Generous to bricks but parsimonious with the brickbats
Everything Seemed Possible - New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money - Breaking down the Barriers - Annus Mirabilis?
Everything Seemed Possible - New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money - Breaking down the Barriers - Annus Mirabilis?
Law is most popular course Law this year received the most applications from students at 74,617, followed by computer science (68,557) and psychology (66,919), in the third instalment of the four-...
Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
John Davies gives the schedules a quality audit (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Does it matter that there are no historians to give us a measured judgement on Anthony Eden's career in...
Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? More Puzzles in Classic Fiction
Word Crimes: Blasphemy and Literature in 19th-Century England. By Joss Marsh University of Chicago Press 431pp. £43.95 and £17.95 ISBN 0226 50690 8 and 50691 6. Joss Marsh's Word Crimes stakes out a...
Word Crimes
John Davies suggests some television and radio programmes worth noting this week. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Cuba Libre (Saturday 4.0 onwards, History Channel). The cable/...
Leicester University DMus: The Lindsay string quartet: Peter Cropper, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland and Bernard Gregor-Smith. DLitt: John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English...
Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture - The Making of Percy's 'Reliques'
Review books, write obituaries and get yourself an agent.John Sutherland tells low-paid arts academics how to earn an extra few thousand by moonlighting. I have often thought that instead of name-...
The Life of Sir Walter Scott:
Granite and Rainbow
MONDAY. (Week 1, London to Nairobi). Heathrow departure for Nairobi - a conference trip to Sri Lanka has subtly expanded to a five-week world tour. First stop is the Kenya Forestry Research Institute...
The New University Library - Innovation in Information