Scramble for new docs
Hertfordshire University has become the latest institution without medical students to join the scramble for up to 1,000 new medical school places. Universities and National Health Service regional...
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Novelist's quest for science
Novelist Ian McEwan is to chair the panel of judges for this year's Rhone-Poulenc prize for science books. Mr McEwan is "a voracious reader of science", whose consumption of the genre has accelerated...
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Titanic heroism masked tragedy
AN Investigation into the sinking of the Titanic has revealed how the Edwardians turned the tragedy into a triumph within a few days of the event and the loss of 1,522 lives. Cultural historian...
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Cash-strapped museums turn to locals to champion cause
THE POWERFUL and vocal support mustered by London museums for extra public funding is having an adverse effect on regional museums whose plight is being largely ignored. In a letter to the Museums...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the record of a trip that helped lay the ground for a revolutionary theory: "...
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A flashy feast of loose change
Evolution
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Social security for kids
Adoption and the Care of Children
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Sticky-label success stories
Brand Warriors
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Welfare's great worker
William Beveridge
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Where Machiavelli spent his evenings
The Scholar in His Study
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Problems with Europe
America or Europe?
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Britain's seven years of good luck
Battle for Empire
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Divisive past, divided present
Divided Memory
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The persistence of Heidegger
In the Shadow of Catastrophe
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Behind the Republic
Inventing a Republic