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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Sewell
James Edwards Sewell (1810-1903) became an academic. He served as Warden of New College, Oxford , and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University .
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
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The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Family and Intimate relationships Diana Athill
One of DA 's aunts had studied at Oxford , become the family bluestocking, and worked as a hospital almoner in London, but had come home when her father died to look after her perfectly...
Family and Intimate relationships E. J. Scovell
He was a son of the man of letters Oliver Elton . At the time of his wedding to EJS he was Oxford University 's Reader in Animal Ecology and a Senior Research Fellow of...
Family and Intimate relationships Jane Warton
JW 's brothers, Joseph (her elder by two years) and Thomas (her younger by six), each made a name for himself in the literary and academic worlds. Joseph was Headmaster of Winchester College (a public...
Family and Intimate relationships Doreen Wallace
DW never names the man, a childhood friend who came back from the Great War with a shattered knee, who broke her heart by failing fully to return the passionate love which developed between them...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Goudge
The Goudge family moved from Ely to Oxford when EG 's father became Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University .
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Family and Intimate relationships Aldous Huxley
Their brother Trevenen committed suicide in August 1914, having done (comparatively) badly in exams at Oxford , and fallen in love with a girl who worked as a maid (whom his family regarded as impossible)...
Family and Intimate relationships Helen Dunmore
Her mother, born Betty Smith, took university degrees at Manchester and Oxford universities.
Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black, 1849–2024, Annual Volumes.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
267
Family and Intimate relationships Elspeth Huxley
She hoped for more children, but this did not happen. Meanwhile, she found the organization of childcare difficult in her extremely busy life.
Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley. HarperCollins, 2002.
165-6, 180-1, 204
Charles was educated at boarding schools. He badly antagonised...
Family and Intimate relationships Josephine Butler
JB 's husband was a university instructor who was ordained in the Anglican church in 1854. During the early years of their marriage he taught geography at Oxford University .
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998.
190: 66
Jordan, Jane. Josephine Butler. John Murray, 2001.
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Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Rigby
In June the previous year he had received an honorary degree from Oxford University .
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray, 1961.
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Family and Intimate relationships Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Ketaki Kushari married Robert Dyson , an Englishman and then a graduate student, whom she had met during her own undergraduate studies at Oxford University .
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari, and Rebecca Blasco. Emails about Ketaki Dyson to Rebecca Blasco. 17 Feb. 2005.
Dyson, Ketaki Kushari. “Forging a Bilingual Identity: A Writer’s Testimony”. Bilingual Women: Anthropological Approaches to Second Language Use, edited by Pauline Burton et al., Berg, 1994, pp. 170-85.
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Family and Intimate relationships Mary Pix
MP 's father, the Rev. Roger Griffith, had attended both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He was rector of the Buckingham parish of Padbury, and probably Master of the Royal Latin (Free) School in Buckingham...
Family and Intimate relationships Rachel Speght
Procter, however, shared her and her father's theological opinions, and lived in the same part of London. An Oxford graduate, he published a sermon in 1625, and owned a house at Upminster in Essex...
Family and Intimate relationships Augusta Gregory
In 1895 Robert was awarded a scholarship to attend Harrow and study the classics. After an undistinguished career there, he went on to Oxford , where he became an amateur boxer. Later he aspired to...

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: The satirical magazine Private Eye issued...

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Autumn 1961

The satirical magazine Private Eye issued its first number, a scruffy pamphlet; surviving copies were worth £1,000 by the end of the century, with the magazine still flourishing.
Carpenter, Humphrey. “Origins of the EyeOxford Today, Vol.
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, No. 2, 2001, pp. 52-3.
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1963-4: Of 126,445 full-time university students...

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1963-4

Of 126,445 full-time university students in Britain, 33,809 were women: that is nearly 27% of the total.
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
96, 102

1963-4: Of 126,445 full-time university students...

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1963-4

Of 126,445 full-time university students in Britain, 33,809 were women: that is nearly 27% of the total.
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
96, 102

By autumn 1963: For the first time most students entering...

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By autumn 1963

For the first time most students entering university in Britain were admitted through the new national entrance scheme administered by UCCA (Universities Central Council on Admissions ).
Mountford, Sir James Frederick. British Universities. Oxford University Press, 1966.
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11 April 1967: Tom Stoppard's first great stage success,...

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11 April 1967

Tom Stoppard 's first great stage success, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, had its professional debut at the National Theatre in London. A version had been seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival of...

1968: At the end of Edmund Blunden's tenure of...

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1968

At the end of Edmund Blunden 's tenure of the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford , Roy Fuller was elected to follow him.
Watts, Janet. “Kathleen Raine”. The Guardian, 8 July 2003, p. 25.
25

1970: The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published...

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1970

The Oxford philosopher Mary Warnock published Existentialism a study which traces the common interests of a number of philosophers including Sartre , Kierkegaard , Nietzsche , Husserl , and Merleau-Ponty .
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
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1979: St Anne's College became the first women's...

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1979

St Anne's College became the first women's college at Oxford University to go mixed (that is to admit men).
Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
352
Thackrah, John Richard. The University and Colleges of Oxford. Dalton, 1981.
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1993: Three formerly male-only Oxford colleges...

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1993

Three formerly male-only Oxford colleges each elected its first female head: Marilyn Butler became Rector of Exeter , Averil Cameron Warden of Keble , and Jessica Rawson Warden of Merton .
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
517

19 February 2007: Sarah Thomas, an American, made history when...

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19 February 2007

Sarah Thomas , an American, made history when she became the first woman and the first non-British person appointed Bodley's Librarian: head librarian at Oxford University 's Bodleian Library (opened on 8 November 1602).
Garner, Richard. “A double-first at the Bodleian library as US woman takes over”. The Independent, 21 Feb. 2007.
“First woman to become Bodley’s Librarian”. University of Oxford: News, 16 Nov. 2006.

7 March 2008: Julian Blackwell, head of Blackwell's bookshop...

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7 March 2008

Julian Blackwell , head of Blackwell's bookshop and publishing firm, made a five million pound donation to Oxford University 's Bodleian Library , the largest ever to a university library in the UK.
“¥5m Donation Will Open the Bodleian Library’s Collections”. Oxford University Library Services: News, 7 Mar. 2008.

22 June 2010: George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer...

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22 June 2010

George Osborne , Chancellor of the Exchequer in Britain's coalition government, announced a budget of unprecedented stringency to tackle unprecedented debt.
“Sunday Times”. The Sunday Times Magazine, 26 Dec. 2010, pp. 22-50.
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12 January 2016: Louise Richardson, an Irish scholar specializing...

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12 January 2016

Louise Richardson , an Irish scholar specializing in security studies and terrorism, was inaugurated as the first female Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University .
Richardson, Louise. “Adapt to survive”. The Ship, No. 105, 2015, pp. 22-7.
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6 January 2021: One year after being identified, the COVID-19 coronavirus killed over two million people globally, with approximately eighty-six thousand deaths in the United Kingdom

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6 January 2021

One year after being identified, the COVID-19 coronavirus killed over two million people globally, with approximately eighty-six thousand deaths in the United Kingdom.
Phillips, Tom. “Global report: coronavirus death toll reaches 2 million”. The Guardian, 16 Jan. 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/15/global-coronavirus-death-toll-reaches-2-million-people.
 

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