Student publishes a new Shakespeare text
We're not talking First Folio, mind. This is the world of 2b r nt 2b - but with the highest of motivesWilliam Shakespeare's reputation has little to fear from history, but even so it's nice to know that he has got a Yorkshire student at Northumbria uni...
AA Gill, drop the cheap jibes about Mary Beard – and learn something | Miriam O’Reilly
Three years ago I took a stand against ageism at the BBC. The tide is now turning against those who judge by appearancesThe Sunday Times TV critic AA Gill refers to his girlfriend as "The Blonde", nothing more. I have idly wondered in the past why he c...
AA Gill, drop the cheap jibes about Mary Beard – and learn something | Miriam O’Reilly
Three years ago I took a stand against ageism at the BBC. The tide is now turning against those who judge by appearancesThe Sunday Times TV critic AA Gill refers to his girlfriend as "The Blonde", nothing more. I have idly wondered in the past why he c...
On a mission
With her new TV series about the lives of ordinary Romans, Professor Mary Beard wants to tackle history differently. The nation's new favourite classicist talks to Stuart Jeffries"I'm trending on Twitter," says the professor of classics at Cambridge as...
The conversation: What is the real legacy of colonialism?
Atrocities committed as Britain's imperial rule ended have been revealed in newly published documents. Writers Kwasi Kwarteng and Richard Gott discuss the history's legacyThis week, the Foreign Office released thousands of lost – or hidden – coloni...
Jean Benedetti
Biographer of Konstantin Stanislavski, he was also a translator, director and dramatistJean Benedetti, who has died aged 81, combined several theatrical careers in one. The former principal of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, in Sidcup,...
Horrible Histories: Too cool for school?
Author Terry Deary says he wishes he could sue schools that use his books in lessons. Does he have a point?Horrible Histories author Terry Deary might have sold 25m copies of his books, but he sounds like he's hoping that that none of those sales came ...
Vatican and Oxford University share ancient texts online
Digitised collections of Greek and Hebrew manuscripts and early printed books to be made available free onlineThe Oxford University and Vatican libraries are to jointly digitise 1.5m pages of ancient texts and make them available free online.The librar...
Letters: Information that we want to be free
As the editor of an online journal, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, now entering its fourth year with 1,100 registered readers, I was delighted to read such strong endorsement of open access publishing from the director of the Wellcome Trust, Mar...
Manchester’s stylish new home for music
Chetham's school and library's latest building combines mediaeval and modern, with plenty for the wider community and rooms whose oak and felt walls can be tuned. Helen Nugent pays a visitNot many buildings can lay claim to have been a 15th century ecc...
Students: how do you behave in the library?
Are you a fan of peace and quiet or do you think it's about time these musty old places were shaken up a bit?Most libraries have two golden rules: no eating, and no talking. Clearly, these are both very sensible. Without them students would be unable t...
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