Historian on the Edge

Following in the footsteps of a commendable tradition going back to the likes of Nicetius of Trier and beyond, the out-going Archbishop of C...

... I wrote this in April this year?: If the AHRC refuses to budge of the issue of The Big Society within its funding priorities, it will ...

This is a masterly piece of analysis that exposes the malignant heart of the government's attack on Univerity education.  It shows it f...

You might have been following my intermittent reports on the campaign to get the AHRC to drop its repeated mention of 'The Big Society...

I reproduce, below, an e-mail sent around by James Ladyman, one of those spearheading the attack on the AHRC's craven peddling of Camero...

This is the latest and, if you are a UK academic and especially if you've been involved in the process of grant review, please do sign....

I’m acutely conscious that these observations on the state of British Higher Education, ‘as it appears to me’ from my not-very-exalted posit...

These thoughts (I don't promise anything very startling or profound) about the dynamics of the British higher education world, in which ...

I somehow missed this piece by Peter Mandler in The Higher last week.  It's interesting, although I do sincerely hope that the title wa...

Here is the latest development.  69 academics sign an open letter calling on AHRC chiefs to reconsider their positions.  Certainly it seems...

Check this out.  You might not agree with it all, you might find the emboldening of phrases a tad irritating, but it is nevertheless a very...

This is a nice, thoughtful piece.  Thanks to 'JPG' for the link. Being me, I particularly liked the following paragraph: (One det...

A man with, allegedly, two brains.  Just put your X where you think either of them might be and win a super prize!  Send your answers ...