A script open to interpretation - because no one can read it
Deciphering the Indus Script
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Victorian visions imagined and real
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
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Conversation with the past acquires an ironical twist
Economy, Polity and Society - History, Religion and Culture
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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 work by a gothic novelist with a penchant for the macabre: "For the most wild yet most homely...
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Nation baptised in a font of learning
Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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Emotions stirred sitting in the dark
Film Music
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Imperial tendency lurking in liberalism
Two Faces of Liberalism
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Tricky trading with the enemy
IBM and the Holocaust
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Laurie Taylor column
More and more academics are being declared research inactive in the RAE for strategic reasons - THES, July 6 . Yes, Doctor Cosgrove, do come in. How's the psychology research coming along? You're...
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Letter: Troublesome trap
Higher education researchers are walking into a troublesome trap ("Scholars say big picture is lost in big numbers", THES , July 6). In media audience research for the past 20 years there has been a...
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Letter: Jolly typical fellows?
Thirty-three new fellows are elected to the British Academy (Glittering prizes, THES , July 6). Of these, 28 (85 per cent) are male and 26 (79 per cent) are from the "golden triangle" of Oxford,...
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Letter: Care and share v. kiss of death (1)
I welcome the attention you give the Learning and Teaching Support Network in fulfilling a role in a changing higher education quality assurance framework ("Could the ILT take over the QAA's...
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Letter: Care and share v. kiss of death (2)
Like the monster in a badly made horror movie that refuses to die, the Quality Assurance Agency looks set to stagger on. Even the new blueprint from vice-chancellors and funding chiefs ("Split over...
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Letter: NUS cash crisis (1)
While the left wing of the student movement is right to highlight the lack of real financial accountability in the National Union of Students ("NUS faces split over cash crisis", THES , July 6), this...
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Letter: NUS cash crisis (2)
I must express some mild amusement at the situation the NUS is facing. We at Umist decided to disaffiliate from the union mainly because we did not perceive it as having our best interests at heart....