Expert Comment
Better supply chain relations needed to build consumer confidence
Dr Mark Johnson, Associate Professor of Operations Management at Warwick Business School, comments on Tesco's 'British' pork chop issue.
Why Disciplines Are Becoming Less Important
A blog post from Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick: Are disciplines becoming less important? I think they are. Universities are gradually changing how they operate as disciplines become less central to the construction of knowledge...
Blancanieves
In his latest blog post José Arroyo, Film and Television Studies, reviews Pablo Berger's 'Blancanieves': There are some truly lovely moments: Angelina Molina dancing with her grand-daughter, Maribel Verdú trying on Art Nouveau gowns, the bit where Macarena García is carried out of the bullring, the final tear. It is a re-telling of Snow White through clichés of Spanishness...
Caesar's elephant and Usekerte–Osicerda
Dr Clare Rowan, Research Fellow in Numismatics, presents Warwick Department of Classics and Ancient History's Coin of the Month: Osicerda (1292-3) imitating Julius Caesar's elephant and 'snake' coin struck in 49 BC.
An Anglo-Spanish Victorian in the Midlands
Warwick Department of Hispanic Studies' Dr Kirsty Hooper introduces Juan Bautista Luis Augurio Perera, co-founder of Lawn Tennis: "The Gem-Perera origin story for lawn tennis is now widely known and Perera has his own Wikipedia page, but the man himself remains something of an enigma...