St Anne’s College Record 2015 – 2016 - Number 105 – Annual Publication of the St Anne’s Society The Ship 2015 – 2016

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St Anne’s College St Anne’s Road Woodstock Oxford OX2 6HS UK +44 (0) 1865 274800 [email protected] www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 2015 – 2016 The Ship My thanks to all the College staff who have My thanks to all the College staff contributed to the issue, in particular Kate Davy in the Development Office. And above Principal Tim all, our thanks to St Anne’s but whose we regret, whose departure Gardam, this issue achievements in his 12-year tenure, commemorates and celebrates. From lights over London to a village in to a village London lights over From Easter on Dublin’s reflections from Ethiopia; of African women to the role Rising of 1916 the their continent; from in transforming floors of the of life on the trading hyperactivity activities leisurely Mile to the more Square SAS. St Anne’s the members of our enjoyed by shaping and changing, everywhere, people are they move. The enjoying the world in which issue of The year’s range and scope of this I thank as ever. Ship is as varied and engaging to the time and effort all those who have taken to the demands of an make it so by responding times when I feel are There importunate editor. Market an elderly worker in Shepherd like more journalist. I hope you find the than a professional worthwhile. product St Anne’s College St Anne’s College

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From the Editor – Judith Vidal-Hall 2 International aid – Diana Good 71 SAS report – Hugh Sutherland and Maureen Hazell 3 Doing good better – William MacAskill 75 From the Principal – Tim Gardam 5 SAS regional branch reports 77 From the Librarian – Clare White 10 From the JCR 83 New Library and Academic Centre 12 From the MCR 84 From the Bursar – Jim Meridew 15 Finals results 2015 85 From the Treasurer – John Ford 19 Graduate degrees 2015 86 From the Development Office – Jules Foster 21 Governing Body 87 From the Vice-Chancellor – Louise Richardson 23 Fellows’ news, honours and appointments 88 Oxford letter – Jackie Ingram 28 The Penultimate Curiosity – Howard Hotson 89 Russell Taylor column 31 Alumnae news: publications 92 Donor column – Gareth Hunt 34 Alumnae news: updates, honours, news and appointments 94 Careers column – William Galinsky 36 Obituaries 96 Careers column – Helen Marriage 38 - Elizabeth Aldworth 97 - Ursula Hill Bowen 97 Devaki Jain Lecture – Devaki Jain and Graça Machel 42 - Clare Currey 98 Gaudy Seminar 2015 – Frances Cairncross 47 - Konstanty Czartoryski 100 Gaudy Seminar 2015 – David Willetts 47 - Christine Davis 100 - Margaret Hardcastle 101 Gaudy Seminar 2015 – Ian Goldin 50 - Deborah Jackson 102 Gaudy Seminar 2015 – Terry O’Shaughnessy 52 - Terry Jones 103 - Valerie Pearl 105 Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2016 55 - Rosemary Pountney 106 George Weidenfeld: a tribute – Matthew Reynolds 57 - Elisabeth Prideaux 107 The Wake – Paul Kingsnorth 60 - Rosalind Richards 108 - Virginia Rushton 109 Iris Murdoch – Gary Brooking 62 - Joan Saxton 110 Ireland 1916 – Patrick Gaul 64 - Ruth Tait 111 From Anschluss to Albion – Elisabeth Orsten 68 Thank you to donors 112

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Moving on JUDITH VIDAL-HALL

Change is all around, in the University, the heart of this new centre of the University. using it to the best possible effect. Diana the town and in St Anne’s. It does not Good links the two in a piece that looks at And it’s not only the University itself that’s come without its challenges, but core the successes and failures of international changing, at times so fast and frequently values remain intact aid. that, as Jackie Ingram says in her Oxford My editorial for this issue of The Ship has letter, it’s hard to keep pace: from Co- And you will all welcome the return of very much taken on its own shape, a shape operative Society Hall to multi-media centre Russell Taylor with his inimitable Alex, dictated by events. The departure of our in the blink of an eye – and further change never short of a word or two on absolutely Principal, Tim Gardam, who will be much promised in the ‘golden triangle’ of the everything. missed after 12 highly successful years, Cowley Road. It is never possible in the limited space of an is at the centre of this. The departure of But there is far more to celebrate in this editorial to do justice to every contributor, a head of house is always a moment of issue than the, at times, disruption of but I would like to single out one more change, and Tim emphasises this in his change. The enduring pleasures of the feature: the first of the Devaki Jain Lectures, Domus seminar: time not only for Oxford as garden are recalled in this ‘Year of the given in 2015 by the distinguished African a whole to move on, but for the College too English Garden’, which marks 300 years campaigner Graça Machel. This unique if it is to remain at the top of its game. since the birth of the great gardener of the series of annual lectures will highlight the It’s a theme echoed by Oxford’s new Vice- English landscape, Capability Brown. The often unrecognized contributions of women Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson, Bursar honours our own gardeners, who, in the South to the development of their the first ‘non-male, non-traditional and not over the past 20 years, have done so much countries. They, too, are the movers and even British’ incumbent in almost 1,000 to transform the setting of the College changers of their world. years. We are lucky to have her Inaugural into the enchanting environment of today. As always, I thank all our contributors who Address in which she, too, argues the need Gardens also figure prominently in our SAS have taken the time to make this issue of for change in Oxford if it is to meet the branch reports. the magazine such a good read. My thanks, challenges posed by rapid technological We also have a dazzling pair of career too, to Kate Davy in the Development change and globalization. columns this year, illustrated by some of Office, without whom, as I say each year Back in College change goes deeper yet the most remarkable images ever to light but have great pleasure in repeating, none with a number of senior appointments up these pages. Our donor column, which of this would have happened. You all make within the past year. The Librarian, Bursar looks at life in the financial sector, does it undeniably the best college magazine in and Treasurer introduce themselves here. not stand on its own but is linked to other the University. And with the topping out of the library pieces, in particular an innovative piece on Judith Vidal-Hall (Bunting 1957) building, St Anne’s has turned its face fully ‘Doing good better’, which highlights the to the world outside and taken its place at connections between making money and

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What’s in a name? HUGH SUTHERLAND AND MAUREEN HAZELL

It’s not just a change of name that is past few years, chiefly due to the excellent Having taken over in difficult circumstances transforming the nature of the College’s leadership of our outgoing Joint Presidents, following the unexpected death of our connection with alumnae. Social Clare Dryhurst and Jackie Ingram. As a President Jim Stanfield, they developed media often take the place of more member of the SAS Committee, and now a new vision and purpose for what was conventional forms of connection, Chair of the Oxford Branch, I and Maureen formerly known as the Association of but there’s nothing like face-to-face Hazell, SAS Secretary, would like to extend Senior Members and steered through encounters in the place we first met the heartfelt thanks of the committee and a number of subtle yet vital changes to the Society to Clare and Jackie for their the way the organization works and is The St Anne’s Society (SAS), formerly patience, their firm grasp of what needed to constituted. Some formal amendments to known as the Association of Senior be done and their hard work in getting on the constitution to codify and enable those Members (ASM), has embarked on a and doing it. changes will be proposed at the AGM and period of renewal and change over the

Members of the SAS committee at its last meeting with departing Principal, Tim Gardam, 4 June 2016

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we hope to have a new President to vote with College. They organize events, fellowship and of meeting people in person. into office by then. coordinate activities, communicate with We can only encourage other alumnae to members and provide the infrastructure make the most of the St Anne’s Society in Most saliently, the new name marks and of the networks we rely on for the SAS to whatever way they can. To paraphrase the reflects the broad sweep of the changes, operate. We thank them all for their hard motto: Get knowledge, get wisdom, but in heralding an institution which seeks to work and support, as we do the domestic all your getting, get out more. welcome and engage everyone who has staff, who never fail to provide excellent care participated in the College, to foster a Hugh Sutherland (1983), Oxford Chair and hospitality – not to mention the food! – society of people with a shared experience and Maureen Hazell (Littlewood 1971), when we return. and common aims based on the ethos and Secretary SAS founding principles of St Anne’s. At its core The extent to which alumnae feel motivated June 2016 is continuing fellowship. to strengthen their connection to College after that first phase of the relationship with The College is large by Oxford standards, St Anne’s varies with the demands of work having grown significantly over the past 50 and family at different times, particularly years. Simply maintaining contact with the in the early years after going down. Social accumulated roster of its students – now The St Anne’s Society and College trends also play a part, with technology some 720 – is a daunting task; seeking think it is important to preserve the in the form of social media transforming to build an active, connected community history of St Anne’s, and particularly the way most of us now connect. While is doubly so. It’s worth remembering the the life as led by its students, so future improved media such as email have excitement one felt during those years generations can find out what it was helped people to get in touch and organize when we attended St Anne’s, meeting like to be a St Anne’s student in earlier events, the at times contradictory issues an amazingly diverse range of people years. The new Library cannot yet of hacking and enhanced protection of from across the social, geographical, accommodate any personal artefacts, digital privacy, can blunt that facility. College cultural and academic spectrum, coming ephemera, e.g. student society and the University have invested heavily in together in one place. That diversity itself histories, publications, photographs proper data protection and management of presents a challenge as people spin out etc., but we do hope to be able to personal data to combat those trends. from the College across the globe to new develop the physical archive in future opportunities, courses of study, academic Finally, while social media help to build an and not rely on digital data. Please institutions, careers, relationships and expectation that College members will want don’t shred your personal archive families. to connect, if you can broadcast your life and please do NOT send anything and receive daily updates on the lives of to College yet but keep it safe until That St Anne’s has embraced the challenge others, why bother to meet up? However, we can assess what resources and and recognised the vital part that its there seems to be a second phase that space are available. Further details alumnae play is evidenced by the work of alumnae go through somewhat later in will be available in The Ship, the Annual the Development Office. This is a team of life. We come to value what our time here Review and in the e-newsletter in the dedicated, professional staff who ensure meant to us, the importance of place, coming months. that those who want to, are kept connected

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Oxford in a changing world TIM GARDAM

In his final contribution to The Ship of a potpourri; or, to put it less fragrantly, been in communications technology. When the Principal reflects on the changes to distil our collective intelligence into a I arrived at St Anne’s, Facebook had only he has seen in Oxford in his years at common sense of togetherness that gives just reached Oxford from Harvard; the use the College. Its continuing success us common values and direction. of Skype was against University regulations. over the next 20 years, he concludes, There were few laptops, no tablets and no As Principal, you must hold a steady demands a reshaping of undergraduate 4G. Many tutorial reports were written by course through the returning gyres of the academic experience in line with the hand. We have yet fully to take on board the academic year, imbuing into its repetitious fundamental shifts in the outside world manner in which the digital consciousness seasons that infectious sense of renewal of future generations is changing what A head of house in Oxford should take care that the Freshers feel each October. It is a a university should be; it has already not be over-sentimental about a job that job defined by the serendipity of constant resulted in huge changes in the way we involves, in countless speeches, constant random email traffic; there is nothing on interact; ought it therefore to change the expressions of sentiment. In truth, I am which to focus for more than an hour at a way we think about the substance of our glad that as an undergraduate I went to time. The Principal sits at the interstices of disciplines, and the way we expect students Cambridge not Oxford; if I had been a everything and the centre of nothing. to learn? Is this a matter of a revolution in head of house at Cambridge, I would too But, maybe that is exactly why colleges communication, or is it more fundamental often have been haunted by a vision of my work; for academics and students alike, a still, changing the way we think, the way 20-year-old self coming round the corner. college is so much a place to be as a place we process knowledge and relate to our At Oxford, I have had the freedom of to come back to – from the laboratory, culture? disinterestedness; but I have no doubt at all the lecture hall and library, from sabbatical that this job is the one that has mattered to If I ask myself what has been the most leave, vacation, the exam schools. It is not me the most in my career. valuable new thing I have taken from being a place over whose operations academics at St Anne’s, it undoubtedly has been the It matters a lot that a Principal is elected and students want to ponder too much, chance to make friends with scientists. I not appointed. This has never been in my it is somewhere from which you can face do not pretend to have fully understood eyes an employer/employee relationship; it outwards towards everything else you may the many seminars I have attended but has always felt to me like the bestowing of be doing. This is a good thing. Unhealthy I have learned a lot from the patient a trust, one that one has a duty to repay. colleges in Oxford, and there are some, are empirical optimism of the scientific mind, The role of the Principal is in counterpoint to those that have Fellows whose lives and the methodical and precise evaluation of what the rest of the College does. Running visions have shrunk to the confines of the data, the working through of proofs and a college is like catching vividly coloured Quad and High Table. the belief in solutions. However, the quiet petals swirling and floating around you and Oxford has changed markedly in the past assurance of scientists that I have found seeing if you can mix them into some sort decade. The most obvious has, of course, so invigorating, and their prospectus of

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constant improvement and future wellbeing, can seem confusingly at odds with the turbulence and darkening prospects that have swept over the world in the past decade.

