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A healer with star quality
Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
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Of an age intent on controlling nature
The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain
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The hothouse that wilted imperial ambitions
Before the Bauhaus
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Never lost for words
As linguists prepare for their annual conference, Neil Smith and Ian Robinson do battle over the verbal high ground, debating the legacy of a linguistic icon Noam Chomsky has shown that there is...
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The false prophet's promise of apples
As linguists prepare for their annual conference, Neil Smith and Ian Robinson do battle over the verbal high ground, debating the legacy of a linguistic icon In 1975, I published The New...
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Trust us, we're not academics
Not that long ago, university press offices were manned by a couple of dons - now they are meaner machines, finds Harriet Swain In 1990, after more than 781 years, Cambridge University got its first...
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They're watching you
It pays to study people and their mores. Stephen Phillips learns why the corporate spotlight is turning on anthropologists A bland office building in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, seems an unlikely...
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The Greeks have a word for it...
..but the locals may think it's your poor grasp of language, says Joanna Bourke, who reveals how she plans to spend the long, hot summer months Summer starts the moment I see olive and fig trees...
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The strident echo of 'Miss Hissy'
In the second of our series, June Purvis connects with suffragettes through her collection of sometimes saucy ephemera As a child, I liked collecting things, especially miniature objects such as tea...
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Laurie Taylor column
Lastminuteconferences.com Want to include conference attendances in your CV but lack the necessary funds? Time to turn to lastminuteconferences.com. Look at these bargains! Whither Welsh Higher...
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The business of being a good v-c 1
A minor flurry of vice-chancellor resignations and retirements, with the prospect of a generation of more "businesslike" vice-chancellors ("Struggle to fill v-c job vacancies", July 21), should not...
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The business of being a good v-c 2
It was a reasonably safe bet that recent comments by David Allen, chair of the Association of Heads of University Administration, on non-academics being appointed to vice-chancellor positions would "...
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The business of being a good v-c 3
For the past two years, I have been empirically examining the question: should top universities be led by top scholars? I have looked at leaders of 100 global universities and deans of 140 business...
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Don't take shine off 1
Why has Andy Pike, a University and College Union official, assumed the role of the Lord Protector of the teaching staff at Leeds Metropolitan University and with whose authority ("UCU anger at Leeds...