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From: Ms B. W. Standingagainsta-Wall
Some European doctoral programmes require publication of the thesis as part of the academic progression to the degree. This is a noble attempt to make research part available to the public. It is also...
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Pew/Pugh
Seriously? Oxford students never change This is one of the circulating copies of S. B. Chrimes, C. D. Ross, and R. A. Griffiths (eds.), Fifteenth-Century England 1399-1509: Studies in Politics and...
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Adventures in Forensic Bibliography #7
The case of the Foucault-footnote or, why it’s ok to invent a source if your name is Borges. This little bibliographic adventure began in an entirely unexpected way and resolved itself with a sort of...
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2/9
“Rather than carve irreverent caricatures of Oxford dons, the ancient masons of St Albans chose instead to faithfully depict the typical expressions of their students, post tutorial.” (An excerpt from...
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Girls!
The inscription was more a stated preference than a condition of entry. In Oxford one got the visitors one deserved, not the visitors one hoped for. (further fragments from Oxford Noir)
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…like a tamping rod through the head
I would like to re-blog this interesting post about the many posthumous portraits of that most celebrated survivor of penetrating cranial trauma: Phineas Gage. But it’s rather ‘mature’ in its content...
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March of books
I forgot to add a list of new books—new to me at any rate—with the March review. I will try and make this part of the regular thing because I like the idea, and it’s a good way to remind myself that I...
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Oh, how I miss St Andrews now…
The porter had suddenly turned chatty. Perhaps he was bored. More likely he was taking a measure of the new fellow. ‘So why St Andrews? If you don’t mind me asking. Must seem very dull here compared...
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