Gloucestershire to shut London outpost
Move comes less than a year after a multimillion-pound refit. Melanie Newman reports
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Gloria Monday: Only a crumb of comfort
Although the PhD she examined was as bad as the lunch, Gloria Monday chokes down her objections
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For the last time, ‘Edward III’ is not a sequel!
Study shows that Hollywood’s version of events lingers longer in the mind than historians’ painstaking work. Jon Marcus reports
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Once more unto the breach…
Retired v-c of London South Bank to take the reins at UEL on an interim basis. Melanie Newman reports
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Sell, baby, sell – and remember Betamax
Dan Stern says that the marketisation of research means that academics must abandon the ivory tower and get down and dirty in the marketplace – or face obscurity
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Book of the week: Heaven's Touch: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We Are Connected to the Universe
Simon Mitton on a tour de force that joins the human and the cosmic
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Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History
Jane Humphries admires the detective work that is rekindling respect for the match girls' strike of 1888
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Kierkegaard: An Introduction
This general introduction to Kierkegaard's thought proves a clear, sober and informative guide both for students coming to Kierkegaard for the first time and for more experienced readers. The book's...
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The Canon. Utopian Thought in the Western World. By Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel
Frank Manuel was already a distinguished historian with several excellent books on Utopianism to his credit when, in 1979, he and his wife, Fritzie, published this magnum opus. More comprehensive,...
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The Gargoyles of Notre Dame: Medievalism and the Monsters of Modernity
A 19th-century obsession with the macabre was the medieval church's saviour, says James Stevens Curl
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Cinema Entertainment: Essays on Audiences, Films and Film Makers
This short book enters into a debate that has a lengthy history, not only in the context of cinema but in relation to the cultural industries more broadly. From its inception, cinema has found itself...
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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
As Donald Rumsfeld memorably observed: "There are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know." While it is a truism that we do not know the things we are not conscious of, the...
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The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
A theory that dispels the idea of Earth's systems being self-regulating does not convince Jon Turney
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Moving Histories of Class and Community: Identity, Place and Belonging in Contemporary England
As a sociologist and ethnographer fascinated by the lived experiences of people, I was interested in reading a book that uses the research methodologies of ethnography, case studies and oral life...
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Atom Egoyan
In the preface to her study of Atom Egoyan, Emma Wilson refers to the film-maker's fascination with Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973), two seminal...