Gradually, much of the scaffolding of the influential, but historically inaccurate, depiction of British opinion during the First World War, reflected in countless novels as well as older historical...
Kathleen McNamara on the technocracy that created the EMU - and its current malaise
Last year was the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, with extravagant claims made about it being “the most important book written in the English language”. Such a...
The rise of China has provoked such shock and awe that predictions of the time when the People’s Republic will dominate the world have become commonplace. Sustained strong economic growth, especially...
From 1981, the Women's Peace Camp at Greenham Common mounted a sustained non-violent protest against the first cruise missile site in the UK.
Royal Welsh College of Music and DramaSimon JonesThe Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has appointed Simon Jones acting head of strings. The promotion of Dr Jones, currently head of the college'...
Read all about it: Fred Inglis on the horn-blowing and the hoopla, the cant and the can-do spirit of the glossy world of official university magazines
New HE minister aims to unblock channels to openness. Joanna Sugden reports from New Delhi
The V&A’s reflective new exhibition of Middle Eastern photography brings a heterogeneous region into focus, says Shahidha Bari
V-c spotting - The top decks may be stacked in favour of white, middle-class men, but not all follow suit
The Egyptian government may shun the UK as a destination for postgraduate students on state scholarships because of frustrations over visas.
Alan Ryan asks: how many Sandys will it take for us to change our ways?
University plans to expand in Greenwich Village have sparked a grass-roots revolt, finds Ian Wylie
A successful industrialist who went on to become an academic expert on operations management has died.Alan Harrison was born in Oxfordshire on 25 November 1944 and educated at Abingdon School before...
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