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For today’s newly rich elite it is all too easy to buy art, but grabbing a one-of-a-kind piece of ‘real’ history carries cachet
The British Library aims to digitise its 25,000 medieval manuscripts, so readers around the world can see them. Here are six of the rarest
PhD students are limiting their analytical abilities
Helen Hockx-Yu records websites for future generations
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Reducing the country’s ability to nurture talent by limiting international students will damage the UK’s global standing
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A survey of 17,000 doctoral students has highlighted concerns about the quality of research
Our new columnist unearths the questionable taste of the colonial housewife in India - through a cookbook
The shaping of a nation’s understanding of place through its poets and writers is the theme of this Olympic London exhibition
After years of self-imposed seclusion, composer George Benjamin emerges with a new opera and a retrospective
DC Thomson subsidiary is investing long term and expanding abroad
‘Bread is my Proust’s Madeleine. Every day, at about 3pm, my mother used to make it’
How medieval art reflected royal fashions
With imagination and a renovation budget, any building can be transformed into a contemporary des res
Confessional tape recordings of the eminent and the ordinary, from the former London Stock Exchange chairman to the late Lucian Freud’s butcher, are the basis of a growing oral archive at the British Library
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