It is quite sobering to realise how long ago was 2004. In my first months here, George W Bush won re-election to a second term; six months later Tony Blair won a joyless, but decisive third victory consolidating the hegemony of New Labour; until around 2008 our students of Arabic would spend their second year in Damascus, a relaxed city where they could study without any sense of threat. Fees for UK undergraduates were just going up from £1,000 to £1,500 a year. I see my time at St Anne’s divided by the financial crisis of 2007/08. It is only now apparent how it has changed the culture and assumptions of a Alumnae at the 1970s Reunion in June 2016 generation. knowledge have globalised, whereas democracies, and, in places, the barbarity Such is the apparent permanence of politics, power and cultures, in reaction to intruding upon all that we take for granted. Oxford it is easy to ignore the seismic these forces, are moving in the opposite We should think of what has happened to shifts in geopolitics we have lived through direction. Given the brittleness of our current those classmates whom St Anne’s students as if they do not really touch us; Oxford’s stability, I have to admit I can be frustrated met in Damascus a decade ago. internationalism is an obstacle to our by the tendency in some student politics These gloomy preoccupations ought to recognizing how the world is closing to focus on issues of personal identity and concern us in the University. Protected as down around us even as we are a bulwark their preference to sit in judgement on past we may be, what happens here is important of cultural connectedness that stands centuries when we are faced in our own to the world. You cannot travel as a head against that closing world. I worry that time by our own frightening challenges of house and not realise the privilege of we fail to appreciate how out of tune is which it will be our students’ burden to try being at Oxford. Everywhere I have been, our belief in reasoned, evidence-based, to solve: the rise of isolationist nationalism, especially in Asia, Oxford is, sometimes, international discourse with the growing the dysfunctionality of representative almost embarrassingly, bathed in a light of clamour of protest against such norms. democracy, the growing power of idealistic impossibility in the eyes of those Communications, markets, access to state coercion in countries that are not who will never get here. It is for them a

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symbol of a better world. This is why the there seems less time or permission now to also brought a more reductive view of the way we conduct our business matters. think extravagantly. purposes of a degree, where the syllabus can be seen as a product and a degree Nothing has mattered to me more in my I think this has a bearing on the worryingly a return on investment. These trends, time here than the conversations I have had increasing levels of student anxiety. I admit combined with the anxiety about anxiety, with our students. Their range of intellects, to a generational gulf in perception here; in result in a growing demand for longer, less their growth as individuals, the charitable grumpy mood, I fear we are condoning a intense terms, for reading weeks, mark activity many undertake when not studying, generation in medicalising ‘Life’. However, schemes, a desire for Oxford to be more their determination and concern for each I am persuaded that for this generation like other universities. I think these tensions other – all this I will miss deeply. the world feels extremely fraught. As our derive from the very changed society from JCR President explained to me, today’s Ruth Deech has a good line in her speeches which students come and into which they students are on the double treadmill of at alumnae reunions: ‘For each other,’ she will go as adults. degree and CV from the moment they says, looking out at a hall of middle-aged arrive. Marks in prelims determine access At the heart of these student concerns is a professionals, ‘you will always be 20.’ to an internship that in turn determines wider consciousness that there is an ever It’s true – these are the years that forge a successful application to a graduate more problematic interface to be negotiated us, and our friendships and connections trainee scheme. A façade of manicured between the academic depth of a degree, that shape a lifetime; but the experience perfectibility is assumed at that point in life with all the pleasure and inherent value of being 20 now is different to even ten when one should be free to make mistakes. that comes from its intellectual stretch, and years ago. This is a more austere, focused Add to this the impact of student debt, the very different demands of the world generation, but sometimes cautious to the and the change from grants to loans for of work in a digital knowledge economy. point of repression when it comes to the maintenance funding, and the student of I am not arguing for vocational degrees impulsive exploration of ideas outside the 2016 is in a very different place from that of nor for qualities such as ‘leadership’ to be next assignment. Adventurousness with 2004. considered at admissions, as at US Ivy ideas ought to be core to the intellectual/ League universities, but I do not believe emotional muddle of being ‘sweet and 20’. This combination of pressures risks the current default position that, beyond In saying this, I recognize the admirable fracturing the traditional pedagogic the Careers Office, subsequent career intellectual connectedness in conversations relationship on which Oxford is built. The outcomes are not a matter for us, is I have had with many students, and their increase in fees has, in fact, brought sustainable. breadth of reading, in particular that of some improvements, calling time on some scientists; many tell me that it is the the disheartening cynicism towards One of the most important debates the quality of talk over meals in Hall that they undergraduate teaching of a few years University needs to have is about the will miss most when they leave. I am struck ago when a head of department was balance between depth and breadth by the students with four good A Levels reported as saying that ‘teaching was for in an undergraduate degree. Does the stretched across the arts and sciences who wimps’. Students are now more openly modern digital world, with its exponential regret the paths not travelled even as they critical of inefficient course organization increases in the connectedness of data are fulfilled by their chosen degree. But and poor communication. However, it has and the consequently more protean

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role of the individual in society, require a sciences, and convert the fourth year into as standard, not necessarily for a year but more connected intellectual framework a Masters degree, with some element for six months from April to September. The to reflect the approach necessary to take of a research component. You would Long Vacation is far too long for students into the world after university? Is there get a higher quality of student on taught anyway. I have become convinced about a way we can retain the seriousness of Masters courses as a result. (I accept the this as a result of my conversations with our endeavour we expect of single honours more vocational degrees such as Law alumnae in Silicon Valley. Some of the most schools but introduce greater range and and Medicine remain three years). There stimulating moments of my time as Principal connectedness? Our students increasingly should be an element of shared curriculum have been as a result of conversations with want this, citing the more interesting in the first year for all undergraduates - St Anne’s former students working there combinations our American Visiting what about a compulsory paper in logic? – who incidentally read English, History, Students are allowed to study; our recently Scientists should learn something of Materials, Biochemistry, PPE, Classics, left alumnae reflect on the disadvantageous ethics and the history of ideas; humanities Mathematics and Computer Science – and narrowness of aspects of their degree students should learn something of data now work at the centre of technologies and even as they appreciate what its rigour management and quantitative analysis, a culture that are refashioning the future of and depth still give them. We celebrate and the history of technology and science all our lives. They have persuaded me that interdisciplinarity in research; we find it hard should figure more. the way the world is going to be requires to embrace in our curriculum. us to think far more about teaching the Humanities students would have most connections between intellectual disciplines, Oxford can sometimes suffer from a to gain; I am struck by how many now and their application to a digital society, deadening culture of exceptionalism – feel they are unemployable in the private if we are to continue to claim that an present an idea, and if one detail of it is sector because of their lack of quantitative academic degree at Oxford is a credible not fully thought through or does not quite confidence. This is in no way to diminish preparation for a successful and socially stand up to remorseless scrutiny, that the value of their disciplines; quite the valuable life. shortcoming is enough to put it back in a opposite – what I fear is that the values of box, call for more data and ignore it for a the humanities, which have informed every Much of the above has been informed by decade. part of my life, will no longer take their vital conversations with our alumnae now at place in our businesses and professions as the height of their careers. We need to put So let me propose a framework for a they have in the past unless those trained greater energy into ensuring that they have reshaping of our undergraduate academic in them have also the ability to engage an informed understanding of what we do; experience, if only so that it can be given to some extent on a quantitative plane. we in turn should listen more carefully to initial consideration in 2026. Bluntly, I fear I would today be considered their responses, and spend time building I propose that every undergraduate degree unemployable in some of the jobs I have a sustained critical relationship with them. should be four years. They should be done. Those who were once taught here are in wider in the first year, but by the fourth the best position to enlighten us as to what Furthermore, every degree that does not year should have the same approach as we might now do differently. They haven’t currently allow for students to go abroad a taught Masters course; humanities and anything to tell their tutors about their for some of their study should include this social sciences degrees should follow the subject; they have a lot to tell us about why

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one hand, there has to be a belief that the ‘best’ students will want themselves to have academic careers, and these are the values that must be asserted over all others whilst they are here; while, on the other hand, we should recognize that the reason Oxford is considered one of the world’s greatest institutions is because of those who studied here whose achievements rest far from the confines of academia. For most people who care about this University, Oxford’s scholarship counts most because they tasted it at a brief formative time of their lives, and still feel it gave them a shape to their energies even though they have left it behind to do other things.

Being elected to St Anne’s as Principal was for me not simply a change in career Tim thanks supporters of St Anne’s at the June Garden Party but the beginning literally of a second life; I could not have asked for anything that their subject is valuable beyond the terms touched by how generous people are, could have grown my self-knowledge and in which an academic has experience of it. open hearted in their preparedness to do wider understanding more than this. I could Finding the right relationship with alumnae something for their college, however much not be more grateful to the Fellowship for will be a critical factor in whether St Anne’s they can afford to give. When a donation the opportunity. Equally, it is also necessary in the next twenty years can prosper. becomes a deal, it loses its value. Our to know at what point it should all come to donors, great or small, invariably want us to I have come to see Development as the a close, and when one should cease to be do something with their money; it is for us most creative part of the Principal’s job. the voice that speaks for what St Anne’s is, not them. We have raised £19.6m since 2007, has been and might be. the same figure as the value of our We should unselfconsciously admire This is an edited version of a lecture that endowment in 2004. However, and much those who have gone on to be very Tim Gardam gave at the Domus Seminar more importantly, I have met many more successful in life even when they were, at the start of his last term as Principal. He interesting and admirable people across the in terms of academic seriousness – the takes up his new job as Chief Executive of world as a result than ever I did in my career terms academics care most about – not the Nuffield Foundation, one of the leading in television. I love the real shared sense of necessarily shining examples. One of the independent funders of social research in purpose, possibility and idealism that one dilemmas for universities is that, on the the UK, in September 2016. can engender with a donor. I am always

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Brave new library world CLARE WHITE

There’s a lot to do but it will all be worth the collection more secure by triggering will stay in Hartland House, we rearranged it says our Librarian as she and her an alarm if any books should wander from some of the collections to simplify the move staff prepare to initiate the new Library the Library without being checked out – and then we measured the books all over first. Around 85,000 volumes were tagged again – just to be on the safe side. All of I first arrived at St Anne’s in October and a new self-issue machine installed. this was carried out alongside the everyday 1990 as a nervous undergraduate to read The students were so intrigued at how a tasks that keep the Library running. Little Modern Languages, excited to be taking pile of four or five books could be issued wonder that at times we felt like students in up my place at Oxford, not quite believing simultaneously by stacking them on a the middle of an essay crisis. it was true, wondering what lay ahead. In certain spot on the library desk, that not one September 2015, almost 25 years later, I The thought that spurred us on is how of them complained about the appearance walked back into St Anne’s on my first day wonderful it will be when we have finally of security gates. as the College Librarian, equally nervous, moved into the new building. No more excited to be starting my dream job, still not As the academic year progressed, we tables or sections of the floor acting as quite believing it was true and wondering, chose the furniture and fittings for the extra shelves, but over 1.5km of shelving above all, how I would ever fill the shoes of new Library, agreed on the finish of the to house the collections and allow them someone as highly regarded as the retiring desks, selected desk lamps, counted room to grow. Study spaces to suit a Librarian, David Smith. and re-counted chairs and had heated variety of tastes, from individual carrels to debates with the architect over why we collaborative group breakout rooms, from And what a year it has been. After years couldn’t possibly agree to having furniture large formal desks to cosy chairs with of discussions, planning and visions on upholstered in orange or yellow fabric (some laptop tables. No more resigned faces as paper, the new Library and Academic of us remember a childhood in the 1970s the Internet connection grinds to a halt Centre rose rapidly out of the ground over and have no desire to recreate the colour once again, but instead, new PCs, better the autumn months. By Christmas it looked scheme). We measured all the shelves WiFi and copious power and data points like an actual building; by February we and all the books, we met with removal throughout the building. The new Library will were celebrating the topping out and, as companies who specialize in book moves transform the facilities and also the service the building grew, so did the list of things and watched the look of trepidation on their that we can offer our students. For the first to do in the Library in order to be ready to faces as they contemplated the logistics time we will have suitable space within the welcome students into the new reading of moving the collections up and down the Library to deliver information skills sessions rooms this October. spiral staircase in the north room – that to help students to build their confidence We took the first preparatory steps towards time-warp of original metal stacks tucked in carrying out literature searches and to running the Library on two sites by installing away off the corner of the main Library. help them discover the wealth of resources an RFID (radio-frequency identification) We planned which parts of the collection available in Oxford and beyond. system in September. This will help to keep will move to the new building and which

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Our aim is also to have a dedicated room so many former students and friends of to house our special collections and the the College. Without your donations, our College archives so that we can protect new Library and Academic Centre would and preserve the many fascinating letters, not have been possible and we are deeply notebooks, papers and photographs that grateful for what you have enabled us to record the vibrant history of St Anne’s. achieve. It is customary in The Ship for the Librarian to remind alumnae that they are The new Library and Academic Centre entitled to use the Library for reference, and will mean much more to the College than the whole Library team would be particularly additional room for books. From the quiet happy to see you over the coming months student spaces on the lower ground floor to and to show you our new surroundings. the offices dedicated to research projects on the top floor, it will draw together many Since returning to St Anne’s, I have of the key activities of the College and frequently been asked, ‘What’s it like to give them a focal point under one roof. be back? Has the College changed much Part of the architect’s brief was to design since you were a student?’ The buildings the interior spaces to be flexible, and the have changed, of course – work started on furniture has been chosen with this in mind. Trenaman House just as I graduated and The airy seminar rooms on the top floor will plans for the Ruth Deech Building were still adapt to provide space suitable for lectures, far off. Two aspects of College, however, talks, boardroom-style meetings, teaching remain strikingly the same. One is the or group study. The outreach room on the friendly, welcoming atmosphere amongst Library staff past and present. Back row left to first floor will welcome visitors and potential students and staff alike. St Anne’s isn’t just right: Catherine Hartley, Clare White; Front row future students by day and be used for a place to study and gain a qualification, left to right: Jocelyn English with her son Branimir, College events by night. When many of the David (no identification needed!), Sally Speirs. or a place to earn a living, it’s a community Jocelyn was Catherine’s predecessor. students leave for the summer, the building where each member has a part to play and will become a base for summer schools is encouraged and valued. The second is Our existing space in Hartland House is and conference guests. At the same time, that Hartland House still smells the same! not being forgotten in the excitement of the very existence of the new building As soon as you walk through the door the move to the new building. We intend has a deeper resonance for St Anne’s. It you are greeted by the familiar, comforting to keep roughly half of the collection in the fulfils the long-held desire to transform the aroma of coffee tinged with floor polish. It’s current library (mainly the humanities books) architecture of the front of College into a scent that tells you you’re home. I may and in time we hope to refurbish the reading something which is both attractive and have some way to go to fill those big shoes rooms, restoring them to their former glory makes a statement of who we are and of David’s, but it’s very nice to be back. what we do to all those venturing along whilst updating them to support the same Clare White (1990) Librarian technology available in the new building. the Woodstock Road. It also represents the steadfast support and generosity of

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St Anne’s new Library and Academic Centre As the new Library nears completion, we take a look at how the project has developed, changing the face of St Anne’s.

St Anne’s Gatehouse opened Donors visit the new Library site following completion of the piling in 1966 to provide work and the basement excavation in May 2015. accommodation for a growing number of students.

October 2014: the Gatehouse is removed enabling the construction of the new Library and Academic Centre. Demolition took just five days. View from the roof to the Tower of the Winds/Jim Meridew

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February 2016: topping out ceremony. Reflections from key members of the design team The best part for me has been to see the building come to life, from a sketch to what it is now. It’s looking sharp and elegant, redefining the entrance and giving a new presence for the College on to the street.

