Mother of all battleaxes
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Let them wear nylons
Parting the Curtain Propaganda
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The road between palace and forum
The History of Government from the Earliest Times
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Sensible story of Victorian folk
The Victorian World Picture
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All is safely gathered in
The Stations of the Sun
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Indian simmer
The Furies of Indian Communalism - Legacy of a Divided Nation
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its openingsentence, comes from a novel whose eponymous hero became a synonym for US provincial conformism: "...
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Dearing needs to ensure equal support
Stella Parker and Richard Taylor plead for the needs of all in continuing education to be met The Universities Association for Continuing Education welcomes the Dearing committee's central commitment...
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A moderniser who couldn't modernise
As new Labour prepares for its first post-election conference the lives of two old Labourites are to be published. Brian Brivati to Kenneth Morgan about Jim Callaghan Being a vice chancellor was...
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Crumbs of comfort
Dozens of Britons have died in recent years from contaminated foods. Philip James was asked by Labour to set out how an independent agency might safeguard the standard of our food and restore public...
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The ins and outs of our ancestors
Out of Africa or Out of Asia? A bitter row is raging about the origin of our species. Ayala Ochert reports Of the many lessons that could be learned from the O. J. Simpson trial, there is one we can...
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Sugar and Spice and all things not so nice
Little girls hold a unique place in the culture - both adored and the object of more sinister attentions - but little study has been made of the phenomenon, argues Valerie Walkerdine The brutal...
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Money can be better spent
NO What will Welsh devolution mean for higher education? Derec Llwyd Morgan and Nicholas Bourne disagree THE White Paper proposes a directly elected Assembly to assume responsibility for policies and...
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Assembly will stir real change
YES What will Welsh devolution mean for higher education? Derec Llwyd Morgan and Nicholas Bourne disagree THE Government's White Paper on its proposals for a Welsh assembly states simply that "a...
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Woodhead's opponents
ROGER Murphy: dean of education at the University of Nottingham, and last year's president of the British Educational Research Association. Professor Murphy sparked the response to the Woodhead camp...