Playing with fire
Having been one of the few lecturers in the UK to have had an undergraduate in my care treated as a spy while backpacking in North Korea, I would like to comment on the BBC inserting undercover...
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Case study contested
I have just finished your 25 April edition (I’m on maternity leave so I don’t have the time to tear through the magazine the minute it pops through the letter box) and Paul Magrs’ response to the...
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Robust reviews all round
Your assertion that private colleges seeking designation for students supported by the Student Loans Company will “escape full QAA scrutiny” underplays the thoroughness of the reviews that the...
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The ones to watch
Thanks to the Centre for Science and Policy, a constellation of UK research stars gathered recently at the Royal Society to hear Sir Mark Walport and others ponder “future directions for scientific...
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Left behind
Roger Morgan’s review of the late Eric Hobsbawm’s Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century (“Fragmentation of a framework”, Books, 11 April) remarks on the historian’s “long-held...
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Past is another chapter
Janet Fluellen will not necessarily be able to claim a first for the University of Poppleton if the institution launches a course in creative history, although I would still encourage her to consider...
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THE Scholarly Web - 9 May 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations by Mary Beard
Barbara Graziosi on a renowned reviewer’s disciplinary skirmishes
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Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar Speyer by Antony Lentin
Stephen Halliday on a forgotten tragedy of the First World War
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Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism by Hilary M. Schor
Shelley King on asking questions, realist fiction and female subjectivity in Victorian novels
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Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg
Robert Eaglestone on the experiences of a Holocaust survivor and how he rebuilt his life afterwards
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The Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee
Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik on a study of the process of researching the Bosnian wars
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The Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee
The Politics of Exile reads like a novel, but it is an academic work that asks important questions about the research process and, specifically, researching wars such as the one that took place in...
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Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg
Presumably, many people who become leading physicists - for example, Felix Weinberg, who was professor of combustion physics and a fellow of the Royal Society - display an early curiosity about the...