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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the story of a doomed marriage: "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already...
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Kaleidoscopic view of our common past
The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914
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Truth gets lost at sea
The Crimean War
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Blowing the dust off royal records
The Struggle for Mastery
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School tie went quite a long way
The Guardsmen
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Midwife of the welfare state
Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience
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Poet who made ancient India sing for moderns
The Oxford India Ramanujan
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Science fears attacks will rise with Act
Universities may find it impossible to keep the identity of researchers working on animals hidden from extremists when freedom of information laws come into effect next year, experts warned this week...
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Universities exaggerate dyslexia epidemic for own gain, expert claims
Dyslexia may be being overdiagnosed in undergraduates to enable universities to boost exam results and get specialised support, the general secretary of the Association of Educational Psychologists...
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In the news: Julia Higgins
Dame Julia Higgins, president of the British Association, is convinced that the public must be allowed more of a say in the direction of science. She told delegates at this week's BA Festival of...
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Appointments
Abertay Dundee University has appointed Liz Wilson , director of nursing for the primary care division of the National Health Service in Tayside, visiting professor of nursing. Exeter University has...