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LondonHer Maj: 60 Years of Unofficial Portraits of the QueenAs late as the 1950s, it was still unusual for the monarchy to be depicted in cartoons. To celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, the Cartoon...
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Liberal with good advice
One absentee from the Labour conference was a certain protege of Schools Minister Lord Adonis who, in years gone by when he was an academic, had encouraged a student to apply for a job as an economic...
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The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First?World War, by Margaret MacMillan
Roger Morgan on the reasons why so much blood was shed
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So who's an ancient relic now?
Having stepped out from the shadows of Downing Street, Lord Adonis, the new Education Minister, was due to make his parliamentary debut as The Times Higher went to press. As one might expect, the...
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Why HE is expanding into schools
John Elmes investigates the growth in university-sponsored academies
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Turkish cypriots push against exclusion
Turkish Cypriot universities are pushing to be allowed to join the Bologna Process, which standardises degrees across the European Union. Turkish Cyprus, which is not formally recognised by several...
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Shakespeare in America
At the time of writing, Shakespeare's Globe is staging his oeuvre in a variety of languages including King John in Armenian, Hamlet in Lithuanian and Troilus and Cressida in Maori. There is also a...
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Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets
David Gewanter applauds a literary - and scientific - exploration of the Bard's poetic longevity
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Lords more than a match
Public relations staff at Sheffield Hallam University were reminded of the cardinal rule of publicity at their centenary dinner last week - never work with animals or television celebrities. Lord...
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There's a time and a place...
Few can have escaped the problems facing chemistry, with university departments shutting all over the country and schoolchildren turning their noses up at the subject. But this week it became clear...
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Shakespeare: From Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan, 1592-1623
Queen Elizabeth II opened the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 March, four years after it closed for a redevelopment costing ?115 million. On 30 March, the coalition...
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Tribal language
Words of division won’t put the UK together again, argues Malcolm Gillies
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The week in higher education
Fabian ideals of social improvement, lots of overseas students and possibly the first sub-?9,000 tuition fee in the Russell Group: the London School of Economics has always been a place of innovation...
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Phenomenal Shakespeare
Bruce Smith's twin targets in Phenomenal Shakespeare are theory and history, "closed systems of thought" that function as graven images, taking us away from the loving touch of Shakespeare.Since the...
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Richard III and The Comedy of Errors
The soul’s yearning to find its psychological or physical other half unites two of Shakespeare’s early plays, says Peter J. Smith