Mutiny on the Isis
Oxford's crew in the 1987 boat race with Cambridge was riven by a mutiny so dramatic that Channel Four has turned it into a film. Chris Johnston reports. Mutinies have been synonymous with ships...
Oxford's crew in the 1987 boat race with Cambridge was riven by a mutiny so dramatic that Channel Four has turned it into a film. Chris Johnston reports. Mutinies have been synonymous with ships...
University of Southampton DSc: David Rhind, incoming vice-chancellor of City University, director-general of the Ordnance Survey, visiting professor in the university's department of geography; The...
The Boyd group has been meeting secretly for two years to find a balance between opposing sides of the debate over vivisection. Earlier this year a group of scientists, academics, animal welfarists...
Seamus Heaney - The Poetry of Seamus Heaney - Opened Ground
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali
AUSTRALIAN universities have been reeling from a series of shocks to the system over the past 18 months, most of which relate to changes in the method of financing higher education. Given the...
Gordon Johnson's personal statement (THES, March 1) presents Cambridge University Press as holding off forces of "intimidation" that threaten from the outside. My recall is that it is the press's...
Rules and Government
The Dictionary of National Biography 1986-1990 - The Seductions of Biography - History and Biography
The Badger - Bovine Tuberculosis in Badgers
Besides the Chernobyls, Brent Spars and other man-made disasters of our time, German sociologist Ulrich Beck's thoughts are turning to love. David Walker reports Look at a map, preferably one in a...
The discovery at Sanxingdui of two pits filled with deliberately shattered bronzes, jades and fragments of gold and animal bone is the single most startling archaeological find of recent years. The...
Phil Baty talks to Roy Porter (right), the historian of medicine whose knowledge of medieval plagues was used by a government confronting the horrors of Aids Roy Porter does not care for academia....
The feel-good factor hasn't returned, so we are told, because job insecurity is still widespread. But Ray Pahl, continuing our series on work and the family, believes it is also because our fractured...
One commentator described the Portuguese Socialist Party's victory in last month's parliamentary election as a "new April 25", a reference to the country's 1974 revolution which sprang from an...