Shakespeare's Freedom
The flyleaf blurb describes Stephen Greenblatt as author of "the groundbreaking Renaissance Self-Fashioning". It was in this book, published in 1980, that Greenblatt's desire "to speak with the dead...
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When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921
Among the many striking images in this study of the British campaign in Mesopotamia during the First World War is that of a British cavalry officer, riding up to a column of marching soldiers,...
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Practical Tortoise Raising and Other Philosophical Essays
Daniel Whiting assesses a philosophical argument that attempts to take us from 'doing' to 'saying'
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Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts
The displays of the heads and body parts of the executed, which adorned bridges and city gates, offered a grim welcome to travellers as they approached medieval or early modern London. They can be...
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The Shape of Inner Space
With the assistance of science writer Steve Nadis, renowned mathematician Shin-Tung Yau, one of the main players in some of the most important recent advances in complex geometry, aims to bring a...
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Losing perspective
Confident protocols of cultural judgement have gone. Today, amid the competing voices of 'relativism', 'essentialism' and the hectic production of culture and opinion, 'our own response' to the arts...
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Diary
OxfordLucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press, 1895-1914Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944), son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, was himself a painter, engraver and printmaker. He also...
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The Pick - Arias on the edge
London has a new mini opera house at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, where OperaUpClose's Bangkok-set "ladyboy" production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly and a youthful take on Rossini's...
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Stop asking silly questions
Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, has announced that Poppleton will "definitely not" be following the example of the University of Winchester and introducing a new degree in...
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Lack of laughter is no joke
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the real punchline of his diplomatic incident
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Research intelligence - Adapted for greatest impact
By mixing independence and collaboration, a new centre expects to find novel ways of coping with climate change. Neha Popat reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Week in Higher Education
The festive period was not kind to the man with responsibility for England's universities. Having been stung by undercover reporters, Vince Cable, the business secretary, may have regretted his pre-...
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Leader: Standing on shaky ground
This year looks to be one in which divisions in the sector widen, leaving no one representing the needs of the academy as a whole
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From where I sit - Keen learners, but tough crowds
All teachers have faced hard crowds; bored, tired, restless students who would clearly prefer to be just about anywhere else than in your classroom.One of my toughest sells was a late Friday...