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UK still suffers trips of the tonguesYour editorial “A timely look under the bonnet” (22 August) is right to draw attention to the issue of language degrees, but one of the figures was inaccurate. As...
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Dramaturge to explain
Scholar Zoë Svendsen speaks to Matthew Reisz about Marlowe’s rhetoric, immersive theatre and the dramaturge’s role at the very heart of the play
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Devotional chapter and verse
One of England’s greatest devotional poets can now be better appreciated, writes Hugh Adlington
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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North versus South
Korea was divided by a struggle for legitimacy that resonates still, writes Marilyn Young
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Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England, by Don Herzog
Lucy Wooding reviews an analysis of the culture of early modern England
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Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of America, by Harel Shapira
Lee Maril is riveted by a first-time academic author’s encounters with the men and women who patrol the Arizona-Mexico border
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Thomas Hardy: The World of His Novels, by J. B. Bullen
Jane Thomas takes the Wessex trail
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Law after Modernity, by Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
Michael King is unconvinced by the case for postmodern justice
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Pacifying Italy, but at what cost?
Ilaria Favretto considers whether justice was sacrificed to bring bloody civil conflict to a close
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Reign in Spain
David Matthews reports from Spain on a long-established cooperative university fighting to preserve its teaching mission, industry-focused research and mutual governance model in a harsh economic...
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Conference call: more questions than answers
Q and A sessions, the misunderstood B-sides of conference presentations, can play some peculiar tunes. Allan Johnson listens in and doesn’t like what he hears
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Crime centre plans to probe data for con jobs
Teesside’s Centre for Realist Criminology to probe stories behind the statistics
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ESRC launches ‘urgency grants’
Funds to be available quickly for research into rare, unfolding events