Pisa The European Commission is to reconsider the case of more than 1,500 foreign-language lecturers in Italian universities who were downgraded to technical staff in 1995 when trade unions agreed a...
The International Boxing Academy has accused college chiefs of "academic snobbery" and "a disgraceful betrayal" this week following a fight about the status of the Olympic sport. Students from the...
Leaders of lecturers at new universities rejected a "derisory" pay offer of 3 per cent this week, despite being offered a better package than their old-university counterparts. A meeting between...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a historian who had a second go as first lord of the admiralty: " After the end of the World War of...
Reading the Holocaust - German National Identity After the Holocaust
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
How We Believe
The Kyoto Protocol
Nabokov's Butterflies
Research shows Anglo-Saxons could teach today's herbalists a thing or two about healing Although they might appear less advanced than other Dark Age cultures, it seems the Anglo-Saxons could hold...
* FOOT ACHE Take helenium roots and boarthroat roots and dock roots. Boil very well in butter; drain out through woollen cloth; let cool. Afterwards, smear the swelling; he will soon be better....
Patricia Reid has been literally following in our ancestors'footsteps. The postgraduate student at University College London has tracked a route back to the lives of ordinary people in the Dark Ages...
Why did Henry I father more children than any other English monarch? With nine sons and 11 daughters from at least seven mothers, it was suggested by his contemporary, the historian William of...