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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an account of a journey through Europe in the 1930s: "'A splendid afternoon to set out,' said one of...
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More stuff to fuel a myth of spinsters
The Brontë Myth
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Timely attack on nonsense
Market Killing
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Saying adiós to Inglaterra
The Delicious History of the Holiday - The British Seaside - The British on the Costa del Sol - Sunset Lives
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Goths, giros and Geordie rock bands
Popular Music and Youth Culture - Inside Subculture - Sounding Out the City
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How India writes national roles into TV shows
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics
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Enjoy your sushi at Christ's tomb
The Orient Strikes Back
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The father of the family album
The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot - Specimens and Marvels
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High life is in the blood
How do communities in the Andes and Tibet cope with living at such high altitudes? Cynthia Beall believes it is a question of evolution. Steve Farrar reports. It was not an ideal start. En route to...
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Astute decision by the academy or deliberate provocation of China?
Having campaigned relentlessly for a Nobel for literature, China was outraged when one was awarded to dissident Gao Xingjian. Howard Goldblatt reflects on a controversial award. It has been said...
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Soul Mountain - an extract
Above the branches of the two spreading elms, one leaning to the left and the other to the right, there was originally a stretch of shining white water, like snow which had fallen on a flat cement...
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To move a Mountain can take a Nobel
In China, his writing made him an enemy of the state. In the West, he barely sold enough books to buy cigarettes. Karen Gold profiles the enigmatic Nobel-winner Gao Xingjian. It is a good story: a...
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If you want people to take your advice...
...befriend a civil servant. Virginia Berridge discusses how scientists can turn research into public policy. In the recent panics caused by BSE, genetically modified food, food poisoning and foot-...
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Latest UK news
Means test denies medics NHS bursaries Fast-track medical students are set to lose thousands of pounds in National Health Service bursaries after a ruling that they will be means tested on...