St Edmund Hall Magazine 2022-2023

Magazine St Edmund Hall 2022-2023

St Edmund Hall Magazine

Editor James Howarth (Librarian) With many thanks to all the contributors to this year’s edition: massive thanks to the Hall’s Communications Manager Claire Parfitt, and to the amazing Emma Carter and Heather Barr in the Library for their enormous help (and considerable patience) with the production. magazine.editor@seh.ox.ac.uk

Front cover: Dinner in the Wolfson Hall Photo: David Fisher Final Image: Stars above the Library by Sarah Savić Kallesøe All the photographs in this Magazine are from Hall records unless otherwise stated.

JCR Ceilidh: Luke Drago Rugby Cuppers: Nikola Boysová Medieval Mystery Plays: Alison Ray Matriculation Pictures: Photographs by Gillman & Soame

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Vol. XIX No. 5 St Edmund Hall Magazine October 2023 Section 1: The College List: 2022–2023................................................ 1 The College List........................................................................................................................1 Staff List................................................................................................................................. 11

Section 2: Reports on the Year.............................................................14 From the Principal................................................................................................................ 15 News from the Senior Common Room ............................................................................... 17 Arrivals in the Senior Common Room................................................................................. 26 From the Bursary.................................................................................................................. 33 From the Finance Bursar ..................................................................................................... 35 From the Library ................................................................................................................... 37 Donations 2022–2023 ........................................................................................................ 39 From the Chapel .................................................................................................................. 42 From the Director of Music .................................................................................................. 44 From the Student Recruitment and Progression Manager................................................ 46 From the Tutor for Visiting Students................................................................................... 48 From the President of the Middle Common Room ............................................................ 49 From the President of the Junior Common Room ............................................................. 50 From Student Clubs and Societies...................................................................................... 53

Section 3: The Year Gone By.................................................................74 Sustainability at St Edmund Hall by Claire Parfitt.............................................................. 75 The Hall welcomes Ukrainian Scholars............................................................................... 76 Poem, Story, and Scape in the Work of Kevin Crossley Holland: Exhibition in the Old Library................................................................................................. 77 World’s First Successful Sea Trial of Deep-Sea Coring Technology.................................. 79 Hall Celebrates Black History Month 2022........................................................................ 79 BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship Broadcast from the Hall..................................................... 80 Conquering Peace In Tempore Belli: 2022 A.B. Emden Lecture by Heather Barr........... 80 Aularians Gather in North America..................................................................................... 82 Carly Howett Appointed Lead on NASA Mission................................................................. 82 What’s it Like to Study at the Best College in Oxford?....................................................... 83 Planning Permission Awarded for New Student Accommodation at Norham St Edmund.......................................................................................................... 83 Meet the Poet Returns to Teddy Hall.................................................................................. 85 Hall Celebrates LGBTQIA+ History Month 2023................................................................ 86 Floreat Aula Legacy Society Dinner Returns to the Hall.................................................... 88 Students Take Part in Hall’s Unlock Oxford Residential Programme ............................... 89 Hall Members Lace Up for London Marathon..................................................................... 89 Hall Celebrates the Coronation of Charles III.................................................................... 90 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays 2023 by Alison Ray.......................................................... 91

Geddes Trust 2023 Journalism Prizes, Lecture and Masterclass..................................... 93 Hall Appoints an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow................................................. 94 Middle Common Room Refurbished................................................................................... 95 Big Think Competition 2023 Results.................................................................................. 96 St Edmund Hall Academics to Lead Tidal Energy Project.................................................. 98 Running Out of Time Relay at Teddy Hall........................................................................... 99 Centre for the Creative Brain............................................................................................... 99 Memorial Service for Justin Gosling.................................................................................. 100 OXCEP: Precision Medicine Post Pandemic...................................................................... 101 Honours, Awards & Prizes.................................................................................................. 101 And Finally: Welcome to New Executive Head Chef Sam White..................................... 109

Section 4: From the College Office.....................................................110 The Senior Tutor’s Year by Professor Robert Wilkins ...................................................... 111 Student Numbers ............................................................................................................... 113 New Students 2022–2023................................................................................................ 113 Visiting Students 2022–2023........................................................................................... 121 Student Admissions Exercises........................................................................................... 122 College Awards, Prizes and Grants.................................................................................... 123 College and University Bursaries....................................................................................... 125 University Awards and Prizes............................................................................................. 126 College Graduate Awards and Prizes................................................................................ 126 Partnership Graduate Awards and Prizes......................................................................... 126 Degree Results ................................................................................................................... 127 Degree Day Dates 2023–2024.......................................................................................... 131

Section 5: From the Development and Alumni Relations Office....132 From the Director of Development ................................................................................... 133 From the St Edmund Hall Association President............................................................. 135 Donors to the Hall .............................................................................................................. 137 The Floreat Aula Legacy Society ....................................................................................... 147

Section 6: Of Matters Ecclesiastical...................................................152 Treasures Unseen by Zachary Guiliano............................................................................. 153 Shchedryk – on the Wings of a Swallow from Ukraine by Viktoriia Khalanchuk............ 158 Paths of Remembrance by Christopher Armitage ........................................................... 162 St Peter’s Parsonage by John Hawkins............................................................................. 164 A Prayer for his Studies by Thomas Hearne..................................................................... 168

Section 7: Articles, Arts and Reviews................................................169 This Thread of Gold by Cat White...................................................................................... 170 The Kidnapping of a Yellow Shirt by Maurício Alencar..................................................... 172 ‘One Night Only – the Crypt show’ by the 2022 Fine Artists........................................... 176 A Marathon History by David Picksley............................................................................... 183

Building Thriving Communities: Introducing the Oxfordshire Community Foundation by Estella Wild and Ian Busby................................................... 184 History (and Other) Tutorials in the Second Half of the 20th Century by John Dunbabin........................................................................................ 187 Introducing TART Magazine by Minnie Leaver ................................................................. 189 Aularian Poetry................................................................................................................... 194 From Fine Dining to Street Food in Hall: Recipes by Sam White and Donatella Inchingolo .................................................................................................. 195 Book Reviews ..................................................................................................................... 198

Section 8: Remembering Justin Gosling...........................................200 Justin Gosling at the Hall by John Dunbabin.................................................................... 201 Margaret Gosling 1936-2023............................................................................................ 205 On Hearing of Justin’s Passing by John Knight................................................................ 207 A Petrified Tribute to Justin by Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor.................................................. 208 Memories of Justin Gosling................................................................................................ 209 Justin Gosling: A Tribute by James Wilks......................................................................... 211

Section 9: Aularian News....................................................................216 Celebrating 120 years of Rhodes Scholars by Tom Bedford........................................... 217 De Fortunis Aularium ......................................................................................................... 220 Deaths.................................................................................................................................. 231 Obituaries............................................................................................................................ 235

Photograph: Stars above the Library.................................................256 JCR & MCR Freshers’ Photographs....................................................257

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GB denotes member of the Governing Body

Visitor The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, KG, CH, PC, MA, DCL (Hon DJur Massachusetts, Birmingham, Bath; Hon DCL Newcastle; Hon DLitt Sydney, Exeter, Ulster; DUniv Keele, Stettin; Hon DBA Kingston; Hon DSc S E Europe, Rep of Macedonia), Hon FRCPE Chancellor of the University

Principal Willis, Katherine Jane, Baroness Willis of Summertown, CBE, MA (BSc S’ton; PhD Camb; Hon DSc Bergen), FGS Professor of Biodiversity

Fellows Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, DPhil Professor of Modern History, Tutor in Modern History, Vice-Principal (from 16.04.23) GB Whittaker, Robert James, MA (BSc Hull; MSc, PhD Wales) Professor of Biogeography, Tutor in Geography, Vice-Principal (until 16.04.23), ProPrincipal (16.04.23-18.06.23) GB Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, DPhil (BA Amherst; MA Harvard), FBA Professor of Russian Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian) GB Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (BA, PhD Camb), FRS Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Tutor in Chemistry GB Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, DPhil (BSc Pennsylvania) Associate Professor and University Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science, Tutor for Undergraduates GB Matthews, Paul McMahan, OBE, MA, DPhil (MD Stanford), FRCPC, FRCP, FMedSci Professor of Neurology, Fellow by Special Election Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA Fellow by Special Election Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB CHB Edin; MD Leic), FRCS, FRCS Ed, FRCS (Paed Surg), FAAP Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Fellow by Special Election GB Tsomocos, Dimitrios P, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale) Professor of Financial Economics, Fellow by Special Election GB Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil, FAMS Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Research Centre Principal Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow GB Tseng, Jeffrey, MA (BS CalTech; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins) Professor of Physics and Tutorial Fellow, Chapel Overseeing Fellow GB Wilkins, Robert James, MA, DPhil Associate Professor of Epithelial Physiology, American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, Senior Tutor GB

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Nabulsi, Karma, MA, DPhil Senior Research Fellow, Library Fellow GB Williams, Christopher Wesley Charles, MA, DPhil Professor of French Literature, Director of TORCH, Tutor in Modern Languages (French) GB Riordan, Oliver Maxim, MA (BA, PhD Camb) Professor of Discrete Mathematics, Tutor in Mathematics, Secretary to Governing Body GB Yueh, Linda Yi-Chuang, CBE, MA, DPhil (BA Yale; MPP Harvard; JD NYU) Research Lecturer in Economics, Fellow by Special Election GB Yates, Jonathan Robert, MA, DPhil (MSci Camb) Associate Professor of Materials Modelling and Royal Society Research Fellow, Tutor in Materials Science, Dean, Pictures & Chattels Fellow GB Dupret, David, (MSc, PhD Bordeaux) Professor of Neuroscience and MRC Investigator, Tutor in Biomedical Sciences GB Edwards, Claire Margaret, (BSc, PhD Sheff) Associate Professor of Bone Oncology, Fellow by Special Election Gaiger, Jason Matthew, (MA St And; MA, PhD Essex) Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory, Fellow by Special Election GB Thompson, Ian Patrick, (BSc, PhD Essex) Professor of Engineering Science, Fellow by Special Election Stagg, Charlotte Jane, DPhil (BSc, MB ChB Brist) MRCP Professor of Human Neurophysiology, Fellow by Special Election McCartney, David Edward, BM BCh, MRCP, MRCGP Director of Graduate Entry Course, Medical Sciences Division, Fellow by Special Election Willden, Richard Henry James, (MEng, PhD Imp) Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science, Tutor for Graduates GB Wild, Lorraine Sylvia, MA, DPhil College Lecturer in Geography, Fellow by Special Election Lozano-Perez, Sergio, DPhil, PGDipLaTHE, (BSc, MSc, PGCE Seville), AMInstP, FRMS Professor of Materials Science, George Kelley Senior Research Fellow in Materials Taylor, Jenny Cameron, BA, DPhil Associate Professor of Translational Genomics, Fellow by Special Election Nguyen, Luc Le, (BSc Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; PhD Rutgers) Associate Professor of Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Tutor in Applied Mathematics, Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs GB Rothwell, Peter Malcolm, MA (MB ChB, MD, PhD Edin), FMedSci Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professorial Fellow Goldberg, Leslie Ann, MA (BA Rice; PhD Edin) Professor of Computer Science, Senior Research Fellow GB

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Pavord, Ian Douglas, (MB BS Lond; DM Nott), FRCP, FMedSci Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Professorial Fellow GB Bruce, Sir Peter George, Kt, MA, DPhil, FRS, FRSE Wolfson Professor of Materials, Professorial Fellow GB (to 31.03.23) Karastergiou, Aris, (PhD Bonn) Associate Professor in Astrophysics, Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics Goulart, Paul James, (MSc MIT; PhD Camb) Associate Professor in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science GB Lähnemann, Henrike, MA (MA, PhD Bamberg) Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, Professorial Fellow GB Chankseliani, Maia, (BA, MA Tbilisi State University; MA Warw; EdM Harvard; PhD Camb) Associate Professor of Comparative & International Education, Fellow by Special Election GB Zondervan, Krina, DPhil (BA, MSc Leiden; MSc Erasmus) Professor of Reproductive & Genomic Epidemiology, Director of Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Fellow by Special Election Al-Mossawi, Hussein, MA, BM BCh, DPhil, MRCP (UK) Honorary Research Associate Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, College Lecturer in Medical Sciences, Fellow by Special Election Huang, Wei, (BA Qingdao; MSc Tsinghua; PhD Sheff) Professor of Biological Engineering, Fellow by Special Election McAlpine, Erica Levy, (BA Harvard; MPhil Camb; PhD Yale) Associate Professor of English Language & Literature, A C Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language & Literature, Archives Fellow GB Gill, Michael, DPhil (BSc Bath; MA Warw) Associate Professor of Organisational Studies, Tutorial Fellow in Management GB Skokowski, Paul Gregory, MA (PhD Stanford) Professor, Symbolic Systems and Director, Center for the Explanation of Consciousness, Stanford University, Fellow by Special Election Bannerman, David MacKenzie, (BSc Brist; PhD Edin) FRS Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology GB Stride, Eleanor Phoebe Jane, OBE, MA (BEng, PhD UCL), FREng, HonFEIT Professor of Engineering Science, Professorial Fellow Hepburn, Cameron James, MPhil, DPhil (BEng, LLB Melbourne) Professor of Environmental Economics & Director of the Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment, Professorial Fellow GB Williams, Mark Andrew, BA, MPhil, DPhil Associate Professor of Global Medieval Literature, Fellow and Tutor in English Language & Literature, Garden Fellow GB

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Bell, Joanna Rachel, BA, BCL, DPhil Associate Professor in Law, Jeffrey Hackney Fellow and Tutor in Law GB Lloyd, Alexandra, BA, PGCE, MSt, DPhil, FHEA College Lecturer in German, Fellow by Special Election, Tutor for Visiting Students Ogembo, Daisy, DPhil (LLM Nairobi; LLB Lond) Junior Research Fellow in Law, British Academy Post Doctoral Research Fellow (until 31.12.22) Burnett, Eleanor, (LLB Leeds), FCA Finance Bursar and Official Fellow GB Darnbrough, James Edward, (MPhys Exe, PhD Bris) Career Development Fellowship in Materials Department, Fellow by Special Election and Tutor in Materials Science MacFaul, Thomas, DPhil (BA Camb) Lecturer in English, Fellow by Special Election Parry, Luke, MSc (PhD Brist) Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Earth Sciences [until 31.12.22] Prentice, Joseph, MPhys (PhD Camb) Cooksey Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Physics Jansen, Lars Erwin Theodoor Domingos, (MSc Hogeschool West-Brabant, PhD Leiden) Professor of Molecular Genetics and Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Biochemistry, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry GB Tan, Jack, DPhil (BSc USM) Senior Postdoctoral Scientist, Alain Townsend Lab at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Fellow by Special Election Slezkine, Yuri, (MA Mosc; PhD Texas) Jane K. Sather Professor of History, University of California, Berkley, Senior Research Fellow Howett, Carly Jacqueline Amy, DPhil (BSc Essex; MSc UCL) Associate Professor of Space Instrumentation, Tutorial Fellow in Physics GB Crawford, Thomas Joseph, BA (PhD Camb) Early Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics Guiliano, Zachary Morgan, (BA Evangel; MDiv Harvard; PhD Camb) Career Development and Research Fellow, Chaplain Sciuto, Ruggero, MPhil, DPhil (BA Pisa) Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages Whitbourn, James, MA, (DMus LCM) Director of Music and Fellow by Special Election Thomas, Rhys Llewellyn, (BSc, MSc, PhD S’ton) Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Economics

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de Vivo, Filippo Luciano Carlo Guido, (BA, Milan; MA, PhD Camb; DEA Paris) Professor of Early Modern History, Tutorial Fellow in History GB Rowan, Solène, (LLB Lond; LLM Paris I, Université Panthéon; LLM, PhD Camb) Professor of Law, Tutorial Fellow in Law GB (until 31.12.22) Lazar-Gillard, Orlando, DPhil (BA, MPhil Camb) Early Career Research and Teaching Fellow in Politics Nichols, Claire Isobel O’Bryen, (MSci, PhD Camb) Associate Professor of the Geology of Planetary Processes, Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences GB Munday, Callum, BA, DPhil Fellow by Special Election in Geography Howarth, James Alexander, MA (MA York; MA Lond) Librarian and Fellow by Special Election Vivian, Andrew, (BA Bourne; PGCE Birkbeck; PGDip UCL) Director of Development and Fellow by Special Election Kohlhas, Alexandre, (BSc Copenhagen; MPhil, PhD Camb) Associate Professor of Economics, William R Miller Fellow and Tutorial Fellow in Economics GB Laskaridis, Christina, (BA, York; MSc, PhD, SOAS) Visiting Professorship, Economics (Michaelmas term 2022) Bernuth, Ruth von, (PhD, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Visiting Fellowship, German (Michaelmas term 2022) Riedel, Dagmar, (MA, Universität Hamburg; PhD, Indiana University) Visiting Fellowship, German (Michaelmas term 2022) Kuhn, Roman, (BA, MA, PhD FU Berlin) Non-Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship Farrell, Zoe, (BA Warw; MPhil, PhD Camb) Junior Research Fellowship in History Shew, Tania Rachel, MPhil (BA Sus; PhD Manc) Early Career Teaching and Research Fellowship in History Hollingsworth, Déidre, BA, MSc (MMus R’dg; PhD Camb), FIMA Senior Research Fellowship in Mathematics Saunders, Kate Eleanor Anne, BA, BM BCh, DPhil, MRCPsych, FHEA Senior Research Fellowship in Medicine Smith, Steve, BSc (PhD Imp) Senior Research Fellowship in Geography, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow Bunk, Severin, (BSc MSc Hanover; PhD Heriot-Watt) Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics McMeekin, David, DPhil (BSc Ottawa; MSc École Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPLF)) Junior Research Fellow in Physics

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Koutsika, Gina, (MA UCL; MBA Open) Director of Audiences and Content, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Fellow

by Special Election Kuzev, Valery, (DP, SD, Donetsk National University; PhD, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) Visiting Fellow Dvornichenko, Daryna, (BA, MA, PhD, Odesa I. Mechnikov National University) Visting Fellow Blandford-Baker, Mark Rivers Domestic Bursar and Official Fellow GB

Honorary Fellows

Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (PhD Princeton; Hon DSc Paris, Leic, Lough, Edin, Birm, Liv, S’ton, Liv J Moores, Lingnan Hong Kong, Newc, Leeds, Wyoming, St And), FRS, FIC, Hon FIMechE, Hon F CGI, Hon FREng; Officier, Ordre des Palmes académiques (France) Tindle, David, MA, RA, Hon RSBA Daniel, Sir John Sagar, Kt, OC, MA (DSc Paris; Hon DLitt Deakin Australia, Lincolnshire, Humberside, Athabasca Canada, Indira Gandhi Nat Open University India, McGill Canada; Hon DHumLitt Thomas Edison State Coll USA, Richmond Coll London; Hon DSc Royal Military Coll St Jean Canada, Open Univ, Sri Lanka, Paris VI, Univ of Education Winneba Ghana; Hon DEd CNAA, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open Univ Thailand, Open Univ Malaysia; Hon LLD Univ of Waterloo Canada, Wales, Laurentian Canada, Canada West, Ghana; DUni Aberta Portugal, Anadolu Turkey, Quebec, Derby, New Bulgarian, Open Univ, Hong Kong, Stirling, Montreal; Hon DLitt & DPhil South Africa; Hon LittD State Univ NY), CCMI, Hon FCP; Officier, Ordre des Palmes académiques (France) Smethurst, Richard Good, MA Cox, John, MA Cooksey, Sir David James Scott, Kt, GBE, MA, Hon FMedSci (Hon DSc S’ton, UCL; Hon DBA Kingston) Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, DSO, QGM, MA; Comdr, Ordre national de la Legion d’honneur (France) Nazir-Ali, Revd Monsignor Michael James, MLitt (BA Karachi; PGCTh, MLitt Camb; ThD Aust Coll of Theol, NSW; DHLitt Westminster Coll, Penn; DD Lambeth; Hon DLitt Bath, Greenwich; Hon DD Kent & Nashotah) Roberts, Gareth, MA Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William, MA (Hon DLitt Ang Rus, Worc), FRSL Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA, Hon DCL Edwards, Steven Lloyd, OBE, BA Morris, Sir Derek James, Kt, MA, DPhil (Hon DCL UC Dublin & UEA; Hon DSc Cranfield)

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Bowen, David Keith, MA, DPhil (Dip Music; MA Open Univ; PhD RCM), FRS, FIMMM, FlnstP, FREng Byatt, Sir Ian Charles Rayner, Kt, MA, DPhil (DUniv Brun, Central England; Hon DSc Aston, Birm), FCIWEM, FCIPS, CCMI Burnton, The Rt Hon Sir Stanley Jeffrey, Kt, PC, MA Mingos, David Michael Patrick, MA (BSc Manc; DPhil Sus), CChem, FRS, FRSC Josipovici, Gabriel David, BA, FRSL, FBA Macdonald, Kenneth Donald John, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, Kt, BA, KC Starmer, The Rt Hon Sir Keir Rodney, PC, KCB, MP, BCL, (LLB, Hon LLD Leeds; DU Essex; LLD East Lond; Hon LLD LSE, R’dg), KC Shortridge, Sir Jon Deacon, KCB, MA (MSc Edin; Hon DUniv Glam) Lee, Stewart Graham, BA Khurshid, Salman, BCL (BA St Stephen’s College, Delhi) Banks, Samuel Andrew, MA (BA Florida) Hawkesworth, Christopher John, DPhil (BA Trin Coll Dublin; Hon DSc Copenhagen), FRS, FRSE Wainwright, Faith Helen, MBE, BA (Hon DEng Bath), FlStructE, FREng, FICE, FRSA Hollingworth, The Hon Justice Jane Elizabeth, BCL (BJuris, LLB Univ of Western Australia) Fletcher, Amelia, CBE, BA, MPhil, DPhil Ahmed, Samira, BA (MA City, Lond; Hon DLitt Kingston) Asplin, Sarah Jane, DBE, BCL (MA Camb) Dhillon, Sundeep, MBE, BM BCh, MA Gauke, The Rt Hon David Michael, PC, BA Haworth, Mark Derek, MA Morris, Mervyn Eustace, OM (Jamaica) (BA London-UCWI) Gull, Keith, CBE (BSc, PhD, DSc Lond; Hon DSc Kent), FRS, FMedSci, FRSB Krull, Wilhelm, (PhD Philipps University of Marburg; Hon Dr Ilia State University, Tbilisi) Venables, Robert, MA (LLM Lond), KC Sedwill, Mark, the Lord Sedwill, GCMG, MPhil (BSc St And), FRGS

St Edmund Fellows Laing, Ian Michael, MA

Smith, Sir Martin Gregory, Kt, MA (MBA, AM Econ Stanford), Hon FRAM, FRGS Cansdale, Michael John, MA

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Pocock, Francis John, MA, DPhil Armitage, Christopher Mead, MA (MA Western Ontario; PhD Duke) Best, Anthony John, BA Xie, Heping, (BEng, PhD China University of Mining & Technology; Hon DEng Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hon DSc Nottingham Ningbo University, China) Broadley, Philip Arthur John, MA (MSc LSE) Busby, Ian Christopher, BA Ruvigny, Rupert Francis James Henry, BA Hwang, Frank Chairman of the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) Johnson, Peter, BA, BPhil

Emeritus Fellows

Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA Donaldson, Iain Malcolm Lane, MA (BSc, MB ChB Edin), MRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin)† Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, Kt, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Segar, Kenneth Henry, MA, DPhil Child, Mark Sheard, MA (MA, PhD Camb), FRS Worden, Alastair Blair, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FBA Scargill, David Ian, MA, DPhil, JP Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art), RA Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, DPhil Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA Stone, Nicholas James, MA, DPhil Reed, George Michael, MA, DPhil (BSc, MS, PhD Auburn) Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dub; PhD Lond; Dr Hon Causa Sofia) Knight, John Beverley, MA (BA Natal; MA Camb) Wells, Christopher Jon, MA Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, MA (LLB, MA Camb; JD Chicago), KC Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA, DSc (BEng, PhD Liv; Hon Dr Budapest University of Technology & Economics), FREng, CEng, FICE, FRSE Collins, Peter Jack, MA, DPhil Phillips, David George, MA, DPhil, FAcSS, FRHistS Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, MPhil Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (BSc S’ton; MA Camb; PhD Leic) Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (BSc, MSc, PhD Manc)

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Roberts, Steven George, MA (BA, PhD Camb) Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, DPhil Blamey, Stephen Richard, BPhil, MA, DPhil, Dean of Degrees Martin, Rose Mary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc) Ferguson, Stuart, MA, DPhil Cronk, Nicholas, MA, DPhil (Hon D.Litt McGill) Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (PhD MIT) Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA, KC (Hon) Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb)

Lecturers

Ahmed, Muhammad Farid, (BSc Lahore; MSc R’dg; MPhil, PhD Camb) Economics Alexeeva, Iana, MSc (BA Calgary) Psychology Amor, Ken, DPhil (BSC R’dg, MSC Leeds) Geography Anil, Pratinav, DPhil (MSc LSE) History Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA Camb; PhD Lond SB) Physics Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, DPhil Russian Bitsakaris, George, (MSc ISI, MA, Michigan) Economics Bogacz, Rafal, (MSc Wroclaw Univ of Technology; PhD Brist) Clinical Medicine Brain, Susannah, BM BCh (BA, MPhil Camb), MRCP, MRCPysch Clinical Medicine Carthy, Elliott, (BSC University of the Sunshine Coast; MBBS Imp) Physiology and Pharmacology Chitnis, Rajendra Anand, (BA Sheff; MA, PhD Lond) Czech Convey, Alison, BM (PGCertMedEd, UCL) Pre Clinical Medicine Cosimetti, Antonio, (MB, CHB Bristol) Clinical Medicine Elven, Marie, (DEA Paris) French Language Fanthorpe, Eimear, MPhil (LLB Lond) Law Fountain, Daniel, (BM Camb) Pre-Clinical Medicine Fowles, Sam, (MA, St Andrews; PhD Lond; BPTC Law) Law Gundle, Roger, MA, BM BCh, DPhil (MA Camb), FRCS (Eng), FRCS Orth Medicine Hsin, Lisa (Ko-en), (BA Auckland; LLMUC Berkeley) Law Kennedy, Anthony, BA, DPhil Law Laidlaw, Mike, DPhil (MA Camb) Chemistry Laird, Karl, BCL (LLB Lond) Law Langstaff, Holly, (BA, MPhil Camb; PhD Warw) French Leger, Marie Andrea, (Lic, MRes Stendhal Grenoble) French

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Littleton, Suellen Marie, (BSc California; MBA Lond) Management Lüder, Sven, (BA, MA Berlin) German Lektor Marshall, Neil, (BSC, Birkbeck; BSC York) Earth Sciences McIntosh, Jonathan, MA (MA, MPhil Lond) Philosophy Nicholls, Rebecca, DPhil (MSci Camb) Earth Sciences and Materials Science Nishino, Takafumi, (BA, MSc Kyoto; PhD S’ton) Engineering Noe, Debrah Pozsony, (BS, PhD Ohio State) Finance Patterson, Jonathan, (BA, MPhil, PhD Camb) French Pavord, Sue, (MB ChB Leic), FRCP, FRCPath Clinical Medicine Peterson, Scot, DPhil (BA Colorado Boulder; MA Chicago; JD UC Berkley) Politics Ready, Oliver, BA, DPhil (MA, UCL) Russian Roberts, Paul, MChem, DPhil Chemistry Romero, Loreto, (BA Seville; PhD Virginia) Spanish Rossi, Ysaline, (BA, MA Grenoble Alpes) French Lectrice Shine, Brian, (MB ChB, MD Birm; MSc Lond), MRCPath, FRCPath Medical Sciences Sytsema, Johanneke, (PhD Free Univ, Amsterdam) Linguistics Wilk, James, MA, MSc (PhD Brun), FCybS Philosophy Winkler, Emily Anne, MSt, DPhil (AB Dartmouth, USA) History Zarkogiannis, Stergios, (BSc University of the Aegean; MSc S’ton; PhD Athens) Earth Sciences

Chaplain

Guiliano, Zachary Morgan, (BA Evangel; MDiv Harvard; PhD Camb)

Librarian

Howarth, James Alexander, MA (MA York; MA Lond)

Archivist

Petre, Robert Douglas, (BA York; MArAd Liv)

Academic Registrar

Njoki, Melody, (BSc Card)

Director Of Music

Whitbourn, James, MA (DMus LCM)

Head Chef

White, Samuel

Head Porter

Guildea, Martin

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Decanal Staff

Yates, Jonathan, MA, DPhil (MSci Camb) Dean Arni, Abhimanyu, BA (MA Lond) Junior Dean Buys, Elinor, BCL (LLB QUT), AMusA NSE Sub Dean Greene Barker, Tamsin, MSC (BA Trinity Dublin; MSc UCL) Assistant Junior Dean [until 21.08.23] Lucien, Pierre, (BA St John’s University; MA Ohio State; MA Brown) Assistant Junior Dean [until 31.03.23] Mellor, Katie, (BSc Lond; MSc Sheff), AFHEA Assistant Junior Dean [until 31.08.23]

Staff List 2022-2023 Archives Robert Petre, Archivist

Luke Maw, Student Recruitment and Progression Manager

Bar

Scarlett Short, Admissions Officer

Hayley Goodgame, Bar Manager Chloe Knight, Scout (Bar)

Bursary Mark Blandford-Baker, Domestic Bursar Belinda Huse, Accommodation Manager Susan McCarthy, Conference Manager Clare Woolcott, Nurse Jane Armstrong, Senior Welfare Officer James Cones, College Counsellor Sunny Pagani, Bursary Administrator Andrea Cockburn, Bursary Assistant (Wine)†

Alice Findlay, Admissions Officer [maternity cover] [from 27.03.2023] Rebecca Smithson, Access & Outreach Coordinator

Communications Claire Parfitt, Communications Manager

Development Andrew Vivian, Director of Development Emily Bruce, Alumni Relations and Events Manager Thomas Sprent, Campaign Development Manager

College Office

Stephanie Attwood-Swan, Development Operations Officer [until 15.11.22]

Robert Wilkins, Senior Tutor

Andrea Diss, College Events Officer

Melody Njoki, Academic Registrar

Jemima Hegerty-Ward, Campaign Development Officer

Alena Nemeckova, Senior Academic Officer Melanie Brickell, Academic Records Manager

Katariina Kottonen, Development Operations Officer [from 21.11.22] Laura Zampini, Development Officer [until 03.02.23]

Penelope Alden, Academic Assistant [until 20.04.23]

Estates

Eleanor West, HR & Academic Assistant

Stephen Lloyd, Estates Manager

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Alex Grant, Deputy Estates Manager

Lisa Thomas, Housekeeping Supervisor

Simon Hogarth, Warden (Tamesis/ William R Miller) [until 10.08.23]

Beata Bartnik, Scout

Grzegorz Zbylut, Warden (Norham St Edmund) Lionel Knight, Estates and Compliance Administrator

Susana Berrocal Pereo, Scout [until 27.11.22] Gil Da Costa, Scout Dulcia Da Costa Portela, Scout

James Ronaldson, Boatman

Mateus Dos Reis Corbafo, Scout [until 02.01.23]

Phillip Didcock, Plumber

Anchan Drewett, Scout [until 05.01.23]

Tom Gallagher, Carpenter

Minerva Evio, Scout

Jose Hernandez Morales, General Maintenance Assistant

Barry Fiddes, General Assistant/Scout

Vahid Kordbacheh, General Maintenance Assistant

Erica Hanlon, Scout

Gerald McGrath, General Maintenance Assistant

Dorota Gawronska, Scout Chloe Knight, Scout David Long, General Assistant/Scout

Fabio Joao Goncalves Simoes, General Maintenance Assistant [until 15.03.23]

Dorota Maciejowska, General Assistant/ Scout

Liam Webb, General Maintenance Assistant

Sitarani Rai Jabegu, Scout

Finance Eleanor Burnett, Finance Bursar Stephanie Hanks, Accountant Sophia McMinn, Deputy Accountant Toby Cherrill, Accounts Assistant Sharon Stansfield, Purchase Ledger Assistant Diogo Mendes Campos, Payroll & Finance Officer

Governance Laura Butler, Governance Manager

Housekeeping Michelle O’Keefe, Housekeeper Elaine Kavanagh, Housekeeping Supervisor

Aneta Palar, Scout Dragana Rnic, Scout Soraj Sahota, Scout [until 19.05.23] Marija Sarac, Scout Hardeep Singh, Scout Fiona Smith, Scout Paul Solesbury, Scout Pruang Stephenson, Scout Michele Stroudley, Scout Bosiljka Tetek, Scout Zaulino Varela Guterres, Scout [until 05.10.22]

Human Resources Mandy Estall, HR Manager Eleanor West, HR Assistant

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IT Office

Tom Stringer, Deputy Lodge Manager

Andrew Breakspear, IT Manager

Mohammad Ali, Lodge Porter

Ryan Trehearne, IT Officer

Nick Cosford, Lodge Porter

Kitchens

Ian Coles, Lodge Porter [until 30.04.23]

Samuel White, Executive Head Chef

Carol Drake, Lodge Porter [until 20.04.23]

Daniel Field, Deputy Head Chef

Peter Hack, Lodge Porter [until 12.05.23]

Donatella Inchingolo, Pastry Chef

Anieszka Leiewicz Saine, Lodge Porter

Francisco Perez Castro, Sous Chef

Danish Raza, Lodge Porter

Bartlomiej Wieczorkiewicz, Sous Chef [from 08.08.22]

Principal’s Office

John Claxton, Chef De Partie [until 31.12.23] Peter Malone, Chef De Partie Gonsalo Pereira, Chef De Partie Dylan Rampton, Chef De Partie Barry Wixey, Chef De Partie Bonifacio Pinto, Prep Chef Filomeno Da Costa Napoleao, Kitchen Porter Ventura Da Conceicao, Kitchen Porter Floriano Pereira, Kitchen Porter Rodolfo Fernandes, Kitchen Porter

Library

Maxine Osborne-Jones, Principal’s Executive Assistant

Servery

Samuel Green, Head Butler [until 07.07.23] Molly McCarthy, Head Butler [from 08.07.23] Craig Hughes, Deputy Head Butler [from 14.08.23] Milka Parojcic, Deputy SCR Butler [until 10.05.23] Michele D’Intino, Catering Supervisor Jovana Sarac, Catering Supervisor Benigno Bonifacio Dos Santos, Servery Assistant

James Howarth, Librarian

Nigel Buckle, Servery Assistant

Emma Carter, Assistant Librarian

Filemon Da Costa Ribeiro, Servery Assistant

Heather Barr, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant

Lodge

Martin Guildea, Lodge Manager

Amelio Pinto, Servery Assistant Chandra Silva Martins, Catering/Hall Assistant

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From the Principal financially to get us to this point.

Last week I found myself wearing a rather unflattering white hard hat, yellow fluorescent jacket and holding a very clean spade in front of a pile of soil in one the gardens of the Hall’s properties in Norham Gardens. I was there with the University’s Chancellor (and our College Visitor), Lord Patten of Barnes, and a number of Fellows, staff, students and Aularians to break ground on our new student accommodation building project, Norham St Edmund.

Alongside this major ground-breaking event, other aspects of College life continue at pace. Something I am very much struck by from reading this year’s Magazine is the sheer exuberance of the Hall students. Obviously winning Rugby Cuppers was a major event in the past year (and also a regular occurrence – as our JCR President mentions we have now won more than 50% of all the Rugby Cuppers Finals ever held), but we also won trophies in many other mass participation sporting events like Swimming, Gymnastics and Octopush (no idea what this last one even involves!). What is also clear is that in these events lots of the members of the Hall participate even though they have no experience at all. True to Hall Spirit, they are welcomed in – and then we win!

Even though the whole event felt somewhat ‘staged’, the significance of it cannot be underestimated. I am delighted to report that we are now on the road to achieving our aim, articulated in our 2019 Strategy, to provide inCollege accommodation for all of our undergraduates and first year graduates.

This new build also meets another of our aims to be an exemplar in environmental sustainability but importantly in this case, with a price-tag that is the same as if we built it using less environmentally sensitive methods and materials.

The pages of this Magazine also feature a dizzying array of other activities: the MCR yoga and salsa sessions, new clubs (such as a Jewellery Society), arts magazines (TART), the wonderful exhibition by the first year Fine Arts students in the Crypt and prize-winning student journalism. The Choir of St Edmund Hall and our musicians have also provided wonderful music throughout the year including music in Chapel, during Formal Halls and at Carols in the Quad. They have also performed to large external audiences such as those who listened to the BBC broadcast in Michaelmas term and visitors to Pontigny Abbey in France.

It has taken a huge amount of work across the entire College community, past and present, to get to this point – but it is something that will be transformational for many generations of Aularians to come. So, thank you to all of you that have provided support both in-kind and

At the request of the student body, we have also greatly increased the number of themed Formal Halls over the past year for example to include dinners celebrating Diwali, Eid, Diversity (EDI), and International Women’s Day. These formals are always sold-out and to me really

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underline the keenness of this community to learn from and embrace each other’s cultures. Something that we definitely need far more of in the world’s current political climate.

It has also been a delight in the past year to welcome a large number of Old Members to events in Hall including the Floreat Aula Legacy Society event, held for the first-time post-pandemic, and the big summer reunion/HALLmarks dinner. It is always so lovely to meet Aularians at these events in College – as it is to visit those living aboard, including during recent trips to New York and California. I still find it moving to hear how friendships made during time at College, and the embedding of the Hall Spirit, has influenced so many in their lives after leaving the Hall. Long may it continue.

To end, I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank-you on behalf of the entire Hall community to Professor Robert Whittaker and Professor Philip Mountfield – who have between them, been Tutorial Fellows in Geography and Chemistry for over 50 years. Rob has also been a longtime colleague and friend, and working alongside him in his role as Vice-Principal has been an absolute honour. We shall miss both greatly from Governing Body – but I am pleased to report that they will still continue to be involved in Hall life as Emeritus Fellows.

Please do come and visit when you are next in Oxford.

Floreat Aula!

Professor Katherine J. Willis CBE, Baroness Willis of Summertown, Principal

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News from the Senior Common Room Samira Ahmed, Honorary Fellow, made headlines round the world after revealing the earliest known concert recording of the Beatles in the UK. Recorded at Stowe School on 4 April 1963, the tape was made by the then 15-year-old pupil John Bloomfield, who told Samira about the tape on Radio 4’s Front Row, broadcast on 3 April 2023, when she came to the school to make a special programme about the 60th anniversary of the concert. It’s become the most downloaded episode ever of the programme. Samira helped John with his decision to donate his original tape to the British Library National Sound Archive, where it has been digitised and can be listened to by anyone with a free reader’s pass. Samira also broadcast audio of a second tape made over dinner the same night of the concert by the school’s tuck shop master, after his daughters Jan Winterson and Maggie Bointon, approached her with their copy. Samira has written about the Stowe tapes for the forthcoming issue of Liverpool University’s Journal of Beatles Studies, published in the autumn.

On 27 July Samira received an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University for her work in journalism and gender equality.

Listen to the Front Row episode on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/ m001kpq1 Listen to the second Stowe tuck shop tape: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n1lr From Jo Ashbourn, College Lecturer in Physics, “In addition to my teaching as a Lecturer in Physics at Teddy Hall,

during this past year I have continued as the Director of the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics, which aims to not just focus on chronicling the history of the discipline as a retrospective exercise but to also critically engage with the philosophy and methodologies which inform how current research in physics is undertaken.

The HAPP Centre has continued to go from strength to strength and with the return of in-person events, it now livestreams its one-day conferences to global audiences of up to 1000 people alongside the activities held at Oxford. Topics over the past year were ‘Symmetries in Physics’, ‘Physics Feuds Throughout History’ and ‘Order and Chaos’.

Watch videos of all the talks plus details of forthcoming events for 2023-24 on the HAPP website: www.stx.ox.ac.uk/thehapp-centre Emeritus Fellow Adrian Briggs reports on another year of re-writing, or un-writing, books on the conflict of laws. Private International Law in English Courts was completed, for a second time, in 2022 and appeared in the spring of 2023; the Clarendon series Conflict of Laws is just about ready to be handed up to the publisher.

There was time and space to work out and write up a paper on public policy, a topic (in a context) which had been bugging him for decades. If there is ever to be a new major project it will be making sense of the myriad appearances of public policy in private international law, in a personal exercise of taking back control.

In addition, an entire course on the law of contract, and a shorter course

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on the conflict of laws, was delivered to young lawyers isolated in the souldestroying misery of Yangon under military occupation, but lectures by Zoom do depend on a stable electricity supply, which was an aspiration, not a given.

Scheme. More broadly, he is involved with venture capital in Australia, the US, and the UK. His recent published papers have focused on individual responses to risk and uncertainty in the context of technological change.

Still, it all served to remind that although our politics and politicians are truly contemptible, others have it even worse.

As for everything else, it is sufficient to say that life trundles on.

An exhibition of Honorary Fellow Kevin CrossleyHolland’s literary papers initiated by the Brotherton Collection at Leeds University transferred to the Hall where, most imaginatively augmented by the Librarians, it was displayed in the Old Library for four months and attracted 1500 visitors.

Read more about the second edition of Private International Law in English Courts on the OUP website: global. oup.com/academic/product/privateinternational-law-in-english-courts9780192868145?cc=gb&lang=en&# Honorary Fellow Ian Byatt appeared on Radio 4’s Bottom Line to explain how improved water quality in rivers and coastal waters is paid for, and warning that customers’ water bills will have to rise to finance higher standards of pollution abatement.

Emeritus Fellow Gordon L. Clark continues as a senior consultant and Director Emeritus of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford.

Recently, he was responsible for the senior executive programme for a major global investor. The programme focused upon issues such as climate change, technology, and the war in the Ukraine. He continues to advise graduate students, supervise research, and serve as an external examiner of PhD theses.

At the Hall, Gordon serves on the Investment Committee and, in the University, serves as an employer representative on the Oxford Staff Pension

New Leaves on an Old Tree, Kevin’s collection of essays and articles old and new (including pieces on his collaborations with artists and composers) has been published by Propolis; The Girl from Aleppo, his cantata with Cecilia McDowall was performed in England, France, Sweden, and the USA during the last twelve months; and for his 80th birthday, his family gave him a maquette of Rodney Munday’s sculpture of Edmund of Abingdon, beloved by generations of Hall students.

Kevin wrote the simple words “Swirling tides swing me; Your words ring me; My tongue sings me” inscribed on the clapper of the Happisburgh Time and Tide Bell, the 11th in a series of 13 created by the sculptor Marcus Vergette.

And at Wimbledon, he met and shared a precious hour with one of his lifelong heros, Billie Jean King.

Read more about the Old Library exhibition ‘Poem, Story & Scape in the Work of Kevin Crossley-Holland’ in The Year Gone By on pp. 77-78.

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Professor David Dupret, Tutor in Biomedical Sciences, continues in his role as Principal Investigator at the Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit in the University of Oxford to investigate neural mechanisms of memory.

His laboratory just uncovered how the new neurons continually produced in the adult brain support the internal processing of memory (McHugh, S. and colleagues, Nature Neuroscience 2022). David won a competitive 2023 Grand Challenge Award from the UK Dementia Research Institute for a multi-year partnership designed to advance the understanding of early changes to the operations of brain circuits in Alzheimer’s disease.

David also continues to teach systems neuroscience to our undergraduate students in Biomedical Sciences, Medicine, and Psychology. David also helped the College with the public outreach event ‘The Big Think,’ asking Year 11-13 students from state schools across the UK to address the question: ‘How does the environment influence our brain?’

David is also the representative for medical research at the Begbroke Science Festival where this year he showcased the recent documentary The Symphony of the Brain that he produced with Oxford Sparks and our Director of Music, Dr James Whitbourn. This documentary has received more than 30,000 viewers across various social media.

Watch The Symphony of the Brain: youtu. be/2YFHVyl8l1I?si=BaH34Od3qIhFIR3P

Jason Gaiger, Fellow and Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory, has been re-establishing contact with colleagues abroad by giving invited lectures and talks in various countries, including Germany, France, Sweden, Hungary and Croatia. His most recent book Philosophy of Painting: Ancient, Modern, Contemporary (Bloomsbury, 2022), provides a historically informed analysis of the contemporary relevance of painting, showing how philosophical reflection can deepen and extend our understanding of this enduring art form.

Jason was pleased to see two exhibitions of work in College by the Fine Art students: an exhibition by the first year students in the Crypt under St Peter-in-the-East and an exhibition by the second year students in the Senior Common Room. He would like to record his thanks to Professor Jonathan Yates, Revd Dr Zachary Guiliano and James Howarth for the wonderful support and encouragement they gave to the students.

Read more about One Night Only, the first year exhibition in the Crypt on pp. 176-182.

The year was varied for the Revd Dr Zachary Guiliano, Career Development and Research Fellow in Early Medieval History and College Chaplain. His book on The Homiliary of Paul the Deacon won the 2023 book prize of the Ecclesiastical History Society after being shortlisted last year. The selection committee praised the book, saying it would have ‘an enormous impact’ on the field.

Zack gave presentations and lectures this year in London, Oxford, and Leeds, and began teaching and marking for both

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the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies. He was also appointed to a five-year role on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Academic Board for the Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology.

From January to July 2023, he served as Interim Precentor at Christ Church Cathedral, planning (among many other services) the county’s celebration of the Coronation of King Charles III and the installation service of the new Dean.

Articles published this year included ‘The renunciation of wealth as a rite of passage: Bede and his successors’ in Studies in Church History. Zack is currently at work on four articles: about the reception of Augustine’s work On Caring for the Dead; the role of patron-client relationships in early medieval exegesis; the influence of Scripture on Bede’s historical writing; and attempts at altering or censoring patristic theology in the 9th century.

Details on Chapel life may be found in the Chaplain’s report on pp. 42-43.

Having closed his own laboratory in 2019 Professor Keith Gull, Emeritus Fellow, continued his research with ex-members of his laboratory around the UK to understand antigenic variation in the African trypanosome with the recent discovery of the master regulatory protein controlling the way in which this parasite switches its surfacer antigens and so eludes the human immune system.

This year Keith also published in Nature Microbiology a major five-year project to map the location of all 9,000 proteins encoded in the trypanosome genome – a major ‘first’ in many ways and an important resource in understanding the pathogenicity of this African parasite. He

also took up a part-time appointment at Imperial College to guide and mentor over the next few years the research group of a colleague who sadly died of breast cancer in late 2022.

Keith continued as a trustee of the Leverhulme Trust. He also visited Prague as a member of the International Advisory Panel of Charles University in addition to acting as a member of the small group advising the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, on promotion of Senior Faculty.

He also intensified his research into piscatorial opportunities around 66° North in Northern Iceland with a three-week expedition in September with startlingly successful results involving anadromous salmonids.

He taught his intensive two-day Early Career Personal Development Course in July 2023 in the University of Ghana, Accra, at WACCBIP – the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens. The course is intensive and is taught solely by Keith as a highly integrated, collegiate experience for Post-Doctoral Fellows, Research Fellows and Early Career Lecturers in Biomedical Sciences and related academic disciplines.

The course provides an overview of many of the areas that influence the professional development of young investigators from horizon discussions of how science will

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be done in the coming decades, what personal and professional skills will be needed and how to acquire them. Keith teaches by lecture, presentations and discussions with nominated rapporteurs – as a single group, breakout groups and via individual reviews. Eighteen young scientists from Ghana, Gambia, Nigeria and Cameroon attended the course. Keith has assisted with the development of WACCBIP since its inception 10 years ago and chairs its Advisory Board. It is now one of the most successful research and education centres in Africa.

Gina Koutsika, Director of Audiences and Content, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology and Fellow by Special Election has been involved in the organisation of Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design, a major exhibition opening at the Ashmolean in September 2023. The exhibition rediscovers Victorian society as a vibrant colour-filled era – from dazzling dyes used in chic corsets, bold experiments by avant-garde painters, and the flamboyant use of nature’s beauty in jewellery. As Britain’s industrial revolution gained pace, new scientific breakthroughs allowed the Victorians to become increasingly revolutionary in their use of colour, with new hues greeted with both excitement and suspicion. The exhibition will include fashion pieces – from Queen Victoria’s monotone mourning dress to the most daringly vivid clothing and accessories – and works by artists including Ruskin, Rossetti and Whistler, as well as objects from around the world.

It explores the vital role that colour has played in shaping our art and culture.

Read more about Colour Revolution at the Ashmolean website: www.ashmolean.org/ exhibition/colour-revolution-victorianart-fashion-design

As ever, Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistic Studies, has had an action-packed year: “The last academic year saw three big medieval events staged at St Edmund Hall: in February, the presentation of a latemedieval song book recording; the preconcert conversation between tenor James Gilchrist, the music editor and myself had to be moved to the Holywell Music Room since the interest was too great, but the Hall provided the congenial setting for the hospitality, generously sponsored by Emeritus Fellow Peter Collins.

In April, the third instalment of the Medieval Mystery Plays took place – plays in medieval English, Latin, French, German, framed by a sequence sung by the St Edmund Hall College Choir and the Last Judgement modernised by an Aularian who had staged a previous version in 2019.

The age range of actors this year was particularly impressive, with the youngest cherub, daughter of two of the singing angels harrowing hell, just one year old.

In May, a memorial symposium was held for Professor Nigel F. Palmer, my predecessor, on Literary, religious and manuscript cultures of the Germanspeaking lands to which over 100 colleagues and friends came. The dinner at the Hall was preceded by an exhibition in the Old Library highlighting Nigel’s role as Library Fellow.

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Three books I published this year were also in various ways connected to the Hall: in October, the fifth publication in the Reformation Pamphlet Series supported by the Academic Enhancement Fund (watch out for the sixth on early modern monsters out in October 2023!).

group’s writings and legacy today.

In April, I launched In Times of Strife by Charles Webster, an important book in the series ‘Cultural Memory’ which brings together early modern intellectual history, German Expressionism, and Holocaust Studies, which I typeset, copy edited and supplied with images and an exhibition catalogue.

She co-edited a special issue of Oxford German Studies on ‘The White Rose and the Uses of Culture’ with one of her former undergraduate students, and also wrote for the Royal Opera House and the Catholic Herald.

In May, just appearing during the Memorial Symposium, the cherry on the publication cake arrived in the shape of Unerhörte Frauen, a book on medieval nuns which I co-wrote with my academic partner Eva Schlotheuber (we have edited all 1,800 letters of the nuns from Kloster Lüne). I am still looking for a catchy title for the English version which is scheduled for next year – it should capture the sense of remarkable women who have, for too long, been overlooked by scholarship and popular perception.

Suggestions so far include Unheard and Unherdable and Outrageous Habits – if you have further ideas, please do get in contact!”

This year Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Fellow by Special Election in German, continued her research and engagement work as part of the White Rose Project, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the group’s executions. In July, she was invited to give the Graham Nattrass Memorial Lecture at the British Library, reflecting on the resistance

Alex also convenes the TORCH Comics Network and led an international, interdisciplinary conference on comics and resistance, generously supported by the St Edmund Hall Academic Enhancement Fund.

As always, Alex is grateful to the wonderful undergraduate German students at Teddy Hall for their enthusiasm for, and commitment to, the study of German language and culture.

David Manolopoulos, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and Tutor in Chemistry, is very much enjoying travelling again now the pandemic is over.

This academic year, he has given talks about his research in Chicago, Rochester, Cornell, Cambridge, Stanford, Berkeley, Tel Aviv, and Telluride. He has also been on a surprisingly enjoyable trip to an editorial board meeting in New York that ended with an evening at the Metropolitan Opera House with old friends.

Paul Matthews, Fellow

by Special Election and Professor of Neurology at Imperial College London, reports another exciting year.

He notes what a pleasure it has been to circulate with colleagues across the world again after Covid! After a plenary talk for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative last summer, he joined the CEO of UK Biobank and its executive as Chair of their Imaging Working Group in celebrating an

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announcement this year of £30 million in new funding from CZI, the West Coast pharma company Calico and the UKRI MRC that they jointly raised to re-image brains and bodies of 60,000 participants in UK Biobank over the next five years.

In the upcoming academic year, he is leading two field projects in Kenya and in the Kalahari Desert. He hopes that these projects will lead to improved understanding of droughts over Africa, and their alteration under climate change.

Paul has continued as Chair of the UKRI MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board and been part of senior Scientific Advisory Boards for Institutes in Canada, Belgium, Singapore and Austria over the last year.

He would like to take the opportunity to thank Professor Rob Whittaker for all his support over past decade at Teddy Hall.

There have been many invited talks in the UK and abroad, most enjoyable of which was acting as the Keynote Speaker at the Asian-Pacific Society of Neurochemistry meeting in Singapore in May and most beautiful of which was speaking at a Keystone Conference in Whistler, British Columbia the month before in April.

This summer he is enjoying an opportunity to host two bright second year Hall biomedical scientists and he is looking forward to supervising Sam Boulger (2020, Neuroscience), who just completed his degree at the Hall and has been awarded a prestigious Alzheimer’s Research UK Studentship to pursue a PhD in Matthews’ laboratory.

Callum Munday, Fellow

by Special Election in Geography has had a busy year of fieldwork. With a small team of researchers, he spent three months without mains electricity on the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo to capture the first detailed measurements of rainfall onset in the region. He returned from fieldwork to the good news that his research on East African aridity – and links with early human evolution – had been published in Nature.

The Revd Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali, Honorary Fellow, writes: “It has been a privilege to co-organise the third series of the All Souls Seminars on Muslim and Christian Thought in the Middle East and Beyond.

By the kindness of the Bursary, the next series is mooted to begin at Teddy Hall!

Please look out for further details.

A highlight of the last year has been teaching at the Pontifical University of St Thomas (aka The Angelicum) in Rome.

It is an honour to have been appointed a Professor of Theology there. So far, I have taught in the areas of Church and culture, the Christian contribution to notions of personhood in the West and I am due to teach ecumenical theology this coming autumn.

The academic publishers T&T Clark are just about to publish a book of mine on the English Church entitled The Mission and Ministry of the Church in England: History, Challenges and Prospects.”

Paul Skokowski, Fellow

by Special Election in Philosophy, has continued his research in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and philosophy of quantum mechanics.

He has been thinking about what certain kinds of possible beings – androids,

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zombies, or even human duplicates that spontaneously appear from a quantum fluctuation – would actually experience should they come to exist. Paul has also been working on how humans acquire robust beliefs about the nature of time, including notions of ‘now’, ‘past’, ‘future’ and the ‘flow’ of time, even when such notions are not utilised in modern physical theories like special relativity.

Another area of research has been the contents of sensory experience known as qualia. Accounting for qualia in the physical world is a daunting problem. To make progress in this issue, Paul looks for inspiration from the nature of physical instruments to help inform us of the origin of these contents.

Paul has given talks this year at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, the University of Oxford and the University of Texas at El Paso. Additionally, he has published two papers in journals and has begun working on a book in philosophy of mind.

Dimitrios Tsomocos, Professor of Financial Economics and Fellow

by Special Election, was the co-chair of ‘Rethinking Economic Theory’, an international workshop held jointly by the University of Piraeus and the Said Business School. He also gave presentations at several conferences this year, including the annual meeting of the International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA) in New Orleans.

He has also spoken at events organised by the National Banks of Albania and Slovakia, the Center for Latin American Monetary Studies and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México – both in Mexico City – and the University of Illinois

Articles published this year include: ‘Optimal Bank Regulation in the Presence of Credit and Run Risk’ with A. Kashyap and A. Vardoulakis in the Journal of Political Economy; ‘Bank Resolution Mechanisms Revisited: Towards a New Era of Restructuring’ with A. Hryckiewicz and Natalia Kryg in the Journal of Financial Stability; ‘Bank Credit, Inflation, and Default Risks over an Infinite Horizon’ with C.A.E. Goodhart and Xuan Wang also in the Journal of Financial Stability; and finally ‘Support for Small Businesses amid COVID-19’ again with Goodhart and Wang in Economica.

His research project ‘The Impact of Government Ownership on Markets, Indebtedness, and the Environment’ has been awarded financial support of 755,779 zł (Polish Zloty) from the Czech and Slovak Academy.

Robert Whittaker, VicePrincipal, Professor of Biogeography and Tutorial Fellow in Geography, reflects on a notable year: “This year marked the final year of my 33 years as Tutor in Geography at the Hall. Over this time, I have been privileged to work with fabulous colleagues, especially my Human Geography tutorial partners Ian Scargill, Maria Kaika and Lorraine Wild, and I would like to record my thanks especially to Lorraine and to Ken Amor and Callum Munday who completed the teaching team this year. As Vice-Principal until Easter and as Pro-Principal in Trinity term, I have greatly enjoyed working with all departments of the College, as well as the JCR and MCR Presidents and their teams.

A particular highlight in the year was the granting of planning permission for the Passivhaus building project at Norham Gardens.

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The highlight of my departmental teaching year was once again running the Tenerife field course for the Biodiversity, Conservation and Management MSc. We visited eight different protected areas during the week, meeting with colleagues involved in their conservation and management to hear about the challenges and successes of nature conservation in a highly diverse but densely populated island system. ‘Island Life’ also provided the theme of my presentation to the Floreat Aula Society shortly before Easter, at which the audience came up – as ever with students of the Hall – with an array of searching and perceptive questions.

My latest book, Island Biogeography: geo-environmental dynamics, ecology, evolution, human impact, and conservation (Whittaker, FernándezPalacios & Matthews) was published by OUP on 30 June, just in time for its launch at the fourth meeting of the Society for Island Biology, in the first week of July.

The meeting was held on Lipari Island in the Aeolian Archipelago, Italy and, rather wonderfully for someone obsessed with the study of volcanic islands, the conference included an evening excursion by boat to witness the eruptions from Stromboli Island.”

Oxford University Press has recently published Director of Music James Whitbourn’s latest composition Zahr AlKhayal (‘Flowers of Imagination’) for soprano and symphony orchestra. The work sets an Egyptian New Kingdom poem (c.1275 BCE) from papyrus British Museum EA 10060, chosen and translated by project collaborator Professor Richard Parkinson (The Queen’s College). The piece was written to coincide with the centenary

celebrations of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and it references the five musical instruments found in the King’s tomb: the two famous trumpets and three percussion instruments.

James Whitbourn lecturing on the Sistra Photo at the Ashmolean (credit: TORCH)

The project was supported by TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), who helped fund the construction of a pair of sistra (two of the percussion instruments) which replicate those found in the tomb, and which were reconstructed using British Egyptologist Howard Carter’s measurements.

The work, sung in Arabic and English, was written for the Egyptian soprano Fatma Said, who gave the premiere in Berlin in March 2023 to a capacity audience at the Konzerthaus. The performance was recorded for the ARTE television channel and for worldwide distribution.

OUP have also published, in July 2023, James’s Epiphany Carol Our Gold, written for Peterhouse, Cambridge, in the new Carols for Choirs 6 collection.

Watch the premier performance of Zahr Al-Khayal on the ARTE website: www.arte. tv/de/videos/113179-000-A/unterwegsnach-aegypten/

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Fellow by Special Election in Economics Dr Linda Yueh’s new book The Great Crashes covers 10 great crashes in the past century and the lessons that we can learn from history, starting with the 1929 Great Crash. Exploring everything from the currency crisis in Latin America in the 1980s to the Asian financial crisis and stagnation in Japan in the 1990s to the global financial crisis of 2008-9 and, finally, the global crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, this book’s historical approach shows what lessons there are to be learned, whether about handling “euphoria” in the markets, building more robust institutions, or about maintaining confidence when money can

increasingly move in and out of countries more quickly. The book draws out the lessons from these great crashes in hopes that when the next inevitable crisis occurs, it won’t result in a global meltdown.

The European Central Bank President and former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund commented that: “Linda Yueh’s analysis of what past financial crises have in common is an important contribution that can help society anticipate and tackle potential crashes in the future.”

The Great Crashes was described by The Times as “the perfect primer on the worst economic disasters of the past 100 years.”

It was selected as The Best New Books on Economics by the Financial Times and The Best New Books in May 2023 by i news.

Arrivals in the Senior Common Room Alexandre Kohlhas, Associate Professor of Economics, William R Miller Fellow and Tutorial Fellow in Economics, joined the Hall in October 2022. Alexandre received his doctorate from Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He went on to join the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University as an Assistant Professor in Economics before coming to Oxford.

Christina Laskaridis held a Visting Fellowship in Economics in Michaelmas term. She is a Lecturer in the department of Economics at The Open University.

Christina’s research interests are in sovereign debt, international

organisations, financial crises, and how these intersect with the growing climate emergency. She is leading a grant on environment-related financial risks and regulatory capital requirements funded

by INSPIRE (International Network for Sustainable Financial Policy Insights, Research and Exchange) and working on a project on Debt Sustainability.

