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Monday Feb 25th, 2013

Images of Ancient Nubia

For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an unknown and enigmatic land. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied its history or unearthed the Nubian cities, temples, and cemeteries that once dotted the landscape of southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Nubia’s remote setting in the midst of an inhospitable desert, with access by river blocked by impassable rapids, has lent it not only an air of mystery, but also isolated it from exploration… read more »

Thursday May 23rd, 2013

The old shall be made new

Simon Wright on new issues and performances of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ unpublished work
Thursday May 23rd, 2013

China: the making of an economic superpower

Linda Yueh considers the future for China’s economy
Wednesday May 22nd, 2013

Multifarious devils, part 1: “bogey”

Anatoly Liberman on boo, bugbears, bucks, and boogie-woogie
Wednesday May 22nd, 2013

The History of the World: Nixon visits Moscow

An extract from J.M. Roberts’s classic
Wednesday
May 22nd, 2013

Getting to the heart of poetry

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Tuesday
May 21st, 2013

The marginalized Alexander Pope

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Tuesday
May 21st, 2013

The dire offences of Alexander Pope

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Tuesday
May 21st, 2013

One hundred years of The Rite of Spring

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Monday
May 20th, 2013

The future of user-generated content is now

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Monday
May 20th, 2013

They’re watching, but are they seeing?

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Monday
May 20th, 2013

Thinking gender and speaking international law

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