Work with the team has been rewarding and the commitment of all May 2016: new face on the street/Matias Musacchio to deliver quality is remarkable. The building is looking fantastic now that the scaffolding Working with the College as clients is off. The inside is marching on and, though the has been a pleasure and it fills me ceiling’s acoustic plastering is taking a little longer than with joy to have Fellows coming to hoped, it’s coming together. The engineering systems me to say how happy they are with are mostly installed; commissioning and testing has yet the building. to start in earnest. As Graham says, the downside The best aspect for me has been helping to shape the has been mainly timing. We should skyline of the College I once studied at. The worst? have finished towards the end of Knowing that the original programme hasn’t been met February... It’s now June. But it’s and not being able to do anything constructive about it beyond our control. because it’s in the hands of the contractor. Matias Musacchio Architect at Peeking out from behind the willow tree/ Graham Aldwinkle (1990) Structural Engineer at Arup Fletcher Priest Architects Matias Musacchio

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The ground floor as it will look once completed.

The furniture has been selected for the new Library and will include more relaxed seating areas in addition to desk space.

The new Library viewed from the College Quad. The Library is due for completion in autumn and will open to students in Michaelmas term 2016. There will be an official opening event in 2017 to which all donors to the campaign will be invited.

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Reflections on the first year JIM MERIDEW

All the usual – and not so usual – trials magnificent cherry at the top of Hartland as a throwaway line on day one I think. Not and mysteries of a first encounter, Drive is full of buds waiting to burst into wishing to appear stupid, I responded with, but some unexpected joys and many colour, a vivid cloud of sparkling white ‘Excellent. Thank you.’ Of course the ‘Stray’ delights in a unique place blossom. From a gardens perspective, a was where the ‘Pidge’ was – silly me. moment of hope and anticipation of the Reflecting, in a quieter moment, I wondered spectacular colours and shapes about to exactly what was a ‘Stray’. As it turns appear. Perhaps more on this later. out, Pidge was where the mail went and was short for pigeon hole, not particularly Set that against the other view from my difficult. Some 15 months later, sadly, I’m office of two rather serious looking students none the wiser as to why it’s called the in sub fusc, deep in conversation heading Stray. It just is. toward the wicket gate. Oh yes, it is Monday Week 1, Trinity Term – FINALS! I Inevitably though, as time progresses, have my fingers crossed for them and all the things start to take on a recognizable other finalists. shape and the rhythm of the term unfolds in its splendour about you. Worryingly, it Those two views – the students and the all seemed to unfold a bit too quickly for gardens – seem eternal and probably, to When asked by Judith if I would write my liking with committee meeting after outsiders, a world apart from the normal something for The Ship my first thought committee meeting following each other day-to-day life on the Woodstock and was, ‘Wow, fantastic!’ followed by ’What, in rapid succession. I was told that is how Banbury Roads. So it was for me in January me?’ I was quickly reassured. She felt that Oxford runs - so I just learnt to run more 2015 when I walked through the Lodge on a more personal reflection of my first 15 quickly! day one. Of course, I had been here for my months (I wrote a short piece for the 2015 selection procedure some months before, I’ve often been asked, ‘Do you miss the Annual Review) and also some words on but rather like the two students in sub Royal Air Force?’ Like many others in Bursar the gardens at St Anne’s in this ‘Year of fusc, my mind was full of other things – like roles, I had a former life in the military. The the English Garden’ would be well worth making sure that I said all that I needed to answer is always the same. ‘No not really, the space. As I write this in my office, the say to the selection panel. but I do miss the people.’ For me, people trees on the quad are bursting into leaf, the are what make an organization. I have magnolia is covered with the most exquisite That first week, indeed the first few months, been hugely impressed by the team that blooms, the Ribes sanguineum ‘Pulborough went past in a blur of people and events. is St Anne’s and in particular, the Bursary Scarlet’ dotted throughout college (flowering What was this strange language that who are the bedrock for the services the currant to you and me) are smothered people used? ‘Your Pidge is in the Stray students and academics receive. in beautiful raspberry pink blooms. The and your fob gets you in,’ was mentioned

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good it was. Fifteen months later, I am still in awe of the standards the chefs achieve and how they maintain their passion for excellence. Raymond Killick has been Head Chef for over 25 years; his sole focus is being the best we can be. He is a fantastic role model.

The broader estate is where we perhaps do not quite scale the heights reached by the chefs. We have an interesting blend of buildings: Victorian houses, a beautiful Grade II listed Hartland House, iconic Wolfson and Rayne and a series of other buildings whose architecture, whilst striking, never quite matches the other bits of the estates. What do they all have in common? Maintenance. To varying extents, they all Blossom in spring/Jim Meridew cost a lot to keep in good order. There is no doubt that some bits of the estate are In today’s financial climate, there are, business to take advantage of any spare looking a little tired. Often though, it all inevitably, competing demands. On the capacity in the system. This is being comes down to money. We have invested in one hand, our prime reason for being here marketed competitively (i.e.: to undercut the estate but the prioritisation that always is to support the teaching and research. our near neighbours!). So do please get accompanies the shortfall of income over However, at the end of each term, we have in touch with the College if you would like expenditure means that those important to run conferences and events in order relatively inexpensive B&B accommodation. little (and sometimes not so little) jobs get for the former to happen. It has been like Of course it is bed AND breakfast. Food. pushed to the right. We are in need of work that for many years but my perception is A college not only runs on committees on the Bevington Road houses to restore/ that the conference and events role has but also on its food. My goodness, how upgrade; the how, is occupying mine and assumed greater prominence and has wonderful the food is at St Anne’s. I vividly the Treasurer’s minds. The estate is always a direct correlation to the decrease in recall my first Domus Seminar in Hilary work in progress and will never be finished. government funding. We have to do this 2015. I had been here two weeks and I to survive. Nonetheless, the conference attended the lecture by Dr Francis Szele So looking back over 15 months what are and events team, so ably led by Lisa on regeneration of brain cells – most of my thoughts? By Oxford standards, we Simmons, is constantly seeking new ways mine were exhausted by the end and were are a modern college and we do not have to bolster the income. We are moving beyond regeneration. Dinner afterwards the burden of history stopping us from towards expanding our individual B&B bowled me over. I could not believe how innovative actions. The new Library will be

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a signature building that will be our face on the Woodstock Road and will showcase that innovation. We want the building to be a space where students and academics can work to expand their minds and develop their subject knowledge. I count myself enormously privileged and excited to be part of this team that is St Anne’s. Collectively, without forgetting our origins, we look forward with an open mind and a spring in our step.

Spring – I have conveniently come back to where I started: in the garden. I mentioned earlier the view seeming eternal but, of course, nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to a garden. If they are anything like mine, they are always evolving; so it is here. I spoke with a former Head Gardener – Simon Horwood – who was here 20 years ago and got him to walk round with me describing the changes that had taken place over the past 20 Blackbird in the gardens/Jim Meridew years or so. Simon was appointed by my predecessor bar one (Eric Bennett) over van in which you had to hold the doors shut came with its own unique character. One what Simon described as a coffee and cake while driving) to said house of bamboo. Bev had a wild garden, two had a weeping interview. Eric’s instruction to Simon was, He recounts how the chap answered the willow. There was a commemorative birch ‘The gardens need to evolve!’ knock on the door dressed in wellies and tree in 10 Bev that had to be moved to shorts. It was not until they had filled the the quad – it is looking wonderful. As each And evolve they did. One tale relates to the van up with bamboo that he was made layer of discoloured bark sloughs away, a black bamboo that is in the garden at the aware that this chap was the holder of the pristine new white skin appears, constantly rear of 37 Banbury (now the IT office). By national collection of bamboo! Twenty years renewing itself. all accounts, Simon wanted to plant some on and it is a magnificent clump of bamboo bamboo in the garden. Dr Stuart Judge Looking round the Quad, the spectacular with glossy, ebony stems some 3 metres told him of a friend who lived in Boars Hill weeping willow, the wisteria rapaciously tall – a fantastic sight. In the Bevingtons, who had some bamboo. Heartened by this winding itself round the balcony, a hibiscus before the Ruth Deech Building came into Simon set off in the college van (an old BT waiting to bud, represent the past and being, all of the gardens had walls and each

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the continuing evolution of the wonderful gardens in St Anne’s. On the other side of Garden reflections the Quad, framing the entrance into Claire for their chapel. And the encroachments of Palley, the Sarcococca (Christmas Box) did Thistles and all the College lawns. As for College gardens, not do so well this year. Last winter it was ‘The back garden of 27 Banbury Road as opposed to the individual backs of the wonderful. But I’m sure it will have given was a jungle of thistles and brambles in houses in which we lived, all there seemed many students, in the dark depths of Hilary 1962-63. Things were much more meagre to be were some venerable trees and Term, pleasure over the years. in those days, still feeling post-war austerity. The same garden is now a joy! smooth green lawns. No landscaping or As I get to this point in the article, John has planting. And though it’s hard to imagine, appeared outside my window! Who is John, The main lawn and trees were there of there was no actual ‘entrance’ to the what is he? (Apologies to Shakespeare!) course but without the present lovely under- College other than the individual front doors John is the College gardener – we now planting of spring bulbs. The lawn was to the houses in which we lived. I hardly contract out our gardens to University always somewhere to lie out on and pretend noticed the ‘gardens’ that confronted me in Parks. This means that the focus has that one was revising.’ College: lawns and trees did not a garden shifted more to maintenance of what we Jane Darnton (Baker 1962) make. The changes over the past 20 years have in place rather than the evolution or so have been stunning: a delight to visit that took place when we had our own Where was the garden? and enjoy. Thank you.’ gardeners. That said, I hope to be part ‘Thirty-three Banbury didn’t really have a Anon of the evolutionary approach and rather garden. Taken up with the nuns’ extension like the birch tree on the Quad renewing itself, I hope to be able to renew some of the borders that have lost their definition. Perhaps some more exotic plants – cannas, lilies…who knows?

What I do know is that after 15 months I am delighted and fortunate to be part of a great team in a great College with great surroundings. Like spring, change is in the air. I’m thrilled to be part of it.

Jim Meridew Domestic Bursar is responsible for the College’s buildings, grounds, catering, accommodation allocation and cleaning, conferences and events. Blossom outside 35 Banbury Road/Jim Meridew

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The scent of lilac… There was an ancient gardener with whom I the garden of 27, there was always the used to chat on the way, who always called sound of birdsong and in spring a view of ‘When I went up to St Anne’s in 1960 I me “my ducks” in a lovely Cotswold accent. blossom. I loved it.’ was allocated a room in the Convent of From my rooms, both of which overlooked the Sacred Heart, 11 Norham Gardens. I Frances Cairncross (1962) remember the strong perfume of the purple lilac trees that grew outside my ground floor window, the spring bulbs and later the rose bushes in the garden where we used to study whenever the weather allowed it, in particular during the weeks before Schools. A large peaceful garden was a novelty and a delight for one raised and educated in urban Liverpool.’

Judith Altshul (Davis 1960) … and birdsong ‘The walk through the gardens from the main lawn to the back of 27 Banbury Road, where I spent my first and second years, Bluebells in spring/Jim Meridew was one of the treats of my time in Oxford.

More than just a business JOHN FORD

As government support for further years working in international banking. Life So having begun my career just before education continues to diminish, now seems to have run full circle. It seems the so called financial services ‘big bang’ colleges need to find ever more bizarre looking back over that time, in what in 1986 I was able to witness the end of creative ways of generating income seems like a blink of an eye, but since the old style British banking sector and those early diffident days I have been able its evolution into what, despite its recent There is an ageing copy of the Oxbridge to work with some great people, visit some travails, is the globally dominant business Careers Handbook of 1988 on my fascinating places and experience a whole that exists in the UK today. In the early bookshelf at home. Within this there is variety of different jobs within the industry. I 1980s US banks were beginning to a rather vacuous article from a young even managed to survive the so-called great move into London and were keen to hire graduate trainee describing his first five financial crisis of 2007/08 (just about). graduates, even Oxford history graduates,

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from Northern grammar schools with history and their architecture. In the case We have a great deal to do over the only a smattering of basic numeracy. I still of St Anne’s, the former might be short but next few years although we might take a think banking will offer a rewarding and the latter is very open and eclectic, with breather from construction. As government interesting career to today’s graduates but it some clear ambition on top. I was very support for further education continues to will quite rightly be more like a conventional struck by the lack of hierarchy and genuine diminish, we need to continue to look at service industry. There is no appetite from friendliness right across the College. other ways to generate income. We do not regulators, politicians or society at large want to be over-reliant on just one or two As Treasurer I am part of a small for a return to the risk taking and financial areas. Much has been written about how management team that helps manage arbitrage of the recent past. cheap borrowing is for Oxford colleges. As the College day to day. I have particular a former banker I know we need to look at So after 30 plus years in this particular responsibility for financial management, some of these opportunities but everything field I was looking for a change. Looking making sure we can balance the books, we do needs to be sustainable and within indeed for a new career where I could apply pay for what we need to do and not run the resources at our disposal. my financial and commercial knowledge out of cash. St Anne’s has a well-deserved in a different context. I have always been reputation for having been particularly I am looking forward very much to working attracted to the world of education. My innovative and enterprising over the years. with all the Fellows and Staff across the mother was a school teacher (although It has had to be. The College is a collection College, and in particular with current and she hated it). My father trained as a school of distinct activities which all exist primarily former students, to make sure we are teacher but never practised. However, he to support the provision of a first-class all doing what we can to keep St Anne’s was an academic manqué and gained education. There is a question about special, both now and in the future. an MA from Manchester University in his education as a business and whether late sixties. I have always had a strong that is an appropriate way to describe it. connection with Oxford, particularly my old However, there needs to be a commercial college, Queen’s. When the opportunity rigour about what we do to keep the came up at St Anne’s, the recruitment agent College doing what it does best. The subtle insisted that I visit the College early on to management of this blend of priorities is get a feeling for the spirit of the place. In another example of what makes St Anne’s a sense that was it: even on a cold grey special. day in December it felt special and right for I am lucky to have taken over from Chris me. That impression was reinforced when I Wigg, who was well regarded as an spent time with Tim and the other Fellows. excellent Treasurer. The College is in a Much is written about St Anne’s being sound financial condition. I am also very special, but for newcomers like me what lucky with the Treasury team around me impresses most is its open and friendly under Jackie Kuspisz, including Irene, culture. I agree with the maxim that Oxford Anita and Jenny, with the recent addition of colleges are very much the product of their Aysha. John Ford Treasurer

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From the Development Office JULES FOSTER