Christina uses her expertise to advise on debt and development issues, such as the OHCHR’s Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, UNCTAD’s Debt and Development Finance Branch, and the Overseas Development Institute.

She has a PhD in Economics from SOAS, University of London, which was awarded the Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation prize. She was a resident research fellow at Duke University and has taught at UCL, King’s College London, Columbia University and Duke University.

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Ruth von Bernuth also held a Visting Fellowship at the Hall in Michaelmas.

Ruth researches the literature and culture of the late medieval/early modern period—or the 15th to 18th centuries—with a special emphasis on the 16th century. Further specialties include Yiddish and conversion literature.

Her first book, Wunder, Spott und Prophetie: Natürliche Narrheit in den Historien von Claus Narren (Niemeyer, 2009), focuses on natural folly, the precursor to the 19th-century constructs of mental illness and mental disability.

Drawing on references from religious, scientific and literary texts, she argues that natural fools were not yet a source of worry but of wonder. In her second book, How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition (New York University Press, 2016), she unpacks the connection between German and Yiddish literary traditions by complicating the assumption that folk tales were simply transferred from the German via Old Yiddish translation into modern Yiddish.

Dagmar Riedel was a Visiting Fellow for the duration of Michaelmas term 2022. Her research about the transmission of knowledge across Eurasia and Africa focuses on manuscripts and printed books in Arabic script as the material foundations of intellectual and cultural history.

Dagmar studied Islamic history and medieval Arabic and Persian literatures at the Universität Hamburg and Indiana University. Her dissertation on Persian and Arabic encyclopaedias received the 2005 dissertation prize of the Foundation of Iranian Studies. She has been a fellow at the Arabic manuscript project of the

Chester Beatty Library Dublin, and Burke Library scholar-in-residence at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and has taught at Indiana University and Universität Hamburg.

October 2022.

Dr Roman Kuhn, Newton International Fellow (British Academy) at the Voltaire Foundation was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in

He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Freie Universität Berlin. His thesis, published with De Gruyter in 2018, examines the interplay of paratextuality and fictionality in French, German and English literature, focussing on the 18th and 20th centuries, from intricate editorial fictions and claims that ‘this is a true story’ to disclaimers insisting that ‘any resemblance to real persons or event is purely coincidental’.

He has worked on Voltaire’s poetry and, in a broader context, the complex interrelations between classicism and the Enlightenment. Currently, he is pursuing a research project on 18th-century ‘poésie fugitive’, occasional poetry that ‘escaped’ from the author’s (or recipient’s) portfolio and was circulated to a broader audience in print or manuscript. This enormous and multiform corpus of poetry and its dissemination remains largely unstudied, and the project aims to carry out new (‘close’ as well as ‘distant’) readings of these texts. This will inform a reflection on the role they played in 18th-century sociability, in the self-fashioning of authors and the fashioning of communities by means of ‘fugitive’ poetry, and, last not least, in spreading Enlightenment ideas by ‘leaking’ poems to the public, and by making private poetry a matter of public interest and discussion.

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Zoe Farrell holds a Junior Research Fellowship in History. Zoe’s research focuses on the history of working people, material culture, and cross-cultural encounters. Her PhD thesis explored artisans and material culture in the city of Verona in the 16th century, focusing on domestic consumption, cultural production, and the exchange of goods throughout northern Italy and the rest of Europe. Her current research examines immigration and cultural networks in northern Italy and the transalpine area.

Déirdre Hollingsworth joined the Hall as a Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics in Michaelmas 2022.

Professor Hollingsworth is an infectious disease modeller specialising in providing analyses to support public health policy. She was a member of the UK government’s scientific advisory committee on modelling during the COVID-19 pandemic and works with the World Health Organization and other international bodies on neglected tropical diseases in low-income populations.

Prior to joining Teddy Hall, Zoe completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Since completing her PhD, Zoe has been a Rome Awardee at the British School at Rome and has worked as an Assistant Professor in Early Modern European History at the University of Cambridge.

In the last 10 years she has focussed on neglected tropical diseases, which cause morbidity and stigma in the poorest populations, perpetuating the cycle of poverty. She leads the Neglected Tropical Diseases Modelling Consortium, an international network of infectious disease modellers, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She has served on World Health Organisation (WHO) committees including a Guidelines Development group and the Expert Committee on Filariasis, where her role was to provide or interpret modelling results to address public health policy questions. She has also twice been invited to present to the International Task Force for Disease Eradication.

In October 2022, Tania Shew was elected to an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellowship in History. She is an intellectual historian interested in the transnational spread of ideas at the turn of the 20th century.

Her PhD examined sex strikes and birth strikes as tactics in the women’s suffrage movements of Britain and the United States.

Tania read for a BA in History at the University of Sussex and an MPhil in British and European History at Balliol College, Oxford. For her PhD she moved to the University of Manchester and spent a year as a visiting doctoral student at Harvard on a Fulbright Scholarship. Tania wrote-up her PhD as a Scouloudi Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and worked as a Lecturer in History at New College of the Humanities.

Déirdre was a member of SPI-M-O, part of the UK government’s science advisory structure for the COVID-19 pandemic.

She was awarded a SPI-M-O Award for Modelling and Data Support which recognises those people who made an exceptional contribution to the work of SPI-M-O outside of their usual work activity. She was invited to chair the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences’ responsive COVID-19 modelling programme, which hosted international

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discussions and scientific exchange between modellers researching the pandemic. She also served on the steering committee for the Royal Society’s Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) programme and co-authored their report on the reproduction number (R).

Kate Saunders has been elected to a Senior Research Fellowship in Medicine. Kate is Director of Medical Science in the Department of Psychiatry.

She oversees the Year 5/GE3 medical student psychiatry course as well as contributing to the teaching of psychiatry in Year 2, 4 and 6 and the Graduate Entry Medicine Course. Her role involves supporting the career development of junior clinical academics and widening access to academic opportunities in psychiatry.

She has research interests in student mental health, mood instability and the use of digital technology to enhance our understanding of psychiatric phenotypes, generate new treatment targets and promote self-management of psychiatric disorders. She is a practicing general adult psychiatrist with an accreditation in liaison psychiatry.

The focus of her current research work is digital phenotyping, sleep and circadian rhythm, and student mental health.

Digital phenotyping has the potential to provide significant insights into psychiatric disorder as well as enhance clinical care and self-management.

Alongside colleagues in the Department of Mathematics and the Alan Turing Institute she is developing mathematical tools to better quantify the data such approaches generate and crucially to ensure that it has clinical relevance.

Steve Smith is a Senior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall and a Researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He is also the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow and is involved with matters of equality, diversity and inclusion at the Hall.

Steve joined the Smith School from the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) where he co-led the Climate Science Team and played a role in the legislation of the UK’s net zero target. Before that he was Head of Science at the Committee on Climate Change. After studying Physics as an undergraduate at Lincoln College, Oxford, Steve gained a PhD in atmospheric physics from Imperial College, London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Alongside continuing to advise government, businesses and agencies, Steve communicates climate change to children and wider audiences. He has advised Usborne Books for their titles Climate Crisis for Beginners and Can We Really Help the Polar Bears? and was a contributor to the Ladybird Book on Climate Change.

Steve’s research interests lie at the intersection of climate science and policy.

He has published on a range of topics including metrics for comparing the emissions of different greenhouse gases, and the governance of carbon dioxide removal. He is co-developer of a major global stocktake of net zero pledges across countries, cities, regions and companies.

Currently he serves as Executive Director of two research programmes, both focussed on stabilising the climate rapidly and sustainably:

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The Oxford Net Zero Initiative brings together experts from across the University to address the critical issue of how to reach global net zero emissions.

It includes leading academics from disciplines including Anthropology, Biology, Earth Sciences, Geography, Law, Business and Governance. The initiative not only provides multi-disciplinary research but also tools and new resources for policymakers and businesses.

CO2RE is a multi-disciplinary research hub focused on removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. Backed by seven UK universities, CO2RE works with demonstration-scale removal projects around the country and conducts solutions-led research to encourage and evaluate a balanced portfolio of economically, socially and environmentally scalable techniques.

Severin Bunk joined the Mathematical Institute in November 2021 and became a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall in October 2022.

He studied Physics at the Leibniz University of Hanover (Germany) for his BSc and MSc degrees, with Mathematics as a minor in both. He completed his PhD in Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) in 2017 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg from 2017 until 2021. In 2021 he was awarded a Walter Benjamin Fellowship by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a postdoctoral stay at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford.

Severin’s research interests include higher structures in algebra, geometry and topology, as well as homotopy theory and functorial field theories. He is also interested in the interaction of these

areas with physics, such as in quantum field theory, string theory and topological phases of matter.

David McKeekin is a Junior Research Fellow in Physics and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford.

David was an Australian Center for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) Fellow at Monash University. He holds a DPhil in Physics from the University of Oxford, where he was awarded the David Ryan Prize, and received a MSc degree in Microengineering from the École Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPLF).

His research interest is on integrating perovskite materials into tandem and multi-junction perovskite architectures for photovoltaic applications. He also specializes in finding perovskite compositions and methods that will increase the operational lifetime of devices for commercial applications.

Peter Johnson came up to the Hall in 1965 from Bromley Grammar School to read PPE and went on to complete a BPhil in Economics in 1970. In Michaelmas term 2022 he was elected a St Edmund Fellow.

Peter has spent his career in industry.

After an initial spell at Unilever, he moved to Redland, and was ultimately responsible for its worldwide roofing and brick businesses. He subsequently became CEO of The Rugby Group and then George Wimpey. He has since chaired three international companies, DS Smith, Electrocomponents (now RS Group) and Vienna-headquartered Wienerberger AG, as well as holding a number of nonexecutive director roles. He is a past-

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President of the UK Construction Products Association and the European Tile and Brick Federation and was a member of the Council for Industry and Higher Education.

Peter has been involved with the Hall over many years. He became a member of the Principal’s Advisory Board in 1997 and chaired it for a number of years. He was a founding member of the Remuneration Committee and became its Chair in 2018.

He was happily married to Janet, whom he met when she was at LMH, for 40 years until her death in 2012. Their two sons, Simon and Tim, both read History at the Hall, whilst their daughter, Sarah, read History at St Hugh’s. He has subsequently married Diana and his family has grown by two step-daughters as well as 7 grandchildren! He played cricket for the Hall and still plays village cricket and tennis and enjoys sailing, music and opera.

In Hilary term 2023, Gina Koutsika was elected to a Fellowship by Special Election.

Gina is Director of Audiences and Content at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Trustee at the Jewish Museum London, Appointed Governor at Gateway Academy, Sunday School Lead at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom in London, Fellow of the Museums Association, Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Specialist Reviewer for the Patrick & Joan Leigh Fermor House Fellowships.

She was the Director of the Young V&A, leading the museum’s transformation to a prominent museum of design and creativity for the young, and Keeper of the national collection of childhood. At Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Gina led Exhibitions, Programmes and Commercial

Events and was in charge of the Marianne North and Shirley Sherwood Art Galleries.

At Imperial War Museums, she lead the War Centenary commemorations (2014-18), and was Head of Learning and Engagement across the five IWM branches.

Gina has held leadership positions in interpretation, exhibitions, programming and audience research and advocacy at Tate, the Science Museum, the Hellenic Children’s Museum and Christie’s. She has also served as an advisor or a governing board member for cultural organisations, including ICOM-CECA, British Council, Museums Association, Wellcome Trust, Visitor Studies Association, the Visitor Studies Group and the Museums and Heritage Show.

Her passion is leading cultural organisations to become more effective and resilient, and to cater for existing and new audiences better; developing and implementing inclusive strategies; forming trusting relationships; and balancing visionary thinking with operational delivery.

Valery Kuzev, an academic from Mariupol who has a PhD from the Institute of Philosophy at the National Academy of Sciences, held a Visiting Fellowship for the academic year 2022-23 as part of a scheme to aid Ukranian Scholars organised by the University, the British Academy and CARA (the Council for AtRisk Academics.

Also as part of the Hall’s commitment to host Ukranian academics, Dr Daryna Dvornichenko was elected to a Visiting Fellowship for the next two academic years. While at Teddy Hall, she will continue her research related to women in peace building.

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Daryna received her PhD in political science from National University ‘Odesa Law Academy’ and earned an MA and BA in international relations from Odesa I Mechnikov National University.

Additionally, she earned certificates at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the European Academy of Diplomacy (Warsaw), and the British Law Centre.

Before 24 February 2022, she worked as an associate professor at the National University Odesa Maritime Academy and as an adviser to the head of the Research Institute of Informatics and Law of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine. She has been a guest lecturer at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, the University of Zagreb, and Ukrainian Catholic University, and is the author of over 40 publications on issues of European integration and gender.

In 2021, Daryna was affiliated with the University of Wroclaw as a Kirkland Research Fellow, and in 2022 she completed a year as a Research Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States doing research on the role of women in politics in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova. She is also a founder of Agents of Change!—a nongovernmental organisation that promotes women’s participation in decision-making and non-formal education in Ukraine.

The Hall’s new Domestic Bursar is Mark BlandfordBaker. Mark has many years’ experience in the role having been Home Bursar of Magdalen from 2001 to 2021, where he is proud to be an Emeritus Fellow. Prior to that he worked in Cambridge for 18 years, firstly in St Catharine’s College and later in Jesus College.

In September 2021 he took up the post of Chief Executive of the Rothschild Foundation and subsequently returned to Oxford in a consulting and interim Bursar capacity.

Away from College, Mark is very involved in rowing and is an international umpire as well as training new domestic umpires, serving on regatta committees. He is a Chairman’s Assistant at Henley Royal Regatta. He has written several books on rowing including Upon the Elysian Stream: 150 Years of Magdalen College Boat Club.

Mark played rugby into his early 40s but now pulls on only hiking boots and can often be found in the Highlands and the Hebrides. In October 2022 he was sworn in as a member of the Court of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames. He is also a Trustee of Sport Allies.

SCR obituaries can be in found in Section 10.

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From the Bursary From the Principal’s first call to ask if I would come and provide some cover following Charlotte Sweeney’s departure last September, to now, I have been touched and impressed by the outward friendliness of the Hall. Thank you all for making me so welcome.

I took on the challenge of a new post at the start of a new academic year. Everyone says how friendly Teddy Hall is, and that was one of the first things that struck me.

We are a great community, fashioned by the personalities, the sense of purpose, even the nature of the site we occupy.

Getting to know the staff in my care has enabled me to understand much of how the non-academic side works together as a team, and their individual skills and responsibilities. Their openness and co-operation have made my settling in straightforward, and they have been quick to aid my learning.

The pandemic era is now well behind us but the lingering effects are still around. It is challenging to recruit in the current job market, and while deliveries have largely settled down, we are battling inflationary pressures and other aspects of life postEU membership.

Projects The NSE (Norham St Edmund) project to provide enough housing for all our undergraduates obtained planning permission and other necessary consents in January. We have been hard at work with the Project Management team, Architects, Consultants and Contractors to get to a point where the project can begin.

In July, enabling works started and by late September we hope the demolition of the old buildings will commence. The Victorian villa at no.17 remains, of course. The staff

have done a great job in preparing for the decant of the contents and much of that has gone to new homes or is in store for repurposing elsewhere on the College estate. All being well we will have 127 new rooms sometime in the autumn of 2026.

We have made further conversions of empty shops on the High to accommodate office-based staff, thus freeing up further rooms to student use. In late August 2022 the College purchased a nine-room house in Essex Street for use by graduate students. This, along with some rooms from the University under a nomination agreement, has enabled us to maintain our housing stock for fourth years and first year graduate students during the NSE works.

Events 2023 has been very much a return to normal levels of business. As I write in early August, we have been very busy with Summer Schools and Conferences, Weddings, and other events. B&B business at Tamesis and William Miller has bounced back – and the city is heaving with tourists and other visitors. The staff have been working hard since the end of Trinity term to service these activities which bring in vital revenue. A busy schedule of events

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organised by the Development and Alumni Relations Office is dovetailed in with these other demands throughout the summer, and at other times of the year. It is always a pleasure to welcome back our alumni for these occasions.

Planning is well under way for a Teddy Hall Ball early in Trinity term 2024 and I hope that during next term it will receive final approval and tickets can be put on sale.

Our People We have said farewell to a number of staff in the last year.

Sadly, Wine Clerk Andrea Cockburn lost a long battle with cancer and passed away in July 2023.

Soraj (Rosie) Sahota retired from the Hall after almost 34 years of service as a Scout at Queen’s Lane. Rosie’s contribution to the life of the College has been outstanding and we are extremely grateful for all she has done in caring for our students and guests. Rosie has enjoyed working here but feels that now is the right time to retire and spend more time with her family. She will take some wonderful memories with her, and we hope she will continue to keep in touch.

After 21 years at the Hall, Head Butler Sam Green headed for pastures new and an exciting opportunity at the Lilburn Tower Estate in Northumberland. Sam joined the Hall in September 2002 and has been a valued and well-respected member of the College community and a huge support to the running of the Senior Common Room and Hall. He will be greatly missed by all of us. Congratulations to Molly McCarthy who has been promoted to be the new Head Butler. Molly joined the College in June 2018 although her association began several years before as a member of the casual Hall/SCR team. She brings to the role a wealth of

hospitality experience and leadership skills as well as good humour and positivity.

We said thank you and farewell to Susan Kaspar and Jennie Cockram, Gardeners at Queen’s Lane and NSE respectively, in June. The College gardens are now being tended by Oxford Landscapes under the direction of the Garden Fellow, Professor Mark Williams. Of course, the gardens of 17 and 19 Norham Gardens are out of use during the development works and a scheme has been devised for the layout once the building works are complete.

Other long-serving members of staff who we said goodbye to this year include: • Penny Alden – College Office Assistant • John Claxton – Pastry Chef • Ian Coles – Lodge Receptionist/Porter • Anchan Drewett – Scout • Peter Hack – Lodge Receptionist/Porter • Milka Parojcic – Deputy Hall Butler The Porters’ Lodge has also undergone some change in recent months as some have moved roles in College or the University and others have retired. The new team is now led by Lodge Manager Martin Guildea, who joins us from Lincoln, and his Deputy Tom Stringer from even closer at Magdalen. They have been joined in the Lodge by Nick Cosford, Agnieszka Lesiewicz Saine and Danish Raza.

In the Kitchens, we were joined by new Executive Head Chef Sam White and Pastry Chef Donatella Inchingolo. Sam introduces himself later in the Magazine (p. 109).

It’s been another busy year for recruitment across the Hall and we are also delighted to welcome the following people: • Maxine Osborne-Jones – Principal’s Executive Assistant

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• Alice Findlay – Admissions Officer (maternity cover)

• Suzana Venkova – Scout

• Rebecca Smithson – Access & Outreach Coordinator

• Mike D’Intino – Catering Supervisor

• Kat Kottonen – Development Operations Officer

Finally, we have celebrated two weddings – Emily Bruce, Alumni Relations and Events Manager, married Ian and Maxine Osborne-Jones, Principal’s Executive Assistant, married Carl – and welcomed a new baby – Admissions Officer Scarlett Short’s daughter Isabel.

• Andrea Diss – College Events Officer • Jemima Hegerty-Ward – Campaign Development Officer • Dorota Maciejowska – Scout • David Long – Scout • Dulcia Da Costa Portela – Scout

• Craig Hughes – Deputy Head Butler • Chandra Silva Martins – Hall Assistant

Mark Blandford Baker, Domestic Bursar and Fellow

From the Finance Bursar The finances of the Hall have been more settled for the 2022-23 financial year following two years of quite considerable turmoil as a result of the Covid pandemic.

The timing of the Magazine’s publication means that the 2022-23 accounts are still three months away from being completed, however, I anticipate that they will show a small surplus on normal operations. Since Covid, the latest challenge has been the impact of inflation on the College. This has been significant across all areas of activity, but particularly in energy costs and on wage inflation.

Employment costs make up 50% of the expenditure of the College and as an accredited Living Wage Employer we are committed to ensuring that all our staff are properly rewarded for their work and are supported during the current cost of living crisis.

a full year of conference activity, and it is wonderful to see the delegates returning to the Hall and enjoying the facilities.

Conference income is fundamental to the finances of the College, bringing in vital resources to support the student and academic activities of the Hall.

The new 2022-23 academic year commenced with the return of the students to the Hall, including a full cohort of Visiting Students, and followed a successful conference season in summer 2022. This has been the first year since 2018-19 that the College has returned to

Each year the Hall makes an application to the University’s College Contributions Committee (CCC), which distributes income grants to the less wealthy colleges, financed by wealthier colleges.

This year, we made another successful bid, being awarded £254,000. Of this,

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£200,000 is to be used for maintenance projects, including upgrading the student bedroom doors in the Kelly and Emden Buildings, and introducing Salto access locks throughout the outside properties. £54,000 will be used to partially fund the costs of a new Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science over the next three years, with the position due to be appointed in Michaelmas 2024. The College matchfunds most of these awards from its general reserves. This award brings our total income from CCC over the past 10 years to £2.6m.

The Hall’s endowment funds were valued at £72m at 31 July 2022. The final valuation of the endowment funds at 31 July 2023 are not yet finalised, but this has been a difficult and volatile year and initial indications suggest a final valuation of around £69m after taking into account the transfer to income of £2.4m under the Hall’s agreed 3.5% spend rule. The 202223 accounts will be published towards the end of the calendar year, when a more detailed analysis will be shown.

The Investment Sub-Committee has, again, been particularly active and I am grateful to the members of the committee, especially the external members, for their support. Rathbone Greenbank continue to manage 40% of the Hall’s investment portfolio, with the balance being held within the Oxford Endowment Fund (OEF).

The Hall’s investment policy can be found on the College website, with the key aim to manage and invest the entire portfolio in holdings that meet strict environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria.

Notwithstanding the volatility in the financial markets, the invested loan

facility remains above the initial £20m investment with the funds now being used to support the Norham Garden student accommodation project costs.

The College launched its £50m HALLmarks Campaign in Hilary term 2022, which is focused on raising funds to meet the aims prioritised within the College’s 10-year strategy. This includes the aim to fully endow our Tutorial Fellowships, increase our endowment for student support and to raise funds for the new 127-room student accommodation at Norham Gardens built to Passivhaus standards. Fundraising for the Norham Project has been a focal point this year as we move towards signing the main contract in September 2023, and we are grateful to those alumni who have been so supportive. Housing all our undergraduate students remains a priority, and the College was delighted when the project at 17 Norham Gardens received planning permission in January 2023.

Funding for this project will be from a combination of College funds, including the private placement, and donor support.

Support from our alumni in the form of gifts and legacies are extremely important to the success of this project.

Finally, my thanks go to Stephanie Hanks, our College Accountant, who continues to improve the financial processes and procedures within the Finance Department and across the College. We welcomed a new Governance Officer at the start of the year, Laura Butler, who is providing muchneeded support to the key officers within the College.

Eleanor Burnett, Finance Bursar and Fellow

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From the Library

Exhibitions in the Old Library The Library year got off to an exciting start with the mounting of our largest ever exhibition in the Old Library.

Following several years of discussion with Honorary Fellow Kevin Crossley-Holland (1959, English), the Library mounted a retrospective exhibition of his work with items from his personal archive, and also from the Aularian Collection and the Old Library collection. The Old Library welcomed around 1500 visitors to see the exhibition across Michaelmas term.

The exhibition was based on and inspired by ‘Poem, Story & Scape in the Work of Kevin Crossley-Holland’ which ran at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds from 29 March-20 August 2022. Sarah Prescott, Literary Archivist in Special Collections at the University of Leeds generously arranged for the transport of items from Kevin Crossley-Holland’s personal collection from Leeds to Oxford and also provided material from their exhibition. You can read more about ‘Poem, Story & Scape

in the Work of Kevin Crossley-Holland’ on pp. 77-78.

Several other exhibitions and public openings followed throughout the year including a Coronation themed ‘Kings & Other Aularian Things’ over the early May Bank Holiday weekends and an exhibition of books on the theme of marriage curated

by Emma Carter, our Assistant Librarian, to mark her upcoming wedding. Alongside the planned exhibition programme, we have also organised ad hoc displays for events including the visit of the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, the Nigel Palmer memorial study day and the 120th anniversary of the Rhodes scholarship.

Opening the Old Library to the widest possible audience and displaying and celebrating the treasures of the collection is one of our key goals. Do keep an eye on the College website and social media for exhibitions and openings across the upcoming academic year.

We are also trying to make sure all our students have a chance to see the Old Library: Library inductions for Freshers

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now start there, we encourage students to use items from the collection in dissertations and we open the Old Library as an extra revision space in Trinity term.

New technology in the New Library A new Library self-issue and security system was installed in January. The RFID system is a much more modern technology than the obsolescent system it replaced. It provides several new features (for example details on which books have activated the security gates) and is simpler and more efficient for students to use.

The new system was funded in part by a successful bid for funding from the College Contribution Fund and we thank the Finance Bursar Eleanor Burnett for her efforts in securing the grant.

Surveying Library Users For the first time in around 10 years, and possibly ever, we surveyed student opinions of the Library. It is standard practice within Oxford University Libraries (both College and Bodleian) to conduct a survey every 2-3 years to monitor progress and satisfaction levels, so this was well overdue.

We received 176 responses equally divided between the JCR and MCR. Most of the responses were extremely positive, although they also highlighted some issues. Some of which we knew about – the problems of being housed in an 800-year-old building both in terms of heat and efficiency of the plumbing(!)

– others were more surprising – our new LED-based lighting was judged both too bright and too dim.

The most pleasing results were that 97% of respondents agreed that the ‘the Library is a welcoming and inclusive space’ and 100% that the Library staff are responsive

and approachable. We received 84 optional comments praising the Library team which is a testament to their amazingly hard work and commitment. If you will allow the indulgence, this is just a brief sample: “I love you guys! You honestly make life so much easier and the library a very warm and welcoming space. Even small things like Edmund Bear or decorating the Library for Christmas gives it such a cozy, homey feeling that I really prefer it to any other library there is (even if they are warmer!)!

So thank you :)” “You are a fabulous team, who is always happy to help. You love to share your space with others, which is much appreciated.

BIG THANK YOU!” “They are FANTASTIC. Absolutely love their willingness to help, enthusiasm for the Teddy Hall community, and love of books.”

Donations to the Library As ever, we are hugely grateful to everyone who has donated their own works as well as other books to the Hall Libraries. This year, we have received more than 1,100 books from Aularians, Fellows, current students and other benefactors.

We received two large donations this year from Fellows. Emeritus Fellow Nicholas Davidson has offered the Library and the History Faculty Library a further 500 books, mostly Art History and exhibition catalogues. Wes Williams, Professor of French Literature and Tutor in Modern Languages presented over 100 novels and other works of classic literature. We have also received large donations from Eric Caines (2005, History), from the estate of Alan McNamee (1962, English) and from John A.H. Cole (1991, Modern Languages).

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and his wife Luxue Yu have generously continued their multi-year donation for the purchase of books on Chinese and East Asian history, politics and literature.

The Library has also received welcome gifts to the working collection from Malcom Trevor (1953, Modern Languages), Bob Clarke (1963, History), Mark Booker (1971, History and French), Geoff Mortimer (1993, History and German), Molly Ross (2015, Modern Languages) and Robert Whittaker (VicePrincipal) amongst many others.

Retirement of the Library Fellow Professor Karma Nabulsi who has served as Library Fellow since 2015 stepped down at the end of the academic year.

Karma has been a tremendous and determined champion of the Library. She has worked tirelessly to raise the profile of both the Old and New Libraries in College and oversaw the completion of the Old Library cataloguing project and its refurbishment in 2018-19.

The Librarian would like to record his immense gratitude for all of her generous support, encouragement and wise advice since he joined the Hall in 2018.

The new Library Fellow is Professor Andrew Kahn, Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages. We very much look forward to working with him in the years ahead!

James Howarth, Librarian and Fellow by Special Election

Donations 2022-23 Over the year the Library was the beneficiary of many gifts for the Aularian Collection, which are listed below: ALLEN, Patricia in Memory of ALLEN, Geoffrey (1945, Geography) [Donor] Allen, Geoffrey Complete Piano Sonatas Divine Art Records, 2023 BEESLEY, Ian (1960, PPE) The Official History of the Cabinet Secretaries Routledge, 2017 BLANDFORD-BAKER, Mark (Domestic Bursar) Upon the Elysian Stream: 150 Years of the Magdalen College Boat Club, Oxford Magdalen College, 2008 BORRIE, Stuart (1989, Jurisprudence) Rutherford’s Privately printed, 2016 BOURNE-TAYLOR, Geoffrey (Former Domestic Bursar) [Donor]

Mordaunt-Crook, Joe and Daniel, James Oxford Freemasons: A Social History of the Apollo University Lodge Bodleian Library, 2018 BRIGGS, Adrian (Emeritus Fellow) Private International Law in English Courts Second Edition OUP, 2023 CHARTERS, Steve (1979, History) [Contributor] Allhof, Fritz (ed.)

Wine & Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking Blackwell, 2008 COOPER-POOLE, John (1956, History) [Donor] Storer, James History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Cities of Great Britain [4 vols.]

Rivington’s, 1814

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DRIVER, Paul (1972, Language and Literature) Four Elegies New Victoria Press, 2009

McCUTCHEON, Robert (1974, BPhil English) Suffer the Children Wipf and Stock, 2021

A Verlaine Dozen New Victoria Press, 2013

McGUIN, Nicholas (1968, English) Mcguin, Nicholas et al. (eds.)

International Perspectives on Drama and Citizenship Education: Acting Globally Routledge, 2022

A Musical Gathering: Fifty Poems and an Envoi Leadwort Arts, 2023 FOX, Jeremy (1964, French) En Busca del Padre: Alfons Roig Izquierdo Bubok Publishing, 2023 GAIGER, Jason (Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory, Fellow by Special Election) Philosophy of Painting Bloomsbury, 2022 GORDON, Keith (1988, Mathematics) Schedule 36 Notices: HMRC Information Requests Claritax, 2022 KNIGHT, John (Emeritus Fellow) Knight, John and Haiyuan, Wan ‘China’s growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013-2018: A challenge to ‘common propserity’?’ in China Economic Review Vol 79 Elsevier, 2023 ‘The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and intergenerational distribution of housing wealth in China’ in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies Routledge, 2023 LÄHNEMANN, Henrike (Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, Professorial Fellow) Held, Christopher, Lähnemann, Henrike and Lloyd, Alexandra (eds.)

Yoko Tawada in Dialogue Taylorian Institute, 2023

MESHOULAM, Yair (1982, Fine Art) Meshoulam, Yair et al.

The Signs of Our Time Tambar, 2023 METTERS, G. Alan (1964, History) Metters, G. Alan and Taylor, Barry (eds.)

The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey: Volume VII 1614-1622 Norfolk Records Society, Vol LXXXVII, 2023 MOORE, Anthony (1968, Animal Physiology MA) [Contributor] Sadda, SriniVas R. et al. (eds.)

Ryan’s Retina Elsevier, 2022 Black, Graeme et al. (eds.)

Clinical Opthalmic Genetics and Genomics Academic Press, 2022 Lyons, Christopher and Lambert, Scott (eds.)

Taylor and Hoyt’s Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Elsevier, 2022 OGURA, Michiko (Former Research Fellow) [Donor and Honoree] Toswell, M.J. and Ishisguro, T. (eds.)

Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura Peter Lang, 2022 PATTINSON, James (1999, Geography) [Re]Start Strategy Shop, 2023

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RIDLER, Colin, son of RIDLER, Vivian (Emeritus Fellow) [Donor] Ridler, Vivian Heaven’s Gate: The Diary of an Extra Perpetua Press, 2023 ROSE, John (1974, CHE) Rose, John and Francis, Martin Purpose and Meaning: What Matters Most Privately Printed, 2022 SCOTT-PRESLAND, Peter (1968, English) A Gay Century Volume Two: 1973-2001 Conrad Press, 2022 SHIPTON, Alyn (1972, English) On Jazz: A Personal Journey CUP, 2022 The Gerry Mulligan 1950s Quartets OUP, 2023 THICK, Malcom (1970, DPhil History) A Discourse of Sallets Malcom Thick, 2022 William Ellis: Eighteenth-Century Farmer, Journalist & Entrepreneur Hertfordshire Press, 2022 THOMPSON, David Days of Dark and Light: Recent Poems Hobnob Press, 2021 Where the Love is Hobnob Press, 2023 TROTMAN, John (1972, English) Cuttings: Prose and Poems Moat Sole Publishing, 2022

TYTLER, Graeme (1954, Modern Languages) ‘An Appraisal of Catherine and Heathcliff’s Love Relationship’ in Bronte Studies Vol 47/3 Routledge, 2022 ‘Weeping and Wailing in Wuthering Heights’ in Bronte Studies Vol 47/3 Routledge, 2022 WEBSTER, Charles In Times of Strife Taylor Institution, 2023 There were also many gifts of texts for the working collection from Fellows, alumni, student members and others. This year particular mention must be made of the donations received from: Bob Clarke (1954, Physics), Paul Farrelly (1981, PPE), Rose Latham (1998, Geography) and Maarten and Jessica Taal (2022, English and Modern Languages).

Gifts were also received from: Henrike Lähnemann, David Cruz Walma (2019, DPhil Biomedical Sciences), Kristiana Dahl and the Librarian amongst many others.

Thanks to everyone who has remembered the Library. We are grateful for the continued support we receive in this way.

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From the Chapel 4 on 20 November. The Choir performed with Instruments of Time and Truth, and the Chaplain preached on ‘the perfect gift of charity’. Dozens of heartfelt letters, e-mails, and personal notes poured in through the winter, congratulating us and thanking us for the quality of the music and the timeliness of the message, when so many are struggling.

We were lucky to enjoy fewer disruptions this year, and several good trends continued. Chapel services were often packed in Trinity 2022, but average attendance grew again this year by a fifth, despite a few quiet Sundays. People could be seen standing in the Antechapel during larger services. As mentioned last year, St Edmund Hall hasn’t had a Chapel programme this active for about 40 years. We will once again be buying more hymnals.

A few days before, on St Edmund Day itself, the Chaplain gave a well-attended exhibition of the Chapel’s collection of vestments, silver, and other treasures.

Meanwhile, at Choral Evensong that night, we enjoyed receiving and dedicating the St Edmund cope, designed by Watts & Co. of London, with input from the Chaplain and through the generous support of a donor.

The dedication of the cope led to several requests for the Chaplain to bless various objects for students and staff, extending even to the boats for Summer Eights.

You can read more about Chapel treasures on pp. 153-157.

The Chaplain gratefully attributes all these things to God, instructed by St Paul’s example: “I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase” (1 Cor. 3.6, KJV).

More mundanely, an immediate cause of this change has been various changes to services, and the investment in the Choir of St Edmund Hall, in terms of money, time, and staffing – the Paul and Apollos in our modern era.

James Whitbourn, our Director of Music, has done transformative work, and our Chaplain has also spent significant time with the Choir as a singer and a pastoral support. The results have been clear in College and outside.

The most public fruit of this work was the morning service broadcast on BBC Radio

The ‘tradition’ of Ghost Stories was renewed this year on 15 December, with about two dozen guests enjoying spooky fun in the candlelit Crypt. Emma Carter, Assistant Librarian, read several eerie poems, while graduate student Benedikt Koch (2022, MSc Statistical Science) treated us to a ghost story written by

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ChatGPT and the Chaplain read Robertson Davies’s ‘Refuge for Insulted Saints’. It was colder than expected, and we retired afterwards to the MCR to warm up – only to discover that a fault in MCR wiring or the College urns meant that the mulled wine and cider, so ardently desired, had reduced to only three cups. Happily, the MCR has been refurbished, raising hopes for more potent potables in the future.

Through Hilary and Trinity terms, the Chaplain was covering a colleague’s maternity leave as Interim Precentor at Christ Church, managing much of the dayto-day planning and delivery of services there. The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church are grateful to St Edmund Hall for this part-time secondment, especially during a time of difficult transition at their Foundation. The Chaplain still maintained a full programme of events at Teddy, as well as writing and teaching. Indeed, last minute cancellations by preachers in Trinity meant he gave a whole series of addresses on ‘Easter through Art’.

But he wants to register special thanks to Sam Cherry (2020, PPL), outgoing Chapel Clerk, particularly in leading some weekday services of Evening Prayer when the Chaplain had to be at the cathedral.

And several members of the Choir lent greater aid to the practical arrangements around rehearsals and services in Trinity when our Director of Music was out of College due to illness.

The ‘usual’ routines were maintained, but with a slight uptick in christenings for the children of alumni. We continued the pattern of daily prayer in Chapel and kept the building open each day. Chapel collections also raised several hundred pounds for the Oxford Winter Night Shelter and the Ukraine and Pakistan appeals of the Disasters Emergency Committee.

We noted last year that we received

the Quinquennial Report from surveyor Mark Hammond in October 2021, which emphasised a host of needed repairs to the interior and exterior of the Chapel.

Amid general financial difficulties, the vast majority of these remain unaddressed, including the roof. This is clearly not sustainable. But we did make some small improvements: replacing the outsized, aging Communion table with a smaller, 17th-century table in dark oak (and in much better condition). We also removed the carpet on the east end and began the process of cleaning the stones there. This confirmed the existence of several hidden memorial stones for past Principals, as well as the memorial for the only woman buried in the Chapel: Ann Dixon (d. 1802), wife of Principal George Dixon (d. 1787).

My thanks to the Domestic Bursar, Mark Blandford-Baker, and to Deputy Estates Manager, Alex Grant, for their support and work on this project. The Director of Music has noted an improved acoustic with more exposed stone.

This summer sees us returning again to Pontigny, the resting place of St Edmund, where the Choir will stay at the Mission de France, while preparing repertoire for 2023-24 and for a concert at the remarkable Abbey Church. After the busy schedule of the past year, the hospitality and quiet of that place will be all the more welcome. Our thanks as always are due to Les Amis de Pontigny, to the Mission de France, including Fr Guillaume, to Paddy Carpenter and Justin Stead (1971, Botany), and to all our generous donors and supporters.

The Revd Dr Zachary Guiliano, Chaplain and Career Development Research Fellow in Early Medieval History Professor Jeff Tseng, Chapel Fellow

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From the Director of Music located in Wolfson Hall. We appointed four instrumental exhibitioners for the calendar year 2023: a trumpeter, guitarist and two pianists. These musicians perform as soloists and within ensembles and also foster opportunities for other students.

Music is a vital element within the stream of College life, be it informal, student-led music or the formal, taught programme offered to members of the College through our choral and organ activities.

Many students regard continuance of music as an essential part of their time in College, even if they are not part of formal collegiate music making. Open mic night at the bar is always a favourite, for example, and a way for students to share their talents in the most supportive forum.

The music room in the Besse building is very well used by students and is regarded as a valuable facility. It is in need of an upgrade, however, to make it a more suitable and inspiring space and to address issues of sound proofing and sound spill so as to reduce the limitations on usable hours. This will be a project for the period ahead.

The series of dinnertime mini-recitals has continued with excellent results. Fellows and student diners (usually numbering about 160) listen very attentively between main course and pudding at selected Formal Halls to a single work performed by students or, sometimes, Fellows. It also brings an opportunity to hear our beautiful Steinway B piano which is

The College Choir remains at the heart of the formal, taught music in Hall. The choral programme follows a designed pedagogy that allows students to receive a high-quality education in this field whilst also taking part in an activity that is enjoyable and represents complementary learning and stimulus to their subjectbased academic work.

The Choir was honoured to be invited to sing a live broadcast from the Chapel on BBC Radio 4 on the Sunday morning closest to St Edmund’s Feast Day. This was the first time the College had broadcast live with the BBC from the Chapel and therefore the first time a live audience could be measured in millions. It was an extraordinary occasion and the Choir achieved a magnificent standard of musicianship. Public response was wide and hugely appreciative, much also being addressed to the Chaplain, Dr Zachary Guiliano, who led the service – and preached within it – superbly. We were joined on this occasion by the professional instrumental ensemble Instruments

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of Time and Truth, bringing further enhancement to the beauty of our Chapel.

The Choir was treated to breakfast in the SCR Lunch Room after the broadcast: a lovely way to unwind from the intense concentration that a live BBC broadcast requires.

From our 30 Choir members, only one has come from outside the College. This concentration of in-College participation is unusual among Oxford choirs and adds an important element to the character of the ensemble. We enjoy about seven and a half contact hours per week for study and performance. One welcome development of the Choir this academic year has been the increased membership from within the graduate community, which has enriched the ensemble in every way.

The Choir year began the year with a much-anticipated return to Pontigny, France. This included a concert to a packed audience (which included the Principal and her husband Andrew Gant) and which was of a very high standard.

It provided excellent preparation for a busy Michaelmas term and served to strengthen the College’s relationship with the Abbey in which St Edmund was buried and where he is now given pride of place in a beautiful casket above the High Altar.

Special events in Michaelmas also included a professionally-filmed Christmas video of a newly-arranged version (by the Director of Music) of ‘Shchedryk’ with violin and guitar, thus featuring also some of our excellent instrumentalists. This was distributed to the College community at Christmas and much appreciated. Carols in the Quad saw more from the Choir and some of our instrumentalists – flute, guitar and brass ensemble.

Hilary term was a period for repertory development (having worked very intensively on set repertoire the previous

term) and the Choir studied a range of new works. This included one setting of the evening canticles for choir, organ and viola, allowing us to highlight our excellent graduate student violist Sophia Abusamra (2022, DPhil Computer Science). The Choir also sang for the College’s Holocaust Remembrance event in the Wolfson Hall, performing Mark Miller’s ‘I believe’.

Trinity term offered unexpected opportunities with a number of guest conductors coming in to cover a period of absence because of ill health. This rota of guest conductors included such choral music luminaries as Bob Chilcott and Helen Smee, the latter taking on the greater bulk of the term’s duties with great skill. It brought new experiences and choral insights. The Choir sang beautifully at Justin Gosling’s memorial service at the University Church and the family of the former Principal expressed their gratitude.

The Organ Scholars have continued to be outstanding and are now given regular tuition by Alexander Pott. The choral scholarship and exhibition scheme is a source of enormously positive energy, with our award holders covered by two excellent voice studios, one run by Jeremy Kenyon and the other by Julie Cooper.

Student development is made manifest not only through growth in the qualities of individual singing voices but also in confidence, vocal health and empathy.

The musical community in College is immensely grateful to a number of alumni and supporters who make possible opportunities which bring so much to College life and provide an invaluable gift to students.

Read more about the song ‘Shchedryk’ on pp. 158-161.

Dr James Whitbourn, Director of Music and Fellow by Special Election

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From the Student Recruitment and Progression Manager

It has been a very busy but rewarding year of outreach in the Admissions Office where we have delivered 120 outreach events to students across 70 schools, more than ever before. We saw a welcome return to University Open Days and the College’s annual Outreach Roadshow. The former saw over 1,000 students visit the College over three days and the latter saw us visit eight schools with three Student Ambassadors in tow.

We engaged with almost 700 students over the course of the Roadshow week, working primarily in the further reaches of our link regions, where our Ambassadors were able to paint a first-hand picture of Oxford student life.

We have also seen a change of staff, with our Access & Outreach Coordinator, Eve McMullen leaving last summer to take up a role at Hestia, a charity supporting victims of modern slavery. Eve had a huge impact on the College’s outreach provision during her time with us and was instrumental in the development of our new flagship outreach programme, Unlock Oxford. We wish her all the best in her new career. Our new Access & Outreach Coordinator, Rebecca Smithson, joined us last October having just finished her degree in French and Linguistics at Merton College. Rebecca has brought insight and vision that has already seen significant improvements to the quality and scope of our outreach work.

Undoubtedly the most successful project of the year was the delivery of three ambitious residentials hosted at the Hall in March. Working with teachers at inner-city schools in Leicester and Derby, we established a Year 10 and Year 12 cohort for our new Unlock Oxford urban programme by targeting disadvantaged students with strong academic profiles. Inviting students onto the programme based on their academic and socioeconomic background proved hugely

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valuable as it allowed us to reach students unlikely to self-select, or those who may not even have been on their school’s radar as a potential Oxbridge applicant.

The residential visits afforded these students a unique insight into studying at Oxford through academic taster sessions, application masterclasses, tutor panels, and perhaps most importantly, sustained interaction with student ambassadors.

These ambassadors were able to provide personal accounts of their journeys to Oxford, showing the residential attendees that Oxford students were ‘normal’, came from similar backgrounds and performed similarly when at school.

One participant summarised the impact of the programme in an email sent to us – unprompted – after the residential: “I didn’t consider applying to Oxford in any real capacity until the trip and I can’t overstate how much the encouragement from the student ambassadors helped me in considering higher ranked universities instead of mentally capping myself. It also dispelled a lot of misconceptions about Oxford that I had, like: everyone is posh, there’s not much financial support and that Oxford just isn’t for people like me.

Even if I don’t end up getting into Oxford, I’m so much more likely to apply now and the positive impacts the trip made on my outlook has been palpable.”

All in all, the residentials were a huge success and we look forward to developing the programme further in the coming years.

This year we ran the second annual Big Think Competition, with 14 of our tutors devising bold questions such as ‘are CEOs overpaid?’ and ‘is privacy dead?’ to be answered by school students in the form of a five-minute video. We saw the

number of students participating increase by almost two-thirds and were delighted to invite 10 along to a Prize-winners’ ceremony in June. With tutors having given up their time to develop thought-provoking questions and students having worked hard to present insightful answers in novel and engaging ways, it was extremely satisfying to facilitate a means for the two to meet and discuss their respective work.

Our sustained-contact programme, Oxford NextGen, delivered alongside Magdalen and Lincoln Colleges as part of Oxford for East Midlands is soon to enter its fourth year. The first cohort, now in Year 12, embarked on a university-style research project this year, which we designed to foster their research and presentation skills. Students within this cohort looking to apply to Oxford in October will be invited to an application masterclass in September. Taking place before the Open Day, students will attend workshops on each aspect of the application process and will then stay overnight to make the most of the Open Day the following day.

This residential serves as a culmination of almost four years of sustained contact with the students, and we hope that many students from the eight target schools will apply to and receive offers from the University.

The coming academic year looks to be busier than ever, with more schools planned to join our targeted programmes and the list of other schools and colleges we aim to work with growing ever longer.

As we approach the admissions exercise, I am hopeful that we will see our hard work translate into an increase in applications from our link regions – only time will tell!

Luke Maw, Student Recruitment and Progression Manager

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From the Tutor for Visiting Students the conditions in which they can thrive.

While the demands of the course can be daunting, our Visiting Students appreciate the opportunity to study in Oxford, and to contribute to the academic life of the College and the University.

In October 2022, I took over from Dr Outi Arnio as the Tutor for Visiting Students.

I would like to begin by thanking Outi for providing such detailed handover notes and advice, and for ensuring my first year went as smoothly as possible. I am also very grateful to the many colleagues who have helped along the way, especially Professor Amy Zavatsky, Professor Jonathan Yates, and Professor Robert Wilkins.

We had 39 Visiting Students at the Hall this year, studying a wide range of subjects alongside our matriculated undergraduate cohort. I have been very impressed with the way our Visiting Students have adapted to the tutorial system and to the idiosyncrasies of the collegiate University. Of course, the students could not do this without the support of their tutors and they benefit at St Edmund Hall from academics who are not only experts in their field, but who care about students’ wellbeing and help to create

Almost all our Visiting Students this year found time alongside their studies to pursue extra-curricular activities, including sports, debating, and clubs and societies.

They have also enjoyed attending Formal Hall, social events organised by the Junior Common Room, and events designed exclusively for their cohort. We had afternoon tea together in Michaelmas and in Trinity terms, as well as a farewell party.

The Visiting Students also benefitted from the advice and support of our two Visiting Student Junior Advisers, Kenta Sayama and James Altunkaya. Their role has included hosting welcome events and informal coffee drop-in sessions, answering queries, and giving advice on a range of topics. They have done a fantastic job and I look forward to working with them again next year.

Finally, the Visiting Student programme could not function without the sterling work of colleagues in the College Office, and in particular Scarlett Short, Alice Findlay and Melanie Brickell.

I look forward to the arrival of our new cohort of Visiting Students in October 2023.

Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Tutor for Visiting Students and Fellow by Special Election

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From the President of the MCR The MCR is a community, but it is also a physical space that serves as the heart around which our interactions are centred. Unlike many other Oxford colleges, where the Middle Common Room is somewhat ‘hidden’ in the basement of modern buildings or in back quads, at Teddy Hall the MCR is proudly housed on the ground floor of our magnificent Front Quad. It is the breathing space of the MCR community, the site of all our festivities and it is what solidifies our renowned ‘Hall Spirit’.

Despite being incredibly loved by all of us, our MCR space needed a bit of freshening up. It looked like a living room straight out of the 1970s, with an unforgettable red carpet and matching wall panels that gave it a cosy… but quite dark atmosphere.

Legendary MCR Treasurer Andrew Gibson (2019, DPhil Materials) spent some time going through the MCR accounts and found that we had some excess funds that had not been used over the years. After a few years of hesitation, we decided to make use of this money to renovate the MCR for it to reflect the splendour of our community.

We found it particularly important to get this renovation finished before the start of the Norham Gardens building work and the closure of our second Common Room there, as we predicted that Queen’s Lane would become the centre of all MCR activities for the coming year. This has proven to be true, as can be seen in the fantastic events that the 2023-24 MCR Committee have already been conducting throughout Freshers’ week!

We were blessed this past year that our incredible Vice-President Natalie Shteiman (2021, MPhil Global and Area Studies) also happened to be a

professional interior designer. Natalie put her heart and soul into the refurbishment of this room. Through a brilliant vision, immense dedication and extraordinary perseverance Natalie has provided future generations of MCR students for years (decades?) to come with a fabulous space that they can proudly call home. Her work would not have been possible without the incredible estates team at Teddy Hall.

Stephen Lloyd, Estates Manager and Alex Grant, Deputy Estates Manager deserve to become life-long members of the MCR for their commitment to this refurbishment, and I want to express how grateful we all are for all their hard work and support in this endeavour. Read more about the refurbishment in The Year Gone By on pp. 95-96.

The refurbishment of the MCR space also echoed the relaunch of the MCR community after two difficult years of Covid. This year saw a return to building a strong and unified student body in College with attendance at events returning to prepandemic levels thanks to the immense dedication of the entire MCR Committee.

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the College. Throughout the year we have launched weekly activities with the JCR, including salsa and yoga classes, which gave the opportunity for undergraduate and postgraduate students to get to know each other. The MCR has also strengthened its relationship with the College staff who have been indispensable to the functioning of our community; we shared some wonderful moments all together at High Table at our annual Christmas and Trinity dinners. Finally, with the renewal of the Pontigny Scholarship, given to a dedicated member of the MCR who will take a leading role in fostering academic exchange between the MCR and SCR, we have re-invigorated ways

of creating links with the Teddy Hall Fellowship.

The next few years will be different for the MCR due to the closure of Norham St Edmund during the building works. Our graduate community will be scattered across Oxford in University graduate accommodation. However, the hard work the MCR Committee has put in over the last year in solidifying our community, in strengthening our relationship with the College on all levels, and in delivering a wonderfully cosy and welcoming Common Room space, will set the basis for an incredible postgraduate student body at Teddy Hall for years to come.

Antonin Charret (2020, DPhil Education)

From the President of the JCR with a victory in Gymnastics Cuppers in Michaelmas term, with a huge cohort of talented Freshers giving the Hall a hattrick of wins in the cup. League games and Cuppers qualifiers were hugely well attended across a wide range of sports clubs representing the College.

This year has been a whirlwind of activity for the JCR. As ever the Hall has been at the forefront of ambition and opportunity across the University. The year started off with a blast as a new cohort of Freshers were made welcome thanks to the thorough planning of the previous Committee. And the Freshers themselves were ready to get involved with the Hall. Our tradition of being a Cuppersdominating-College was reinforced early

As the nights drew longer and the temperature began to drop, the Hall looked to the celebration of Oxmas. The Wolfson was filled with once again with all years of the JCR and merry mouths were singing classic songs including the Hall’s very own ‘Wonder w(h)all’. The old Committee said their goodbyes and a new Committee was ushered in. On behalf of the JCR, I have to give massive thanks to Brittany Perera (2020, Engineering Science) for her hard work in making the JCR the most fun and friendly place in Oxford.

The tight bond between JCR members is personified through the work of our past

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and present Social Secretaries. Sophie Richardson (2020, Geography) and Emily Falconer (2020, Earth Sciences) set up the charity ceilidh, which is now a highlight of the termly social calendar. The tables are cleared, and chairs stacked so that the Wolfson can be filled with dancing, running and swinging. Along with plenty of clumsy bumping and tripping. Despite the cold nights, the intense exercise certainly put the Hall’s cardiovascular fitness to the test. Good training for future sporting events. Our current Social Secs Michael Atife (2021, Medicine) and Maria Nozdrina (2021, Medicine) have done an excellent job in keeping this going, with the collaboration of resident ceilidh expert Claire Mallon (2020, Jurisprudence). All in all, the ceilidhs this year have helped to raise over £1,000 for charities.

Hilary term also provided new opportunities to showcase the Hall’s Spirit.

As with Gymnastics Cuppers, Swimming Cuppers has a legacy of members of Teddy making up the majority of competitors.

Despite attempts from OUSC to prevent a win by changing the rules, Teddy Hall A managed to secure the trophy again, with much support, mostly vocally, from Teddy Hall B. To continue with the water sports, Torpids saw the Hall win blades for W2. At Summer VIIIs, W1 bumped to an amazing second on the river, making Teddy overall the third highest boat club in both M1 and

W1. This coupled with a charity BBQ by the river finished the Boat Club’s year on a very bright note.

We also enjoyed the establishment of both an EDI (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion) Formal Hall and a Formal for International Women’s Day. These dinners were thoroughly enjoyed by the JCR, MCR and SCR and will continue annually. Many events have lapsed in the previous few years, due to Covid and its aftermath, so it’s great to see a return to celebrations of the diversity of the Hall.

They say there is always a silver lining to every cloud, and after a dark, wet and grim Hilary term the sun and good fortunes for Teddy came out shining in Trinity. A Rugby Cuppers victory meant that we have secured a win in 50% of all Rugby Cuppers campaigns ever. The University was reminded again of the characteristic Hall Spirit when the supporters from the St John’s/St Anne’s combined team could

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barely be heard above the cheers of the Hall!

The Hall prides itself in partaking in everything sporting, even the more niche sports. This year we managed to get a team together for octopush (underwater hockey), ice hockey and multiple teams for croquet and chess. This is just the beginning of a long list of teams created by JCR members and entered into Cuppers events. I encourage anyone who has an interest in a sport to create a team and get more JCR members involved.

As the sun got hotter and we were able to go outside without a thick jacket, events focused on gaining that much needed vitamin D after many hours in the Library.

The churchyard became the focus of the weekly JCRT, which for many years now has been a hugely popular Friday event, allowing people a break from endless studying with, most importantly, free food!

The pinnacle of summer events is the now annual Teddy Hall Sports Day. Organised by our Sports Reps Daniel Cryer (2022, Engineering Science) and Alex Burson (2022, Geography). This involved classics such as the wheelbarrow race and a sack race where the aim was more to survive being knocked over by your opponents than actually reach the finish line. I’m proud to say that fellow Cumbrian James Morgan (2022, Physics) and I did our home county proud by winning the threelegged race.

Hall Spirit has never been more alive and visible than in the BOGOF, organised this year through our Charities Officer Sophia Suganuma (2022, PPE). The BOGOF is an inter-college charities donation competition: a Charity Cuppers you could call it. We have come second in previous years, but this year we aimed for the top and become the college with the highest donation of non-perishable goods. We started off slowly but began

to build momentum, quickly reaching the top of the leaderboard one week in, but behind us in second place our rivals Keble were on the chase. The whole JCR got involved and even some of the staff, including Night Porter and now honorary JCR member Mohammad Ali. We were close to breaking away, but a keen-eyed Teddy student saw our doom in Tesco: a shopping trolley full of canned food being pushed by Keble students. We resolved to use any remaining funds in our charity budget to donate to this good cause.

Unfortunately, due to the donation being direct, it couldn’t be counted as part of the tally. So, whilst in the end we didn’t achieve victory, in our hearts we won.

We’re always aiming to develop relations with both the MCR and College staff, recognising the great work that individuals such as Head Butler Sam Green have done for us over many years. After all, the food at Teddy is what fuels the hungry bear of the JCR! The JCR would like to recognize and thank all those who have worked hard to make the Hall what it is today. Special thanks also from the JCR to Pro-Principal Rob Whittaker, who helped support the JCR in Trinity term during the Principal’s absence.

The JCR looks forward to welcoming the new Freshers next year, and we hope they will find themselves welcomed and encouraged to integrate into the Hall.

We also say goodbye to our Finalists, who have all done much to instil the values of the Hall into us. We have a few exciting projects over the summer that will hopefully materialise for next year. We have also reviewed the constitution and finances of the JCR; to make sure we have the financial solvency to support as much of the collective JCR as possible and allow all our students to be represented. Bleed Maroon and Gold.

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From Student Clubs and Societies Professor Luc Nguyen, Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics writes as Senior Treasurer of the Amalgamated Clubs: In 2022-23, the activities of most clubs and societies returned to their normal prepandemic course. In fact, we were on the rise. We won Cuppers in Rugby, Octopush, Swimming, Gymnastics and Badminton. We also saw the foundation of a number of new clubs and societies, notably TART (Teddy Art) and the Jewellery Making society. Together with these exciting developments, I’m also pleased to welcome the arrival of the new Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs, Domestic Bursar Mark Blandford-Baker. I’m confident that 2023-24 will be another thriving year under his tenure. Floreat Aula!

Sports Clubs Men’s Association Football

1st XI Captain: Caspar Soyoye Vice-Captain: Jon Munro The 1st XI SEHAFC 2022-23 season was one of success in the league and heartbreak in our Cuppers campaign.

We started the season with a large influx of new talent with the likes of Freshers Lenny Bailleux (2022, Geography), Daniel Wade (2022, Physics), Tom Champion (2022, Earth Sciences) and Alex Burson (2022, Geography); Visiting Student

Luke Hartigan; and Angus Williams (2022, MPhil Development Studies) from the MCR. The season started off with a resounding 10-0 win against St John’s College and the league campaign continued along the same lines for the entire season with many goals scored mainly by the all-new talent. The rocksolid defence and midfield of the 1st XI which only conceded three goals in its league campaign was mostly made up of second and third years: Captain Caspar

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Soyoye (2021, Earth Sciences), ViceCaptain Jon Munro (2021, Medicine), Sam Boulger (2020, Neuroscience), Joe Lacey (2021, Earth Sciences), Lenny Bailleux and SEHAFC veteran Alex Swallow (2016, Engineering) who we will miss sorely miss as he transfers to Cambridge University to continue his doctorate there.

Every member of SEHAFC contributed to the 1st XI, with 2nd XI, 3rd XI and social members aiding the team when called upon. A special mention goes out to the creative comedian behind the SEHAFC Instagram account: Social Secretary Atticus Evans-Lombe (2021, Modern Languages) who produced very impressive goal scoring returns towards the end of the season and provided all who follow the SEHAFC Instagram endless entertainment. We ended the season by securing promotion into League 1 after an enthralling encounter against with Brasenose College which ended up being a 3-2 victory. We look forward to having tougher competition come next year in a division with a higher calibre of football.

The Cuppers campaign started off with a bye due to our success in last year’s competition which we had lost in the semi-finals on penalties. Our first match in the round of 16 was a resounding 11-1 victory against Pembroke College. The game had an unexpected start with a freak goal scored in the first minute from near the halfway line. Our next match

was away against last year’s winners and tournament favourites Jesus College. The match was well fought and finely balanced until the 85th minute where a rogue free kick rolled into the net to give Jesus College a 1-0 lead and subsequent win. It was a heart-breaking loss which gives the Club motivation and a strong yearning for a better season where we will once again seek the ever-elusive cuppers trophy and bring it back to the Hall.

A special mention must be given to Aularian Ivan Gazidis (1983, Jurisprudence) who gave a very generous donation to the Club which was put to great use in kit and equipment.

I loved being part of the running of this great club: on the pitch as Captain of the 1st XI, aiding the 2nd XI and 3rd XI when I could and off the pitch during our many social festivities. Thank you to Vice-Captain Jon Munro, Social Secretary Atticus Evans-Lombe, 2nd XI Captain Josh Priest (2020, PPE) and 3rd XI Captain Tom Coates (2020, Economics and Management) for working as an excellent team.

We, as a Club, look forward to having Tom Champion and Lenny Bailleux as co-Captains for our next campaign and wish the pair of them all the luck we can muster.

