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Jerusalem, Montreal, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Berlin, Paris, New York, Oxford...Oxford? Looking at this line-up of major international cities, Oxford strikes immediately as a very odd choice. But then again, if one asked any number...

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Helen Castor finds a fine-grained narrative on a medieval monarch quite compelling

Informal links keep society strong but, Frank Furedi finds, we don't make them like we used to

"The King-times are fast finishing," wrote Lord Byron of the brief period with which John Gardner's book is concerned - August 1819 to August 1821. Gardner argues that these years, beginning with the Peterloo Massacre, embracing the Cato...

Demonstrations and riots have spawned much speculation about young people in the UK. Who are they? What do they want? How do they think, and are protesters representative of their generation? Politicians and the media have competed in the...

In the small but very active international network of historians of Freemasonry, James Stevens Curl is an éminence grise. His beautiful publications on history and architecture are manifold, and Freemasonry has a distinct place...

Mistakes and misunderstandings often serve to further human knowledge, finds Alex Danchev

Joanna Lewis admires an exploration of attitudes to colonialism and immigration in a crumbling empire

The negotiation of the Blitz is still a permanent fixture of British post-war culture at the beginning of a new century. As the living record of eyewitnesses diminishes each year, the place of the Blitz and the war in the national consciousness...

When viewed against an event that propelled the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s back into media circulation, Vampire Nation possesses a certain currency. The May 2011 arrest of the Serbian former military leader Ratko Mladic on the charge...

John Gilbey welcomes clear explanations of the invisible technology in devices we use every day

The admission or denial of entry to foreign nationals is fraught with moral dilemmas, finds Paul Scheffer

The phrases "internal colonisation" and "self-colonisation" have, through overuse, become associated with political correctness. Russia has long been both subject and object of colonisation. Alexander Etkind's book reinvigorates these tired...

Without having lived through it first hand, it is hard to grasp the magnitude of the change to daily life in the Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the region's Communist regimes in the late 20th century. Not only was this a time of fundamental...

James Garvey considers whether human identity is a conscious construct or for ever veiled in mystery

Michael Roth, the author of this exceptional and wide-ranging collection of essays, is the president of Wesleyan University, which, in addition, one imagines, to being a very time-consuming job, also drew him to the attention of the American...

All mighty historical upheavals are crises of belief and ideas. The present splitting open of neoliberal capitalism is no exception. What happens when an economic system and its political order reach their terminus is that governments will...

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In turning away as cattle are killed for our tables, we condemn animals to suffer, says Temple Grandin