The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V
The economist Adam Smith described the European discovery of the Americas as the "greatest and most important event recorded in the history of mankind". Despite what we know about the brutality and...
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Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic, its life and demise, has garnered its fair share of academic attention over the past 20 years. Moreover, popular films such as Good Bye, Lenin! and The Lives of Others...
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The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth
Tom F. Wright admires a spirited attempt to restore some justice to the woman Dickens wrote off
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Death in War and Peace: A History of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970
It is particularly heartening to read scholastic work that is both accessible to a non-academic audience and intellectually stimulating for those working in the academic arena. In Death in War and...
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The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
The political theorist, Judith Shklar, once commented that in order to understand political conduct, it is not enough merely to study instrumentalist-rationalist behaviour and related outcomes, as...
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A nation's saving grace
Religious diversity in the US is more a force for tolerance than for discord, argues scholar Robert Putnam. Jon Marcus reports
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Diary
LondonThe Land of Light and Promise: Ludwig Blum (1891-1974), a 20th-century OrientalistThe works of the classically trained Czech-born Israeli topographical artist Ludwig Blum, perhaps the finest of...
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Where would we be without them?
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has announced that Poppleton will be paying "no attention whatsoever" to recent research from the University of Madrid, which shows that...
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Universally unhelpful
The coalition's consensus policies manage to benefit no one, says Alan Ryan
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Leader: Missions trail leads to success
The secret of California's strength in higher education is a system that delineates institutional roles. England should take heed
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Research intelligence - Tight, but not too austere
The research settlement is sparing with both rises and reductions. Paul Jump reports
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Off Piste - The dying of the guiding light
Peter Hill recalls his time as a lighthouse keeper, a profession since snuffed out by technology. He misses the arduous hours, grand meals, avian migrants and tall tales in the coal fire's glow
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The week in higher education
The number of university applicants has increased by 2.5 per cent on last year, according to figures published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A total of 344,064 people had...
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From where I sit - Diplomatic bag's pedagogic pearls
Those who teach international relations are rarely short of interesting material from the "real world" to illustrate key points about theory and practice, but the release of masses of classified...