Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
It鈥檚 not too early to tell who is to blame for the unnecessary death of millions, says Kerry Brown
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Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease
Alison Bashford applauds a magisterial study of scarily relevant bioeconomic history
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
A doorstop of a book from Allen Lane can be a daunting prospect. But, having read Anne Applebaum鈥檚 prizewinning Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps (2003), I knew that appearances can be deceptive....
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Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party
Since the 2008 election of Democrat Barack Obama, the US鈥 first black president, a movement known as the Tea Party has emerged within the Republican Party. Here, Lawrence Rosenthal and Christine...
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The Invention of Heterosexual Culture
The man-woman pairing displaced other well-established forms of bonding, finds Robert Mills
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Dunluce Castle: History and Archaeology
These are exciting times for Irish archaeology. Investigation into sites, buildings and artefacts surviving from the later medieval and early modern period (c.1200-c.1700) have yielded important new...
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Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain
鈥淲hat is the use,鈥 asks Alice at the opening of her Adventures in Wonderland, 鈥渙f a book without pictures or conversations?鈥 If we extend her argument, what could be of more use than a book that...
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Odds and quads
This impressive Orthodox cross, made from intricately carved cypress wood, was used for the benediction of the congregation during the Liturgy and was probably made in the monastic community of Mount...
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Appointments
King's College LondonEvelyn WelchAn award-winning historian has been appointed vice-principal (arts and sciences) at King's College London. Evelyn Welch joins the college from Queen Mary, University...
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Delusions & grandeur
Genius and madness may be two sides of the same coin and both states exhibit 鈥榦ut-of-the-box鈥 thinking. Such unusual thought patterns are key to creativity but can also lead reason astray. Glenn...
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1 November 2012
Go fish - Universities aim to land prize catches for the REF
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Brighter and better
We aim to help all our students progress, says Malcolm Gillies
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Dave Allen, 1949-2012
A leading commentator on European integration, UK and European foreign policy and the role of Britain in Europe has died.Dave Allen was born in Surbiton, Surrey, on 1 February 1949. He took an...
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Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonFrom a tickle to a streamThe number of children admitted to hospital for throat infections has soared because of changes to out-of-hours care from family doctors, a report has...