(H)all the love, Caspar Soyoye (2021, Earth Sciences)

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Women’s Association Football

Badminton Captains: John Duale & Tehillah Campbell 2023 was another very successful year for SEH Badders. In Michaelmas the season began strong as we entered men’s, women’s and mixed teams for the league competition.

It was a pleasure seeing both old and new players join us in this year’s competition.

Captains: Lalou Laredo & Eve Gueterbock After an amazing season last year and making it to the semi-finals of Cuppers, the Teddy Hall team was back and better than ever with its new first year recruits.

Whilst we did not make it that far into Cuppers this year after a 6-2 loss against St Catherine’s College, we definitely gave them a run for their money with the two amazing goals scored by Assia Storey (2022, Geography).

It was very disappointing to see that many of the league games were not taken seriously by other colleges, leading to a lot of last-minute cancellations and walk-overs. Never from our end though.

Teddy Hall Women’s team were always ready and eager to play the matches at the weekend and displayed amazing Hall Spirit throughout.

With plenty of socials and training alongside the matches we played, it was really good fun to have another year of Women’s football at the Hall. Getting involved and having great relationships across years is something at the heart of Teddy culture. We are excited to see what addition the new Captains, Assia Storey and Mara Wuelfing (2022, Biomedical Sciences), make to the team and hope to have another great year of football at the Hall. Maybe next year we will progress even further into Cuppers… who knows!

Lalou Laredo (2021, Geography) & Eve Gueterbock (2021, Fine Art)

Despite some sessions being at inconvenient hours, enthusiastic Hall members turned out to games, often taking wins by attendance alone. The women’s team achieved second place in their division despite a small number of games.

We made the most out of every situation, so when games were cancelled they became our impromptu practice sessions.

Turnout was also great at casual sessions that were organised in Trinity term, leaving exciting prospects for the club’s development next year.

In Hilary the Cuppers competition began.

The Hall has a long history of success in this competition and we were looking to continue down this road. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough players to enter a women’s or mixed team. However we were able to enter the competition as a joint men’s team with St Peters, with a squad consisting of myself (John), Aaron, Lucien and Tim (with Rash substituting into one game). Lucien and Tim went on an incredible three-game unbeaten streak to take us to the final, where we faced a very strong Keble side. In the end, inspiring singles performances from Lucien and Tim were enough to claim the title this year and bring silverware back to both our Colleges.

The Club will return next year as defending champions in Cuppers, we will look to organise casual and competitive badminton for all members of the Hall and continue this year’s success.

John Duale (2020, Mathematics) & Tehillah Campbell (2020, Materials Science)

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Croquet

In case it isn’t already clear, croquet isn’t particularly competitive as the main aim is and always will be to have fun with mates so don’t be put off if you have no experience! We’re excited to see what next year holds – and hoping to restore former glory in the next season!

Michael Atife (2022, Medicine) Netball Captain: Beth Scott

Captain: Michael Atife As seen on Bridgerton, the beautiful game of croquet brings life to lawns and quads across Oxford every Trinity term! For those who don’t know, croquet is a bit different from the other sports featured in this Magazine in that there isn’t a centralised Teddy team!

The Cuppers system is organised by the University’s association club with individuals entering their own teams of four, so you’ll always be playing with your mates. The best part is that games are organised weekly in a knock-out tournament by the captains of each team so you can always pick a time and place that suits you. What makes this year so special is that we recently purchased a croquet set to be owned by the College, giving Teddy students the unique opportunity to play behind the Library whenever they need a productive outlet for built up energy and tension after a long study session.

Though Teddy haven’t taken the trophy home since 2011, with the ability to train we hope to see great success for Teddy in the coming seasons!

This year has been really successful for the Netball Team! During Michaelmas term we placed second in our league and this success only grew in Hilary term when we came top of the league! Our team grew stronger with every game, and this was all thanks to the hard work and consistent participation from everyone in the team.

Not only this, but it was great to see spectators coming to watch the matches every week, which really motivated the team.

In Trinity, we took part in the Cuppers Tournament which was an amazing day for everyone involved. The way we played was reflective of how hard we had all worked all year and I was super proud of the team. We were in a tough group with some amazing teams from other colleges and we made it to the quarter finals which was not only an achievement in and of itself,

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but an impressive improvement on how we did at Cuppers last year.

Throughout Michaelmas, Hilary and until the Cuppers Tournament in Trinity we also had regular training sessions at Magdalen College School which were always fun, and the court space was incredibly useful for practising drills and set plays. We always had an excellent turn out at these sessions and it was great to see people from all years participating. The team really developed and improved from these sessions, and it was amazing to see what we practised come together in our games.

We will definitely miss all the Finalists leaving this year who have been such an integral part of the team, both playing wise and in making it such an amazing group of people to be a part of. An amazing player and person, Kate Hartigan (2022, Experimental Psychology), will be taking over as Captain next year and I’m sure she will do a fabulous job in continuing our success this year and leading the team from strength to strength.

Beth Scott (2020, Jurisprudence) Octopush

Octopush (Underwater Hockey) Cuppers competition. The team consisted of me (Felix Clayton McClure), Jack Gillespie (2022, Geography), Jack Miranda (Visiting Student from the Ohio State University) and Cyril Schröder (2021, DPhil Computational Discovery), alongside two keen and competent out-of-College substitutes to whom the team is eternally grateful.

Playing a series of intense matches over the course of the afternoon, the I-composite team took victory over a succession of other colleges, including Nationals-level octopush players and even the Sailing Club. We walked home with a rather large trophy which is now on display in the Buttery Bar alongside the Hall’s other intercollegiate sporting accolades.

What makes this victory particularly impressive is the fact that, except for myself, none of our team had ever played the sport before. This goes to show how accessible octopush is to newcomers, given some swimming ability and a whole lot of determination.

I would therefore like to take this opportunity to invite any potentially interested parties to the Oxford University Underwater Hockey Club, which holds training sessions at the Rosenblatt Pool twice a week (usually Wednesday and Saturday nights but times TBC for future academic years). All equipment is provided, and the Nationals/BUCS team mingles with newcomers to spread their expertise.

Captain: Felix Clayton McClure

Also, since I’ll be on my year abroad in 2023-24, it might be down to you, dear reader, to captain the next SEHUWHC!

In third week of Trinity term 2023, the Teddy Hall team took victory at the 2023

Felix Clayton McClure (2021, German and Linguistics)

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Pool and other Cue Sports

Captain: Daniel Costello As always, the College pool table remains an integral part of College life. At some point every student has opened the elevator door to get to a shot, unscrewed their cue to get around the post or went down to the JCR door to retrieve a lost cue ball. The Teddy Hall Pool Club has been reformed this year with the aim of taking the unusual skills that Teddy’s pool players have and apply them to intercollege sport.

The team’s year began with the intercollege Pool League, which saw us come second in our group, which included Lincoln, Jesus and Brasenose. The team had a great away presence with nearly twice as many people as needed attending our matches with Lincoln, where Will Murphy (2022, History) found it impossible to lose, winning all of his frames. There was also success in the University snooker competition, after nearly six hours of play Kuo Liu (2021, Experimental Psychology), Club Treasurer and University Snooker Captain, achieved second place and third place went to Daniel Costello (2021, History and Politics). To cap off Michaelmas, the team also got its first University cap of the season with Daniel being declared the

most valuable player of the BUCS 9Ball team, winning four out of five matches.

With Hilary came the two important competitions for the Club, the start of Cuppers and the College shield. Using the help of the College’s Sports Fund, the Club was able to purchase new equipment such as cues for members of the College to use. It also purchased a shield on which the names of the winners of the College competition would be engraved. This year’s competition saw a great turnout where 36 players battled it out week after week until only two were left: Hector Skipworth (2020, Earth Sciences) and Will Murphy. Will however was unable to find his winning streak from the Pool League and Hector Skipworth became this year’s College champion.

Following their success in the snooker competition, Kuo and Daniel went on to represent the University at Snooker BUCS (gaining two more caps) where the team of five reached the semi-final, losing in a black ball shootout to Derby (the winners of the last two BUCS events). Kuo was declared the most valuable player for this event, following brilliant performances in both the individual and team events.

Members of the Club were represented in seven different cue sport Cuppers competitions, which were to be decided in Trinity. The Club’s Cuppers campaign started off Alex Sarshar (2020, Economics and Management) beating Daniel to progress in the pool singles event, with Alex eventually reaching the round of 16.

In pool doubles Kuo and Daniel sought to improve upon last year’s achievement of reaching the semi-finals but were knocked out in the deciding frame against eventual runners-up St Hugh’s in the quarters.

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the line for the Club in the team event. A home fixture saw us go unsuccessfully to a deciding frame against St Catherine’s who eventually went on to win the Cuppers.

In Snooker Cuppers Kuo emulated his earlier success and on his way to the final recorded the highest breaks of the competition, but narrowly lost in a difficult deciding frame.

This year Billiard Cuppers (where matches are timed) ran for the first time, a bowtie and waistcoat event where Visiting Student Cameron Frary and Daniel represented the College in the round-robin event with Daniel coming third despite losing two matches in the last 10 seconds of the match.

Ending the year for the Club, four more caps were earned, including one at a 10 ball event where Daniel and the team reached third place and three more as Cameron, Kuo and Daniel took on a tough Varsity campaign in Cambridge.

The combined caps made the College the most represented at the inter-university level, something we hope to emulate next year while also hoping to win a few more deciding frames.

Daniel Costello (2021, History and Politics) Power Lifting Captains: Brodie Weymouth & Oliver Ogden

(2019, Earth Sciences) offered himself up despite avoiding all training for nearly a year. Likewise, Co-Captain Ollie Ogden (2019, Engineering Science) did not fear the upcoming fourth year engineering exams and joined the squad. Other keen lifters of all years signed up and we had a strong initial starting squad, boasting the highest turnout from any college for the second year in a row.

We were a near-confirmed victory in Women’s Novice Cuppers and were lined up to compete tightly for a Novice Men’s win. But alas! Tragedy did strike!

Dislocated shoulders, other Cuppers events poaching our star players and exam stress left only the grizzled loyalists on the day. But a great effort was put in nonetheless, with the team coming fourth in the open category, battling it out with teams of Blues lifters.

A special mention must be made to Joe Lacey (2021, Earth Sciences) for still participating on the bench despite a leg strapped up following a knee injury. Ollie Ogden (2019, Engineering) smashed his expected lifts, putting in 10kg over his expected top squat for 165kg, and yet still barely let out a sweat. This was the trend for most of the team. Claims of cobwebs and rust were merely a façade for some of smoothest lifting I have seen at any powerlifting meet.

A heavy weight was placed upon the shoulders of the powerlifters this year (both physically and metaphorically). A long shadow was cast by the victory last year in the Novice Cuppers competition.

However, there were those who did not fear stepping up to the task of having a shot at consecutive Cuppers wins.

Perhaps our biggest competition this year was not the other colleges but an unfortunate combination of untimely injuries, exams, and other Cuppers. The Hall Spirit is strong but can only be spread so thin. As I take the team forward next year as sole Captain, I thank the dedicated lifters who competed no matter what, truly showing the taking part attitude that embodies the Hall.

Previous Captain Freddie Wright-Morris

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Rounders Captain: Brodie Weymouth If there ever was a sport that encapsulated the spirit of Teddy Hall it would be rounders. Perhaps naysayers might argue that rugby or rowing is what lies at the heart of this Oxford College, but the team I captained this year would argue differently. Rounders is a sport in which team chemistry determines the success of a squad, where camaraderie matters more than anything else. Individual glory gets relegated for the good of the team, sometimes even your own players may be run out for a daring half rounder by the batter.

Rounders is the sport of Trinity term.

Once the weather dries up and the sun comes out, Uni parks is packed full of colleges training for the big Cuppers tournament. We tested our mettle early on in term against Lincoln for a little friendly.

We took an early lead thanks to some excellent batting from Sama Malik (2021, Engineering Science), followed by some even more excellent first base backstop chemistry between myself and Ioan Whomsley (2021, Engineering Science).

As the afternoon turned to evening, we lost some players which put us at a numeric disadvantage to Lincoln. The second half proved challenging, but some good runs were made nonetheless. By the time we were fielding for Lincoln’s final bat of the game we struggled to fill the field and defend against the heavy slogs, resulting in a loss by just one rounder.

With reflexes honed and a fresh understanding of the rules of the game we were ready for Cuppers. There were doubts that it would go ahead this year, a lack of a central rounders club meant no-one to organise the big day. Instead, the captains had to put aside their differences and collectively pull together a tournament.

So now the stage was set. Wednesday

Week 8. University Parks. Two qualifiers. A semi-final. A final. Would the Hall take the much-coveted Rounders Cuppers trophy?

We played Somerville in our first qualifier match, one steeped in Rounders Cuppers history. After heated game last year in the semi-finals, both sides had something to prove. But our Freshers, having just finished their Prelims, and unburdened by past history, brought a different mood to our first game. This, alas, did not bring the points rolling in for the Hall at first, but then the game changed, and the second half brought some of the finest fielding seen that day, with a dynamic trio of Daniel Wade (2022, Physics) on bowling, Tom Champion (2022, Earth Sciences) at first base, and Daniel Cryer (2022, Engineering Sciences) as backstop. The competition was tougher than expected, but at the end of our batting we managed to equalise to 17-17 thanks to the raw athletic pace of much of our team, making it to second base before the ball even hit the grass.

Now all warmed up, poor Wadham faced a team ready to have at it and only managed half a rounder in their whole batting time.

Credit where it is due, the sportsmanship of Wadham was certainly better than Somerville. Despite our confidence of victory, we struggled to push past their fielding line and the single rounder needed for a win was hard fought – partly because the bats for this game seemed to fly further than the balls. With a victory and a draw, we hoped to make it into the semis, but it wasn’t to be. Another crushing defeat in Rounders Cuppers, but the early finish meant we made it back to Teddy in time for tea.

I wish Daniel Cryer luck as Captain next year, hopefully bringing home the Cuppers trophy to sit where it should in the bar, and succeeding where I couldn’t.

Brodie Weymouth (2021, Geography)

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Rowing

President: Thomas Harray Men’s Captain: Toby Whitehead Women’s Captain: Erika Dutton It has been a fantastic year for the Boat Club. The Boat Club is a friendly and welcoming place where anyone in the College community can learn to row or cox, and Teddy Hall will go into the new academic year as one of the highest ranked college clubs.

Michaelmas In Michaelmas we welcomed many new members into the club, both undergrads and postgrads. Those new to the sport joined our novice programme with the aim of racing in the Novice Regatta in 7th week. We entered two men’s and one women’s boat, who put in some impressive performances throughout the week. Our returning senior rowers continued to train hard, with the M1 and W1 training in Abingdon during the term as our top boat do each year. Early in the

term we also welcomed our Cambridge sister College, Fitzwilliam College, to our boat house for a BBQ and afternoon of fun racing.

Later in the term we ran our fundraising Erg-a-thon to raise money to install a weights area in the boathouse. The ergs were continuously moving for 12 hours as we rowed 224km, raising £2250.

Michaelmas culminated in our end of term dinner at the Tap Social, with over 60 members of the club coming to celebrate the Club’s achievements over the course of the term.

Christmas Over the Christmas holiday our M1 and W1 flew to Sabaudia, Italy for a warm weather training camp. The group put in some valuable miles on the picturesque lake, and also made sure to enjoy the beach and town. It was a fantastic week and we expect this trip to continue in the coming years!

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Hilary Hilary saw the novice and senior squads join together as the Club prepared for Torpids at the end of the term. The Club entered three men’s crews and two women’s crews into the racing. During the term we also held two new welfare workshops, one on nutrition and one on mental health in sport.

Torpids W2 were our best performing crew, going +5 and securing blades! The W1 continued their drive up the rankings, going +2 for the week. On the men’s side the M2 had a great week too, going +3 and only narrowly missing out on blades. The M1 had a more difficult week with some fast crews behind and went -5, but this gave the crew the motivation and experience they needed to turn things around in the summer. The M3 put in some fantastic performances which weren’t necessarily reflected in their -8 for the week, after a crash on Saturday resulted in a large drop for that day. After the final day of racing we returned to the Tap Social for our Torpids dinner and celebrated the successes of the week!

Easter Over Easter, both the W1 and M1 headed to the Tideway in London to race in WeHORR (Women’s Eights Head of the River Race) and HoRR (Head of the River Race) – two of the largest rowing races in the world. The W1 put in a fantastic performance which was definitely a sign of things to come in the summer. The M1 also had a strong race to kickstart their Summer Eights training. For those back in Oxford, a camp was held in the week before the start of Trinity. We also installed our new weights facilities over the holidays, which added another dimension to our training going into Trinity term.

Trinity Trinity is always a fantastic term for everyone in college rowing, with improved weather and later sunsets allowing for more water sessions. Trinity training is all about Summer Eights and, buoyed by some excellent Torpids results and the return of our Blues rowers and coxes, we were excited about our prospects for the racing. We entered the same selection of boats as at Torpids, and it was a special week for the Club.

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Summer Eights Summer Eights is always a rollercoaster of a week, and this year was no different.

Wednesday was a tense day of racing, with four of our five boats rowing over.

The Club had a tough start to Thursday, with the W2 and M3 being bumped in some high-quality racing in the morning.

After these two races, our Chaplain, Zachary Guiliano, performed a boat blessing ceremony at the boat house. We thank both him and Sam Cherry (2020, Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics) for organising the event, and for bringing two parts of the College community together.

This proved a turning point for our Club campaign, with the M2, W1 and M1 all going on to bump that afternoon, and the Club was only bumped once for the rest of the week after the ceremony.

W1’s bump on Thursday was the start of a quite incredible run for them, which proved to be the main story of the week for SEHBC. They went on to bump Wadham on Friday, and then produced one of the most dramatic races in recent memory on Saturday to bump University right in front of a packed boathouse, resulting in

celebrations that will be hard to forget.

The W1 now sit second on the river behind Christ Church and, with many returning rowers next year, they will be making a push for headship next year. You’d be brave to bet against them. The W2 went -1 for the week but raced well and showed great spirit, particularly in holding off a Mansfield crew who had easily bumped every other day.

M1 produced some impressive performances during the week, bumping Wadham on Thursday before holding off, and then rowing away from, a Magdalen boat with Blue Boat rowers on the final day. After a difficult Torpids, to go up the ranking in division one in Summer Eights was a fantastic achievement. The M2 started as one of the highest ranked second boats in the competition, so staying level for the week surrounded by other high quality second boats and several first boats represented a great week of racing for the crew. The M3 went -1 for the week, but with many of the rowers returning next year, watch this space!

During the afternoon on Saturday, we also held our annual charity BBQ in aid of Bone Cancer Research, with the Club remembering Matt Greenwood (2013, Engineering Science) who sadly passed away from bone cancer in 2016. We ended the week with a wonderful dinner in the Wolfson Hall – the first Torpids or Summer Eights dinner we have held in College for several years.

SEHBC goes into the new year riding high.

It has been a privilege to be President of such an amazing organisation, and I’d like to thank the committee for all their hard work over the year. I’m excited to see where the Club goes next.

Thomas Harray (2020, Physics)

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Men’s Rugby

Captain: Teddy Thompson SEHRFC’s 2022-23 season came to a climax on 7 May when the Cuppers trophy once again returned to the Buttery. Our Cuppers campaign got off to a strong start in the second round with a 22-minute game against Jesus. Which, as per competition rules, was called off when the score reached 50-0. This secured the Club entry into the quarter-final, which was even shorter due to Corpus/Somerville being unable to field a team.

The semi-final, however, proved to be much more of a challenge. New College, last year’s winners, came out strong with an early try. Yet at the end of the match, we emerged victorious with a 21-7 win.

After this we had one week to prepare for the final against a combined John’s/Anne’s side. After a week of training, Facebook groups and banner creation, the team, supported by what felt like the entire Hall, emerged from the tunnel at Iffley Road for a 6pm kick off. It was hot and the game was hard fought. After scoring the first try we lost our momentum and entered half time 17-5 down. Yet things turned around quickly in the second half and the team scored four tries, matched only by a single penalty from the Saints side. This allowed us to enter the final minutes leading of

31-20. However, we couldn’t stop Saints from scoring from a gorgeous cross field kick. Thankfully time was up and the final score 31-25.

Although the Club is usually measured against its Cuppers success, there have been many other factors contributing to the success of this season. Firstly, we have had a great take up in numbers at training and have managed to get many members of the Hall onto the pitch this season. The result of this has been, while less successful, very enjoyable engagements in both friendly and league matches as well as in 7s Cuppers and Mixed Touch Rugby Cuppers. It is also important to point out the success of the social side of the Club this year. Rugby drinks have been a massive hit alongside crew dates and other events. The highlights of the social calendar being rugby drinks post-Cuppers final as well as our short tour to Gdansk, Poland.

On behalf of the Club, I would like to thank all those who have contributed to this season, with special thanks going to all supporters. We also look forward to welcoming next year’s Committee lead by Captain Alex Burson (2022, Geography).

Teddy Thomson (2021, Economics and Management)

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Swimming

Captains: Maurício Alencar & Poppy Buckley One of the best things about being at Teddy Hall is the student body’s enthusiasm for winning every Cuppers there is to compete in. We had already won Gymnastics Cuppers earlier in the year. Old boys and girls returning to the Hall frequently reminisce about their days competing in Athletics Cuppers, Darts Cuppers, Hockey Cuppers, and so much more. The Hall has won over 30 Rugby Cuppers, we regularly bump boats in Torpids and Summer Eights, and (for all we know) Teddy Hall has won the last 400 Swimming Cuppers.

Looking back at the Hall’s latest triumph in Swimming Cuppers, Captains Maurício and Poppy talk about the trials and tribulations leading up to the gala, as well as the highlights from the day: Maurício: Poppy and I were selected to represent the Hall at the famous Rosenblatt Swimming Pool on Iffley

Road after being part of St Edmund Hall’s victorious 2022 Swimming Cuppers team. Our predecessors, Adam Hawkins (2018, Chemistry) and Lauren (2018, Earth Sciences), rebuilt the Hall’s aquatics heritage after the pandemic had threatened to destroy it. Their success was founded on mass participation. The only rule was that you had to know how to swim, of course.

Over the course of a year, Poppy and I tirelessly strategised as we sought to create an enormous team of keen swimmers. An Instagram was created for the club; although the password to the account was lost a few weeks later, our enthusiasm could not be questioned. The infamous Teddy Hall budgie smugglers and swimming costumes were sold over the Christmas vac, and vigorous training, including daily practice on how long you can hold your breath, began in January.

Poppy: Both Maurício and I were thrilled that the new Fresher intake contained

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lots of talented and keen sportsmen and women to strengthen our team. But then, a month before the gala, a blow… OUSC, the competition organisers, contacted us to let us know that the points system would change. The new order valued individual ability over team effort. Bizarre. The title would now be given to the relay team who could swim the most lengths in 30 minutes.

Poppy: The relay soon began, and colours of maroon and gold were once again sweeping through the Rosenblatt Swimming Pool. At 25 minutes the race became exhilarating as the A team were neck and neck with a team that swam in the earlier heat but their sheer effort and determination meant they then came out on top, swimming 112 lengths in total.

Another challenge then dawned upon us when we realised that the event clashed with the new International Women’s Day Formal. After some failed persuasion of which event would be more fulfilling to attend, sadly the majority of our female swimmers could no longer compete.

However, we did not let this stop us and instead we became more determined to retain our title so we reached out to MCR water experts to add waterpower to our team.

Isaac Tjandra (2022, Visiting Student), Jack Gillespie (2022, Geography), Tobias Lloyd (2022, Chemistry), Luke Nijkamp (2022, Engineering Science), Alex Sarshar (2020, PPE) and Kit Gallagher (2021, Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Science), who swam for the Hall’s A team, had beaten all other colleges. Our other relay team did not come last and swam the most lengths with no goggles out of any team, much to the committee’s amusement. OUSC had done everything they could to stop Teddy Hall winning again, but, thanks to a collective achievement, we won yet another Cuppers title.

Maurício: On a sunset evening in Hilary term, 18 students from the Hall jumped in the pool for warm-up. No other college had brought as many competitors as us.

One team mixed five colleges together to make a team of six; all of their members were part of Oxford University Swimming Club.

We divided ourselves into two separate teams. One team consisted of overcompetitive, eager swimmers who promised to bring the shield back to the bar’s trophy cabinet, and the other team brought the rest of those who sought to defend the College’s ethos of sporting participation and teamwork. Poppy and I joined the non-advanced swimmer team, knowing it was the only noble thing to do… but we also made this decision to spare the embarrassment of slowing the relay team down.

Maurício and Poppy: As the winners of the competition, our team got to decide which charity to donate all of the entry fee money to and chose ‘The BSA’ - an organisation that aims to improve diversity in aquatics.

I’m now absolutely convinced that St Edmund Hall Aquatics Club would win a few events at the well-regarded Olympics.

Maurício Alencar (2020, English) & Poppy Buckley (2021, Biomedical Sciences) Other sports played in College this year include cricket, darts, gymnastics, ice hockey and table tennis.

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Cultural, Social & Volunteering Arts and Drama The last year of arts at Teddy Hall has been a great triumph, and we hope these opportunities have given students both a creative and social outlet from academic work.

Arts On 25 February, the Senior Common Room was transformed into an Art Exhibition, showcasing the work of second-year Fine Art students: Charlotte Rich-Jones, Eve Gueterbock, Minnie Leaver, Maisie Goodfellow, Maia Sansour and Oliver Wiseman. The show was a

celebration of the extensive and often overlooked art collection at Teddy Hall, where each student responded to a piece and displayed it alongside celebrated artists such as David Hockney, Victor Pasmore, and Ivon Hitchens. The night was a success, drawing an audience of both students and staff who engaged in lively discussions about the works on display. The tradition of the second year show is hoped to continue into the coming years, providing Fine Arts students with a platform to display their work, as well as an opportunity to show their peers why they haven’t been in the Library!

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There have also been many chances for the students of the Hall to get involved in creating their own artwork this year.

In Hilary term, second-year Geography student Rose Morley started a jewellerymaking society at Teddy Hall – the first in the whole University! The initial session quickly filled up with students from all year groups wanting to participate.

From creating beaded hoop earrings to multicoloured necklaces, you’ll likely notice an increase in sparkling accessories around the Hall.

It is great to see students using the amalgamated club fund for more artistic endeavours than it has been used for in the past, and the hope is that more artsbased societies are born in the coming year. Another highlight this academic year was the ‘Drink and Draw’ event, a night of still-life drawing in the bar that brought together artists and non-artists alike.

With a selection of plants, cut fruit, shells, and glass objects to draw, attendees enjoyed free drinks while unleashing their creativity. The event was a success, providing a fun and inclusive platform for students of all years to come together.

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Music In terms of music, the Open Mic event is always a highly anticipated and wellattended occasion during term time, drawing in a large crowd of Teddy Hall students to the College bar to both play and support. The new JCR Arts Representatives, Bliss Ashley, Ella Soni and Eve Aspland, all first year Fine Artists, dedicated themselves to cleaning up the College music room in Trinity term, so we hope that more students will soon have the opportunity to practice and perform in College.

Drama It has been a busy year for the dramatically inclined students of Teddy Hall. James Newbery (2020, English), has finished his time as president of the Oxford University Drama Society while ‘A Girl in School Uniform (Walks Into A Bar)’ was produced in Trinity term, with an impressive 50% Teddy cast and crew, including Katie Kirkpatrick (2020, Modern Languages) as Director.

During Hilary term, Pennyfarthing Productions put on ’The Tempest’ at the Oxford Playhouse. Rose Morley was part of the cast, and third-year English student Gemma Smith Bingham was in the crew. Rose described the experience as fantastic: “Everyone was so lovely, and I had a great time throughout. This was my first time on stage, and I loved it, so I really encourage anyone to give it a go!”

It’s been another great year for theatre at the Hall, with many other Teddy involvements that haven’t been mentioned. We look forward to the Freshers picking up the mantle next year!

With new Arts and Culture representatives starting this Trinity term, we hope that arts at the Hall will continue to take up space on students’ social calendars and provide ample creative space for students of all artistic abilities.

Minnie Leaver (Arts and Culture CoRepresentative 2022-23), with special thanks to Rose Morley for her insight on Drama at Teddy Hall.

GREAT (Gender Equality at Teddy Hall) President: Ella Tan GREAT (Gender and Racial Equality At Teddy) is a new student society established this academic year. Our core tenets are community and action – building an inclusive, open, and supportive community within the student body; and empowering them to take action on issues impacting their time at the Hall.

GREAT was founded by four undergraduates – Ella Tan (she/her) (2020, History), Zoe Martial (she/her) (2020, Geography), Esmé McMillan (she/ her) (2020, Geography) and Katie March (she/her) (2020, History) – in response to the experiences of the Hall community over the past few years. Post-pandemic, new and historic challenges became

apparent, including (though not limited to) issues faced by women* and ethnic minorities. Community is an attribute that the Hall takes huge pride in. We felt there was a need for a platform through which students could voice their thoughts on matters relating to gender- and racebased violence and inequality at the Hall and in the wider university. GREAT was created to fill this gap – to provide a safe, student-led space for any and all students to share their experiences and concerns.

I am incredibly proud of the work that GREAT has undertaken over the past year. To put into practice our core values of community and action, we engaged the student body in several student-led dialogues. Conversations covered a wide

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range of issues including gender and racial inclusivity at the Hall, experiences and improvements for College harassment reporting procedures, ways that students could seek help and/or contribute to creating change at the Hall, and much more. These were complemented with social events to allow members of the Hall to get to know each other and enjoy fun activities, like watching a movie or having a drink together.

In Hilary term, we also launched our inaugural Annual Report, based on an extensive student survey involving around 20% of the undergraduate population. We generated a 53-page report highlighting key statistics on gender and racial inclusivity, sexual harassment and assault, and racial discrimination at the Hall.

Findings were shared with the College Welfare Committee alongside policy recommendations, which we hope marks the start of a sustained conversation between the governing and student body at Teddy. Copies of the report can be accessed by contacting the current committee on Instagram (@seh.great).

Jewellery Society

President: Rose Morley I decided to set up a Teddy Jewellery Society, not only because I love jewellerymaking myself, but because it is fantastic stress relief. Something about making something with your hands and getting to keep and treasure that thing at the end, as well getting to wear it every day, makes for a fantastic combination. It’s both soothing and makes you feel like you can achieve something if your essay that week isn’t going so well!

Untold amounts of thought, heart, and care were poured into this work behind the scenes, with our Hall community placed at the centre of every action. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the committee for all their enthusiasm, hard work, and devotion to leave Teddy a better place than we found it. Most of all, I am in awe of their empathy and support for all those at the Hall who feel voiceless. I am incredibly excited to see how our brilliant new committee, to whom we handed over in Trinity term, continues the legacy of GREAT. I have personally seen the hugely positive impact that this society can have, and hope that it paves the way to build a great community together at Teddy Hall.

The process of getting the society going was pretty simple, and I really encourage anyone else thinking of starting a club to give it a try. After contacting the Senior Treasurer of the Amalgamated Clubs, I got stuck into finding second-hand supplies from eBay, Gumtree, and Vinted.

Trying to stay aligned to Teddy’s goals of sustainability, I got our entire stock second hand! The only thing left to do was book a room, buy some snacks, and send out a form on the JCR Facebook.

We had a massive response and as we still don’t have masses of either beads or tools it was pretty hard dealing with the oversubscription, but I’m really glad I set up the club. Hopefully it will continue to run in years to come, if we can get enough beads to keep up with demand that is!

Esmé McMillan (2020, Geography)

Rose Morley (2021, Geography)

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Yoga noticed a higher turnout in students as well.

What I love about yoga is that there is no perfect pose or ‘right way’ or doing things.

Instead, we accept that everyone has a different anatomical build and encourage the student to be the teacher and do what feels best for their body. There is no competition, or comparisons to be made.

It has been a joy getting to meet new students from the JCR and MCR who attend my classes each week and speak to them about their studies and interests.

I always love to see a new face join a class and try to make my classes as welcoming as possible.

Yoga Teacher: Jasmine Laing I have been teaching yoga at Teddy Hall for nearly a year and it has been one of the highlights of my week. Yoga is a wonderful way to reconnect with your body and nature as well as partake in a shared activity where everyone feels accepted and part of something bigger than themselves.

In Michaelmas and Hilary term yoga took place on Sunday late afternoons in Doctorow Hall, overlooking the beautiful courtyard. On some occasions we would finish the class as the sun set and head out to dinner in the Hall afterward. It was a perfect way to unwind and relax before a new week began.

In Trinity term I moved yoga to Monday afternoons, and we had the pleasure of practising yoga either in the Old Dining Hall or behind the Library in the garden.

That was a really special term, and I

Personally, yoga has been a forced break from my studies, and a much needed one.

We forget how important it is to stretch and look after ourselves, especially during term time, and yoga presents as the perfect opportunity to take a break and restore energy levels. I always come away from a yoga class feeling more energetic and rejuvenated than when I walked in, and I hope my students feel the same.

I’d love to see some more students join our weekly yoga sessions this year. I try my best to make my classes as easy to follow as possible and pitched at all skill levels – from beginners to people who have been practising for five or more years – by adding in options and allowing for breaks. I’d also like to see some Fellows and staff join our classes too as it can be a great way to meet more people.

It has been a real pleasure and honour to be the designated yoga teacher for Teddy Hall, and I look forward to continuing to teach at the Hall as the years go on.

Jasmine Laing (2023, DPhil Experimental Psychology)

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Sustainability at St Edmund Hall Environmental Sustainability Strategy Launched St Edmund Hall launched its first Environmental Sustainability Strategy in October 2022 to set out the transformation of our 800-yearold College into a sustainable and environmentally thriving site for future generations of Aularians. Our aims include reducing our energy, water and carbon footprint, maximising our recycling, increasing greenness and overall biodiversity at our sites and making climate-conscious and climateresponsible investments according to the Oxford Martin Principles for ClimateConscious investment.1 Read the sustainability strategy: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/ Sustainability-Strategy-Oct-2022-lowres.pdf

Winnow Waste Food System Installed in October 2022, the Hall’s catering team use the Winnow Waste Food System to record how much food is wasted at the College. Students, staff and Fellows deposit their food waste into a bin which is placed on a Winnow scale to record the food’s weight and to capture a photo of it. This has allowed the Hall to determine what types of food are being wasted and how much is being disposed of daily. We have also used the data to tailor portion sizes and reuse vegetable trimmings in dishes. Overall, this has led to a reduction in kitchen and plate waste.

Conversations in Environmental Sustainability (CES) In February 2023, St Edmund Hall established its new public engagement series: ‘Conversations in Environmental Sustainability: Beyond Greenwashing’.

The termly seminar brings together leading thinkers and decision-makers from academia, business, government and NGOs to examine a specific issue related to environmental sustainability.

The seminars explore how to effectively marry environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals with financial returns, innovation and other business imperatives.

1 More about the Martin Principles: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/oxford-martin-principles-forclimate-conscious-investment/

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In February the seminar asked ‘Where are the innovations in renewable energy?’ and in June we explored ‘Going Green and environmental sustainability: how do we measure it?’ Principal Kathy Willis and a Hall Fellow host each seminar which includes a panel of sustainability experts who give a short presentation followed by a Q&A.

Watch this year’s seminars on the Hall website: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/discover/ces Read more about Professor Willden’s tidal and wind energy project on p. 98.

Claire Parfitt, Communications Manager

In February we welcomed: David Bryon, CFO, First Light Fusion; Carlos Monreal, CEO, Plastic Energy Ltd; William Rowe, Founder & CEO, Octopus Hydrogen; and Professor Richard Willden, Tutor and Professor of Engineering Science.

In June the panellists were: Dr Nicola Ranger, Executive Director, Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Programme; Jonathan Taylor, President, Awesix; and Harriet Waters, Head of Environmental Sustainability, University of Oxford. The seminars conclude with a drinks reception and dinner at the Hall.

Look out for the next seminar in Hilary term 2024.

The Hall Welcomes Ukrainian Scholars After a great deal of collaborative effort by academic supporters at the Hall, the University, the British Academy and CARA (the Council for At-Risk Academics), the Hall was delighted to host three Ukrainian scholars during the course of the year: Professor Valery Kuzev, an academic from Mariupol who has a PhD from the Institute of Philosophy at the National Academy of Sciences. He held a Visiting Fellowship for the academic year 2022-23.

Dr Daryna Dvornichenko, who has a PhD in Political Science. She will now be able to continue her research related to

women in peace-building. She will hold a Visiting Fellowship for the academic years 2022-24.

Viktoriia Khalanchuk worked at the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnic Affairs and Freedom of Conscience, focusing on international cooperation. She has experience as a policy analyst and de facto diplomat at several institutions.

While at the Hall she is reading for a MSt in Diplomatic Studies.

Read Viktoriia’s account of the transformations of a Ukrainian folksong as performed by the Hall Choir on pp. 158-161.

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Poem, Story, and Scape in the Work of Kevin Crossley-Holland: Exhibition in the Old Library This exhibition explored the work of Kevin Crossley-Holland (Honorary Fellow and 1959, English), prize-winning children’s author, translator, poet, librettist, editor and professor. Kevin engages creatively with language and poetry, place, history and legend. He captivates us by telling stories deeply rooted in past cultures, which he remakes to be compellingly contemporary and relevant. For this exhibition, Kevin generously loaned items from his private collection to add to material from St Edmund Hall’s Archives and Special Collections; we gratefully acknowledge his help.

Early in his career, Kevin established himself as a poet, a translator and re-teller of Old and Middle English poetry, romance, and folklore for all ages, and as an enthusiastic collaborator with composers and visual artists. His Arthur trilogy has sold over one million copies worldwide and is available in 26 languages; it has inspired young readers to become medievalists and writers themselves.

Recent works, such as Norse Tales: Stories from Across the Rainbow Bridge (2020) demonstrate how Northern European myth and legend continue to beguile him.

Kevin is passionate about how history,

landscape and poetic language shape and inform one another. This exhibition explored continuities from Kevin’s childhood in how he sees, interprets, and responds to these creative stimuli. It also revealed how meticulously he researches the past to create his imaginary yet historically accurate worlds, and how carefully he crafts his poetry.

The exhibition ran from 25 August until 30 November and received more than 1,500 visitors.

The exhibition was based on and inspired by ‘Poem, Story & Scape in the Work of Kevin Crossley-Holland’ which ran at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds from 29 March — 20 August 2022, curated by Dr Catherine Batt, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds. Many thanks to Sarah Prescott and the University of Leeds for their generous help and support in staging this version.

Read a blog post He was my bridge to Oxford and beyond by Librarian James Howarth about how Kevin’s love of Old English was inspired by Bruce Mitchell: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/blog/he-was-mybridge-to-oxford-and-beyond-kevincrossley-holland-and-bruce-mitchell

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World’s First Successful Sea Trial of Deep-Sea Coring Technology On 23 September 2022, a joint research team of Shenzhen University and Sichuan University led by St Edmund Fellow Heping Xie successfully carried out a trial of in-situ condition preserved (ICP) sediment sampling equipment developed and built by Xie’s team. The test is the world’s first successful deep-sea sediment sampling of natural gas hydrate, with in-situ conditions fully preserved.

The ICP sampling system was the research outcome of a major national scientific research instrument development programme, titled ‘Deep Rock In-situ Condition Preserved Coring, Testing, and Analyzing System’, which aimed for the independent development of temperature and pressure preserving deep-sea sediment coring technology.

The ICP coring system was loaded on board the deep-sea submersible boat ‘Shen Hai Yong Shi’ (‘Deep-sea Warrior’ in Chinese), on a shared sea trial of deep-sea and abyssal expedition and equipment.

The operation was completed as planned at a depth of 1,370m in the South China Sea. The deep-sea sediment of natural gas hydrate samples were successfully obtained, with the in-situ pressure of 13.8 MPa and temperature of 6.51°C fully preserved, a world-first breakthrough in deep-sea sediment sampling with in-situ condition preservation.

Hall Celebrates Black History Month 2022 On 25 October, the Hall hosted its second Black History Month ‘In Conversation’ Lecture with Aularian Cat White (2016, MSt Women’s Studies) hosted by Vice-Principal Professor Rob Whittaker.

Cat, who was recently named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, is a writer, actor, filmmaker and gender advisor for the United Nations. She is also founder and CEO of Kusini Productions, a platform established to create opportunities, change the narrative and champion voices of Black women and girls. Kusini Productions takes its name from 1976 American/Nigerian film Countdown at Kusini. This film was the first major motion picture ever produced by an organisation of Black women. No longer willing to

accept the degraded images of Black people – and especially Black women – being foisted on them, they decided they would raise the money themselves, from among themselves, to make the kind of film they wanted to see.

Professor Wes Williams, Professor of French Literature and Tutor in Modern Languages, interviewed Cat about how her writing and filmmaking have helped champion the experiences and voices of Black women and girls. Cat has also recently published her new book This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood which weaves together the triumph of Black female resistance.

The lecture is available to watch at: youtu. be/go2C3pz_uCI?si=PKaTao5k11i9HDDy Cat White discusses her inspirations for This Thread of Gold on pp. 170-172.

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BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship Broadcast from the Hall and styles, though recognisable as an expression of the English choral tradition.

Service leader and preacher: The Revd Dr Zachary Guiliano (Fellow and Chaplain) Director of Music: Dr James Whitbourn (Fellow)

If you tuned your radios appropriately at 8:10am on Sunday 20 November 2022, you would have heard the Choir of St Edmund Hall singing Matins, broadcast live from the College Chapel and accompanied by musicians from Instruments of Time and Truth. The Chaplain preached on St Edmund and ‘the perfect gift of charity’.

The service gave a picture of worship and life within the College, and point to the practices of love and almsgiving that characterised St Edmund’s life. Music was chosen from a range of centuries

Organ Scholars: Alyssa Chan (2021, Engineering) and Michelle Ng (2021, Mathematics), with ‘Instruments of Time and Truth’ and the Choir of St Edmund Hall.

Hymns: Humphrey Clucas (b. 1941), Come down, O Love divine; Blessed city, heavenly Salem; Preces & responses; Thomas Tomkins (d.1656), Jubilate; Ola Gjeilo (b.

1978), Ubi caritas; James Whitbourn (b.

1963), Give us the wings of faith.

Although the service is sadly no longer available to listen to on the Sunday Worship website, you can read the order of service in full and the Chaplain’s Sermon: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fcfw

Conquering Peace in Tempore Belli: 2022 A.B. Emden Lecture by Heather Barr “Talking about lasting peace is challenging enough in normal times; but these are not normal times. In 2022, we have again an open war on the continent, between Russia and Ukraine, for the first time since the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Is it even possible to talk today about peace in Europe, in tempore belli? To answer that question is an exercise in applied history.”

On 2 December 2022, around 50 Aularians and historians came to Oxford to hear the annual Emden Lecture given

by Professor Stella Ghervas, Chair of Russian History at Newcastle University.

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and an Associate of the History Department

at Harvard University, Professor Ghervas’ main interests are in the intellectual and international history of modern Europe, with special reference to the history of peace and peace-making, and in Russia’s intellectual and maritime history. She has held teaching, research and visiting positions in Australia, France, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Lecture centred on an exploration of how we can effectively talk about peace in a time of war. Drawing on the collective experience of Europe since the early-18th century, Professor Ghervas proposed an

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understanding of peace and war as part of the same continuum. To fight a war, she argued, means to fight for peace. It is the nature of that peace on which the conflict hinges. Especially compelling was Professor Ghervas’ exploration of war through two metaphors: war as duel, and war as disease. The latter – which builds on a longstanding tradition of conceptualising communities as interconnected, whole, living organisms – is an important idea in Professor Ghervas’ book Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union (Harvard University Press, 2021, shortlisted for the 2023 Laura Shannon Prize in European Studies).

Movingly, whilst acknowledging that the body has no “manifest destiny” of perpetual health, just as the international community has no “manifest destiny of peace”, the tone of the Lecture was, in many respects, hopeful throughout.

For the future of the world in general, of Europe, and of Ukraine in particular.

Establishing a lasting peace in Europe is, Professor Ghervas reminded us, very much within our grasp. It will take time and strength and courage, but that is why, in her concluding words “peace is for the

strong, war is for the weak”.

Professor Ghervas is the author or editor of six books, including Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance (Honoré Champion, 2008, which won the Prix Guizot from the Académie Française) and A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Enlightenment, co-ed. with David Armitage (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020). She is now working on a new book, Calming the Waters? A New History of the Black Sea 1774- 1920s, and on an anthology of essential texts on peace from Antiquity to the present day.

Watch the Lecture on St Edmund Hall’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=VJtzyfw5qTU Heather Barr, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant

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Aularians Gather in North America updates about the Hall from the Principal and to hear about the latest plans for the Norham St Edmund project from the Director of Development.

In December, the Principal and other members of the Hall were delighted to visit North America to meet some of our alumni across the pond.

On Tuesday 6 December, the Hall hosted a successful drinks reception in Toronto, where a number of Canadian Aularians got together. Then, in New York, Wednesday 7 December saw a drinks reception at the Oxford North America offices, where around 40 were in attendance to hear

The 37th New York Dinner on Friday 9 December at the Links Club sold out, with around 50 Aularians in attendance. Once again, news from the Hall came from the Principal and Director of Development, as well as Bob Gaffey (1975, Jurisprudence), who leads the HALLmarks North America Committee. Many thanks to him, and Justus O’Brien (1979, PPE), who hosted the evening.

A working breakfast on Saturday 10 December finished the trip, with 20 Aularians discussing the future strategy of the HALLmarks North America campaign.

More about HALLmarks North America: www.facebook.com/ StEdmundHallNorthAmerica

Carly Howett Appointed Lead on a NASA Mission Professor Carly Howett, Tutorial Fellow in Physics at St Edmund Hall, was recently appointed the lead of the instrument Ralph on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

The instrument is made up of two parts: MVIC (Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera) and LEISA (Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array).

MVIC is a colour camera, and LEISA is an infrared spectrometer. MVIC was the camera that produced the first colour images of Pluto and another Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as Arrokoth. Whereas LEISA tells us about the composition of

these worlds, by looking for the chemical fingerprints of the data.

Carly writes: “I will be in charge of organising upcoming observations (this will mainly be look backs into the inner solar system, starting with Uranus and Neptune).

I also lead the archiving of all the data taken into the Planetary Data System (PDS) so there is a high-quality permanent accessible record of the data taken. The best bit for me is the data analysis though, looking at the data as it comes down to understand what it is telling us about our solar system.”

Read more about New Horizons on the NASA website: www.nasa.gov/mission_ pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

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What’s it Like to Study at the Best College in Oxford What do tortoises, strawberries in graveyards and street food all have in common?

Find out in the latest video from St Edmund Hall!

In January 2023 the College launched a new promotional video all about student life. Aimed at prospective students, current students Will Heath (2020, English), Claire Mallon (2023, Law) and Tehillah Campbell (2020, Materials Science) discuss all things Hall: BOP costumes, work-life balance, Hall Spirit and more! Part of the St Edmund Hall’s strategy to increase equality of

opportunity at the Hall, the video will be included in the College’s outreach efforts, both online and in-person.

If you know someone who may be considering applying to Oxford, or would like to reminisce about student life at the Hall, please share the video and visit our website for more information.

Watch the video of the Hall YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/FepubFFoHo4

Planning Permission Awarded for New Student Accommodation at Norham St Edmund On 26 January St Edmund Hall was delighted to announce that planning permission had been granted for the development of 127 study bedrooms and communal facilities housed in a mixture of new buildings and a remodelled Victorian villa, in the College’s Norham St Edmund site in north Oxford. The planning committee was unanimous in its support of the project and particularly commended the environmental sustainability aspects of the proposed design.

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This is an important project for the College, as it brings together several strategic aims: helping ensure that the College can meet its goal of accommodating all its undergraduate students, moving towards becoming net zero in energy use, improving access, encouraging biodiversity, and catalysing a creative and inclusive College culture.

The residential development will be

a pioneering model of sustainability, with new construction designed to rigorous Passivhaus standards, and the existing Victorian villa refurbished to Part L Building Regulations compliance.

The landscape and ecology strategy is designed to improve and enhance biodiversity, with an 88% net gain over the site. Construction will commence in summer 2023, and the project is due to be completed in 2025-26.

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Meet the Poet Returns to Teddy Hall After a few years’ break due to Covid, Teddy Hall’s Meet the Poet series presented a reading by A. E. Stallings on Wednesday 8 February to a full house in Doctorow Hall.

Stallings is an American poet and translator whose books include Archaic Smile (1999), winner of the Richard Wilbur Award; Hapax (2006), winner of the Poets’ Prize; Olives (2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Like (2018), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Her poem ‘Snowdrops’ inspired by the graveyard of St Peter-in-the-East and written while she was staying in Hall appeared in the London Review of Books in May. In June A.E. Stallings was elected the 47th Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Professor Marion Turner, Chair of the English Faculty Board at Oxford, said, “Poetry is the heart of the English Faculty and other Humanities Faculties in Oxford. Poetry engages and excites children before prose does. Poetry crosses cultures and time: in the pandemic many people realised anew its power and importance… A.E. Stallings is a poet of unusual range and flexibility.

A translator, a Classicist, a poet who is

particularly focused on technique and form, she runs regular workshops with refugees, teaches extensively, and writes on poetry by American, English, Canadian, Greek, Irish, and Afro-Caribbean poets. We are extremely lucky to be able to host her for the next four years, and I know that her talent will be generative for a generation of our students and other members of the Oxford community.”

A Meet the Poet reading is free and open to the public and takes place once a year during Hilary term.

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Hall Celebrates LGBTQIA+ History Month 2023 to what was expected of women at the start of the 20th century, namely to marry and to become mothers. To live in this way, Dr Rutherford argued, allowed these women (and others like them) to explore intimacies and establish networks of love and care outside the heteronormative institution of marriage.

On 20 February, St Edmund Hall hosted its second LGBTQIA+ History Month ‘In Conversation Lecture, with Dr Emily Rutherford:‘“Historians Will Say They Were Just Good Friends”: University Histories, Queer Histories’.

Dr Rutherford is M.G. Brock Junior Research Fellow in History at Corpus Christi. Currently completing her first book Teaching Gender: Higher Education Reform and Heteronormativity in Britain, 1860-1939, Dr Rutherford is especially interested in the relationship between higher education and the establishment of gender and sexuality norms at the start of the 20th century. In the Lecture, Dr Rutherford used the story of three women, featured in her book, to explore these themes, and to question what queer history is and what it means to practice it.

Marjory Fry (b. 1874), Rose Sidgwick (b. 1877) and Marjorie Rackstraw (b.

1888) were academics and university administrators. They lived and worked closely together at the University of Birmingham’s University House, which opened as the University’s first female hall of residence in 1904, and of which Fry was the inaugural Warden.

Never marrying and focusing on their work, all three women lived in opposition

Of course, what it is tempting to ask is whether for Fry, Sidgwick and Rackstraw this was, in Dr Rutherford’s words “merely an unfortunate byproduct of pursuing a career”, or itself “the central attraction”.

Whilst their archives are certainly suggestive – Sidgwick’s letters to Fry, for example, are filled with declarations of love – they resist any definitive conclusions about the nature of the women’s relationships. Indeed, as Dr Rutherford pointed out, the early-20th century saw an increased stability in the hetero/homo binary, and ‘lesbian’, as both a word and a category, would have been very much available to Fry, Sidgwick and Rackstraw. Yet there is no evidence that they defined themselves or each other in this way.

So, were these women ‘just good friends’?

Compellingly, the element of ‘just good friends’ challenged by Dr Rutherford was not the ‘friends’, but the ‘just’. She argued that “to call the people in the past good friends should not be to minimise their relationship but rather to celebrate the many ways people have found connection and community with one another often in the face of oppressive social and political structures”.

The Lecture gave a fascinating glimpse into Dr Rutherford’s research and provided much insight into how we discuss and understand not only queer history but also the experience of queer people today.

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Dr Rutherford’s Lecture formed part of the Hall’s celebration of LGBTQIA+ History Month 2023. Elsewhere in the Hall, the Library curated a #BehindTheLens book display, celebrating LGBTQIA+ people in the performing arts, and the Admissions Office sold rainbow lanyards to raise money for Galop, a national charity which supports LGBTQIA+ survivors of violence and abuse.

We were also delighted to feature online profiles of three JCR students Katie Kirkpatrick (2020, Modern Languages), Harry McWilliam (2021, Chemistry) and Amy Shaw (2021, Chemistry) who shared what the Teddy Hall LGBTQIA+ community meant to them.

Katie (she/her) wrote: “People talk a lot about sports at Teddy Hall, and how they foster friendship between years and a feeling of belonging. I think the College’s queer community does exactly the same thing. After realising I wasn’t straight in first year, I found Teddy LGBTQIA+ events

to be one of the Uni’s most welcoming environments. I have fond memories of my first College queer social (which was mostly outside due to Covid), from meeting a lot of new friends to badly losing a three-legged race and somehow ending up with a pride flag late at night. Now in my third year, the other day I found myself sitting with two of my best friends, explaining the College and uni-wide LGBTQIA+ events and venues to some new students, and couldn’t help but think about how far we’ve all come. Teddy Hall’s LGBTQIA+ community is my favourite thing about College, and I’m so glad it’s continuing strong.”

Harry (they/them) wrote: “Being involved with Teddy’s LGBTQIA+ community for the past year and a half has honestly been one of the best parts of my Oxford experience.

I’ve made so many amazing friends from all sorts of backgrounds, and to continue this as JCR Queer Rep is certainly a personal highlight. We put on so many events, and constantly feel as though we are paying homage to queer history and

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queer future. Oxford is often challenging for students, and having such an excellent and supportive community has definitely made my time here so much more enjoyable!”

Amy (she/her) wrote: “The LGBTQIA+ community at Teddy has been so welcoming and made me so comfortable, it has honestly been one of my favourite parts about being here! Going to all the social events has enabled me to meet so many amazing people – both within the College and the University as a whole. I am incredibly grateful to be one of the LGBTQ+ Officers this year alongside one of my

closest friends here. I know I will continue to make great memories with the lovely community we have at the Hall.”

The Hall thanks all the students, Fellows and staff who helped bring the celebrations together and we look forward to celebrating our community next year.

Watch Dr Rutherford’s ‘In Conversation’ lecture on the Hall YouTube Channel: youtu.be/-twUhIHBT5k?si=Z_UD93Y8hUAU4LO Heather Barr, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant

Floreat Aula Legacy Society Dinner Returns to the Hall

On Friday 24 March, the first Floreat Aula Legacy Society Dinner for four years took place. The dinner recognises members of the Society, who have made a provision to the Hall in their will, and usually happens on a biennial basis, but has been on pause due to Covid-19.

In the afternoon, members enjoyed an exhibition in the Old Library marking the 600th anniversary of the death of William

Taylor, a medieval Principal of the Hall who was executed for heresy. The evening celebrations then started with a talk from Vice-Principal and Tutor in Geography, Professor Rob Whittaker, entitled ‘Island Life’, on his research on ecological biogeography of islands, particularly Tenerife. Following this, attendees enjoyed a drinks reception in the Senior Common Room which saw Professor Jonathan Yates, Chattels and Pictures Fellow, speak on the room’s incredible art collection.

Guests then headed down to the Wolfson Hall for a delicious four-course meal before the evening ended with a trip to the Buttery Bar. The long-awaited celebration was a wonderful evening enjoyed by all.

St Edmund Hall is incredibly thankful for those who have included the Hall in their wills.

If you are interested in finding out more about joining the Floreat Aula Legacy Society, please contact Campaign Development Manager Tom Sprent at +44(0)1865 279084 or thomas.sprent@seh.ox.ac.uk

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School Students Take Part in Hall’s Unlock Oxford Residential Programme benefit from the programme.

In ninth week of Hilary term, the Admissions Office ran two residential visits for Year 12 students from urban areas of Leicester and Derby. This involved a tour of the Hall and city, as well as an applications overview, interview workshop and the chance to speak to our tutors and current students.

In March we were delighted to welcome over 140 school students to the Hall as part of our flagship Unlock Oxford programme.

Unlock Oxford, developed by St Edmund Hall, is a sustained-contact outreach programme which works with state schools in Leicestershire and Derbyshire to raise aspirations and attainment in students from backgrounds that are currently under-represented at Oxford.

Students were targeted individually based on measures of disadvantage, ensuring that attendees were those most likely to

In the Easter Vacation, St Edmund Hall welcomed a group of Year 10 students from our link regions for a one-night stay, followed by a workshop on student finance, A-level choices, and an academic taster session held within a University department.

With over 140 students attending from eight schools, it was one of the largest outreach events organised by the Hall. A huge thank you to the students, tutors and teachers who made these residential visits possible!

Read more about Unlock Oxford: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/study/outreach/ unlock-oxford

Hall Members Lace Up for London Marathon Several Hall members put on their running shoes to take part in the 2023 London Marathon on Sunday 23 April.

Age is just a number! 90-year-old Aularian David Picksley (1953, Modern Languages) was the oldest participant at the 2023 London Marathon and raised over £8,000 for Bowel Cancer UK in memory of his sister who he lost to the disease 50 years ago. Last year, David walked a virtual marathon for Teddy Hall.

David Cruz Walma (2020, DPhil Biomedical Sciences) and Rocco Zizzamia (2019, DPhil International Development) were part of the Oxford Cross Country Team’s Varsity match against Cambridge.

Rocco ran the marathon in 2:32.50, and David completed it in 2:39.52, securing second and third positions for Oxford.

They were awarded Half-Blues for their achievement, and Oxford won the Varsity match. David thanks his coach Wong Chun Wing from Hong Kong for her guidance during the race.

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Honorary Fellow Faith Wainwright (1980, Engineering) took her first marathon and raised £2,000 for the charity Orbis International. Faith writes: “In my 60th year I thought that training for this iconic challenge would be a wonderful goal, and am delighted I finished, with all toes and knees intact, in 5hrs and 20 mins.”

David, David, Rocco and Faith all embody the spirit of Teddy Hall, and we are proud to have them as a part of our community.

David Picksley describes his experiences in ‘A Marathon History’ on pp. 183-184.

The Hall Celebrates Coronation of Charles III was designed by Vivian Ridler, afterwards Master Printer to the University and a Fellow of the Hall. Our oldest connection was an account by Thomas Allam (mat.

1671, Vice-Principal 1682-1685) of the Coronation of James II in 1685. “Ye sight”, he said, “was very splendid & great.”

The Old Library opened its doors to the public on the weekend of 6-8 May to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. An exhibition entitled Kings & Aularian Things celebrated Hall connections to Coronations past.

Items on display included the official Souvenir Programme for the Coronation of George VI in 1937. This was edited by Wilfred “Tommy” Hindle (mat. 1921), a journalist who shortly after this was recruited by MI-6 and posted to Central Europe on the eve of World War II. Hindle ended up a senior official at the United Nations in New York where he hosted the first ever US Aularian event in 1967.

Also on display were proof sheets for the 1951 Coronation Bible, on which the Queen swore the Coronation Oath. This

On Saturday 6 May, students watched the ceremony via livestream on a large screen in Wolfson Hall, accompanied by brunch.

Celebrations continued the following day with a special service in Chapel and ended with a sumptuous black-tie Formal Hall.

The Wolfson was decorated with flags and other royal decorations and the food, especially the pudding, fit for a King.

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From the Magazine Archive: The Hall Celebrates the Coronation Of Elizabeth II Sunday, 31 May, was observed, by the Queen’s command, as Coronation Sunday, and large congregations attended the morning and evening services in Chapel.

A special combined University and City service was held in St Mary the Virgin at 11 a.m. On the following day more than half the junior members of the Hall made their way, by a surprising variety of modes of transport, to London, there to camp in the street or, if more provident, to prepare for taking their prearranged places by the processional route next morning.

Tuesday, 2 June, the actual day of the Coronation, was a University holiday, and in the evening a Coronation Banquet was held in the dining hall and was attended by the Principal and Fellows and

a goodly body of undergraduates who had not made the journey to London. The Principal gave the loyal toast, in which all present, including the servants, joined with enthusiasm.

The Manciple and his staff had presented the Principal with a magnificent cake, bearing on its richly iced top a replica of the Coronation coach drawn by nine horses, and this the Principal and Fellows, along with the wives of the latter, consumed before watching the ceremonies in the Abbey on television.

The ‘Teddy Bears’ celebrated the occasion by playing a cricket match against Stanton Harcourt, the stakes being four and a half gallons of beer.

Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays 2023 by Alison Ray

A fantastic day was had by all at the third Medieval Mystery Cycle, held on Saturday 22 April, which took place across the Front Quad and St Peter-in-the-East churchyard of St Edmund Hall. Actors, directors, singers and designers staged six plays dating from between the 12th and 16th centuries. Retelling Biblical stories from the Nativity to the Last Judgement, the cast expertly performed in medieval and modern languages,

including Latin, Middle English and Middle High German.

Master of Ceremonies Jim Harris (Teaching Curator, Ashmolean Museum) delighted everyone as audience guide and play narrator with linking verse composed

by David Maskell, and we were treated to Peter Abelard’s ‘O quanta qualia’ sung by the Choir of St Edmund Hall led by College Chaplain the Revd Dr Zachary Guiliano.

The group ‘Swonken ful harde’ performed

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first with extracts from Piers Plowman, in Middle English, that saw Piers taking on the seven deadly sins through the visions of Will the Dreamer. Following in Middle English, the English Faculty wonderfully performed the Chester Nativity and Salutation with a humorous interpretation of Roman Emperor Octavyan as King Charles III in time for the Coronation!

Marguerite de Navarre’s 16th-century French play of the Comédie des Innocents was performed by group ‘Les perles innocentes’ with singing by Lucy Matheson, Librarian of Lincoln College.

The dark scenes of the Slaughter of the Innocents were countered by a comically scheming Herod and angels supplying chocolates to the audience. We were then treated to a charity coffee and cake stall in the break by the Oxford German Society in support of the German Red Cross. This was followed by a fantastic adaptation of the Carmina Burana Bavarian Passion play by the ‘Sorores Sancte Hildae’ group in Latin and German, with audience participation!

The unofficial award for best costume design went to the Medieval Germanists who performed the Harrowing of Hell in Middle High German with English

narration, that saw a troupe of winged angels and Lucifer herd an imaginative array of lost souls to the Crypt’s Hellmouth. The day closed with ‘Past and Present Teddy Students’ delivering a high-energy staging of a modern English version of the Last Judgment with St John of Patmos being guided by an exasperated angel through comic visions of the battle between Christ and Satan for souls.

We are particularly grateful to Professor Lesley Smith and Teddy Hall’s own Professor Henrike Lähnemann, codirectors of Oxford Medieval Studies and the driving force behind the Mystery Cycle; Michael Angerer, Graduate Convenor for the Mystery Cycle; and to the Fellows and Principal of St Edmund Hall, for once again agreeing to host our medieval madness!

A full programme and listing of the wonderful cast and crew can be found on the Oxford Medieval Studies website here: medieval.ox.ac.uk/2023/04/21/oxfordmedieval-mystery-plays-2023 Read more about the long-delayed St Edmund Hall Apocalypse by its authors in the 2020-2021 Hall Magazine: issuu. com/stedmundhall/docs/seh_alumni_ magazine_2020-2021_lowres Alison Ray, Archivist, St Peter’s College

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Geddes Trust 2023 Journalism Prizes, Lecture and Masterclass This year marked the 40th anniversary of the tragic death of Philip Geddes (1977, English) in the IRA bombing of Harrods on 17 December 1983. To mark the occasion, the Geddes Trust and St Edmund Hall presented an extended event at the Oxford Museum of Natural History on 19 May 2023.

The event opened with speeches from St Edmund Hall’s Pro-Principal, Professor Robert Whittaker and from Christopher Wilson, a distinguished journalist and co-founder of the Geddes Trust. Wilson movingly recalled sharing an office at the Daily Express with Philip Geddes. He also spoke of his pride in the work of the Trust and in the hugely successful careers of the 100 students who have won what is now the longest-established independent student journalism prize in the UK. After this year’s prize winners were announced, several of whom had hurried to the Museum straight from Finals, a panel of past prize winners, Tony Diver (Whitehall Correspondent, The Telegraph), Marianna Spring (BBC’s Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent), Matt Roller (Assistant Editor, ESPNcricinfo) and Dr Rachel Trethewey (author and previously a journalist at the Daily Mail

and Daily Express) shared their career experiences since winning the prizes. The annual Geddes Lecture was given by Huw Edwards on ‘What is the point of the BBC?’ Earlier in the year, the 2023 Geddes Masterclass was held in the Doctorow Hall at St Edmund Hall on Friday 27 January. It began with a workshop on ‘How to write a news story’ with the Telegraph’s Whitehall editor Tony Diver and the Spectator’s assistant editor Emma Byrne. It was followed by an introduction to data journalism with Tom Calver, data editor of The Sunday Times. Finally, in time-honoured tradition, the evening ended with a networking event with all the participants and members of the Geddes Trust over drinks and snacks.

Geddes Student Journalism Prizes 2023 Philip Geddes Memorial Prize – Anna Dowell Anna is a final year student in English Language and Literature at Wadham College. She has extensive experience in student journalism across a range of publications and styles: as Director of Investigative Journalism for Isis, as Science and Technology section editor for Cherwell; as a columnist and theatre

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critic for Cherwell; and as a commissioning editor for the Oxford Review of Books.

Her project for the Geddes Prize is to investigate the experience of Ukrainian refugees fleeing the current conflict who have settled here under the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ policy.

Ronnie Payne Prize – Nalishebo Simukulwa Nali is a third year French and English Joint Schools student at Merton College, currently on her year abroad in Réunion.

She was Editor in Chief of The Oxford Tab newspaper during her second year and has a good deal of experience beyond Oxford. She interned at Gay Times where she worked on several news reports as well as feature articles and has written as a freelancer for gal-dem, iNews, and a number of other publications.

For her Prize project she will travel to Lusaka, Zambia, to report on the second annual Feminist Festival which will culminate in a day of celebration on 9 September 2023.

Clive Taylor Prize – Ariana Rubio Ariana is a Finalist in English at Lady Margaret Hall.

Ariana has made a speciality of sports

journalism, particularly women’s sports, with a focus on football and tennis.

Throughout her three years at Oxford, she has contributed regularly to the ‘Sport’ section of Cherwell. She was Sport Deputy Editor in Trinity of 2021, and Sport Section Editor in Michaelmas of 2021. In summer 2022, she completed an internship at POLO Stories, a nonprofit organisation which disseminates inspiring documentaries and articles about women’s issues.

For her Prize project she joined the fans at the Women’s World Cup in Australia this summer.

Watch the 2023 Geddes Lecture: youtu. be/hq__kmGlLVo?si=SYvIw-hLKoKGsLtA Maurício Alencar (2020, English) reflects on his experiences of winning the 2022 Clive Taylor Prize on pp. 172-175.

Hall Appoints an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow Dr Steve Smith has been appointed as the Hall’s first Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fellow.

Steve is a Senior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall and a Researcher at the Smith School of

Enterprise and the Environment. He joined the Smith School from the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) where he co-led the Climate Science Team and played a role in the legislation of the UK’s net zero target.

Prior to this, he was Head of Science at the Committee on Climate Change. He has a PhD in atmospheric physics from Imperial College London and is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.

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Alongside his research and advice to government and businesses, Steve communicates climate change to children and wider audiences. He helped write Climate Crisis for Beginners (Usborne Books, 2021) and was a contributor to the Ladybird Book on Climate Change (Penguin, 2017).

As representative of the Senior Common Room at St Edmund Hall, Dr Smith will be involved with matters of equality, diversity and inclusion at the Hall. On this, he shared:

“Since joining last autumn, I have seen many ways in which this College is a welcoming and diverse community. It is fantastic that St Edmund Hall is committed not only to maintain those qualities but to do more. I look forward to working with students, staff and Fellows to make good on the vision of a College where inclusivity, equality and diversity are understood, recognised and celebrated, and where there are no invisible barriers to individuals entering or reaching their full potential.”

Middle Common Room Refurbished

The Middle Common Room (MCR) in Front Quad has recently been refurbished into a modern social space with improved facilities to meet the needs of our graduates today. MCR President Antonin Charret (2020, DPhil Education) and Vice-President Natalie Shteiman (2021, MPhil Global and Area Studies) organised this project with the support of the Maintenance and Bursary teams at the Hall. We hear from Natalie, the lead student behind the design, about how the renovation progressed.

Natalie writes: “I ran for the Vice-

President position with the renovation in mind and volunteered to become involved in the interior design of the space. Since the Middle Common Room at 19 Norham Gardens (Norham St Edmund Graduate centre) will be under renovation beginning in Autumn 2023, Antonin and I agreed that now would be the perfect time to renovate the MCR, which has been in discussion for several years, since it will be the primary location for our social events for the foreseeable future.

The previous MCR was charming, cosy, and warm but it needed to be refreshed.

Without compromising on these qualitites, which we felt were crucial to maintain, we updated the style of the room to make it more open and spacious. Although parts of the space are modern, we strategically chose features that would give the space an old world charm: antique brass kitchen handles, warm coloured lighting, and dark wood floors to match the trim of the

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wall panelling. We began to discuss the floorplan of the MCR in Michaelmas 2022 and began submitting motions of major decisions to our general meetings every term where MCR members shared their thoughts on our ideas. One of our favourite components of the new MCR was the repurposing of the previous bar’s worktop.

Alex Grant (Deputy Estates Manager) had the idea to save it and use it as a breakfast bar in another part of the room.

Antonin and I put a lot of thought into the design decisions. I love the outdoor spaces in College and wanted to incorporate some of the colours from the outdoors, which you can see from the windows in the room, into the actual space. This is why I decided that we could incorporate different styles of leather and textured furniture with shades of green.

This would not have been possible without Alex Grant, Stephen Lloyd (Estates Manager), Tom Gallagher (College Carpenter), Gerald McGrath (General Maintenance Assistant), Phil

Didcock (College Plumber), Liam Webb (General Maintenance Assistant), the entire maintenance team, Belinda Huse (Accommodation Manager), and the Porters at the Lodge. Alex and Stephen understood the vision for the space and very much made it a reality.

Thanks to the help of Professor Jonathan Yates (Pictures and Chattels Fellow) and Rob Petre (College Archivist), we incorporated original art from the College’s collection. In addition, we are displaying original works from two student artists, Sarah Savić Kallesøe (2022, DPhil Population Health) and Felix Bennemann (2022, DPhil Materials).

We hope future generations of Aularians love the space as much as we do.”

Alumni are very welcome to visit the Hall and see the new MCR when they are next in Oxford. You can contact the Development and Alumni Relations Office at aularianconnect@seh.ox.ac.uk to arrange a visit.

Big Think Competition 2023 Results submit a video essay answering one of our academics’ ‘big’ tutorial-style questions.

14 subjects were offered, with questions ranging from ‘Are CEOs overpaid?’ to ‘How unique is Earth as a habitable planet?’.

With a record number of entries for 2023, the Big Think Competition was back stronger than ever!

This spring, St Edmund Hall invited young people in state schools across the UK to

We are pleased to announce that Naheed Akbari was the Overall Winner of the Big Think Competition 2023. Her video on how the environment influences the brain was highly praised by our Tutor in Neuroscience, Professor David Dupret. In particular, he commended her thoughtful method of presentation, along with a compelling conclusion and strong sections on polymorphism of alleles and physical exercise.

Second prize went to Erin McGurk. Erin

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answered the question ‘Can important decisions be made on the basis of mathematical models only?’. Dr Tom Crawford, Early Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics, commented that Erin’s video was very engaging and used key examples to bring the discussion to life.

The high standard of entries blew us all away with so many creative and clever responses. The Hall awarded a winner to each subject and, thanks to the high quality of entries this year, several Special Commendations were given to runners-up in the competition.

The Hall welcomed Naheed and the other Subject Winners to a Prizewinners’ Day in Oxford in July, where they had a tour of St Edmund Hall, met current students and the tutors who marked their entries, and found out more about life at university.

“I enjoyed the entries and meeting the students, and I look forward to next year.”

– Participating Tutor “I love this competition, all the entries were wonderful to watch.” – Participating Tutor “I’m definitely going to apply for Oxford

now after seeing the College and talking to the tutor.” – Winning Entrant “I am still pretty speechless at the result.” – Winning Entrant “Thank you so much for the incredible news of a Special Commendation award – it has made my day! I am so happy to read the constructive and kind comments about my presentation which I will be sure to utilise in my future endeavours, it is greatly appreciated.” – Winning Entrant “I thoroughly enjoyed putting together my video and have learnt a lot from the process.” – Winning Entrant A huge congratulations to everyone who took part in the competition. We hope to see many of them at the University (and maybe even at St Edmund Hall…) in the future! We are also very grateful to our tutors for their efforts in judging the competition.

Watch the winning entries and find out more about the competition on our Big Think Competition webpage: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/study/outreach/ events-and-competitions/big-thinkcompetition/2023-winners

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St Edmund Hall Academics to Lead Tidal Energy Project

Richard Willden, Professor of Engineering Science and Tutor in Engineering Science and Paul Goulart, Associate Professor and Tutor in Engineering Science are part of a new ambitious £7 million project to help deliver scalable, affordable and sustainable tidal stream energy. This project is backed by investment from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and will work to boost energy security and potentially enable tidal stream energy to make a meaningful contribution to achieving UK net zero goals.

Professor Willden is the Project Lead and with Professor Goulart and academic teams from across the Universities of Oxford, Edinburgh and Strathclyde will lead a multi-disciplinary research team investigating ‘Co-design to deliver Scalable Tidal Stream Energy’ (CoTide).

The group will work to make renewable energy generation from ocean tides cheaper, more reliable and scalable. The CoTide project will develop integrated engineering tools and solutions, together with concept designs complemented by laboratory demonstrators.

Professor Willden comments: “We have a huge opportunity as a country to harness the powerful tides that surround us and use innovative engineering to develop greater energy security and clean energy to help us meet our 2050 net zero goals. This EPSRC investment in CoTide allows us to bring together world-class engineering expertise and drive forward the kind of creative, collaborative research that will ensure the UK remains a world-leader in tidal stream development and deployment.”

CoTide will build on the Oxford team’s unique experience and capabilities in designing and testing high-performance turbines, which have been developed through Professor Willden’s EPSRC Advanced Fellowship, as well as Professor Goulart’s expertise in numerical optimisation methods and control for embedded systems. The project will capitalise on Oxford’s recent investment in a state-of-the-art current and wave flume that will allow turbine and platform designs to be rapidly tested under harsh environmental conditions.

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Running Out of Time Relay at Teddy Hall St Edmund Hall was delighted to welcome Alumnus Dan Thompson’s (1979, PPE) Running Out of Time Relay, a climate action campaign, to the Hall on Thursday 6 July. This is the UK’s biggest sporting celebration of climate action and nature and is aimed to raise awareness amongst politicians, businesses and society.

Read more on the Running Out Of Time website: running-out-of-time.com

At 1:30pm, Dan and two runners changed the baton to mark the next stage of the relay. The relay is a 2,661km route from Ben Nevis to Big Ben with 366 stages to raise awareness about the ongoing climate crisis.

Centre for the Creative Brain The Centre for the Creative Brain held their Michaelmas term event ‘Inside the Dog Brain’ with Guide Dogs UK on Friday 25 November 2022. The Hall welcomed Sam Arnsby, an Apprentice Guide Dog Mobility Instructor at Irish Guide Dogs; Dr Magdalena Boch, a postdoctoral researcher studying the canine brain; and Nicole and Yvonne, volunteers from Guide Dogs UK. The event began with Yvonne describing her experience as a ‘guide dog mum’ of

guide dog litters and what happens during the dogs’ early years. Next, Nicola spoke about her experiences having a guide dog and how it improved her quality of life significantly, enabling her to get out and about and allowing her independence again.

Magdalena then described her research (alongside adorable photos of dogs in MRI machines), and discussed the similarities and differences between dog and human brains. She is particularly interested in

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how the brains evolved, since humans and dogs are both highly sociable despite our brains not being closely related.

Finally, Sam spoke briefly about operant and classical conditioning, before telling us all about how he teaches dogs to be confident in their decision-making. He described how he makes his dogs feel “a million dollars” so that they can be resilient and confident when faced with obstacles in the real world.

It was clear just how much the audience enjoyed the event, with many hanging around afterwards for at least 45 minutes to chat to the speakers!

In Trinity term, the Centre was delighted to welcome the Oxford Imps, Oxford’s premiere improvised comedy troupe and Sophie Scott, Professor of Cognitive Neurocience at University College London, at their latest event ‘The Neuroscience of Laughter’.

The evening started with a 30-minute interactive performance from the Oxford Imps that had the audience in stitches!

The only neuroscientist who could follow such an act was Professor Sophie Scott, giving a fascinating (and hilarious) academic account of the neuroscience behind human vocal communication, including the communication of emotion through laughter. A very successful evening!

The Centre for the Creative Brain is generously endorsed by St Edmund Hall and the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford. The Centre is led by Professor Charlie Stagg, Fellow by Special Election in Neuroscience at St Edmund Hall and the student-led Centre for the Creative Brain committee More about the Centre for the Creative Brain: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/discover/ research/centre-for-the-creative-brain-2

Memorial Service for Justin Gosling On Saturday 10 June, the University Church welcomed around 60 people to the memorial service led by our Chaplain, the Revd Dr Zachary Guiliano, for former Principal and Honorary Fellow Justin Gosling. Professor Christopher Taylor, Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi gave a professional tribute, whilst the College was represented by John Dunbabin and the Principal. The congregation returned to the Hall afterwards to share wonderful memories and enjoy a delicious tea. Thank you to the Choir of St Edmund Hall and to everyone who attended or participated in such a fitting tribute.

Read more tributes to and memories of Justin Gosling in Section 8 on pp. 200-215.

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OXCEP: Precision Medicine Post Pandemic 2023 at St Edmund Hall, on the theme of ‘Precision Medicine Post Pandemic’, and became the newest members of the Aularian family.

During the farewell ceremony, the course attendees sang in chorus bidding adieu to the Hall and the University. The event was concluded with a traditional toast of ‘Floreat Aula’ to the Principal and the Hall.

Between 2 and 15 July, a group of 35 senior medical academics, clinicians, researchers and dental surgeons from Taiwan took part in the highly intensive OXCEP (Oxford Chinese Economy Programme) Academic Medicine Course

During the course, the dental surgeons also established their academic participation with OXCEP, on a new Dental Medicine Course to commence in the summer of 2025.

For enquiries about OXCEP, please contact xiaowei.chen@seh.ox.ac.uk

Honours, Awards & Prizes As ever there have been many admirable achievements of SCR members, current students and worldwide alumni during 2022-23. These are chronicled in Sections 2, 4 and 9 of this Magazine. Here, special mention is made of some of these awards and prizes, and of other successes deserving to be placed on record.

Aularians Honoured by the King Congratulations to Hall Visitor and Oxford’s Chancellor, The Lord Patten of Barnes KG CH PC, who was made Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter – Britain’s highest order of chivalry and a mark of the country’s respect for Lord Patten’s work in the UK and abroad.

Honorary Fellow Mark, Lord Sedwill of Sherborne (1987, MPhil Economics), Former Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser was appointed the Knight Grand Cross

of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) for services to British foreign policy, to National Security and HM Government. Lord Sedwill matriculated at St Edmund Hall in 1987 after four years at St Andrew’s University. He was taught by some of the world’s leading economists, including Steve Nickell, John Vickers and the late Jim Mirrlees. Lord Sedwill became an Honorary Fellow at the Hall on 19 May 2021 and gave the inaugural Pontigny lecture on ‘Global Governance in a Contested World’ on 16 June 2021.

Also in the 2023 New Year Honours List Dr Linda Yueh, Fellow by Special Election in Economics, received a CBE for ‘Services to Economics’.

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Dr Yueh’s research focuses on economic development and growth, with an emphasis on the changing structure of the global economy.

She has written/edited 11 books, including a textbook, Macroeconomics, and is the Series Editor for the Routledge Economic Growth and Development book series.

She has published widely in leading journals and served as guest editor of World Development and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. Dr Yueh was appointed as an Adviser to the UK Board of Trade in 2020. In 2021, she was appointed by HM Treasury as a member of the Independent Review Panel on Ringfencing and Proprietary Trading.

Linda writes: “I am humbled and deeply honoured. I will continue to contribute in various ways, including deepening our knowledge of economics and how it can improve standards of living as well as continuing to make economics accessible and applicable to policymaking. Having started out as a postgraduate student at the Hall, I am grateful to my wonderful colleagues at Oxford who have been supportive and stimulating throughout my career.”

Aularian David Wright (1978, Modern Languages and Linguistics) received a BEM (British Empire Medal) for outstanding and sustained services to the Royal British Legion in Portugal, in King Charles III’s first Birthday Honours on 16 June 2023. For many years, as the Vice-Chairman of the Portugal Royal British Legion branch and Lisbon area representative, he has been the driving force behind numerous initiatives to support British veterans and their families living in Portugal, such as the Poppy Appeal, monthly members’ lunches and

in particular, for his planning and delivery of the highly successful Remembrance Sunday events in Lisbon. He has also voluntarily supported other organisations with significant benefits to the British and wider community in the Lisbon area, and to the UK’s reputation in Portugal.

David shares: “Receiving this award is an extraordinary honour. I am deeply grateful and humbled to be recognised in this way. It is also very much a testament to the support and encouragement I have received from my family, friends, and colleagues along the way. We have enjoyed some great times together.”

Professor Nicholas Cronk, Emeritus Fellow and Professorial Fellow and Director of the Voltaire Foundation, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from McGill University for his scholarship.

Author, professor, and pioneering researcher Professor Cronk is one of the world’s pre-eminent Enlightenment scholars while standing at the forefront of digital humanities technology. His work has been and remains crucial to the development of digital humanities research and is broadening our understanding of 18th-century civilisation.

Professor Cronk is now leading the planning of the digital edition of Voltaire’s complete writings as part of a new initiative titled Digital Enlightenment.

Claire Edwards, Fellow by Special Election in Surgery and Associate Professor of Bone Oncology, was awarded the prestigious European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS) Mike Horton preclinical/ translational award on Sunday 16 April in recognition of her significant contributions to the field of bone and calcified tissue.

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The ECTS is the major organisation in Europe for researchers and clinicians working in the musculoskeletal field.

Professor Mike Horton (1948-2010) was a haematologist-turned-basic scientist who made significant contributions in the bone field and beyond.

The Revd Dr Zachary Guiliano, Career Development and Research Fellow in Early Medieval History and Chaplain, received the Ecclesiastical History Society’s annual prize for his book The Homiliary of Paul the Deacon: Religious and Cultural Reform in Carolingian Europe (Brepols, 2021) on 14 January 2023. The prize is awarded once a year to an author’s first monograph in the field of ecclesiastical history. The selection committee praised the book, saying it would have “an enormous impact” on the field: “Guiliano’s study combines enormous technical expertise in palaeography and codicology…but what we feel really sets this book apart is how Guiliano uses this attention to detail to shed light on the political and intellectual life of the early medieval Church.”

Dr Guiliano has also been appointed to the Academic Board of the Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology, a programme of the Archbishop of Canterbury for awarding postgraduate research degrees (MPhil, PhD). The Academic Board monitors and upholds the academic standards and policies of the programme, as well as arranges pastoral support for students on the scheme.

More about The Homiliary of Paul the Deacon on the publisher’s website: www.brepols.net/products/IS9782503577913-1

Andrew Kahn FBA, Professor and Tutorial Fellow of Russian Literature and Modern Languages, and Dr Kelsey Detlev-Rubin who (as CoPIs) have been awarded the 2023 BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Prize for Best Digital Resource, for the ‘Digital Correspondence of Catherine the Great’ (CatCor).

The citation notes that “the judges described it as an ‘excellent resource’ that unearths and makes available a large range of Catherine the Great’s letters.”

They added that the site was “intuitive” and that “the transcriptions and detailed cataloguing of the manuscripts is very impressive”. Although it makes clear that the database is not a ‘Critical Edition’, it serves as the best available versions of many of these texts. The site also has scope to grow by incorporating c.10,000 further letters.

Visit the Digital Correspondence of Catherine the Great website: catcor.seh. ox.ac.uk/

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Professor Aris Karastergiou, Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics and 12 other Oxford academics were recognised in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division’s inaugural Awards for Outstanding Research Supervision.

The awards recognise and celebrate the supervisors and research group leaders who demonstrate leadership and best practice by nurturing and supporting research colleagues in their role as DPhil supervisors or research group leaders; they recognise those who excel in their everyday supervision of colleagues and professional commitment to people development.

His nominations describe how Aris creates a positive, welcoming space for each of his students by focusing on equality, inclusivity, encouragement and positivity.

He opens up his home to the research group to help build team cohesion and he devotes much of his time to supporting them in both departmental and international collaborations in the interest of helping them reach their full research potential.

Aris said: “I feel grateful to the students and postdocs I have had the privilege to supervise, who have excelled at their work and enriched my life in the process.

This award feels like a recognition of the positive spirit and trusting relationships in the group, that have underpinned our achievements.”

Aularian Awarded 150th Patent Dr Bernard Bewlay (1980, Metallurgy & Science of Materials), Chief Scientist for Materials Systems and Services Technologies at General Electric (GE), was recognised by the company for his 150th patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office at a ceremony in New York.

This prolific achievement places Bernard among the very elite in the history of GE innovators. In the company’s 120-year existence, only a few dozen GE employees have achieved this momentous patent milestone, including notable inventors Ernst Alexanderson, Charles Steinmetz, and Thomas Edison, the founder of GE. Bernard’s innovations are in a broad range of technologies for aircraft engines, power generation gas turbines, and medical imaging devices.

He was also the recipient of the 2018 Coolidge Award, the highest honour awarded to a scientist within GE. Furthermore, Bernard is a Fellow of ASM International and a member of the Materials Research Society, TMS, and the Institute of Materials.

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Stuart Ford Named Variety’s Billion Dollar Producer 2023 Leading Hollywood producer and financier Stuart Ford (1988, Jurisprudence) was named Variety magazine’s Billion Dollar Producer and was feted at a 19 May cocktail reception at the Cannes Film Festival.

Many of the LA-based producer’s business associates and partners, as well as industry friends, dropped by the Croisette villa to toast Ford, who was given the honour by Variety’s Co-Editor in Chief Ramin Setoodeh. The award recognises an illustrious career that has seen Ford so far produce more than 70 Hollywood films and major television shows and work alongside industry heavyweights including

Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Gary Ross, Doug Liman, Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Nicole Kidman, Mel Gibson, Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Sylvester Stallone.

Stuart says: “The recognition of your peers and of the Hollywood establishment is rewarding, but I’m still relatively young so hopefully this award is just a mid-career pat on the back. I have a lot of fuel left in the tank!”

Thanks to the support of Stuart, Teddy Hall students can apply for the Stuart Ford Masterclass Award in Film & Television of £1,000 for coaching in film or television.

The Masterclass Fund is open to all Hall students and supports individuals who have already reached a high level of achievement in an extra-curricular activity and are now seeking funding for additional coaching to develop and hone their skills.

Aularian Awarded Oxford Nicolas Berggruen Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy, Law & Politics 2023 The prize was for her dissertation, ‘The impact of the coexistence of multiple norms from different sources of international law on change to the jus ad bellum’. Katie is currently editing the dissertation into a monograph for publication.

On 1 June 2023, the Faculty of Law announced that Dr Katie Johnston (2018, DPhil Law) was the winner of the Oxford Nicolas Berggruen Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy, Law & Politics 2023.

On hearing she had won the prize, Katie said: “I am honoured to be awarded the Oxford Nicolas Berggruen Prize and grateful to everyone at Oxford and beyond who supported me throughout my DPhil research. It is important that when states claim to be using military force against other states in accordance with

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international law these legal claims are subject to rigorous scrutiny – particularly where they are based on novel or controversial analyses of the law. I hope that my thesis has contributed to clarifying the complex international legal framework that regulates the use of force by states, so that such claims of lawfulness can be properly evaluated.”

Katie is now a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool. Her DPhil research was funded for all three years by a

postgraduate scholarship from Teddy Hall – the MCR 50th Anniversary Award – alongside an Art and Humanities Research Council doctoral studentship. She comments “I am very grateful to the Hall for its generous support for my research.”

This prestigious prize is generously funded

by Nicolas Berggruen of the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. Each year the prize is awarded to the work that is both excellent and transformative in either theory or practice.

Hall Rugby Blues Student Signs Professional Contract Piers Von Dadelszen (2019, Engineering), three times a Rugby Blue, has signed a two year contract with the New England FreeJacks in the US Major League Rugby.

Piers says: “Signing for the New England FreeJacks is an exciting opportunity for me, and I am looking forward to the start of my professional rugby career off the back of four incredible years at St Edmund Hall and OURFC. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time here at Teddy Hall but I am ready for this next step.”

Teddy Hall Student Wins Medical Award Congratulations to Dr Mary Ellen (Mellie) Gilder (2022, DPhil Clinical Medicine) who was awarded the Albany Medical College 2023 Humanitarian Alumna award for her work at the in the Oxford Tropical Network at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit.

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Student Awards and Achievements Sport Warm congratulations go to the following students who were recognised this year for their participation at University level: Olivia Allen (2021, Earth Sciences) Gymnastics, Half Blue Sumali Bajaj (2020, Environmental Research (NERC DTP)) Badminton, Half Blue Oliver Bater (2019, PPE) Triathlon, Half Blue Chloe Boudreau (2022, Visiting Student) Lacrosse, Blue Logan Clew-Bachrach (2020, PPE) Ski & Snowboard, Half Blue Kit Gallagher (2021, Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Science: Responsible and Reproducible Research (EPSRC CDT)) Water Polo, Blue Honor Gibbs (2022,PPE) Lacrosse, Blue George Hobbs (2022, PGCE) Rugby Football, Blue Aleksander Kruzewski (2020, Economics and Management) Fencing, Half Blue Adam Pattenden (2020, Engineering) Lightweight Rowing (Men’s), Blue Rory Fleminger (2020, DPhil Wind and Marine Energy Systems and Structures (EPSRC CDT)) Yacht, Half Blue Hannah Riches (2019, Medicine) Rugby Football, Blue Sophie Shams (2022, DPhil Earth Sciences) Rugby Football, Blue Caspar Soyoye (2021, Earth Sciences) Fencing, Half Blue Jack Sun (2021, PPE) Water Polo, Blue Hui Wen Teh (2019, Engineering) Ultimate, Half Blue Piers Van Dadelszen (2019, Engineering) Rugby Football, Blue Archie Watt (2019, Medicine) Fencing, Blue

The Hall’s Amalgamated Clubs give awards to Hall members for obtaining the distinction of a Blue (£200) or Half Blue (£100). Thanks to the continuing generosity of Richard Luddington (1978, Modern History), the Luddington Prize was awarded to Hazel Wake (2019, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry) for having achieved both a First in Finals and a Blue during her undergraduate career.

Simonian Prizes for Excellence in Leadership Thanks to the continuing generosity Aularian Professor Simon J Simonian (1962, Animal Physiology) and his family, the Simonian Prizes for Excellence in Leadership went to: Julien Kress (2019, History), Camille Lasbareilles (2021, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences) and Daniele Cotton (2021, DPhil Molecular and Cellular Medicine).

Masterclass Fund Awards The aim of these awards of up to £1,000 is to facilitate further development and achievement for individual students.

This year nine awards were given to the following students to help them to pursue advanced training in the extra-curricular activities — creative or sporting — in which they excelled: Jessica James (2022, DPhil Engineering) – oil painting Ariana Orozco (2022, MSc History of Science, Medicine and Technology) – sewing Aimee Paterson (2020, DPhil Medical Sciences) – long-distance running coaching

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Ekaterina Rahr-Bohr (2021, Modern Languages) – violin lessons Thomas Rowland (2016, Medicine) – Freedom Outdoors course Luke Spajic (2022, MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment) – ice climbing Victoria Stone (2019, English) – improv course Piers von Dadelszen (2019, Engineering) – physio for rugby union Archie Watt (2019, Medicine) – fencing The Hall remains extremely grateful for the sponsorship which supports this successful Masterclass Fund Awards scheme.

Keith Gull Fund Daniele Cotton (2021, DPhil Molecular and Cellular Medicine), Marcus Dahl (2020, DPhil Socio-Legal Studies), Max Falk (2019, Biomedical Sciences), Christopher Gallagher (2021, Sustainable Approaches to Biomedical Science CDT), Weijia Gao (2021, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry) and Luke Spajic (2022, MSc Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment) have all received an award from the Keith Gull Fund. The fund is used at the discretion of the Principal to provide

direct support to current Hall students who wish to undertake special projects such as charitable work, choral and drama tours, travel for unusual academic opportunities and to assist others. Keith Gull initiated this fund during his tenure as Principal at the Hall, reflecting his commitment to both ‘Hall Spirit’ and supporting student ambition.

Antunes Da Silva Politics Award Thanks to the generous gift of Carla Antunes da Silva (1992, PPE), the College offers two prizes of up to £750 for an outstanding essay based on questions set by the current Politics tutors.

The question for first year students: “If there was inherent value in biodiversity, then the market would have reached an equilibrium with much more biodiversity than we currently have. Discuss.”

The question for second and third year students: “Large social media networks (such as Twitter and Facebook) are too politically important to be in private hands - they ought to be democratically owned and operated. Do you agree?”

The 2022-2023 winners were: James O’Neill (2022, PPE) and Christina Herold (2021, PPE).

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And Finally: Welcome to New Executive Head Chef Sam White Oxford colleges. My father also worked for Oxford University as a chef for 40 years.

It was always my dream to come back to the University as a Head Chef one day. As soon as I walked into Teddy Hall and met all the staff, I knew this was the one. One of my other passions which runs alongside cooking is sustainability. So, when I realised that Teddy Hall has the same ethos, it was a no brainer.”

What are your plans for Teddy Hall’s menus?

We were delighted to welcome Sam White as the new Executive Head Chef at St Edmund Hall this year. Sam joined us on 22 November 2022 from Abingdon School. Previously he was Head Chef at Magdalen College School. He has worked as a chef for 15 years, following in the footsteps of his father and grandmother.

From his first day as a chef in a central Oxford hotel, Sam knew that was his passion and what he wanted to do. Sam has travelled a large part of the world – around Australia, Southeast Asia and Europe to name a few destinations– where he has picked up many culinary skills and concepts. The results of his travels can clearly be seen in his daily menu here at Teddy Hall. Sam has also worked in Rosette-awarded restaurants in Brighton and 5-star hotels in Perth.

We recently interviewed Sam to find out more about his culinary plans for Teddy Hall: Why did you decide to join the Hall as Executive Head Chef?

“I spent a small amount of time at the beginning of my career at Brasenose College, where I picked up my love for

“I’m implementing a modern touch on the menus with street food dishes and food from around the world. There’ll be more to choose from every day with the salad bars and extras too. I have also introduced a plant-based course at lunch and dinner times, to help with the sustainability of the College, which has been greatly received.

On certain days we sell more of the plantbased dishes than the meat main, which is always positive.”

What are your favourite and least favourite foods?

“My favourite foods are Southeast Asian cuisine, I love the flavours and freshness.

I’ve really taken to plant-based dishes too.

The world is changing and I have enjoyed creating new dishes for Teddy Hall. Also, the home cooked comfort foods such as lasagne, beef and ale pie and roast lamb on a Sunday. I don’t have any dislikes, as long as it is cooked well.”

Readers with culinary interests can try out some of Sam’s recipes on pp. 195-197.

You can also follow Sam and his team’s excellent work via his St Edmund Hall Kitchen Instagram account: www.instagram.com/sehkitchen/

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The Senior Tutor’s Year The academic year 2022-23 was a busy one, with a flurry of new additions to the Fellowship and some notable departures.

At the start of Michaelmas term, we welcomed 110 undergraduates and 122 graduates to the Hall, while 35 Visiting Students from far and wide spent one or more terms studying in Oxford as the year progressed. Undergraduate admissions interviews in December 2022 remained online and, later in the year, the University determined that they would remain so for the next five years.

There was lively debate across the University regarding the pros and cons of this approach, but this decision now provides some certainty in the mediumterm. Given that students will no longer visit the College during the selection process, the College will introduce further support for successful applicants, including an offer-holder open day. It is hoped that, along with our existing open day activities, this support will familiarise students with the College and ease the transition for them from school to College.

You can read more about the open days and our other outreach work elsewhere in this Magazine.

In addition to welcoming new students, we welcomed a host of new Fellows, in varying categories. Professor Alex Kohlhas took up a Tutorial Fellowship in Economics at the start of Michaelmas term and was joined by three Senior Research Fellows – Professors Déirdre Hollingsworth (Medical Sciences), Kate Saunders (Medical Sciences) and Steve Smith (Social Sciences) – and four Junior Research Fellows – Drs Severin Bunk (Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences), Roman Kuhn (Humanities), Zoe Farrell

(Humanities), and David McMeekin (Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences) – all selected through competition gathered-field exercises. The College’s website provides profiles of our seven new research fellows, highlighting the exciting work that they are undertaking in their respective fields.

The College also hosted four academics Professors Ruth von Bernuth, Christina Laskaridis, Dagmar Riedel and Nicholas Terpstra, all of whom collaborate with Hall academics – as Visiting Fellows for brief periods during the academic year and elected two Ukrainian scholars – Drs Daryna Dvornichenko and Valery Kuzev – as Visiting Fellows for the duration of their Researchers at Risk Fellowships in this country.

During the course of the year, two colleagues moved on to appointments elsewhere. Solène Rowan, recently appointed as Tutorial Fellow in Law, returned to London to take up a Chair at King’s College. Roger Benson, Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences and latterly Tutor

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for Admissions was appointed Macaulay Curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. I wish them both well in their new roles. In addition, Cameron Hepburn’s tenure as Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment came to a close at the end of the year; his replacement is Professor Mette Morsing, who has joined the College as a Fellow by Special Election.

It was also a busy year for recruitment of new Tutorial Fellows, with elections made to joint appointments with the University in a number of fields. Professor Luke Parry who, until January 2023, held an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellowship (ECTRF) in Earth Sciences was appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship, further evidence that the support that we offer through the ECTRF programme equips young researchers for a career in academia. Luke took up his appointment in October 2023 alongside Professors Brooke Marshall (Law), Katharina Marquardt (Materials Science) and David Moreno Mateos (Geography). In addition, Professor Linda Eggert will take up a joint appointment in Philosophy – the first at the College in 30 years – in October 2024.

Recruitment for Tutorial Fellows in Politics, Chemistry and Computer Science will take place during 2023-24, the latter appointment enabling the College to recommence admissions for Computer Science and its Joint Schools from the 2025 intake onwards.

A number of key College Officer roles changed hands at the end of the academic year. Mark Williams has taken over from Amy Zavatsky as Tutor for Undergraduates, Luc Nguyen follows Richard Willden as Tutor for Graduates, while David Manolopoulos has assumed the office of Tutor for Admissions. In addition, Jonathan Yates’ tenure as Dean – a period overshadowed by the significant student welfare challenges imposed by the pandemic – has concluded; Jonathan is succeeded in the role by Jeff Tseng. I am very grateful to all those leaving office for their significant contributions during their time in these challenging roles.

Finally, the end of the academic year saw the retirement of two College stalwarts, with over 50 years of service between them. Philip Mountford retired from his Tutorial Fellowship in Chemistry, while Rob Whittaker, latterly Vice-Principal (and fittingly Pro-Principal in his final term, during which the Principal took sabbatical leave) stood down from the Tutorial Fellowship in Geography. I end this year’s report by paying tribute to the many ways that they have contributed to the College over the years and the huge influence that they have had on the Hall and the lives of its students during their time here. I wish them long and productive retirements.

Professor Robert Wilkins, Senior Tutor

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Student Numbers

On the College register at the start of Trinity term 2023 were 430 undergraduates, 328 postgraduates, and 35 Visiting Students.

NEW STUDENTS 2022-23 Undergraduates In the 2022-23 academic year, 110 students joined the College as undergraduates from the following schools, colleges, and universities: Abraham

Anandita

The Alice Smith School, Kuala Lumpur

Apostol

Catinca

Sfântul Sava National College, Bucharest

Ashley

Bliss

Leeds Arts University

Aspland

Eve

Exeter College, Hele Road Centre

Bailleux

Lenny

The Sixth Form College, Colchester

Balakrishna

Simone

Dame Alice Owen's School

Begum

Jemima

Brampton Manor Academy

Berresford

Alexander

Loughborough College

Bhaumik

Ashmeet

Stroud High School

Boulton

Luke

Latymer Upper School

Brown

Isabella

Hutchesons′ Grammar School

Bursey

Sophia

Pate′s Grammar School

Burson

Alexander

The Perse School

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Cade

Lucy

North Halifax Grammar School

Champion

Tom

Sir Thomas Rich′s School

Chen

Rick

St Paul′s School

Cheng

Zixiang

Raffles Junior College, Singapore

Chia

Rachel

Woodhouse College

Choi

Grace

St Paul ′s Girls′ School

Chryssavgis

Julian

University of St Andrews

Colleran

Ben

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys

Cryer

Daniel

All Hallows Catholic School

Das

Anisha

Withington Girls′ School

Dawson

Alexandra

Bancroft ′s School

Early

Thomas

Callington Community College

Ewin

Sophie

Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School

Foster

Freya

Leeds Arts University

Galway

Finn

Barton Peveril College

Gella

Suchir Sampath

Queen Mary ′s Grammar School for Boys

Gibbs

Honor

Benenden School

Gillespie

Jack

Harton Academy

Goreli

Stephanie

Queen′s Gate School

Gu

Xilin (Celine)

Phillips Exeter Academy, USA

Hartigan

Katelyn

Teign School

Haynes

Indigo

Budehaven Community School

Heath

Tobias

New College Worcester

Hill

Molly

Thomas Telford School

Ho

Ella

St Robert of Newminster RC School and VI Form College

Hogermeer

Eliza

Dame Alice Owen′s School

Holmes

Toby

Runshaw College

Holofaiev

Anton

Seaford College

Hopkins

Abigail

Barton Peveril College

Horan

Antonia

St Catherine′s School, Bramley

Howard

Emily

The Chase School

Ingham-Lenman

Isla

Esher Sixth Form College

Iyengar

Rohan

Eton College

Kairu

Meranie

Bedford Girls′ School

Kam

Yat Long (Jerry)

Oxford International College

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Kennedy

Tom

Harvey Grammar School

Kilic

Mehmet Efe

Uskudar American Academy

Kuang

Chengyu (Ivan)

Dulwich College Zhuhai

Lai

Cheuk Yee Charlotte

Cheltenham Ladies′ College

Li

Zhuoxuan

Radley College

Lloyd

Tobias

Eastbourne College

Locke

Lily

Benenden School

Loh

Owen

Kolej Yayasan UEM

Long

Zhongdui

Beijing No.2 Middle School

Lund

Hannah

Callywith College

Macrae

Emily

St Paul′s Girls′ School

Mahenthiran

Devaa

Sunway College PJ

Mann

Toby

King Edward VI College

McCauley-Wright

Freya

UTC Portsmouth

McCormick Paice

Helena

Francis Holland School

McKenzie

Aaron

Durham Johnston Comprehensive School

Miao

Haojun (Jordan)

Kingston Grammar School

Morgan

James

Ulverston Victoria High School

Mottram

Felix

Harris Westminster Sixth Form

Murfin

Niamh

Torquay Grammar School for Girls

Murphy

William

The Skinners′ School

Newell

Charlotte

The Tiffin Girls′ School

Ngu

Kelvin

Kolej Yayasan UEM

Nijkamp

Luke

Berkhamsted School

O'Neill

James

Winstanley College

Osifo

Osaruonamen

Tiffin Girls′ School

Palmer

Lily

George Watson′s College

Pandey

Ishika

The Green School

Powell

Archie

Harrow School

Ramakrishnan

Rathi

St Dominic′s Sixth Form College

Read

Madison

Cirencester College

Reji

Tinu

St Dominic′s Sixth Form College

Ren

Shuzhe

National Junior College, Singapore

Rollinson

Lucas

Öffentliches Gymnasium der Stiftung Theresianische Akademie

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Sabourian

Leili

The Perse School

Sambrook

James

Colchester Royal Grammar School

Se

Tanya

Oxford International College

Simmonds

Euan

Elizabeth College

Soni

Ella

University of the Arts London

Spencer

Oliver

The Portsmouth Grammar School

Sreter

Lili

Waldegrave School

Stevenson

Olivia

Oxford Brookes University

Storey

Anastasia

Lord Williams′s School

Stubbs

Kate

Teesside High School

Suganuma

Sophia

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

Taal

Jessica

Derby High School

Taylor-Torney

Aoife

Sir William Perkins′s School

Thompson-Mouton

Lily

Sale Grammar School

Underwood

Tegan

Falmouth School

Usai

Lorenzo

St Paul′s School

Wade

Daniel

Penistone Grammar School

Waqar

Maha

Nonsuch High School for Girls

Ward

Charlotte

Maidstone Grammar School for Girls

White

Samuel

Lord Williams′s School

Wong

Yu Ming Alexis

King′s School, Canterbury

Wright

Anastacia

King Edward VI School

Wroe

Emma

The King′s Priory School

Wuelfing

Mara

Redland Green School

Xie

Shaojing (Jane)

Guangdong Experimental High School

Zaidi

Fizza

Henrietta Barnett School

Zhang

Xi

Heilongjiang Provincial Experimental High School

Zhang

Yating

Pennon Education Group

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Postgraduates In the 2022-23 academic year, 122 students joined the College as postgraduates from the following schools, colleges, and universities: Abusamra

Sophia

University of Michigan

Airan

Fatima

American University of Central Asia

Allen

Hester

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Ammu

Ammu

Indian Institute of Technology

Arthur

James

University of Exeter

Ayuen

Dhol

Makerere University

Baker

Julia

Australian National University

Baldelli

Claudia

University of St Andrews

Barnard

Léonor-Jo

Université de Paris IV (Paris- Sorbonne),

Barua

Tanvi

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Bashir

Hams

University of Khartoum

Bennemann

Felix

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Boivin-Picard

Sarin

IE Business School Madrid

Bonnington

Craig

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Brennan

Clare

Australian National University

Bressington

Daisy

University College London

Bush

Julia

University of Bath

Cabrejos Portocarrero

José Ignacio

Universidad del Pacifico

Campbell

Christopher

University of Southampton

Case

Zoe

Harvard University

Chan

Timothy

University of Oxford

Cheung

Justin

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Chung

Ejin

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Clifford

Phoebe

University of Otago

Coimbatore Viswanathan

Sruthi

Université de Paris XI (Paris Sud)

Craven

Edward

University of Oxford

Croker

John

University of Melbourne

Cui

Zhexin

Xian Jiaotong University

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Czworka

Delaney

University of Florida

De Grandi

Davide

Università degli Studi di Pavia

Dragland

Tinius Bentsen

University of Warwick

Dragomirescu

Radu

University College London

Du

Jiaxing

Northwestern University

Dunbar

Katie

University of Exeter

Eggers

Serena

University of Reading

Erukulla

Rohith

University of Illinois at Chicago

Escobar

Annelisse

Universidad Francisco Marroquin

Figlus

Christina

Yale University

Figueiredo

Guilherme

Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa — Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Filipovich

Matthew

Queen′s University at Kingston

Fölsz

Orsolya

University of Durham

Fraser

Eve

McGill University

Fu

Qianlin

University College London

Gandhi

Milan

University of Queensland

Geremew Mankeshe

Rebekka

Freie Universität Berlin

Gilder

Mary Ellen

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Greenspon

Jacob

Harvard University

Grzesiuk

Marek

King′s College London

Guo

Zichuan

Columbia University

Gutkowski

Jan

University of St Andrews

Hand

Frances

University of Oxford

Hassanein

Sarah

Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology

Henning

Thomas

University of Oxford

Hess

Maximilian

University of Oxford

Hobbs

George

Cardiff University

Hocking

Conor

University of Cambridge

Hsu

Ian

Dartmouth College

James

Jessica

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Jedrzejko

Nicole

McMaster University

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Kaplan

Merve

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi

Kassab

Christina

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Khalanchuk

Viktoriia

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Kilmurry

Manisha

School of Oriental and African Studies

Koch

Benedikt

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich

Kress

Julien

University of Oxford

Kuo

Rachel

University of Cambridge

Laing

Jasmine

University of Western Australia Nedlands

Li

Beining

University of Toronto

Li

Jiasi

University of Cambridge

Li

Keyu

London School of Economics and Political Science

Liu

Alice

University of Illinois at Chicago

Lu

Zhiyi

Goldsmiths, University of London

Luo

Xiangquan

Shanghai International Studies University

Ma

Siyu

University of Oxford

Magdelenat

Melina

University of Oxford

Markman-Morris

Emma

University of Oxford

Mitchell

Nicole

University of Warwick

Molyneux

Bethany

University of Oxford

Natarajan

Sarabesh

Duke University

Nelson-Parker

Timothy

University of Canterbury

Ng

Zi Ling

University of Cambridge

Nguyen

Phuc

Beloit College

Orozco

Ariana

Columbia University

Owusu

Keziah

University of York

Patterson

Samuel

University of Oxford

Peng

Jiachuan

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Pevsner

Spencer

University of Bristol

Pituk

Gábor

University of Cambridge

Rajput

Nikhil

University of Oxford

Regkoukos

Georgios

King′s College London

Riches

Hannah

University of Oxford

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Robinson

Lorelei

Columbia University

Ru

Yining

University of California, Los Angeles

Rust

Catherine

Loughborough University

Sabbagh

Joseph

University of Western Australia Nedlands

Sahasrabuddhe

Rohit

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune

Sakhnini

Iyab

University of Texas at Arlington

Salovaara

Emerson

Princeton University

Savić Kallesøe

Sarah

Simon Fraser University

Sebode

Isabel

University of Cambridge

Shams

Sophie

University of Durham

Sharpe

Charles

University of Sydney

Siebenmorgen

Alex

University of Arkansas

Simeon

Andris

University of Cape Town

Spajic

Luke

University of Western Australia Nedlands

Toskas

Filippos

University College London

Wafa

Hatem

King′s College London

Wang

Anni

Central South University

Wang

Jiamin

University of Washington

Wardle

Emma

University of Wellington

Watt

Archie

University of Oxford

Webb

Emily

University of Oxford

Whidden

Gwendolyn

University of Oxford

Whiteley

Thompson

Brown University

Wigg

Chloe

University College London

Williams

Angus

University of Bristol

Willoughby

James

University College London

Worth

Katja

University of Oxford

Ye

Xinyu

Tsinghua University

Yu

Changyuan

University of Toronto

Zhang

Zhiheng

Tsinghua University

Zotkin

Sergei

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

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Visiting Students 2022-23 Andrews

Jocelyn

Laurencelle

Nicholas

Attwood

Benjamin

Levy

Salomée

Bhoopalam

Ina

Li

Ruoyu

Boudreau

Chloe

McDermott

Kerry

Bueler-Faudree

Thomas

McDonald

Kamryn

Carroll

Hayden Rose

Miranda

Evan

Cavanaugh-Gouvea

Hannah

Pinto Ribeiro Filho

Juliano

Chen

Hongyi

Qu

Claire

Cheng

Tian Yu

Renaud-Lowther

Mikaela

Fan

Yingpin

Robinson

Emma

Fang

Sophia

Seth

Diya

Finberg

Joseph

Sivapiromrat

Alisa

Frary

Cameron

Takeda

Hayate

Gail

Owen

Tjandra

Isaac

Goel

Toshaani

Vijay

Anshika

Guerrero

Sofia

Wang

Zhiyu

Hartigan

Luke

Weinerman

Samantha

Huang

Yun Shu

Weylman-Farwell

Anna

Jimenez

Anna

Yoder

Emily

Johnsrud

Cecilie

Zhou

Ziruo

Kudla

Katherine

Zhu

Kristin

Larick

Julie

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Student Admissions Exercises

In the Undergraduate Admissions exercise 2021, St Edmund Hall received 738 applications for entry in 2022 and beyond (compared with 719 the previous year). Nearly 300 of these applicants were invited to interview. All applicants were interviewed online via Teams.

Following the conclusion of December’s interview period, the Hall made a total of 125 offers of undergraduate places for entry in 2022 (compared to 126 offers the previous year). 10 of these were open offers. In addition, four deferred offers of places were made for entry in Michaelmas term 2023. The Hall also ‘exported’ a small number of applicants, for offers of places at other colleges.

identified as male and 51% to female. The applicants receiving offers comprised 83% UK nationals and 17% of students from overseas including from EU countries. In respect of previous education, of the 101 offers made to UK applicants, 69% were to state-educated applicants and 31% to students attending an independent school (2020: 67% state, 33% independent).

Roughly in line with the University average of overall offers made (using rounded figures), 49% of offers for undergraduate places were made to applicants who

At the time of writing, the 2023-24 Graduate Admissions exercise had so far seen the Hall consider over 250 applications.

Graduate offer-holders for entry in 202223 represent over 30 nationalities: they will be undertaking a range of taught and research programmes in disciplines from across all four of the University’s academic divisions. The expected eventual intake of new graduate students in Michaelmas term 2022 is approximately 115.

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College Awards, Prizes and Grants College Scholars 2022-23 Alexander Abrahams Ayush Agrawal Will Ashcroft Michael Atife Aryaman Babbar Tarandeep Bains Gavin Bala Kunal Barman Oliver Bater Fenella Blayney Sophie Brown Joss Carr Isaac Chan Aili Channer Samuel Cherry Felix Clayton McClure Thomas Coates James Craggs George-Valentin Datcu Weihang Deng Jake Elliott Max Falk Thomas Farnsworth Cormac Farrell Weijia Gao Anubhab Ghosal Srija Ghosh Maisie Goodfellow Lewis Grey

Sophie Griffith Thomas Harray Tim Hartog Anna Christina Herold Alistair Ind Jasmin Kreutzer Joseph Lacey Aleisha Lanceley Sian Langham Hermione Leaver Kuo Liu Ben Lloyd Lewis Lloyd Ben Luckraft Sama Malik Saul Manasse Zoe Martial Rebecca McFie Annabel McLaren Esmé McMillan Henry Mehta Matthew Moffat James Morley Rose Morley Lucia Mullings Usmaan Nadeem Zakaria Najjar James Newbery Kitty Newbold

College Exhibitioners 2022-23 Olivia Allen Catherine Gower Emily-Lucie Bassole Ellis Hall Lila Blake Robert Hardwick Luca Boot Qianwei Jia Lang Chen Katherine Kirkpatrick Ella Coupland-Smith Wei Wei Liu Luke Drago Jiayao Lu Harriet Eyles Lysander Mawby Max Fawcett Haedam Oh

Lucy Nicholson Oliver Ogden Adam Pattenden Isobel Paxton Joseph Penn Joseph Pollard Joshua Priest Yasmin Ratcliffe Kayla Rowden Holly Sanderson Gabriella Sherwood Hiu Suet Shum Yasmin Sinha Jack Sun Ella Tan Hui Wen Teh Teddy Thomson Ben Thornley Hazel Wake Eric Ji Da Wang Kate Wellstead Ioan Whomsley Carenza Williams Thomas Williams Benjamin Wiltshire Xuan Yee Jincheng You Fengzhuoyang Zhu

Daisy Oliver Tyla Orton Hannan Pullen Joseph Ritchie Qianyi Sun Frederick Tyrell Chenyang Wang Zhaorui Xu

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Progress Prizes 2022-23 Aryaman Babbar Simone Balakrishna Ashley Canwell Rick Chen Rachel Chia Thomas Coates Max Falk Isabel Fernandez-Victorio Charlie Furniss Finn Galway Srija Ghosh Elsa Giles Sophie Griffith

William Gross Thomas Harray Chengyu Kuang Joseph Lacey Charlotte Lai Taerim Lee Tobias Lloyd Jasmine Lowe Devaassenan Mahenthiran Lysander Mawby Freya McCauley-Wright Felix Clayton McClure Rebecca McFie

Henry Mehta Niamh Murfin William Murphy Lottie Newell George Prior Shuzhe Ren Qianyi Sun Jessica Taal Luke Tamblin Charlotte Ward Shaojing Xie Jincheng You Yating Zhang

Choral Scholars Luke Boulton Samuel Cherry (TT) Elsa Giles Thomas Harray Jasmin Kreutzer (TT) Jasmine Lowe (TT) Ekaterina Rahr-Bohr Beth Scott (TT) Hiu Suet Shum (TT)

Instrumental Awards I-Ting Chou Mehmet Efe Kilic Zeng Loh Chaia McQuail Ella Soni

St Edmund Hall Association Presidents’ Prize Brodie Weymouth

Senior Choral Exhibitioners Ethan Bareham Samuel Cherry (MT, HT) Jasmin Kreutzer (MT, HT) Jasmine Lowe (MT, HT) Maria Nozdrina Daisy Pendergast Matilda Piovella Beth Scott (MT, HT) Hiu Suet Shum (MT, HT) Frederick Tyrrell

Cochrane Scholarship Aili Channer

Organ Scholars Alyssa Chan Michelle Ng (MT, HT)

Gareth Roberts Award Redmond Coleman Hector Skipworth

Graham Hamilton Travel Award William Metcalf, Jacob Davies, Ariana Orozco Matt Greenwood Travel Scholarship Claire Mallon Richard Fargher Bursary Felix Clayton McClure, Eve Gueterbock, Aminah Iman Dixon, Reuben Kyne, Imaan Saeed, Tara Sallaba

Bendhem Fine Art Bursary Yuri Hwang, Zhiyi Lu, Jinsuh Moon, Samuel Patterson, Hiu Suet Shum Bernard Bewlay Science and Engineering Bursary Thomas Harray Lucia Mullings David J. Cox Prize Katie Long Joe Todd Award Alyssa Chan, Aminah Iman Dixon George Series Prize Grace Choi, Isabel Fernandez-Victorio Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Tara Sallaba

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Ogilvie-Thompson English Prize Freya McCauley-Wright Proxime accessit Weihang Deng

Richard Luddington Prize for Outstanding Academic and Sporting Achievement Hazel Wake

Undergraduate English Award Weihang Deng

College and University Bursaries A total of 30 students received the income-related Oxford Bursary. The College components of these bursaries were supported by: a donor who wishes to remain anonymous; 1971 and 1972 Aularians; Aularians Mr Chris Ashton and Mrs Natasha Ashton; Aularian Chris Armitage in honour of his parents Charles and Edith Armitage; the generous bequest of Aularian Mr William Asbrey; Beaverbrooks the Jewellers; Aularian Mr Tony Best in honour of his parents Mr and Mrs Ron Best; Aularian David Harding and Mrs Gale Harding; Aularian Tony Laughton; Aularian Dan Levy; Aularian Mr Peter Johnson; Dr Francis Rossotti’s benefaction; Mrs Dorothy Pooley, Mrs Lucy Webber and Mrs Frances Georgel in memory of their father, Aularian Mr Philip Saul; Aularians Mr David and Mrs Judith Waring; Mr Lawrence Elliot’s benefaction and many Aularians in memory of Sir David Yardley and Carol McClure; Thomas Peel and the Charles Peel Charitable Trust; Bernard Bewlay in honour of Sir Peter Hirsch; Tony Doyle; the Adrian Briggs Bursary, supported by a number of generous Aularians in honour of Professor Adrian Briggs; and the Ann Taylor Bursary, set up in memory of Dr Taylor.

A further 29 students received the University’s income-related Crankstart Scholarship, Reuben Bursary, and Santander Bursary.

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University Awards and Prizes Law Faculty Prize in Advanced and Comparative Criminal Law and Law Faculty Prize in Medical Law and Ethics Phoebe Clifford Pinsent Masons Prize in Taxation Law Charlie Furniss

The Dolores Oria Merino Prize in Written Spanish for the best performance in Spanish Prose (Paper I) Aleisha Lanceley

Top mark in Paper III Prize based on performance in University examinations Kayla Rowden

Prize for the best performance in Practical Chemistry Jasmine Lowe

Law Faculty Prize for Medical Law and Ethics Beth Scott

Prize for Principles of Financial Regulation Timothy Nelson-Parker

Best Team Design Project: 2022-2023 Hang Su

College Graduate Awards and Prizes Emden-Doctorow Momo Komatsu E.P.A Cephalosporin Scholarship Ernest Wu Gao and Ning DPhil Chemistry Conference Award Siddhant Dhingra Mitchell Scholarship Ammu Nair

Mrs Brown Bursary Vitaly Osokin Yufan Wang Ying-Qiu Zheng Postgraduate Writing-up Grants Antonin Charret Isabel Creed Lukas Lehner Routledge Scholarship Phuc Nguyen

Tony Doyle Graduate Science Prize Xinyi Feng Krish Sanghvi Weiming Tu William Asbrey BCL Scholarship Joseph Sabbagh William R Miller Postgraduate Award Rositsa Chankova Julia Hampton Giovanni Rolandino

Partnership Graduate Awards and Prizes Clarendon Fund and E.P.A Cephalosporin Scholarship Ian Hsu Clarendon Fund and Justin Gosling Scholarship Sarah Savić Kallesøe

Clarendon Fund and Kerr-Muir Scholarship Sophia Abusamra

Oxford Women in Law BCL Scholarship Phoebe Clifford

Oxford-Hoffmann-Julius Baer Scholarship Fatima Airan Dhol Ayuen Annelisse Escobar

St Edmund Hall-HEC Scholarship Sarin Boivin-Picard

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Degree Results

Final Honour Schools 2023 These are the Finalists who agreed to the publication of their exam results.

