Conference calls and catcalls
A competition to find the most inviting, unappealing, complex or bizarre conference title was launched this week by Rob Davidson, a senior lecturer in business travel and tourism at Westminster...
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Many happy QAA returns
Administrative staff celebrated after receiving notice of a rebate from the Quality Assurance Agency this week. The agency wrote to all institution heads saying it had collected too much money from...
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Spellbinder lifts city spirits
A Writer's World
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel based on a visit to Surinam: "I do not intend, in giving you the history of this royal slave,...
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Roses and Reds for the 'traitor' in tights
The Dancer Defects
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A moral crusade born of threats and expedience
Harry Truman and Civil Rights
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Set si(gh)t(e)s on a mess
Labyrinth Revisited
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Colourful devotee with a passion for repeating his past
Adventures in Egypt and Nubia
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Diggers, Quakers, movers, shakers
Britain in Revolution
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Multiple personality of the once or never king
King Arthur
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Mighty in pen, sword and amour
Prince of Europe
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Vivid voices unveil prized vitality
Cameroon's Tycoon - Memoirs of a Mbororo - Swedish Ventures in Cameroon 1883-1923
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Laurie Taylor column
Dear Professor Lapping, I wonder if you remember me? My name is Mike Humphreys and I graduated from Poppleton with a third-class degree in media and cultural studies in 1977. And that is exactly why...
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Fathers of invention
John Holter and Roald Dahl both had sons with hydrocephalus. In striving to help their children, their insights and innovations ushered in a new medical era, writes Richard Hayward, winner of The...