Valued for access or attributes?
What is the societal function of universities? Equal and better access is supposed to level the educational terrain but how does this manifest in what Carol Schneider calls the public square or what...
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Enchant our sense not sentimentality
I have mixed feelings about the reconstructed Globe theatre. I support the project, but at a recent performance I was struck by the dangerous historical sentimentality of it all. This was a building...
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In Goebbel's shadow
Tim Cornwell reports on the furore surrounding a former Third Reich propagandist who became one of the world's top pollsters To reach into the darkness to find the Jew who is hiding behind the...
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Armed forces seize books
Lagos. ARMED Nigerian security police have swooped on a university lecturer and his students as they tried to buy books by executed civil rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa in the oil city of Port...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its openingsentence, comes from a novel whose eponymous hero became a synonym for US provincial conformism: "...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Beyond pain and pleasure
Ethics, Evil and Fiction
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The great and the terrible
Russia
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Discreet rise of a bourgeois clan
The Beggar and the Professor
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Prescient and a little dusty
Nationalism and Independence
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Mother of all battleaxes
Agrippina
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Let them wear nylons
Parting the Curtain Propaganda
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The road between palace and forum
The History of Government from the Earliest Times
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Sensible story of Victorian folk
The Victorian World Picture