Biochemistry Class I

Class II i

George-Valentin Datcu, Hazel Wake Beyza Akgun

Cell and Systems Biology Class I Max Falk, Daisy Oliver Class II i Will Ashcroft Chemistry Class II i Charlotte Cheng-

Whitehead, Anjali Depala Class III Gabriele Brasaite Earth Sciences Class I Lewis Lloyd, Carenza Williams Class II i Kyros Austheim, Mia

Geddes, Jiayao Lu, Frederick Wright-Morris Class II ii Mrutyunjaya Lingaraj Angadi

Economics and Management Class I Thomas Coates,

Alexander Sarshar,

Benjamin Wiltshire Class II i Aleksander Kruzewski Engineering Science Class I Lewis Grey, Matthew

Moffat, Oliver Ogden Class II i Michael Farrell, Yik Fok,

Sian Langham, Hui Wen

Teh, Piers Von

Dadelszen English Language and Literature Class I Maurício Alencar,

Aili Channer, Jasmin

Kreutzer, James

Newbery, Gemma Smith-Bingham Class II i Liam Gornall, William

Heath, Florence

McKechnie, Victoria Stone

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Fine Art Class I Hiu Suet Shum Class II i Yuri Hwang, Jinsuh Moon Geography Class I Esmé McMillan, Emelye

Peachey, Sophie Richardson Class II i Harriet Eyles, William

Loosley, Zoe Martial,

Nicola Whittington, Sarah Woodford History Class I

Class II i

Luca Boot, Jake Elliott, Ella Tan Nicole De La Cruz

Jurisprudence Class I Charlie Furniss, Lucy Nicholson Class II i Abbie Collyer, Freddie

Korn, Claire Mallon,

Anika Menon, Beth Scott

Medical Sciences Class I Verity Black Class II i Ella Coupland-Smith,

Erika Dutton, Robert

Hardwick, Yasmin Ratcliffe Modern Languages Class II i Ivan Hanbury,

Peter McClure, Rory

McDowell, Rebecca

McFie, Thomas Williams Modern Languages and Linguistics Class II i Emily-Lucie Bassole, Aleisha Lanceley Neuroscience Class II i Samuel Boulger, Ben Luckraft Philosophy, Politics and Economics Class I Oliver Bater Physics BA Class I

Ishaan Milind Parikh

Materials Science Class I Timothy Hartog,

Benjamin Thornley Class II i Yifan Chen, Zhongyu

Tang, Yuelin Xiong Class II ii Jonathan Tsun

Physics MPhys Class I Ayush Agrawal, Joel

Morley, Joseph Penn Class II i Chun Hin Ma, Chenyang Wang Class II ii Yilong Peng

Mathematics BA Class II ii Wanruo Pan Mathematics MMath Distinction Gavin Bala, Fenella Blayney

Experimental Psychology Class I Lucie Capkova,

Xuan Yee Class II i Leonardo Stefanoni, Hannah Wallace Class II ii Domokos Szarka

Mathematics and Philosophy MMathPhil Class II i Zhaorui Xu

Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics Class I Samuel Cherry

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Higher Degrees Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)

Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

2022 Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics – Katie Mellor Clinical Neurosciences – Yingqiu Zheng Education – Mohamad Khanzadeh Environmental Research (NERC DTP) – Earth Sciences – Sean Selzer Inorganic Chemistry – Caitilín McManus Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP) – Hugh Mulvey Interdisciplinary Biosciences (BBSRC DTP) – Plant Sciences – Alexander Bones Mathematics – Theerawat Bhudisaksang Medical Sciences – Caitlin Murnane

2023 Economics – Milan Marcus History – Max Watson Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics – Martin Alldrick Russian and East European Studies – Tatyana Kekic (Distinction)

2023 Cardiovascular Science (BHF) – Laura Chaffey Clinical Medicine – Hossain Delowar Akther, Bethany Charlton Computer Science – Fatimah Ahmadi, Dorde Zivanovic Engineering Science – Jack Kelly, Liam Smith, Benjamin White Finance – Theofanis Papamichalis Geography and the Environment – Cherona Chapman Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine – Oliver Sampson International Relations – Valentina Pegolo Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease – Fangfang Lu Molecular and Cellular Medicine – Alexandru Voda Oncology – Yuechuan Chi, Orion Tong Philosophy – Johannes Fankhauser Population Health – Cody Watling Psychiatry – Shannon Maloney Social Data Science – Paul Röttger Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science (EPSRC and MRC CDT) – Statistics – Georgios Kalantzis

Master of Business Administration (MBA) 2022 Dustin Bischoff, John Connolly, Zubin Deyal (Distinction), Brandon Stuhl

Master of Fine Art (MFA) 2022 Gold Akanbi (Distinction)

Master of Fine Art (MFA) 2023 Zhiyi Lu, Samuel Patterson

Master of Science (MSc) 2022 Learning and Teaching – Rachael Speed, Emily Young Migration Studies – Naomi Barraza Castillo Nature, Society and Environmental Governance – Sonakshi Srivastava Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment – Katherine Polkinghorne 2023 Advanced Computer Science – Marek Grzesiuk (Distinction) Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience – Ejin Chung, Rohith Erukulla Digital Scholarship – Tanvi Barua Economic and Social History – Julien Kress

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Education – Zoe Case (Distinction), Phuc Thi Xuan Nguyen, Jiamin Wang Global Governance and Diplomacy – Thompson Whiteley Global Health Science and Epidemiology – Radwa Abdelatif History of Science, Medicine and Technology – Tinius Bentsen Dragland (Distinction), Ariana Orozco, Lorelei Robinson Integrated Immunology – Beining Li (Distinction) International Health and Tropical Medicine – Hams Bashir, Dhol Madit Latin American Studies – José Ignacio Cabrejos Portocarrero Law and Finance – Timothy Nelson-Parker (Distinction) Mathematical and Theoretical Physics – Charles Sharpe (Distinction) Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing – James Arthur Mathematical Sciences – Catherine Rust Modern Middle Eastern Studies – Claudia Baldelli Neuroscience – Orsolya Fölsz (Distinction) Pharmacology – Sarabesh Natarajan (Distinction) Refugee and Forced Migration Studies – Bethany Molyneux Social Science of the Internet – Zi Ling Ng (Distinction), Zeynep Irem Soysal Statistical Science – Benedikt Koch (Distinction), Gábor Pituk (Distinction) Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment – Katherine Polkinghorne Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology – Emily Webb Water Science, Policy and Management – Marie-Claire Jalaguier

Master of Studies (MSt) 2022 English – Benedict Mulcare History – Mark Whittingham Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics – Petra Stankovic Modern Languages – Yasmin Jackson 2023 Comparative Literature and Critical Translation – Xiangquan Luo English – Isabel Sebode (Distinction) History – Keith Spicer History of Art and Visual Culture – Keziah Owusu Philosophy of Physics – Alex Siebenmorgen

Master of Public Policy (MPP) Dongfang Guo, Jia Yang

Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Phoebe Clifford (Distinction), Joseph Sabbagh

Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) Chae Im, George Marler, Rory Naylor, Laura Simpson, Lavanya Sinha

Postgraduate Certificate in Education Katie Dunbar, George Hobbs

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Degree Day Dates

Information about the procedure for signing up to a degree ceremony can be found on the College website. Dates of degree ceremonies in 2023-24 will be published on the College website as and when they are confirmed (usually in Michaelmas term).

Taught course students who are due to finish their degrees in the 2023-24 academic year will be invited by the Degree Conferrals Office in Michaelmas term of their final year to attend the ceremony date relevant to their degree.

Research students will be invited to book a ceremony date once they have been granted Leave to Supplicate.

Historic graduands (pre-October 2023) or those wishing to have their MAs conferred in person at a ceremony will need to request that their name be put on a ‘holding list’ (waiting list) for a ceremony date, and will be contacted should a place become available. Further information detailing the booking process for historic graduands is available on the College website.

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From the Development and Alumni Relations Office

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From the Director of Development This past 2022-23 academic year marked the second year since the launch of our HALLmarks Campaign to support the Hall’s 10-year strategy. I am proud to say that thanks to Aularians and our other supporters we have raised nearly £13m since the strategy was launched in 2019-20, this equates to 26% of the HALLmarks Campaign target of £50m.

One of the main targets of the Campaign is the redevelopment of the Norham St Edmund student accommodation buildings. Once complete, this new ‘quadrangle’ for the College will help us house all undergraduates. At a time of a cost-of-living crisis, we are deeply and especially appreciative of the gifts to Norham St Edmund, as these will ensure that all Teddy Hall undergraduate students will be able to focus on their studies and enjoy a supportive collegiate atmosphere.

As always, the past year saw the Hall host many memorable events for Aularians, students, guests, and visitors: North American Giving Day 2022 was on October 13-14, and saw Canadian and US alumni generously make donations that are being invested in student support, sustainability, and affordable accommodation. Sincere thanks to everyone who took part on the other side of the Atlantic!

The St Edmund Hall Association (SEHA) met for lunch on 11 November, with smaller alumni drinks receptions in Nashville, Toronto, Oxford and Basel over the course of the autumn and winter. Then, Aularians in Glasgow held a local reunion gathering in spring. It is encouraging to support local chapters of Aularians, and we hope to support many more alumni-led local reunions in 2023-24.

In early December 2022, the Principal, supported by the Development and Alumni Relations (DARO) team travelled to New York to hold the 37th Annual Drinks Reception and Dinner. Always a memorable occasion, the New York trip was one of the two visits to the US undertaken by the Hall this academic year.

In order to meet alumni on both coasts, we flew to California in early September 2023. Los Angeles and San Francisco met us with temperatures lower than in Oxford at the time – but there was a lot of warmth and hospitality; plans for our next visit to the West Coast are already underway.

We are very thankful to the Aularian community in California for hosting these special occasions.

Dinners marking the 40th (18 March) and 50th Anniversary (16 September) of matriculation, for the students of 1981-82 and 1971-72 respectively, took place over vacations and were enjoyed by all those in attendance. During the 60th Anniversary Lunch (19 September) a few of our older alumni visited the Senior Common Room for the first time, and the thrill of entering that space seems to be something held in common by all Aularians. We marked the beginning of a new generation’s life in Hall on 17 February, when we had the honour of hosting the Freshers’ Parents Dinner;

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and memories of Justin can be found in Section 8 : Remembering Justin Gosling on pp. 200-215).

Bequests to the Hall have remained a source of very significant support. The members of the Floreat Aula Legacy Society (FALS) gathered for the biannual dinner on 24 March, and my sincere thanks go to all the members of this valued and important Society.

this remains a wonderful opportunity for students to introduce their families to the College – and vice versa.

The year also saw the launch of Conversations in Environmental Sustainability. Hosted by the Hall, these talks took place on 2 February and 23 June and were open to all. The Conversations are set to continue in Hilary term 2024, with new speakers and topics to be confirmed.

Other annual events to which alumni were invited included the Geddes Lecture at the Museum of Natural History on 19 May, Carols in the Quad on 1 December, the SEHA London Dinner on 7 February, and Alumni Summer Dinner on 24 June. All four events have proved to be fantastically popular; do keep an eye on the updates from the College to save the dates for 2023-24!

On 10 June the Memorial Service for former Principal Justin Gosling was held at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. The service brought together his family, former colleagues and students for an occasion both solemn and full of fond memories. A fund has been established in his honour to support a dedicated space at Norham St Edmund (more tributes

2022-23 also saw many a change within the Development Office: Development Officer Laura Zampini left the Hall in January for a role at the Ministry of Education in Brazil. The role formerly held by her has undergone some changes, and we have recently welcomed Jemima Hegarty-Ward in the newly created capacity of Campaign Development Officer with a focus on encouraging participation and donations from across our alumni community.

The team was also joined by Katariina Kottonen (Development Operations Officer) and Andrea Diss (College Events Officer). Emily Bruce (Alumni Relations and Events Manager), Tom Sprent (Campaign Development Manager), and I continue in our respective roles. I am delighted to say that the team is now complete and we, once again, have the full capacity to engage with our alumni. If you are your Year Group Ambassador, expect us to get in touch with you soon!

My sincere thanks to the team and to the Hall community at large. We have ambitious goals, but it is your contributions that make achieving them possible.

Thank you for your generous and continued support for the Hall.

Andrew Vivian, Director of Development

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From the St Edmund Hall Association President I am delighted to be able to say that the Association has run a full programme of activities this year.

We have held a number of social events unimpeded by the Covid epidemic. We began our London lunches as a means of getting a smaller number of Aularians together in a less crowded space than is possible at our London Dinners, mindful of people’s concerns about Covid transmission. Such was the success of the first that a second London lunch was held at the Army and Navy Club in November 2022, attended by 55 guests. Once again, the event was well-received, with the Hall Spirit very much in evidence. I am pleased to say that a third lunch is in the calendar for 17 November 2023, and this now looks like being an annual fixture. The 37th annual New York Dinner followed in December 2022 at the Links Club in New York City, attended by a Hall delegation led by the Principal, and in February 2023 we were able to hold our first London Dinner

post-Covid, returning to 100 Wardour Street where a lively and convivial event was attended by 174 guests. We hope to see more Aularians at these events as Covid fears continue to recede. And it has, of course, been wonderful to be able to continue attending events in College and see normal College life return.

Our second online video AGM was held on 31 January 2023 and this is likely to be the normal way of conducting these meetings now. It allows participation by

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Aularians from around the world and frees up more time for socialising at our London Dinner! At the AGM, we were pleased to hear from the Principal about the excellent progress being made in the HALLmarks Campaign and the new accommodation project at Norham Gardens.

Our annual Teddy Talk took place in November, the subject being energy security, a most pertinent topic given the large increases in energy costs arising from the Russia-Ukraine war, the longerterm geopolitical situation and concerns about global heating. The event was ably led by Aularian Manisha Tank (1994, PPE) and included an expert panel of speakers.

Aularian Connect continues to gain in strength with over 1600 Aularians now connected, representing over 135 different industries and 47 countries. Most have ticked the ‘willing to help’ box and I would encourage current students and recent graduates to take advantage of the networking and mentoring opportunities it provides. And, of course, I would remind those of us who are employers that the Aularian Connect can link you to an upand-coming cohort of bright young minds starting their careers.

Encouraged by the strength of last year’s applications, we again decided to offer two Aularian Prizes to students who can demonstrate an exceptional enterprise or voluntary commitment in an activity which has a clear community benefit, raises the profile of the Hall and falls outside established College or University pursuits.

We offered one to the JCR and one to the MCR at an increased value of £600 per prize. The calibre of the applications was again high and we awarded prizes to Daniele Cotton (2021, DPhil Molecular and Cellular Medicine) founder of the

Oxford Play Team, which recruits Oxonian volunteers to play with seriously ill children at local hospices and hospitals, and to Will Loosley (2020, Geography) for his work with Education Partnerships Africa, supporting education provision in schools in some of the poorest parts of rural Kenya. I am always humbled to learn of the exceptional enterprise and social commitment of our current students.

Our Podcast Series, Spirit of the Hall goes from strength to strength and is now in its fourth series. I’m very pleased that Immediate Past SEHA President Olly Belcher (née Donnelly) (1999, Geography), who could clearly have had a successful career in broadcasting, agreed to continue hosting these podcasts.

This year we learned of the fascinating life story of past Principal, Professor Michael Mingos, the work of Jo Ensor (1988, Geography) in the international development sector and about current student life in the Hall from past JCR Social Secretary Sophie Richardson (2020, Geography), amongst others. We are always on the lookout for guests to interview so please let us know if you have any suggestions.

In my first year as SEHA President I would like to thank my predecessor Olly for an excellent handover, my Deputy President, Stuart Hopper (1987, Jurisprudence), all the Committee for their dedication to the Association, and also the Hall for their support, particularly Alumni Relations and Events Manager Emily Bruce for her work on our London social events. I would also like to thank our whole Aularian community for your enthusiasm over our various initiatives.

Chris Elston (1976, Engineering Science)

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Donors to the Hall From 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023 The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the support of the 1,041 alumni, parents of students and Friends of the Hall who have donated in the last year and whose names are recorded on the following pages.

Although the donor list only includes gifts received between 1 August 2022 and 31 July 2023, we are equally grateful to all supporters who have given to the Hall outside of this timeframe. If you donated after 31 July 2023, your gift will appear in next year’s Magazine.

We record by matriculation date the names of all who have made a donation during this period, including the participation rate (the percentage of people in each year who have given), and the total amount received per matriculation year. Where there are small numbers of donors in a particular year, we have not listed the amount given in order to preserve confidentiality. *denotes deceased DONOR LIST 2022-2023 1943 (11%) Gareth Mitford-Barberton*

1945 (11%) Norman Barr

1944 (8%) Eric Rhodes*

1949 (15%) William Asbrey* Bob Breese

1950 (29%, £16,188) Chris Armitage Jack Preger Ralph Simmons Ray Waddington-Jones Jack Wheeler

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1951 (43%, £42,232) Derek Bloom* Robin French Kenneth Lund Denys Moylan Plus 2 anonymous donors 1952 (26%, £3,378) Ian Byatt Tony Coulson Neil Hall David Jacobs* Denis McCarthy Royston Taylor Neville Teller David Wright 1953 (21%, £2,475) Keith Harlow Ian Jackson David Picksley Dick Turner Brian Venner Brian Wakefield Eric Windsor

David Hare Michael Hilt Mike Neal Tony Pearson Irving Theaker* Bill Weston Richard Williams Plus 1 anonymous donor 1956 (31%, £57,120) Maresq Child John Cooper-Poole Fred Farrell John French Rupert Harvey* Michael Hickey Chris Machen Martin Reynolds David Short Paul Tempest* David Williams Plus 1 anonymous donor

1954 (22%, £14,712) Michael Bourdeaux* Ian Conolly Michael Duffy Tony Laughton Robin Peverett Brian Shepherd Keith Suddaby Charles Taylor* Raymond Thornton John West

1957 (22%, £6,012) Michael Archer Ted Aves* Robin Blackburn Blake Bromley Geoff Brown Duncan Dormor Tony Ford Dennis Jesson Colin Nichols* George Ruffhead Alastair Stewart James Webster, in memory of Ted Aves

1955 (29%, £30,851) John Barker Philip Bevan-Thomas* John Billington Tony Cooper John Dellar Derek Ford David Frayne

1958 (19%, £2,942) Jim Amos Jim Dening* Geoff Fox David Harrison John Haydon Ronnie Irving Michael Jarman

Pete Kite Tony Nial Michael Pelham David Phillips Philip Rabbetts 1959 (31%, £125,143) Ian Alexander Ewan Anderson Hinton Bird Keith Bowen Paul Brett D C Coleman John Collingwood Giles Conway Gordon David Cooksey Kevin Crossley-Holland John Curry Tony Doyle Chris Harvey Ian Hepburn Matthew Joy Graham Kentfield Culain Morris Mike Oakley Mike Saltmarsh John Spires David Stedman Mike Voisey Stewart Walduck Ian Walker Roy Walmsley John Walters 1960 (41%, £9,165) Nick Alldrit Chris Atkinson David Baines Terence Bell David Bolton Adam Butcher Robert Clark Terence Coghlin Jeremy Cook Ian Evans Brian Fyfield-Shayler

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Jeff Goddard Peter Hayes Kenneth Heard Robin Hogg Graham Kerr Chris Long Yann Lovelock David Mash Melvyn Matthews George Ritchie Ted Rose Michael Rose Patric Sankey-Barker John Sherman George Smith Roger Sparrow John Thorogood Andrew Tod Alan Wilding 1961 (21%, £47,955) Don Anderson David Brown Martin Buckley Sidney Donald Richard Goddard Michael Hornsby Malcolm Inglis Nick Lloyd John Long Jim Marsh Jonathan Martin Peter Newell Hugh Redington Anthony Rentoul David Scharer Roger Smith Stephen White 1962 (21%, £12,293) David Buckingham James Burnett-Hitchcock Michael Buttler Chris Cowles Jeff Creek Jim de Rennes

Bill Gulland Michael Hamilton Handley Hammond David Hicks Arwyn Hughes Tony Moore Sean Morris Nigel Pegram Richard Phillippo Hugh Thomas Nigel Thomas John Williams Plus 2 anonymous donors 1963 (23%, £32,402) Darrell Barnes Steve Benson Peter Brennan Bob Brewer Bob Broughton Nicholas Bulmer Keith Bywater Bob Clarke David Cox John Crawshaw Geoff Day Angus Doulton* Michael Harrison John Rosefield Mike Simmie Clive Sneddon John Still John Taylor Nigel Thorp Plus 2 anonymous donors 1964 (15%, £106,206) John Bunney Bob Clarke Steve Copley Peter Day* Bill Hartley Derek Hawkins Peter Hodson John Hughes Tony Lemon

Timothy Machin Derek Morris James Pitt Michael Powis David Rumbelow Stephen Sherbourne Hugh Simpson David Tearle 1965 (26%, £46,346) Christopher Allen Paul Badman Joe Barclay Rupert Deighton John Dennis Paul Fickling Simon Gatrell Derek Harrison Clive Hartshorn Colin Hewitt Ken Hobbs Peter Johnson Ron McDonald Andy Morgan Thomas Mulvey Brian North Billett Potter David Powell John Rea David Reed Guy Richardson Ted Roskell John Sayer Philip Spray Chas Stansfield Bill Walker Richard White Richard Wycherley 1966 (16%, £14,951) Cam Brown Nigel Clarke Howard Coates Bob Darby Guy Fisher Roger Frankland

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David Hansom Linn Hobbs Ted Hodgson John Kilbee David Knight David Stewart Michael Stone Geoffrey Summers George Syrpis 1967 (23%, £135,552) Robert Breckles Jeremy Cooke Nigel Derrett Lawrence Downey Colin Hawksworth Roger Kenworthy Mike Kerrigan Ethan Lipsig John Mabbett Peter Mitchell Jim Mosley John Orton Dave Postles Bruce Rashkow Philip Robinson Graham Salter Mark Spencer Ellis David Tabraham-Palmer Keith Walmsley Rob Weinberg Peter Wilson Georges Zbyszewski Plus 1 anonymous donor 1968 (19%, £7,200) Clive Bailey Andrew Barnes John Berryman David Blezard Phil Emmott James Hunt Laurence Jackson Alan Jones Stuart Kenner Geoff May Tony Moore

John Penfield Mike Pike Chris Pote Ian Ridgwell Mike Spilberg Ian Stuart David Theobald Plus 1 anonymous donor 1969 (11%, £29,648) Brian Battye Mick Birks David Boyd Roger Callan Bryan Dawson Steve Dempsey Paul Dobsen Dick Ford Clive Kerridge David Monkcom Paul Parker Chris Stafford 1970 (13%, £42,310) Julian Currall Will David Kevin Fisher Chris Hawkesworth Chris Lewis Ev Meynell Roger Moore David Morgan Richard Ormerod Peter Raspin Colin Richmond-Watson Richard Robinson Paul Silk Mike Skelding Chris Sutton-Mattocks Plus 1 anonymous donor 1971 (22%, £70,739) David Audsley Richard J. Balfour Peter Balmer George Bishop III Roger Chaplin

Ian Cheffy Lawrie Coupland Lawrence Cummings Peter Foot Malcolm Hawthorne Rick Henshaw Craig Laird Dave Leggett Peter Lever Jonathan Ormond John Parr Roger Pawson Tim Ream Douglas Robertson Stephen Rosefield Steve Russell Greg Salter John Sloan Justin Stead Andy Stockley Plus 2 anonymous donors 1972 (17%, £50,320) Jim Boff Steve Chandler William Clark Michael Constantine Anthony Deakin Tony Downes Andy Hall David Hammond Howard Mason Paul Mounsey Peter Osborn Andrew Peacock David Rosen Ian Smith Robin Stephenson Steve Taylor John Trotman Allan Walker Martin Winter Plus 1 anonymous donor 1973 (16%, £45,741) Chris Bamber Colin Bullett

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Sean Butler Geoff Chamberlain Robert Godden Roger Golland David Grice Richard Harandon Nick Jones Anthony Jordan Dave Knight Nigel Laing Colin Lizieri Ian Midgley Mark Patterson Nic Peeling John Roberts Tom Schneider Mike Wood 1974 (18%, £49,690) Keith Albans Phil Budden Graham Clark Peter Desmond Steve Edrich Mark Handsley Andrew Hargreaves Charles Hind Stephen Hutchinson Doug Imeson Paul Matthews David Neuhaus John Ormiston Andy Patterson Clive Penwarden Tim Robinson Gerard Rocks Trevor Ryder Dick Sands Kim Swain Graham Wareing John Wisdom Plus 1 anonymous donor 1975 (15%, £59,649) Jeremy Charles Alex Davids Bob Gaffey

Brian Gasser Graeme Gibbs Louis Grieg Gordon Hurst Martin Jones Graham Ketley Alex King William Morrison-Bell Robin Osterley Justin Samuel Ces Shaw Nigel Smith Alan Stansfield Anthony Stopyra Peter Watson David Way 1976 (17%, £1,077,746) Bill Baker Jr Robin Beckley John Collingwood Hora den Dulk Brian Denton Chris Elston Richard Finch Anson Jack Trevor Payne Jonathan Reynolds Jamie Robertson Martin Saunders Paul Sutton Ian Taylor Stephen Tetley Peter Trowles Andrew Wathey Neil Worthington 1977 (13%, £62,406) Philippe Beaufour David Blakey Charles Blount Andrew Brown Steve Bubb* Ian Doherty Peter Foster Oliver Grundy Nick Hamilton

David Harding Adrian Haxby Chris Horner Roger Keeley David McKenna Peter Rogers Jeremy Tullett Steve Vivian 1978 (11%, £42,240) Doug Ansley John Armitstead Hamish Cameron Ian Coleman Richard Collins Simon Heilbron Ian Hutchinson Lloyd Illingworth Stephen Leonard Brian Livesey Gideon Nissen Peter Richardson Nicholas Rowe Mark Turnham 1979 (14%, £11,716) Kit Cooke Stephen Coulson David Cox Gail Davies Davina Dwyer Mark Earls John Hodgson Paul Littlechild Ian Lupson Phil Martin Rob McCreath Caroline Morgan Justus O’Brien Rob Quain Michael Robinson Simon Roxborough Ingrid Sharp Duncan Talbert Robert Vollum David West

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1980 (20%, £55,754) John Ayton Bernard Bewlay Philip Broadley Nick Caddick Graham Clempson Paul Cubbon Jonathan Davies Carol Dukes Anthony Farrand Jon French Alistair Graham Jonathan Hofstetter Simon Kelly Gary Lawrence John Madgwick Zahid Nawaz James Newman David Preston Simon Ramage Jonathan Scott Nick Senechal Neil Stevenson Frank Strang Christina Tracey Faith Wainwright Diana Wright Plus 1 anonymous donor 1981 (13%, £5,068) Andrew Burns Sandy Findlay David Firth Julian Hammond Phil Knight Richard Lambert Jim McAleer Paul McCarthy Tim Miles Sallie Nicholas Tim Parkinson Nigel Purdy Maria Queenan David Stokes Paul Stowers Jenny Turner Mark Walters

1982 (15%, £9,870) Tony Beare Maggie Carver Tom Christopherson Catherine Dale Linda Davies Simon ffitch David Heaps Dan Johnson Richard Kent Peter Murray Divya Nicholls Gareth Penny Nigel Purse Marco Rimini Kevin Sealy Mark Sykes Shona Tatchell Junior Williamson Stuart Worthington 1983 (12%, £13,802) Roy Bishop* Sara Browne Chris Coleman Kate Coleman Tim Fallowfield Tarquin Grossman Siân Henderson Mike Iddon Max Irwin Jo Kent Peter Magyar Phil Moody Christine Muskett Kevan Rees Helen Saunders Andrew Till 1984 (8%, £49,410) Dan Abnett John Bloomer Will Coleman Steve Crummett Alison Fallowfield Chris Giles Tesula Mohindra

John Risman Anthony Rossiter Andrew Shortland Harvey Wheaton 1985 (9%, £3,850) Deborah Booth Andy Brown Clare Coleman Neil Crabb Amelia Fletcher Ian Grant Jon Gulley Michael Hill Fiona Houston Julia Little Mark Little Nicholas Peacock Sue Peacock Will Shaw Julia Weiner 1986 (17%, £43,210) Mary Betley Paul Billyard Jim Charles Geoffrey Chatas David Denholm Gavin Flook Walter Fraser David Gillett Andrew Harrison Simon Hodgson Neil Jacob Patrick Jennings Rachel Kiddey Stewart Lee Iain Mackie Sally McKone John Myhill Phil Richards Robert Robinson Mike Ryan David Southall Mike Stanislawski Jacqui Thornton Sharon von Simson

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Catherine Ysrael-Gomez Plus 1 anonymous donor 1987 (11%, £45,166) Dan Bayley Justin Collins Phil Dominy Helen Fox Jeremy Harrison Christine Ho Kelleher Kevin Holder Kevin Johnson Roger Nixon Peter O’Connell Clare Rhodes James Mark Sedwill Richard Smalman-Smith Sarah Smith Philip Waldner David Waring Tim Wingfield 1988 (12%, £24,673) James Brace Marcus Browning Abi Draper Leon Ferera James Ferguson Stuart Ford Christopher Garrison Duncan Holden Susanna Mann Peter Matthews Peter Othen James Rudd Giles Sanders Lucy Shaw David Stewart Plus 3 anonymous donors 1989 (12%, £11,952) Tom Argles Grania Bryceson Anna Cahall Jonathan Cotton Rob de Rennes Jennifer Doran

Andrew La Trobe Mark Lauder Tom Leman Alex McLean Ben Miller Richard Rednall Ruth Roberts Chris Sawyer Fiona Sawyer Aktar Somalya Natalie Tydeman Darren Walker 1990 (10%, £7,207) Marcus Bailey Stephen Barnett Emma Barnett Paul Brady Hew Bruce-Gardyne Carolyn Drury David Gauke Andrew Green Graham Hinton Adrian Jones Dave Jordan Kevin Knibbs Gill La Valette John Milloy Rob Salter Ed Shelton Claire White Andrew Williams 1991 (10%, £23,065) Andrew Armstrong Balakumar Arumugam Christopher Ashton Carol Atherton Duncan Barker Julian Cater Tessa Evans Samantha Harries Tim Houghton Anneli Howard Nicholas Lane David Liversidge David McGill

Luke Powell Plus 1 anonymous donor 1992 (12%, £9,783) Carla Antunes da Silva Thomas Dennis Matt Elliott Mark Fisher Lucy Heaven Collin Madden Jane Mann Mike Milner Sarah Morrison Geoff Mortimer Sarah O’Neill Jules Plumstead Claire Pugh Matt Purcell Gareth Scholey Milind Sharma Wayne Smith Matthew Weaver Plus 1 anonymous donor 1993 (9%, £11,299) Natasha Ashton Howard Cazin Liz Gibbons Nick Gradel Tim Jackson Kieren Johnson Rob Mansley Tom McClelland Al Mordaunt James Owens James Parkin Richard Tufft Matt Webb Plus 1 anonymous donor 1994 (7%, £5,530) Choon Wai Hui Ed Knight Gareth McKeever Kiran Mehta Caroline Mitchelson James Mushin

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Harry Oliver Thomas Peel Piers Prichard Jones Jeremy Robst Ian Valvona David Wilkes Plus 1 anonymous donor 1995 (7%, £3,388) Robert Dryburgh Chet Lad Richard Martin Hugh Miller Chris Ruse Martin Thorneycroft Vladka Thwaites Giacomo Tortora Justin Waine Dominic Walley Alison Waterfall 1996 (11%, £4,724) Paul Boon Claire Burton James Cookson Phil Duffield John Houghton Tom Long Min Fang Henry Mullin Richard O’Donoghue Roland Partridge Maya Portolan Ben Rippin Zachary Segal Zoe Stopford Roman Streitberger Chris Valvona Duncan Wallace Alistair White

1997 (10%, £22,412) Marko Bacic Holly Bristow Nat Copsey Saurabh Das Hong Dong Chris Eden Natalie Gey van Pittius Jamie Grimston Nicholas Hamilton PJ Howard Heidi Johansen-Berg Ali Mack Dean O’Connell Stephen Parmenter Claire Pointing Lucy Reynolds Anthony Shackleton Chris Tinson Guofang Xiao 1998 (6%, £2,648) Michael Bird Rob Harrold Nick Hirst Marcin Marchewka James Matthews Clare Murray Ann-Marie Myhill Sam Trounce Carl Wells Ben Wilkinson Lucy Wilson 1999 (12%, £3,107) Jo Alexander Olly Belcher Bjorn Benckert Mark Bolton-Maggs Caroline Court Jonathan Crawshaw Oliver Deacon Helen Drury Mica Halliwell Zoe Noonan Alex Prideaux Hanna Richardson

Robin Rogers Sean Sullivan Rosalind Wall David Williams Plus 2 anonymous donors 2000 (4%, £67,360) Rahul Chopra Miles Clapham Kieron Galliard Harriet Hungerford Malcolm Lee Erica Newman Richard Povey Charlie Ramsay 2001 (5%, £3,772) Catherine Blair Charles Hotham Clem Hutton-Mills James Maizels Katie Moran Alevtina Nepomniachtchikh Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky Jen Sugden Plus 2 anonymous donors 2002 (2%, £438) Rachel Adams Ruth Evans Leon Marshall Luciano Racco 2003 (6%, £1,176) Nicolai Boserup Jennifer Chung Jonathan Edge Lindsay Gibson Joe Hacker Heather Mack Carina May David McCartney Chris Wilson Simone Wilson Hongjie Zhu Plus 1 anonymous donor

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2004 (3%, £420) Robin Fellerman Catriona Henderson Cara Krmpotich Fiona Moss Scot Peterson Plus 1 anonymous donor 2005 (3%, £576) Will Brownscombe Ryan Buckingham Will Herbert Long Jiang Lucinda O’Connor Laurence Whyatt

2009 (6%, £2,782) Anthony Beddows Josh Coulson Fraser Davies James Duffell Lucy Durrans Chris Freeman Michael Graham Charlotte Howell Adam Jordan George Lake Eric Lukas Rowan Pennington-Benton Frances Reed Xiao Tan

2006 (6%, £1,540) Jennifer Ayers Sophie Brice Henry Carter Siobhan Chapman Sam Juthani Serena Lee Daniel Lowe Robert Pearce Xu Song Andrej Spielmann Sandamali Sutton Amrik Thomas

2010 (5%, £1,112) Bhaskar Bhushan Andrew Gray William Gunson Theodore Hadlow Mircea-Dan Hirlea Alex King Duncan Littlejohns Gabriel May Mutsa Mutembwa Michael Nairn Sam Parkinson Aran Uppal

2007 (1%) Iain Parr Plus 1 anonymous donor

2011 (2%, £360) Thomas Bailey Michael Cary Hannah Dickinson Amy Kenyon Kirsten Pontalti

2008 (5%, £1,717) Sam Andrews Chris Clasper Katie Hill Gurnam Johal Bryony Morgan Joanne Pearce Tom Pope David Robinson Adam Sealey Chris Tatum Charlie Wilson

2012 (4%, £589) Jack Calvert Thomas Davis Sarah Grant William Hak Matthew Jordan Benjamin Kelsey Nathan King Angus Maudslay Fiona Roberts

Ben Valentine Gemma Wardle 2013 (5%, £5,451) Edward Benson Kunz Chow Josephine Clarke William Dinning Jaydip Jani Takashi Lawson Dylan Lewis Alexandra Lindsay-Perez Steven Pilley Naomi Polonsky Lara Shahnavaz Alistair Swallow 2014 (4%, £931) Grace Clements Thomas Cosnahan Zhenbo Gao Kathryn Tierney Hutchinson Josh Mahir Gianfranco Messina Rachael Morris Caitlin Page Yekuan Shentu 2015 (3%, £1,230) Michael Beauvais Amelia Gabaldoni Jack Gavin Mohd Karim Shoaib Khan Gary Lau Jack Oldbury James Tibbles 2016 (1%) Kevin Gibbons Deborah Ramkhelawan Justyna Todd-Frankowska 2018 (0.5%) Jeremy Sigmon

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2021 (0.5%) Jordana Irzyk Visiting Students (£2,258) Arabella Benavides Yasmin Carim Angela Chon Eric Cooperman Kees Elmes Justin Furuta Paisley Kadison Rich Reynolds Ed Reynolds Jamie Rosenstein Cary Rubinstein Jessica Tamarin Brian Umana James Yeagle Michael Zarra Plus 1 anonymous donor

Parent Donors (£9,845) Lisa Blatch John P. Davidson Francis Eames Shirley A Schaeffer Friends of the Hall (£490,735) Alligator Trust Billyard Giving Fund Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor Cascia Trust Ros Charles Charles Peel Charitable Trust Shuaib Chaudhary Cissie Rosefield Charitable Trust Peter Collins John Dunbabin GE Foundation Justin Gosling*

Maureen Haile* Janet Heath John Hoffmire Judith Kenley Howard Kenley Pat Lewis David McEvoy David Moltow Polonsky Foundation Rosenstein Family Charitable Trust Schwab Charitable - Alex & Christine King Charitable Fund Luboš Smrčka Tom Sprent Martin Tranter Andrew Vivian Robert Whittaker Luxue Yu Plus 3 anonymous donors

Norham St Edmund Patrons Thank you to all of the generous donors who supported the Hall’s historic Norham St Edmund (NSE) redevelopment project. *denotes deceased Steve Allchin Christopher Allen Tom Archer Colin Ashby Paul Badman Andrew Baldwin Darrell Barnes Philippe Beaufour David Beckett Tommy Bedford Bernard Bewlay John Billington Roy Bishop* Hunor-Chris Bocz Glen Bowman David Braund Claire Burton

Mike Chadwick Jeremy Charles Ros Charles Sadiya Choudhury William Clark Steve Clark Bob Clarke Benjamin Clough Howard Coates Peter Collins David Cooksey Stephen Corsham Charlotte Davies William Dinning Sidney Donald Carolyn Drury Carol Dukes

Neil Edwards Gary Evans John Fazackerley Peter Foster Mike Foxon Bob Gaffey Kevin Gibbons Justin Gosling* Susan Gotschall Garcia Heather Gray Michael Griebe Jamie Grimston Benjamin Grout Mica Halliwell David Hammond Samantha Harries Rex Harrison

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Rob Harrold Michael Hilt Graham Hinton Michael Hornsby Anneli Howard Choon Wai Hui Madeleine Humphrey Max Irwin Anson Jack Patrick Jennings Long Jiang Peter Johnson Andrew Jones Dave Jordan Byron Light Ethan Lipsig Toby Lucas Kenneth Lund John Mabbett Iain Mackie Akaash Maharaj Chris Manby Jonathan Martin Doug McCallum David McGill Gareth McKeever Sarah McPake Tim Miles

John Milloy Peter Murray David Neuhaus Peter Newell Roger Nixon Zoe Noonan Stephen Noone Jack Oldbury Caitlin Page David Parfitt* Stephen Parmenter Gary Pollitt Chris Pote David Powell Paul Powell Simon Pressinger Gareth Price Deborah Ramkhelawan Georgia Redpath Lucy Reynolds Rich Reynolds Ed Reynolds Ben Rippin Robin Rogers Jeanne Ryan Giles Sanders Mohini Sarda Lynch Mike Simmie

Ian Smith Nigel Smith Luboš Smrčka Clive Sneddon Catharine Snow Chris Stafford Rachel Stafford Alastair Stewart David Stewart Roman Streitberger Andrew Sumnall Shona Tatchell Martin Tranter Richard Tufft Steve Vivian Robert Vollum Faith Wainwright Stewart Walduck Roger Wardle David Waring David Way Matt Webb Tim Wingfield Mike Woodfine Huijuan Wu Simon Yau Catherine Ysrael-Gomez Plus 11 anonymous donors

The Floreat Aula Legacy Society Members of the Floreat Aula Legacy Society (FALS) have pledged to remember the Hall in their wills, and we are extremely grateful to the 268 members for their committed support. Our thanks also go out to the additional 19 Aularians who have pledged a bequest to the College without joining FALS. Other Aularians who are interested in joining FALS or pledging a bequest to the Hall are invited to contact the Development & Alumni Relations Office for more information.

Members of FALS are invited back to the Hall for a biennial dinner and drinks reception, and the opportunity to revisit the College and meet Aularians of all generations. They also receive an exclusive lapel badge.

The Society’s current membership is listed below (the Aularians who joined in 2022– 2023 are highlighted bold).

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1942 Ken Palk 1945 Peter Phizackerley John Snelling 1948 John Williams 1949 Bob Breese Alan Brimble Ron Hall Robert Strapps 1950 John Allchurch Chris Armitage Raymond Lee John Scott 1951 Desmond Day Robin French Kenneth Lund Denys Moylan Dudley Wood 1952 Bruce Nixon 1953 David Giles Ian Jackson David Picksley Bob Rednall 1954 Jeremy Cleverley Keith Hounslow Norman Isaacs Tony Laughton Archie Warr John Wilkinson

1955 John Barker Martin Bates John Billington Tony Cooper John Cox John Dellar Derek Ford Bob Knowles Peter Mercer David Nelson 1956 Colin Atkinson Michael Cansdale Stewart Douglas-Mann John Ducker John French David Johnson Andrew Page Martin Reynolds Jack Rowell Roger Sutton Gordon Woods 1957 Jonathan Aptaker Geoff Brown Michael Somers Alastair Stewart James Webster 1958 John Bean Bob Bishop Peter Davies David Harrison Derek Jones Philip Rabbetts 1959 Hinton Bird Paul Brett Kevin Crossley-Holland David Harding James Kerr-Muir David Summers OBE

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1960 John Adey Chris Atkinson Ian Beesley Robert Clark Terence Coghlin Ken Hinkley -Smith Yann Lovelock Francis Pocock Michael Rose Alan Wilding Plus 1 anonymous member 1961 Don Anderson Stanley Burnton Rex Harrison Ian Heggie John Long Peter Newell Anthony Rentoul Martin Smith Timothy St George Byng Mike Statham 1962 Bill Best James Burnett-Hitchcock Chris Cowles John Cunningham Arthur Davis Bertie Harmer David Hicks Nigel Pegram 1963 Darrell Barnes Ian Bowers Bob Clarke David Cox John Crawshaw Chris Erwin Jeremy Mew Rod Offer Mike Simmie

1964 David Ashworth Andy Barker Anthony Bucknall Campbell Dunford Alan Graham Tony Lemon David Meredith Keith Wiseman Plus 1 anonymous member 1965 Paul Badman Nigel Barak John Clarembaux Bill Foy Peter Johnson Andy Morgan Humphrey Nicholls Ted Roskell John Sayer 1966 Cam Brown Tony Fisher Jon Shortridge Alan Vasa Plus 1 anonymous member 1967 David Hexter Roger Kenworthy Ethan Lipsig John Mabbett Philip Robinson Graham Salter Rob Weinberg 1968 Clive Bailey Peter Brown Martin Daniels Charles Fisher Alan Jones Simon Kelly Martin Slater Plus 1 anonymous member

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1969 Peter Jones Robert Mathews Tim Statham

Brian Gasser Ian Rushton Nigel Smith Plus 1 anonymous member

1970 John Hawkins Richard Miller Geoff Sambrook Frank Spooner

1976 Bill Cogar Chris Elston Richard Finch Keith Scott Simon Staite Ian Taylor Stephen Tetley Plus 3 anonymous members

1971 Richard Balfour Mark Booker Ian Brimecome Lawrence Cummings Yves Desgouttes John Fazackerley Malcolm Hawthorne Roger Pawson Malcolm Sibson Lyn Williams 1972 George Bull Steve Chandler Paul Mounsey Plus 1 anonymous member 1973 Christopher Amor Robert Cawthorne 1974 Brian Austin Phil Budden Richard Gillingwater Charles Hind Charles Murray Jeremy Nason Graham Wareing Plus 1 anonymous member 1975 Andrew Cordell Alex Davids

1977 Peter Foster Jeremy Tullett Steve Vivian 1978 John Armitstead Patrick Brooks Andrew Curtis Paul Goulding Richard Luddington Robert Pay Richard Taylor 1979 Tony Best James Catmur John Hodgson Ian Lupson Janet Nevin Rob Quain Paul Skokowski David West Russell Withington 1980 Bernard Bewlay Philip Broadley Nick Caddick William Carver Alistair Graham

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Graeme Hall Steve King James Lyle Paula Skokowski 1981 Alasdair Blain Claire Ivins David Stokes 1982 Maggie Carver Tom Christopherson Linda Davies Stuart Worthington 1983 Simon Baker Max Irwin Christine Muskett

1990 Carol Buchanan Chris Manby 1993 Nick Gradel Geoff Mortimer James Parkin 1995 Charlie Robinson 1997 Claire Pointing 1999 Olly Belcher 2000 Charlie Ramsay

1984 Pete Mott

2006 Henry Carter

1985 Doug McCallum Will Shaw Tanya Spilsbury Betsy Tyler Bell Judith Waring

2008 Ruth Shaw

1986 Simon Costa David Gillett

Friends of the Hall Hilary Baker Olivia Band Olive Baxter Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor Gloria Clutton-Williams John Dunbabin Keith Gull Dianne Gull Robert Houston Caroline Millward Mike Mingos Christopher Pope Laura Radley Gwen Titcombe Plus 1 anonymous donor

1987 Christine Ho Kelleher Poppy Psillos David Waring 1988 James Ferguson 1989 Luke Jones Ian Sandals

2010 Wilson Chen William Gunson

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Of Matters Ecclesiastical – Vestments & Vicarages, Songs & Prayers

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Treasures Unseen by Zachary Guiliano Three locked rooms lie on the north side of the Antechapel. Few people notice when they enter: in one seamless movement they cross the space between the wood and stone entryway, the new glass doors, and the step upwards into the Chapel. They miss the treasures hidden behind an oak door.

The door and the rooms were not always there. The sacristy and the organ loft behind it were added in 1931, after New College ceded a small piece of their vast gardens. Until then, the Antechapel had doubled as a space for seating and storage, and room was increasingly needed to accommodate more seating, a suitable organ, and a significant number of gifts granted to the Chapel.

What kind of treasures were given? They are a window onto the history of the Hall.

Like many college chapels, ours offered Matins and Evensong daily for centuries.

This is work that Anglican clergy remain legally obligated to observe privately and are expected to provide publicly in the churches they serve, as often as possible.

They are simple services but require some obvious things: Bibles and prayer books for public reading, hymnals for singing, an altar adorned with ‘fair linen’ (at least) and silk (preferably), as well as lights to make all this possible. When the Chapel was originally built, 23 brass candlesticks lined walls and stalls alike, removed only when gas lighting was introduced. And, until the 19th century, the building’s glass was clear – facilitating its primary purpose as a place for reciting and hearing holy scriptures. Few services were held at night.

We still possess no fewer than five sets of candlesticks: three of brass, one of pewter, and a final set whose material I

cannot identify. Suffice it to say that these latter sticks are plain and cheap. “Two great brass candlesticks” for the altar were given in the 17th century by an unknown donor. They are now crooked, and require unusually tall pillar candles, whose base must be ‘spiked’ to a great depth for them to remain in place: no chandler has yet done it to my satisfaction, and I have learned I lack the time and skill needed to prepare such candles well. It requires a great deal of hot water, a handheld spike, and a steady hand. Luckily, two more brass candlesticks were given by H.P. Liddon on Easter 1861 while he was Vice-Principal.

They remain serviceable, and their spiral design is echoed in the current 17thcentury Communion table we acquired last year to serve as our altar.

The Chapel’s altars and their decorations have suffered unusual losses. The original 17th-century altar was lost for a time within College, but then found and restored in 1920 and fitted with a stone mensa blessed by Henry Herbert Williams, (Principal 1913-1920) who was then Bishop of Carlisle. Students, staff, Fellows, and alumni soon donated stunning altar cloths and linens to bring more colour to the space. Gerald Allen, only 35 when he became Principal

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(1920-1928), was known to students and friends as ‘Puffles’. He gave a red and green frontal of Venetian silk in 1922, the same year the widow of Captain G.H. Salmon (mat. 1913) donated a Persian rug to lay on the stone steps before the altar. Salmon had been killed fighting in northern Iraq in 1920 and the rug was given in his memory. In 1925, A.C. Cooper (mat. 1920) gave ‘a festal frontal’ in alternating patterns of red and yellow fabric, and of white and yellow silk brocade. Many other silks were given, and eventually stored in purpose-built cupboards in the Antechapel, where the College now keeps choir music and a great deal of archival material. (The times change.) These silks are sadly lost without a trace, along with the original altar and its blessed stone. What remains from that time is a reminder of Empire: an altar frontal, “made out of bark-cloth at Chipili” in 1936, based on local designs and comissioned by Principal Emden as a reminder of the missionary work of the Church and “the many Aularians who, whether as priests, civil servants or schoolmasters” were working then in Africa. This may go to the Pitt Rivers Museum, where it can be properly displayed and preserved.

Through most of the 20th century, the normal pattern of Matins and Evensong was supplemented with daily Mass, which lasted until the 1970s. We have

a collection of silver plate to match this history of devotion. At the Chapel’s foundation, James Clavering (mat. 1687) bestowed upon it an exceptional silver chalice and paten, and Henry Partridge (mat. 1688) gave a silver flagon soon after.

The lettering that records their donation is exquisite. They are absurdly large, able to hold wine for at least 300 communicants, an opulent display meant to highlight the solemnity of Holy Communion, even in an Oxford institution of relative poverty.

Clearly, they could not be used on a daily basis.

Nine alumni instead offered a silver chalice and paten of Arts & Crafts design, delicately executed in 1925 by ‘Mr Hart of Chipping Campden’. Similarly, while still Vice-Principal, on Christmas Day 1937, John Kelly gave a silver ciborium: Ad Honorem Sanctissimi Corporis Domini Jesu Christi et in Memoriam Matris / “For the honour of the most holy body of the Lord Jesus Christ and in memory of my mother”.

The interior is inlaid with gold, and might be seen only for a moment, as the priest laid the consecrated wafer in one’s hands, saying “The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life.” That is not all one would have seen. The priest would have held the ciborium in his left hand, where a silken ‘maniple’ was worn, reflecting the liturgical colour of the day

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and meant to serve as a reminder of the minister’s life of service and self-denial.

We still have most of these maniples, along with numerous burses and veils to cover the chalice and paten, as they sat on the altar before and after the Eucharistic prayer. They have many colours: white and gold for Christmas, Easter, and the feasts of the saints; red for martyrs’ days and Whitsunday; purple for Advent and Lent; even black for Masses of requiem.

They testify to a period of abundance, where at least 12 sets of full Eucharistic vestments, along with accompanying burses and veils, were preserved in the sacristy. Not all of these are fine in quality: I confess to retiring a yellow and red chasuble, and making it available only for dramatic performances. Others are truly noteworthy.

Two sets of vestments, green and white, were donated by the Revd J.C. Stephenson (mat. 1934) in 1953, and designed by ‘the Clewer sisters’, a convent of the Community of St John the Baptist in Clewer, Windsor. The house no longer exists. They have moved several times, lately to Cuddesdon. Among these two sets, the green is especially important, with multi-coloured panels inspired by traditional East Asian patterns, but completed overall as a Western ‘fiddleback’ chasuble. I have never seen anything like it, and I have often reflected on its unusual history, as I stood in Front Quad before or after one of our lunchtime services. I can’t help doing so: passersby also find the chasuble a curiousity.

Many scurry by as they head to lunch or a tutorial, avoiding direct eye contact while pretending not to gawp at the sight of an undeniably religious person, bedecked in green and gold made more beautiful by the noonday sun.

It is important to ‘use’ these treasures.

Because they do not belong behind locked doors, sealed off and forgotten. Their value requires them to be stored safely, but only to preserve their place in the ongoing offering of prayer. It is true that some of our treasures have suffered unusual demises or are in poor shape, but this happens to most objects used in worship.

Like us, they experience the ravages of

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are relatively undecorated. A priest prays as each piece is put on. My favourite prayer accompanies the stole: “Restore, O Lord, the stole of immortality lost by the collusion of our first parents, and although I be unworthy to approach your sacred mysteries, yet may I receive an eternal reward.” The ritual placement of each article situates the minister within the history of salvation, in the sphere of grace, requiring multiple confessions of inadequacy accompanied by hope, strong and justified. time: moths devour their fabric, pages are torn, chalices are dropped by careless priests or chapel clerks, altar frontals are worn away as worshippers kneel before them. Each knee, hand, foot, or mouth makes its mark: pages are turned, objects are touched or kissed, wine and bread are taken from them. A laver is dipped into the fount to pour holy water across the head of a child. After many uses, it wears out, or its edge is chipped. It has served its purpose.

The Chapel’s treasures are historic, then, but must always constantly be renewed.

Time wears them down, whether they are used well or languish in a damp cupboard. Since 2020, during my time as Chaplain at Teddy Hall, our acquisitions have been minor, save for one. We have new prayer books, hymnals, and Bibles to accommodate the greater number of people attending Choral Evensong.

New cruets for wine and water replaced older ones, whose glass was chipped and cloudy. Fresh white linens have replaced those long stained. But also, due to the generosity of a donor, we have also acquired the ‘St Edmund cope’.

A cope is an unusual garment. Eucharistic vestments and vesture – whether they be chasubles, maniples, stoles, albs, amices, or cinctures – all have numerous symbols attached to them, even if they

A cope is not like this. Its sole purpose is its splendour, as a decorative cloak to mark special occasions. And our new cope is indeed beautiful, as well as heavy, its golden threads serving as a manifestation of St Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 4: “Our light and momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond comprehension”. In working with our donor and the designer at Watts and Co., I wanted to craft something that would be an enduring piece within the Hall, meant to be worn on some of its highest ceremonial occasions, such as St Edmund Day, the Christmas carol services, or christenings and weddings. And so it plays with several themes in its decoration, and was richly made.

The main body is cloth of gold, decorated with stags, eagles, and sunbursts. In some medieval bestiaries, the stag was said to live forever, while the eagle was the only animal capable of looking upon the sun with an unwearied eye. The fabric’s visible glory reminds us of the beauty of God and the saints, but these spiritual qualities are not denied to ordinary human beings in the Christian faith. They are divine gifts.

The design is thus a reminder to each person of their potential future, as they journey toward the heavenly kingdom. I think of the late chapters of C.S. Lewis’s The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, in which

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the characters find themselves drinking sweet water from the ocean at the end of the world, and they even come to look on the sun itself. Remember St Edmund’s dying words, taken from Isaiah 12: “With joy, you will draw water from the wells of salvation”. And Psalm 42: “Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God”.

The hood bears what many of us think of as the College ‘logo’ or ‘crest’, based on St Edmund’s coat of arms. Since the cope is already in gold, the colours of the hood are an inverted version of those arms: a cross of gold thread lying on a background of red brocade, with choughs worked in silk shading, individually dyed threads giving each wing a distinct quality. Our link with our patron comes through here; it is a cope that would make sense at St Edmund Hall and in few other places.

Since its dedication last year, I have had occasion to wear it many times,

and it tends to cause a stir. The most memorable moment may have been when I was asked to bless the College boats at Summer Eights. I could have come in ordinary clothes or black clericals, but I thought that if I was going to haul myself down to the river in the middle of a busy day, surrounded by sportspeople and spectators, we might as well make something of the event. So I composed some prayers for the occasion and donned this luminous cope, before sprinkling blessed water on the boats with a bunch of rosemary taken from Front Quad. You may have seen the video on Instagram.

The ceremony was a way of invoking God’s blessing, of course, but also reminding our students that their every endeavour here is important and worth remembering.

As I said, treasures are for using. These unique objects tie us to the history of St Edmund Hall and to past generations of donors. They can also be a daily reminder of how our lives have a transcendent trajectory and goal. When they are used, it is not only the treasures that cease to be hidden, but our lives.

The Revd Dr Zachary Guiliano, Chaplain and Career Development Research Fellow in Early Medieval History

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Shchedryk – On the Wings of a Swallow from Ukraine

by Viktoriia Khalanchuk

This year, the Choir of St Edmund Hall has premiered a new version of a song known around the world as ‘Carol of the Bells’, with new lyrics prepared by the Director of Music, Dr James Whitbourn. The new lyrics return the song’s imagery to the original version — the Ukrainian folk song Shchedryk. There are now many versions of Shchedryk and its melody can truly be seen as part of the heritage of humanity.

This article presents the history of how the song has become one of the most famous Christmas songs in many parts of the world and an anthem of freedom for Ukraine.

The Ukrainian folk song Shchedryk tells of a swallow who calls for the master of a household to reflect on all the goods he possesses, and predicts a prosperous year ahead.1 The Ukrainian word ‘shchedryi’ means ‘bountiful’. The original text does not contain any references to Christmas because in Ukraine, Shchedryk is a part of the cycle of spiritual songs for another celebration: the Feast Day of St Melania, called ‘Malanka’ or ‘Shchedryi Vechir’ (Bountiful Evening). Malanka has also become known as the ‘Old New Year’ 1

because St Melania’s Day on 13 January is the New Year in the Julian calendar.

In the pre-Christian era, people in Ukraine celebrated the New Year in spring when the swallows returned home after the winter. People blessed one another with ritual songs witnessing the coming of light, celebrating the richness of nature, and wishing for a bountiful year. Today, Malanka combines pagan and Christian traditions and is when Shchedryk and other songs referencing springtime can be heard in Ukraine. These ritual songs are called ‘shchedrivky’, while at Christmas people sing ‘koliadky’, though a list of specific songs varies regionally. These traditions reflect the legacy and mutual enrichment of pre-Christian and Christian motifs in Ukrainian culture. Nowadays, the swallow also symbolises God’s Spirit, which unites heaven and earth, signifies the miracle of God’s Son coming in the human form and hope for the salvation of humanity. The new lyrics for Shchedryk, written by James Whitbourn, masterfully reflect both the original meaning of the song and a new powerful Christian significance.

An English translation of the folk song lyrics can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shchedryk_(song)

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The world knows Shchedryk as a Christmas carol thanks to a brilliant Ukrainian composer, Mykola Leontovych.

In 1916, Leontovych presented an arrangement of the song. In 1920, the song premiered in London as a part of a world tour by the Ukrainian Republic Capella choir conducted by Oleksandr Koshyts. The Capella was sent abroad by the Ukrainian Government to promote awareness of Ukrainian independence in Europe and the Americas on the eve of the Soviet Russian invasion. The Ukrainian National Republic declared independence as a sovereign state in the context of the establishment of the post-World War I order, when the Russian Empire ceased to exist and American President Woodrow Wilson’s ‘Fourteen Points’ were inspiring nations from the Baltics and Eastern Europe with the right to self-determination. However, the young Ukrainian government of that time was not able to secure independence in the face of the invading Bilshovyks (Bolshevik in Russian) forces and in the context of propaganda claiming that Ukraine had never been a self-sufficient nation. The Ukrainian leadership of that time decided to counter such narratives and seek foreign support through what we would now call cultural diplomacy. The Capella performed numerous concerts in Europe, Canada and the USA. Artists, writers, and politicians from all over the world sent letters in support of the Capella and the

Ukrainian National Republic.

In London, the Capella performed 12 concerts from 1 February-1 March 1920 (including at Queen’s Hall in Langham Place, the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, the People’s Palace in Mile End, King’s College and the Chiswick Empire Theatre). Shchedryk was included in the programme as a Christmas carol.

In Central Hall, the Capella performed at the meeting of the National Council of Women. At that event, Maria Zarchi, wife of the Counsellor to the Ukrainian Peace Delegation in Paris, gave a speech on behalf of the Ukrainian women’s movement. The Capella also participated in charity performances together with the British Symphony Orchestra. Its farewell concert was performed for blind war veterans in Queen’s Hall and was followed by several additional events, including a charity performance for the needs of ‘The War Seal Foundation’.

More than 100 reviews were published in the media after the Capella’s London performances. The British national newspaper The Daily News and Leader wrote that almost all of the songs were performed again as an encore, and Shchedryk and Oy, Tam Za Horoyu (‘Oh Over There, Behind the Mountain’), both created by Leontovych, were among the most original and beautiful.

