Oxford University

In following with previous novels, the publication of this one was met with controversy. The hero, born into the working class, finds English society in general and more particularly the University of Oxford hostile to...

They wanted, they said, to build up and develop in the very heart of the British Empire the opportunities offered to all women students of all nations. Apparently they were thinking...

Mr Waters's wealthy uncle Gilbert forces him to quit his job and live on a stipend of one hundred pounds a year on the understanding that he will become Gilbert's heir. Waters, his wife, and...

SH gave the first of his lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. It was published the next year by the Clarendon Press as The Redress of Poetry: an Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford

From 1982 SH held an academic position at Harvard , where he taught for just one semester of the year. Two years into this arrangement Harvard appointed him Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. From...

In these lectures SH again concerned himself closely with the poet's obligations to society and to humankind. The first lecture, from which the 1995 volume is titled, sets out to show how poetry's existence at...

WH began writing this novel, which was originally titled Anlaby Wold, in 1920 while she and Vera Brittain were still students at Oxford .

GMH won the Poetry Prize at Highgate School in 1860, the year he turned sixteen. He was still writing as an undergraduate at Oxford in 1863-7. But when he became a Jesuit in 1868 he...

The initial volume included Heaven-Haven and The Habit of Perfection, written while GMH was at Oxford ; The Wreck of the Deutschland, written in 1876; and The Windhover and Pied Beauty, written...

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)...

She hoped for more children, but this did not happen. Meanwhile, she found the organization of childcare difficult in her extremely busy life. Charles was educated at boarding schools. He badly antagonised...

They had begun planning such a book after meeting at a Colonial Conference in summer 1941, at Oxford , where Perham was Reader in Colonial Administration. Lord Lugard supplied an introduction.Faber and Faber

EH 's collection of books about Africa was bought by the University of California at Santa Barbara . She rejected an offer by Boston University for her papers with a claim to have destroyed all...

In her final exams MJ earned the equivalent of a second-class honours BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University , after adding an extra year to the three-year degree course, probably because of...

George McGavin recalled her lecturing on Oxford University 's Discovery programme on the QM2 in 2006: her almost miraculous ability to captivate, entertain and inspire in equal measure. No notes, no props, no audiovisual aids...