Work continues on developing the these or the other things we are working on. Donations can be made online at http:// alumnae community and facilitating I look forward to seeing many of you at our tinyurl.com/studentwelfarefund. connections across the world upcoming events in 2016/17. There will be a farewell afternoon tea for Tim In the past 12 months, we’ve continued to 1980s campaign as part of the Alumni Weekend on Saturday look for ways to engage with you through Thanks to the support of our 1980s 17 September. I hope that many of you will our events, the 1980s campaign, telephone alumnae, especially our campaign be able to attend this as well as the other campaigns, our lost alumnae campaign champions (fourteen alumnae who are events taking place at St Anne’s and across and by building up networks, for example, driving this initiative forwards), £87,521 Oxford throughout the weekend. on social media. Thanks to your support has been raised and we are currently Careers network we have raised a fantastic £4.5million in looking to further increase involvement We have just re-launched the Careers 2014/15 including £530k to the Annual and engagement rates via one-to-one Network to our current students and we Fund and £3.1m to the new Library and contact with champions, events, finding are encouraging alumnae to sign up to this Academic Centre. With work on the lost alumnae and encouraging people to to offer support and mentoring. We are new Library shortly due for completion, become involved in College activities such using the Oxford Alumni Community (www. we will be writing to all those who made as outreach work. In March 2017, we will be oxfordalumnicommunity.org) to connect donations towards book rests, the donor launching a 1990s campaign. students with alumnae who have indicated boards, desks, etc., to confirm the details Tim Gardam Student Welfare Fund that they are willing to help. This web for these. I’d also like to thank those who With the Principal leaving this July, we platform is also designed to help alumnae have spoken at careers events, facilitated launched a campaign to create an endowed connect with each other all over the world. outreach and access, and volunteered as a fund in his name to mark his time at St We will encourage students to search for member of the SAS Committee (particularly Anne’s which will help ensure the costs of St Anne’s alumnae, by selecting St Anne’s Jackie Ingram and Clare Dryhurst who have welfare support are covered in the years College in the Directory. If you would like to now stepped down as joint Presidents) or in to come. St Anne’s has appointed a Dean be a part of this community and offer advice our regional branches throughout the UK. of Welfare, to help students who need to to current students, full details are available In 2016, we welcomed Kelly Roddy to the share their worries with someone. The on our website: http://www.st-annes.ox.ac. Development Office to take up the role of College has also put in place a network uk/alumnae/benefits/careers/careers- Alumnae Relations Officer. Kelly is a first of peer supporters and Assistant Deans, network. point of contact for all alumnae and can be and works closely with the University You can sign up with your Oxford Alumni contacted at [email protected]. Counselling service. Tim would love to see a Online Account (this is the same as for the fund established to help the College to meet Below, I have included information about University and St Anne’s login areas). If this intensifying demand. You can find out some of our key projects at present. Please you need to register, you can do so via the further details on our website. do get in touch with the Development Office University of Oxford website. if you’d like to know more about any of Jules Foster Director of Development

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Adapt to survive LOUISE RICHARDSON

‘Not traditional, not male not even British.’ Oxford’s new Vice-Chancellor breaks the mould as she calls for a fast-moving University with the capacity to transform lives globally, and to show ‘agility’ in the face of a dramatically changing world, if it is to be successful in addressing the challenges of the future while building on its heritage

As we think about the spires of Oxford, let’s not forget the people of Oxford, with whom we have shared this city for so many centuries and who have supported Professor Louise Richardson outside the Radcliffe Camera/John Cairns the University, housing and feeding us and working with us in our colleges, labs and writing and teaching at this University the accumulated treasures of the thoughts libraries. for a very long time. They were here for of mankind.’ I can never hear that sentence Scholars have been coming here to hundreds of years before the printing without thinking immediately of the Bodleian study, teachers to teach and students press, before Genghis Khan established and the Ashmolean. Mill went on to say: to learn, for so long that we don’t even the Mongol empire, long before Agincourt The moral or religious influence which know precisely how long. We do know and even before the Magna Carta. Very few a university can exercise consists less that teaching existed here in 1096. We organizations or institutions have lasted in any express teaching, than in the know that the University rapidly developed nearly as long. This University, and others pervading tone of the place. Whatever after 1167 when Henry ll banned English like it, and there aren’t many, have lasted it teaches it should teach as penetrated students from attending the University of this long because of the enduring value of by a sense of duty; it should present all Paris, an early example of what might be what we do. knowledge as chiefly a means towards considered regulatory over-reach, and John Stuart Mill was elected Rector of my worthiness in life, given for the double an early indication that education is an old university, St Andrews, in 1865. When purpose of making each of us practically international phenomenon. Indeed, the first he addressed the students he told them: useful to his fellow creatures, and of known overseas student arrived in 1190. ‘A university exists for the purpose of laying elevating the character of the species We know that scholars have been thinking, open to each succeeding generation . . . itself, exalting and dignifying our nature.

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There is nothing which spreads more Huxley-Wilberforce debate in the University not fossilise in our hands. They must not contagiously from teacher to pupil than Museum in 1860 made clear, Darwin’s become an immutable bundle passed like elevation of sentiment, often and often insight was that it is not the strongest, but a sealed package from one generation to have students caught from the living the most adaptable, that survive. the next. Rather, we inherit our traditions, influence of a professor, a contempt for we infuse them with our values, and we The Chancellor referred to my compatriot, mean and selfish objects, and a noble pass them on to the next generation, subtly Edmund Burke: like him, I am a graduate ambition to leave the world better than altered, containing part of ourselves, and of Trinity College Dublin. Burke belonged they found it. enriched from having been in our hands. to a small and distinguished group of The world has changed since Mill spoke. Irishmen that included his contemporaries Our traditions remind us of our obligations At that time about thirteen-and-a-half Castlereagh and Wellington, who were to our forebears, they are a part of our thousand academic articles were published largely written out of Irish history, in part conversation with our predecessors and our each year. Today the figure is over one-and- because of their role in British history. Burke successors. If we permit our traditions to a-half million. There were 200 students at famously wrote in his Reflections on the become a legitimization for the exclusion of St Andrews, 1,400 in Oxford, and less than Revolution in France, that a society without others we do these traditions a disservice. 10,000 nationally, as compared with 2.3 the means of change is without the means We cherish our traditions but we must not million today. The fundamental purpose of of its own conservation. allow them to become a rationalization for universities, however, has not changed, and the protection of privilege. We must never This University has changed over the that is why we have survived and thrived. forget just how extraordinarily privileged we years. It has grown in size, in the range are to live and work in this amazing place Universities do serve as guardians of our of the subjects taught and in the make- which for hundreds of years has been home culture, but they also serve as engines of up of students and staff. I wonder what – and remains home – to some of the most the economy, as drivers of social mobility, an early graduate would think if he were creative minds on the planet. as foundations of our democracy and transported forward through time. He would always, as generators of ideas. They have be surprised by the comfort of our lives, the One can pick any field and marvel at the done so for hundreds of years and if we do quality of the food, the luxury of electricity contributions made by scholars at Oxford. our jobs well they will continue to do so for and cars, surprised by the absence of From Roger Bacon’s conception of science hundreds more years. clerics and the presence of women, but as the experimental study of nature in the the basic model would be familiar to him, thirteenth century; to William Harvey’s work There is, of course, nothing inevitable about scholars convening to study together and on the heart and Thomas Willis’s work the survival of universities, and longevity in students travelling to learn from them. on the brain in the seventeenth century; itself is no virtue. Many of the universities to Dorothy Hodgkin’s discovery of the that existed both in Europe and Asia when The extent of the change might briefly be structure of penicillin during World War II; Oxford began are unknown today. Those disguised by the ancient traditions we still to the Oxford Knee today, people at Oxford that have flourished have done so by practise. Our traditions draw us together have been responsible for some of the staying firm in their commitment to their as a community. They bind us to our most important medical discoveries. Our core values, while adapting to the changing predecessors and our successors, but it current medics are continuing this trend world around them. As the famous is our responsibility to ensure that they do

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as evidenced by the fact that medicine at This is both an awesome and inspiring traditional, male, British institution who Oxford has been ranked number one in the lineage, and a huge responsibility. Their was not at all traditional, male, or even world for the fifth year in a row. achievements should both inspire and British. Stanley would have delighted in the humble us as we contemplate how we paradox of new twenty-first century theories The religious life of the country has similarly navigate the changing waters around us. of education discovering the powers of been greatly influenced across the centuries personalised education, long valued and and across the denominations by men The challenge for us is: what are we going practised in the traditional tutorial system like John Wycliffe, Sir Thomas More, to do to prove ourselves worthy of this of ancient colleges here. He would have Cardinal Wolsey, John Wesley and Cardinal extraordinary inheritance? How are we delighted in the paradox of an institution Newman, not to mention the generations of going to continue to contribute at the often considered inward looking and British- clerics who have played such pivotal roles highest levels across a range of disciplines? focused selling 135 million educational in their local communities. The intellectual How are we going to enhance this legacy? books and resources in 63 languages life of the country, and far beyond, has been It’s our turn. What are we going to do with across 150 countries last year alone, and immeasurably enriched by the writings of it? 33 million students learning English with philosophers such as Erasmus, Hobbes, We have many advantages; we have OUP materials. Locke, Toynbee and Berlin. access to the half of the population who We face many challenges but in homage to I find it astounding to consider that this were excluded throughout much of Oxford’s Stanley Hoffmann I will limit myself to three one University has been home to poets: history. We have access to people from all external challenges and three internal ones. John Donne, Gerald Manley Hopkins, over the world and greater means to bring Externally we face technological change, Shelley, Auden, Eliot, and Robert Penn them here. We have resources of which our globalization, spiralling costs and pressure Warren; home to writers: Samuel Johnson, predecessors could only have dreamt. for value. Jonathan Swift, John Buchan, Lewis Just a month ago I attended the memorial Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Graham Greene, CS Advances in technology are transforming service for the late, great, Professor Stanley Lewis, VS Naipaul and so many others; all our lives and in myriad ways. Students Hoffmann. He was my teacher, mentor and home to extraordinary men like Sir Walter now arrive at university fully networked friend, and I wish he were here today. He Raleigh, Edmund Halley, Adam Smith and with their friends and family around the belonged to that extraordinary generation Christopher Wren. world. They are accustomed to instant of European intellectuals who survived the access to information on the Internet, to Their contributions to British life and to catastrophe of World War II; he moved to watching films on laptops, and to reading humanity at large are incalculable. It is no America and devoted his career to trying to books on tablets, and to doing all three exaggeration to say that this country, and understand what had happened and how to simultaneously while eating lunch and indeed the world, would be a much lesser prevent its recurrence and to appreciating chatting to their mother on Skype. place without their work. And let’s not what might have been lost. forget, of course, that the University has Interestingly, one of the trends in Stanley was fond of paradoxes and always educated 26 British Prime Ministers, 30 technological developments is towards spoke in threes. He would have delighted global leaders, 50 Nobel laureates and 120 personalization: of medicine, of our phones, to see someone at the helm of a famously Olympic medal winners. our cars, our online newspapers and our

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social networks. A personalized education 2010, Eric Schmidt of Google pointed out a figure that has more than doubled in a is of course at the heart of what has always that: ‘Every two days we create as much decade. been provided in our Oxford colleges. Far information as we did from the dawn of As travel becomes cheaper and from educating students for a particular civilization to 2003.’ New technologies communications easier, as more countries job, we must educate our students with the provide extraordinary opportunities through offer instruction in English, as immigration flexibility and creativity to be prepared for the powers of digitization to make our policies become more restrictive in some jobs we cannot even imagine today. unrivalled collections available across the countries, and others invest heavily in a globe to anyone with access to the Internet. Only a few years ago universities were targeted group of campuses, patterns Technology provides challenges to our being declared defunct, dead at the hands of mobility are likely to change. We are libraries but we can preserve the library of Massive Open Online Courses. The initial already seeing early indications of this. as an intellectual hub of university life by wave of euphoria that greeted the arrival of We have also seen the rapid development bringing new technologies inside, adapting MOOCs, in which world-famous teachers of transnational education as universities to the ways our students learn, educating could teach their courses, for free, to establish branch campuses overseas them to be wise consumers in a world anyone and everyone interested, has been either alone or in partnership with local of information overload, teaching them tempered by the reality that the completion universities. the difference between information and rate for these courses rarely hits 5 per knowledge, and instilling in them a desire In straitened times foreign students are cent, that those taking the courses tend for wisdom. major financial contributors. In 2011/12 to be well educated males in first world the higher education sector as a whole countries, rather than impoverished women We must always remain open to the generated £10.7 billion in export earnings and men in the developing world, and that potential of new technologies and have for the UK. The real contribution of foreign successful business plans, the means the agility to exploit the opportunities they students, however, is not captured by by which participation is assessed, and present us. these figures: it lies in the diversity of costs covered, have not been developed. The much criticised – and more often perspective they bring with them. I used The early experience of MOOCs has consulted – world rankings and global to teach classes to Master’s students in St demonstrated what has long been known league tables remind us that we are Andrews (on terrorism). It is rare in these here, that there is no substitute for the operating in a global market place. This is classes for more than two students to share personal interaction between student and not a new phenomenon but the scale is a nationality. The quality of debate that teacher. unprecedented. We now compete globally takes place in a classroom in which nobody But there is no going back: technology will for both academics and students. Nearly shares your assumptions, and yet everyone transform how we operate. 50 per cent of our academic and research respects your right to an opinion, on a topic staff are citizens of foreign countries, along as charged as terrorism, is unrivalled. It is The pace of change is accelerating at a with 62 per cent of graduate students and exactly the kind of education we should be breath-taking rate and we need to be able almost 18 per cent of undergraduates. providing our students to prepare them to to keep up. Today most of us carry more Globally an estimated 5 million students enter a globalized world. computing power in our cell phone than are studying outside their home country, existed on the Apollo space mission. In It’s not only students who are mobile, of

