Royal power's mongrel aspects
Hampton Court
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Communal connections
Critical Mass
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Life gets complicated but it never goes over the edge
Deep Simplicity
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No victory in the peace to end peace
The Origins of World War I - Castles of Steel - The Great War - The First World War - Trench Art
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Young Turks who set stage for the century of slaughter
The Burning Tigris
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you must identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about an ambitious Russian civil servant: "Through the gate of a hostelry in a provincial capital...
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Real people beneath the heft and the hair
The Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square and Other Medical Marvels
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Common man and writer get a voice
The English Novel
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Just old-style liberals wearing djellabas
Islam without Fear
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Islamic brothers in alms
The Charitable Crescent
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Laurie Taylor column
Maureen @ popp.ac.uk Dear Professor Lapping Thank you for ringing from Gascony. It was a bit difficult to hear what you were saying. There was a French person who kept interrupting to ask for more...
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Alan Ryan
While the QAA may have eliminated the worst 10 per cent of practice, it has got rid of the wonderful 10 per cent, too Many years ago, I spent a happy couple of years helping with a new edition of the...
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Leader: Global rivalry is good for students
Four years after the furore over her rejection by Oxford University and subsequent departure to Harvard, Laura Spence still arouses strong passions in British higher education. Whether she was the...
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Leader: Data have use-by date
No one should be surprised universities are finding it hard to deliver ministers' promises to provide detailed information to replace teaching quality assessments. The claims made for the new system...
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Hardship scheme is 'ridiculous' (2)
I was amazed and annoyed to read the article on the abuse of hardship funds. I lived at home and worked part time to fund my way through my first degree. Applying for hardship funds was a lengthy and...