Tale of two humpty dumpties
Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland - Two Capitals
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Kings, knights and accountants
The New Cambridge Medieval History
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The rarest of words engraved in stones
The Etruscan Language
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Old and new worlds meet at the altar
Theaters of Conversion
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How a German became a European by degrees
Gustav Stresemann
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Learning to abide the 'tax eater' state
The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914
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Laurie Taylor Column
" Social science is failing its users " - conclusion of report by the Commission on Social Sciences, THES , March 28 . Well, let's get straight down to business. You all know me. I'm Len Stubbs, head...
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This test 'makes everyone look sick'
How did the creation of an artistic Swiss psychiatrist come to decide people's fates? Karen Gold explores the discredited but enduring Rorschach inkblot test An X-ray of the mind. The idea is so...
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Correction
The AHRB Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies is at the University of Essex, not Exeter, as we printed in Dawn Ades' article, "Breakup brings surreal sadness", last week.
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Why should 'dead authors' descendants steal the livelihood of living writers'?
Literary estates are imposing restrictive copyrights that amount to censorship, says a new generation of academics. Chris Bunting reports The faint voice on a crackling transatlantic telephone line...
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Can peace be set in stone?
Memorials to war are usually monuments that are seen as acts of closure. But what is the appropriate way to commemorate the continuing process of peace? asks Paul Gough I thought we had quite enough...
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The UN must swap living in the past for the real world
The United Nations failed spectacularly over the Iraq war. This crisis could be the best time to reform it and make it relevant, argues Meghnad Desai On the day after the first anniversary of 9/11,...
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Raise the curtain on a genuinely political act
In this time of war, we must reclaim from celebrities our right to make significant gestures and voice opinions in the public arena, argues Alan Read The cliché "theatre of war" has been tripping off...
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Ordinary guy with surprise element
When Howard Davies, chairman of the FSA, decided to take up the post of director of the LSE, the City was 'stunned' but, then again, this regular bloke often has that effect, says Terry Philpot...
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Strange lack of old peculiars
Whatever happened to the good old days of dons mowing the campus lawn in their pyjamas? Adrian Mourby charts the decline of that great academic institution - the eccentric According to a report in...