Dead hands keep a closed book
Scholars must challenge the copyright laws, which allow estates to stifle efforts to generate new ideas about an author's works, argues Alistair McCleery
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5 June 2008
The Google generation - Can we teach cut-and-paste students the value of scholarship?
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UCU backs call to ‘consider moral implications’ of ties to Israel
Delegates at the union’s conference vote in favour of motion that cites the ‘apparent complicity of most of the Israeli academy’ in the ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza. Phil Baty and Melanie...
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Freedom to talk rubbish
A good primer on US law fails to look beyond the parochial in this global age, says Terence Kealey
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Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
Most observers of social movements, even their participants, underestimate their diversity and complexity. Every social movement is a constantly roiling mass of uneasy fractions, tendencies and...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Loughborough
1. The No Nonsense Guide to Democracy by Richard Swift Verso, £7.00 ISBN 97818598447002. The Entertainer by John Osborne Faber and Faber, £8.99 ISBN 97805710636733. An Actor Prepares by Constantin...
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Hegel and the chicken suit
John Lippitt on a Lacanian analysis of comedy that trips up on a few Real and Symbolic banana skins
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Poems of John Milton
He was an organist and a republican. He was so good-looking his fellow students at Cambridge called him "the Lady of Christ's" and he gained such expertise at Latin that Cromwell made him Secretary...
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Keep Watching the Skies! The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age
The moon in question here is not the natural celestial object that has always been a feature of the night sky since the first time anyone took the trouble to look upwards.No, the subject of Keep...
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The lure of facts and artefacts
Douglas Millard on the clocks, maps, gears and valves that sparked academics' love of science
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The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Following its devastating defeat in the Seven Years' War, France wanted to re-establish its American empire. What it needed was a new and better New France. The Duc de Choiseul settled on Kourou in...
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Her Husband Was a Woman: Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
I never thought I'd say this, but this book won me over as a fan of News of the World. By opening up six decades' worth of representations of women's cross-dressing to be found in the pages of the...
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When the future was Orange
A juicy account of England's links with Holland is missing a few segments, Anthony Milton discovers
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History Lesson: A Race Odyssey
Mary Lefkowitz's History Lesson ostensibly concerns itself with academic freedom of speech, relativism and hate speech but serves as a fascinating example of the ways in which race is played out in...
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Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture
I want to love this book. Really, I do. I have been pacing around my office listening to Marlene Dietrich and Amy Winehouse and wondering what to write that is generous to the project of Geek Chic,...