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,...
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History's swollen congregation
Why are church pews empty but bookshelves devoted to the history of religion packed? Simon Targett reports Today, it is more a spectator sport than a participant sport." So says Patrick Collinson,...
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Honorary degrees
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY DUniv: Deborah Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire, patron of Capel Manor Horticultural College; Anish Kapoor, sculptor; Bryan Davies, MP and shadow minister for further and higher...
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Faith and the flag
It is often assumed that religion strongly influences nationalism. But Tony Claydon believes faith can dissolve nationalism as much as cement it Consideration of the links between nationalism and...
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From amento Zealots
THE HARPER COLLINS DICTIONARY OF RELIGION Edited by Jonathan Z. Smith and William Scott Green with The American Academy of Religion HarperCollins, 1,154pp, Pounds 40.00 ISBN 0 00 6967 8 At the...
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I believe...
"Intensely" is Patrick Collinson's reply to the question of how he experienced religion as a child. "We were an undenominational evangelical Christian family,"he recalls. "Wewere associated with...
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Pennies from Heaven
David Jeremy looks at the business world's debt to the other world Money, rather than religion, arouses popular interest in 1990s Britain. With scratch cards, lottery tickets, and share options,...