A blighted nation starved of help
This Great Calamity
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Cowboys in kilts and going the whole hogmanay
Scotland - The Brand
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Dad's army and a battle of wills
The Home Guard
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Fleshing out a theory
Public Bodies, Private States - A Dream of England - The Body
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Home is where childhood is
Leaving the parental home has increasingly become a "rite of passage" in the past two decades, replacing marriage as the defining event of independent adulthood, according to research from the...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. DCL: Betty Boothroyd, speaker of the House of Commons and MP for West Bromwich; John Wilson, director of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. DLitt: Donald Davidson,...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL. Charities Professors M. Orme, M. Molyneux and Dr P. Winstanley, Pounds 122,484 from The Wellcome Trust (research in clinical tropical medicine). Research grants Dr R. Whyman...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE. Janet Sprent, head of the department of biological sciences and a member of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, has been appointed deputy principal. CILT Martin...
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Events
THE TIME MACHINE. An international symposium has been arranged to mark the centenary of H. G. Wells's scientific romance. The Time Machine: Past, Present and Future will be held on July 26-29 at...
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Chairs
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE, LONDON. Roger Slee, lecturer in the school of cultural and policy studies at Queensland University of Technology, to the chair in education; Howard Caygill, lecturer in the school...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the private jottings of a 'gambler': "Mankind is therefore nothing but disguise, lies, and hypocrisy, both as individuals and with regard to others. They therefore...
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Speaking Volumes: A Social Geography of Belfast
Ron Johnston on Emrys Jones's A Social Geography of Belfast . While reading for my undergraduate dissertation on a railway town I came across Howard Bracey's Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire,...
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Onwards and upwards
(Photograph) - Onwards and upwards: a week of celebrations to mark the London School of Economics's centenary were crowned on Wednesday with the news that the school's professor of international law...
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Croydon becomes a Sussex college
Croydon College has become a college of the University of Sussex in a move which reflects the blurring of traditionally rigid boundaries between further and higher education. Croydon, which offers...
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The not so magic mountain
David Walker reports on new criticism of Thomas Mann Here, in Britain, literary iconoclasm is a kind of sport, not quite as lucrative as amateur rugby but appealing, it seems, to many readers....