Oriel College’s Rhodes Building, with statue of Cecil Rhodes Speaking at the ceremony to swear in Professor Louise Richardson as [Oxford...

Iris Murdoch I had got to know J.B. Priestley through Mary Adams of the BBC, and after trying to make use of me to collect quotations for...

The lower middle class does not exist in official statistics, nor in conversational contexts, but in practice, when I was at Somerville Coll...

Margaret Eastman was an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford, with a scholarship in classics. This fairly clearly implied exceptiona...

When I was an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford, in the mid-1950s, feminist ideas were very much on an uptrend. ‘Feminism’ is u...

Professor Price’s remarks on the quality of my writing were foreshadowed by my getting the Senior Open Scholarship to Somerville College, to...

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

Will Durant (1885-1981), author of Outlines of Philosophy When I applied to Somerville College, Oxford for my undergraduate degree, I t...

text of a letter to an academic Throughout my life my problems have all arisen from the same cause: the hostility of the increasingly domi...

A year ago I applied for the University of Oxford’s recently created Professorship of Science and Religion. This was set up to investigate ...

Further on the topic of the late Lady Thatcher and the former Principal of Somerville College, Dame Janet Vaughan , this is an extract from ...

I was disgusted, although of course in a familiar way, to hear recently that someone is receiving a grant (from the Perrott-Warwick Fund, ad...

There follows an extract from a review in the Daily Mail by Quentin Letts of the book The Real Iron Lady: Working With Mrs Thatcher by Gil...

‘Near-death experiences’, which have become a staple of popular journalism, were never heard of (or at least I had never heard of them) unti...

In December I applied for a professorship in education offered by Oxford University. The text of the covering letter was reproduced here . ...

Below is the text of a letter of application to Oxford University recently sent with regard to a professorship in Education. Dear ... I am a...

In response to my application for the Oxford Professorship in Psychology I received a brief rejection letter from the University's Pers...

Three years ago my colleague Dr Charles McCreery, as an alumnus of New College, nominated me for the position of Warden of New College. His...

If you are motivated to believe that innate ability does not exist and all ability is the result of social interaction, then it is important...

When I was describing to a colleague the goings-on in Somerville, he commented that bullies always attack the weak. I thought: in Somervill...