Barbara Graziosi, Ruth Richardson, Bruce Scharlau, Clare Hemmings and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Easy lay the head that wore the crown, despite maternal meddling, says Ruth Richardson
The Victorians found much profit in the grave, and Boz was there to document its blackly comic excess, writes Ruth Richardson
Ruth Richardson on the capital city’s great mists and smogs that have inspired, harmed and killed
Sketches of a street where Boz grew up - and a place that scarred him - captivate Valerie Sanders
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
? = Review forthcomingGENERAL SCIENCE- ? Superstition: Belief in the Age of ScienceBy Robert L. Park, professor emeritus of physics, University of Maryland. Princeton University Press, £14.95. ISBN...
A Traffic of Dead Bodies
John Davies lists programmes worth catching this week (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week After his How to be Home Secretary earlier this year, ace political interviewer Michael Cockerell now...
John Davies casts an academic eye over the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week It's Science Week. This means the Tomorrow's World team has an hour of live television in Megalab...
Tony Walter argues that it is time that the British turned their attention to their overcrowded cemeteries. Christmas, 1994: Corina lost her struggle against cancer. She very much wanted to be buried...