EW
was sent to fee-paying schools: a preparatory school and then a public school, Lancing College
, rapidly selected by his father when the plan of sending him to Sherborne School
was abandoned following his...
Material Conditions of Writing
Evelyn Waugh
During his otherwise largely wasted time as an Oxford
undergraduate, EW
had some short stories published as well as having some success as a graphic artist. He put considerable effort into a novel about black...
Timeline
October 1974: The first women students were admitted to...
Hitch, Susan. “Women”. The Oxford Myth, edited by Rachel Johnson, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988.
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Howarth, Janet. “Women”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Clarendon, 1994, pp. 345-76.
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Thomas, Keith. “College Life, 1945-1970”. The History of the University of Oxford: The Twentieth Century, edited by Brian Harrison, Vol.
viii
, Clarendon Press, 1994, pp. 189-15.
210
October 2014: Forty years after it had become one of the...
Building item
October 2014
Forty years after it had become one of the first five Oxford men's colleges to admit women, Hertford College
marked the occasion by replacing its dining-hall portraits of male eminences with striking black-and-white photographs of...