Times Higher Education Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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A book by @dmblank has traced some of Shakespeare’s most famous characters – including Hamlet and Macbeth – back to their roots in student plays, which may also have helped the Bard, who did not go to university, shape his depictions of academic life. https://t.co/U60G1776fC

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Audit finds ‘no issues’ in handling of foreign interference Australian Research Council promises more work on national security after internal review, writes @JohnRoss49 https://t.co/kgYLFFbLk2 https://t.co/KE7jaue7Xw

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“I have especially enjoyed William Germano’s ‘Eye Chart’. The eye chart has become a standard tool for visual testing; but it has also evolved into an iconic image in popular culture from T-shirts to conceptual art.” THE’s Winter Reads #THEBooks https://t.co/1vepgCxUTa https://t.co/qHQurmxHso

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How student theatre inspired William Shakespeare: controversial plays staged at Oxford and Cambridge helped to shape the Bard’s depictions of academic life, @dmblank claims in his book “Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England” https://t.co/U60G1776fC https://t.co/toNjmXKiS4

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“Miami has a dozen campuses…they are going to have to decide: are they going to build a sea wall to protect themselves or are they going to relocate inland?” – Bryan Alexander, author of “Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis” https://t.co/GHRTJ8yoiu

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Terribly sad news that Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel has passed away. Back in 2018 she spoke to THE about being the first person in her family to go on to university, ‘less subtle’ scholars and our ongoing fascination with the Tudors https://t.co/FU0hqgtVxn

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Richard Larschan enjoys a wide-ranging survey of the deep intellectual insights and disputes thrown up by the experience of travel in “The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad”, by @emilytwrites, our Book of the Week #THEBooks https://t.co/SMSENCJbJ6 https://t.co/wKVt6oNtR5

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A book by @dmblank has traced some of Shakespeare’s most famous characters – including Hamlet and Macbeth – back to their roots in student plays, which may also have helped the Bard, who did not go to university, shape his depictions of academic life. https://t.co/U60G1776fC

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“Regardless of what I was doing, and at any moment, a traffic stop could result in the end of my life,” reflects Professor Noel in his new book, ‘Safe Space Rhetoric and Race in the Academy: A Reckoning’ https://t.co/y21iGSFnSj

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How student theatre inspired William Shakespeare: controversial plays staged at Oxford and Cambridge helped to shape the Bard’s depictions of academic life, @dmblank claims in his book “Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England” https://t.co/U60G1776fC https://t.co/toNjmXKiS4