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The Making of Ireland
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Marxism, '68, and all that jazz
Uncommon People
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Shrovetide football drama
The Stage as Mirror
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Yale, Harvard, Bloomsbury
Historian David Cannadine says British higher education is less confident, creative and imaginative than its American counterpart, but he believes he has a blueprint for its recovery It is true to...
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University of Bloomsbury: a new campus for the heart of London?
When, a year ago, I took up the directorship of the Institute of Historical Research in London after ten years at the University of Columbia, my friends warned me that while my colleagues would be...
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We found you under a PC
Soon, when a child asks where babies come from, the answer will be 'the internet', says Robin Baker Imagine the scenes. A woman convinces her teenage daughter to be sterilised and to bank eggs for...
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Higher channels
John Davies picks programmes of interest to THES readers. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Saturday night is history night. From this week, BBC2 will have a History Zone containing not...
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Have you heard about the one-legged Irish dyke?
It may have been the butt of tabloid humour, but political correctness has had a positive effect on language, reports Alan Thomson Political correctness swept university campuses a decade ago,...
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Pounds 20 million, please, for a world-class seat of learning
For almost 12 months now I have been directing the Institute of Historical Research, within London's Senate House, a monumental 1930s building that, it is rumoured, would have been Hitler's...
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Belgrade
Nato air attacks on targets in Serbia have damaged the faculties of law and economics at the University of Nis, and the medical faculty at the University of Belgrade. Universities have been closed...
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Douala
The second eruption of Mount Cameroon in three weeks has led to the evacuation of the anglophone University of Buea in the Republic of Cameroon. Students and staff have taken refuge in Douala, the...
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Bargain Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica has halved the price of its standard CD-Rom edition from Pounds 99 to Pounds 49. Since the company was bought by Swiss financier Jacob Safra in 1996, it has fought a brutal...
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Stockholm
For the first time in its 98-year history, the Nobel Committee for Physics has appointed a woman - Cecilia Jarlskog, professor of theoretical particle physics at Lund University - as its chair. The...
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Yamoussoukro
The Universite Nationale at Bouake in the Cote d'Ivoire has been closed and students ordered to return home indefinitely following clashes between protesting students, those opposed to a boycott of...