NI celebrations mark students' peace efforts
Students and academics in Northern Ireland are celebrating the 30th anniversary of a unique partnership in which students led the fight against sectarianism. As the province erupted in violence in...
Search
-
-
Cambridge building Eden in the east
A decade after it seemed to be wilting as funding dried up, Cambridge Botanic Garden has marked its return to rude health with the unveiling of plans for a £16 million visitor centre, writes Steve...
-
The Soviet Himmler
Beria; My Father
-
New cynics will never flourish
A Question of Trust - Autonomy and Trust in Bioethics
-
Reason from one who kept his head
Defying Hitler
-
Warts of the war leaders
Allies at War - The War Within World War II
-
Mud and a medieval Ricki Lake
The New Cambridge Medieval History
-
Tearing up the 'Bible for illiterates'
The Forbidden Image
-
First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a former lecturer at Oxford University: "'Good man,' said Dalmire, gratefully accepting the...
-
The pain that made it possible for all Europe to gain
A History in Fragments
-
Contested tales in a storied country
The Irish Story
-
Laurie Taylor column
The Departmental Secretary Department of Mediaand Cultural Studies University of Poppleton Poppleton PP12 6HP Dear Maureen I do hope that you are enjoying your holiday in Scarborough (or was it Filey...
-
Leader: Degrees retain market value, but for how long?
The financial benefits conferred by a degree will loom large this autumn as arguments rage about whether higher tuition fees can be justified. Ministers have lost no opportunity to quote the lifetime...
-
Leader: Why not every town should have its gowns
Every town in Britain that has not got a university seems to want one. The latest initiative would involve creating the University of Chester from colleges in Chester and Warrington. The idea might...
-
Secret worlds of Georgie girl
In penetrating the smokescreen that the wife of W .B. Yeats created, Ann Saddlemyer discovered the start of a much larger story. On November 18 1913, having reached the age of admittance to the...