Hoodolatory: history, myth and Mr R. Hood
Was the green-hosed outlaw really out there? asks Stephen Knight. Robin Hood, according to the old stories, took money at arrow-point from travellers in Sherwood Forest. The Nottingham tourist...
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It probably won't be you
Mathematician Ian Stewart explains why the National Lottery will almost certainly be won by somebody else. As a mathematician I have an ambivalent attitude towards that instant British institution,...
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Why do Britain's have-nots have less?
Tony Atkinson deplores the UK's record on income distribution and the relative neglect of the problem by economists. Income inequality has increased more sharply in the United Kingdom in the 1980s...
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Loans change
Ken Young, chairman of the Students Loans Company, is to leave in July after four years. Colin Ward was recently promoted to chief executive.
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Asia-Pacific push
Nottingham Trent University has created a Centre for Asia-Pacific Studies to develop research, teaching, community and commercial links with the region. NTU has franchised degree courses in Malaysia...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a native of Prague, who, for a time, was Rodin's secretary: "But were they to waken for us, the endlessly dead, a symbol, behold, they would point to the catkins on...
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Charlie's last pretence
From Rebel to Hero - 1745 - Lochiel of the '45 - The Desperate Faction? The Jacobites of Northeast England 1688-1745 - The 'Forty Five' - The Myth of the Jacobite Clans
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A turbulent media priest
Media Marathon
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Drunken editor staggers into history
The New Statesman
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Varnished truths
The Crisis of Public Communication
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Life and nothing but
Zola
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Shell-like whisperer
Effi Briest
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Succinct segregations
Hidden in the Lute
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Inarticulate mammals
Ideology and Linguistic Theory
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Sign o' the times
Signs of Writing