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course. Academics are even more so. live and work. It seems reasonable to me, for tomorrow who have been educated to The brain drain is now a brain train as therefore, that the costs should be shared think critically, to act ethically and always academics move across borders from both by the individual and by society at to question, these are the people who will one university to another in search of large. prevent the next financial crisis; who will opportunities and resources. Half of the help us to grapple with the fundamental There are many factors driving up the costs world’s top physicists no longer work questions prompted by the accelerating of education: new technologies and global in their home country and cross-border pace of technological change, as we competition are two, another is investment science collaboration (as measured by the confront profound ethical choices about in ensuring that those with the talent to percentage of internationally co-authored the prolongation and even replication of be admitted have the resources to attend. articles) has more than doubled. Oxford is life. People who will force us to confront These are all necessary costs, willingly well represented in this development. Our the costs we are imposing on the next incurred. Centre for Tropical Medicine, for example, generation by our wasteful use of the earth’s is conducting cutting-edge research at its Less necessary is the ever increasing cost resources; who will articulate our obligation labs in Kenya, Vietnam and Thailand, and of compliance with ever more bureaucratic, to the vulnerable, the poor, the victims of numerous other countries. ever more intrusive and ever less useful war, oppression and disease, wherever they regulation, much of it, paradoxically live. If we continue to focus on research Competition for students, staff and research enough, designed to ensure value for and teaching, we will produce both those funding is not in itself a problem – on the money. Instead it diverts resources – both destined to make transformative scientific contrary, it can cause us to raise our game, financial and intellectual – from the central discoveries as well as those who can to learn from others, to question how we tasks of research and teaching. Strikingly assess the implications of those discoveries do things and to figure out how to do them there is little or no effort to measure the for the rest of society. These contributions better. The trend towards globalization, effectiveness of all these measurements may never be translatable to a spreadsheet, nevertheless, will pose real questions for the and no correlation at all between the but they are invaluable. place of universities as national institutions, degree of public funding and the degree as their students, staff, research funding In order to remain globally competitive of bureaucratic control. There is, however, and even teaching facilities become less we have no alternative but to become an incontrovertible and empirically-based and less national. altogether more creative in devising ways correlation between the quality and the of raising revenue to supplement declining This brings us to the rising costs of autonomy of universities. public investment. Private philanthropy education and who should pay for it. Derek In a time of limited national resources, is one way, and Oxford has been highly Bok, former President of Harvard, once insistence on value for money is successful in this regard, but we have to said: ‘If you think education is expensive, understandable and we must be keenly do more if we are to compete with the try ignorance.’ Education is expensive, cognisant of our obligations to the state eye-watering endowments of our American and likely to become more so, it is also that funds us. Our time horizons, however, competitors. Another way is to capitalize invaluable. The benefits of education, both are longer. If we continue to do what we on the extraordinary talent in the university financial and intangible accrue both to the do best we will inevitably help the country and energetically forge links with industry individual and to the society in which they manage its future. If we can provide leaders and other external groups to develop and

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translate ideas born here. Again, we have time, on the research and teaching that to use to harness the extraordinary talents led the way nationally in this regard but are attracted us into academia in the first place? of the women and men who study and behind many international competitors. How do we ensure that the exceptional work here to help find answers. We need people drawn here derive real intellectual to figure out how to work more effectively Simply put, if we are going to maintain a benefit from being in the company of so together internally in order to compete more pre-eminent position in a fast-changing many others? In short: how do we ensure effectively externally, to advance this unique world we are both going to have to operate that the whole University of Oxford is greater institution, to secure our place among the more efficiently and to generate additional than the sum of its many fabulous parts? top universities in the world, and ensure that sources of support. we stay there. Second: How do we replace ourselves? As we address all these challenges, and How do we ensure that we are continuing to The time is limited, students have three or many others, we have many advantages. attract the very best students and scholars? four years, I have seven, faculty have more We know that we continue to serve as a In an increasingly complex world the best but it’s finite too. Let’s all make the most magnet for brilliant students and staff; we may not be those who look and sound like of the time we have here in this privileged, know that we are united by a belief in the ourselves. They may not be those who magical, extraordinary place to leave it even power of education to transform lives, in naturally think of coming to Oxford. Those better than we found it. Let’s keep our eyes the pursuit of truth as an end in itself, a with the greatest potential may not be those firmly fixed on the future, without forgetting belief in the value of what can’t be counted, who have already attained the most. We the traditions that bind us to our forebears a belief, in Seamus Heaney’s words, in need to go out and seek them. and the values and interests that unite us to ‘the books stand(ing) open and the gates one another. unbarred’ in being ‘here for good in every Third: How do we ensure that we educate sense’. It is as a community encompassing our students both to embrace complexity Please join me: it will be hard, it will be fun, many perspectives but with shared core and retain conviction, while daring ‘to but we owe it to those on whose shoulders values that we will also address our internal disturb the universe’; to understand that we stand, and Oxford deserves no less than challenges. an Oxford education is not meant to be our very best. a comfortable experience, an Oxford The internal challenges we face are very This is an edited version of the admission education is not intended to guarantee a different. address given by Professor Louise livelihood? How do we ensure that they Richardson on her formal appointment First: How do we organize ourselves appreciate the value of engaging with ideas as Vice-Chancellor on 12 January 2016. to ensure that we are creating the best they find objectionable, trying through She joins Oxford from the University of possible environment for the remarkable reason to change another’s mind, while St Andrews, where she was Principal academics and students drawn to work always being open to changing their own? and Vice-Chancellor for seven years. She here? How do we ensure that we organize How do we ensure that our students was previously Executive Dean of the ourselves to respond with agility to understand the true nature of freedom of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at opportunities as they arise? How do we inquiry and expression? Harvard University and is an internationally- organize ourselves to ensure that we use These are the questions I bring with me to renowned scholar of terrorism and security our most valuable and finite resource, our this role. These are the questions I hope studies.

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There be dragons JACKIE INGRAM

It’s not only the centre of Oxford and diversity and one that certainly cannot be of which clung on until 2013) have gone. the University that is changing. Take described as ‘set in aspic’. There were also two fishmongers (before a walk up the Cowley Road into the my time). When I arrived, there was still a On a cold and wet April day I wandered city’s golden triangle where things are haberdashery/sewing machine shop, now down the Cowley Road reflecting on shifting even faster an electric bicycle specialist; Darcy’s the what is there and what has gone. In my tiny newsagent, now subsumed by the I moved back to Oxford in 1992. After 13 own immediate neighbourhood, trends neighbouring halal butcher and general food years in London and a year travelling it was and fashions have played their part in the store, itself formerly an electrical and TV a pleasure to return to the City I thought I businesses that have come and gone even repair shop – and one of the fishmongers had got to know as a St Anne’s student. while I have been around. before that – and a highly individual, I found myself, by luck rather than The wonderful hardware shop, originally independent bookshop. For nearly 30 years judgement, living in the triangle formed established in 1910 and moved along this was on the site of a former fish and chip by Cowley Road, Iffley Road and Howard the road to different premises (formerly a shop until the bookshop itself finally closed Street. This was foreign territory to me. I bakery) in about 1936, has been in the in 2014 to be replaced by an organic health can’t have gone beyond the Plain more than same family for three generations, but store. about three times as an undergraduate; the two traditional butcher’s shops (one life centred around St Anne’s, the central historic part of Oxford, the colleges, the Law Defunct Music Hall and former Elm Tree library in St Cross, Oxford Playhouse and pub converted to new uses. the Covered Market, with some sorties to the Phoenix Cinema in Jericho.

I do remember braving the uncomfortable seats and the terror of ‘Don’t look now’ at the Penultimate (as it then was) Picture Palace, but the Cowley Road was otherwise an unknown quantity.

I have now been living in East Oxford (not quite Cowley) for 24-plus years and feel it is my neck of the woods. I am sure there are lots of nooks and crannies I haven’t yet discovered; it is a place of very considerable

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Another site in the road has been, in turn, shops and businesses there in a place he a photocopy shop, florist, retro household thought he already knew. The local book store and photographer’s studio. All are group to which I belong read it the following gone and it is now a design business: rather year and had an interesting evening in a a case of blink and you’ll miss it if you think Cowley Road curry house talking to the in decades. However, other places seem to author about it. It is extraordinary how much have become established. The tropical fish the Cowley Road has changed even since store – alive and swimming, not for eating then. – has been open for over five decades. The A slightly random attempt to remember this vegetarian café, where a Dewhurst butcher aspect of my past, dredges up recollections operated, has for years been a haunt for of the final remaining fishmonger; it lasted those wanting hearty lunchtime fare and a only a matter of months after I started to place for children and friends to talk over explore Cowley Road. Another one put up drinks and cakes. an attempt to establish itself since then, but The area has certainly become more it didn’t survive. ‘foody’. The nearest pub, decidedly Other stalwarts included Mays carpet store traditional and a trifle gloomy when I arrived, Rusty Bicycle pub and Silvester’s Stores (the victim of a fire in the 1990s and later a has been transformed by a change in cycle shop). The old Co-operative Society variety of items you might need, has gone brewery into a popular place for locals and Halls is now the site of a very popular venue from opposite the larger supermarket and students to drink and eat. Other hostelries for live music which has queues of young in its place is a café and adjacent deli. Food range from a gastropub, which opened to people outside in the evenings and earlier in has become the main feature of the road’s much acclaim, to cocktail bars and places the day one can see the bands’ equipment provision for the local populace. I have to hang out and watch football or listen to being unloaded from enormous vehicles. counted 65 bars, restaurants, cafés, and live music. One of the butchers has also fast food shops (this will probably change become a family-run restaurant, which you More lately, a computer repair and next week), and the recent trend appears will be lucky to get into without booking in accessory shop has closed; alarmingly to be for fancy cake shops and ice-cream/ advance. It is next door to what was a bike vibrant-coloured gateaux have taken the dessert parlours. There were five – though repair shop which gave job experience to place of cables and disks. The former of the three ice cream places that popped young people but has since become the offices of Basil Blackwell Books, built as up in recent times, one appears to be gone, centre of pavement café life round here as a Conservative Club with hall, was later already replaced by another, where once well as offering brunches. used as a music hall and cinema. It was a cheap furniture store had been. Nor is reopened in 2008 to provide office space In 2007 a local author, James Attlee, there any shortage of places to have one’s to organizations, many of them charitable published Isolarian, a quirky narrative hair cut; my current tally from the Plain to concerns. ‘pilgrimage’ up the Cowley Road looking at Magdalen Road being 10, depending on the personalities, histories and roles of the The newsagent also selling snacks and a whether you want a barber or unisex salon.

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While the ‘robemaker’, which for years displayed a barrister’s wig and gown in the window, and could make robes for clerics, lawyers and academics, has moved out of Oxford, it has been replaced by an enterprising tailor offering clothes alteration and repair alongside dry cleaning. There is, I think, only one laundrette available to those who don’t have access to a private washing machine, but four charity shops and at least three bookmakers as well as a pawnbroker, not to mention the nail bar. The 1907 Co-operative Society Halls, now an O2 academy, a cinema and ‘popular venue for live music’

On the other hand, there are some highly now a shop offering comics and graphic of food stuffs both local and from other individual shops that maintain Cowley novels, a specialist in musical instruments continents make Cowley Road, the centre Road’s reputation for the unusual. with studio and recording equipment is of East Oxford’s street life, quite a gem. another, while a third, with somewhat The corner shop, which offered knitting I feel my age a little now. I have lived here unusual opening hours, hires out lighting wool and buttons, was not able to survive longer than anywhere else. There are times and sound equipment for parties. here and the much-loved bead shop, where when I look at some hoarding before a you could buy beautiful beads of glass or The bank has gone but we still have a shop-front and think, ‘Oh! – what happened shell, singly or in little bags, or rifle about kitchen design shop, which has been there to that?’ Sometimes, it’s even, ‘What was for second hand clothes or velvet curtains, for 29 years. It is where Nichols, a baby- there before?’ has given up. It was a bike shop for a while care shop, once stood and next door – the Going to London to my old haunts is and now seems to be a centre advising on evidence displayed in a photograph – was even more of a shock! However, change ‘personal independence plans’. Opposite, the ‘Cowley Bargain Store’, an outfitter is inevitable, our surroundings are not yet an independent interior design shop offering which also dealt in government surplus entirely homogenous and noticing the colours one dreams about is near to stores. Where Boots now trades, was incremental shifts is one way to live in the housing for students, the site of which used once a school, long gone and presumably moment and value what is available to enjoy to be home to a second-hand furniture remembered by only a few – it was closed right now. store where I once bought a filing cabinet. in 1936. The tool shop where I bought items There used to be at least three round here; for DIY when I bought my first home in the To those who think that dragons lie beyond the other two are now a private house and a area, is a loss, but is now a second-hand Magdalen Bridge, come and see what tattoo parlour. clothes shop where you can find vintage there is here, in the golden triangle of East garments from Italy or Germany. The UPP Oxford. However, Cowley Road still has a vinyl cinema is thriving with comfortable seats record shop, the former premises where a Jackie Ingram (1976), who also took the and better facilities. All this and a plethora jewellery designer displayed her wares is photographs

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Following on RUSSELL TAYLOR

We may think undergraduate life these considerably cheaper. Actually I’ve never from the financial crisis (now eight years old days is radically different from an understood why university should cost and counting). Ultimately, of course, we’re earlier generation. Think again: not less than school. Surely you’re paying relying on those hard-working Millennials to everything’s changed for a superior level of service? It’s a bit pay off all that debt that we hedonistic Baby like the Ritz undercutting your local B&B. Boomers have accumulated. I’ve just had one of those life moments. You But perhaps academics just aren’t that get a whole slew of them in the upward arc My daughter is planning to follow in my financially literate. of early adulthood: passing your driving test, footsteps and go to Oxford, though voting for the first time, getting your first job, Of course when I went to St Anne’s back I have to confess, somewhat to my buying your first house (though the average in the early 1980s, university education embarrassment, that it is nothing to do with age of the first-time property buyer is these was free; or, rather, it was funded by the me. I haven’t pulled any strings, called in days somewhere in early-middle-age). But taxpayer. That’s another thing I don’t any favours, dug out for blackmail purposes then you have to wait a couple of decades really understand. Why should ordinary old photos of current admissions dons in before the senior life moments start to kick greengrocers and bus drivers have had to their undergraduate days when they were in. They may mark the beginning of your shell out from their taxes for a few snotty members of right-wing drinking societies, downward arc, but they are no less ecstatic. kids to get a degree and end up earning let alone coughed up millions for a new IT more than them? This anomaly has now block or library wing. I can’t even claim it Today I looked at my online bank statement been remedied and in today’s enlightened was my idea for her to apply to Oxford. I and noticed to my surprise that, despite world taxpayers’ money is diverted instead think I actually tried to talk her into going it being the end of the month, I wasn’t to helping the more needy members of to Cambridge for the entirely selfish reason overdrawn. The direct debit to my 18-year- society (e.g. by bailing out bankers) and that I thought it would be more fun for me old daughter’s school had not been students have to borrow the wherewithal to to discover a new city on those regular collected; and, I realised with growing fund their education. parental visits, rather than revisit one that I excitement, it never would be again. School already knew very well. fees had ended, not just for the year but On the whole that’s probably a good thing. If forever. It was the first step on the road university is designed to be a preparation for If the truth be told, I haven’t made much to a condition unkindly dubbed ‘empty adult life, then getting used to being in debt use of my Oxford degree. In fact I’m not nest syndrome’, which I think should be is an important part of it. After all, we need sure I can even claim to have one at all, more positively rebranded as ‘full wallet young people to be comfortable with taking as my Bachelor of Arts certificate is still syndrome’. out huge loans and blowing the money on gathering dust on a shelf somewhere in material goods so as to fuel the consumer the Sheldonian some 35 years on due to On reflection I realised this was just to be boom that’s going to be necessary if the my never having got round to picking it up. a momentary financial lull before university global economy is ever going to recover I can’t say I’ve really missed it. My Oxford kicks in in the autumn, but that will be

