Truths and facts in history
Richard Evans is to be congratulated on raising the tone of the history and theory debate ("Truth lost in vain views", Perspective, THES, September 12). However, as an historian who "does" both...
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Truths and facts in history
PROFESSOR Evans is in no way to blame for linking Michel Foucault to the postmodernist label because so many others have done so; but he is mistaken all the same. I believe that Foucault's only...
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Truths and facts in history
Richard Evans makes some effective points about postmodernist approaches to history. However, years of hand-to-hand fighting with postmodernists in seminar rooms suggest to me that he will need to be...
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Truths and facts in history
PROFESSOR Evans is right to criticise the potential narcissism of postmodern approaches to historical study, but he should not overlook the problems raised by such approaches. Any attempt to...
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Truths and facts in history
Richard Evans was partly wrong about Edward Thompson in his anti-postmodernist polemic. Ironic, in that Evans was insisting that it is the quality of evidence that can distinguish the worth of one...
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Luton's case of antithesis
THE chortling in your Antithesis column (THES, September 12) about Luton's Investors in People status is, I am happy to say, premature. We have not lost our IiP recognition: we were visited in July,...
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Don's Diary
Monday A start-of-term feeling pervades the office. In July a ballot authorised the merger between the Association of University and College Lecturers and the Association of University Teachers and...
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Valued for access or attributes?
What is the societal function of universities? Equal and better access is supposed to level the educational terrain but how does this manifest in what Carol Schneider calls the public square or what...
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Enchant our sense not sentimentality
I have mixed feelings about the reconstructed Globe theatre. I support the project, but at a recent performance I was struck by the dangerous historical sentimentality of it all. This was a building...
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In Goebbel's shadow
Tim Cornwell reports on the furore surrounding a former Third Reich propagandist who became one of the world's top pollsters To reach into the darkness to find the Jew who is hiding behind the...
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Armed forces seize books
Lagos. ARMED Nigerian security police have swooped on a university lecturer and his students as they tried to buy books by executed civil rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa in the oil city of Port...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its openingsentence, comes from a novel whose eponymous hero became a synonym for US provincial conformism: "...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Beyond pain and pleasure
Ethics, Evil and Fiction