Victorian scientists were eager popularisers when building the standing of their new profession. The likes of Thomas Huxley were as likely to be found lecturing to working men or dashing off an essay...
Startling originality is a rarity in history writing. It is perhaps particularly rare when writing the history of religion, where it is so hard to escape the constraints of dogma and institutional...
A new biography explains to David Revill the mystery of Sibelius' loss of creativity in later life
The young men would gaze into each other's eyes. They might hold hands. One of them would fall ill, and his friend would murmur caring nothings at the bedside. It was a familiar scenario in 19th-...
Shakespeare has perennially been perceived as in need of rescue. In the 18th century, a squadron of editors, including Pope and Johnson, sought to rescue Shakespeare's drama from corruption on stage...
Academic freedom is not a licence for sloppy or unprofessional behaviour, says David Palfreyman
Alex Danchev on a clear-sighted, but narrowly focused, study
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John Armitage contemplates a meditation on our preoccupation with vanishings and reappearances
This edited volume focuses on the violence experienced by street sex workers and examines how street prostitution could be managed to reduce the risk of violence, its two sections dealing with the...
As newspaper owners around the world battle with the problem of trying to find a way of making news on the web pay, this should be a very timely book - and it almost is.Alex Jones brings a special...
"Cuts! Bring them on." That was the defiant response of our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, to the swingeing reductions in university funding announced by Lord Mandelson.In a...
Tidiness and academic work just don't go together, believes Sally Feldman
A UCL fellowship has given a top scientist the freedom to research the origins of complex life. Rose Wilkinson reports
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