Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History
Sarah Toulalan praises an exploration of how pre-19th-century societies acted on their urges
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Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work
Isn't it time we started taking culture seriously in the design of technological innovations? Here, cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo throws down the gauntlet in a manifesto for true...
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The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence
Writing Irish history, for any readership and at any level, presents a challenge of complexity and bias of a very special kind. All historical sources present the difficulties of partiality, limited...
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Derrida had a word for it
An irritating cliche inspired David Bellos to examine the artful skills of the translator. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
LeedsThe Sadler GiftA century ago this year, Sir Michael Sadler (1861-1943) became vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds. He played a crucial role in developing the cultural life of the city and...
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The Pick - Tartuffe
TartuffeRoger McGough after MolièreEnglish Touring Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, and then touring nationallyWhen the theatre director Gemma Bodinetz asked poet Roger McGough to create a new version...
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The root of our problems
Our Deputy Head of Sociology, Professor L.G. Angst, has reacted angrily to Hefce costings that show that subjects such as sociology will, under the new tuition-fees regime, help to subsidise more...
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Research Intelligence - Turn on, tune in and make waves
Academics with a hankering to shine on radio now have their opportunity. Paul Jump reports
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Ten years after 9/11, terror studies run on ideals and ready cash
Interdisciplinary alliances, job-seekers and patriots fuel growth in US scholarship, reports Jon Marcus
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Off Piste - The Anarchic view from the hutch
When an anthropologist and her partner were arrested on the eve of the royal wedding for planning an anti-monarchy mock execution, the incident ended up on YouTube - and the footage revealed concern...
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The week in higher education
• First the dodgy dossier, now the dodgy doctorate: Tony Blair and unreliable material are inadvertently together again. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Mu'ammer Gaddafi, sought out Mr Blair's...
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Leader: It's lost control again
As poor steering threatens to cut off the supply of homegrown STEM graduates, coalition policy looks set to crash and burn
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From where I sit - Few Dutch treats in globalisation
When it came at us from the margins, it caught most of us lecturers in the political science department on our blind side. The first stage of the Anglo-Saxon takeover appeared innocent enough: some...
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Appointments
University of NottinghamBob WebbA leading expert on reproductive biology has received the prestigious Marshall Award from the Council of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility, awarded for work...
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Taking Lithuanian leave
Malcolm Gillies asks: how much time off do we really need or deserve?