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contemporaries such as Hugh Grant, I can only speculate on how different preferably ended in a draw). Hitting sixes Nigella Lawson, Robert Peston and Ian her university experience will be to mine was pretty much illegal. A couple of fours Hislop have carved out successful media (perhaps this will be the theme for next might be permitted over the course of a careers for themselves, no doubt using the year’s article), but even the four months daylong innings, which otherwise consisted Oxford mafia and giving each other legs up of holiday between the end of her IB of forward defensive strokes. A modern along the way. I have somehow stumbled exams and the beginning of her first term test match, where the batsmen smash the through to middle age and have had at university will be unrecognisable from ball all over the park and which is usually all something which might in poor light pass how things were in my day. Back then over after three days, would have been utter for a career without ever being required to one did very little work during term time, anathema, as it would leave us students compile a CV: an achievement I consider considerably less during the holidays and with nothing to do for 48 whole hours. worthy of some form of citation in itself. certainly none at all during those months Tilly’s summer will be nothing like that. when one was between educational My daughter’s offer is not even from St Instead she will be obliged to undergo a establishments and thus technically not Anne’s. When she originally showed an series of internships. This is supposedly a even a student and so could claim a valid interest in Oxford and asked me which preparation for the world of work, but in right to idleness. college I had studied at I dismissed my today’s over-regulated office environment alma mater as drab and modernist and This long summer break offered two there is almost no useful task that can be told her she wouldn’t like it. What I had possibilities for my generation. The more given to an intern. They’re not allowed to failed to realise is that post-war ‘brutalist’ adventurous minded would bum round the do filing for reasons of client confidentiality. architecture is these days very fashionable Mediterranean. This was back in the days They can’t answer the phone because among the young (perhaps because ugly of national European currencies when one they don't have the correct compliance modern buildings are the only sort of could live like a king in Greece or Portugal qualifications to perform customer-facing houses they can ever dream of being able on a tenner a week. Of course, since the roles. I even heard of one company where to afford to buy). So when Tilly came up for egalitarian advent of the Euro the whole of interns weren’t allowed to fetch the coffee the Oxford open day last year I arranged Club Med land is as ruinously expensive because the carrying of hot liquids was to take her along to St Anne’s, only to find as Paris or Vienna. Option two, for the banned under health and safety rules. to my embarrassment that the Gatehouse, lazier students like me, was to sit around Frankly, they might as well be watching the whose carbuncular charms I had been at your parents’ house watching cricket. cricket. proudly extolling had been demolished and Now cricket is a sport that was invented The only tiny glimmer of hope is that Tilly replaced with a large hole in the ground. primarily for the purposes of filling up the has chosen to read English. At a time The hole in the ground, despite having in time of retired gentlemen and students on when most of my arty friends’ children are my opinion greater aesthetic appeal than their long vacations (this latter reason is studying sensible, practical, career-friendly the building that had once stood above it, why the game is played in the summer). subjects like mechanical engineering and didn’t impress Tilly and she slipped off to Back in those days the players would pride biochemistry, this seems an admirably LMH instead, where she ended up getting themselves on making sure the game reckless option. Checking out an online list an offer. lasted the full complement of five days (and of the most bankable degree subjects I see

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that English Literature is in third last place, with only Marketing & Communication and Fine Art considered more useless (my own degree combination of Modern Languages and Philosophy is fourth from bottom). Tilly’s career earnings will probably be so modest that she will never have to pay back that student loan and the debt can be safely transferred onto her children’s generation. Perhaps our lives aren’t so dissimilar after all.

Russell Taylor MBE (1979) aka Alex

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Champagne on Fridays? GARETH HUNT

Despite recent evidence to the market gossip took me out to lunch and considered less attractive as a career route contrary, the City is not a barrel suggested I come back up to the trading as a consequence. In my view, the reasons full of rotten apples and a career in floor. I can remember extremely clearly the for the crisis are much more systemic. investment banking can still be an moment the doors of the lift opened onto The UK had a debt-fuelled boom and attractive option, the rewards of which the bedlam that was a City trading floor in everybody enjoyed the party. People can be put to good use the late-1990s. I knew instantly I wanted a loved the feeling they were getting richer job on that floor. It’s a decision I’ve never My parents did what many ambitious as house prices went up every month, regretted. parents do: they brought me to see the fuelled by ever-larger mortgages. Central dreaming spires when I was about 11 years I started work as an equity analyst and at Banks told us all that inflation had been old and I decided then that I wanted to the tender age of 22 was giving my opinion tamed by exceedingly wise Central Banks, study at Oxford. While a few students from on whether Chief Executives with 30 years so we could all keep loading up on debt. my comprehensive school in Leicester had of experience running large corporations Bankers, of course, were only too happy to been to Oxford or Cambridge, it wasn't a were doing a good job. I shudder to think oblige and lent money on the assumption well-trodden path. One former student had about it now but console myself with the that three years of good economic data told me that St Anne’s was state school thought that nobody will have paid any encompassed the entirety of an economic friendly and so I applied. attention to what I was writing. The City cycle. My favourite City cliché is that one in the late-1990s was still in the middle of should always enjoy the party – but dance I read PPE, having always been very the boom. My firm had a custom of buying by the door. Sadly, it was locked. interested in politics. I could have been champagne on Friday if the equities division, a more diligent student and I'm deeply I lost touch with College: I didn’t even visit where I worked, had a record week. At that grateful to Nigel Bowles for persevering Oxford for 20 years. I had met my wife at time, they were buying champagne each with me. I can’t remember a word of my Oxford and she wanted our children to see and every Friday. Comparative Government, but I still re-tell the deer park and bell tower at her alma Nigel’s stories about the Lyndon Johnson What we know now is that not everybody mater, Magdalen. I must confess I was office recordings detailing how LBJ pushed was playing by the rules. The transcripts of less anxious they see the Gatehouse at St the Civil Rights Act through. telephone calls obviously leave no doubt Anne’s. Having walked around Magdalen that the behaviour of some was immoral our kids asked to see ‘daddy’s college’ and I spent my summers on work experience at and criminal, but it wasn't widespread or the porter of St Anne’s very kindly took me the BBC; I’d always wanted to be a political conspicuous in my experience. It's easy at my word that I was a former student. We journalist. When I graduated I managed to argue that we had a crisis because the were standing in the central Quad when to get a job as a stock market reporter City is a barrel full of rotten apples and Tim Gardam bounded across the lawn and working for Dow Jones newswires. One it’s obvious that investment banking is insisted he give my five-year-old daughter day, a stockbroker who used to feed me

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a cuddly toy, the St Anne’s mascot beaver. are. My colleagues were equally delighted Oxford is accessible to everyone regardless Having been away for 20 years it might with the quality of the candidates and of background. But perhaps what has been seem strange that I became so rapidly we will be running a similar scheme this most enjoyable is that despite 20 years reacquainted with College but one thing year. We are hopeful we can broaden our of no contact at all I’ve become so easily led to another at quite a pace. I started to relationship further with St Anne’s, and reacquainted with the College that gave me make modest donations to the bursaries my CEO, one of the few women to run an such a large leg up all those years ago. fund. I was delighted to hear that St Anne’s investment bank in London, will speak at Gareth Hunt (1993) is a Managing Director remains as state school friendly as ever, Oxford later this year. at Stifel Europe leading Financial Institutions as Tim talked me through everything I've been hugely impressed and excited by Corporate Broking. College was doing to reach out to students the work St Anne’s is doing to ensure that who might think Oxford is not for them. I wouldn’t have applied if someone hadn’t suggested there wasn’t a state school stigma, and the financial pressures facing today’s students must surely add to the uncertainty faced by some sixth formers considering an application.

In 2015, Stifel, the investment bank I work for, employed four interns from St Anne’s over the summer. Investment banking is not the glamorous job it was in the 1990s and we also have work to do to convince those who might not have family connections in the City that the days of the old school tie are long gone. The City might be Darwinistic, but it has become a visible meritocracy. The interns worked closely with one of our core industry teams. One of the interns on the financials group I work with had written his thesis on the formation of galaxies so we set him to work on a map of the UK’s payments infrastructure – it’s ridiculously complex and we never thought he’d manage it – after two days he came back with a diagram we use in most of our pitches to demonstrate just how clever we

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‘Fail, fail again, fail better…’ WILLIAM GALINSKY

…says Samuel Beckett but our careers Hall, usually within earshot of Miss Rutson led by the wonderful director Lev Dodin. columnist this year says take it with a at one of my first nights. After the tour and before my time at pinch of salt – the opposite can be just Drama Centre began, they invited me to St Twenty years on what can I tell you about as true in the hugely enjoyable world of Petersburg to watch them in rehearsal. a career in the arts? Well, if it is going to the arts happen you won’t choose it, it will choose I spent one year at Drama Centre and you – or to quote David Mamet, if you have then was champing at the bit to get some a fall back you will always fall back. During professional experience and so cut my my degree (Russian and Czech) I was lucky studies short. I was an assistant director enough to spend a semester studying at at Northern Stage, Chichester Festival the Moscow Arts Theatre School as part Theatre and then the RSC. I then spent a of my third year. It was eye-opening in so few years directing shows on the London many ways, not only did I learn a lot about Fringe and teaching at drama schools. I had theatre but also a lot about life. After St always wanted to be an artistic director and Anne’s I got a place at Drama Centre, a in 2007 I got the opportunity to become notoriously tough method-acting school artistic director of the Cork Midsummer in London, where I was accepted to Festival in Ireland. Since then, first in Cork study a two-year course, the Professional and since 2011 as artistic director of Norfolk Instructors course – first year as an actor, & Norwich Festival, I have curated and second as an acting teacher. At that time produced works across a number of art It doesn’t feel that long ago – now over 20 (1995) there were no graduate theatre forms. years – that I had just finished finals and directing courses available and it was the I have been very lucky to work with some Betty Rutson, my moral tutor, was gently theatre director Katie Mitchell, who met me amazing artists, particularly focusing quizzing me on what I was planning to do for a cup of tea and a chat soon after I left on theatre and performance in unusual next. She had been surprisingly indulgent College who encouraged me to go for it. locations. These have included a sculptural of the number of plays I had directed She was fascinated by my Russian theatre work on four miles of the Holkham Estate during my time at St Anne’s; what had in experiences and said that she wished she in north Norfolk by the American artist my first year been the official line of ‘your had studied at Drama Centre after Oxford, and director Robert Wilson as part of the essays have to come before your theatre so I knew my instincts had been right. London 2012 Cultural Festival; a grown up productions’ had, by my final year, become In that year, between Oxford and Drama fairy tale called Wolf’s Child set in a forest a more indulgent ‘if only your essays were Centre, I was lucky enough to work as a at the National Trust’s Felbrigg Hall; my own as good as your theatre productions’ first translator for the Brighton Festival, touring production of The Tempest in a Victorian uttered by my Czech tutor, the terrific and the UK with the Maly Drama Theatre of St circus hippodrome in Great Yarmouth with so sadly late Jim Naughton of St Edmund Petersburg, an incredible theatre ensemble a floor that can be flooded and, one of my

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strangest projects, a Chelsea gold medal things: the playwright Rebecca leave Oxford with what they need for a award-winning flying garden created by Lenkiewicz funded her way through profession in the arts and even if you Diarmuid Gavin which now resides full time drama school working as a pole dancer walk out of finals into a Hollywood role, in the remodelled Fitzgerald’s Park in Cork and wrote her first play Soho about this you may well find later down the line you city. Looking back, it feels as though I spent experience and the humanity of those have missed out on the nuts and bolts the first ten years of my career in rehearsal she worked with; the novelist Eimear ABC of a proper, rigorous actor training. rooms and theatres mainly training young McBride spent years temping but What I learned in Moscow and at Drama actors, and the next ten years working managed to read the whole of Proust Centre has been invaluable to me in the anywhere but theatres, focused much on a six-week secretarial job for a rail long term. more on unique audience experiences and freight company. ■■ ‘Fail, fail again, fail better.’ Samuel working with artists in many different art ■■ Stay curious. If you want to work as Beckett’s advice might be the wisest forms. a theatre director or producer see of all. You may well have overcome In terms of embarking on a career in the as much work as you can. Travel, great adversity to get to Oxford or arts there are a few practical things worth broaden your horizons. Oxford can be you may well have sailed through your knowing but like all advice you should a beautiful, cotton wool-lined bubble early life. For talented, bright people probably take it with a pinch of salt as the and it can be a shock once you leave; like yourselves, dear reader, success is opposite can sometimes be just as true. but stay curious: don’t stop reading, the easy bit. It is how you pick yourself travelling, seeing work you never knew up and dust yourself off after you have ■■ Keep your living costs low. London was possible. If you want to work in failed that is the real muscle you have to may not be the answer to everything. theatre then know that student theatre develop. To quote Nina in the final act of If you are a theatre director or a writer at Oxford is very conservative. There is Chekhov’s The Seagull it is the ‘ability to or an artist, living in a smaller place a whole world out there waiting for you endure’ that is the most important thing with cheap rents and a buzzing young to discover and be inspired by! You will in maintaining a career in the arts! artistic scene can be a good idea. The find it in New York, Brussels, Avignon, world is much bigger than London: ■■ To quote Chekhov again: ‘If you want Vienna… Dublin, Berlin, Glasgow and, dare I say to work in art, then first work on it, even Norwich (particularly for writers) ■■ Grow a thick skin. There is going to be yourself.’ This is a tough one and in are interesting and cheaper places with rejection and plenty of it. One thing to your early-twenties it is sometimes a great scene. realise is that Oxford will have trained not entirely clear what this means but your mind in a very particular direction self-examination and self-awareness are ■■ Don’t be ashamed of having to have but often the creative professions very important. a day job. You may well have to do require a different approach. The ‘lit crit’ crappy jobs to pay the rent and fund A career in the arts is great fun and very approach of an essay is sometimes not your art projects. That’s normal and fulfilling. Good luck! the most useful thing for a rehearsal human. You will probably need work room. William Galinsky (1991) is Artistic Director which is flexible and doesn’t tie you of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival down but sometimes even the most ■■ Further vocational training is often a mundane jobs can lead to surprising good idea. Very few student actors

