This book began badly for me, with one of those imaginative reconstructions that some people enjoy; in this case of Francois de Lorraine, second Duke de Guise, setting out from his principal...
Prior to picking up The Dawn of Green, I had been re-reading Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. First published in 1975, it concerns the activities of four misfits with a shared love of...
Housewife to acclaimed economist within a decade - not bad going, says Natalie Gold
The "making of American dance" bit of the title likely brings to mind a certain Martha, and indeed the legendary Graham figures significantly in Janet Mansfield Soares' biography. Its subject,...
"Gross," starts the preface to this curious collection on the strangeness of nature. Beetles that commit siblicide, toxic frogs, kleptoparasitism in birds, hallucinogenic plants, poisonous dragons,...
CULTURAL STUDIES- Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture: Homecoming QueensBy Martin Dines, lecturer in suburban and cultural studies, Kingston University. Palgrave Macmillan, £50.00...
Police cars raced to our campus on Tuesday as news came through of a fatal stabbing following an outbreak of mob violence in the Senior Common Room of David Willetts College.According to unconfirmed...
We should learn from the American experience with fees, says Alan Ryan
Trust's long-term awards will put scientists, not their proposals, first. Zoe Corbyn reports
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If history is the hunting ground of politicians, as was suggested in Times Higher Education recently, then what makes one political deployment of history worse than another?This question is...
A historian who transformed understanding of British conservatism has died.
How ironic that the "senior sector figures" should be protected by Chatham House rules, when the powerful rulers single me out as a powerless ordinary academic ("Managers and scholars divided as...
In their open letter to Research Councils UK, Donald Braben and his co-signatories urge peer reviewers to stage a "modest revolt" by declining to "assess" potential economic impact. It is worth being...