Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
Lori Brooks explores why trips across US social divides were a popular white middle-class activity
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Shakespeare and Modern Culture
Last Christmas, my Arkansan in-laws gave me Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan. It is a DVD in which Cowboy Jack Clement, who wrote songs for Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, among others,...
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Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film
From the start, it was evident that ghost stories and the movies were made for each other. The earliest cinematic pioneers, such as Georges Melies in France and G.A. Smith in England, soon realised...
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Anti-War Activism: New Media and Protest in the Information Age
John Sloboda on the potential of new technology to make anti-war activism more effective
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Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel
Edmund White first encountered Rimbaud's work in the toilets of his boarding school, which is, indubitably, the place to appreciate the one who celebrated cool, creative latrinal space in The Seven-...
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Queen's University Belfast - Cash to build Chinese 'bridges'
More than £1 million has been awarded to Queen's University Belfast to help it build links with leading Chinese universities and institutions. Some £1.09 million has been bestowed on a team from the...
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London Met/Soas - Mind your language
Two university heads have launched a partnership designed to promote the uptake of foreign languages in the UK's secondary schools. Brian Roper, vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, and...
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City/Westminster - London helps Asian journalists
Two London universities are helping to develop journalism skills in Asia. City University London's journalism department has won a British Council contract to assess journalism education and training...
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King's College London - Supermodel unveils cancer unit
Naomi Campbell has opened a £4 million breast cancer research unit. Set up by the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity and King's College London, and based at Guy's Hospital, the centre will be...
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Leicester/Nottingham Trent - Arsenic and old toenails
Scientists from the universities of Leicester and Nottingham Trent have devised a method of identifying levels of exposure to environmental arsenic - by testing toenail clippings. The researchers...
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The Open University - Downturn hits small firms hardest
Small firms in London are bearing the brunt of the economic downturn and have been more badly affected than their counterparts in the North East, according to research by The Open University's...
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University of York - Importance of being breastfed
Breastfeeding is an important public health issue but it is ignored or dismissed by many, a leading expert in the field has argued as part of a lecture series at the University of York. Mary Renfrew...
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Trinity College Carmarthen - Rebrand for Trinity
Trinity College Carmarthen is to change its name to Trinity University College. Medwin Hughes, principal, said: "This is a major development in the college's long history and is based on a wide range...
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University of Kent - Tale of two cities
Five postgraduate programmes in the humanities that will allow students to split their academic year between Paris and Canterbury have been launched by the University of Kent. Students will spend the...
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Lancaster University - Tie-in with Indian development
A deal between Lancaster University and an Indian education trust will see the former's degrees offered at an "education city" development near New Delhi. Lancaster has signed the deal with GD Goenka...