This book investigates the "medicalisation" of England in the 17th century, "the pattern by which the English turned from praying for spiritual physic to paying for medicines when struggling with...
While in Farnham one October to teach journalism, I recalled my first encounter with William Cobbett, a famous son of the Surrey town. My inspirational A-level history teachers used his weekly...
Jerome de Groot delights in a study of language in the middle of strife-ridden 17th-century England
Post-War Italian Cinema: American Intervention, Vatican Interests. By Daniela Treveri Gennari. Routledge. 218pp, £65.00. ISBN 9780415962872. Published February 2009For many people, postwar Italian...
On what intellectual and moral bases do we wish to construct our communal life? We will not receive any help from politicians (obsessed as they are with political correctness, greed and getting or...
Edward Quipp is provoked by a portrayal of key moments in English literary and cultural history
Quite rightly, Alexander Brown appears to think that a book entitled Personal Responsibility: Does It Matter? would be an unnecessary prequel. Here, he is evidently happy to accept the importance of...
The stupendous waves of globalisation are, the economic historians tell us, well over a century old, but their terrific riptides - swirling, contradictory, uncontrollable - demand unprecedented new...
This book tackles a large question in cosmology: Is the Universe designed for life? To which I am tempted to add my own query: is that question posed with sufficient clarity to inform rational...
No British scholar has done more than Bob Franklin, of the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, to make the academic study of journalism relevant to journalists. This collection...
(J) = Review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob LawrenceBy Patricia Hills, professor of art history, Boston University. University of California Press, £34.95. ISBN...
Matthew Reisz weighs up the role of weighty tomes of literary reference in the digital age
Humboldt is unfashionable in our postcolonial age, but it’s time for a renaissance, says Jeremy Jennings
In a dramatic move, our vice-chancellor has announced that Poppleton will be following in the steps of the University of Cumbria and awarding academic titles to leading university managers.One of...
Post-Copenhagen, it's clear that logic alone won't save us, writes Kevin Fong