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"I'm an Anglican," says Jonathan Clark. "But I didn't come to ecclesiastical history because of my Anglicanism." His first history book, The Dynamics of Change (1982), was a study of a high-politics...
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Designs on Kent: Vaughan Grylls
(Photograph) - Designs on Kent: Vaughan Grylls with a working study for a mural entitled Hiroshima. Picture by TONY HOWELL/UNIVERSITY OF WOVERHAMPTON
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Opening windows into men's souls
Whatever their faith, historiansof religion must be professional atheists, argues Patrick Collinson. Around 1600, in London's already sprawling suburb of Southwark, virtually the entire population of...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. Concede four (unstoppable) goals this morning for my German football team. Try to explain to twin sons that this is not normal. Coincidentally they are also four today and birthday party with...
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Faith and the flag
Bernard Hamilton finds that even when the West fought the forces of Islam 800 years ago, secular respect managed to survive religious hate The crusades were one episode in an ongoing war between...
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Faith and the flag
Jan Willem Honig discerns the bloody hand of the state rather than the church behind the Bosnian massacres In a 1993 article in the prestigious American journal Foreign Affairs, American political...
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Appointments
KENT INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN Vaughan Grylls, artist/photographer and former professor and head of the school of art and design at the University of Wolverhampton, has been appointed director,...
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A dowry cad's awful wedded wife
Attitudes to marriage, divorce and birth control were very different in medieval times - or were they? Peter Biller looks back Cerisy in Normandy, November 12, 1317: Thomassie, daughter of William of...
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Awards
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING John McCanny, professor of microelectronics engineering at Queen's University Belfast has been awarded the Silver Medal for advances in the design of silicon chips for...
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I believe...
"I was brought up a good Methodist and was one until my teenage years. I expect that has influenced me in all sorts of ways and given me all sorts of prejudices I am not conscious of. My parents were...
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Hereafter? Pay later
Need financial advice? Ask an angel. Christopher Kelly reports on some New Age "channelling" Sometime in the early fourth century ad something unusual happened in a rather ostentatious suburban villa...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. John Self, reader in computing at Lancaster University, to a chair in knowledge-based systems; Christopher Wild, chief of the unit of environmental carcino-genesis at the...
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The Anglo-American Conference:a history
At the end of the great war, British politicians turned to academics to help the nation comprehend that enormous catastrophe for the democratic ideals of the previous age. History then appeared to...
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Holy men behaving badly
Christ's maleness, and the patriarchy that followed, were historically contingent, argues Anthony Fletcher Religion and gender have always been fundamentally intertwined. Christianity is part of a...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Charities Dr B. Turner, Pounds 545,844 from the Wellcome Trust (histone acetylation and the structure and function of chromatin and chromosomes); Professor A. Rickinson,...