22 March 2015
Aldous Huxley, prophet of totalitarianism
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) Aldous Huxley was an English novelist who is probably now best remembered for the science fiction work Brave...
01 March 2015
ESP and the circulation of the
Daily Mirror
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Slender, wiry, other-worldly, but with a manner that could be intimidating as well as endearing, Dame Ruth Railton ... is most likely to be ...
24 February 2015
Cecil King and extrasensory perception
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It was not until after he met [his future wife] Ruth that King went public on ESP [extrasensory perception] and began actively searching for...
05 February 2015
Why I cannot write long books
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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 ...
29 January 2015
W. Grey Walter and my DPhil thesis
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copy of a letter to an academic W. Grey Walter (1910-1977) Writing about the Perrott Studentship with which I returned to Oxford in a...
26 January 2015
Psycho-physical correlation: taboo area
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EEG waves People on the outside of the Oxford academic world imagine that it is far more objective than it actually is. People who get r...
21 January 2015
Slandered by Iris Murdoch
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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...
17 January 2015
It’s not what you know, but who you know
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The lower middle class does not exist in official statistics, nor in conversational contexts, but in practice, when I was at Somerville Coll...
14 January 2015
Oxford: stairway to the stars?
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Margaret Eastman was an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford, with a scholarship in classics. This fairly clearly implied exceptiona...
11 January 2015
Egalitarians and those ‘beneath’ them
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When I was an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford, in the mid-1950s, feminist ideas were very much on an uptrend. ‘Feminism’ is u...
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