At noon, on 16 September 1920, an angry Italian anarchist named Mario Buda stopped a horse-drawn wagon near lunchtime crowds on Wall Street in New York, just across the street from the headquarters of the J P Morgan bank. Inside the wagon were a hundred pounds of dynamite and five hundred pounds of heavy cast-iron sash weights.…

Chairing the Teaching Excellence Framework panel means that I have done a good deal of thinking this year about teaching and learning in universities. I’ve had to work through quantitative and qualitative data on teaching in almost all the nation’s universities and the further education colleges offering higher education provision. It has been a fabulous…

The English Civil War was at its height in 1645.  It was a dreadfully destructive conflict – recent estimates are that a greater proportion of the male population was killed or wounded in the Civil War than in the First World War 250 years later. The numbers were much smaller, but the proportion larger.  And…