While Shchedryk definitely impressed London’s public, the name of the song challenged British people with its difficult pronunciation. The British weekly magazine of humour and satire Punch declared a crisis of a “College of Correct Cosmopolitan Pronunciation” provoked by the visit of the Ukrainian choir since “at their concert last week several strong women wept like men at their inability to pronounce the title of one of the most beautiful items on the programme —

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‘Shtchedryk’ [sic].” The illustrated weekly journal The Sketch, in a review of the Capella performances in London, noted: “Not being a believer in so many of the new States which have sprung up since the war, I stood up to the strain of the Ukrainian National Anthem with very mixed feelings.

At the end, I was quite convinced as to the justice of their national aspirations — anyway, emotionally.”

The song was also a huge triumph in the USA and became so famed that in 1936 an American conductor of Ukrainian descent, Peter Wilhousky, published a musical score with the new lyrics and the title ‘Carol of the Bells’. For decades, the song has been sung during the Christmas period under that new title, although the composer, the history behind Shchedryk and even its homeland had been forgotten and left shrouded in darkness.

Although the Ukrainian government succeeded in cultural diplomacy, it did not receive military support and Ukraine was occupied by Soviet Russia. Composer Mykola Leontovych was killed by the Soviet secret police shortly before the song premiered in Carnegie Hall in the USA in 1922. His death was not investigated until 1991, when Ukraine restored its independence and archive materials become available.

Winter is a dark, cold time of year and can often feel endless. That is literally true in Shchedryk’s homeland now; attacked in the same way as a hundred years ago, by the successor of the Russian and Soviet Empires. Neither Shchedryk, nor any other Ukrainian songs succeeded in preserving

the sovereignty of the Ukrainian state in the 1920s. Currently, the Ukrainian Army and all the Ukrainian nation are fighting, with others, for their culture and a home for a swallow to come back to.

Military targets apart, Russia is attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and civilian houses, and also missiles and drones have damaged or destroyed cultural property.

After the Russian attacks on 23 November 2022, Ukraine experienced large power outages, which immersed the country in almost complete darkness. Instead of scaring people, the darkness has encouraged them, even more, to be strong and struggle for the light in all senses.

That fight, however, again needs support.

Although winter is a difficult season in many places in the world, it also presents the brightest wonder for the brave to accept. On the eve of Christmas, Shchedryk highlights the fight for freedom and promises true and God-blessed light after the darkness.

Viktoriia Khalanchuk (2022, MSt Diplomatic Studies) This article is based on the work of Tina Peresunko, historian and researcher of Ukrainian cultural diplomacy, and author of a book about Shchedryk and the Ukrainian Republic Capella entitled Культурна Дипломатія Симона Петлюри: «Щедрик» проти «русского мира». Місія Капели Олександра Кошиця (1919– 1924) [The Cultural Diplomacy of Simon Petliura: ‘Shchedryk’ Against the ‘Russian World’ The Mission of the Oleksandr Koshyts Choir (1919–1924)]

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Shchedryk by James Whitbourn One little bird, high in the hall, Chirruped aloud, summoning all: “Come, see the sight! Bountiful night!

Darkness has been turned into light!

Shepherds have seen wonderful things: Heavenly Host, tidings it brings!”

Cattle look on, wondering too, Seeing the Lamb born anew.

Can this be bountiful love Given for all, sent from above?

Carolling, let us sing for the little Lamb who shall be our King. Let us sing: Gloria! Hosanna!

Bountiful night, bountiful love, Given for all, sent from above.

Words by James Whitbourn, based on the Ukrainian folksong Watch the St Edmund Hall Choir sing Shchedryck: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=cbTynokoUe0&feature=youtu.be

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Paths of Remembrance by Christopher Armitage Recently retired from a storied career teaching at the University of North Carolina, Christopher Armitage (1951, English) returned to stay at the Hall in Trinity term to write and reflect. Here he shares the impressions evoked by the churchyard of St Peter-in-the-East: In 1966 the growing College acquired from the Church of England the adjacent property of the church of St Peter-inthe-East and its graveyard. The church included a Norman era crypt in which the Eucharist is occasionally still administered.

The building above, beautifully refurbished and re-opened in 1970 as the Hall Library, will for the purpose of this essay, continue to be referred to as the church.

The churchyard has gravestones and memorials from the 17th century onwards, with inscriptions still legible from the 1820s to the late 20th century. Some of which have become paving stones for paths around the church. On entering the graveyard, one is confronted by a modern bronze statue, sculpted by Aularian Rodney Munday (1967, English), of St Edmund sitting on a bench, and a large tomb, its inscription now moss-covered and illegible.

Most of the gravestones are approximately six feet in length and two feet in width. A few are inscribed entirely in capital letters.

Some gravestones are headed by a cross, and many begin “sacred to the memory of” a father, his wife and their children, named individually or collectively. Two remember “six children”, and one “eight children”, reminders of the high rates of mortality from tuberculosis and other illnesses in the 19th century.

Some inscriptions encourage speculation about the feelings of relatives toward one another. Charles Palmer died on “February 27, 1824, aged 73”, and his wife Ann on “February 28, 1836, aged 76”. Could the anniversary of her husband’s passing have contributed to hers the next day?

Some memorials offer minimalism penetrable only by those who know who the initials represent: “TM 1852” “RM 1846”. Or a triplet arranged vertically: “JRH 1848 TH 1891 AH 1899”.

Some inscriptions provide more than dates of birth and death. Henry Fawcette was a “Scholar of University College, 4th son of the late Revd. John Fawcette of Newton Hall in the County of Durham. He died the 18th of May in his 21st year.” By contrast others remain oblique: “Henry Abbott obit A.D. 1836 aetat 30.”

One of the memorials to parents and “six children” is “Sacred to the memory of John Hounslow who died March 31st 1879 aged 76, also of Sarah wife of the above who died February 31st 1835 aged 35 and of six children who died in their infancy, also of Ann wife of the above who died November 6th 1890 aged 76”. The date of John’s second marriage and whether Ann

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was birthmother of any of the six children is not recorded. But the assigning of three extra days to February’s traditional 28 days apparently provoked the vandalizing of the marker in mid-20th century. A new replica stands in the place.

With the church now having been part of the Hall for 50 years, memories of Aularians past mingle with those of parishioners. At the northeast end of the church is a grassy area and garden “created by the generosity of William and Camille Broadbent” in honour of their daughter Avery Walcott (2004, MSt Modern History). The garden was designed

by Sarah Eubank. There is also a bench “For Reggie, Graham & Bruce” Alton, Midgley, and Mitchell, the English tutors famous and beloved in the second half of the 20th century.

In one corner of the grassy area is a bench “In loving memory of Katie Ashbridge who died 15th May 2007, aged 25. ‘It’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.’”1 In the facing corner a bench reads, “For Jan and our golden Oxford days” from David M. Bolton (1957, Jurisprudence). Another is “In memory of Rorie Duncan a Teddy Hall graduate and MSF Aid worker who died 4 September 2002, aged 30”.2

the Centenary of the Above named James Sadler, the First English Aeronaut, and subsequently after the bicentenary in 1984 of his first flight on 4th October.”

The small, ground level memorial closest to the entry to the church reads “In memory of Philip Geddes Journalist MATRIC 1977 BORN 1959 Killed by an act of terrorism 1983.”4 He was killed in the IRA bombing of Harrods. The Geddes Trust was established in his name which, along with the Hall, organises journalism prizes, an annual lecture by a well-regarded public personality, and a masterclass.

Rather than simply signifying loss of religious faith, this shift in tone from the sacramental to the secular is perhaps as deeply felt by referring to more material forms of remembrance.

Dr Christopher M. Armitage (1951, English), St Edmund Fellow

Very unusual is “In Memoriam Selwyn Cox 1899-1982 and his wife Vera Lucinda Cox 1905-1983 ‘Now what is my hope/ Truly my hope is even in Thee’ (Psalm 39, verse 7).”3 This is the only citation from the Bible visible in the graveyard.

Two recent memorials are perhaps more secular: “Sacred to the memory of James Sadler. He died March 27th 1828, Aged 75 years. This stone was renewed by the Royal Aeronautical Society on the occasion of 1 2 3 4

Katie Ashbridge (2000, Mathematics and Computer Science) Rorie Duncan (1991, Arabic) Revd Selwyn Cox (1921, BA), benefactor of the Hall Philip Geddes (1977, English)

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St Peter’s Parsonage by John Hawkins Amongst the most treasured spaces in the Queen’s Lane estate of St Edmund Hall is the churchyard of St Peter-in-the-East.

Since the acquisition of the church and its land by the College in the late 1960s, it has been the site of quiet reflection, serious entertainment and joyful parties, particularly during the summer months.

In recent years, Edmund of Abingdon, returned from Pontigny, keeps half an eye on the activities taking place there from his seat in its south-west corner.

The physical extent of the churchyard and the essentials of its layout have remained unchanged for around two centuries. The positions of some paths and gravestones have been altered, bike sheds have been added and some of the old yews visible in 19th-century engravings have been removed, but it would be instantly recognisable to an incumbent or parishioner from 200 years ago. Before that, the story is slightly more complicated.

The churchyard was expanded in size on at least two occasions and possibly three.

Around 1405, a slip of land along Queen’s

Fig. 1: Ralph Agas map of 1578/1588 (Robert Whittlesey facsimile of 1721)

Lane was acquired, bounded to the north by the New College wall and to the south by the gate near the Hall. This land was later transferred to the Town Council for safe-keeping in the uncertain times after the Reformation and made available to the parish on a 99-year lease at nominal rent.

This gave rise to a problem in 1867, since the Town Council decided not to extend the lease on its old, beneficial terms and the parish was forced to take legal action.

Eventually, in 1875, the case reached the Court of Chancery. The decision went against the parish, but it subsequently acquired the freehold from the Council.

In the Agas map of 1588 (Fig.1), the eastern boundary wall of the graveyard is shown running south from the eastern end of the chancel to St Edmund Hall and north from the eastern end of the Lady Chapel to the New College wall. Slightly to the north and east of the church, within what was then the New College orchard, was a long low building. This building was also shown in the two versions of Wenceslaus Hollar’s map of the city published during the mid-1600s.

Fig. 2: David Loggan map of 1675 (‘21’ is the Hall and ‘39’ St Peter’s)

Note: in each case, south is at the top of the map.

Fig. 3: William Williams’ ‘new’ map of 1722 (‘22’ is the Hall and ‘40’ St Peter’s)

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By the time of David Loggan’s map of 1675 (Fig. 2), the churchyard had expanded eastwards into what was now the New College bowling green, and there were two new walls.1 The first, slightly further to the east of the southern section of the original eastern boundary wall, ran directly from the eastern corner of the new north-east range of the St Edmund Hall buildings to New College in a straight line, removing the previous dog leg. The second short section ran east-west from the southeast corner of the chancel to the new eastern boundary wall and had the effect of forming an enclosure in the north-east corner of the churchyard. Within this enclosure is a building in a similar position to that in the Agas map, but smaller and further to the south. In William Williams’ 1722 ‘new’ map of the city (Fig. 3), the enclosure walls are not shown, but there is a building in much the same place, albeit of different shape. Williams’ map, incidentally, shows the extent of the New College bowling green incorrectly – it projected farther to the south (the Hall’s Chapel and Library building, which can be seen, was built on land leased on a quit rent from New College).

So much for the early visual evidence. Early written evidence in parish and other records is very sparse. A three-roomed vicarage opposite the churchyard was recorded in 1378 and one to the east of the church in 1558. From 1582 to 1660 the vicarage was let to tenants and from 1727 to 1771 it was 1

used as a workhouse. This is consistent with the fact that the advowson (right of presentation of the benefice) of the church lay in the hands of Merton College. It was thus invariably Merton Fellows who were proposed to the living, who would have much preferred their cosy College rooms to a small and draughty parsonage.

Until 1804, the “Parsonage and Garden to the north of the church” remained in the ownership of Merton, rather than the parish. In this year the parish purchased these for the sum of £210, for the purposes of expanding the churchyard.

This land and building had previously been rented from the Merton for 10 guineas per year, payable to the vicar, who henceforth was to receive instead the interest on the consideration. Soon after this the parsonage must have been demolished and it is clearly absent in a print of 1821 that shows this end of the churchyard.

Of the many prints of St Peter-in-theEast, only one shows the parsonage. This

Fig. 4: ‘St Peter’s, Oxford’, view from the south west, copper engraving by William Byrne and J. Sparrow after Thomas Hearne, FSA, 14 May 1796

Neither the Parish archives, nor those of New College, contain any record of the associated transaction

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is a finely executed copper engraving

by William Byrne and J. Sparrow after a painting by Thomas Hearne FSA (not to be confused with the Hall’s own antiquarian, Thomas Hearne). The publication date is given as 14 May 1796 and it appeared in Byrne’s Antiquities of Great Britain in 1807. Titled ‘St Peter’s, Oxford’, it is a view of the church from the southwest and the parsonage can be clearly seen to the east of the chancel. If the parsonage really was in the position indicated by the Loggan and Williams maps, there is a question as to whether the artist used a degree of license in including the front of the parsonage in his view, which may well have been further back and out of sight from his vantage point. His depiction of the church, however, is quite accurate and from other evidence it seems that his depiction of the parsonage may have been so as well.

The Hall’s fine collection of paintings is well known to most members of the College, especially those who have cause to visit the SCR. In common with other colleges, it also has a miscellaneous collection of prints of the College itself and of St Peter-in-the-East, which has long held a fascination for artists and engravers. Less well known is the fact that it also possesses a few drawings of the church. Students entering the Principal’s Lodgings for collections, or other reasons, may have noticed a small image of the dog-tooth surround to the inner south porch of St Peter’s without realising that it is an original 19th-century drawing by architect John Chessell Buckler, rather than a print. Very few, however, will have seen a drawing of the church and parsonage by Henry Frederick de Cort, which until recently was displayed in the

Fig. 5: St Peter’s church and parsonage, pencil drawing with wash, Henry Frederick de Cort, 1800

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Library Fellow’s room at the top of St Peter’s tower.

Born Hendrick Frans de Cort in Antwerp in 1742, he was admitted as a Master into the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1770, having studied under Willem Jacob Herreyns, principally a painter of history subjects and portraits, and the landscape specialist, Hendrik Joseph Antonissen.

De Cort’s main output was of buildings, townscapes and landscapes. He does not seem to have been adept at drawing the human form and a fellow student, Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck, would sometimes add these for him. At some time after 1776 de Cort moved to Paris and was received into the Royal Academy of Painting and sculpture in 1779. He returned to Antwerp in 1782, where he took an active part in reorganising the school of painting, acting as secretary to the newly constituted academy.

He contributed 6 pictures to the first exhibition of the new academy held in 1789.

Following the Brabant Revolution of 1789, de Cort moved to London and remained based there for the rest of his life, although he travelled widely throughout the British Isles. Following a long tradition of Flemish painters, he built up a highly successful practice as a painter of country houses, castles, cathedrals and other views, gaining many commissions from the nobility and other important patrons.

Many of his works were painted in an Italianate idiom, indebted to the style of Gaspar Dughet, and were often painted in his studio on specially prepared mahogany panels. As preparation for these, he would make pencil drawings at the locations of his subject matter, enhanced with wash.

It is into the category of preparatory drawings that the Hall’s de Cort example seems to fall, leaving open the enticing possibility that, somewhere, a fullyworked up oil painting exists of the same subject. One also wonders whether he made a drawing of the Hall while in the vicinity. His depiction of the south front of the parsonage is very similar to that in Hearne’s slightly earlier view, although the height of the building seems rather lower. From the face-on vantage point it is difficult to see whether it is as far forward as shown by Hearne and the rear western projection suggests a different floor plan to that shown in Williams’ map.

De Cort died in 1810 and was buried in the churchyard of Old St Pancras Church, which has long since disappeared. Though he does not seem to have taken very high rank as an artist, his landscapes paintings were much valued in private collections and his sepia drawings were also much admired. His output was prolific and his drawings and oil paintings frequently appear at auction, typically fetching from a few hundred to a few thousand pounds.

Dr John W. Hawkins (1970, Physics)

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A Prayer for his Studies by Thomas Hearne Editor’s note: Last year I spent some time in the Bodleian researching early catalogues of the Old Library written by Thomas Hearne (of which more perhaps in next year’s issue).

In one volume (dated 9 May 1709 on its first leaf but incorporating materials from many years), I also came across this prayer written for the success of his studies.

Hearne matriculated in 1696 but lived in Hall until his death 1735. The prayer, then, will have been written in his room in College (almost certainly the room now called the Hearne Room). In Trinity term as our students revised hard for their exams, this prayer was read at Evensong in Chapel.

I have not yet been able to trace a source so it may be an original composition of Hearne’s. In the transcript here I have expanded contractions but left spelling and capitalisation as in the original.

Almighty and Everlasting God, the Father of Light and Fountain of all Knowledge, without whom all our Endeavours are insignificant & fruitless, vouchsafe, I most humbly beseech thee, to direct, forward & succeed my present Study and application, that it may tend to thy greater Glory, to the Improvement & Satisfaction of my own mind, to the Comfort of my Friends, & to the common Good, thro the Merits & Mediation of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen.

MS Rawlinson D 316 fol. 93a

James Howarth, Librarian

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This Thread of Gold by Cat White When I was four years old, shiny faced and bright eyed bounding into my first day of school, my grandmother bought me a purple coat.

Beautifully tailored, it was the kind of coat that made you stand a little taller when you wore it; look up – and out.

“Purple is royal,” my grandmother would tell me. And when I wore it I carried myself as if I too were deserving of such a status –all four feet of me. Twenty years later, when my grandfather died, every guest wore a purple ribbon to his funeral.

I learnt then that purple also meant quiet.

It meant healing. It meant calm. Now, on any important occasion, I wear purple.

It grounds me –and connects me. The calmness of blue. The ferocity of red.

Purple is woven into my history.

Alice Walker crafted a world around it.

Michaela Coel built a vision from it. My grandmother raised her family with it.

And, in 2023, I published my debut book This Thread of Gold with purple’s celebratory elegance right at its heart.

Described by Afua Hirsch, author of bestseller Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging (Vintage, 2018), as “extraordinary” and a “stunning debut from a young author”; as “an essential book for 2023” by the New Statesman; and as the i’s Non-Fiction Book of the Month, This Thread of Gold has landed with something of a splash. Long before

the critical reception, however, it actually started life on Queen’s Lane, Oxford, whilst I was reading for my Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies at the Hall.

It was a busy year. During that yearlong Masters programme, I was Teddy Hall’s Women’s Officer as well as Oxford University Student Union’s Graduate Women’s Officer. Having always had a passion for the creative arts, I also (much to the dismay of my brilliant academic advisor Henrike Lähnemann) played the lead role in five Oxford University Dramatic Society plays and filmed three short films.

All of this whilst continuing to work two days per week for the United Nations and somehow managing to graduate with a First Class Honours High Distinction.

What is interesting is that lying right at the heart of all of this was my thesis: an exploration of Black women, food and resistance. Using the metaphor of a menu complete with starter, main and dessert, I traced the history of Black women’s resistance from the Mammy figure at the end of the transatlantic slave trade, to Beyoncé’s album Lemonade (Parkwood Entertainment 2016) which had just been released. There were initially a few raised eyebrows at the notion that I would write my dissertation on Beyoncé but then, in 2016, the political landscape of the world as we knew it shifted forever. In November 2016 Donald Trump was elected as President of the United States of America.

I remember my entire Women’s Studies cohort meeting that next morning and simply sitting, together, in silence. 15 women united in our sorrow. Suddenly, my dissertation did not seem so futile. It became a weaving of light; a weapon in our fight with my pen being the sword – drawing together narratives of resistance

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by women who, throughout history, had survived the unthinkable – and done the extraordinary.

I began to research how this was a resistance that was expansive and multifaceted.

The more I wrote, the more I realised that this was a history that mattered. I carried that with me – in many ways as a great responsibility. I wanted to prove that this was a subject worthy of academic merit.

It was a moment of enormous pride, perhaps up there with the greatest in my life, when I got those results and saw that I had received one of the highest marks it was possible to receive. In the midst of a deeply hostile political climate, I was able to bring an important history to life and with it play my own small part in undoing some of that hostility. I saw it as a small contribution to shifting the cultural landscape and reminding the world that hope was around the corner. What’s more, in the creation of that dissertation and in my career that has followed on from it; from my work as a gender expert for the United Nations, actor, writer and filmmaker named last year on the Forbes ‘30 under 30’ list to finally becoming a published author, I have sought to continue to uncover the stories that history has overlooked and work to change the way that the world sees Black women.

For centuries, Black women have been writing, building, making, weaving – out of their own hands – a tapestry of beauty, of majesty. We can see the ebullient shine of its thread in unexpected places.

Finding strength in songs, in recipes, in hairdressers, in nature and on the sports field, Black women have defied the odds to rise up. I began to realise that I too formed a part of this tapestry. And so, the idea for my debut book, a celebration of Black womanhood that would move out of the realm of food and out of the realm of academia to become a manifesto for hope and resistance worldwide, was born.

The process of publishing my debut book was a somewhat surprising one.

I always had the idea in the back of my mind that I would expand my thesis one day – possibly with it forming the basis of a postdoctoral proposal or possibly simply self-publishing it in academic circles. However, in 2020, as coronavirus began to ravage our societies, I revisited those words I had written over three years earlier. What I found there surprised me: as well as tracing a history of resistance, I had also posited a message of radical hope. And, whilst my thesis existed solely in the realm of food and resistance,

I pulled together a proposal, submitted it to agents and ended up receiving several offers of representation. When we eventually went out on submission to editors we received brilliant offers that I hadn’t even dared to dream of. I decided to go with the brilliant Dialogue Books, spearheaded by the powerhouse Sharmaine Lovegrove, and over the course of the following year I set out to write the book.

I see This Thread of Gold as a continuation of what I started with my dissertation, but it goes where my thesis dared not.

This Thread of Gold is my addition to the tapestry. It fuses research, memoir, lyricism and a clear narrative voice to uncover the imprint that has been made

by Black women throughout history.

It shines a light on their everyday and extraordinary acts of resistance and elevates examples of them surviving, thriving and glowing. It travels through time, visiting literary salons, workplaces, churches, kitchens and film sets and introduces the world to Black women dating back centuries.

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Some of these women might be familiar but many will not. The reader will discover how these women have used art, the media, politics, food, any means they could to challenge the dominant narratives about Blackness and womanhood and offer alternative and assertive visions for both.

In reclaiming their determined acts of resistance, holding them up to the light and celebrating them, This Thread of Gold is making these women visible, in some cases for the very first time. It is letting the world see them rise.

I am sometimes asked what I am proudest of regarding the whole process.

It’s a difficult question to answer but I think it comes back to why I wanted to write the book in the first place.

Ultimately, I had never read anything that chronicled the power of Black womanhood – and trusted itself that this is enough.

Traditional narratives focus on oppression, but This Thread of Gold is an exploration of joy. I also love that it is unflinching and unafraid, not shying away from hard truths, but building new shared histories to be passed down from generation to generation. Its real beauty lies in its joy and its celebration of its subject. By daring to give space to this celebration: to the recreation, reclamation and resilience

displayed by Black women, my greatest dream is that This Thread of Gold will permanently correct a historical record, change the dominant narrative and inspire a generation of readers.

I wrote This Thread of Gold as celebration of the shimmering tapestry delicately woven by the generations of women who have come before me. At its heart, it is a book about connections. What anchors us to our past and what we carry with us into our future. From grandmother, to mother, to daughter, it connects Black women’s historical legacy to the brighter future that we can all be a part of.

This book is for that little four-year-old in the purple coat. It is for her daughter. And it is for her daughter’s daughter.

Catherine White (2016, MSt Women’s Studies)

The Kidnapping of a Yellow Shirt: Politics and Football in Brazil by Maurício Alencar “Come back to me in a week’s time with ten or twelve pitches. I promise you that I will read them, and if I don’t like them, I will give you feedback.”

I met with the Editor-in-Chief of The Athletic, Alex Kay-Jelski, in late April 2022. I had previously spoken with several journalists in the past, seeking career advice. Most of these meetings

were casual and relaxed. But when I met Alex, who was clearly overwhelmed by the number of meetings he had to attend that day, we paced to a nearby Pret for a snap-interview on my experiences and ambitions. During our five-minute meeting, he quizzed me on what football club I support, who my favourite writers from The Athletic were, and why I had asked to meet him.

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Two months before this meeting, I was awarded the Clive Taylor Prize for Sports Journalism by the Geddes Trust. Clive Taylor was a prominent cricket writer before he died at the age of 50 in 1977.

The Geddes Trust awards three prizes every year to aspiring journalists from Oxford. Philip Geddes (mat. 1977), whom the trust is named after, is an alumnus of St Edmund Hall. While reporting for the Daily Express in 1983, Philip Geddes was killed by a bomb planted by the IRA at Harrods in Knightsbridge, London.

Each of the three prizes — The Philip Geddes Memorial Prize for the most promising student journalist, the Ronnie Payne Prize for foreign reporting, and the Clive Taylor Prize for sports writing — provides funds for students to pursue journalistic projects. Applications tend to open in January, and students must provide samples of work completed whilst at Oxford and a 500-word project outlining what the prize funds will be spent on.

My project was to spend the summer in Brazil exploring the relationship between football and politics. For over four years prior to 2022, Jair Bolsonaro, the Trumpian President of Brazil who sought to discredit the voting system and stimulate false anti-vax narratives, had exploited, or ‘kidnapped’, the country’s

token symbol for his campaign: Brazil’s yellow football shirt. With electoral campaigns due to begin in mid-2022 and a World Cup to take place in Qatar just two months after election results were announced, there was no better time to tell what I believed to be a crucial story.

This is what I explained to the prize interviewers, which included Peter Cardwell, TalkTV presenter and chair of the Geddes Trust, Patrick Maguire, The Times’s Red Box editor and football fanatic, and Professor Wes Williams, the Geddes Fellow and friendly face around Teddy Hall. Just a few hours after the interview, I received notice of my success in winning the prize.

When the annual Geddes Lecture and formal dinner took place a month later, my excitement for the summer ahead sky-rocketed. Krishnan Guru-Murthy, the brilliant Channel 4 news anchor, delivered a lecture on the rise of disinformation. At the dinner in the Wolfson Hall, I got the chance to meet former prize winners, including Tony Diver, the Telegraph’s new US editor, and Marianna Spring, the BBC’s Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent.

Joey D’Urso, The Athletic’s Investigations Writer, also attended the annual dinner.

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He told me that these stories might be of interest to his publication. Adam Crafton, The Athletic’s top football reporter who has conducted investigations into Saudi Arabia’s influence on Boris Johnson during PIF’s takeover of Newcastle and into the deaths of migrant workers in Qatar, had – for whatever reason – decided to followed me on Twitter a few days before the dinner. I reached out to him for some guidance on pitching stories. He put me in touch with Alex after our meeting.

After my impromptu Pret interview, I brainstormed 10 ideas, from player backgrounds to TikTok star profile pieces.

I did not have much of a clue how to ‘pitch’ a story — what if I couldn’t secure an interview with anyone interesting? A week later, I sent a Google Doc with 12 story ideas, with each pitch containing a link to a separate Google Doc containing ‘more detail’.

“Hello! You should write one on your own and others in collaboration with our writer Jack Lang. You two should have a chat.”

I was already in Rio when Jack and I set up a Zoom link for a brief call. He had written several excellent articles on Brazilian football for UK publications before; I’m sure he didn’t need a 20-yearold student’s help to write a story about Boslonaro and on Newcastle midfielder

Bruno Guimaraes’s upbringing. Yet here he was, helping me with my plans for the summer ahead.

Over the next two months, I set out to book interviews and find interesting angles to the stories I was working on. I got the chance to speak to a young female footballer in a local city community, a politics academic from Brazil’s best university, and a former Brazilian men’s team striker who, in terms understandable to an English reader, shares many characteristics with Gary Neville as a footballer-turned-political-commentator.

The highlight of my summer was spending two weeks in the beautiful city of Salvador in the northeast of Brazil. While in Salvador, I went behind-the-scenes at EC Bahia’s training ground and stadium, and interviewed Club President Guilherme Bellintani on the Club’s impending sale to City Football Group, the parent owners of Premier League champions Manchester City.

Winning one of the Geddes awards allowed me to learn from a variety of exceptional journalists. Now, in Brazil, I had to make independent decisions as a journalist myself.

I sent my interview transcripts and research ahead of the first round of Brazil’s elections in early October. Due to

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extenuating circumstances which lasted a month, the article was not written. Writers from The Athletic US desk, Felipe Cardenas and Pablo Maurer, were unable to take on the story due to a busy schedule. With less than a week to go until the final round of the presidential election in late October, there was a real risk that the story on Bolsonaro, Neymar and the Seleção’s yellow shirt would not be published.

I sent a long email to Alex detailing the work I had put in, the range of information, and my desire to write the story myself. He gave me the go-ahead to write the story, adding that he would judge whether it had “everything needed to be published for us”.

On the eve of the controversial election between Lula and Bolsonaro, the story ‘How Brazil’s far right “kidnapped” the most famous shirt in football’ was published by The Athletic. I was ecstatic to see my name under that title in a publication I had become obsessed for the best part of two years prior to that day. I was also immensely grateful to my editor Andy Fifield.

Since 27 October, I have had four more bylines on The Athletic, which has now

become the New York Times’ sports department. My article on Brazil’s reaction to the death of Pelé was written at short notice after I was commissioned by The Athletic to write the piece. I was also shortlisted for a prize in freelance journalism as a result of my piece on football and politics.

My breakthrough in getting stories published on an international sports news website was only possible because of the Geddes Trust. The prize funding gave me extraordinary flexibility to explore stories across a country the size of a continent, and the Trust’s networking events allowed me to think differently about how to get started in journalism.

There are countless lessons to take away from my experience, but I would say that the main thing I found out from travelling is that there are so many different people who are willing to help you out, whether that may be professional journalists or an Uber driver who speaks gleefully about a place you know little about. Asking questions is just the first step.

Maurício Alencar (2020, English)

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‘One Night Only – The Crypt Show’ by the 2022 Fine Artists On 11 May 2023, the first year Fine Art students held their exhibition ‘One Night Only The Crypt Show’ in the Crypt of St Peter-in-the-East at St Edmund Hall. The exhibition was a chance for the students to display artworks they had been working on over the year as well as an opportunity for members of College and friends around Oxford to see these pieces and the historical site hosting them. Each student created independent work for this exhibition while maintaining some kind of consideration of the history of the Crypt and its uses over the years. Lit by candlelight, the exhibition lasted for one evening. Each artist here introduces their work:

Artists (from Left to Right): Freya Foster, Eve Aspland, Ella Soni, Liv Stevenson, Alexis Wong, Bliss Ashley

Eve Aspland The interplay between technology and ecologies has seeped into the makings of my work and I have become increasingly interested with how painting can suggest a narrative or place image whilst remaining in ambiguity. This series of paintings, based on images taken from Google Maps, has become a way of reimagining places that are unavailable due to land ownership, as well as rural-industrial spaces that emit an eeriness in themselves. The sculptural elements, the scraping of wood and the indentation in velvet is placed to reference a physical cutting back, digging into and clearing of a landscape.

Google Maps Screenshot 1, 2023. Oil on Canvas.

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Google Maps Screenshot 3, 2023. Oil on Canvas.

Google Maps Screenshot 2, 2023.

Oil on Canvas.

Relics, 2023. Gold Leaf and Clay.

Cut the Quarter, 2023. Oil and indentation on board.

Untitled, 2023. Oil on Velvet.

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Bliss Ashley In these works I am interested in pixelation and gridding/framing devices which can order and support memory and encourage mesmerisation. I work intuitively, reflecting on my own memories of home and landscape, integrating themes of psychogeography and the subconscious. For the participatory candle piece, I wanted to represent each artist within the show by creating a durational sound piece created by impromptu decisions.

Rolleicord sheep 3, 2022. Print on acetate.

Above: Bedroom Pixels: swelling, shrinking, harvesting and rotting, 2023. Video projection installation image.

Sound of candle time, 2023. Durational sound piece with participation from Ella Soni, Eve Aspland, Freya Foster, Liv Stevenson and Alexis Wong. Candles and nails on metal table. The sound piece was intentionally not recorded.

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Freya Foster Dipping a loaded paintbrush into water and transferring the expanding patterns onto canvas, the physical process of creation provides a means through which I can reflect upon the bizarre visual language between the materials as they interact, which is simultaneously facilitated by and contained within the (literal) framework of my own interference.

This page, from top to bottom: Untitled, 2023. Oil on gesso on canvas, staples and wood, 198x70cm Installation view of Untitled, 2023. Oil on gesso on canvas, staples and wood, dimensions variable Untitled, 2023. Oil on gesso on canvas, staples and wood, 250x30cm.

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Ella Soni Creating a smaller space within the archaic setting of the Crypt, this tent sculpture nods to the spectacle of the circus while retaining a sense of calm enclosure inside.

Made using my Indian grandmother’s sari and my English grandmother’s old bed sheets, the structure becomes a site of care and reflection. Coming personally from an urge to connect with the confusing nature of my dual heritage as British and Indian, the piece reinstates themes of displacement, belonging and ownership that my practice is centred around.

Audiences are invited to enter the tent and view a selection of printed material that act as windows into my influences.

Bollywood heavily informs the work inside the tent as I begin to realise the way in which these films allow me to experience these Indian landscapes vicariously through its characters. This attempt at experimentation with alternative gallery spaces invites the same sense of travel between the wider exhibition setting and the interior of this piece.

Big Top, 2023 Sari, hand dyed bed sheets, tassels, pompoms, wooden structure.

Above, from top to bottom: Paving, 2023. Paving stone, gold leaf, Khan’s Bargain price sticker.

ENTER, 2023. Acrylic on cotton with tassel fringing.

Every Morning (I Walk Down This Street), 2023.

Printed images on MDF board.

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Liv Stevenson I have been exploring notions of translation, the breakdown of meaning and illegibility. Due to the incorporation of fallibility and erosion, the viewer is asked to deliberately engage in the deciphering of these messages. The first piece demonstrates my interest surrounding the physicality of writing. It represents my experiments with replicating the handwriting of others. Retraining the familiar and instinctive movements of my own hand and thereby producing the motion of writing without the meaning behind it. The second contains a coded message arranged around the space. It

draws from the natural erosion of the names and messages on the historic gravestones surrounding the church.

Thus further abstracting the clarity of the message while highlighting its ethereality with time.

Below, Row 1, L-R: Nonsense Cacography 2, 2023. Pastel on paper.

Nonsense Cacography 1, 2023. Charcoal on paper.

Row 2: Nonsense Cacography 1, 2, 3, 2023.

Charcoal and pastel on paper.

Row 3, L-R: Cryptography, 2023. Graphite on paper.

Cryptography, 2023, detail. Graphite on paper.

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Alexis Wong My sculptural work explores connections and entanglements between matter, living and non-living; the fragility of this state of in-betweenness, of every breath and of the flickering light. Being curated and presented in the Crypt, the two sculptures invite viewers to get closer and interact with them. The energy they emit, not just heat and light from the burning candles, but something more abstract and indecipherable, has a healing and calming effect that encourages us to escape from our busy lives and meditate.

Top right: Naiad, 2023, kinetic sculpture.

Materials: castor wheels, clingfilm, glass pieces, latex, metal, plastic tubing, PETG sheet, water, wax, wicks.

Above, L-R: the overlayers, 2023. Materials: candles, metal mesh, raw silk cocoon stripping, rubber tubing, paper mache, thin aluminium wire, tinfoil, LED lights, ceramic pieces.

Naiad, 2023, kinetic sculpture. Materials: castor wheels, clingfilm, glass pieces, latex, metal, plastic tubing, PETG sheet, water, wax, wicks.

Right: Naiad, 2023, kinetic sculpture.

Materials: castor wheels, clingfilm, glass pieces, latex, metal, plastic tubing, PETG sheet, water, wax, wicks

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A Marathon History by David Picksley Our trade with the Eastern Bloc countries had to be with state buying organisations, since there was no contact with end users or the public, and no advertising. Other ways had to be found to put the brand in front of the public. We sponsored LSO concerts, in London for diplomats, and in Eastern European capitals for the public, and we used marathons.

It started as I approached my 50th birthday, too clearly putting on a little too much weight. Just at that period, mass ‘people’s marathons’ were becoming very popular, and one in London was being planned to begin in 1981. I was not then ready for that, and the next year I couldn’t get a place. So, my first marathon was out in Abingdon in 1982, and my second that same year was up on to the A31 Hog’s Back from Guildford. My times were not too far off four hours, but to get to the finish did involve some walking. It was clear that this new life involved following proven training plans.

Very fortunately, I was with Rank Xerox, in their division trading with the Eastern Bloc; there they were interested in sponsoring marathons, and our office, with a shower, was about 200 metres from Kensington Gardens. Perfect for a running career.

Early each morning I ran the north and east sides of Hyde Park, occasionally via subway to Green and St James’s Parks, and back via the south and west sides of Hyde Park, to a shower and breakfast from Tupperware at my desk. Sundays were for long runs into the country.

In 1983, I ran in Maidstone, and then invited the winning man and woman to run with me in the Moscow Marathon in August that year, co-sponsored by Rank Xerox. The following year, when I ran in Sofia, and in 1986-9 in Budapest we used a car, with a digital clock sporting our company name, to lead the runners. In Budapest in 1986, during a reception after the race, I started a conversation in my poor German with the lady from the DDR (East Germany) who had overtaken me on each of the four laps of the course, and soon the whole team were talking to me in their perfect English. The evening finished in my room, with Klaus, Tilo, Juergen, and Birgit, and without their Stasi minder, all enjoying my duty-free whisky and local red wine. This became a tradition in subsequent years, with the same tight group of friends, and they remain my good friends to this date. In 1990 I ran in the first East/West Berlin Marathon, and then watched the fireworks from the roof of Klaus’s apartment block on that German reunification weekend.

My first London Marathon was in 1985.

It gave me my first sub-four hour finish, at three hours 59.4 minutes, the same numbers as I had seen in minutes and seconds at Iffley Road, Oxford on 6 May 1954 where I watched Roger Bannister run his historic time. Later, my London 1988 time was a disappointment, but in October of the same year I finished in my

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PB of 3:48:52 in Budapest. I ran London in 1992 and again in 1997, which I thought was to be my last London Marathon.

A chance in 2021 after lockdown, to walk the distance with my stick in the Virtual London Marathon, using my home as a water and banana station, was too good to let pass. A plan was made, with daily 6am starts, 40-50 miles per week. After 1,500 miles, and on the third pair of shoes I managed to finish in 7:27:49 including a small break at 14 miles. I improved on that non-stop in 2022, with 7:13:15, just 3.25 seconds outside ‘good for age’ 85+ for London 2023. I was lucky in the

ballot, and finally could experience the inimitable atmosphere of this great event again. Two months after my 90th birthday, I was ready, and told that I was the oldest of 49,272 starters. This being a point of media interest, my day as a celebrity started and ended with the BBC. I finished the event in 7:16:46. According to the Canadian magazine Running this has set a British Masters 90+ record! I have entered the ballot for 2024, always assuming that The Almighty does not have another agenda for me.

David Picksley (1953, Modern Languages)

Building Thriving Communities: Introducing the Oxfordshire Community Foundation by Estella Wild and Ian Busby Two Aularians from different Hall generations write about how they are helping address endemic disadvantage in Oxford and Oxfordshire:

Estella Wild (2006, Jurisprudence) Charity Trustee and Voluntary Sector Professional: During my time at Teddy Hall I rarely ventured outside the comforting familiarity of College, let alone the Oxford bubble. So it has come as a surprise to me that I have spent my professional career over the past decade working in the voluntary sector in Oxfordshire with a plethora of impressive organisations led by inspirational people.

Having spent a year as Access and Outreach Officer for the JCR, reaching back to my roots in Yorkshire where I assumed accessibility was needed most, I was totally surprised by the levels of disadvantage and poverty right here

in Oxford and Oxfordshire, lurking just outside that bubble.

Over years of working within charities, I became increasingly frustrated by the gaps in the social safety net, and the false economies and limitations faced by the sector. So in 2022, I decided it was time to look at the philanthropy side of the charitable equation. I saw an advert through the Oxford Hub for a trustee training programme and joined the Board of Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF), a charity that invests millions of pounds a year into building fair and thriving communities through effective philanthropy.

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small charities, meeting all manner of needs, from homelessness to mental health and loneliness; from crime and exploitation to literacy and employment.

We are one of the few organisations providing funding for charities’ core costs such as rent and fuel, supporting the infrastructure of the third sector to survive and thrive through some challenging times. Through the pandemic, OCF distributed over £1,000,000 to small organisations providing immediate relief, reaching communities that struggled to access other support, and investing in new initiatives that were springing up in response to the emergency. OCF now continues to fund these grassroots charitable organisations as they tackle the cost-of-living crisis and try to build greater resilience across local communities.

In joining as a Trustee, I was hoping to offer some insights from the frontline, and learn what high net-worth donors were interested in funding. I have found OCF a very welcoming space to achieve that goal over the past two years, and was particularly pleased to be joined by fellow Aularian Ian Busby, who took over as Chair a few months later. Ian has put an enormous amount of work into OCF, brought in fresh perspectives, and most importantly, enabled the Board to gel as a team.

Over the past two years we incubated a project to address digital exclusion, Getting Oxfordshire Online (GOO), which launched at Teddy Hall in 2022. GOO provides laptops to individuals who would not otherwise be able to afford one. It has been particularly enjoyable to see these devices in the hands of residents at the supported accommodation service I run, where they have enabled two memoirs to be written and helped a number of people to learn about safe online shopping. The

project is now being sustainably run by two frontline Oxfordshire charities, SOFEA and Aspire.

Over the next two years, OCF will be launching two major new funds to support communities. Firstly, we aim to raise at least £1,000,000 towards our Thriving in Nature Fund, which will help more people prosper by engaging them with green spaces and the rural environment.

The focus will be on improving health and wellbeing, and nurturing work opportunities, by supporting charitable organisations to unite people with nature.

Secondly, the Healthy Places Fund will tackle local inequalities relating to climate change, supporting initiatives such as community energy schemes and active travel – with a focus on reaching people who do not normally benefit from such projects. We are excited to be at the forefront of connecting solutions to poverty and economic deprivation with an environmentalist approach to the city and county we all share.

For me, the key focus for private grant making is in finding and filling gaps where but for a nail, the proverbial shoe would be lost. By investing in an informed and strategic way into impactful charitable organisations, philanthropy can leverage high impact, and give support that is simply not provided by the state or other agencies. As a philanthropically funded grant-maker, OCF is a perfect conduit for those of us who spent three or more council tax-free years here, and wish to support the community of Oxfordshire.

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Ian Busby (1969, Modern History) St Edmund Fellow and Chair of OCF: First, let me say that, two years ago, I would have included myself in the remarks that follow.

I doubt that anyone at the Hall, current members or Alumni, gives much thought to the personal circumstances of those from Oxford and around who clean, tend the properties, work in the kitchens and staff the Porter’s Lodge. But it was certainly a shock to some Heads of House to discover, a while back, that some college porters were living in hostels for the homeless. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

It may also come as a surprise to many to realise that there are thousands of preschool children within a 10 mile radius of the Hall (some of whom will be in the wider family groups of current and past Hall staff) who may have already lost any chance at all of attending this College or the University. That’s because their parents and carers are not always fully aware of or confident about the ways they can help their young children to move up the rungs of the educational ladder. For example, doing little things like sharing books with them. So, we started and funded Growing Minds to provide these families with the advice and support they needed. Evidence (some of it produced

by Oxford University academic research) shows that early intervention is the best and most cost-effective way of helping remove educational disadvantage.

I am pleased to say that many former Hall students who live in Oxford and Oxfordshire are philanthropists who recognise the importance of supporting local charitable work. There are thousands of small charities across the county

working to make life better for people, but they don’t receive much, if any, public funds. They rely on our fund-raising at OCF to provide the cash they need to support their delivery activity. And cash is king.

Offering time is welcome but in practice is of limited benefit to many charities that struggle to meet essential operating costs or need to renew their core IT systems.

I share the frustration of all our many donors across the county, many of whom contribute six-figure sums to the cause, that the richest enterprise in the county, the University, has been largely absent as a player in this space. Yet the University, its staff and its students, could not thrive without the support, direct and indirect, of the local community. It is for us all of very welcoming, and of great significance that our new Vice Chancellor, Oxfordshire born and educated, has made it one of her priorities that the University as a whole should greatly increase its focus on local philanthropic support.

I am pleased that both Estella and I as Aularians are playing a part in this major collective effort, and I am pretty confident that we will be joined soon by other Hall members. And if anyone who reads this is interested in supporting the likes of those people who they remember from their student days, who worked at the Hall when they were students here, or at their faculties, or at cafes, bars and restaurants they frequented, do please do not hesitate to donate to OCF and we will make sure that your kind donations have an impact on people’s lives.

If anyone is interested in learning more about OCF, or just needs an excuse to go for a beer on the Cowley Road, Ian and Estella are both contactable via LinkedIn or visit the OCF website: https://oxfordshire.org

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History (and other) Tutorials in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century by John Dunbabin

What follows is an attempt to complement Dr Davidson’s piece, in last year’s issue of the Magazine, ‘On the History of the Oxford History Syllabus’ with observations based on my own experience of tutorials, first as a Corpus undergraduate (1956-59) and then from 1963 as Hall Tutor in both Politics and (until the appointment of David Priestland, and the Faculty’s discontinuance of the ‘British Rearmament and Appeasement’ Special Subject) also in Modern History.

The early 20th-century Canadian scholar Stephen Leacock said Oxford tutors gathered “a little group of students and smoke at them. Men who have been systematically smoked at for years turn into ripe scholars.” Smoking may have gone out, but ‘tutorials’ (given mostly by post-holders, but also by a plethora of graduate students and unattached local academics paid at diminutive ‘Senior Tutors’ rates) continued in my day and beyond to be at the heart of Oxford ‘Arts’ teaching. The two-year MPhil in International Relations was originally taught entirely in a small class/classes, but it was fairly soon decided to copy the

practice at St Antony’s and add tutorials given or arranged by a Tutorial Supervisor.

Tutorials were, of course, always supplemented by lectures. A.J.P. Taylor was popular for his outstanding delivery, and Canon Jenkins of Christ Church famous for his introversion, beginning one year with “To which the Emperor replied”, and sardonically alluding to Algeria in the later 1950s as “that happy French possession”. Holders of University posts had an obligation to lecture; but they chose their own topics, and in the brief period when I had oversight of the History Lecture List my role was merely to indicate the periods of general or British History to which lectures were relevant and group them accordingly. Later I was involved in providing that there should, for each PPE Politics paper, be a coordinator responsible for ensuring its coverage by at least one term’s basic lecture sequence and a published list of ‘recommended’ reading.

The History Faculty no doubt followed suit, though I believe more slowly.

With lectures went Faculty-organised ‘classes’. As an undergraduate, I had no such classes on either my Further Subject (Stubbs Charters, taught by my College

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Tutor Trevor Aston) or my Special Subject (St Augustine, taught by the outstanding young Fellow of All Souls, Peter Brown).

But it soon became normal, and in due course required, for undergraduates to do these subjects in Faculty-organised classes, partly because the demand for some (like ‘Slavery and Secession’) could not otherwise have been met by the post-holders qualified to teach them, and partly as a way of getting new subjects off the ground – for the first year of the ‘New Deal’, the class was run by the visiting American Harmsworth Professor (if I remember right, Professor Leuchtenberg) and attended not only by undergraduates but by the prospective future Oxford tutors.

In the 1970s ‘classes’ continued, but there was a push (probably driven by intercollegiate competition) to add conventional tutorials, and the Faculty classes came to concentrate on preparation for the examinations’ text extracts: ‘gobbets’ designed to ensure that undergraduates really had read the set texts.

‘Gobbets’ are not an art form I have ever appreciated, and partly for this reason, partly because of the other claims on my time, I was not prepared to take over the organisation of the ‘Rearmament & Appeasement’ Special Subject class when R.A.C. Parker retired. Nor was anybody else, so that excellent subject, which I had much enjoyed teaching tutorially, expired.

That ended my involvement in History teaching, but classes will again have become more important in connection with the new thematic and analytic subjects introduced in the current century.

The tutorials at the heart of my Oxford experience (usually involving pairs, but sometimes smaller or larger groups) would have been familiar to any observer since the later 19th century, and tutorial givers and recipients remain free to

choose topics and select their reading. But technology has brought changes.

Tutorials (traditionally an hour long) used to conclude with announcement of the next essay title and dictation of recommended reading, sometimes a time-consuming process. Individual tutors derived their reading lists partly from their own reading and partly by borrowing: when I came to SEH, the previous Politics Lecturer bequeathed me his Political Institutions essay titles and reading lists; and when the new ‘International Relations since 1945’ paper was introduced I sent its first taker to tutorials with Wilfrid Knapp, copied the titles and lists he was given, and so worked my way into the subject. But in the late 1960s a group of reformers (including Lord Bullock, Wilfrid Knapp, and Christopher SetonWatson) compiled a bibliography for European history from 1870 to 1914 and had it printed by the University Press for general distribution. This, though, was a static resource, with no provision for the inclusion of new and the discontinuance of old works. The 1970s diffusion of stencils (and more recently the internet) made such adjustments easier and also provided libraries with guidance on purchases etc.

However, technology could be disruptive.

Initially telephone calls had, cumbersomely, to be made through college lodges, but after about 1970 post-holders had outside lines and were exposed to being rung up during tutorials (especially in eighth week to arrange next term’s teaching). The story runs that Sir Isaiah Berlin told one essayist to go on reading while he talked on the phone, and, that finished, commented, “‘You say …’, ‘I say …’, ‘You say …’, ‘I say’ …’; so you’re beat, aren’t you?”’.

More recently the diffusion of wordprocessors and printers has facilitated

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changes in the handing-in of essays and their advance diffusion around the tutorial group. The present century has also witnessed the advent of the internet. The Hall’s PPE tutors were shocked by the extraordinary ‘facts’ downloaded by our first undergraduate devotee. Subsequent experience has been more favourable. Our successors may have to encounter the artificial intelligence of ‘ChatGPT’; but the tutorial system will provide the safeguard of requiring the essayist to defend their propositions.

Justin Gosling (Principal, 1982-1996) was famous for remaining silent until undergraduates had answered his philosophical challenges. Not everybody has this patience, and the tutorial-giver can easily talk too much and reduce things to a lecture. The best tutorials are those with the most input from and between the undergraduates – I have warm memories of one pair, both very able but of opposite political persuasions and each determined not to let the other get away with things

(whereas many people are reluctant to disagree publicly with their tutorial partners). How well tutorials go varies from person to person and week to week, but some (and the rooms in which they happened) are remembered in surprising detail decades later.

Anecdotes of the tutorial-givers’ idiosyncrasies also abound. Thus, I had afternoon tutorials one Hilary term with R.A.C. Parker, who each week moved the starting time a little later so that proceedings should end with the view from his room in Queen’s of the setting sun between the twin towers of All Souls.

I was myself less good at controlling the length of my tutorials, and many people remember being kept waiting in the room below, sometimes reflecting on the insufficiency of their preparation – though there was also compensation in being taken up the ladder from my room to the roof of the St Peter-in-the-East tower with its splendid sky-line views.

J.P.D. Dunbabin, Emeritus Fellow

Introducing TART Magazine by Minnie Leaver TART is a student-run, submission-based arts and culture magazine for Teddy Hall, launched in January 2022 by first-year students. Since then, we have published two magazines in Trinity term of 2022 and 2023. Both issues can be found in print in the JCR and online.

Our goal is to give creative people at Teddy a platform to publish anything arts and culture based. We welcome a diverse range of submissions, whether that be art, poetry, music reviews or essays. In previous issues, we have published an essay about the trending ‘ugly cakes’, another on film as a medium for propaganda, a page of album reviews

exploring ‘distortion’ in Hip-Hop, and, of course, many forms of visual art.

As the original team of TART head into third year, the magazine is being passed on to incoming second years to keep the creative momentum going. We hope that incoming students see the magazine as an exciting opportunity to platform the creativity of the Hall. Please enjoy a selection of work from our two issues in the pages that follow.

Access this year’s issue of TART: issuu.com/minnieleaver/docs/ screenshot_2023-06-06_at_19.compressed Minnie Leaver (2021, Fine Art)

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(L-R): Launch of the 2023 issue of Tart, Orange Botanic by Eve Gueterbock, art by Maisie Goodfellow, Untitled by Charlotte Rich-Jones, Ming Fits.

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(L-R): Photograph by Minnie Leaver, Crochet by Maia Sansour, New Music you Should Listen to by Joss Carr.

Previous page: Black absorbs all light, words by Jessica Taal, image by Olivia Stevenson.

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Aularian Poetry The Graham Midgely Memorial Prize Poem The Mermaid Abandons Her Sister Shoal One by one the scales fall to the floor, Bloody-tipped and still shining with The echoes of waves at dusk.

There is no telescope to that inky land in those Deadened fishy eyes, nails picking them out And lining them up in a row like golden treasures By sisters who can translate that glittering Into itching hands but nothing else.

And me: cutting through the hour once the net is hauled In and the day begins to shake-off its work, The blade working along anatomy like An old friend with a slip into memory’s dance.

They come in like birds after the carcasses Of the rotten tails, left on the shore by my Father. Swoop in with their hands still sandy and dive on me with questions interwoven with Prods and horizon-deep smiles. The sisters sift themselves Into a circle, waiting for the day’s events to swim away From them as the myth begins once more. The crowns of fish Grow beside me as they turn the flesh on the flame, And words begin to swirl, tiding around them. But eyes Soon glaze as the sea floods the room, seeping into their Clothes and through their skin, as fins sprout from Their bony spines and gills erupt from waxen cheeks.

Tara Sallaba (2021, History)

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From Fine Dining to Street Food in Hall: Recipes by Sam White and Donatella Inchingolo Dining in the Wolfson Hall has been re-invigorated following the arrival of Sam White as Executive Head Chef and Donatella Inchingolo as Pastry Chef. They have generously provided these recipes so we can catch a taste of what’s on offer.

Sam’s recipe displays the Asian influence on his cooking and also the very popular ‘street food’ option now available at lunch and dinner.

Donatella’s dessert will be served at the upcoming Thanksgiving Formal Hall on 23 November.

If you would like to sample Sam and Dona’s cooking in person, Aularians are entitled to dine in College from five years after the date they went down. You can book a place for yourself and one guest, once a term, on either Thursday or Sunday evening Formal Hall. Formal Hall dinner prices, including VAT and wine, are: Main Hall, £35 or High Table, £45. Join Fellows, alumni and other members of College in a delightful Oxford experience.

To book contact Sue McCarthy: susan.mccarthy@seh.ox.ac.uk

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Korean pulled pork bao buns, crispy onions, sticky honey glaze Serves 5 Ingredients: • 10 bao buns Sticky pork • 1kg pork shoulder • 1 tbsp crushed garlic • 1 tbsp fresh crushed ginger • ½ small crushed green chilli • 1 tbsp rice wine • 1 tbsp light brown sugar Pork glaze • 4 tbsp honey • 2 tbsp dark soy sauce • 1 tsp gochujang chilli paste • 1 tbsp light brown sugar • 2 tbsp water • ½ tsp crushed garlic • 1 tsp rice wine Bao bun toppings • 1 small bunch coriander (chopped) • 2 red chillies (sliced) • 4 spring onions (sliced) • 1 tbsp sesame seeds • 2 tbsp crispy shallots

Method: Mix all the ‘sticky pork’ ingredients and rub all over the pork, marinade for at least 4 hours in the fridge (ideally overnight).

Add the pork to a large saucepan and cover with water, bring to the boil, reduce heat to a slow simmer and cover with a lid. You may need to add boiling water to the pan over time (make sure the pork is always covered with water).

Simmer for approximately 2 hours until tender enough to pull apart.

Turn off the heat and leave the pork in the water while you make the glaze.

To make the glaze – mix all the ingredients in a small saucepan, bring to a simmer, and reduce for 1-2 mins to reach a honey like consistency.

Steam your bao buns. Now take the pork out of the water and pull/shred into a bowl, mix through half of the glaze. Add a little of the pork cooking water if a bit dry.

Fill the bao buns with the pork and drizzle over each one with the left-over glaze.

Garnish with the bao bun toppings and serve.

Enjoy!!

Sam White, Executive Head Chef

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Pumpkin Pie topped with Pecan Praline Serves 6-8 Ingredients: • Pre-prepared shortcrust pastry • 300g cooked fresh or tinned pumpkin • 250g caster sugar • 120g light brown sugar • 175ml whipping cream • 5 tbsp milk • 2 eggs • 1 tbsp bourbon or whisky (optional) • ¾ tsp cinnamon • ½ tsp ground all spice • ½ tsp ground ginger • ¼ tsp ground cloves • ¼ tsp grated nutmeg For topping • 50g pecans, chopped • 250g light brown sugar • 25g unsalted butter

Method: Pre heat the oven to 175°C. Line a 22cm flan tin with shortcrust pastry and partially blind bake.

With an electric mixer, beat the pumpkin with the remaining ingredients (except the topping ingredients) until smooth and well blended.

Pour the mix into the blind-baked pastry case.

Bake until the filling is just set (the pie will continue to set whilst cooling down) and pastry is golden, around 45 minutes.

Remove to a wire rack and completely cool, then refrigerate.

Pre heat the grill.

Combine the pecans, sugar and butter and sprinkle evenly over the chilled pie.

Place under the grill for around 1 minute to caramelise the topping.

Leave to cool and serve at room temperature with chilled whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

Enjoy!!

Donatella Inchingolo, Pastry Chef

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Book Reviews Catriona Ward: Looking Glass Sound (Viper, 2023) If you are searching for a multilayered, unsettling and deliciously disorientating gothic thriller, look no further than Looking Glass Sound. In her fourth novel Catriona Ward (1999, English) weaves together a complicated and hypnotising web of narratives and counter-narratives, and the result is an innovative story that must be read to be believed.

In the first act we follow Wilder Harlow, a withdrawn 16-year-old, as he spends the summer of 1989 in his family’s cottage situated in the eerie town of Whistler Bay, Maine. Here Wilder meets local teenagers Nate and Harper and the three lost souls develop a nuanced and complicated friendship. Ward cleverly injects this classic coming of age trope

with a foreboding atmosphere of disquiet and threat.

When Wilder returns to Whistler Bay the next summer, the simmering unrest from the prior summer escalates quickly and violently. From this point on the reader is catapulted into a multi-layered story that explores witchcraft, murder, grief, and heartbreak. Ward keeps you on the edge of your seat, masterfully pulling the rug out from under the reader at just the right moments. By the end of the book you, like the characters, are questioning what is real and what is a fabrication.

Although these twists and turns can be dizzying if you are not giving the story your undivided attention, an attentive reader’s concentration will be rewarded with rich and challenging story that stays with you long after you finish it.

Alice Findlay, Admissions Officer (Maternity Cover)

Vivian Ridler: Heaven’s Gate: The Diary of an Extra (Perpetua Press, 2022) This thoroughly enjoyable follow up to last year’s Diary of a Master Printer finds Vivian Ridler (Professorial Fellow 1965-1978, Emeritus Fellow 1978- 2009), retired and freed from the travails of the University Press, in the unexpected role of extra in a Hollywood blockbuster. In 1980, Heaven’s Gate, the notorious mega-flop Western, came to shoot in Oxford where the Sheldonian Theatre and Mansfield College took the role of Harvard in 1870 and an army of

extras, including Ridler who was a keen movie buff, were recruited via advert in the Oxford Times.

The film crew arrived in Oxford behind schedule, over budget and over length.

Initial costs of $11 million had ballooned to $36 million by the time of the Oxford shoot and in a final, futile attempt to restrain the Director Michael Cimino, producers cut the budget for the UK filming from $5.2 million to ‘only’ three.

Dressed as a 19th-century grandee, in a “splendid Astrakhan waistcoat, wellfitting long coat and a rather tight fitting topper”, Ridler deftly chronicles the

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follies and grandiosities of the troubled production. For an elaborate open-air dance sequence (with costumes borrowed from US museums and shipped across the Atlantic) a tree is to be placed in the middle of Mansfield’s quad. Alas, it doesn’t fit through the gate, so is sawn apart and painstakingly reassembled inside with individual leaves being sewn back on.

A graduation scene in the Sheldonian is shot and reshot well into the night leading to an impromptu union meeting outside Blackwell’s and a threatened walk out. As take after take is performed, John Hurt’s performance as the class valedictorian becomes full of ad libs and funny voices and reaction of the crowd rises to a “pitch of hysteria.”

In a moment of triumph, Ridler is picked

by Cimino to be the focus of a shot as he watches the actor Kris Kristofferson, the film’s hero, sprint up Queens Lane. Then no sooner has Hollywood arrived than it’s gone again, off to box office disaster. In a comic aside we learn that fellow Fellow Norman Poole (1945, Geography and afterwards Fellow in Geography and an Emeritus Fellow) who also hoped to be an extra has been left waiting by the phone having mis-understood his instructions.

