdam will more than double its student intake this autumn. Up to 100 new students are expected to be admitted to study Islam and the Koran. The...