Mistaken identity
Crisis? What crisis"? That was my first reaction to Alan Munslow's claim that history as a discipline is facing a growing crisis of identity, a philosophical crisis of its empiricist foundations ("...
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Bespoke tuition for today's new readers
UNDERGRADUATES used to "read" for their degrees; they were not "taught". They did not even "study" for the qualification. Theirs was a student-centred activity, in the library or laboratory. They had...
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Exploring pathways in the east
THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...
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NUS to get corruption inquiry
The National Union of Students has bowed to demands from Scottish student leaders for an independent inquiry into allegations of corruption in the NUS. A motion at the recent NUS Scotland conference...
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Don's diary
Thursday With a day's leave to hand I visit the Paula Rego exhibition at the Liverpool Tate gallery. I am stunned by the quality and range of her work. In the afternoon I go to the Alma Tadema...
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Murder in a cathedral of words
Tales from Ovid
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Biographer of the Renaissance men
Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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Lights, camera, inaction
The Oxford History of World Cinema
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The peopling of Malgudi
R. K. Narayan
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Signal failure on central line
Atlas of Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
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Whether to thropple or choke a politician
An Atlas of English Dialects
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From fairy tales to Barbie dolls
International Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
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Pathfinder in the literary maze
The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature
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Techno tour of a terrible century
The Times Atlas of the 20th Century
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Freelance Superman, please
Sitting in the Hot Seat