Many an oath in stone
The Viking-Age Rune-Stones
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Peeling more veils from the life of Islam
The Archaeology of Islam
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A script open to interpretation - because no one can read it
Deciphering the Indus Script
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Victorian visions imagined and real
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
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Conversation with the past acquires an ironical twist
Economy, Polity and Society - History, Religion and Culture
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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 gothic novelist with a penchant for the macabre: "For the most wild yet most homely...
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Nation baptised in a font of learning
Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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Emotions stirred sitting in the dark
Film Music
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Imperial tendency lurking in liberalism
Two Faces of Liberalism
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Tricky trading with the enemy
IBM and the Holocaust
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Laurie Taylor column
More and more academics are being declared research inactive in the RAE for strategic reasons - THES, July 6 . Yes, Doctor Cosgrove, do come in. How's the psychology research coming along? You're...
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Letter: Troublesome trap
Higher education researchers are walking into a troublesome trap ("Scholars say big picture is lost in big numbers", THES , July 6). In media audience research for the past 20 years there has been a...
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Letter: Jolly typical fellows?
Thirty-three new fellows are elected to the British Academy (Glittering prizes, THES , July 6). Of these, 28 (85 per cent) are male and 26 (79 per cent) are from the "golden triangle" of Oxford,...
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Letter: Care and share v. kiss of death (1)
I welcome the attention you give the Learning and Teaching Support Network in fulfilling a role in a changing higher education quality assurance framework ("Could the ILT take over the QAA's...
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Letter: Care and share v. kiss of death (2)
Like the monster in a badly made horror movie that refuses to die, the Quality Assurance Agency looks set to stagger on. Even the new blueprint from vice-chancellors and funding chiefs ("Split over...