The Politics of Exile by Elizabeth Dauphinee
The Politics of Exile reads like a novel, but it is an academic work that asks important questions about the research process and, specifically, researching wars such as the one that took place in...
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Boy 30529: A Memoir by Felix Weinberg
Presumably, many people who become leading physicists - for example, Felix Weinberg, who was professor of combustion physics and a fellow of the Royal Society - display an early curiosity about the...
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Socratic sisterhood
Shelley King is dazzled by a recasting of 19th-century classics as accounts of female agency
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Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin by Peter J. Bowler
What would the world look like if a young Cambridge dropout named Charles had fallen overboard from a Royal Navy survey vessel sometime in the 1830s? If the man in question was the one who would go...
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Banker, Traitor, Scapegoat, Spy? The Troublesome Case of Sir聽Edgar Speyer by Antony Lentin
Sir Edgar Speyer (1862-1932) was born in New York of German Jewish descent, worked in Germany in the family banking business and came to England at the age of 24, where he settled into a successful...
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Right-hooked on Classics
Classical confrontations are personal, not just business, argues Barbara Graziosi
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Age cannot wither her
Shahidha Bari traces the development, and late flowering, of a paradoxically atavistic yet visionary Lebanese artist
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Campus round-up
Do as the vervets doResearchers have observed a rare example of 鈥渃ultural transmission鈥 among wild monkeys. Working with two groups of vervets in South Africa, scientists from the University of St...
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Stay the curious course
Michelle Harvey on inspirational advice to young researchers to stay true to their first love
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Obituary - Antronette Yancey
鈥淎 true Renaissance woman鈥 - physician, poet and public health activist - has died.Antronette (鈥淭oni鈥) Yancey was born in Kansas City, Kansas on 1 November 1957 and studied for a BA in biochemistry...
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Awards and promotions
Bishop Grosseteste UniversityOlivia SaganA psychologist whose research focuses on the role played by arts activity in mental well-being is to lead a new degree course in the discipline at Bishop...
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色盒直播 Scholarly Web - Songs of youth and experience
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Hollande, France and an old, familiar refrain
In trying to please everyone, can Fran莽ois Hollande鈥檚 reforms really hope to solve French higher education鈥檚 thorniest problems? Jack Grove reports
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US academics may be left-leaning but they鈥檙e steering a middle course
Research reveals conservative fears of left-wing influence are unfounded. Matthew Reisz writes
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Odds and quads
These striking posters are part of the personal material donated by playwright Willy Russell to Liverpool John Moores University鈥檚 Special Collections and Archives.