Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen
June Purvis on an absorbing study of social change
June Purvis on an absorbing study of social change
The University of York has always been unafraid to go its own way, Laurie Taylor recalls
Miriam David’s reflections on her career as a scholar and feminist inspired her to interview a range of female academics about their paths to the getting of wisdom - and the pivotal role feminism has...
South African institution's positive-discrimination policy stirs up fresh debate. Dan Newling reports
Has the long, uneven crawl towards liberty that began with the Magna Carta come to an end? Much post-9/11 "everything has changed" writing claims that it has. This results either from the dirty hands...
Few educators are aware of how online learning tools can betray the privacy of individual users and stifle their learning experience, says Adam Joinson. In August, three leading employees of the...
Essential Mental Health Law: A Guide to the Revised Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act 2005Authors: Anthony Maden and Tim Spencer-LaneEdition: FirstPublisher: Hammersmith PressPages:...
As the council house dream falls into disrepair, Gary Day sees a spirit of frugality and thrift rekindled
Alan Ryan ponders why institutions are so uptight about freedom of information
University of East AngliaBob WatsonA professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia, Bob Watson, is one of the winners of this year's Blue Planet Prize, an international...
Many academics view the loss of their 'solitary cells' as a threat to their autonomy, while managers promote places of 'communal engagement' that foster intellectual interaction. Matthew Reisz looks...
Many of the UK's 'accidental' administrators think that their work is not valued and that their US counterparts enjoy higher status. John Morgan considers what gives the professional edge
Universities reject proposal that they share information on student performance. David Jobbins reports Margaret Spellings, the US Education Secretary, faces opposition to her plan to encourage...
Brussels, 28 Jul 2005 In the early 1990s, some years before the widespread proliferation of the Internet, Mark Weiser, chief scientist for Xerox Palo Alto Research, mapped out the transition from the...
Are you obsessed with a 'baggy monster' or has a photocopied pamphlet sparked your passion for a whole new area of research? To kick off our new weekly series, leading scholars explain which books...