Book of the week: Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955
June Purvis welcomes a compelling tale of an overlooked feminist
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Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions under New Labour
An analysis of workers' alliances should engage more with workers themselves, says Sian Moore
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Embodied: Victorian Literature and the Senses
Once upon a time," complains Prince Lucio Rimanez in the best-selling of Victorian novels, Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1895), "it was considered the height of indelicacy and low breeding to...
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Music in Contemporary British Fiction: Listening to the Novel
Whether or not "writing about music is like dancing about architecture. It's a stupid thing to do", as a quip often attributed to Elvis Costello would have it, the uses of music within fiction are...
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History, Historians, and Conservatism in Britain and America: From the Great War to Thatcher and Reagan
A. W. Purdue finds a study of a neglected area of the 20th century complex and penetrating
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Responsibility to Protect: The Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities
The political concept of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) addresses the complex issue of a state's responsibility to protect its citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes...
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Healthy Living in the Alps: The Origins of Winter Tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914
It may seem odd to find a study of Swiss Alpine tourism in a book series on British popular culture. Yet, as anyone who has spent much time in Switzerland can attest, tourism patterns there have a...
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Society's ever shifting goalposts
Economic migrants face the continual production of new differences, says Jorg Michael Dostal
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Understanding Post-Communist Transformation: A Bottom up Approach
On the eve of the 21st century, the Soviet Union and its satellites went through the last of the convulsions that had characterised their history: the proclamation of glasnost and perestroika in 1987...
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Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London
Lisa Keller's Triumph of Order could hardly be more timely. As controversies over balancing the competing demands of public protest and public order continue to arise throughout the world, here is a...
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Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815-1914
Through boom and bust, the popular view of high finance has changed little, finds Howard Davies
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AMERICAN STUDIESRemembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial. By James A. Miller, professor of English and American studies, George Washington University. Princeton University Press, £32....
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Bank transfer
Proud of his banking past, Alan Gillespie, the Government's choice to lead the ESRC, says research must be relevant
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Appointments
Donald Harley has been named deputy vice-chancellor (resources) at the University of Bedfordshire, three years after he joined the institution as director of finance. Mr Harley will retain...
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Heriot-Watt University - Life, the Universe and everything
A new strategy has been unveiled by Heriot-Watt University to attempt to place its work firmly at the forefront of political debate. The university will reorganise itself to focus on academic...