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Life in the fast lane: the perils and pleasures of working the streets HELEN MARRIAGE

She closes the centre of major cities and stops the traffic in rush hour, but the heart of her work is the desire to interrupt the daily life of a city so that everyone – not just those with money and knowledge – can marvel at the artistic imagination and its power to change our lives. Helen Marriage explains why the arts make an exciting and fulfilling career choice

I left St Anne’s in 1980 like many humanities students, really unsure about what I wanted to do or how to go about finding my place. Unlike most Oxford graduates, I got a The Sultan's Elephant, Royal de Luxe, 2006. Produced by Artichoke in London/Sophie Laslett job in a health food store in the Edgware summer, marshalling my happy band of saw the world. I knew I had to find a way Road, standing behind the till in my brown actors, sleeping six to a room in a rented back. and orange nylon overall, with my hair apartment, picking up the cash in a hat and neatly tied back, trying to behave. I lasted In those far-off days the arts and cultural running it to the bank – there wasn’t a job longer than you might expect, long enough industry that we know today didn’t that I didn’t turn my hand to. I returned to anyway to read War and Peace from cover really exist. Of course there were the big London glowing with the joy of a summer to cover under the counter until my old institutions – the National Gallery, National spent outside, and got myself a job in an friend Michael Morris, now co-director of Theatre, Royal Opera House and a few office. Artangel, happened upon me and told me traditional rep or touring theatre and ballet to stop wasting my life. Within days he But the bug had bit. As I sat at my desk companies – but the plethora of small pushed me into working as administrator in East Croydon, I knew that there were companies working at the margins of to an itinerant street theatre company who people out there, people like me, who were various art forms wasn’t really part of the were making their way via Camden and doing a job that was inspiring, revolutionary, picture. I’ve never been interested in being the City of London to the inevitability of the full of hazard and producing live moments swallowed up by a huge organisation, so I Edinburgh Festival. I worked there for the for audiences that changed the way they took myself off to City University, which ran

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one of the country’s only Arts Administration been a series of happy, or less than happy, small ideas or organisations and turning courses, to learn everything anyone might accidents – hirings and firings – during them into something with greater impact. need to know about running a small arts which I’ve apparently only travelled from I’ve worked for community plays, cluster business. And that’s exactly what I do the streets of Edinburgh as far as the management organisations, international today, although the small arts business, streets of London, but it’s a journey from festivals and corporate giants, always trying Artichoke, turns over millions of pounds arts ignoramus to arts iconoclast that has to find a way to liberate the artists I’m and creates events that entertain millions of taken nearly four decades and seen me working with from the constraining embrace people. travel the world, working with some of the of the dedicated arts space – the gallery, the most interesting people on the planet. I’ve concert hall, the opera house or the theatre. It would be easy to detect an overall plan, never been employed by an established I don’t believe that great artists should only a career path, a strategy – but to do so arts enterprise and have always worked on be seen in the hushed environment of a would be wrong. My so-called career has the edges of the arts establishment, taking specialist venue, although I freely admit that

Lumières London 2016: Les Luminéoles, Porté par le vent. Produced by Artichoke, supported by the Mayor of London/Matthew Andrews Careers: another take on the arts

I’ve seen some wonderful work in these commemorating anything, not selling challenging. spaces. But that’s my point – I’ve seen anything, not celebrating anything. The As a tenth anniversary, we returned to shows there, but I know how to scour the Sultan’s Elephant just invaded the streets the same London streets with Lumiere pages of the newspapers for reviews, I and invited residents and visitors alike to London, a four-night extravaganza that saw have reference points across all art forms, come out and play. Annoying to taxi drivers, 30 installations by an international cadre I already know the things I like and those maybe, but for the million or so people who of artists, each interested in the potential I detest – but I also recognise that for came out to meet the giant mechanical of light to transform our urban landscape thousands and thousands of people, the elephant, the Sultan and his entourage in the midst of the wintry darkness. Again arts are a mystery, irritant or an irrelevance. and a tiny 24 foot high Little Girl, it was a we worked with the public authorities to captivating experience. London, ten months So, together with my long-standing ascertain how to create a safe pedestrian after the 7/7 bombings, was restored to business partner, I founded Artichoke zone while attempting to keep London a playground where strange and magical specifically to bring the work of the great moving. A painstaking 18 months of things were happening – familiar buildings masters of street performance, French negotiations finally saw us take control of transformed into a stage set; pedestrians company Royal de Luxe, to London. the new development at King’s Cross, as ruling supreme and all traffic banished. A Checking back, the first invitation I sent well as all the streets from Oxford Circus to world city had turned itself upside down inviting them to perform in the UK, was Trafalgar Square. The event footprint took and inside out for a piece of theatre. Arts dated 1999. We finally presented their in the whole of central London and involved Council England’s slogan ‘Great Art for legendary show The Sultan’s Elephant complex traffic and crowd management Everyone’ was born that May weekend. in May 2006. It was a gestation longer planning. Although I still think of myself The event itself drew worldwide press than that of a baby elephant, as I battled as a producer in the arts, these days only attention and was praised by Baroness to persuade the public authorities that about half my time is spent talking to artists Mackintosh in a debate in the House of there was some legitimacy in closing the and curating their work. The rest of my Lords. Our stakeholders were inundated ceremonial streets of our great capital working life is dedicated to negotiating with compliments and praise, prompting the for days on end for something other with licensing officers, traffic planners, question: ‘Could you do it again?’ than a governmental, sporting or military engineers, production managers, police commemoration. ‘Why would we do this?’ Artichoke had recognised a public appetite and transport officials. Oh – and raising the they asked. ‘Why wouldn’t you?’ I replied. for epic live events beyond the everything’s- money. Artichoke events are generally free possible-at-the-touch-of-a-fingertip digital to the public. It’s hard to ticket an entire In the event, seven long years after the first output that dominates our lives. In the ten city, so we don’t try. But this means that glimmer of the idea, we and our French years since The Sultan’s Elephant, we’ve our on-going fundraising targets are huge. friends took to the streets, having closed produced more than a dozen events, each We very grateful for the continuing support the major roads in central London – The one setting a benchmark for the way in of Arts Council England that pays for our Mall, Piccadilly, Haymarket, around Trafalgar which artists can transform our public overheads; every other penny we spend is Square – on a rolling basis for four days realm, whether that’s a city centre or a raised through sponsorship and donations and nights. It was unprecedented: an remote coastline. At the outset every event and pays for the events themselves. event that was not about anything, not seems impossible – or at least very, very

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I couldn’t have imagined when I left Oxford with my degree in English Literature that I was going to have such a varied and interesting life. I’ve spent a year as a Fellow at Harvard, pondering questions of ephemeral urbanism and city planning. I’m on an international speaker circuit that sees me talking about the transformation of the public realm. I received a very unexpected MBE for services to the arts. I’m on first name terms with bishops and generals, chief constables and mayors. But at the heart of my work lies the relationship between artists and their audiences, and Artichoke’s desire to interrupt the daily life of a city so that everyone – not just those with money and knowledge – can marvel at the artistic imagination and its power to change our lives. Artichoke aims to create live moments that live in the memory forever, and we hope that the 1.3 million people who turned out for Lumiere on a cold, wintry January weekend in London this year are treasuring the magical experience of a world city transformed by that extraordinary artistic imagination.

Helen Marriage MBE (1977) is co-founder of Artichoke (www.artichoke.uk.com), one of the UK's most innovative creative companies that puts on extraordinary shows that change the way people look at the world and make the arts speak to people who aren’t really interested in the arts. She ran the Salisbury Festival for many years and was instrumental in LIFT, The London 2016: Helen Marriage London International Festival of Theatre.

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Setting the record straight Devaki Jain

Time to correct impressions on the role that I should meet the feminist group at St scholars and women’s movement members of women in the South Anne’s and give a lecture on feminism in in these countries, I knew that feminism and India. I was delighted. feminist expression were not only vivid but My return to Oxford in 2014, thanks to also strong actors in these countries. In fact, being awarded the Plumer Fellowship, gave When I described what we were doing in it was my belief that we have more space, me an opportunity to get a feel of what is India there was a sense of surprise if not more political presence and in some ways being discussed by today’s students. When shock among the students. Like many more power than feminists in the northern I was in Oxford from 1959–62, the headlines others, they had assumed that it was only in countries. My lecture evoked interest and were about linguistic philosophy, about the the western democracies that feminism was also surprise. philosophers John Hare and Iris Murdoch. a political force – and that what is called Students were preoccupied with academic the Third World was a wretched place for It struck me then that the best gift I could achievement and were by and large from women. give to St Anne’s for giving me initially the the better off classes. A good thermometer opportunity to study (I read PPE) and then Yet having lived and worked throughout of class was provided by the fact that most the opportunity to return and participate, the southern continents for almost 40 of the Indian students came from elite was to endow a lecture in the hope that it years now, and been engaged with women families.

On my return in 2014, I found a dramatic change in the characterization of students, their culture and the focus of their energy. One striking change I experienced was the emergence of feminism as a presence. Lady Margaret Hall was recognized as the focal point of women’s studies. Earlier it had been a small cell. Every college or most colleges now seemed to have a feminist group who met regularly and took their discourse seriously.

The Principal of St Anne’s, who knew about my deep engagement with the women’s movement in India and the fact that I was described as a ‘feminist’ as distinct from being in the women’s movement, was keen St Anne’s November 2015: Graça Machel and Devaki Jain

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would become my Memorial or a Memorial in my name. A lecture in perpetuity where Africa through the eyes of its Oxford listens to strong feminist voices from southern continents. Feminists who women are living in southern continents are writing, shifting sands, leading. I felt a great need GRAÇA MACHEL to educate the ‘North’ on the vitality and In May this year, the Graça Machel You may have been told of something called sophistication of the ‘South’ as a form of Trust announced the launch of a ‘Africa Rising’. Let me remind you, Africa self-affirmation. Women in Media Network (WIMN). has recently celebrated 50 years of freedom It aims to change the way the and the formation of the Organisation of St Anne’s warmly welcomed the idea and media portray African women and African Unity. Those of you who follow these calculated the endowment that would be children and is the latest initiative things must have heard the names of the required to finance an annual lecture. St of an organization devoted to the heads of states and all those involved. But Anne’s also set up a committee of Fellows, participation and visibility of the women you didn’t hear a name or see the face who were interested in this kind of effort, who are changing Africa of a woman during those 50 years of our to advise and sustain the programme in liberation. And I fancy this is an indictment, perpetuity. maybe of ourselves as women: we have not I have many friends who are powerful been putting ourselves up front and saying, feminists – political and non political – in the ‘We were there; freedom was achieved developing countries. So I suggested one, through the struggles and contributions and namely Graça Machel, to give the inaugural sometimes sacrifices of millions of women.’ lecture. The next speaker will be Dr Noeleen So one of the things I am keen to do is to Heyzer from Malaysia, with a PhD in bring the names and, whenever possible Economics from Cambridge, who was an the faces, of African women to the forefront. active member of the women’s movement in I established a movement to further this. her region and later carried that passion into To many of you, the image that is New Faces New Voices (NFNV), a Pan- the UN where she held some of the highest transmitted to you through the screens of African advocacy group, is committed positions. Other names have been identified your television and the media generally is to the empowerment of African women of feminist thinkers from Japan and China. that we, Africans, are dying of AIDS, poverty across sectors such as finance, agriculture, and all those kinds of things. I want to tell media and science. NFNV is founded on Devaki Jain (1959) you a different narrative of African women: the slogan ‘Multiplying Faces, Amplifying The Devaki Jain Lecture was founded by who we are, how we see ourselves, our Voices’. When we look at African women, Devaki Jain and her family to run annually at struggles, our fears, our successes, our we look at only one single sector or one St Anne’s College. The 2016 lecture will be doubts – how we are shaping our Africa, single walk of life. You may have heard given by Dr Noeleen Heyzer on 17 October. for ourselves, for our children, for our of women in politics, but you have heard grandchildren. very little of women in business, women

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in science, women in media, women in of parliamentarians are women; in South applauded. I do applaud it. But I also know culture, women in other sectors of life. You Africa, Namibia and Mozambique where that it is not sufficient. We need to move know very little and it is our fault. What I they make up 40 per cent. Many other to the second step: to humanize power want to do today is to bring just a few of countries are making progress with 30 per and influence the centres of power using those names to your attention. cent; others are struggling to get beyond the strength of women and their ability to eight or nine per cent. connect, to multitask, to build relationships, Africa has got to the point where a child often informal, but which can then go on now has to visualize a woman as head Why is this important? Because of the to affect and improve the more formal of state. Twenty years ago this was not a visibility. African women’s public presence structures. This has not yet been the case. reality: children had no point of reference. is no longer a taboo, no longer something Now we have Ellen Johnson, the first children struggle to see. But it does not For instance, Phumzile Mlambo is United elected President of Liberia – and joint mean that those women have been able to Nations Under-Secretary-General and winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize change structurally the balance of power in Executive Director of UN Women. But within with fellow Liberian Leymah Gbowee (and the above institutions. Achieving visibility is the UN family, UN Women is the poorest of Yemeni Tawakkol Karman) ‘for their non- only the first step. The second step is that agencies; it doesn’t have resources or much violent struggle for the safety of women and these women must change the nature of influence. So visibility yes; institutions yes. for women’s rights to full participation in power, contribute to humanizing it, make it But does UN Women make much difference peace-building work’. Then we had Joyce more sensitive and closer to people, enable to what the UN is today? Banda from Malawi; though she was there it to represent their aspirations and allow Another South African woman, Nkosazana for a very short time, she was there. Now people to realise their dreams. Dlamini-Zuma, is chair of the African Union we have Catherine Samba-Panza from I don’t think this is purely an African issue. Commission, the first time a woman has Central Africa. We also have a few Vice- For me, the idea of modern democracies held that post. She has tried hard to change Presidents of whom you may never have and seeing through a feminist perspective, the way the African Union operates. She heard, Inonge Mutukwa Wina in Zambia which is the title of our conversation today, even instituted a year for celebrating African for instance. We also have Prime Ministers: is this: yes we do have elections, yes women. Next week (November 2015) we Amajila from Namibia, now in her forties and we have more women and, sometimes, are going to have the First African Girls’ in my own country, Mozambique, we had even youth, in institutions of power. But Summit where heads of state, heads of a Prime Minister from the same generation. that power is too far from people, the government and ministers, etc., are going But these faces are not familiar because institutions expected to represent our to be discussing the way we have been they are not brought to your attention. people are distant and people themselves treating the girl child in the continent. These We have, as I speak, a head of state in are struggling with their needs, with the are very good developments, but despite Mauritius who was elected unanimously by implementation of their rights. We seem to all this the reality is that the African Union her parliament. Her name is Amina Gurig- be living in two worlds in which institutions has not fundamentally changed. There are Fakim. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of are moving in one direction and people other examples of women in positions of her. We also have significant numbers of are moving and solving their own issues power – in finance, ministries of minerals women in parliament in some countries: in another. This means that the presence and resources – crucial sectors in the for example, in Rwanda where 56 per cent and visibility of women in power has to be development of the continent today, but

