Six months' hard labour for Hughes
Lib Dem deputy must move quickly in access role, say senior sector figures. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Odds and quads
These cans are part of the brewing collection in the University of Glasgow’s Scottish Business Archive.
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Promises, promises: research reveals secrets of successful New Year's resolutions
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Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
Hugh Gorman on a narrative that places the BP Gulf oil spill in context with the US' energy policy
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My Life on Mars: The Beagle 2 Diaries
Jon Turney probes the maverick mind and the bickering behind an interplanetary voyage
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Shakespeare's Freedom
The flyleaf blurb describes Stephen Greenblatt as author of "the groundbreaking Renaissance Self-Fashioning". It was in this book, published in 1980, that Greenblatt's desire "to speak with the dead...
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When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921
Among the many striking images in this study of the British campaign in Mesopotamia during the First World War is that of a British cavalry officer, riding up to a column of marching soldiers,...
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Practical Tortoise Raising and Other Philosophical Essays
Daniel Whiting assesses a philosophical argument that attempts to take us from 'doing' to 'saying'
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Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts
The displays of the heads and body parts of the executed, which adorned bridges and city gates, offered a grim welcome to travellers as they approached medieval or early modern London. They can be...
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The Shape of Inner Space
With the assistance of science writer Steve Nadis, renowned mathematician Shin-Tung Yau, one of the main players in some of the most important recent advances in complex geometry, aims to bring a...
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Contravene or intervene?
Freedom of speech is passionately defended in UK education, but when Islamic extremism and even terrorism have emanated from some of our campuses, should institutions step in? Matthew Reisz weighs up...
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Reboot camp
Aspiring and seasoned US journalists alike are looking to tech-savvy graduate schools to help them survive and thrive in a new multimedia environment. Jon Marcus reports
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Losing perspective
Confident protocols of cultural judgement have gone. Today, amid the competing voices of 'relativism', 'essentialism' and the hectic production of culture and opinion, 'our own response' to the arts...
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Diary
OxfordLucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press, 1895-1914Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944), son of the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, was himself a painter, engraver and printmaker. He also...
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The Pick - Arias on the edge
London has a new mini opera house at the King's Head Theatre in Islington, where OperaUpClose's Bangkok-set "ladyboy" production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly and a youthful take on Rossini's...