Salted owl and roasted puppy: Cambridge University to digitise medieval cures
Thousands of unedited medical recipes – from a gout cure that involves stuffing a puppy with snails and sage to a cataract treatment that uses the gall bladder of a hare – are to be published by...
View ArticlePeter Davison obituary
Without the efforts of Peter Davison, who has died aged 95, our knowledge of the life and works of George Orwell would be immeasurably the poorer. In an editorial engagement that extended for nearly...
View ArticleJean Blondel obituary
Jean Blondel, who has died aged 93, was one of the founding fathers of modern political science. He transformed the comparative study of democratic political institutions through his research and many...
View ArticleWho’s going to be triggered by Northanger Abbey? It’s hardly Game of Thrones
Spoilers – but does it matter? Now Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is identified by a British university as a vehicle for potentially disturbing “gender stereotypes” and “toxic relationships and...
View ArticleThe big idea: how can England’s universities survive?
If you listened to ministers, you’d think that there’s a crisis of “wokeness” on campus. Every young person is apparently simultaneously an overvulnerable snowflake terrified of opinions and a yowling...
View ArticleI was overwhelmed by shame when I quit grad school. Now I’m a quitting guru
First came the sobbing – a great gust of tears that successively overwhelmed my shirt sleeve, an entire box of tissues and an extra-large bath towel. Next came a prolonged period of sitting...
View ArticleThe big idea: do we need to dismantle the literary canon?
As someone who writes books, lectures on teacher training courses and spent 15 years teaching English literature, I’m often asked what I think should be included in the literary canon or what should...
View ArticleSarfraz Manzoor says he will use new role to make Luton ‘cool’
When he was growing up, Sarfraz Manzoor dreamed of leaving his home town of Luton. Now the author and journalist has become chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire and has one clear mission – to...
View ArticleProfessor Hakim Adi shortlisted for prestigious Wolfson award
Hakim Adi, the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, has been shortlisted for a prestigious history writing prize. This comes after Adi was made redundant...
View ArticleEurope’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure
The oldest student newspaper in Europe has been saved from closure after its volunteer staff raised more than £3,000 in emergency crowdfunding. A free newspaper, the Student was founded at the...
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