The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron
A.W. Purdue feels this Tory analysis may underestimate the fluidity of the electorate
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Wittgenstein and Political Theory: The View from Somewhere
Ludwig Wittgenstein was unarguably one of the most compelling and applicable thinkers across so many disciplines. Here, Christopher Robinson, assistant professor of humanities and social sciences at...
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Issues in Contemporary Documentary
As Jane Chapman notes in her introduction to this broad-ranging book, "documentary is now so popular and diverse that it needs to be understood as complex, multifaceted and influenced by a range of...
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Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago
Paula Gerson is transported to Galicia by this guide to the route to Saint James' remains
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The Fighting Tudors
You cannot put a good man down! This appears to be David Loades' third book on the Tudors to have been published in 2009, and in total he must soon be approaching his half century, which should...
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Genocide before the Holocaust
The word "genocide" was coined by the Polish-born Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943. Taking its roots from Greek and Latin, it describes the targeted and intentional killing or destruction of a...
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? = Review forthcomingGEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES- Discourse Dynamics in Participatory Planning: Opening the Bureaucracy to StrangersBy Diana MacCallum, lecturer, Griffith School of the...
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Trotsky: A Biography
Willy Maley enjoys the complexities, but not the cack-handed certainties, of this magisterial tome
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Out, out, damned spot!
Academics in our humanities departments were shocked to learn last week that a thorough investigation by a university management team had failed to find any evidence for the existence of an I (impact...
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Libel law is an ass
Let’s abolish it and nurture scepticism instead, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Research intelligence: Dynamic duo
Two free-to-use Web 2.0 tools offer scholars the opportunity for greater collaboration. James Everest reports
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Leader: Cheap writ buys costly silence
English libel law allows all comers from across the globe to chill free speech and still scholarly inquiry. Reform is now essential
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From where I sit: Act of inclusion goes unnoticed
In 2008, the US Congress reauthorised the Higher Education Act - after a five-year delay. Back in 2003, the House of Representatives passed a controversial revision to the Act that would have created...
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Elizabeth Fallaize, 1950-2009
A leading authority on French literature who became the first female tutorial fellow of her Oxford college, and the university's pro vice-chancellor for education, has died.Elizabeth Fallaize was...