Cults, criminals and barbarous bands of brigands
Thug
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Riotous turns in historical cliffhanger
Gunpowder Plots - Remember, Remember the Fifth of November - Gunpowder
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Good colonialist with a distaste for empire
Woolf in Ceylon - The Village in the Jungle
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The others among the most ordinary Britons
We Europeans? Mass-Observation, "Race" and British Identity in the 20th Century
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Brief game of bland man's bluff
The Intellectual
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Not waving but drowning in a deep lake of inexplicability
Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000
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Precision gained
Understanding Social Change
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a mathematician with a theory of consciousness: "There was a great gathering in the Grand...
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Today's news
Medics 'livid' over research cash failure Scientists have reacted with anger after it was revealed that the Government's medical research body last year failed to spend 10 per cent of its budget...
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Lecturers who failed to fill room fined £500
A London university has taken drastic - some would say draconian - steps to stop academics booking rooms and then failing to use them. In an attempt to ensure that staff use space efficiently, City...
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Fury at research underspend
Academics and MPs reacted with anger this week to news that research councils had accidentally underspent by millions of pounds, while top-rated research proposals are being turned away. The Medical...
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'I've seen the difference technology makes to lives, including mine'
You need neither muscles nor testosterone to work a computer, said Jackie Edwards, the winner of the inaugural Aurora Woman of Technology award. Ms Edwards, who also won the Best Woman in Technology...
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On the move...
* Oxford University has appointed: Nicholas Rawlins , professor of behavioural science at the university, to the Watts chair of psychology; Jonathan Zittrain , former Jack N. Berkman and Lillian R....
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Elite keen to run trust schools
Top universities are queuing up to get involved in running the Government's new trust schools, the Education Secretary has told MPs, writes Jessica Shepherd. Ruth Kelly told the Education and Skills...
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BAT report spots good prospects
Would your institution take the tobacco pound? Phil Baty examines a revealing document A global cigarette company identified six UK universities that privately indicated that they would be willing to...