In a coda, diary entries record Ridler’s reactions to seeing the film on release in 1981 and a re-cut version in 1984. Days of Oxford filming are reduced to minutes and Ridler is on screen for some five seconds.

“A sad result for such a vast investment of

money and talent” he reflects, although on rewatch he does allow it “some wonderful shots.”

Like Diary of a Master Printer the book has been skilfully edited by Vivian’s son Colin. Colin also provides a second section providing more background on Heaven’s Gate. This includes a detailed synopsis of the film, reviews, a timeline for the ill-starred production (which ultimately caused the collapse of the film company United Artists) and a sympathetic reappraisal of the career of Michael Cimino, who won both Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for The Deer Hunter before his career was derailed by the disaster of Heaven’s Gate.

The final section of Diary of an Extra reveals a charming and surprising aspect of Ridler’s career, he was an enthusiastic amateur film maker, perhaps the source of the very cinematographic eye he brings to the descriptions in the diary. A filmography lists more than 100 short films written and shot by Ridler and frequently starring his family. Some tantalising short descriptions are provided; such as “The Boy who ate too much : Comedy Colin and a friend gorge on ice-cream”.

The whole volume is attractively produced, illustrated with Ridler’s own photographs from the set and posters for the finished film, and is a loving and affectionate tribute to a fascinating man.

James Howarth, Librarian

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Remembering Justin Gosling

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Justin Gosling at the Hall

by John Dunbabin In the 1950s, many members of the University were unaware of the Hall and Justin never entered the Front Quad until he came for his Fellowship interview in 1960. He was, he said, bowled over by it, homely and friendly rather than setpiece grand and symmetrical. Decades later, now Principal, Justin completed it by closing the final gap in its south side. On his retirement, we accorded him a gargoyle there so that he might, metaphorically at least, continue to pour upon us the streams of his eloquence.

A Tutorial Fellow’s work has three main components, scholarship, teaching, and administration, but this piece will be concerned only with the second two.

Justin started giving tutorials in 1955. 60 years on, people were regularly traipsing out to Abingdon for them with him.

In 1960, Justin’s referee said “the more shrinking kind of beginner” might find him a bit “bracing”. Indeed, Justin had a remarkable ability to remain absolutely silent until he had made pupils speak… and also THINK. He told those about to have Plato tutorials just to read the text and think independently about it, consulting secondary literature only AFTER the term’s work. Justin saw a philosophical education as equipping one to recognise, in any sphere, the absence of an argument. Once, when somebody in Governing Body employed the standard rhetorical device, “It could be argued that…”, he switched into tutorial mode, replying, “Could it? How? And what would be the argument?” A subsequently distinguished businessman writes that Justin’s focus on the logical implications of imprecise statements “made a bigger

impact than anyone else, before or since, in establishing some sense of intellectual rigour”.

In later life Justin thought teaching the most important thing he had done, holding that it was more important for a college to have good tutors than good Principals as, by and large, the former had (albeit often unconsciously) the greater influence on people. The ‘tutorial system’ is, of course, both expensive and vulnerable to today’s growing pressure on academics to publish.

But Justin believed it to give “educational opportunities which we should work hard to retain. That is not a universal view; but if it is right, it is important for more than Oxford to ensure that such a system of teaching [should continue to] flourish.”

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Without it much intellectual crossfertilisation would be lost, and colleges would decline into high-class Halls of Residence.

Justin’s academic advice was always to do what you found enjoyable and interesting; and he felt that with the tendency from the mid-1970s for undergraduates to work increasingly with an eye to prospective exam questions, tutorials became duller. Though they certainly had their memorable moments: In one on the Empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) Justin pointed out that if all knowledge comes through the senses, which we know can be faulty, then we cannot know anything other than that “there are thoughts”. “My tutorial partner”, my informant says, “asked if this meant he didn’t actually know if Justin was there.

‘Ultimately, no’, replied Justin. ‘That’s it’, said my partner, ‘I’m off. Not making a fool of myself, maybe talking to thin air’, and headed for the door. Justin managed to arrest his flight, but I had a hunch he was quietly pleased that someone had absorbed so completely the philosophical analysis he was seeking to impart.”

Of a group from another college, Justin said “I thought it was going very well. They worked harder than I am used to, reading everything set, asking good questions…”

But eighth week was different: “For seven weeks, they said, you have shown us all the questions, and we hoped that in week eight you would give us the answers”!

Tutorials could, too, hit nearer home. One South African said of discussion of the moral requirements of disobedience to unjust authority, “For my tutorial partners, an intellectual exercise. But I have to decide whether to do my military service, for me it is real.”

Turning to administration, Justin was,

when elected in 1960, the 13th member of the Governing Body. By the mid-60s there were 26. When he came, the College was still run like a Hall, Fellows being informally informed and consulted in Governing Body meetings after lunch every Wednesday, but with neither agendas nor minutes of decisions. Over the decade SEH developed agendas, minutes and a less ad hoc committee system. Justin had not been amongst those most warmly pressing for these changes. But as a pre-eminently competent ‘safe pair of hands’, he was chosen as the Governing Body’s first Secretary.

Later he became, for several years until 1975, Senior Tutor and soon afterwards was chosen (in a contested election) to serve as Senior Proctor for 197778. In this office he sought to ensure that graduates were always properly supervised. He was, as transpires from his parting Oration (delivered extempore) impressed by the University’s administrative personnel but dismayed by its committee structure, “whose unit of productivity is the ream, or perhaps ... the day-ream”.

Back in the Hall, Justin would apply for leave in 1982-83 to enable him to read around the Classical Political Thought and Hegel PPE papers. Instead, he was elected Principal – the last time an internal candidate has been chosen.

Justin remained the Fellow he had always been, teaching (though now only his preferred papers rather than across the board), lunching, taking morning coffee in the SCR, and informally conducting business there. He was, too, the traditional Head of House, residing with Margaret in the Principal’s Lodgings and attending College functions – the graveyard, he

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observed, was a very suitable venue for Hamlet, but he hoped the skull was only a stage prop. I once put it to him, after his retirement, that he would have been happier had he returned in the evenings to his much-loved Abingdon house and garden. He replied that, like that, he could not have done what he did in College.

As Principal, Justin set a high value on keeping the peace. St Edmund Hall has never been bitterly divided along factional lines. But this is not entirely unknown in Oxford, and Justin always sought both to oil the works and to chair meetings as to prevent people feeling they had to win to carry their point. He was so successful that this aspect of his rule was largely invisible, apart from his multifarious acts of kindness to colleagues experiencing troubles or difficulties – like collecting John Knight (Emeritus Fellow and Tutorial Fellow in Economics, 1967-2006) from hospital on his discharge after a heart attack and driving him out home to Witney.

When Justin became Principal, the Hall was already co-educational but women were still a small minority. Justin’s second major concern was easing their inclusion by stilling occasional hostility, and by identifying and addressing actual and potential frictions. In this he was enormously helped by the Hall’s first female Governing Body Fellow, Ann Taylor (Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, 198095); and he has paid warm tribute to her for bringing to his attention difficulties and feelings of which he was unaware.

Overall, Justin and Anne managed to ensure that the process of integration was fairly smooth, with little dramatic or overt to report.

More visible were financial problems. We had, in 1979, discovered that the entire west side of our historic buildings was in

danger of slipping into Queen’s Lane – and Justin ruefully commented during one of his American visits on a “sense of security about buildings which do not look as if they were getting tired of standing up.”

Norham St Edmund had come in 1979, but Justin had to see to its modernisation and development (with Brockhues Lodge) largely as a centre for graduates. The Hall faced (as it still does) growing pressure to house all its undergraduates, which it addressed inter alia by buying the Isis Hotel. All this had to be paid for, and it generated both appeals and much fundraising activity.

Beyond this, Justin faced growing threats to College revenue – but hoped nevertheless to make his Principalship “a period of fruitful development, financial stringency enforcing … experiment”.

Financial pressure did encourage innovations – the advent of Visiting undergraduate Students, and the rising number of people taking graduate taught courses. Likewise, the computerisation of College accounts. Stringency, though, remained. The level of inefficiency, Justin remarked after one large economy exercise, was “alas not high enough to indicate savings to solve all our problems”; and our first full-time Director of Development began by asking “Can Teddy Hall make it to the year 2000?”’.

Justin worked assiduously to ensure that it could, both by successfully pushing, in the Conference of Colleges, for endowment grants from inter-collegiate taxation, and by stimulating Aularian generosity by drawing ‘Old Members’ more fully into the Hall’s working – through, for instance, the inauguration of a Board of Advisers, and of what have become the Principal’s regular visits to the New York St Edmund Day dinner. Even at the end of his time, when his health was not good, Justin travelled

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extensively in the Hall’s interest.

Of course, this was the way the University as a whole was moving and some things had to be developed, or modified, by Justin’s effective successor, Mike Mingos (Principal 1999-2009). In many ways, Justin was building on the initiatives of major benefactors like Bill Miller (1949 PPE, Honorary Fellow), and on the work of College Officers to whom he accorded considerable autonomy. But that is how he operated, launching some good ideas, adopting and developing others, and always holding great personal authority which he invoked rarely but effectively.

His valedictory piece in the Hall Magazine 1995-96 is well worth reading, recalling these and other developments, noting the growing pressure on Fellows to publish and the pull “to consider students [and administration] a distraction”, but exhorting his successors to continue to seek ways of lessening these loads without losing the commitment ‘to the institution and the students’ that they produce. Justin would later expand on these and other themes in a 2021 podcast conversation with then President of the St Edmund Hall Association Olly Belcher (1999, Geography).

On retirement, Justin was elected an Honorary Fellow at the Hall. When accepting, he said he looked forward to ‘persecuting’ his former colleagues. But of course, he did not. During the year when I was trying to fill his shoes, I often rang him for advice, and for more recondite information like in which ear an Honorary Fellow was deaf.

Retirement did leave more time for Justin’s artistic sides – he was a pillar of the Trollope Society, and he both encouraged the Hall Writers’ Forum and published some of his own verse. In the ‘interests’ section of his Who’s Who entry, he had placed intaglio painting second only to gardening; he kept it up, and branched out into other forms of printing.

And he remained involved, unassuming, gifted with an acute but understated sense of humour, and, above all, kind.

In October 2021 Justin reflected on his career at the Hall in an episode of the SEHA Podcast ‘Spirit of the Hall’: anchor.fm/spiritofthehall/episodes/ Justin-Gosling-e18kidd John Dunbabin, Emeritus Fellow

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Margaret Gosling 1936-2023 behind Mollie with two young daughters.

To escape the bombing, it was decided that Mollie should take the girls to stay with Scottish relatives in New Zealand for the duration of the war. From the Blitz in England this must have seemed a sensible decision, but it was not without danger: the convoy in which they were travelling was torpedoed; and parental concerns about a Japanese threat to New Zealand grew as the war progressed. But Margaret retained only happy memories of New Zealand, and the experience shaped her love of travel, especially by sea.

On the 3 July 2023 we learnt the sad news that Margaret Gosling, Justin’s wife had died. Many Fellows and Aularians will remember Margaret with fondness for her kindness and friendship during their time at the Hall. The family have kindly provided this obituary.

Angela Margaret Gosling (Margaret) was a housewife and mother of four children, who in 1982 became ‘First Lady’ of St Edmund Hall when her husband was appointed Principal. For a naturally shy and self-deprecating woman, this was not a role she would have chosen.

Nevertheless, she excelled.

Margaret was born on 29 September 1936, the youngest child of Iltyd Clayton and Marjorie (Mollie) Duke. Her father retired from the army a few years after Margaret’s birth, and the family settled in a small village in the Cotswolds. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, Iltyd was recalled to service, leaving

Returning to England after the war, the family settled again in the Cotswolds, and Margaret retained idyllic memories of the rambling old houses in which they lived, memories that undoubtedly shaped her interest in what was later to become the family home, Joymount, near Abingdon.

Margaret attended a Catholic secondary school, St Mary’s Convent in Shaftesbury.

She loved her time here and did well, becoming Head Girl, and going on to win a place to read history at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

From then on, Oxford became central to Margaret’s life. It was there that the Chaplain of the Catholic Chaplaincy introduced her to a young Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy from St John’s College. In the days before mixed colleges, Margaret later said, the chaplains clearly felt that a central part of their job was acting as matchmakers between young Catholics. The young man in question was Justin Gosling and the couple became engaged mid-way through Margaret’s final year at Oxford. They were married on 2 September 1958, four weeks before Margaret’s 22nd birthday.

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Before her marriage, Margaret had had some thoughts of becoming a librarian.

Such a career would undoubtedly have suited her talents, as her family history research, and later, successful completion of a research dissertation in local history demonstrated. Instead, and like many women of her generation, she put her role as wife and mother before any idea of her own independent career. The biggest sacrifice of her own interests to that of her husband arrived when Justin was appointed Principal of St Edmund Hall in 1982. Such a role entailed uprooting from her beloved Joymount – with its large and much-loved garden – to live in the noisy, crowded, gardenless, and overlooked building that was the Principal’s Lodgings.

It was a considerable sacrifice for her, but she made the best of it, creating a delightful roof garden overlooking the Quad. This became one refuge; another, was walking the dog, Toby, around the Meadows. But for the next 14 years, the arrival of the long vacation signalled the annual yearned-for summer migration of the household to Abingdon and Joymount.

Becoming ‘First Lady’ of St Edmund Hall, might not have been Margaret’s first choice, but she rose to the challenge, entertaining Fellows and students in a regular round of drinks parties and suppers; looking after a range of guests, including University Chancellor (and Hall Visitor) Harold Macmillan; entertaining Old Members, who could be both immensely charming but also (for example, Sir Robin Day [Jurisprudence, 1947])) rather daunting; and supporting Justin in a variety of ambassadorial and fundraising work for the Hall. Her natural modesty prevented her from realising what a warm, natural hostess she was and how well she put people at their ease.

But her warmth and genuine care for and

interest in others left a lasting impression, as reflected in the many comments from students and old members around the time of Justin’s death.

Beyond her duties for the Hall, Margaret made the most of her time in Oxford.

She was active in the Newcomers’ Club, welcoming and looking after the (then largely female) spouses and partners of visiting academics, and serving as Vice Chair for two years; she volunteered regularly at The Porch, a charity that supports homeless people in Oxford; and she continued to sing in a number of choirs.

Justin’s retirement in 1996 marked the start of a new and unfettered period in their lives. During these years, they indulged their shared love of travel, visiting Egypt, Spain, Portugal, New Zealand and India, among other places. They also enjoyed visiting and entertaining their many friends. But for them both, family came first; and for their four children – and growing numbers of grandchildren – they were always welcome visitors. In November 2004, however, an accident changed their lives for ever. Margaret was knocked off her bicycle and suffered severe concussion. The date of the accident marked a clear change for her, and in the following years it gradually became clear that she had dementia.

She faced this cruel disease with great bravery; but unsurprisingly, she also found it, at times, terrifying and upsetting, as did her whole family. Margaret and Justin faced this challenge just as they faced all aspects of their life – together – until it became necessary for her to move to a nursing home. Margaret died on 3 July 2023, nearly six years after first moving into care, and just eight months after Justin himself had died.

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Margaret’s Catholic faith was the bedrock of her life and underpinned every decision she took, in her service to others, her instinctive self-sacrifice and the life-long commitment that she and Justin made together to their marriage. The tenderness and affection they had for each other was

palpable and also based on their shared faith. She will be remembered for her kindness, her care for others, and her wonderful smile that lit up her face almost to the end.

Margaret is survived – and much missed – by her four children and their families.

On Hearing of Justin’s Passing by John Knight A very sad day.

For years, Justin was the sole Philosophy tutor, John Dunbabin the sole Politics tutor, and I the sole Economics tutor (later joined by Martin Slater). We got on remarkably well, in part thanks to Justin’s wonderful personality. Somehow, he managed to be the most rational person I knew and one of the warmest and kindest.

He was the role model for this new, young tutor.

Abingdon not long ago, and later to invite him for lunch in Witney. His wisdom and wit were as evident and enjoyable as ever.

I reminded him of a conversation at high table about 1970, when Justin, I and a couple of other young Fellows agreed that 70 was the best age at which to depart this life, before decrepitude set in. Justin and I agreed now that the ideal departure date was still in the future.

After I had a heart attack, it was the Principal who, unasked, thought to bring his car to the John Radcliffe hospital and get me home to Witney.

Justin chose to retire a bit early because he was unwell at the time. I recall his asking the Governing Body to avoid the predictable questions about his health by refraining from “feeling my shroud”.

I was fortunate to join him for lunch in

John Knight, Emeritus Fellow

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A Petrified Tribute to Justin by Geoffery Bourne-Taylor “Welcome to the Hall” he said, when I came, “We hide our ign’rance better is the game That we play for you,” Justin Gosling said, With a sharpness that lesser minds would dread.

Gosling, (initials JCB), Not exactly a bulldozer he!

And how true; and he could demolish Opposition with barely a flourish!

Oxford’s last Gargoyle pours down on the Quad (The philosopher who still believed in God) His answer to the years, As from the Lodgings viewed, Regurgitated beers That generations spewed.

Mistaken by guides. It’s not Robin Day! ‘Floreat Aula’ is all we can say….

Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, Bursar 1988 – 2006

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Memories of Justin Gosling Justin Gosling made a huge difference to my life.

In 1968, I was bitterly regretting my choice of university and subject. I had just finished the first year of a four-year automotive engineering degree course somewhere in Leicestershire and could not bear the thought of three more years.

Without my knowledge a friend of mine mentioned this within Teddy Hall and I received a message out of the blue to come and discuss it, only a few weeks before the start of the second year.

It was highly memorable. I was in Bristol at the time, trying to persuade them to accept me, when the message reached me and the memorable July floods had just struck. I was offered a meeting that same afternoon if I could get to Oxford in time. I just made it, soaked through after pushing my Mini through a large flood. I was shown into a room where Messrs Gosling and Knight greeted me and then stood me in front of an old gas fire to dry out as steam rose.

I had been told that, though they would not be able to offer me a place, they would advise me on which other universities I might try. We had a long and pleasant discussion and when it was time to go, I asked where they thought I should apply.

“Nowhere,” they said. “You can come here.”

So, I read PPE, went into broadcast journalism and then into writing fiction and owe both of them all of that.

James Long (1968, PPE)

Even fifty years later his teaching as a tutor stays with me and I often describe how and what he taught me about learning.

I remember with affection the astonishing tutorials I had back in the day. Whenever I think of exaggerating, making things up to suit me, or even undertaking any piece of analysis I remember the tutorial repeatedly only: “Lerner. What does that mean?”

Irritating as it was, and he did it to all of us, it taught me a lesson in the need to think about my words and hopefully, some humility.

David Lerner (1969, PPE, Human Sciences) Justin was my tutor as an undergraduate (1979-82) and then Principal during the period I took the degrees of BPhil and DPhil (1983-87). Whether he was disappointed or breathed a sigh of relief when I turned my back on academia, I was never quite sure.

Ian McEwen (1979, Psychology) Dear Teddy Hall mates, I join you in sorrow at the passing of this great leader and educator.

Justin Gosling took me on for tutoring while I was at Oxford for a year abroad from Harvard. I was an undergrad reading Philosophy and he introduced me to classic texts including Plato’s Phaedo and others. He also arranged an individualised program for me to study with others in subsequent terms.

He and his wife were kind, welcoming and gently humorous, just when this ‘stranger in a strange land’ needed it the most.

Lesley Friedman Rosenthal (1984, Visiting Student)

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I remember Justin Gosling for his brilliant mind and wit, displayed when he tricked me artfully when providing me with an end of term report: Prof Gosling: “One of your tutors wrote that you don’t take criticism well. Is that fair?”

No! I replied, instantly realizing I’d fallen into his trap and proved the point!

James Carr (1989, PPE) I was JCR President during his time as Principal and have fond memories of the support he gave me, if not of all the committee meetings I attended!

Anna Rentoul (1991, History) My earliest memory was when Justin was showing me around College after I’d been elected to my JRF. We were in the garden, and he was telling me about turning the church into a Library and moving lots of tombstones to make a College garden: “There were lots of bodies we had to consult to get permission”, he said. This was the first of many occasions of my being left conversationally somewhat disconcerted by his straight-faced delivery of what was probably a joke but was subtle enough that it just might not have been.

Stephen Blamey, Emeritus Fellow

There are two things I often experienced when Secretary to the Governing Body and later Tutor for Graduates.

First, his deadpan humour. Once someone bounced up to him to express his thanks, saying that he had got the job. “The reference didn’t work, then,” said Justin.

The blank look on the face of someone experiencing Justin in this mode would dissipate when they saw the twinkle in his eye.

Second, his meticulous preparation for meetings. He was always fully on top of all the business of the Governing Body, and so this made it remarkably easy for the Secretary to anticipate and to record clear decisions – not always the case with minute-taking.

David Phillips, Emeritus Fellow

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Justin Gosling: A Tribute by James Wilk I knew Justin well for almost exactly half a century. I first met him the evening he and the late Iain Donaldson, then College Lecturer in Medicine, interviewed me for PPP (Philosophy, Psychology and Physiology) in the Emden Room in December 1972.

Justin taught me Philosophy for three years, was my moral tutor during that time and he remained an informal thesis adviser and mentor to me over the eight years I was doing my doctorate. Particularly during my year as a Recognised Student at Oxford, based at the Hall, and again when, on his recommendation, I started teaching Philosophy at Oxford two decades ago.

While he was Principal of the Hall, Justin and I also worked together for a time in the late 1980s in an international scientific think tank where Justin’s original theoretical contributions turned out to have a significant impact in changing the way strategic planning was done by what is now one of the ten largest corporations in the world. The innovative approach to corporate strategy he inspired and helped forge has had an enduring impact on a number of industry-leading multinational corporations on both sides of the Atlantic.

way unique to them. Once when an Oxford academic, who was not a philosopher, came to dinner with Justin and Margaret at home in Abingdon, Justin and their guest stayed up late into the night, immersed for hours in a heated academic argument over some arcane topic or other, until finally Margaret had to excuse herself and retired to bed. Justin and their dinner guest went on debating, clearly enjoying themselves.

The following morning Margaret asked Justin, “What on earth were you two arguing about last night? I couldn’t follow it, or even make out the topic.” Justin replied, “I haven’t the faintest idea myself!” When Margaret protested that he seemed to be holding his own in the debate nonetheless, Justin replied, “Of course! That’s one of the benefits of an Oxford education, is it not?”

It may have been one thing when Justin was off-duty entertaining a guest at home, however when he was teaching or otherwise acting in a professional capacity, he was scrupulous in never jumping to conclusions or making assumptions about what someone meant by what they were saying.

For me and my wife Anne, Justin and his wife Margaret were cherished family friends as our children were growing up. Our daughters have fond memories from when they were little, of visiting the Goslings at their charming, rambling old house in Abingdon with its large lawned garden and croquet hoops, where Justin and Margaret took great care to ensure the children were kept endlessly entertained.

In one of my earliest tutorials with Justin as an undergraduate – I believe it was in my second term when we did ‘The History of Philosophy from Descartes to Kant’ – I began putting forward an argument and then stopped to check in with him at one point to ask, “Would you agree with that last statement?” To which Justin replied: “Why, I have no idea – I cannot possibly know what you mean by that statement until I see what you are going to go on to do with it.”

There were no hosts more gracious and entertaining than the Goslings, and they would entertain each individual visitor in a

Justin, at least back in the day, was always ‘Mr Gosling’ to his students until they had sat their Finals. From then on he asked

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them to call him ‘Justin’ and they would be invited to visit him and Margaret at home for a meal. He was an extraordinary teacher of Philosophy and the epitome of the classic Oxford Philosophy tutor.

Teaching Philosophy was something Justin loved and in which he took endless delight.

In fact, while he was always working on some philosophical research project or other—for example, for some years he was working on a book critiquing the Paradigm Case Argument which at the time was frequently deployed by Oxford philosophers. One book among others, I expect, which never saw the light of day.

Still, or so it seemed to me, it was teaching undergraduate Philosophy that was always his first love.

If a weaker student produced an absolutely dreadful essay, his standard response, delivered with sincere empathy for their struggles and a desire to turn this into a learning experience, was to begin by exclaiming, “That was excellent!” And in a way it was, for Justin always insisted that he learned most from the least able amongst his students, because they asked the naïve questions that no one else had ever asked, which he had never thought about himself, and to which he was forced to find his way to an answer.

I was fortunate as an undergraduate that he taught me only ever one-to-one, and every tutorial was a thrilling exercise in philosophical jousting that would often continue well beyond the obligatory hour, as we kept on sparring until we reached a mutually satisfactory end-point, often finishing with a glass of Amontillado by the fire in the late afternoon.

I have never faced a more formidable opponent in philosophical argument than Justin. One of his students, to his surprise and amusement, told him years later

that they were always “terrified” of him because they knew how easily and with such unconcealed delight he could cut even their best arguments to ribbons if he chose.

But Justin’s aim in argument was never to win, but rather to stimulate the student to think, to teach them how to argue, both by example and through self-defence, and where possible, by the end of the tutorial to reach mutual agreement. Like a good barrister he could argue either side of a case with equal aplomb, and it was rare for any of Justin’s students to leave one of his Philosophy tutorials knowing, or even being able to venture a guess, where Justin himself stood on the point.

He always insisted that unless and until you could understand and present an argument compellingly from an advocate position, you were in no position to critique it—in fact, that you had not yet earned the right to do so.

Justin was still teaching Philosophy for the Hall at his home in Abingdon, at least occasionally, up until at least 2014 or 2015. He also gave the occasional odd tutorial or two thereafter to selected students. The last Philosophy tutorial in Abingdon of which I am personally aware was on Wednesday 2 March 2016, shortly before Justin turned 86.

He had enthusiastically agreed to see a Visiting Student from Paris whom I was teaching Wittgenstein, for an extended tutorial on certain issues in Plato’s philosophy of language, with particular reference to issues cutting across Plato’s Cratylus and Wittgenstein’s Investigations, as part of her work on the refutation of relativism. He and Margaret then took us both out to lunch at a local Italian restaurant. The student wrote to me afterwards to say that that “beautiful Wednesday...I will remember all my life as

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a marvellous and foundational philosophy day.” She later went on to teach Plato and the philosophy of language at the Sorbonne.

Justin, with his gravelly voice, sonorous tones, and characteristically deadpan delivery, was one of the most entertaining comics I have ever come across. He was also a particularly gifted mimic, as I’m sure those of you who knew him will recall. For example, whether relating an amusing encounter with former Principal John Kelly, or especially when retelling an entertaining story once told by John, Justin’s wickedly accurate impersonations of John in a high-pitched Oxford lisp, would have all of us in stitches—which, considering how celebrated a wit and raconteur John Kelly had been himself, was really quite an achievement!

On one of a number of delightful occasions during my doctorate when I accompanied Justin out walking his dog Toby in the University Parks, conducting long philosophical discussions, there was a memorable example of Justin’s dry sense of humour. Frequently delivered deadpan, though he had an endearing trait of occasionally finding it impossible to suppress a brief, single loud laugh escaping regardless (“Ha!!”) after he’d finished his deadpan delivery, though not on this occasion, which only enhanced the comic effect: I had just finished re-reading Three Philosophers by Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Geach, and I’d been particularly impressed by Anscombe’s opening chapter on Aristotle. Her writing was notoriously bad as always, for she was a rare example of a philosopher who could think clearly while writing confusedly— perhaps as she’d spent so much time translating Wittgenstein that her written English resembled German in leaving

the verb to the end. I’d admittedly found the chapter tough going because of her writing style, but her argument on some notoriously difficult points in Aristotle’s metaphysics was by far the clearest and most compelling I’d ever read on the topic.

When Justin asked me what I’d thought of the book, as we strolled along with Toby at his side, I made the mistake of enthusing about Anscombe’s “lucid argument on Aristotle’s concept of [blah-di-blah],” to which Justin responded by pausing in his tracks and saying, “Hmmm…” [long, thoughtful pause], “it must be a different use of the word ‘lucid’ from the one I’d previously been familiar with,” and then carried on walking without missing a beat.

Justin was a great believer in a philosophical education as equipping one to recognise a bad argument, or the absence of one, in any sphere. It was akin to what Hemingway described as having “a built-in, shock-proof crap detector.”

Justin once gave as an example the Governing Body meeting in which one of his colleagues at the Hall remarked that “It could be argued that, blah, blah blah,” to which Justin replied at once, “Could it? And if so, how? What would be the argument?”

As for constructing a robust argument, whether in philosophical discussion or in print, I have never encountered his equal.

Justin’s classic 1969 book Pleasure and Desire: The Case for Hedonism Revisited, a philosophical tour de force which won him the John Locke prize, I recall him describing to me as “a book on metaphysics, applied to the philosophy of mind, and only thinly disguised as a book on moral philosophy.” It was apart from anything else, a masterpiece of philosophical style and argumentation, and it is the book that, to this day, I most often give my own Oxford Philosophy

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students as the best aspirational example of how to construct a philosophical argument, and especially how to make good and succinct use of a wide variety of compelling examples.

For my money, however, Justin’s philosophical masterpiece was probably The Weakness of the Will (1990), or perhaps his Plato (1973) in The Arguments of the Philosophers series, where his chapter XVII on ‘Preferred Explanations’ remains a philosophical classic, along with some of the other chapters (e.g. Ch. XVIII on ‘Innate Knowledge and the Corrigibility of Language’) which, along with the book as a whole, remain of enduring interest and importance to philosophers far beyond the study of the philosophy of Plato.

Once, the late Philip Morsberger (19332021), newly arrived in Oxford from the States as the first American to be appointed Ruskin Master of Drawing (he was later a Professorial Fellow and then Honorary Fellow of the Hall), was dining with Justin, Margaret and their children at the Gosling family’s house.

Over dinner, Philip turned to one of their young daughters seated next to him and asked, in a teasing tone of voice, “So! Your father’s a philosopher! But what is all this ‘philosophy’ business about anyway?”

Without so much as pausing for breath, the little girl replied confidently, “Well, philosophy is at least the study of the presuppositions of, and apparent contradictions within, our current ways of thinking,” leaving her interlocutor speechless, astonished and delighted.

This was indeed Justin’s favoured definition of the philosophical enterprise,

though he would always add, whenever proffering it, that the “at least” was important.

His colleague and co-author of The Greeks on Pleasure (1982), Professor Christopher Taylor, said of Justin that, “I am in no doubt that Justin was one of the most considerable analytical philosophers of the late 20th century. Like many others (including myself) he belongs to another era. Given the passing of that era, if for no other reason, we are not likely to see his like again.” I could not agree more.

Justin was not only one of the greatest minds I have ever encountered, whether in academia or beyond, but also perhaps the wisest; a beautiful soul whose humility seemed to underwrite all he said and wrote and did.

I will always miss Justin terribly, but his voice and words and unique spirit will always be with me, and very much a part of me, no less now and in the future than in all those long periods between our visits over the past 50 years.

Perhaps more than anyone else, it was Justin who taught me how to do philosophy, how to learn, how to teach, and above all, how to think. I believe there are many others amongst the generations of Oxford Philosophy students he taught at the Hall and elsewhere, many of whom went on to become philosophers and teachers of Philosophy themselves, some of them quite eminent, who would be able, without a moment’s hesitation, to say the same of themselves.

Dr James Wilk (1973, PPP; Associate Lecturer in Philosophy)

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Harvest Time by Justin Gosling For once I managed to remember To sow my broad beans in November.

The interval seems rather long, But experts say it makes them strong.

Hopeful, I put three dozen in, Then waited – when would life begin?

I must have done something that they hated: Only three seeds germinated.

The first of these was early lost Cut down by February frost; The second, hit by damp and cold, Succumbed to some pernicious mould; The third fought, flowered, was pollinated; Its few proud pods were fully fêted.

A plague of blackfly then attacked – One pod only left intact.

Now I have harvested my pod I raise my eyes in thanks to God, Reflect on the mystery of life, And share the two beans with my wife.

Justin Gosling, Fellow, Principal & Honorary Fellow

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Celebrating 120 Years of Rhodes Scholars by Tom Bedford In 2003 the Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford celebrated its Centenary. The week of those celebrations took place not only in Oxford but also in London. Parliament’s historic Westminster Hall was filled with Rhodes alumni from across the world, to be addressed by Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, the Speaker of the Commons and the Warden of Rhodes House.

In July 2023 the 120 years of existence of the Scholarships was celebrated with more modest celebrations centred entirely in Oxford around the new extensive basement expansion to the listed Rhodes House (designed by the well-known architect of the late 1890s and early 1900s, Sir Herbert Baker) and, as also happened in 2003, at functions held in a number of the University’s colleges.

Teddy Hall was one of these. Some of its former Rhodes Scholars stayed in rooms in the Hall for the schedule of events held over the three days at Rhodes House, others only for the night preceding the Rhodes House programme to attend the Hall’s ‘120 Years of Rhodes: St Edmund Hall Drinks and Dinner’ celebration.

Having joined in with a full dose of Rhodes fever 20 years ago, this time I caught an early morning coach – the Oxford Tube – from London for the Hall’s function.

Feeling the pull of nostalgia that I found welling up inside my 80-year-old frame I just wanted to wander around Oxford’s streets and take in and explore again the haunts of nearly 60 years ago – hence the early start to what would be a long day.

There had, of course, been previous return visits to Oxford and the Hall, but somehow this visit seemed more important after the wave of protests and demonstrations

held against Rhodes where even former scholars had found the Scholarship objectionable.

On 29 June then, conveniently getting off the coach in the High Street at Univ, I sensed Oxford was buzzing. I was to discover that this day also happened to be the University’s and colleges’ Open Day which explained why the city was unusually packed beyond the customary tourists. There was a throng around the Hall’s humble entrance and a studentmanned tent inside our equally humble but distinctive little Front Quad. I was repeatedly reminded, when comparing it to almost every other college I walked past and looked in on during the course of the day’s happy wanderings, that this is a University still untouched, located within the city’s equally familiar confines.

The Lodge’s Porter confirmed my room was ready. I was given no key, but a fob.

This he smilingly reassured me would open everything I needed to open in the newly upgraded and completely refurbished Besse. And so it turned out to be. My smartly furnished room, complete with bathroom ensuite, was found by following neat and plushly appointed corridors and staircases at the very top of what in the sixties had been a rundown shambles of pitiful rooms for first year undergraduate students.

Not that I ever lived in Besse block. But visits to it did occur and were accepted – or avoided if possible. For first-year postgraduates – as I, three other new Rhodes Scholars and a lone Brit were – there was no accommodation in Hall that October of 1965. We were instead to be housed around the corner from Besse in Longwall Street. This was at No.7, an

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ancient three-storied house loaned from New College in which nothing turned out to be level or straight. No.7 was in sharp contrast to the sumptuous edifices and quads of Magdalen it faced on its first and second floors. These floors housed bedrooms, while the ground floor living room along with a small kitchen would come to double up as the Middle Common Room. Unfinished as the ‘refurbishment’ of it was on arrival, I slept on the floor of the bedroom of my fellow Freshman from our Natal (now KwaZuluNatal) University days, Bob Brewer (1963, Engineering), a Rhodesian (now Zimbabwean) Rhodes Scholar, who by the time of my arrival was an established Teddy Hall man who had had only a year living in Hall before having to move to student digs off the Iffley Road. That is where I stayed for a week till the handymen finished what was essentially a crude painting job of No.7.

While therefore not actually in residence in the Hall, we Longwall Street lot were officially considered to be so since we had our meals in the Hall’s Old Dining Hall.

When at Oxford, Cecil J. Rhodes was at Oriel. When he died in South Africa in 1903 he left a substantial pot of money in his will expressly to fund the Scholarships.

Over the years Teddy Hall has admitted 138 Rhodes Scholars. These were all men until the Parliamentary Discriminatory Act led to changes in the Scholarships’ selection criteria to include women from 1976.

At this 120th Rhodes Drinks and Dinner event there were 14

of us: Bob Brewer, Larry Pressler (1964, Dip Public and Social Admin), Humphrey Nicholls (1965, PPE), me (1965, English), Peter Wilson (1967, BPhil Management Studies), Hugh Anderson (1967, English), Richard Balfour (1971, BLitt English), Andrew Banks (1976, PPE), Daud Khan (1979, MPhil Economics), Gary Lawrence (1980, PPE), Gareth Penny (1982, PPE), Claire Lobb (2005, MSc Science and Medicine of Athletic Performance), Esther Eduehi (2011, DPhil Organic Chemistry) and Brittany Ellis (2019, MPhil Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology). Also present hosting the event for the Hall was the Principal, Kathy Willis, and Andrew Vivian, the Hall’s Director of Development.

Before drinks, the dining venue was available for viewing. A fair number of us had never known of the existence of this double volume room above the Chapel, served as it was by its own staircase behind a solid oak door. Others had only seen it once. This was the Hall’s Old Library of rare books and manuscripts protected behind wire and glass cages, including a mezzanine stacking arrangement on three sides of the room.

The Librarian, James Howarth, was at hand to expound on this amazing hidden archive, housing books going back to the 15th century and including a first, 1838, edition of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.

While the Dons apparently used the Library as their smoking room in previous years, the Hall’s lower ranks had to make do with the ‘general’ library which was relocated when Teddy Hall acquired the adjoining church.

With the hidden gem of rare library stacks examined with some incredulity, and with the Open Day’s tent gone, drinks were arranged in the Front Quad.

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evening encapsulated the fine qualities of our Quad and reflected its intimate and homely scale compared to all those vast quads of the numerous colleges I had ventured into during my morning’s wanderings about town. There was no doubt about it: as far as the colleges went Teddy Hall was unique.

Naturally, I specifically singled out visiting Oriel, Rhodes’s College, on my wanderings. Besides the Scholarships, he had handsomely endowed Oriel College, the front elevation of which on the High Street commemorated this in carved stone etched below what seemed a smallish statue of him, high up below roof level. This is where the crowds had gathered previously when demanding that the statue and all traces of Rhodes be removed on this facade but deemed to be of extraordinary architectural interest this has not (yet?) happened. I don’t know how long I stood leaning against the church railings opposite, looking and wondering how it could really be that if in those days and times of Empire the philanthropy of a Cecil Rhodes had never taken place, all those protests against him in Oxford and damage to the Rhodes memorial in Cape Town would not have happened. Neither would thousands of us from across the world have benefited from the broadening of outlook that a spell in Britain gives Rhodes Scholars at Oxford.

In the sixties there were approximately 65 scholars elected annually, today it is closer to a hundred, with 32 scholars each year coming from Africa. Nor would the 100th and 120th Rhodes House celebrations have taken place, nor the Dinner that evening for 14 of the Hall’s 138 former Rhodes Scholars.

With the drinks over, the Dinner was rather special given also the ambiance of the formal Library setting. There followed

addresses from the Principal and three of our number - the main thrust being the Hall’s proposed huge, new, upto-date, green-oriented development near the Parks. This will put Teddy Hall on a par with other colleges regarding accommodation. That is to say that when done and dusted, and the funds raised to carry out this extension to the Hall’s postage stamp quarters in Queen’s Lane, as in other colleges future students will be able to spend their entire time at University being accommodated in residence.

The Dinner more or less ended at 10 with discussions about this news, and after a mention that it was the Rev. Kelly who had really put St Edmund Hall on the map once it was given its independence as a College after World War 2, the Buttery – unchanged since the sixties – seemed to be the place to go to. We left the Library delighted to have had such an evening’s get-together thanks to the Principal and staff at the Hall and made for the Buttery, anticipating that as in our day the Buttery would see us through into the early hours.

But no such luck. Unlike the sixties the Buttery closed at 10.

Tom Bedford (1965, English)

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Aularian Updates: De Fortunis Aularium 1960s 1960 Peter Hayes has published his fourth book on fly fishing The Flies That Trout Prefer with Don Stazicker. An e-book on Amazon, 400 pages with about the same number of illustrations and 26 videos in evidence of its findings. Using observation and experimentation, Peter radically and productively re-examines earlier authors’ ideas and anglers’ existing beliefs about why and how trout eat flies, natural and artificial.

Read more about the book: www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-Hayes/e/B087QM7Z5Z/ ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_1 1960 Yann Lovelock and his wife Ann were given the title of Sadhamma Jotika (Contributor to the Buddhist Faith) for their 50 years of supporting the growth of Buddhism in the UK, awarded during the 25th anniversary ceremony of the Dhamma Talaka Peace Pagoda in Birmingham on 30 July 2023.

1961 Robert Chard is still a Director of Lightweight Community Transport Ltd. They work with other small companies to develop and lease ultra-light trams and railcars, which are zero CO2, zero toxic emissions, and the best for energy efficiency.

This year he will be publishing the second, much improved, edition of his father’s book: JSR Chard, Red Deer and Forestry in History and Pre-history (about the forests we destroyed and now seek to replace).

His experimental woodland of future trees for a warmer climate is now established with a management plan and access to grants funding. Open to visits by appointment.

These activities are all part of his action plan to slow the pace of climate change by doing useful work. He will be pleased to hear from any Aularians who might be interested to join him in his work.

He asks, “Have you got your personal Zero Carbon footprint certificate yet?”

1961 Ronnie Lamb sadly passed away at the end June 2023. He was up at the Hall from 1961 to 1965. He achieved three Rugby Blues, captaining the side in 1964 when they beat Cambridge. He was a Scottish trialist and later the Chairman of OURFC for many years and represented OURFC on the Council of the RFU (England for any non-English Britons). He was a stalwart member of Hall Rugby and his sword dancing in the buttery will be long remembered by his contemporaries. – Robin Hogg (1960, Chemistry) 1964 Nigel Pegram is currently working with Brian Bennett (Cliff Richard and The Shadows’ drummer and musical director) co-producing and appearing in a film, SOHO, about the rise of rock ‘n roll in Soho in the 1950s. He is also co-producing, appearing in and voicing five characters in a feature-length animation film, Sky Commanders, in association with RKV Studios in Iceland.

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1965 Michael Tanner saw his 19th book on matters horse-racing (and his 30th overall) published in 2022 while continuing to terrorise opponents on the walking football pitch where he represented Ireland v England in the Over 70 age group.

1966 Ian Hewitt has completed his fourth and final year as Chairman of The All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club which stages the annual Wimbledon Championships.

1967 Hugh Anderson is now retired from a career in Scotland as an architect. Besides reinventing himself as a painter he is busy with occasional consultancy and two major projects, helping to organisationally ‘rebuild’ a large school in Sekukuniland in South Africa, and to generate a civic movement in support of the regeneration of his adopted city, Glasgow.

1967 Rob Grey has continued to coach athletics and has obtained an additional qualification as a sprints and hurdles coach from England Athletics. He is still coaching at Cheltenham Harriers.

1967 Simon Maxwell is setting up a new think tank on climate change in Brighton and Hove. He is standing down this year as one of the Chief Scientific Editors of the UN Environment Emissions Gap Report.

1967 At a conference in Oxford on ‘Trust in the Pre-Modern World’ on 13-14 November 2022, Dave Postles presented a paper on revisiting fidei laesio.

1968 Michael Heal has just had his first book published and it has been very well received. Targeted at children aged 5 - 8, Animal Tales for Today introduces readers to 26 characters whose exploits will entertain, surprise, charm and amuse. Written in verse, it is enhanced by eye-catching, full colour original illustrations that bring out the narrative and character of the animals portrayed.

Michael is happy to send signed copies made out to the intended recipient if you make contact via e-mail: michaelhealpr@gmail.com or you can order copies through Amazon and most good book shops.

1968 Peter Scott-Presland [Eric Presland at SEH] is currently producing a chamber opera 1944: Home Fires by himself and composer Robert Ely. This 50-minute gem is the story of famed songsmith and heartthrob Ivor Novello, and what happened when he was sent to Wormwood Scrubs for fiddling his petrol coupons.

He was forced to share a cell with the 20-year-old psychopath ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser, later to become the notorious hitman for the Richardson Gang in the 60s.

Ivor is convinced his life and career is in ruins; Frankie is terrified his brain will be fried by the new electric shock treatment... A moving piece about masculinity, the underbelly of the blitz, and how to find self-belief. Performances on 3 and 6 September 2023.

Details on: www.homopromos.org 1969 It is said that the soul of King Arthur was last seen as a chough flying off into the distance. Well, of course, it must have been Cornish, and also flying westwards all the way here to Kew Gardens, a subdivision of the fair suburb of Queens in New York City. And here he is:

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Roger Callan has lived there for over 30 years, and decided it needed a little more anglicisation (not -zation) than simply those names (Queens is named for Catherine of Breganza, wife of Charles II, who gave his name to Kings County in NYC, also called Brooklyn; and Kew Gardens is, well, Kew Gardens). Being a vexillologist, clearly the banner of SEH was the obvious choice. Roger asks “What do you think? King Arthur would have mightily approved.”

1969 Neil Corcoran’s new book, Negotiations: Poems in their Contexts, was published

by Liverpool University Press in 2023. It collects and adds to essays on modern poetry which he has published in the last decade. He has also published several grandchildren in these years whom he finds much more interesting and worthwhile than his books.

1969 Fred Jaeger has published two books through Amazon: On What Language Is: And how it is possible? and Truth and Representation: The bond of meaning and truth in discursive and artistic representation.

More about the books: www.amazon.co.uk/Fred-Jaeger/e/ B0BSRCG17L?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1695221104&sr=8-1 1969 Nicholas McGuinn’s co-edited book International Perspectives on Drama and Citizenship Education: Acting Globally was published by Routledge in 2022.

It received the Best Book award from the Children’s Identity and Citizenship European Association in the same year.

1969 David Monkcom’s new book Beyond Belief, published in September 2023, uses the story of his personal journey out of fundamentalist Christianity as a springboard for a critical examination of theism and an indictment of religious dogmatism. The book’s central appeal is for believers of all faiths to embrace dialogue with one another and with sceptics.

Beyond Belief can be ordered from bookshops or online: www.amazon.com/dp/ B0CCW3J8YW

1970s 1970 Lars U. Scholl retired in 2012 from his Chair of maritime history at the University of Bremen.

His chapter on Onassis’ whaling activities was published in Greek in The Onassis Business History, edited by Gelina Harlaftis. An English version will be published next year.

He was re-elected as Vice-President of the Wittheit zu Bremen, an association of all scientific societies in the State of Bremen.

1971 Mark Hall retired in 2011 after 38 years in banking, his last stint was as CEO for HSBC in Spain. He intends to remain in Spain rotating between Madrid and Marbella.

1971 After almost two years at home, in West Suffolk, Nick Staite was lucky enough to be offered a consultancy to work with the Office of the DPP in Kenya. The six-month assignment extended to a year, concluding at the end of March 2023.

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sedate Malawi, where Nick worked with the ODPP and Anti-Corruption Bureau from January 2015 to March 2020.

Nick is still taking on consultancy work for the International Centre for Asset Recovery, presently collaborating with the judiciary and law enforcement agencies of Zanzibar. His visit there, in March, was at a time of high temperatures and humidity, so he is hoping for more tolerable conditions for his September visit.

Too early to hang up the old boots, while able to travel to Africa and support good governance, anti-corruption and prosecution of the bad guys... Daughter number three has moved with her family to South Africa, offering more chances of visits to the beautiful continent.

1971 Douglas Robertson is now Rector (half-time) of the Howardian Group Benefice (five village churches near Castle Howard, where he remains Chaplain).

1971 Rick Thomas has retired from the University of Leicester and moved to St Andrews. He is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Leicester and an Honorary Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews.

1972 In June 2023 the Leadwort imprint published a small volume of Paul Driver’s verse called A Musical Gathering: 50 Poems and an Envoi: poems all on a musical theme and written over several years.

1972 Although he lives in Greyton, Western Cape, South Africa, John F. McGlashan had a memoir published in the UK called Time Bring a Bigger Knife, which includes his days at SEH in the 1970’s before rise and descent to the top and bottom of society. It made Amazon’s top 100 for legal memoirs.

1972 Having been very fortunate to sell his businesses Andy Wadley has finally faced up to the concept of retirement and ceases full time work at the end of the calendar year. Travel, seeing more of the grandchildren and good friends, and reading some of those books are obviously on the agenda but he needs to keep the brain functioning. The Oxford University Society for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight offer an attractive opportunity to do some mentoring for bright kids in deprived areas as does attempting to keep up with his wife’s green agenda.

However, suggestions from other Aularians who have already trodden this path would be very welcome.

1972 Martin Winter, following two months intense pre-season training in Greece, is predicting (as he has been for the last 35 years) that this year will be his competitive break out year in slalom waterskiing. He is entered for the (senior) European championships in France confident he will be confirmed, yet again, as the worst water-skier in his family.

1973 Following his Army service, Chris Pretty spent time in industry and then joined West Midlands Police. He married Ros in 1980 and two wonderful children, Ben and Rosanna, arrived in 1983 and 1985.

Chris continued his interest in rugby and shooting and his career took him into the investigation of serious crime at home and abroad. He retired in 2010 and

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now lives out in the sticks in Worcestershire enjoying life and trying to catch the elusive salmon.

1974 Michael Hooton retired in June 2023, having spent 37 years as the pastor of Ilkeston Baptist Church in Derbyshire. He plans to spend his retirement in (among other things) continuing a wider ministry of preaching, in doing some more writing, and maybe in offering tuition in German and French.

1974 Having brought his long-term career to a close, Jeremy Nason is now following a new path within conservation. Most recently he has enjoyed periods of engagement with the National Trust and Natural England and is excitingly looking forward to his next role.

1975 Martin Garrett’s Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge was published in 2022.

1975 Jeremy Hughes CBE convenes ‘Shaping the Future with Volunteering’, consisting of 30 of the best-known volunteering charities in the UK. They led The Big Help Out, backed by Their Majesties the King and Queen, which encouraged volunteering as part of the Coronation Weekend in May. Over 7 million people got involved supporting their communities.

1975 It’s pretty hard adjusting to the realisation that in all probability the climate tipping points have been passed and that a very hard landing indeed is in prospect, so it’s understandable that this is still being widely ignored.

Anna and Alan Lomas have moved from Manchester to North Shropshire in a lovely rural location, and are starting to create what might one day be a forest garden on a couple of acres of land.

If anyone’s got any thoughts, comments, expertise, suggestions, please get in touch.

1975 Howard Papworth has become much more involved with Oxford in the last few years, since he unofficially ‘retired’. Working from Jericho, he now leads bicycle tours from Oxford through the Cotswolds to Bath or up to Stratford upon Avon, as well as short tours around Oxford and up to Blenheim Palace. Needless to say, some serious revision on the history of Oxford was necessary.

In September 2022 he married Luci Stephens at the Chapel in St Edmund Hall, with the service wonderfully led by the Teddy Chaplain, followed by a wedding breakfast in the Old Dining Hall. This obviously limited numbers somewhat, but we were able to address this with a larger gathering in the Wolfson Hall in the evening.

1976 Andrew Banks, a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust and member of the Oxford University Endowment Management’s Investment Committee, has been elected to the OUEM Board.

1976 In 2023 Mike Power celebrated 35 years at the London School of Economics where he is currently Professor of Accounting and a Fellow of the British Academy.

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1976 Barrie Thomas is now happily retired and living in Bournemouth with wife Sian and quads Bethan, Angharad, David and Lowri.

1977 Based at Murchison River Lodge in NW Uganda Paul Brett has recently taken on the role as Ambassador of Zorudena, Zombo Rural Development Network Association.

He extends an open invitation to all Aularians, friends and families, seeking fun and general do-goodery in and around the Albertine rift valley (Geology 1977!!!).

1977 Dave Hope recently became World Champion single sculler for the over 65 group.

1978 Peter M. J. Hess published a chapter on ‘Identity and Moral Personhood in Star Trek, Deep Space 9, and Picard,’ in the volume Theology and Star Trek (Fortress Academic, 2023). He observes that in science fiction ‘personhood’ reflects themes of embodiment, transcendence, evolutionary emergence, interpersonal relationship, and moral deliberation. Hess also lectures on how climate disruption intensifies wildfire activity around the globe; in 2022 he himself became certified as a wildland firefighter in California.

1979 Scholars, including Daud Khan attending the 120th anniversary reunion of the Rhodes Trust met for a dinner in the Old Library. The Principal, the Librarian and others made it a memorable evening.

1980s 1980 From 1 September 2023 Martin Burton will be Master of Sidney Sussex College.

Read more on the Sidney Sussex website: www.sid.cam.ac.uk/about-sidney/ news/professor-martin-burton-elected-new-master 1981 Mark Owens continues to build Otway & Orford, his made in England silk pocket square brand, via www.OtwayOrford.co.uk, third party websites, pop up events and corporate commissions. There are two unique collections. The ‘Passions’ pocket squares feature art designs depicting favourite sports, iconic aircraft and legendary cars and are created with leading artists. The ‘Fresh Classics’ are a fresh take on classic pocket square designs discovered in archives in Macclesfield, the home of English silk printing.

1982 Simon Ashberry has published his third book on football. To be a Poacher is about his hometown club Boston Town and is a follow-up to his 2004 book Come and Sit with Us. In 2013, he also published It’s Not All Black and White about the record-breaking Grimsby Town player John McDermott.

1982 Linda Davies has had a busy year, qualifying as a Jungian life coach and publishing two books: What Every Woman Needs to Know to Create Financial Abundance, (the follow on from her 10 Things Everyone Needs to Know about Money) and Gelert’s Ghost, her own retelling of the ancient and heartbreaking Welsh legend, recast by Linda with hope and redemption but still spine chillingly scary!

1982 Dan Thompson was part of the team behind the 2023 Running Out of Time climate relay which championed climate action and our natural world. Dan is a

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co-founder of the event. For 32 days participants ran, cycled, hiked, mountain biked, paddled, surfed, skied, swam and dragon boated the baton 2,661km from Ben Nevis to Big Ben. Over 5,000 people were involved in the relay and it received widespread coverage across the ITV network and BBC TV and Radio.

Dan would love to hear from Aularians who’d like to be involved in next year’s relay (June-July 2024) – particularly any Aularians who are involved in the sporting world (elite and/or grassroots).

1983 Thomas de Mallet Burgess was appointed Artistic Director (Opera) at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet from August 2023.

He was previously General Director at New Zealand Opera where, during the course of his leadership, he made significant strategic and artistic reforms that transformed New Zealand’s national opera company into a more culturally relevant national arts organisation.

The Finnish National Opera and Ballet, founded in 1911, is one of Europe’s leading cultural institutions.

1983 Fiona Larkin’s debut poetry collection Rope of Sand was published in 2023 by Pindrop Press, following her pamphlets Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep Books) and A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press). Nearly 40 years after meeting Edward Hayes (1983) in the Old Dining Hall, they live in Kingston upon Thames and have three sons, Rob, Alex and James.

1983 Hugo Minney writes: We became grandparents for the first time in February.

Isla May is growing fast. I am also celebrating herding cats and winning – I have managed to get a British Standard on my pet subject (benefits management, or return on investment for projects) over the line.

1984 John Bloomer was appointed as Chaplain to Writtle University College (November 2022), became a founding partner and Director of the spin-out company TraitSeq Ltd (using artificial intelligence to accelerate the development of beneficial traits in agricultural plants, February 2023), and will be ordained as a Priest in the Church of England on 30 September 2023. John continues to explore the interface between science, business and theology, publishing an article entitled ‘Plant life, business and theology: living in fellowship with plants’ (Faith in Business Quarterly vol 22.3 (2023)).

1985 Nicolas Kelepeniotis gives many thanks to his son, Evangelos, and daughter-inlaw, Robin, for naming their son after him. Nicolas Kelepeniotis Junior, who was born on 1 October 2021, is a brilliant boy!

1985 Pernille Rudlin married Mark Probert in 2001 and their son Otto was born in the same year. She has written various publications including The History of Mitsubishi Corporation in London: 1915 to Present Day (Routledge, 2000). As well as running her own business she is a trustee of The Japan Society and a NonExecutive Director of Japan House London.

1986 Mark Matthews served as the UK’s first resident Ambassador to Chad, from 2021-2022. He is now working on plans for the second UK-African Investment Summit in 2024.

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1987 Helen Juffs married Deirdre Figueiredo on 16 April 2014.

1987 Dr Simon Oakes was recently appointed as Chair of Geography for exam board AQA, with responsibility for around three-quarters of students taking GCSE Geography in England. Alongside this, he continues to serve as Vice-Chair of the International Baccalaureate’s Examination Board.

1987 Caliope Psillos is very happily married with many children and working for the family business Crystal Candy.

1989 Richard Goodson is now in private practice as an online therapist and a registered member of the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists). His website is www.richgoodsontherapy.com.

1990s 1990 Akaash Maharaj was elected a Senior Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Canada’s foremost institution for advanced research and professional development in international relations. His work focusses on Track II Diplomacy, in support of peace and security, defence of human rights, and international prosecution of crimes of kleptocracy.

1991 Carol Atherton’s book Reading Lessons: the books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter will be published by Fig Tree in April 2024. It draws on her years as a secondary school teacher of English and invites readers to take a fresh look at the texts that have appeared on syllabuses for decades, exploring the arguments that surround them and the questions they raise.

1991 Anneli Howard is mum to three unruly teenagers that take pleasure in revealing her character flaws on a daily basis. She took silk during the pandemic and migrated from QC to KC in 2022. Anneli was appointed Deputy High Court Judge in 2023. She is still aspiring to work-life balance but enjoying the privilege of being able to juggle aspects of both worlds.

1992 Giles Shingler has made a page for searching his music back catalogue by month for ‘save the date’ moments: www.giless.co.uk/monthsearchers.php 1993 Darlisa Crawford joined Cognizant Technology Solutions as a Content Writing Specialist in April, 2023. She performs as a subject matter expert for the team on the forefront of exciting AI technology while helping to edit Google Bot responses and shape future performance.

1993 In September 2023 Cathy Ellott Unwin is taking up the headship of Streatham and Clapham High School in London.

1994 Luke Haynes was honoured to meet President Joe Biden in June and to speak with him about Lulu’s Law, a bill introduced in Congress to tackle the stubborn, pervasive problem of sepsis, which took the life of Luke’s daughter, Lulu, when she was four years-old. Sepsis is the leading cause of death in US hospitals and the law, which has bipartisan co-sponsors in the US Senate, would be a major advancement in gathering data on sepsis to improve treatment, research and therapies. For more information, see the website for Sepsis Alliance: www.sepsis.org/

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1997 Michael Printzos has been appointed as the Country Head of The Hellenic Initiative in Greece. The Hellenic Initiative is a non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting economic development, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy in Greece.

1998 Simone Bunse currently lives in Sweden. She left her role as Director of Academic Affairs at LEAD University (Costa Rica) for a senior researcher position at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Her recent publications focus on climate-related security risks and institutional responses to such risks by the European Union. She also investigates the interlinkages between climate change, food insecurity, and conflict and how to secure peace in a time of environmental crisis.

1998 Extracts from Jennifer Lewis’ translation (with others) of the work of the exiled Iraqi poet, Adnan Al-Sayegh will be performed as The Saddle Pad, by the SplitMoon Theatre Company at the Cockpit Theatre, London in December 2023.

Her next poetry collection, Base Matter, will be published by Carcanet in June 2024.

An album of Jennifer’s 1960s songs, including ‘17 Pink Sugar Elephants’, cowritten and arranged by Vashti Bunyan, is forthcoming in 2024.

1999 Kirsten Norrie looks forward to the publication of her poetry collection Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire by Bloodaxe Books on 16 November, 2023.

1999 In February 2023 James Pattinson published [Re]Start: It’s Never Too Late, a ground-breaking graphic novel and guided journal designed to help young people think creatively about their futures. James built, coached and led a team of over 65 people to co-create this 300-page graphic novel (80% of the team were aged 16-24 years old). Lord Chris Smith, Master of Pembroke College Cambridge writes “I’d give it to every young person like a shot.”

1999 Catriona Ward published a new novel Looking Glass Sound. She won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel for previous novel Sundial.

Read a review of Looking Glass Sound on p. 198.

2000s 2001 Hanah Barnes’ book Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children was published in February 2023, becoming an instant Sunday Times bestseller. The book built on Hannah’s work for BBC Newsnight on the care provided to gender-questioning young people. It has received international praise for its meticulous research, and the balance and compassion shown to this thorny subject. It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

2002 Michael Bhaskar co-authored a new book about AI, technology and its social ramifications published in September 2023. It’s called The Coming Wave: AI, Power & the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma.

Read more: www.amazon.co.uk/Coming-Wave-Technology-Twenty-FirstCenturys/dp/1847927483/

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2002 Robert Higney was promoted in 2021 to Associate Professor of English with tenure at The City College of New York, USA. His book Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist Novel, was recently published by the University of Virginia Press.

