Reg Jordan Director of medical studies at Newcastle University, the first university in the United Kingdom to make study of complementary medicine compulsory for medical students Contrary to what...
Accurate science reporting is to be encouraged, but Jon Turney is sceptical about a code of practice Ah, if only journalists would get their facts straight. Then we would all know what we were...
The Politics of retirement in Britain 1878-1948
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Sun Yat-sen
A Brief History of Western Philosophy
Imperial Power and Popular Politics
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a novelist whose maxim was "Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait.": " This is the story of...
From Poliziano to Machiavelli
The Return of Depression Economics
The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Volumes One and Two
The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain
Writing the English Republic
The two minutes next Wednesday when the sun istotally obscured by the moon will be watched by scientists worldwide. But this could be the first eclipse that teaches us nothing new about the sun. John...
A day of total luna-see: Of all the thousands of eclipses studied by scientists, the most important was the eclipse of 1919, writes Simon Singh. It provided clinching evidence in favour of one of the...