The Memory Chalet
Roger Morgan salutes a collection of personal memories from a stimulating and original historian
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The Finger: A Handbook
Alex Danchev enjoys the pontifications of a scholar led happily astray from the topic in hand
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The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame?
Financial crisis is a many-headed hydra and unravelling its causes a Herculean task. In The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame?, Howard Davies makes significant progress, presenting a relatively clear...
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The Canon: Arguments for Socialism by Tony Benn
The back cover of Arguments for Socialism describes Tony Benn as "the most controversial man in British politics". It is hard to think of Benn, now a national treasure, as a divisive figure - but of...
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Au Pair
Cameron Macdonald enjoys the ethnographic detail amid tales of cultural ignorance and exploitation
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The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918
Sean McMeekin's riveting book tells the tale of two dysfunctional undertakings of the First World War. One was the famous, yet incomplete and therefore largely unusable, Baghdad Railway built by...
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The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature and Theory 1957-2007
Hayden White began his career as a historian and ended it as a - what exactly? A linguist? A literary theorist? "Academic intellectual" is the term preferred by Robert Doran in his introduction to...
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Incivility: The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life
Les Gofton finds insufficient illumination in this particular bid to 'reorient incivility research'
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Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
In a breathtakingly vivid account of the history of food trade and its production and consumption, Evan Fraser and Andrew Rimas offer a series of metaphors to illustrate the dilemmas facing our...
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Phenomenal Shakespeare
Bruce Smith's twin targets in Phenomenal Shakespeare are theory and history, "closed systems of thought" that function as graven images, taking us away from the loving touch of Shakespeare.Since the...
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Odds and quads
These handbills come from the John Bramwell Taylor Collection, which forms part of the University of Sheffield's National Fairground Archive.
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Elite institutions should 'help create a more equal society'
Universities must do more to assist their local communities, says RSA chief. John Morgan reports
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Sector must address 'fundamental' failure to challenge funding cuts
Canterbury Christ Church vice-chancellor regrets the absence of a united voice. Simon Baker reports
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Stereotypes, superheroines and femmes fatales galore
The portrayal of women in comics was celebrated at a recent conference. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
BIS appointmentScientist given expanded roleThe government's director general for science and research, Adrian Smith, has been appointed to a new expanded role with a remit including higher education...