The bottomless inbox. Leungchopan/Shutterstock December 6, 2019 Emails outside working hours: are they against employment law? Darius Whelan, University College Cork The law has been developing rapidly in places like Ireland and France. UK employers need to watch out.
Penelope and the Suitors, by J.W. Waterhouse (1912). Wikimedia Commons April 5, 2018 Mary Beard and the long tradition of women being told to shut up Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle It may seem incredible that some 2,500 years since the Homeric epics, women are still silenced in public. But the myths of Archaic Greece resonate today in disturbing ways.
Aphrodite of Menophantos, Praxiteles (4th century BCE). Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome, Italy. Nutopia/BBC February 19, 2018 Civilisations: BBC reboot of Kenneth Clark’s 1960s classic is more diverse – but is it less challenging? Matthew Potter, Northumbria University, Newcastle Five decades on from the original series our idea of what makes civilisation has broadened.