The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition, by Manisha Sinha
Book of the week: Blacks were key agents in the international battle against slavery, Olivette Otele writes
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What are you reading? – 19 May 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Demon of Geopolitics: How Karl Haushofer “Educated” Hitler and Hess, by Holger H. Herwig
Jörg Michael Dostal on whether one German thinker directly influenced Hitler’s geopolitics
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Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation, by Jim Downs
Angelia Wilson on a time in gay culture that no one forgot
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Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book, by Emma Smith
We are spellbound by an opus whose copies once gathered crumbs and scribbles, says Lisa Hopkins
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Migrant Women’s Voices: Talking About Life and Work in the UK Since 1945, by Linda McDowell
Lisa Mckenzie on a study of the personal stories of female workers in different industries and the challenges they faced
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New and noteworthy – 19 May 2016
Just deserts, theatres of war, hearting Hayek and the best lust-free years of your life: must-read academic books
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Laurie Taylor – 19 May 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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CVs of failure in academia do not tell the whole story
Being open about failure is one thing, but we must also look at how we define success, says Shahidha Bari
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UCL is not distrusting, just doing its duty
We do not accept the claim in the article “UCL expenses rules mean staff seen as ‘inherently untrustworthy’” (News, 12 May) that the expenses policy at University College London indicates that staff...
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Reporting back
I feel qualified to comment on Matthew Wyard’s opinion article “A matter of consent: sexual assaults on campus” (12 May) and the current controversy about the Zellick Report on universities’ handling...
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...and data for all
The Higher Education Statistics Agency charges for access to data to cover its costs and to keep down the subscription fees paid by higher education providers (“FoI costs? University ‘spies’ only add...
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New tricks
Most of the comments in the feature “Are older academics past their productive peak?” (12 May) relate to those who have followed a “conventional” route into academia – what about those who have come...
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The lost honour of the life of the mind
Fred Inglis on the fate of the academy in an era of calm-voiced propaganda and disgusting new shapes of intellectual life