Pot shot at Elizabeth's sea-dog
Sir Francis Drake
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Power dressing
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire
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Victorian nosology deciphered
An Atlas of Victorian Mortality
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The words made flesh
The Day-Star of Liberty
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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 set in the American civil war, whose author died of TB, aged 28: The cold passed reluctantly...
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Higher channels
In a new weekly column, John Davies selects radio and television programmes of use to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Cold War (Saturday 8.10 BBC2). Jeremy Isaacs was...
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They brought you Angela Rippon's legs
And they could teach TV's young Turks a thing or two. Their biographer, Graham McCann, analyses the Eric and Ernie effect INTERVIEWER: "What exactly do you do for a living?"ERNIE:"We're just...
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The feminine mystique
Sacked by Jacques Lacan, shunned by French universities, denigrated by Alan Sokal, Luce Irigaray is still a star. Jennifer Wallace meets a 'high priestess of ecriture feminine' "The most important...
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Exposure in the ebb tide
John Bayley has written a memoir of his wife, Iris Murdoch, who now has Alzheimer's. He tells Harriet Swain why in it he has chosen to reveal some of the most intimate details of her life Fig leaves...
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Less death in the lab
Scientists perform fewer experiments on animals than they have for 30 years. But plans to transplant pig hearts into chimpanzees (box) are likely to inflame animal rights protesters. Alison Goddard...
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The heart of the debate
Less death in the lab How would a chimp react to having a pig's heart inside it? That sort of question exercises Michael Banner (pictured), chair of the government's Animal Procedures Committee. His...
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Rome
Italian universities are under instructions to start organising courses in line with the "Sorbonne Agreement" signed with France, Britain and Germany in Paris in May. The idea is to harmonise...
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Eye witness
Millions of birds are beginning their annual migration from Northern Europe to their wintering grounds in the Mediterranean and Africa. The journey is tough enough at the best of times, especially...
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The salaries league table begins
It is only a matter of time before pay is ranked by subject, says Andrew Oswald Professors of computing, economics or chemistry may soon earn much more than professors of music, art or languages in...
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Avoiding future shock
Pensions in higher and further education are undergoing their biggest reforms in 20 years. Harriet Swain reports. Tomorrow's academic OAPs will retire into a new pensions world thanks to a thorough...