The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age, by Steven Weitzman
‘Archive fever’, the desire to know one’s lineage, is a focus of this judicious study, says Devorah Baum
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Agonistic Mourning: Political Dissidence and the Women in Black, by Athena Athanasiou
Joanna Bourke on a powerful meditation on the politics of mourning focusing on the Women in Black of Belgrade
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Idol imaginings: academics reveal the childhood heroes who inspired their careers
Many an academic will be dragged to the cinema this summer by bored offspring determined to see the latest superhero film. But what kind of childhood heroes did scholars themselves have? Here, five...
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The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home, by Abigail Williams
Bibliophiles in the 1700s liked soundbites and sharing. Are we so different, asks Valerie Sanders
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Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance: The Mirror up to Nature, by John H. Astington
Peter J. Smith on a study of the interrelationship between visual culture and the theatre in 16th- and 17th-century England
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What are you reading? – 10 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Career advice: how to run an international student exchange
Andrew Southgate and Rob Turner offer some tips on organising a study-abroad trip following a visit to a Japanese university
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Should the wealthy repay more of their student loans?
Australian legislation proposes to lower the country’s generous loan repayment threshold – but some argue that it should rise even higher, says Andrew Norton
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Mark Thompson, 1957-2017
Tributes paid to land law expert who became Leicester pro vice-chancellor
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Interview with Stephen Milner
The Italian scholar discusses how Machiavelli might have appraised current politics, the benefits of birdwatching and discovering Stevie Wonder
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We must rescue social science research from obscurity
The publication game that researchers are obliged to play has stripped the purpose out of social research. Time to change the rules, says Yiannis Gabriel
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Danes step away from patenting in favour of ‘open science’
Aarhus University has signed up companies to fund fundamental research in what it calls a ‘patent-free playground’
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The steel city forging a university-industry-community alloy
John Morgan witnesses a pioneering collaboration between two Sheffield universities, drawing upon the city’s manufacturing heritage to become a hub of industrial innovation and a model of civic...
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Books interview: Rita Chin
The professor of history discusses the ‘crisis of multiculturalism in Europe’