Occupied with a clash of symbols
Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
America on Record
On John Boyd Orr's Food and the People. I am an inveterate peruser of secondhand booksellers' catalogues and it was through one nearly 20 years ago that I bought a copy of Sir John Boyd Orr's Food...
How Buddhism Began
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from a dandy who took part in the Napoleonic campaigns: "On 15 May 1796 General...
European Science Foundation Enric Banda, professor and former Spanish secretary of state for universities and research, will succeed Peter Fricker as secretary general in June 1998. University of...
The Royal Society Fellows Christopher Bate, reader in the department of zoology, University of Cambridge; John Brady, BP professor of information engineering in the University of Oxford; Michael...
University of East Anglia LittD: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, vice chancellor of the university since 1995; John Fowles, author of The Magus and The Collector who has lectured on several occasions in the...
The battles being waged by the new wave of green warriors, such as Swampy, are reflected in the rise on campus of environmental literary criticism, or ecocriticism. But as Jennifer Wallace discovers...
In the second of our series on food, Prue Leith complains about the absence of cooking in education and calls on teachers and academics to embrace this 'fine art' It is now almost impossible for a...
Christie Davies argues that as the Welsh language will and must die out, encouraging people to learn it is a pointless exercise The study of Welsh is compulsory in all schools in Wales. In Gwynedd...
Professor Terry Ranger, St Anthony's College, Oxford wants to break away from traditional histories of Europeans in black Africa by studying how Africans responded to Europeans in colonial times -...
In the first of a series of visits to academics' rooms, Kate Worsley is admitted to ethnomusicologist John Baily's shrine to the Afghan music banned by the Taliban Cross-legged, in jeans and stocking...
Gene research suggests tamed dogs have existed for more than 100,000 years. Tim Cornwell spoke to the researchers and their critics Modern man is about 100,000 years old, archaeologists say. But...
This week's Anglo-American historians' conference in London aims to take on the world. Alan Mcafarlane charts its trends It is always worth looking at the development of theoretical systems from the...