Calling on deaf ears
As church congregations shrink and fewer people enter the ministry, some denominations are sharing the training of their clergy. Simon Midgley reports One side of the cross that stands in the grounds...
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Graduate vacancies set to soar once more
The campaign to close Britain's skills gap is sparking a graduate recruitment boom not seen since the halcyon days of the 1980s, writes Simon Targett. The country's major companies are expecting...
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Mersey connects online benefits to public
Pick a house on Brookside Close and discover, at a few clicks of a button, what domestic traumas it has witnessed and how many bodies are buried in the back garden. Alternatively, take a tour of...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a professor and poet from County Derry: "I am neither internee nor informer;/ An inner emigre, grown long-haired/ And thoughtful; a wood-kerne Escaped from the...
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Speaking Volumes: Mimesis
John Fuegi on Erich Auerbach's Mimesis . It seems madly improbable that Mimesis should have been written at all. Its author was a German-Jewish intellectual and it was written in German in Istanbul...
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A look at what was left
Popular Radicalism in 19th-Century Britain
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Greenwich observatory
Joys and Sorrows
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Inarticulating the inarticulate
The Spivak Reader
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Nelson's gewgaws
The Nelson Companion - The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy
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Singeing Spaniards
Francis Drake
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Sour dressing for the salad bowl society
From the Outside In - The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy - The American Dream - Guns or Butter - Barry Goldwater
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Correction
An unfortunate error crept into Gary L. McDowell's review of Seymour Martin Lipset's book, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword. "Lipset is a true socialist..." should have read "Lipset is a...
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Dead Clever
CHAPTER 1. Henry sat on the low wall surrounding the car park of the engineering faculty, staring at a row of quaint Victorian terraced houses with bay windows. He drummed his fingers on the attache...
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Aim achieved
Major Alwyn McLean, of the Royal Irish Regiment, yesterday won the Queen's Medal for Champion Shot of the British Army at Bisley after ten previous appearances in the final.
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Awards
MENERVA TRUST/THE THES ESSAY COMPETITION 1st prize: Barbara Spender, Southampton University An Autobiographical Perspective on Women Writers. 2nd prize: Elizabeth Eger, King's College, Cambridge...