In the preface to this formidable biography, sure to enthral all those interested in theories of revolution, Tristram Hunt claims that Engels has "been excised from the popular memory", which may...
Marshall Berman's book was first published in the UK in 1983 by Verso and it had an immediate impact. Perry Anderson wrote an 18-page review in New Left Review that was respectful - "surely ... a...
Julia Droeber sympathises with a passionate treatise against the reasons given for covering up
There is a lot that is extremely worrying about this book. One might begin with the title. If the appearance on the cover of Lady Jane Grey in capital letters superimposed on a portrait of the...
This book addresses a neglect of the Co-op in historical writings and business history. Fourteen chapters - loosely organised into the three themes of the postwar decline, ideologies and identities,...
The epistolary art was a rite of passage for women in 18th-century France, says Isobel Grundy
This intimately informed account of John and Myfanwy Piper's domestic and artistic partnership brims over with insights and revelations. Who knew that in his Chiltern farmhouse, Fawley Bottom - John...
Belfast's Loyalist murals depict many images of the First World War. The 36th Ulster Division, in which so many forebears of today's Ulster Loyalists fought and died, is a regular theme for these...
Elisa Aaltola is left with no doubt that humans have a moral obligation not to cause animals pain
In the run-up to the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, held in Hyde Park during the summer of 1851 in Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, Prince Albert declared that, by bringing...
The big question framing the research of Czech entomologist Vojtech Novotny is that of why there are so many species of insects in tropical rainforests. His investigations, for the past decade, have...
A riposte to the biological determinism of Richard Dawkins leaves Janet Smith frustrated
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Origin Then and Now: An Interpretative Guide to the Origin of SpeciesBy David N. Reznick, professor of biology at the University of California,...
Students who are more hopeful are more likely to get better marks, psychologists at Sheffield Hallam University have found. The researchers studied about 200 undergraduate psychology students to...
Thirty scientists, six of them professors, are being appointed to new academic posts at the University of Exeter. The positions are funded through the institution's £80 million investment in science...