The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
Lucy Wooding praises a compelling study of the evolving significance of the land's sacred features
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Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art and Arson in the Convents of Italy
Mary Laven enjoys an original account of alleged cloistered crime and use of the 'diabolical arts'
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Much Ado About (Practically) Nothing: A History of the Noble Gases
The noble gases are the silent onlookers of the chemical world. Atoms of helium, neon, argon, krypton and radon have electrons, in the negatively charged cloud smeared around their nuclei, in just...
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The Politics of Literature
Jacques Rancière is increasingly highly thought of by anglophone literary critics and theorists. He has a reputation as a radical thinker, both intellectually and politically: he was a collaborator...
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The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini
James Delbourgo admires an enlightened woman of science who became a fixture of the Grand Tour
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Do Llamas Fall in Love? 33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles
Do Llamas Fall in Love? has almost nothing to do with llamas, but plenty to do with love, especially that love of wisdom that is philosophy. This smart and funny jaunt through philosophy's core...
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The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
Back in the mid-19th century, the Prussian nationalist historian Heinrich von Treitschke asserted that "it is men who make history". A century later, Fernand Braudel, the Annales School historian,...
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Blogconfidential: Any bloody lie will do
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Any bloody lie will do
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Appointments
University of HullAlison YarringtonAlison Yarrington has been appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Hull. Professor Yarrington, an expert in sculpture, took a...
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Saturday, bloody Saturday: now it's all right for grafting
'Share' project diarists divulge how they are losing their weekends to work. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Cause and effect: metaphysical insights fire top guns' imagination
USAF learns from philosopher's understanding of unintended consequences. Matthew Reisz writes
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Heriot-Watt plans to extend long global reach
It is not the biggest university in the UK - indeed, it is not even the biggest in Edinburgh - but on the global stage, Heriot-Watt University already punches above its weight.It has unveiled plans...
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News in brief
United StatesPolitical correctness gone mad?Two universities in the US have been accused of offering preferential treatment to minority students. The Center for Equal Opportunity, a conservative...
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They're here to stay: ratings demand a change of tactics
For good or ill, the US academy is having to learn to live with student evaluation sites, finds Jon Marcus
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We've been here before
Calls to save Egyptian cultural heritage ring hollow when those making them are blind to the past, argues Christina Riggs