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Virtual worlds make distance no object for UWS students
‘A-Team’ approach brings campuses together for town planning project
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What W. H. Auden Can Do For You, by Alexander McCall Smith
Chris Jones on a passionate, personal account of poetry’s power
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Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War, by Joy Rohde
Michael Patrick Cullinane on the military-academic complex
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The City and the King: Architecture and Politics in Restoration London, by Christine Stevenson
Harriet Harriss on an age when ‘form followed fealty’ and politics triumphed over economics
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Snapshot Photography: The Lives of Images, by Catherine Zuromskis
Annebella Pollen on the use of amateur photographs as cultural and artistic motifs
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The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex, by Julie Peakman
Alison Oram on changing attitudes to sexual perversions
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The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age, by Vic Gatrell
Clare Brant revels in a compelling evocation of non-conformists in the capital’s cultural ‘heart’
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The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris and Stevenson at the End of the World, by Rosalind Williams
Tom Wright on a study of how three late 19th century writers contemplated humanity’s impact on the environment
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Heavy traffic for the biggest graduate employers
Public administration, education and health are the UK’s top graduate employers, according to the latest Office for National Statistics report on the national labour force
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Good reasons for UK students to study in the US
Generous funding and quality tuition make US universities an attractive choice, says Alan Ryan
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Autonomy the best defence for universities under attack
Global coalition advocates ‘insulation’ against state and non-state actors
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Getting the writing right
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of travelling to Finland to give a course on “English for academic research”. This proved to be a stimulating and, in some respects, surprising experience...
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An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir, by Phyllis Chesler
Shahidha Bari would like more light and shade in this personal account
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Germany’s student accommodation and financing crises
Student associations call for more, affordable residence places