Sir George Joy KBE CMG (1896 - 1974) Professor H.H. Price, my DPhil supervisor, when saying that I had an alpha mind, also said that I ...

Maria Casares (1922-1996), star of Cocteau’s Orphée When I was an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford, in the early 1950s, there...

The following is an edited version of something I published on the web some years ago. Since that time, no financial contributions have been...

We recently received an enquiry from the magazine of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, requesting an interview. This is...

text of a letter to a journalist sent a few years ago When you came you asked me whether I regretted having written the first book on luci...

text of an email from the picture editor at BBC Focus Magazine: Dear Ms. Green, I am mailing from BBC Focus Magazine, a popular science ...

text of a letter to an academic I wonder if you know anyone who knows the Principal of Ripon Theological College, which is in Cuddesdon an...

There is a cruel pretence that the outcast professor (me) is not suffering from being deprived of an institutional (i.e. hotel) environment ...

text of a letter Dear ... I attach herewith a copy of a letter which I have been sending to members of electoral committees when I apply...

Things are often defined somewhat differently in modern English dictionaries, by comparison with dictionaries published earlier. “Sedition...

This is something I drafted a long time ago but did not send because of lack of staff, money, and everything else that makes life tolerable....

text of a letter to an academic I have had to attempt to claw my way back to a tolerable life after the ruin of my career and family life ca...

How can it be that I complain of the lack of support for my work? Well, of course, lack of support for ‘my work’ is lack of support for me ...

copy of a post to our Facebook group : There are some people who express enthusiasm for such books and research as we have been able to prod...

Herewith the ‘Notes on my CV’ referred to in the previous post. In interpreting a CV it is normal to consider only what a person has been pe...

There follows the text of a letter of application which I made for a Psychology Professorship at Oxford University last year. The ‘notes on ...

Someone recently wrote the following to me: I guess the fact that you insist that you should have a different social position than the one y...

copy of a letter You said I was ‘hopping mad’ about the item in the paper about rubbishy ‘research’ on out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) b...

My colleague Fabian Tassano has put some comments about the Duke of Edinburgh on his blog, and I am reminded of his correspondence with us....

Copy of letter to an academic There is a cottage to rent fairly near us, and this might make more concrete the idea that well-wishers (if w...