When the first detective branch of the Metropolitan Police was formed in 1842, the new "Peelers" had existed for 13 years and were just shaking off a reputation as spies and quasi-military bullies....
By focusing on one of Venice's 16th-century patricians, Marc'Antonio Barbaro, his political career and patronage, this book analyses the debates that fuelled international diplomacy and Venice's...
Barbara Graziosi on a grand historical narrative that fails to recognise the widespread roots of Europe
Exactly halfway through Moscow, The Fourth Rome, we read that "1935 might be described as the high point of Soviet internationalism". This assertion flies in the face of conventional historiography,...
With Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security, the philanthropist, academic and former US ambassador to Austria, Swanee Hunt, has made an interesting and somewhat unusual contribution to a...
Twilight has a largely female fan base. It is time to re-evaluate female fan pleasure, says Will Brooker, and be alive to its magic
LiverpoolSavage Style: Costumes from Lily's WardrobePaul O'Grady's alter ego - the embittered housewife and occasional shoplifter Lily Savage - is one of the great comic creations of recent decades....
Picturing Politics: Exploring the Political Poster in BritainPeople's History Museum, Manchester, until 17 June 2012For the 1929 general election, the Labour Party created a poster of a heroic worker...
"It's chalk and cheese." That was how our senior manager of external relations, Kirk Swavely, responded to suggestions of an "unfortunate similarity" between the terms of the new L'Oreal...
For all the confusion surrounding the role of professors, one thing's certain: junior staff expect them to do a lot more to help
'Transnational' education isn't dying, but it is changing. Jon Marcus reports on Western institutions' moves to mitigate the risks of foreign outposts, thanks to a little help from their hosts
Asia, India and Middle East are becoming study-abroad destinations of choice, reports Jon Marcus
• The "sea of rage" promised by anarchists before last week's student protest turned into something of a damp squib, with police matching or outnumbering demonstrators. The press treated the event...
After a morning visit to Koya University, situated towards Kurdistan-Iraq's Iranian border, I learned that the main road to Raniya was blocked.Outside the cities, where new roads and buildings mark...
University of OxfordJane HumphriesA "number-crunching economic historian" has won the Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize, awarded for an outstanding book on European economic history. Jane Humphries,...