copy of a letter to an academic I have been thinking about Professor H.H. Price’s role in my attempts to return to academia. These are pr...

Celia Green  with one of  her uncles, Leonard Green It was not only the case that my father came top of the grammar school scholarship ...

Researchers found that many parents ‘overvalue’ their children and believe them to be more special and entitled than others. These parents...

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

The government is always cheese-paring towards those of pensionable age. The population of people of pensionable age is likely to have a h...

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

copy of a letter to an academic People were always implying that I believed things about my IQ, and that this influenced me in wanting to ...

The motto of the Ursuline convent schools I want to write about my interview with my father, after he had been summoned to see the Rever...

Writing about Christine Fulcher has reminded me of how difficult it is, and always has been, to say anything about our position. In Christ...

text of a letter to an academic I do not think that my blog is a good way of attracting potential associates. We need to publish and distr...