Sleepwalk into popularity
The Life of Sir Walter Scott:
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Surveying a lack of peace at Concord
Paul Revere's Ride
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The gods that failed
Northern Nationalism: - Catholicism in Ulster 1603-1983:
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The innocent on the sage
Graham Greene:
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The man who got things done
Lenin - Lenin
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The nine-to-five philosopher
John Stuart Mill and India
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The troubles of old teenagers
Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England
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Tying a kangaroo down
British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism
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Lord Runciman at the Royal Society
(Photograph) - Eminence grise: Darwin loitered in the background as Lord Runciman (above), fellow of the British Academy, and John Maynard Smith (below), fellow of the Royal Society, hosted a joint...
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Highly coloured remarks
The racism I faced wasn't a very violent form. . . it was much more the patronising tone with which people dealt with me. It was as if to say, 'we don't let many of you in so you should be grateful...
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Figure it out
The position of non-Caucasians in higher education remains uneasy, discovers Pat Younge, despite the seemingly encouraging application statistics that have recently become available. In 1986 the...
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Netties anonymous
Are some people addicted to the fast expanding Internet? Mark Griffiths argues the case for research. With the numbers of online computer users more than doubling over the past two years, it has been...
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Bonnie mots
Olga Wojtas reports on the task to digitise Auld Scots. The impact of technology has now reached medieval Scots. For almost 80 years, editors of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue...
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The perpetual outsider
Anita Desai's latest novel is the first she has written out of India. Andrew Robinson went to meet her. Anita Desai is a novelist read in several languages besides English, a winner of literary...
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Apocalypse now?
Bruce Hoffman fears that the Tokyo gas attack could herald the start of a lethal era of religious terrorism. Last month's deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground marks an historical...