First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a chemist whose knowledge of chemistry saved his life: "There are the so-...
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Don's Diary
Thursday Ten days to go before setting off on holiday, just enough time to finish the last chapter and clear my desk. The press release on Warwick's election of first woman pro-vice chancellor went...
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An atomised history of the Great Vowel Shift
A History of the English Language
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Helen of Troy meets Helen of Trinidad
Tropical Classical
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The risk of raining stones
Impact! - T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
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The fears of David's children
Jewish History, Jewish Religion - Open Secrets
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Our disruptive ancestor
Shelley and Greece
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Just so books, so so letters
The Letters of Rudyard Kipling
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A prostitution of talents?
Robert Southey
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The scrolls unravelled
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
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The Soviets' other class struggle
Soviet Schooling in the Second World War
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Kremlin hotline fails to sizzle
My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze
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Forever young, forever revolting
Generations in Conflict
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Postcard from Cannes
Dear Maureen As you can see from this rather glamorous card, I'm spending a few days at the Martinez Hotel in Cannes, a wonderful art deco building on La Croisette. There's a fine swimming pool, an...