Laurie Taylor 鈥 22 March 2018
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Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography, by June Purvis
What鈥檚 our ruling on the suffragette turned expat evangelist who was made a dame, asks Mary Evans
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Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive, by Clare Hemmings
Catherine Rottenberg asks whether we can include an anarchist activist and writer in a queer, feminist archival history given her refusal to identify as a feminist?
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Empire of Sentiment: The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism, by Joanna Lewis
Book of the week: Joanna Bourke on a study of the 鈥榤aelstrom of radical feeling鈥 that was the British Empire
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Michal Kosinski: enemy of privacy or just a whistleblower?
Psychologist Michal Kosinski鈥檚 work shows how digital footprints can predict a person鈥檚 sexual orientation, political views and more. Is it a danger or a warning about threats to privacy? John Morgan...
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Can Qatar鈥檚 universities survive the Gulf blockade?
Will the current blockade on Qatar harm its higher education system? Simon Baker investigates whether the need to find common scientific ground among Gulf states could win out
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Telling It Like It Wasn鈥檛: The Counterfactual Imagination in History and Fiction, by Catherine Gallagher
Incisive analysis of what might have been wins over Robert Eaglestone to imaginary histories
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We need a middle path to data democracy
There must be greater permeability between universities and tech giants if we want to protect data from corporate interests and use it for the public good
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Dissension within the rankings
All league tables are entertaining, although most are considerably more entertaining than enlightening. The attempt by Mark Smith and Nicola Owen to develop a combined teaching excellence framework...
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Body of evidence
As co-editors of聽Transgender 颅Children and Young People: 鈥˙orn in Your Own Body, we were surprised by聽Rachel Pain鈥檚 review聽(Books, 15 March). It contains a significant inaccuracy as well as...
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PhD points
The views in聽鈥淢andatory PhD policies lead to a boom in academics with doctorates鈥澛(News, 8 March) were illuminating but for the seeming dilution of the arts, marketing and nursing as subjects. The...
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鈥楴o educational advantage鈥 from gruelling intern shifts
While supervisors say protracted shifts are a crucial part of medical education, new research finds no benefit