A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe
Barbara Graziosi on a grand historical narrative that fails to recognise the widespread roots of Europe
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Moscow, The Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941
Exactly halfway through Moscow, The Fourth Rome, we read that "1935 might be described as the high point of Soviet internationalism". This assertion flies in the face of conventional historiography,...
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Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security
With Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security, the philanthropist, academic and former US ambassador to Austria, Swanee Hunt, has made an interesting and somewhat unusual contribution to a...
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Undying love and its haters
Twilight has a largely female fan base. It is time to re-evaluate female fan pleasure, says Will Brooker, and be alive to its magic
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Diary
LiverpoolSavage Style: Costumes from Lily's WardrobePaul O'Grady's alter ego - the embittered housewife and occasional shoplifter Lily Savage - is one of the great comic creations of recent decades....
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The Pick - Picturing Politics: Exploring the Political Poster in Britain
Picturing Politics: Exploring the Political Poster in BritainPeople's History Museum, Manchester, until 17 June 2012For the 1929 general election, the Labour Party created a poster of a heroic worker...
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Pearls before swine
"It's chalk and cheese." That was how our senior manager of external relations, Kirk Swavely, responded to suggestions of an "unfortunate similarity" between the terms of the new L'Oreal...
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Leader: Absence-minded, ill defined
For all the confusion surrounding the role of professors, one thing's certain: junior staff expect them to do a lot more to help
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Cut the branches, try a safer route
'Transnational' education isn't dying, but it is changing. Jon Marcus reports on Western institutions' moves to mitigate the risks of foreign outposts, thanks to a little help from their hosts
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US students set sights beyond Europe
Asia, India and Middle East are becoming study-abroad destinations of choice, reports Jon Marcus
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The week in higher education
• The "sea of rage" promised by anarchists before last week's student protest turned into something of a damp squib, with police matching or outnumbering demonstrators. The press treated the event...
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From where I sit - Two-way traffic in land of rivers
After a morning visit to Koya University, situated towards Kurdistan-Iraq's Iranian border, I learned that the main road to Raniya was blocked.Outside the cities, where new roads and buildings mark...
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Appointments
University of OxfordJane HumphriesA "number-crunching economic historian" has won the Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize, awarded for an outstanding book on European economic history. Jane Humphries,...
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Command performance
Professors should provide intellectual leadership, but some incumbents have other priorities or misunderstand their role. Bruce Macfarlane asserts that universities must find a way to get the best...
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Practical, high-value model for fine art
The ongoing debate over the future prospects for those entering higher education in England applies to the visual arts as much as any other field. For students aiming to earn their living as visual...