One of the most pressing items in the in-tray of the next secretary of state for education will be the vexed question of quality assurance in higher education. Alan Ryan, Lewis Elton, Roderick Floud...
Reading Revolutions - Remapping Early Modern England
Indians in Britain
Nikita Khrushchev - Lenin - Nikita Khrushchev and theCreation of a Superpower
King Croesus' Gold
The Greeks
The Remedy
The Keys to Egypt
The Ideological Originsof the British Empire
The Third Reich
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a satire of Hollywood life: " Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road...
Enigma - The Emperor's Codes - Battle of Wits
In the second of a series on intellectual property rights, Tim Berners-Lee tells Roisin Woolnough that the net must be a public space. When Tim Berners-Lee created the worldwide web, he compared its...
To celebrate anthropologist Sir Raymond Firth's 100th birthday, Peter Loizos looks at his career. Raymond Firth celebrated his 100th birthday on March 25. A pioneer in the establishment of British...