Speaking Volumes
Hywel Francis on Chris Evans's, Industrial and Social History of Seven Sisters. There was a tense inquest at the Blaenllechau Radical Club. The committee was discussing the theft of the new colour...
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Style counsel
The Tyranny of Taste
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The fall-out 50 years on
Nuclear Wastelands
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The legend of Pasteur turns sour
The Private Science of Louis Pasteur
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To Russia, with thanks
Why the Allies Won
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`All the central questions of humanity are beyond science'
The two worlds of science and the humanities are still being pitted against each other. John Carey, Oxford's Merton professor of English literature, has no doubt which is winning. For him, as he...
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Honorary degrees
OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY DSc: Julia Neuberger, rabbi and chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust; David Weatherall, Regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford...
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Grants
THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST Research contracts Dr S Thompson, Pounds 169,775 from the Department of Economic Development (industrial research and technology unit, science and technology...
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Events
THE HITTITE EMPIRE. The Hittite Empire, a Black performance group, will change its Los Angeles home for a Leeds campus for four days of workshops and performance, September 26-29. On September and 28...
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The dissent of man: the how of science v the why of humanities
The two worlds of science and the humanities are still being pitted against each other. John Carey, Oxford's Merton professor of English literature, has no doubt which is winning. For him, as he...
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Don's Diary
THURSDAY. To the Scottish Office for the first meeting between the Scottish Trades Union Congress and Michael Forsyth, the new Secretary of State for Scotland. As Scottish Office education minister,...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF WALES COLLEGE OF MEDICINE A personal chair has been awarded to Bryan Williams, reader in the section of rheumatology. Paul Smith, expert adviser to the International Atomic Energy...
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Political groupies
The Reverend Moon's mass production of weddings had its equivalent at the recent American Political Science Association conference at Chicago. Adding to the mildly cattleyard feel implicit in any...
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Student challenges Essex over Net rights
An Essex student's human rights database on the Internet has been disrupted during a six-month dispute with his university over control of the information. The university's registrar admits that a...
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In-flight entertainment
(Photograph) - Members of Bosnia's Tuzla National Theatre and the Youth Theatre of Tuzla enjoy a break at Kingston University, which offered them accommodation after their aeroplane home was delayed...