“... crisis arose in relations between academe and government, that ‘we must remember, this is not Oxford or Cambridge.’ Nor was it gratifying to be told by the Prime Minister that he intended to send the élite of Singapore’s youth to Oxford and Cambridge rather than the local institution. What this meant was that ...”

“... once and for all, the stale and inhibiting pieties of his parents and their generation. When the Oxford historian G.M. Young read Eminent Victorians he commented, ‘We’re in for a bad time,’ and set about planning an act of restitution which appeared in 1934 as Early Victorian England: Portrait of an Age, since which time the historical ...”

“... Scholar at Balliol College and made a tremendous impression on his contemporaries and seniors at Oxford. He made friends with men and women who were to become, or beginning to be, what the Germans call prominente. Among them were Richard Crossman, A.L. Rowse, Maurice Bowra, Isaiah Berlin, David Astor and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, who, in ...”

“... The government system of scholarships for ex-officers enabled him to enter Pembroke College, Oxford in the autumn of 1919. While he was still in training with the Artists’ Rifles in 1916-17 Rickword had become acquainted with W.J. Turner, whose name was known to him as the music critic of, and occasionally a poet in, the New Statesman. A published ...”

“... in Calcutta; the second, Afternoon Raag, is a memoir of Chaudhuri’s time as a postgraduate in Oxford. He swithers between two young women, and in the end, as he always knew he would, catches the plane to Calcutta alone. Freedom Song is set in 1993, as the conflict between Muslims and the new Hindu fundamentalists becomes increasingly violent. Khuku, who ...”

“... end.’ The fact is I do not want to see L until the ceremony begins. We parted a month ago in an Oxford humid with the vapour of the Upper Thames Valley, a city empty of acrimony and bicycles for the long vacation. By midday the sun had driven the haze from the river. ‘You never did tell me about the Shinka.’ ‘The air is clearer in September in ...”

“... at university together, you know.’ It was the name of the lady principal of Somerville College, Oxford, Daphne Park, who has, we read here, a history of an elusive kind in Zambia and the Congo. One or two of the other names on the list I had already come across personally, in a similarly disconcerting way. I remember rather excitedly mentioning to a senior ...”

“... Charles and I have been friends for almost sixty years. Indeed, he is almost my only surviving Oxford friend, as distinct from acquaintance. Our mutual affection has remained un-dimmed since the time when we first met at Oxford and long may it so continue. I was much moved and deeply grateful that such a thing could have ...”

“... for parole – aimed at its reduction. In particular, local prisons and remand centres – notably Oxford, Leeds, Bedford, Birmingham and Lincoln – are devastatingly overcrowded, holding, in Oxford’s case, more than double the number of prisoners it should. The Home Office itself didn’t think that the prison population ...”

“... dedication to his dead wife. He was mentally tired, and uneasy over his son Pen’s performance at Oxford, but had agreed to go to Scotland in August with Sarianna his sister and Pen, and join forces at North Berwick with his friends the Storys. Before starting, he had told John Forster that Pen and the Storys had persuaded him to this course, but that he ...”

“... But I do, and would like three or four more, all about the Woolwich, the Arts Council, the BBC and Oxford, with incidental observations on the conduct of the young, the remembered follies of youth, the tiresome defects of age, and so forth. One reason may be that Fuller, to an even greater degree than most of us, delights in coincidence, in those random and ...”

“... might say, for he surely knows, that it was Manchester, where he first made his mark, that taught Oxford to value research in history. Before it succumbed to the Manchester influence, the dons in Oxford spent their summers reading the research of others, in various languages, and then in term instilled the conclusions into ...”

“... At first, things had gone well. Although only the son of a Cornish clock-maker, he had got to Oxford, after which he remained level-headed enough to return home and set up as a surveyor. He has a great love of the land itself, as the basis of life, and an inherited trust of the Bible, as the repository of truth. He prospers, marries the Rector’s pretty ...”

“... The earliest astrolabe​ in the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford was made in Syria in the ninth century and is inscribed with text in Arabic and later additions in Armenian. Two made in Seville in the first quarter of the 13th century also have Arabic script – Seville was then still under Islamic rule ...”

“... narrow staircases and abrupt changes of level – accommodation not unlike that in colleges at Oxford and Cambridge or on the top floors of country houses. But scrubbed and white-painted as these quarters may have been, cramped they certainly were and often situated behind and adjacent to the state rooms and grand corridors where the ceremonial life of the ...”