2002 Pierre Stallforth is Head of Department of Paleobiotechnology at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, Jena, Germany as well as Deputy Director of the same institute. He is also a full Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry at the University of Jena, Germany.

2003 John Hogarth and his partner were delighted to announce and celebrate the birth of their daughter, Isla Rose Hogarth in January.

2005 Daniel Townley and his wife Betsy are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Isla Evelyn Lowen Townley, on the 31 January 2023 at Frimley Park Hospital.

2006 Sean McMahon was promoted to a readership at the University of Edinburgh, where he is a member both of the School of GeoSciences and of the School of Physics and Astronomy. He leads a research group at the interface of palaeobiology and astrobiology with funding from the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Leverhulme Trust, and other sources.

2009 Following the acceptance of their PhD thesis, entitled Social selves and social others in adolescent development, Reubs J. Walsh is very excited to have been appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Einstein Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience, Gender and Health, at the University of Toronto. They would like to thank the Hall, and Dr Robert Wilkins in particular, for encouraging them to pursue this dream.

2010s 2010 Isabel (née Stokholm) and Denis Romanov are happy to announce the arrival of Lev, born in Cambridge on 6 November 2022.

2011 Peter Davis was honoured by TIME magazine in their TIME 100 list, a list of the world’s most influential people of 2023. Honoured alongside the likes of King Charles and Salman Rushdie, Peter was recognised in the Pioneer category for his contributions to climate science. Based at the British Antarctic Survey, Peter spearheaded a major Antarctic field campaign to the Great Britain-sized Thwaites Glacier in 2019. His work offers essential insight into this consequential, and unstable, glacier.

2011 Charles Winchester and his partner, Kate, are currently midway through a journey around the world working with rangers on the frontline of conservation.

Presently they are in Alaska, working with the US Forest Service on the Tongass National Forest, and in January they will travel to Cambodia to assist rangers in the country’s Eastern Plains Landscape. They will also be making stops in Malta, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.

Charles has previously worked in environmental policy and research, and as a National Park Ranger in the UK from 2017 to 2022. He completed an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation & Management with Distinction in 2011.

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To find out more about Charles’ & Kate’s journey, follow them on Instagram @rangering_around_the_world.

2012 Dr Micah Coston, DPhil in English Literature and Senior Executive Search Consultant, is now Head of the Innovation in Education practice at the Spencer Group. His practice partners with world-leading higher education institutions to appoint senior leadership, especially in digital and emerging tech.

2012 Dr Biswanath Ghosh Dastidar received an MSc (Distinction) in Clinical Embryology in 2013. Dr Dastidar got married to Dr Jayshree Majumdar (Agricultural Engineering) in January 2022 and is also happy to announce a publication in Nature Journal’s Communications Medicine on ‘Access to Universal Healthcare in India’.

2012 Fiona Roberts and Angus Maudslay were married at St Andrew’s, Tarvin on 30 September 2023. Despite torrential rain, they celebrated a wonderful day with a healthy contingent of Teddy Hall alumni.

2013 On 26 August 2023, Catherine Canning married Emily Warwick at Boclair House in Glasgow. Having met at the University, it was incredibly special to celebrate alongside fellow Aularians. They look forward to returning to the dreaming spires in the near future.

2014 Julianne Williams Gibson and her husband James welcomed their second son, Peter, into the world. He is a Stars Wars baby (‘May the Fourth Be With You!’).

Julianne’s post with the World Health Organization European Regional Office has moved from Moscow to Copenhagen, where she now lives with James and their two boys (Alexander aged five and Peter aged two). James is working on his second book, a follow up to Stand out of our light: freedom and resistance in the attention economy, published by Cambridge University Press and winner of the inaugural Nine Dots award.

2016 Justyna Frankowska married Mark Todd, a former Physics student at St Catz.

The ceremony took place on 15 April 2023 in the Oxford Oratory. Justyna and Mark met at a RAG blind date in February 2020, and continued their relationship through the pandemic. They got engaged last year on Valentines, in front of the Teddy Hall late gate (where they had their first kiss). They currently live in Sevenoaks, Kent.

2017 In October 2022, Jae Been Lee and Kyung Won Moon exchanged vows, celebrating their love and commitment. Their paths crossed at a St Edmund Hall MCR event in 2017, and they gradually became close friends and mentors during their time together. They are thankful to the Teddy Hall staff for helping them create a special and memorable engagement moment in the Chapel.

2017 Dr Yusuf Oldac was awarded a prestigious research grant from Hong Kong Research Grants Council to investigate the regionalisation of higher education and the research system of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a ten-nation growing entity. The research collaborations and publication patterns of ASEAN research are important to learn more about the dynamics of South-South collaborations and research capacity building. ASEAN also has a unique way of harmonious regionalisation, which has implications for global science researchers.

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2019 Charlie Cheesman recently launched Boiling the Ocean. A brand-new newsletter covering everything strategy consulting related, it is aimed at current and aspiring consultants and has just passed 500 subscribers. Subscribe here: the8020newsletter.substack.com/

2020s 2020 Christopher Lomax, as part of a team of academic researchers at Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, published a report in January 2023 entitled ‘The role of Ministries of Finance in driving and shaping the low-carbon energy transition’. This report makes the case that achieving net-zero through renewable energies is possible and a necessity to reduce the worst impacts of climate change. Christopher is currently based in London where he works at a sustainability consulting firm, providing energy transition services to companies.

2021 Kristen Allison was recently selected as the winner of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law’s post-graduate dissertation competition for her thesis ‘Disempowering and Empowering the AsylumSeeker: A Critical Legal Rhetorical Reading of Gang-Based Asylum Claims’. She completed this thesis as part of her MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at Oxford. As the winner of the competition, the journal will publish her thesis and Kristen is currently in the process of revising it for publication.

2022 Deepta Sunil Valliyil presented her research at the 11th European Conference on Education held by The International Academic Forum in London. Her paper titled, ‘Theatre as Educational Practice: Can Forum Theatre reimagine pedagogies of relationship education for children and young people?’ discussed how Augusto Boal’s Forum Theatre can help deliver relationship education and create positive changes among children and young people. Deepta read Comparative and International Education at the Hall, supported generously by a full scholarship from the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust and St Edmund Hall Read Deepta’s paper: ece.iafor.org/presentation/submission72567/?sf_ action=get_data&sf_data=all&_sf_s=forum+theatre

Deaths: Ave Atque Vale We record with sadness the passing of fellow Aularians and salute them. Sincere condolences are offered to their families and friends.

1940s Mr Stephen Hartley BA, 22 October 2022

1950s Mr Julian Michael Jaffey MA, 3 September 2021, aged 92, Ottawa, Canada. 1950, PPE Mr Michael Thomas Crabtree MA, 11 October 2022, aged 91, North Humberside.

1951, French Mr Allan Louis Neville Jay BA, OBE, 6 March 2023, aged 91, Somerset. 1951, Jurisprudence

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Mr David Norman Thompson, MA, 4 February 2023, aged 90, West Sussex. 1952, History Mr Peter Brian Wright BA, 1 April 2022, aged 89, West Sussex. 1952, French and Spanish Dr John Edgar Arthure MA, BM Bch, RCOG, 30 January 2022, aged 87, Isle of Wight.

1953, Physiological Sciences Mr Ian Jackson MA, DipEd, 12 September 2023, aged 90, Lancashire. 1953, English Mr Ernest Percival Fox MA, DipEd, 15 June 2023, aged 89, Devon. 1953, English Mr Stuart Reed Bilsland BA, 22 March 2023, aged 88, Kent. 1954, PPE Father Jeremy Ponsonby Meredyth Davies MA, 5 November 2022, aged 87, Norfolk.

1954, English Mr Brian William Howes MA, 20 May 2023, aged 88, London. 1954, Modern Languages Mr Edward Albert Vincent Casale MA, 16 November 2022, aged 89, Surrey. 1955, Mathematics Professor Verdel Amos Kolve MA, DPhil, 5 November 2022, aged 88, California, US. 1958, DPhil English Mr Michael David Martin MA, 16 September 2022, aged 87, Worcestershire. 1955, Physics Mr Irving Leslie Theaker MA, 23 March 2023, aged 87, West Yorkshire. 1955, English Mr Noel Tonkin MA, December 2022, Surrey. 1955, Physics Mr John Rupert Malise Harvey MA, 21 September 2022, aged 87, Kent. 1956, Modern Languages Mr William James Arkley Steel BA, 7 January 2023, aged 86, London. 1956, PPE Mr Leslie Paul Tempest MA, 6 March 2022, aged 85, London. 1956, French and German Mr George Enoch Wiley MA, September 2022, aged 87, South Yorkshire. 1956, English Mr James Edward Aves MA, 27 October 2022, aged 86, London. 1957, Jurisprudence Mr David Michael William Bolton MA, 2 January 2023, aged 86, Buckinghamshire.

1957, English Mr Henry David Edward Mellish MA, 22 December 2022, aged 86, Gloucestershire.

1957, Jurisprudence Mr David Michael Parfitt BA, MBIM, MIEx, 10 June 2023, aged 87, Hampshire. 1957, French and Spanish Mr James Morley Dening MA, BLitt, 28 October 2022, aged 83, Herefordshire. 1958, Modern Languages Dr Philip Hugh Blair MA, March 2023, aged 84, Dorset. 1959, Theology Mr Alan Michael Hedges BA, 8 October 2022, aged 82, Oxfordshire. 1959, Modern Languages and Linguistics

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Mr Colin Barrie Douglas Mayes MA, 5 September 2022, aged 82, Dorset. 1959, Engineering Mr John Brian Merrick CERT, 2022, Cheshire. 1959, Educational Studies

1960s Dr Keith Bernard Dillon MA, DPhil, 15 December 2022, aged 80, County Durham.

1960, Chemistry Mr Samuel Robinson Hogg BA, June 2023, County Fermanagh. 1960, Chemistry Mr Charles Edward Sykes MA, 2023, South Africa. 1960, Metallurgy Professor Geoffrey Peter Ross Chapman MA, 31 May 2023, aged 82, Tasmania, Australia. 1961, Agriculture Mr Barry England BA, LVO, 9 April 2023, aged 80, Hampshire. 1961, English Mr Ronald Hunter Lamb MA, 10 June 2023, aged 80, Buckinghamshire. 1961, Geography Mr Anthony John Arthur Lewin MA, 11 January 2023, aged 79, Wiltshire. 1961, Geography Mr Michael Edward Rudman MA, 30 March 2023, aged 84, London. 1961, English Mr Michael John Hamilton MA, July 2023, aged 83, Middlesex. 1962, PPE The Revd John Walton Musther BA, 4 February 2023, aged 82, Cumbria. 1962, Theology Mr Peter John Day BA, 15 March 2023, aged 76, London. 1964, English Dr David James Sudlow BA, DipEd, DPhil, 8 August 2022 aged 79, Herefordshire.

1964, DPhil Anthropology and Geography Mr John David Loydall MA, 11 July 2022, aged 75, Cornwall. 1965, Oriental Studies Mr Peter John Dixon DipEd, DipSocAnth, MLitt, 2 August 2023, aged 79, Cumbria.

1966, Social and Cultural Anthropology Mr Philip Leonard Chesworth BA, 1 November 2022, aged 73, Staffordshire. 1968, History Mr Roger Christopher Perrell PGCe, 9 September 2022, aged 76, West Yorkshire.

1968, Educational Studies Mr John MacCallum Johnson BA, PGCe, 17 October 2022, aged 78, Cheshire. 1969, Educational Studies MR Andrew Timothy Race BA, 24 September 2023, aged 73, London. 1969, Modern Languages and Linguistics

1970s Mr Stephen John Bedford BA, November 2022, aged 70, Merseyside. 1970, Jurisprudence Mr Jonathan Robert Ormond BA, 22 March 2023, aged 69, Ludlow. 1971 Mathematics

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Dr Peter Richard Gillett MA, PhD, 26 December 2021, aged 68, New Jersey, USA. 1972, Maths and Philosophy Mr James Vincent John Hogan MLitt, 13 July 2023, aged 71, London. 1973, Social Studies Mr Martin Ambrose Hunt BA, 13 April 2022, aged 68, Cambridgeshire. 1973, History and Economics Dr Salvador Galindo-Uribarri DPhil, 3 September 2022, aged 72, Metepec, Mexico.

1974, Physics Mr Robert Peter Jones BA, 22 March 2023, aged 65, London. 1976, English Mr Stephen Cooper Bubb MPhys, 31 October 2022, aged 63. 1977, Physics

1980s Dr Roy Lennox Bishop MA, MB Chb, 22 August 2023, aged 58, Argyll. 1983, Physiological Sciences

1990s Dr Margaret Ann Lewis DPhil, 4 March 2023, aged 47, Warwickshire. 1999, History

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Obituaries SCR Obituaries neurophysiology next to the Stade Roland Garros. In 1970 they moved to Oxford to a Medical Research Council-funded research post to study the visual cortex in the Laboratory of Physiology.

PROFESSOR IAIN DONALDSON, EMERITUS FELLOW Professor Iain Donaldson, Emeritus Fellow, passed away on Wednesday 19 April 2023. Iain also held the position of Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh and Sibbald Bibliographer of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE).

Iain Malcolm Lane Donaldson was born in Bathgate, West Lothian to Archie, a colliery clerk, and Milly a Civil Servant.

At school in Fettes he discovered a love of mathematics, but it was during a year spent in Switzerland whilst being treated for tuberculosis that he decided to read Medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

After qualifying in Medicine in Edinburgh in 1962, Professor Donaldson worked as a junior physician in hospital clinical practice and carried out research on some renal disorders. Afterwards, he began work as a medical undergraduate, recording nerve cells in the human brain in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

He and his wife Pat spent 1969 in Paris where he worked at the Institut Marey – a famous French centre for research in

To support the growing number of students at St Edmund Hall, in 1971 the College appointed Professor Donaldson as a Lecturer in Medicine. Iain was subsequently elected as the Hall’s first Fellow in Medicine in 1973 and remained in that role until he resigned in 1979 to take up a newly established Chair in Zoology at the University of Hull. From 1987 until his retirement in 2003, Iain was Professor of Neurophysiology in Edinburgh.

His many publications over this period give accounts of experimental studies into the physiological control of vision and the extraocular muscles, across a range of animals from pigeons to trout.

Retirement with an Emeritus Chair from Edinburgh led to Iain’s appointment as the 51st Honorary Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, a post he held until 2017. It proved the perfect match of person and position. Iain had an expert’s knowledge of bibliography and the production of books and, thanks to his considerable IT skills, he knew how to present and provide access to this material in the emerging digital world.

Iain built up a significant reputation in the history of medicine. His knowledge of the history of the library’s books, aided by his French and Latin skills, was unparalleled.

His 31 historical articles ranged from an investigation into Amboise Paré’s 1537 method of treating gunshot wounds to the sale catalogue of Sir Robert Sibbald’s last

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library, and concluded with two published on Celsus when he was 83.

On his departure from the Hall, Professor Donaldson was elected to an Emeritus Fellowship and remained in contact with the Hall in retirement.

Iain had met and married the love of his life, Pat (Jean Patricia Maulet), whilst an undergraduate. Pat worked alongside him in the laboratory throughout his career as a neurophysiologist. Pat died in 2014.

They are survived by their son David.

of Virginia as Commonwealth Professor of English in 1969. In 1986, he joined the faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles, becoming the first UCLA Foundation Professor, and teaching there for 15 years before retiring in 2001.

VERDEL KOLVE, ST EDMUND JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW 1958-1962 This obituary originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.

Verdel A. Kolve died peacefully at home and without pain on November 5, 2022 from complications of kidney cancer.

Larry Luchtel, his husband and companion of 50 years, was at his side.

Born in rural Wisconsin, he graduated Summa cum laude from the University of Wisconsin in 1955, and subsequently attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, earning an Honors B.A. in English Literature with a Congratulatory First in 1957, and an MA and DPhil from Oxford while serving as a tutor and Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall, between 1958 and 1962.

In that year he accepted an assistant professorship at Stanford University, rising there to the rank of associate professor in 1968, before moving to the University

An internationally renowned scholar of medieval literature, with a particular interest in Chaucer. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, serving as its President in 1992-1993, an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was President of the New Chaucer Society for two years, in 19941996.

In addition, to many scholarly articles, he published four books: The Play Called Corpus Christi (1966), Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales (1984, winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize, for ‘Best Book Published by a Faculty Member in the Academic Year 1984-1985’, the British Council Prize in the Humanities, for ‘Best Book by a North American Scholar on Any Aspect of British Studies in the Humanities,’ and the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association, for ‘the Outstanding Scholarly Book by a Member of the Association Published in 1984’), Telling Images: Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative II (2009, winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award, for ‘An Outstanding Book of Literary Scholarship

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or Criticism’), and with Glending Olson, an edition for teaching, Nine Canterbury Tales and the General Prologue (1989), subsequently reprinted several times.

Recognised as a brilliant and inspiring teacher at both undergraduate and advanced levels, he opened the aesthetic triumphs of the Middle Ages to generations of students. His eloquence, learning, and close attention to all in every class were many times acknowledged (Outstanding Teacher Award of the Graduate English Faculty Club, University

of Virginia, 1971; E. Harris Harbison National Teaching Award, Danforth Foundation, 1972; Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award with Special Distinction in Graduate Teaching, UCLA 1995), but in his view never better than by the lasting respect and affection of his students. In their successes he found great joy.

Del was much loved, and returned that love widely, but not without discrimination.

His absence will be felt deeply by many for years to come.

Aularian Obituaries However, at the end of his first year he was sent to do the mandatory two years of military training, which included several months posted to Singapore as a Sergeant in the Royal Army Education Corps. On his return to England in August 1948, he returned to St Edmund Hall but changed his study to Geography, graduating in July 1951.

GEOFFREY GORDON ALLEN (1945) This obituary has been provided by Geoffrey’s wife Patricia.

Geoffrey Gordon Allen was born in Goodmayes, Essex, on 6 June 1927, the only child of Samuel and Gertrude Allen. He was educated at Brentwood College, from which he matriculated with sufficient passes to enable him to enter Oxford or Cambridge Universities. His later schooling took place during the war, and the bombing of London left a lasting impression on him although his family was not directly impacted.

He chose to attend Oxford and in 1945, just after the end of the war, he went up to St Edmund Hall to read Chemistry.

Throughout this time, Geoffrey had been developing his musical interests and skills but was discouraged from taking up music as a full-time career. At the end of 1951 he married a fellow Oxford graduate in Geography, Megan Levett, and in early 1952 they emigrated to Australia, where they settled in Sydney. After a brief period of teaching, Geoffrey took up a position in the State Library of New South Wales, proceeded to obtain professional qualifications in librarianship and gain practical experience in a variety of library posts.

In 1961 the family (a son was born in 1959) moved to Perth, W.A. when Geoffrey was offered a senior position in the library of the University of Western Australia. Two daughters were born in Perth to complete the family. In 1967 he took up the position of Foundation Librarian at the newly

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established Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT). In 1969 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and spent seven months visiting academic libraries around the world, with particular focus on the applications of computers to libraries as well as the design and layout of library buildings.

On returning to Perth, he became immersed in setting up new library systems, recruiting staff, and working with the architects on the design and layout of the new building. All his musical activities were virtually abandoned. WAIT became Curtin University in 1986 and Geoffrey then became University Librarian, a post which he held until shortly before his retirement in 1992. He and Megan divorced in the early 1970’s and he remarried at the end of 1975. He and his new wife Patricia enjoyed travelling and attended a number of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) conferences in various parts of the world, and also had a most enjoyable short stay as guests at St Edmund Hall in 1995 on a visit to the United Kingdom.

After his retirement, Geoffrey started a music publishing business, The Keys Press, focussing on Australian classical music: his own and that of other Australian musicians. His use of the Finale software required a new set of computer skills, which he learnt as he went. He also returned to composing music and had CDs made of some of his works, including several of his songs performed by talented local singers, and a boxed set of his 17 piano sonatas performed by Manchester pianist Murray McLachlan. He was composing music right up until the time of his final illness in late 2021.

Geoffrey had many other interests apart from family, music and libraries – these included building a model railway, breeding Burmese cats, gardening and learning about native plants, cooking, wine, sport, researching his ancestors, and enjoying good company in Perth and in the eastern states where many of Patricia’s family and friends lived. His on-going intellectual curiosity was undoubtedly greatly enhanced during his years as a student at Oxford University.

Patricia Allen Roy Canute (later Lennox) Bishop was born in Hastings, East Sussex in 1965, as the eldest son to parents Edward and Birthe. His diverse, multi-talented and high achieving endeavours spanned education, the military and medical entrepreneurship, while combined with an authentic, deep and sincere love of family and friends.

ROY BISHOP (1983) This obituary has been provided by Roy’s nephew Peter Candy with contributions by his friend Michael Young.

Roy attended Westerleigh School in St Leonards-on-Sea and then to Eastbourne College. At Eastbourne Roy joined the Cadets and later the Territorial Army battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was a keen rugby player and at the end of his time at the school gained admission to St Edmund Hall

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to read Medicine. He often recalled his admission interview with the venerable medical trailblazer Dr Ann Taylor (Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, 1980-1995), to which he wore his TA uniform.

After university, in the late 1980s, Roy joined the regular British army, training as an officer at Sandhurst. He was proud of his family’s military heritage, joining a long line of high-ranking Bishops who served in the British army. While stationed in West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he served as one of a select international contingent of soldiers tasked with guarding the Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess, at Spandau prison. By the time he left the services in the mid-1990s he had reached the rank of Major.

But Roy’s next major step was to emigrate to the United States to embrace his longheld dream, encouraged at Oxford, of becoming a medical entrepreneur. After St Edmund Hall, he advanced his medical training in Scotland at Glasgow University before joining the NHS as a Junior then Senior House Officer, becoming a General Practitioner. During his time in the NHS, Roy reaffirmed his personal mission to one day start his own business and build it through his own efforts and courage.

Roy first needed to intern at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington DC for a year. At the same time, he married Wendy, originally of Ohio, and they set up house in Chico, northern California. His only daughter Meredith, whom he greatly cherished, soon followed in 1998.

In Chico, Roy poured his considerable

intelligence and energy into building his own private medical practice, the Argyll Medical Group. For the next quarter of a century Roy worked tirelessly to run and expand the business, at one time employing as many as 36 doctors and dozens of support staff to primary care for several tens of thousands of patients in the locality. At the same time, Roy never lost sight of his medical oath to improve the health and wellbeing of the many patients whom he served as their personal physician. He often remarked how difficult it was to build a medical practice in the United States, with the high insurance costs and constant threat of major lawsuits. Despite the challenges, Roy achieved his dream to use his medical education to build a successful medical practice.

Roy was above all a family man who cared deeply about tradition. He made annual visits to Denmark to stay in touch with his Danish relatives on his mother’s side and he spoke Danish throughout his life, most of all with his sister, Emma. In Scotland, he expressed his family tradition outwardly in his dress, routinely wearing kilts patterned in the regimental and Lennox tartans and insisting on wearing his Argylls rugby shirt on his transatlantic commutes.

All those who knew him will miss him greatly, most of all for the love, care, kindness, and generosity that he showed to those in his life. He had many friends from St Edmund Hall and will be missed by them all.

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served as a curate at Camborne Parish Church from 1964 to 1968 and later as a priest in Cornwall while researching a PhD in linguistics from Exeter University.

PHILIP BLAIR (1959) This obituary has been provided by Philip’s son Edmund.

After school at Lancing College, Philip served with the RAF in Cyprus on National Service during the Emergency, before studying Theology at St Edmund Hall, the College of his father and grandfather.

He was a keen middle distance runner, winning a Half Blue.

After graduation, Philip went to Ridley Hall, Cambridge, where he trained for ministry in the Church of England. He

Much of his career was spent in the Middle East, mostly as a university lecturer. His deep interest in the region began on a trip to the Holy Land while serving in Cyprus. He later worked in Sudan, Yemen, Oman, North Cyprus, Bahrain and finally as Associate Professor at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, a post he took when most people his age were retiring.

He stayed in Lebanon for more than a decade. Living in the Middle East brought many adventures, from flash floods in the desert to conflict on his doorstep, but Philip felt it a privilege to work in such a fascinating region, teaching students and making friends from many backgrounds. It provided inspiration for one or two of his books.

Philip, who married Joanna in 1964, retired in 2017 to the family home in Sherborne, Dorset. He died in March 2023.

Philip is survived by his wife, children and four grandchildren.

Edmund Blair DAVID MICHAEL WILLIAM BOLTON (1957) This obituary to David was provided by his family and written by his friend Roy Caddick.

David Bolton was born 29 February 1936 and died on 2 January 2023.

David’s early years were marked by family instability. Nevertheless, his teachers at St Francis Xavier College, Liverpool, deemed him strong enough of character and work to make him head boy of the college in 1954-55.

In 1955 David was called for National service in the RAF. Sent to an office in RAF

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Ballykelly, Northern Ireland (the furthest RAF outpost in the United Kingdom), he endured isolation and insecurity, only relieved by playing football for Coleraine FC in the Irish League and for RAF Ballykelly.

Suffering from 18 months of boredom, David came to read English at SEH, wanting to enjoy all that Oxford and the Hall could offer. It was an opportune time, for most of the 1957 intake were also ex national servicemen, old enough to join him in making the most of the gently disciplined freedom of Hall life. David was comfortable in the friendly society of Mrs Bucket’s Buttery and well placed to enjoy it on Staircase One, but through all his time at the Hall he recognised that he had to build on the sound grounding in English given him at St Francis Xavier College.

One of David’s characteristics, however, was his desire for affable company. Thus, when one or two Aularians produced cars from secret hiding places in north Oxford he gladly widened his horizons. Trips included Wallingford on a sunny market day to sink a pint with local farmers and bosky villagers in support of the ‘Teddy Bears’. Moreover, he passed the Teddy Bear Cricket Club test!

In spring and autumn 1957 and 1958, David and company sought out city pubs and country inns. In autumn, The Bricklayers’ Arms off the Botley Road and in spring, The Thatched Tavern in Appleton near Cumnor became Friday night fixtures. Here, Aularians and locals would play ‘Aunt Sally’ – eight-a-side skittles – then darts, before having a singalong with David at the piano (he had the gift of playing ‘by ear’). This entertainment contributed immensely to a good town and gown relationship. David was the star turn, especially with his rendition of ‘Frankie and Johnny’!

In 1957-59 St Edmund Hall was the finest sporting College in Oxford and David

contributed by playing football in the Hall’s successful League and Cuppers teams. He was also always on the fringes of the Blues XI - elected Captain of Centaurs and was twelfth man for the Blues in 1959. Many Oxford sportsmen forfeited at least one grade in finals if they indulged in high level University sports. David was notable in that he achieved a solid Class II honours degree in English Language and Literature.

David’s schoolmasters recognised his special qualities of character and work.

The Hall expanded these and gave him, in spades, that gift of supportive community known as the Hall Spirit.

David also met the love of his life, Janet, whilst at Oxford, and they were married in 1961, celebrating 60 years of marriage in 2021.

Deciding after a brief period as a salesman at Reckitt and Coleman that the commercial world was not for him, his chosen career as an English teacher went from strength to strength, teaching at Alleyn’s School, and Highgate School in North London, where he would invite giants of the literary world such as John Betjeman, Ted Hughes and Iris Murdoch to address the school Literary Society. In 1982 David took up the Headship at the Dame Alice Owen’s School in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, remaining there until his retirement in 1995.

Once retired, David spent a complete season following his beloved Bolton Wanderers to all home and away games, and then enjoyed his retirement travelling around the world with Jan, and spending time with his three children, Guy, Adam and Charlotte, and five grandchildren. His love for SEH never left him, and David was a member of the Floreat Aula Legacy Society for several decades, enjoying many FALS dinners and SEH reunions over the years.

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west London, the son of Idris Davies, a senior officer at RAF Fighter Command during Jeremy’s wartime childhood, and Elizabeth (nee Ponsonby). He went to the King’s school, Canterbury, then studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

JEREMY DAVIES (1954) This obituary by Jeremy’s nephew Nick originally appeared in the Guardian.

My uncle, Jeremy Davies, who has died aged 87, was the chief exorcist for the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

His religious beliefs were utterly alien to me. His views on the role of the devil in daily life were variously horrible (“homosexuality is the work of the devil”) and absurd (yoga just as bad). Because of an ancient breach in our family tree, I never met him until March 2020, just as the pandemic was descending. It was a strange encounter.

My first glimpse confirmed my worst fears – this thin, almost skeletal figure, cloaked in black, with only his dog collar blazing white. We shook hands in the church doorway where we had agreed to meet, and he led me to the vestry, where we sat and talked for four hours.

The austere figure proved to be unusually gentle in speech and manner. He told stories with a twinkle in his eye. He had humour! And empathy, shaking his head in wonder at the cruelty of his father, whom he loved but who had abandoned the children from his first marriage, including my own father.

Jeremy was born in Wimbledon, south-

He talked to me about the years after he left Oxford in 1957, feeling meaningless, bobbing around in pointless jobs, drifting towards the Catholic Church and then studying Medicine, and in 1967 going off to work as a doctor in poor communities in Africa. This was a kind man. But still baffling.

He had abandoned medicine because “I felt that I was being called by God.” Some of this was purely intellectual: he had read deeply into the history of Christianity and felt impelled to act. But with a touching honesty he confessed that his final decision to be ordained as a Catholic priest, in 1974, came after he did something he felt was “very wrong” and he wanted to atone. He worked as an assistant priest in London until 1987 when Cardinal Basil Hume appointed him exorcist.

Although for me – the atheist, yogaloving former Guardian reporter – his rituals expelling the devil from buildings or people were entirely bizarre, I began to see glimpses of the world through his eyes, living with the certainty that a malevolent force of almost unlimited power was ruining vulnerable humans.

And he – armed only with his crucifix and his god – challenged that force. In its face.

Every day. In spite of its terrifying power.

He was a very brave man, wasn’t he?

Most of his work had not involved ritual.

Simply he had sat in this same vestry, very much like a psychotherapist, with someone whose life was dangling over disaster, allowing them to speak, giving comfort, offering a spiritual safety net which could break their fall.

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An odd encounter, two strangers sharing nothing apart from a broken family root and yet at the end, we shook hands with real affection. I didn’t touch another human being for months. An invisible force

of horrible power had descended and set about killing millions of people.

GEOFFREY DAVIS (1962)

committed to them.

The announcement of Geoff’s death in the 2022 Hall Magazine, caused his classmate Martin Page to reflect.

I was saddened to read of his passing in last year’s Hall Magazine. I wish I had known him better while we were students together (I knew nothing of his background nor he of mine); perhaps a lingering shyness on my part stood in the way. I am sure Geoff was a credit to academia in Germany, where he had settled. I discovered late in life that unexpectedly we both had a link with Aachen, where he lived and died. In my case my mother-in-law, many years after the war, returned to live in Aachen.

I travelled there myself with my wife (herself of German origin, a baby refugee from the Nazis) to bring my mother-in-law first to London and then to Zimbabwe.

1962 – when Geoffrey Davis and I both matriculated at Teddy Hall – seems a long time ago now, but that is when I first met him. Geoff may not have been someone of imposing physical stature, but he came across as an amiable and friendly person of unfailing good nature and integrity, not at all ‘stuffy’ or pompous. He was clearly very intelligent, without in any way being boastful, ‘loud’ or ‘pushy.’ He was a good listener; and with his pleasant, refreshing conversation, as I recall, routinely bubbled with good humour and insightful comment. I consistently felt he was a much better linguist than I and that he seemed fully on top of his studies and

Jeremy is survived by his sister, Miranda.

Nick Davies

Martin Page (1962, Modern Languages)

This obituary originally appeared in the Daily Telegraph.

In 1988 he took over as presenter of In Business on Radio 4, and from 2000 hosted the weekly BBC World Service programme Global Business, in both shows enthusiastically charting the transformations sweeping through work and commerce. But it was with In Business that Day made his mark. Having rescued it from its former graveyard slot and created a permanent strand on Radio 4, Day and his producers discarded the traditional magazine format of multiple items and made it a defining one-topic programme.

Peter Day, who has died aged 76, was a master exponent of BBC business journalism, to which he brought a human touch and lively and puckish scepticism.

During almost 30 years, Day interviewed many global entrepreneurs including Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. One of his last interviewees was NR Narayana Murthy, co-

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founder of the giant tech company Infosys, whose daughter Akshata is married to Rishi Sunak. Day remembered a story that Murthy had an interesting habit: every night when he returned home he would clean the lavatory, and asked him if this was true.

Yes, Murthy replied, it was a habit instilled by his father. “We have a caste system in India where the so-called lowest class is a set of people who clean the toilets,” he explained. “My father believed that this system is wrong and therefore he made all of us clean our toilets – and that habit has continued, and I want my children to do that. And the best way to make them do it is, you do it yourself.”

With his slightly crumpled air of a university don, Day had a knack of spotting how the world was changing and how that would turn journalism upside down.

“I am a fan of In Business,” declared this newspaper’s radio critic Gillian Reynolds in 2010. “I have learned to trust Peter Day as a reliable forecaster of the long term economic (and therefore social) weather.”

Latterly he became an icon for the iPod generation, achieving cult status in 2007 when 730,000 people downloaded his weekly money podcast Peter Day’s World of Business, 110,000 more than those who downloaded the runner-up, a weekly highlights compilation of the Radio 1 breakfast show.

As the business reporter on the morning Today programme in the late 1980s, Day became known for quoting the arcane ‘Long Bond’ price, an indicator of the volatile state of the markets ahead of the global financial crash of 1987. After a career swerve working for a doomed cable-television venture in Switzerland, he returned to London as a fully-fledged correspondent in the BBC’s huge new Business and Economics Unit, under

Peter Jay, the former UK ambassador to Washington.

He also continued to present In Business but on a bigger salary, his intuitive interviewing style earning the programme news strand status, the BBC equivalent of winning an Oscar. He could illuminate any obscure business topic, notably explaining the vital importance in global dealings of BS 5750, a series of standards forcing businesses to comply with strict production procedures. That edition, ‘Quality Street’, earned the BBC a major international prize (and a fat cheque) presented by the King of Spain.

Day also fronted other ambitious series, including a five-year recording marathon, Quest For A Cure (2006-07), looking at the secretive pharmaceutical industry and tracking the history of a potential new treatment for HIV-Aids, and Barging Across Europe (1994), in which he travelled by canal from Holland to the Black Sea. He was a frequent contributor to From Our Own Correspondent, with reports featuring a ride on the world’s biggest dumper truck; a visit to a modern Chinese ghost town; watching the extraction of lithium from salt flats in Bolivia; and nostalgia in Berlin for East Germany.

He also ventured into entertainment as a team captain on Radio 4’s business quiz The Board Game (fellow panellists included Sir John Harvey-Jones among others). In the later stages of his career Day also made television films for the BBC World News Channel.

The son of a Midland Bank manager, Peter John Day was born on February 17 1947 in Thorpe next Norwich, Norfolk, but grew up in rural Lincolnshire. The family lived over the shop and Peter was educated at the boys-only Lincoln School (now Lincoln Minster), where he boarded. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, never

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expecting to make a career in finance, economics or business life, and joined the Mirror Group graduate training scheme as a reporter on local newspapers in Devon.

When he transferred to the Daily Record in Glasgow in 1970, his job included writing the captions for page three.

Joining the BBC in 1974, he started in the general newsroom before moving into financial news, but always stood at a slight tangent to the world of commerce.

“I didn’t really want to get into business broadcasting,” he once confessed, “it was a bit of an accident. I joined the BBC in the newsroom and discovered that if you were doing business you actually went on air, whereas everyone else was just a news writer. And that was rather appealing.”

He left the BBC briefly in 1983 to join TV-am as economics and industrial correspondent, only to be replaced by Roland Rat, and he returned as presenter and producer for The Financial World Tonight on Radio 4. In 1987 he became the business reporter for the Today programme before another brief hiatus in 1990 as business editor for the European Business Channel in Zurich, a short-lived attempt to provide a daily pan-European business news service in English and German for a cable television audience.

Before retiring in 2016, Day travelled for In Business to Chattanooga, which had become America’s first ‘gig city’ in 2010, to explore the impact of superfast broadband on economic enterprise.

He would arrive at meetings armed with long lists of ideas, such as one arising from an offhand remark by a PR officer at the Detroit Auto Show which led to a documentary about Ivan Hirst, the British Army officer who almost single-handedly rescued Volkswagen after the Second World War. In 2003 he made probably the first live BBC broadcast using a satellite

phone, from the Burning Man festival, on a trip to Nevada’s Black Rock desert.

Away from the studio, Day loved literature, poetry, evensong, walking in the Yorkshire Dales, travel, photography, art and cinema.

He was interested in printing, typography, good design (wherever he found it, including crisp packets, napkins and ephemera), and enjoyed bell-ringing (he rang the bells at St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield), wearing ties, cycling slowly through London and tin toys.

He developed an eccentric taste in acquisitions. His son Jon recalled how, when the German coffee chain Tchibo (“a bit like a Starbucks with its own version of the middle aisle at Lidl”) opened a cafe in London, Day would visit most weeks, bringing home a unicycle, a fold-up sledge and USB-equipped ear picks, among other oddities. At his house in Islington he hoarded thousands of books as well as thousands more business cards which he carefully organised into folders.

Another abiding passion was the spoken word. Unapologetically old-school, he deplored the irritating modern habit – imported from American academia – of prefacing the answers to questions with the word “so”, and ruthlessly insisted on its excision in pre-recorded interviews.

Since Covid he had been regularly recording stories for his eight grandchildren and other members of his family. They now have more than 300 of these personal broadcasts.

He was a three-times winner of the Wincott Award for financial journalism. A fourth Wincott accolade came through a lifetime achievement award for his Radio 4 In Business series.

Peter Day married, in 1975, Romee Tilanus, who survives him with their two sons and two daughters.

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achievement, in fact, he joined Mike Roberts (1968, PGCE) another Hall man who was selected for the same tour.

After Teddy Hall, Peter played for Harlequins before returning North to join Gosforth, with whom he won two consequential John Player Cup trophies when they beat firstly Rosslyn Park in 1976 and then Waterloo in next the year.

PETER DIXON (1966) Part of the line up of the 1967 Cuppers Final team. Top row (L-R): John Dennis, Peter Dixon.

Bottom row: Tony Bucknall, Tommy Bedford.

This obituary has been provided by Peter’s friend Richard Baker.

Peter arrived at the College in 1966. Born in West Yorkshire, he was educated at St Bees in Cumbria and Durham University.

He came to Oxford to do a Dip Ed, shorthand notation in those days for ‘to get a Blue’, but was thwarted by Bill Hadman (St John’s) and so failed to join fellow Aularians Tommy Bedford (1965, English) and Tony Bucknall (1964, History)– both subsequent captains of their countries, South Africa and England respectively – in the OURFC line up. However, the famous trio played in the 1967 Hall Rugby Cuppers winning side. (Photo). Some back row!

Despite failing to win a Blue at the first attempt, Peter was not deterred. He took a second course in Social Anthropology and in 1967 won the first of his four Rugby Blues which set him on a stellar course to becoming not only a British Lion, unusually achieved before he played for England, but also a future England captain. In 1970, the College congratulations book was overflowing with praise when his Lions selection was announced. It was a notable

Peter had a probably unparalleled record against New Zealand, initiated when he scored the only try of the British Lions, 1414, fourth and final match of the tour. They won the series 2-1, a feat which has yet to be repeated by the Lions in New Zealand.

His record against the All Blacks was exemplary as he played for North West Counties when they became the first regional side to defeat them at Workington in 1972, and was in the North team that downed New Zealand at Otley in 1979.

He captained England once during his 22cap career.

Later, Peter also spent time at the University of the Transkei (now known as Botswana) and Nigeria as an anthropologist.

He and his wife Alison had two children, Jed and Shelley and he ended his days at his old family home at Setmurthy near Cockermouth.

I will miss his infectious, self-deprecating laugh and his modest manner. To me he was a giant among the sporting behemoths that arrived at Teddy Hall in the late sixties.

In his later years, he worked at Durham University and became the full-time carer for his wife, affected by degenerative Multiple Sclerosis. At the time of his death, he was living with his daughter and her family in his old family home in Cumbria.

Richard Baker (1966, Chemistry)

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In 1955 he was appointed Headmaster of Pierrepont House School. He threw himself into his work, ensuring that all his pupils had a sound general education.

The school became, under his leadership, highly respected for its high quality teaching in the arts and sciences, and its successes in the field of sports. Nicholas made it his vocation to find the right career for each of his pupils, carefully nurturing their particular talents. In this task he was extraordinarily successful, and he inspired a life-long gratitude in his alumni for his guidance and help.

NICHOLAS DROMGOOLE (1948) This obituary has been provided by Nicholas’ colleague and collaborator Moe Dodson.

Nicholas Dromgoole, an alumnus of St Edmund Hall, died on September 20, 2023. He was the distinguished Dance Critic for The Sunday Telegraph for 33 years, from 1965 to 1998. He was Head of Department in charge of Communication Studies at Sir John Cass College of Science and Technology from 1962 to 1992.

Nicholas won scholarships to Dulwich College and to St Edmund Hall.

After graduating from Oxford, he studied French drama at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Joining the artistic and literary milieu, he met many luminaries of the day, including Jean Cocteau, with whom he had an argument about the meaning of Cocteau’s poetry before realising he was arguing with Cocteau himself!

He abandoned his ambition to become a full-time writer after a personal tragedy, from which he recovered by pursuing a new vocation in education in England. With his friend Geoff Spain, he set up and ran very successfully a school in North Devon.

He was appointed Head of General Studies at Sir John Cass College with the brief to create one of the first British university departments in cultural and communication studies. Renamed the Department of Communications, by 1992, it had become one of the largest, most innovative and most successful British university departments in Communications and Media studies.

One of the outstanding dance historians and critics of the 20th century, Nicholas published a number of articles and papers on dance and theatre, including his major academic work, Performance Style and Gesture in Western Theatre. This demonstrates that a codified ‘language’ of theatrical gesture survived from the ancient Classical theatre to European theatre in the 19th century.

His reviews were matchless in their ability to combine several layers of meaning in one sentence with wit and irony, and a deep understanding of modern ballet expressed sharply and cogently. He also had an eye for spotting young talent. When he saw young Peter Farmer’s drawings, he immediately declared that here was the Aubrey Beardsley of our time.

Though immensely successful as a stage designer, Farmer’s genius as a fine artist

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is still not fully recognised in this country.

Fortunately St Edmund Hall welcomed the gift that Nicholas presented of many of Farmer’s drawings and paintings. In generations to come, Farmer will be seen as the equal of Beardsley, if not his superior, and the country will owe a great debt of gratitude to the Hall for protecting this priceless heritage.

Nicholas saw Lesley Collier and Robert North in student performances at the Royal Ballet School, and immediately predicted they would be rising stars. North went on to become an outstanding dancer and choreographer - combining ballet with modern dance and eventually becoming artistic director of companies such as Ballet Rambert, Scottish Ballet, and

Mönchengladbach Theatre Ballet. Lesley Collier went on to become the leading star of her generation in The Royal Ballet.

Ultimately, his friends and colleagues will remember him for his generosity, warmth, wisdom, mischievous wit, unfailing good humour, and his fierce loyalty to those he regarded as part of his ‘family’ - a very large group.

His passing is an enormous loss for his family, friends and colleagues.

His former wife, Lesley Collier, survives him.

Nicholas Dromgoole, born 3 December 1927, died 20 September 2023.

Moe Dodson

German and French at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University.

Brian taught at Uppingham, was the Bursar at Saint Martin’s, Solihull and returned to Dulwich College to teach German and French. At Uppingham and at Dulwich he was also in charge of fencing he was a champion fencer himself.

BRIAN WILLIAM HOWES (1954) This obituary has been provided by Brian’s wife Mimi.

Brian William Howes was born on 13 October 1934 in Croydon. Grandson of Harry Howes who was killed on the Somme 18 August 1916 and son of John William Howes who served in the Metropolitan Police after attending the Duke of York’s Royal Military School in Dover.

Brian was educated at Dulwich College as part of the Dulwich Gilkes experiment, which brought in many pupils on scholarships, and went on to study

At the age of 34 he was appointed Headmaster of the International School in Hamburg and three years later Headmaster of St George’s English School in Rome.

He returned to the UK in 1975 to serve as an inspector of schools specialising in modern languages, becoming Chief Education Inspector for Croydon Local Education Authority (1989-95).

When he retired at the age of 60 he became a Consultant for ECIS (European Council of International Schools) and for the next 15 years travelled in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and South America setting up schools and accrediting them.

He organised the Public Schools’ Fencing

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Championships for 34 years.

Brian and I met at a party on his last evening at Oxford; I was at Lady Margaret Hall studying French and Russian, and had another year to go. We married in 1959. At the time of our marriage I was teaching at Saint Martin’s and it was when the headteacher became ill that Brian left Uppingham to take on the role of bursar there, helping the school gain charitable status.

Brian started fencing at Dulwich when he was 11 – he medalled in all three weapons in the Public Schools’ Fencing Championships, winning the senior sabre two years running, and was a Fencing Blue at Oxford. He fenced in the world championships in Paris in 1957 and I was there to watch him.

Although Brian was selected for the Tokyo

ALLAN JAY (1951) This Obituary originally appeared in the Daily Telegraph.

Allan Louis Neville Jay MBE was born into a Jewish family on June 30 1931 in London; the family moved to Australia, where he spent part of his childhood. His father died fighting in the Second World War in 1943, and the following year young Allan enrolled at Cheltenham College, where he took up fencing aged 13.

Olympics in 1964 – and given a huge jar of Horlicks to help him train – in the end, for reasons that were difficult to fathom, he was not taken.

Sadly in June 2020 he became ill and deteriorated quickly. He moved to a care home, Beulah Vista with amazingly kind and caring staff in May 2022.

He died on 20 May 2023 aged 88. He is survived by me, our son Peter Howes OBE, grandsons, Anton and Nicholas, and his brother, Alan. Another son, Justin, died in 2005.

He was respected by his colleagues who remember his kindness and help and loved by his family and many friends. He enjoyed travelling and theatre and opera and collecting books and was a very good friend.

Mimi Howes In 1950 he won gold with Australia in the team épée at the Empire Games in Auckland, as well as the individual épée gold at the Maccabiah Games for Jewish athletes (he would win five more Maccabiah golds). He then returned to Britain to study Law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford – he believed that his fencing skills won him a place – and in 1952 he won the British épée title (he would take three more, in 1959, 1960 and 1961, and was also the foil champion in 1963).

After competing in his first Olympics, for Australia in 1952 in Helsinki, he switched allegiances to Britain and won three medals at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver in 1954 – two team golds in the épée and foil and a bronze in the individual foil. (The épée and foil are similar, though the épée is slightly heavier, which can make points more difficult to score, and there is more emphasis on defence and counter-attack.)

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The following year, at the World Championships in Rome, he won a team foil bronze with Britain. In 1957 he took individual foil bronze, and in 1959 he had a year to remember: he became the first – and so far only – British man to win the foil world title, was admitted as a solicitor, and got married. “It has been downhill since, with only two Olympic medals!” he said in 2012. In all, between 1955 and 1965 he won six world titles.

At the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, he had narrowly missed out on the medals, but at the 1958 Empire Games in Cardiff he was part of the British team who demolished Australia in the foil team final to retain their title and beat Canada in the épée team final, also retaining their title His success continued throughout the 1960s: at the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, despite carrying a knee injury he won silver in the individual foil, and gold in the team foil for the fourth

COL. (RET’D) WILLIAM KENT MEGILL, (1962) William Kent Megill, 82, of Ottawa, died 10 April, 2023, surrounded by his family in the Ottawa General Hospital, of complications due to lung fibrosis.

Games in a row. He was Great Britain’s flag bearer for the closing ceremony at the 1964 Olympics. “We were asked to dip our flags to where the Japanese Emperor was seated,” he recalled. “When I got to the royal box, I duly dipped the flag and, horror of horrors, one of the two ribbons which secured the flag to the pole gave way and the top half of the flag and pole parted company. I remember the headline in The Sunday Times the following day: ‘The flag that flagged’. And underneath that was a caption which started: ‘Portly Allan Jay…’ I have never forgotten those.”

After retiring from fencing, Jay, who was appointed MBE in the 1970 New Year’s Honours list, continued with his legal career and remained in the sport as an official with the international governing body, the Fédération Internationale d’Escrime. He still fenced every week into his 80s, sometimes with Bill Hoskyns, until his friend and former rival’s death in 2013.

Bill was born in Ottawa on 26 November 1940 to Major General William J and Doris M Megill (née Kent). He attended the College Militaire Royal de St-Jean, Quebec, and graduated with a BSc in Maths and Physics from the Royal Military College (RMC) in Kingston, Ontario in 1962. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study for an MA at St Edmund Hall where he read Russian and French. Later he would complete a postgraduate diploma in Business Administration at Laval University and a Master’s in Political Science at the University of Kansas.

He joined the armoured corps while at RMC, then served with distinction in three armoured regiments, first with the Fort Garry Horse, later with the 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada, and finally with the Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians)

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which he commanded. The highlight of his military career was arguably his appointment as Military Advisor to the Canadian delegation to the arms control negotiations in Vienna that ultimately led to the end of the Cold War in the 1990s.

After retiring from the army, he began a new career as a land claims negotiator for the Federal Government, initially in coastal British Columbia and finally in the western Arctic. His love for language and culture served him well throughout the complex negotiations to find a balanced rearrangement of the social order and legal situation in the MacKenzie Delta in particular.

Alongside his long career in the public service, Bill also enjoyed serving the public in the communities where he lived.

Whether it was coaching little league soccer, heading up the Quebec Council of Scouts Canada, chairing the board of the Aphasia Centre, rebuilding the Priory of MICHAEL RUDMAN (1961) This obituary originally appeared in the Guardian.

As the elder son of a Texan oil millionaire, a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, the theatre director Michael Rudman, who has died aged 84, might have eased his way through business or politics to the highest echelons of either greasy pole. Instead, he caught the theatre bug, big time.

On vacation between Oberlin and Oxford he went to the Cannes film festival with his father – who had rejected Pablo Picasso’s offer of a free painting because he liked the guy much more than his art – and landed his first job as a stagehand with the radical New York collective Living Theatre, on their first European tour.

Rudman was tall, good-looking and

Simon Peter for the Templars or collecting hockey equipment to send to youth in the arctic, Bill brought his passion and experience to the challenge of building community.

He was dedicated contributor to the St Matthews and Glebe communities. Here the pandemic brought an old talent back to the fore as he turned his early career experience as the voice of the 1967 Canadian Armed Forces Tattoo to bear on the challenge of reaching the congregation and community during the hard months of lockdown.

Bill is survived by his wife Deirdre Nicholds and sons William and John, grandchildren Liam and Natalie, siblings Margaret (Peggy) Hudson and Suse. Bill was surrogate grandfather to Deirdre’s grandchildren, Harry and Bridget Phillips.

He was preceded in death by his first wife Susie (née MacDonald), brother Jim, and sister Janie. charming, like two other American directors making a big impact on the London radical theatre scene in the mid1960s – Charles Marowitz at the RSC and the Open Space, and Jim Haynes at the Arts Lab in Covent Garden – but he finally trod, with utter conviction, a more conventional path.

His hero was Arthur Miller , whose greatest play, Death of a Salesman, he directed in three major productions: at the Nottingham Playhouse, where he was an assistant in the late 60s, with John Neville as Willy Loman; at the National in 1979, with Warren Mitchell (who introduced him to Tottenham Hotspur, a football club he supported for the rest of his life); and on Broadway in 1984 with Dustin Hoffman as Willy and newcomer John Malkovich as Biff, both magnificent, in a Tony-awardwinning ‘best revival’ category.

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As the artistic director of the Hampstead Theatre Club in the 70s, he made his mark as a sensitive and intelligent director of good actors in good new plays, several of which transferred to the West End: Nigel Hawthorne and Alan Howard in the elliptical, magical The Ride Across Lake Constance, by Peter Handke; Billie Whitelaw, Barbara Ferris and Felicity Kendal – the latter his future wife – in two of Michael Frayn’s early hits, Alphabetical Order and Clouds – the first an ‘office’ play set in the cuttings library of a provincial newspaper, the second charting the adulterous love affair of two married journalists ‘covering Cuba’; and Oscar James in Michael Hastings’s Gloo Joo, an award-winning comedy about a Black British, Brixton resident being wrongly targeted by immigration officers and helped out by a progressive rabbi.

This remarkable five years, stewarded by his Oxford friend and contemporary David Aukin (1961, Jurisprudence) as his administrator, and climaxing in Mike Leigh ’s staging of his own play, Abigail’s Party (which he later televised), propelled Rudman into an associate directorship of the National Theatre with Peter Hall. He programmed the Lyttelton auditorium for three years and continued to direct for another five after Hall changed the system to one whereby the companies worked across the three NT venues.

His productions included a glorious revival of Somerset Maugham’s For Services Rendered in 1980, later televised by Granada for ITV; a notable 1981 Caribbean version of Measure for Measure (one of his favourite plays), with Norman Beaton as Angelo, Peter Straker as Lucio and Stefan Kalipha as the Duke; Kendal in the Ellen Terry role of Pinero’s The Second Mrs Tanqueray; Frances de la Tour in Neil Simon’s touching autobiographical Brighton Beach Memoirs,

which transferred to the Aldwych in 1986; and Brian Friel’s beautiful adaptation of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons with new shooting stars Ralph Fiennes and Lesley Sharp in a company led by Alec McCowen, Richard Pasco, and Barbara Jefford, all of them Rudman regulars.

He won the respect of actors, especially the most technically gifted, as he had a very good ear, and he relished their talent.

Rehearsing McCowen and Geraldine McEwan in a 1980 revival of Rattigan’s The Browning Version and Harlequinade double-bill was, he said, “the most fun I’ve ever had with the lights on”.

He had far less fun when he moved on to run Chichester Festival theatre in 1990.

After a bumpy first season in which Hall’s production of Born Again, a misguided musical version of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, was a disaster, he was fired just three weeks after divorcing Kendal – who had fallen in love with Tom Stoppard. He picked up the pieces in a happier post as director of Sheffield Theatres for three years in the 90s, and often returned to direct at Chichester.

Born in Tyler, Texas, Michael was the elder son of MB ‘the Duke’ Rudman and his wife, Josephine (née Davis), a schoolteacher whose enthusiasm and efficiency on the golf course her son inherited. He was educated at St Mark’s school in Dallas before going on to Oberlin and Oxford (1961-64), where he was elected president of the dramatic society.

On graduating, he went straight to Nottingham, where he directed John Neville, Judi Dench and Edward Woodward in Measure for Measure, and Gillian Martell and the American film star Robert Ryan in Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. After an unhappy nine months as an assistant at the RSC, he was ready to run his own theatre.

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He succeeded Max Stafford-Clark in charge of the Traverse in Edinburgh.

While Stafford-Clark stayed on to run a workshop company in the old Traverse in Lawnmarket, Rudman directed the Grassmarket company in new plays by Stanley Eveling, Syd Cheatle (Straight Up transferred to the Piccadilly in 1971), Tom Mallin and CP Taylor, with Alan Howard, Ian Holm and Tom Conti prominent.

Fiona Fullerton; Jeffrey Archer’s Exclusive (1989), which somehow attracted the talents of Paul Scofield, Eileen Atkins and McCowen; and a wonderful revival in 2000 of Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, with Kendal and De la Tour as tipsy best friends catching up with a French boyfriend they had shared in the past; now married to much duller men, they were “ripe for a lapse”.

This experience left him well placed to succeed Vivian Matalon at Hampstead.

As he said, he took “the potentially commercial plays that no commercial management was willing to take a chance on” but he still found room for fringe companies such as the People Show and the new Joint Stock company in David Hare’s play Fanshen, and supervised unlikely commercial hits of Pam Gems’s Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi, and Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man.

By this time, Kendal and Stoppard had split up and she returned to Rudman after eight years (in 1998) and stayed with him for the rest of his life, though they never remarried.

The producer Michael Codron was on the Hampstead board, and the Frayn plays came to him through Codron’s encouragement and connections. A third Frayn play, Donkeys’ Years (1976), went straight into the West End after a short commercial tour, and ran for 18 months, with Penelope Keith as Lady Driver, the master’s wife in an Oxbridge college who tries to rekindle an old flame during an old boys’ reunion, and brought farcical premonitions of Frayn’s later hit, Noises Off. By then, Michael Blakemore had replaced Rudman as Frayn’s first choice director after Rudman turned down Frayn’s Make and Break at the National – no one really understood why, and Rudman didn’t say in his otherwise revelatory memoir, I Joke Too Much (2014). Blakemore took it on at the Lyric, Hammersmith, in 1980.

Other Rudman shows done directly in the West End included a dreadful revival of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot at the Apollo Victoria in 1982 with Richard Harris and

As well as the memoir, Rudman, who had a wicked sense of humour and a sardonic turn of phrase, wrote a very funny play, Short List (1983), produced at Hampstead after he had left, with Ian McKellen, Maxine Audley and Barbara Flynn bitching backstage at an awards ceremony they were judging; and another, less funny, Benchmark (2002), co-written with Bud Shrake, his Texan golf buddy, in which Jerry Hall played an actor toying with two exes; the character even converted to Judaism for one of them, as Kendal had for Rudman.

Rudman always regretted that his 2013 production of Chin-Chin, a 1960 adaptation by Willis Hall of a French boulevard comedy, starring Kendal and Simon Callow, never reached the West End. His last London show, in 2016, was, fittingly, by Miller, at the Rose Kingston, Hall’s last theatre building, though the reviews for All My Sons were more respectable than ecstatic.

He was twice married, twice divorced, to and from, Veronica Bennett (1963-81) and Felicity Kendal (1983-91), and is survived by Felicity and their son, Jacob; two daughters, Amanda and Katherine, from his first marriage; and by his grandchildren, Catherine, Archie, Dylan, Lucas and Rosa. A younger brother, Wolfe, predeceased him.

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GEORGE WILEY (1956) This obituary has been provided by George’s friend Fred Farrell.

George Wiley came up to the Hall in 1956 to read English. It soon became apparent that the course was not, for him, only a route to a chosen profession but a true journey of exploration into the issues of life. George revelled in tackling the more difficult or less accessible authors and I remember from personal experience his readiness to share his insights with those of us slower of apprehension. I recall him expounding to me the depths of Langland’s vision, and Donne was a great enthusiasm: to George he acknowledged both flesh and spirit in human experience and enriched the Christian faith which for George was again not a static thing but another journey of discovery.

Although George attended Hall meetings of the Christian Union, he resisted any narrow allegiance and was equally keen to welcome the insights of other groups or Oxford churches.

George entered fully into College life. In his first year he was assistant producer of the John Oldham Society’s memorable production of Ibsen’s Ghosts, in which Patrick Garland made his Oxford debut.

Perhaps it was the Essay Society, of which he had a term as President, which fitted most perfectly George’s gifts and inclinations, while he probably derived no less pleasure, and pride, from his exploits on the cricket field, where he was a spin bowler of unusual guile.

George came to Oxford as a proud son of the Black Country, and accent and demeanour remained intact, not to be swayed by any other expectation.

Taking a DipEd after his degree, George embarked on a teaching career, eventually

becoming Head of English at Lincoln School, where he doubtless passed on to many pupils his love of literature and the licence to think freely about the ‘issues of life’. Meanwhile Bruce Mitchell, talentspotting for examiners for the Oxford and Cambridge Examinations Board, invited George, first to be an examiner and then an awarder, which involved the setting of papers as well as oversight of other examiners. The Board recognised George’s abilities in their field of work and asked him to establish a new English Language course to be offered to sixth formers not doing A Level English.

It was hardly surprising, given George’s scholarly interests, that from his teaching career in schools, he moved into higher education, being appointed a principal lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University. He was subsequently appointed Director of Studies for the new BA course in English which he had played a lead role in introducing. While there, he produced a stimulating and widely used English text-book for schools and published a biographical study of the poet and hymn-writer James Montgomery, a true labour of love for someone about whom George felt too little was known.

Sustaining and enriching all George achieved was his love for and marriage to Valerie, his girlfriend in his Oxford days with her roots like his in the Heart of England, and their two sons David and Jonathan.

From our time in Hall and to the weeks before his death George was a stimulating friend, as engaging an interlocutor, on politics or poetry (or cricket!) as one could encounter, as original in a cryptic holiday postcard as in his literary criticism. I remember how much he felt at one with ‘Little Gidding’, the last of Eliot’s Quartets.

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Never more perhaps than with some of its closing lines: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

Fred Farrell (1956, English)

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