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Canadian universities access online journals Sixty-four Canadian universities have agreed to spend C$47 million (拢20 million) over three years on nationwide site licenses for online scholarly...
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From today's UK papers
Independent If free babysitting were paid for, it would be an economic activity greater than the output of the UK's recession-hit manufacturing base, according to the government statistical agency...
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Misfortune and heroic muddle
Berlioz Remembered
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Reflecting in the house of moral mirrors
Are we naturally moral? Mary Midgley reconsiders 'human nature' Natural Goodness is a joyful book and one that is really needed. It resists a deadening error that has long deformed academic moral...
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Dirty and snobby? Must be the poms
Anglo-Australian Attitudes
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Emperors need their voices
The Cambridge Ancient History
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Glitz steals glory off gene
The Sequence
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London's Monster circus
The London Monster
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Fast news and fasts to halt rain
The Nineteenth Century, 1815-1901
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about the suppression of books. "It was a pleasure to burn." The winner receives a 拢25...
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Life and death in Victorian numbers
The Demography of Victorian England and Wales
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Enlightening short takes on a century of two halves
The Eighteenth Century, 1688-1815 - The Eighteenth Century, 1688-1815
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Why Nelson should have deployed his good eye
Precursors of Nelson - Most Secret and Confidential