Constructive dismissal - a change in approach
Constructive dismissal is one of the more common claims considered by employment tribunals. However, a recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal may alter how tribunals approach this issue...
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Universities 'delighted', not horrified, by new ministry, Mandelson claims
New BIS head’s first speech focuses on how to turn discoveries into jobs. Zoe Corbyn reports
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The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity and Globalization
Mary Evans agrees that the Western definition of female beauty has global economic significance
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Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
It is not always easy, in our world of lightning-fast communications, to appreciate that there was, as historian David Armitage claims, a "prehistory of globalisation". One of the greatest monuments...
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The Canon: The Making of Homeric Verse. By Milman Parry
In 1933, a bold, brave and very young Harvard University classicist, Milman Parry, set out to solve the Homeric Question. He wanted to know how the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed. In order to...
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Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England
Sophie Gilmartin discovers a sensational account of couples who fell foul of Victorian marriage laws
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The Mind of Jihad
Anyone who has been to a bookshop in the past seven years can testify to the enormous growth in the literature on terrorism and jihadism. The literature has also become increasingly specialised, with...
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THE Book of the Week - Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature
Innocent or knowing? Shelley King on the portrayal of children in Victorian writing
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The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
Anne Hogan enjoys this analysis of the interplay between the Sun King's reign and theatre
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Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider
Elia Kazan seems as likely to be remembered for his politics as for his work as film director, stage director and novelist - an outcome that would scarcely have pleased him. But his decision in 1952...
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The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001
One weekday evening in the mid-1880s, a crowd assembled in the Surrey Rooms on Blackfriars Road, South London. One man in attendance was a "tall, slight, dreamy-faced young man", another a "stout,...
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How Should Research be Organised?
Julian Evans lauds the logic in an analysis of how science should be funded in the UK
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A Social History of English Rugby Union
Tony Collins, a leading authority on rugby league in England, turns his attention to the 15-man game in an account of the social history of English rugby union. This text offers an illuminating...
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Maria Graham: A Literary Biography By Regina Akel
Maria Graham (nee Dundas, 1785-1842), traveller and author, was, like Charley's Aunt, no ordinary woman. Her reading was omnivorous, encouraged by William Delamotte, the landscape artist, who...
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Geography and environmental sciences• Critical Transitions in Nature and SocietyBy Marten Scheffer, professor of environmental sciences, Wageningen UniversityPrinceton University Press, £26.95 ISBN...