“... and standing of British universities in the 20th century. They weren’t just thinking about Oxford and Cambridge. These people were knowledgable about the recent past of British universities, sometimes having studied at one of them, and their view was that a high level of quality had been maintained across the system in both teaching and ...”

“... tells us only about everyone else? If you want to get to know someone (tweets the prolific Kelly Oxford) argue with him, and I considered that wisdom, considering my recent disagreements with you there reading this. Let me here drop too a word on Arthur Conan Doyle’s surrender to the disciples of Madame Blavatsky, or some cognate matter acting as ...”

“... be asking women to join the ‘society’ and they all said no. In their view people only went to Oxford to feel as if they were in a pornified Evelyn Waugh novel. If word got out that there were women in Piers Gav (as it was known) it would impact on ticket sales. The first thing to sort out was our names. There was a traditional stock of them, but as a ...”

“... of anonymous infrastructure and residual pastoral, mostly filmed not far from Keiller’s home in Oxford, and the whole is propelled by a story about land use and power over several centuries, voiced this time by Vanessa Redgrave. But it is in some ways a different proposition from London and Robinson in Space. The film arose in part out of a research project ...”

“... months later to the famous debate on evolution between Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley at the Oxford Museum, appeared in the Quarterly Review, which was published by Murray’s. The editor was John Gibson Lockhart, but we aren’t told why he chose to commission what was guaranteed to be a savage review. The Quarterly was founded by Murray II in 1809 when ...”

“... The​ other day, I was talking to a man who was once the head of an Oxford college. He recalled an occasion in the late 1950s when he was a student himself and Kingsley Amis had come to address his college’s literary society. When Amis eventually asked for questions, a young woman said something that came as a surprise ...”

“... like Roman Catholics, were excluded from the two ancient English universities. The prime duty of Oxford and Cambridge, as many politicians saw it, was to supply Anglican clerics and learned apologists for the established order; abstract intellectual and theological speculation came a poor second to this essential service to the state. Historians of the ...”

“... where he debriefed refugees from behind the Iron Curtain. In 1952, he went to Lincoln College, Oxford to study modern languages. Again, he spied on his fellow students and friends, this time for MI5, adopting a ‘left-wing persona’ in order to identify the Burgesses and Macleans of the future. He conceded later that there was something ‘morally ...”

“... the verse. An annual Betjeman Day on his Birthday, with a service in Westminster Abbey. The ‘Oxford’ edition of his Complete Works, with Notes, Introductory Essays and Commentaries. A coffee-table Book of Popular Betjeman Dogs and Horses, edited by Lady Penelope. An unofficial ‘pirated’ life of Miss Joan Hunter Dunn. Organised Platypus Races in ...”

“... hold, cruising at thirty thousand feet above blue islands, galactically cold, I float between Oxford and the site where I was found then traded on. I cannot see for bubble-wrap. At this stage in my repatriation I belong to no one, a blip, a birdy ounce in the undercarriage. Only the curator knows I’ve gone, and who is left. She redesigns the ...”

“... to what he saw as other Bennite qualities: ‘articulate, plausible, affluent, public-school and Oxford-educated, he could say simple things in a simple way – he had to, because he had probably only read the book the day before. He spoke with the voice of certainty and had mastered the art of saying next to nothing with great sincerity on ...”

“... College London. We met in the department continuously and a lot socially. When he went back to Oxford in 1959, I naturally saw less of him. In recent years, partly because I spend over half the year in America, but largely for no reason at all, we drifted apart. With a memory that operates like mine, for which the past is either oblivion or seemingly ...”

“... therefore counteract the notion that ‘the minds of young women are becoming unEnglish.’ At Oxford there was little support for English studies, but in 1873 English was included in the examinations for a Pass Degree. After a public campaign during the 1880s, a final Honours School of English Language and Literature was founded in 1893. For a long time ...”

“... a work similar to a critical edition of a text by Porson; and the knowledge that Exeter College, Oxford has a dining-hall, in which William Sewell once publicly burned a copy of Froude’s Nemesis of Faith, has led him to refer to it by the name of Exeter Hall, a building in London where Elderess Polly, Elderess Antoinette and other Nonconformist orators ...”

“... has no other family to speak of. He is soon to sail to England, to attend a public school and then Oxford. His financial arrangements are in the hands of a London solicitor. During the walk, the two are accosted by a gang of unusually irate Indian youths. Bobby escapes. Returning later to the alley where he left Bridgeman, he finds him dead, probably of a ...”