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New Generation ThinkersAHRC joins BBC for a rerunAn initiative to identify and support "the next generation of public intellectuals" is to be repeated next year. The Arts and Humanities Research...
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A bad deal for 'consumers'
Students want to be better people; current policies hinder them, argue Paul Ashwin, Andrea Abbas and Monica McLean
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Dutch lessons for an impact agenda that satisfies all parties
The Netherlands has a workable system from which the UK could learn, says Paul Benneworth. But, be warned, it will involve compromise
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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
It is ideology, not ignorance, that connects diverse groups on the political Right, finds Joanna Bourke
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The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England
When the first detective branch of the Metropolitan Police was formed in 1842, the new "Peelers" had existed for 13 years and were just shaking off a reputation as spies and quasi-military bullies....
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Venice Disputed: Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550-1600
By focusing on one of Venice's 16th-century patricians, Marc'Antonio Barbaro, his political career and patronage, this book analyses the debates that fuelled international diplomacy and Venice's...
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A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe
Barbara Graziosi on a grand historical narrative that fails to recognise the widespread roots of Europe
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Moscow, The Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941
Exactly halfway through Moscow, The Fourth Rome, we read that "1935 might be described as the high point of Soviet internationalism". This assertion flies in the face of conventional historiography,...
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Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security
With Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security, the philanthropist, academic and former US ambassador to Austria, Swanee Hunt, has made an interesting and somewhat unusual contribution to a...
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Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Alessandra Tosi on a must-read for the massed ranks who fret about the future of the humanities
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Command performance
Professors should provide intellectual leadership, but some incumbents have other priorities or misunderstand their role. Bruce Macfarlane asserts that universities must find a way to get the best...
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Undying love and its haters
Twilight has a largely female fan base. It is time to re-evaluate female fan pleasure, says Will Brooker, and be alive to its magic
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Diary
LiverpoolSavage Style: Costumes from Lily's WardrobePaul O'Grady's alter ego - the embittered housewife and occasional shoplifter Lily Savage - is one of the great comic creations of recent decades....
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The Pick - Picturing Politics: Exploring the Political Poster in Britain
Picturing Politics: Exploring the Political Poster in BritainPeople's History Museum, Manchester, until 17 June 2012For the 1929 general election, the Labour Party created a poster of a heroic worker...
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Pearls before swine
"It's chalk and cheese." That was how our senior manager of external relations, Kirk Swavely, responded to suggestions of an "unfortunate similarity" between the terms of the new L'Oreal...