In the small but very active international network of historians of Freemasonry, James Stevens Curl is an éminence grise. His beautiful publications on history and architecture are manifold, and...
Joanna Lewis admires an exploration of attitudes to colonialism and immigration in a crumbling empire
Demonstrations and riots have spawned much speculation about young people in the UK. Who are they? What do they want? How do they think, and are protesters representative of their generation?...
Jerusalem, Montreal, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Berlin, Paris, New York, Oxford...Oxford? Looking at this line-up of major international cities, Oxford strikes immediately as a very odd choice....
Mistakes and misunderstandings often serve to further human knowledge, finds Alex Danchev
When viewed against an event that propelled the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s back into media circulation, Vampire Nation possesses a certain currency. The May 2011 arrest of the Serbian former military...
The negotiation of the Blitz is still a permanent fixture of British post-war culture at the beginning of a new century. As the living record of eyewitnesses diminishes each year, the place of the...
South African institution's positive-discrimination policy stirs up fresh debate. Dan Newling reports
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: David J. Gower• Institution: Natural History Museum• Value: £194,949Insights from snakes into vertebrate visual evolution• Award...
Tutors urged to improve assessment and feedback to help students adjust. Sam Creighton writes
The British Sociological Association's next head tells Matthew Reisz about his plans and priorities
It may no longer be true - if it ever was - that obtaining a degree will guarantee you a job, but being "academically engaged" may mean that students have a smaller chance of being unemployed, in...
United StatesFire report points finger at UCLAA report into a 2008 laboratory fire that killed a 23-year-old research assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles is far more critical of...
With Dream Act faltering, president links federal aid to 'responsible' fees. Sarah Cunnane writes
A project that funds African academics whose careers are "stuck" because they lack the time or money for postgraduate study is asking the World Bank to help it grow tenfold.