Among the many striking images in this study of the British campaign in Mesopotamia during the First World War is that of a British cavalry officer, riding up to a column of marching soldiers,...
Daniel Whiting assesses a philosophical argument that attempts to take us from 'doing' to 'saying'
The displays of the heads and body parts of the executed, which adorned bridges and city gates, offered a grim welcome to travellers as they approached medieval or early modern London. They can be...
With the assistance of science writer Steve Nadis, renowned mathematician Shin-Tung Yau, one of the main players in some of the most important recent advances in complex geometry, aims to bring a...
Confident protocols of cultural judgement have gone. Today, amid the competing voices of 'relativism', 'essentialism' and the hectic production of culture and opinion, 'our own response' to the arts...
OxfordLucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press, 1895-1914Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944), son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, was himself a painter, engraver and printmaker. He also...
London has a new mini opera house at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, where OperaUpClose's Bangkok-set "ladyboy" production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly and a youthful take on Rossini's...
Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, has announced that Poppleton will "definitely not" be following the example of the University of Winchester and introducing a new degree in...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the real punchline of his diplomatic incident
By mixing independence and collaboration, a new centre expects to find novel ways of coping with climate change. Neha Popat reports
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The festive period was not kind to the man with responsibility for England's universities. Having been stung by undercover reporters, Vince Cable, the business secretary, may have regretted his pre-...
This year looks to be one in which divisions in the sector widen, leaving no one representing the needs of the academy as a whole
All teachers have faced hard crowds; bored, tired, restless students who would clearly prefer to be just about anywhere else than in your classroom.One of my toughest sells was a late Friday...
A professor who considered himself "a goalkeeper pretending to be an academic", after turning to academe following a sporting injury, has died.Philip M. Taylor, of the University of Leeds, was the...