Truths and facts in history
Richard Evans makes some effective points about postmodernist approaches to history. However, years of hand-to-hand fighting with postmodernists in seminar rooms suggest to me that he will need to be...
Richard Evans makes some effective points about postmodernist approaches to history. However, years of hand-to-hand fighting with postmodernists in seminar rooms suggest to me that he will need to be...
PROFESSOR Evans is right to criticise the potential narcissism of postmodern approaches to historical study, but he should not overlook the problems raised by such approaches. Any attempt to...
Richard Evans was partly wrong about Edward Thompson in his anti-postmodernist polemic. Ironic, in that Evans was insisting that it is the quality of evidence that can distinguish the worth of one...
THE chortling in your Antithesis column (THES, September 12) about Luton's Investors in People status is, I am happy to say, premature. We have not lost our IiP recognition: we were visited in July,...
Monday A start-of-term feeling pervades the office. In July a ballot authorised the merger between the Association of University and College Lecturers and the Association of University Teachers and...
What is the societal function of universities? Equal and better access is supposed to level the educational terrain but how does this manifest in what Carol Schneider calls the public square or what...
I have mixed feelings about the reconstructed Globe theatre. I support the project, but at a recent performance I was struck by the dangerous historical sentimentality of it all. This was a building...
Tim Cornwell reports on the furore surrounding a former Third Reich propagandist who became one of the world's top pollsters To reach into the darkness to find the Jew who is hiding behind the...
Lagos. ARMED Nigerian security police have swooped on a university lecturer and his students as they tried to buy books by executed civil rights campaigner Ken Saro-Wiwa in the oil city of Port...
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