I am re-posting this piece from 2011 as, despite any changes in the system since it was first published, the comments are as relevant as bef...

In 2007, someone commented, on my colleague Dr Fabian Wadel’s blog , about one of my books which they had bought, and its apparent history: ...

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963) Aldous Huxley was an English novelist who is probably now best remembered for the science fiction work Brave...

Slender, wiry, other-worldly, but with a manner that could be intimidating as well as endearing, Dame Ruth Railton ... is most likely to be ...

It was not until after he met [his future wife] Ruth that King went public on ESP [extrasensory perception] and began actively searching for...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...