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we need a fundamental change within debt of Nigeria, a major achievement. She of human rights at that time. In 2011, the structures which are still marginalizing is a woman, she is young – and she is she was named Social Entrepreneur of women. recognized as one of the brightest minds in the Year in Africa by the World Economic finance today. Forum and serves on its Global Agenda 2016 ushers in the official launch of the Council on Information, Communication Agenda for Sustainable Development Another very good example of a successful and Technology. Yes, very young: still in her (SDGs), successor to the Millennium young woman, this time from South Africa, thirties! Development Goals (MDGs). The woman is Sibongile Sambo, the founder and head behind the movement to attain this is Amina of the first aviation company owned 100 per You must have also heard of Hadeel Mohammed, a woman from Nigeria. I cent by women. Ibrahim, founding Executive Director of the worked with her and she was extraordinary Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which is making And there are more examples of this in bringing together all the different groups a huge impact on the continent on issues extraordinary inventiveness coming from and millions of contributions that made up dealing with governance. In May 2015, Africa. the new SDGs. She did a fantastic job – Hadeel was appointed to the UN Secretary respecting different sensitivities, different You must have heard of Daphne Nkosi. General’s high-level panel of experts to points of view – but always focused on what She negotiated a big manganese deal address humanitarian funding shortfalls. was fundamental: making the SDGs more in South Africa and, even in a business You must have heard the name Dambisa focused on people, on how we are going to dominated by people in grey suits, is in Moyo, Zambian-born author of Dead Aid: lay the foundations of the building blocks of control of a company employing 30,000 Why Aid Is Not Working and How There is sustainable development. But in essence, people in the mining industry. She is making Another Way for Africa. She did her DPhil if the SDGs are really to bring about a a difference! As is another young woman here in Oxford and today she is shaking up fundamental change, it will depend on you may have heard of. Rapelang Rabana, the whole aid world. When she first claimed the balance of powers within the member is another South African entrepreneur who, that development aid for low-income states of the UN. at just 23 years of age, co-founded Yeigo economies was doing more harm than Communications, South Africa’s first free So, Africa has powerful, energetic, focused good, many of us were shocked and she VoIP mobile services provider (Voice Over women in leadership, but they have a long was attacked as being too controversial. Internet Protocol, or more simply, phone way to go in changing public/institutional But she produced a convincing analysis services over the Internet). These names structures if we are to open avenues for of how many times African governments, and these faces are not brought to our millions still to come. relying too much on aid, didn’t unleash the attention. ability of their own countries. Today, we Let me come to women in the economic In Kenya, a young woman by the name recognize that if we are to be able to move sphere – finance, business and productive of Juliana Rotich established a software on and become less dependent on aid the life. You have heard of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. platform called Ushahidi (Witness in Swahili), development of African countries relies Until recently, she was Minister of Finance in which monitored the post-election violence on unleashing African resources, African Nigeria and actually succeeded in shaking of 2007-2008. It was largely responsible for manpower, African institutions. In 2009 up the financial system in that country. informing the world of events and helped she was named a World Economic Forum She did a fantastic job in negotiating with identify all those involved in the violations Young Global Leader. the big powers to bring down the national

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Let me come now to science, a field in born storytellers, we keep the history, we their inventiveness. These are the women which we also have many good examples. are the true guardians, we conserve things who are telling a new narrative of Africa, One of the global challenges of our time is and we never forget. What I do is not a new narrative of African women. And I to invent vaccines that can clean up and clever or unusual, it is what my aunts and would like you to reflect on this and open prevent the epidemics that are affecting grandmothers did and their mothers before your eyes to that. developing countries. Some of the best them.’ And she emphasised that today and I am not here to underestimate the examples of scientists in this area are in the future we have to recognize and value challenges we face. I chair a partnership women. I am sure you have heard of this – our own origins and identity. called the The Partnership for Maternal, Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim of the Now let me go back and remember, with Newborn and Child Health, launched in University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is very respect, Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan September 2005 because we recognize much in the forefront of inventing a vaccine environmental and political activist. In that Africa, Asia and Latin America, still have for HIV and is one of the laureates of the 1977, long before anyone would look unnecessary deaths of women, new-borns L’Oréal-UNESCO award For Women in at the environment as a fundamental and children. We have to deal with this, Science. issue in development and sustainability, but it is not what defines us as societies. We know of Dr Nagwa Abdel Meguid, an she founded the Green Belt Movement, We are defined in a more positive way. Egyptian geneticist who identified several an environmental, non-governmental We recognize our challenges and confront genetic mutations that cause common organization focused on the planting of them, at the same time asserting ourselves syndromes such as autism, a condition that trees, environmental conservation and in the communities of nations as productive is affecting millions of kids in our continent, women’s rights. In 2004, she became and creative. We are an imagined giant! but which no one seems to know how to the first African woman to receive the That’s the narrative of African women that I deal with. She is a Professor of Human Nobel Peace Prize for her ‘contribution to want to share with you today. Genetics and Head of the Department of sustainable development, democracy and And there are two social groups who are re- Research on Children with Special Needs at peace’. She was also an elected member defining that narrative – women and youth. the National Research Center in Egypt. She, of Parliament. Long before anyone else I do not have time to discuss youth today, too, is a winner of the L’Oreal-UNESCO thought of it, Wangari (she died in 2011) but these are our two majority groups: 52 Award For Women in Science. mobilized millions of women in Africa and in per cent of Africans are women, 60 per the world to pay attention to women as part I could go on and on but let’s move to the cent are under the age of 25. These are the of the solution to securing the sustainability cultural field. You have certainly heard of people who are going to turn – are turning of our planet. – and I hope some of you have read – our – Africa around. Open your eyes, do your young writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi As I have tried to say today, the emerging research, look into our communities, our Adichie of Nigeria. Her most recent novel, presence of thousands upon thousands networks. These are the people who are Americanah (2013), was selected by the of African women reshaping the continent, re-writing our narrative, telling the world New York Times as one of the 10 Best whether it is in business, the sciences or who we are. Books of 2013. culture, has not had enough recognition or Graça Machel DBE is an international visibility. Even those who are not dependent We Africans, are very good storytellers. advocate for women’s and children’s rights on being elected fight: they build and gain A young woman said to me: ‘Women are ground through their intellect, their creativity,

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Are the old unfair to the young? FRANCES CAIRNCROSS As the voting pattern in the UK childhood mortality, which continued in the a few old at the top and a lot of young at referendum on the EU indicated, 1950s and 1960s, what’s happening now, the bottom, has become something that the divide between old and young and has been happening for the past 10 or looks much more like a tree, with more old appears to be growing. Introducing even 20 years, has been a dramatic fall in at the top and fewer young lower down. the speakers at this year’s seminar, mortality among older people. People who That change has been dramatic. And one Frances Cairncross outlined the get past 60 are, on the whole, healthier and of the consequences of this has been, and growing importance of the question the result has been an astonishing rise in is increasingly going to be, a steady rise in and the reasons behind it longevity. That’s one change. the proportion of over 65s relative to those of working age. Globally, this proportion is The subject we have met to consider today The other change has been an astonishing about 16 to 100; by 2035, only 20 years is one of the most important questions and unpredicted decline in the fertility rate away, it will have gone from 16 to 26. of our time, and it’s become important in pretty much every part of the world, the Globally, even including those countries because of the astonishing demographic main exception being the Middle East and where the population is growing fast, we change that has taken place in our lifetimes. Sub-Saharan Africa. Almost everywhere shall have an enormous rise in the number Two things have happened. else, and in an extraordinary range of of older people relative to the number of countries – Christian, Muslim, Hindu – First of all, life expectancy has continued those at work. That is the background to women, on average, increasingly have too to rise, everywhere, pretty much all over our discussion today. And remember: on few children to guarantee the replacement the world, but whereas it was rising when the whole, the old are much more likely to of the population. In other words, women many of us were young mainly as a result vote than the young. have fewer than two children, with the of the fall of infant, neonatal and early result that what was once a pyramid with Time to share the assets DAVID WILLETTS Compared to the baby boomers, life is from the point of view of divisions of class, is a very important angle on social change, tough for our younger generation as or gender, or ethnicity, but I couldn’t find and also reminds us of the fundamentals of the economic evidence on housing and a book that looked at Britain’s social and the social contract that holds us together. pensions so clearly demonstrates economic changes since the war from the I’m not here simply trying to speculate; perspective of different generations. I’m not ultimately these types of arguments about When I wrote my book The Pinch: How claiming it’s an exclusive model that means fairness between the generations should be the baby boomers took their children’s everything we are familiar with from those empirical propositions that are testable and future and why they should give it back, other tensions in our society is suddenly falsifiable. Let me be clear what I mean and there were dozens, hundreds of books irrelevant, but I do think looking at society how I use the term. about post-war Britain that looked at it from the point of view of different cohorts

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There’s no final agreed definition, but I it has turned out that the opposite is the happening to pension wealth and housing think the terms as I define them are quite case: being a big cohort is good news, wealth. widely shared. After the war, in 1945, there being a small cohort is bad news. That, Given the natural lifecycle effect, it’s no was a surge in the number of babies born I would argue, is partly because of the surprise if 55-year-olds have more money in Britain. It reached a peak of 1 million functioning of modern democracy and than 25-year-olds: that’s how the lifecycle babies in 1947 and remained quite high; because of the importance of the modern works. The question is whether on top of right through until a second peak of the welfare state, which has changed the terms those traditional lifecycle effects there were baby boom in 1964, that also saw 1 million of the debate very radically. Not because cohort effects as well: are those 55-year- births, there was no year when the number individual baby boomers are bad people; olds doing better than 55-year-olds before of babies born fell below 800,000. Those of there are bad boomers, bad people from or after? With pensions it was very clear you who follow the history of the weather every generation. I’m not saying this is what happened. In response to a set of will know it followed the very cold winter a systematic plot by one generation to pension scandals, pensions were regulated of 1963. Incidentally, 1947 was also a cold do damage to another, it’s more that so that what was previously a rather hazy winter. 1964 was followed by a dramatic fall because we weren’t thinking about our company promise to pay a company in the birth rate, down to about 700,000 a society in terms of the claims of different pension to us when we retired, we – and I year in the 1970s. generations, baby boomers were doing do mean our generation – shaped a political things that worked for them without ever Those two years, 1947 and 1964, were the consensus in successive bits of legislation. really considering what they meant for future only times in most of the twentieth century These began in the mid-1980s and went on generations. That’s the argument. when Britain had more than 1 million births, for about 10 or 15 years and ensured that and my definition of the baby boomers is What I tried to do in the book was to offer the pension promise should become more those born between 1945 and 1965. It is some evidence. Since the book came out in and more demanding on employers. We only in the past year or two that Britain has 2010 there’s been a lot more evidence. One should have inflation protection, pension gone back to having 800,000 births per of the problems, because everybody was funds should be ranked at the top of the list year, so it’s a very unusual period: this is a so used to analysing British society in other of creditors if a company got into difficulties very big cohort. ways, was actually getting cohort-based and there should be an insurance scheme data. When I was doing the research for to cover employees if the company pension There was a conventional model among this book, nearly a decade ago now, it was scheme went bust. We piled on all those demographers, formulated by one of the tricky. Today there is rather more data and regulations and they are incredibly popular. world’s great demographers, Richard more analysis of different age groups. But a It means that the security of our funded Easterlin, about what this means: being a good, stark way of getting into the evidence pension is probably greater than that of any big cohort was bad news. It’s an obvious and seeing whether these arguments previous generation. The only trouble was proposition of social science: you go chime with your experience, is to take the that it’s become so onerous that companies through life economy class not club class, two biggest assets that people build up have stopped providing those pensions you are in a crowded jobs market, there during their lives. These are, of course, their for future generations. It was a very clear are more people jostling alongside you. The pension and their house. Put those two trade-off. We got a once off shift towards classic view would be, small cohort – good together and that is essentially most of the a very high level of security for our pension news; large cohort – bad news. That was personal wealth of this country. Even then promise, but made it so expensive and so the demographic view. – sadly it’s got even starker since – I was onerous that future generations are never The argument I’m trying to advance is that able to get some breakdown of what was going to have a pension of the sort that we

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voted for ourselves. You can see it in the MP going to a local residents association, housing market, you notice increasing age distribution of pension wealth: most pension the members of which looked much like segregation, both in where people live and wealth, essentially, belongs to the baby the audience here today, was of civic- with whom they work. Employment is more boomers. minded people, almost all of them over 50, age segregated: as the economy changes almost all of them owning their own home, you are more likely to be working and living I now work at the Resolution Foundation, who normally gathered to stop any new alongside people who are broadly your where I am the Executive Chairman. The housing development. The local paper had contemporaries. As a result, you end up in a Foundation looks at take-home pay and a very simple model: housing development more age segregated society. By and large living standards, and one of the puzzles equalled bad news, a popular protest – and this is a whole separate debate – you the economists have been wrestling with is against a housing development was good have considerable wariness about most that even as GDP starts to grow – and even news – and it was always on the side of the intergenerational contact. In the past people GDP per head has started growing – why people who didn’t want any more housing were more relaxed about this. isn’t take home pay rising? Recent work built. If you try to put up new housing at the Foundation has provided one part As a result, although society is more anywhere in the South East there will be of the answer. It’s something I speculate age segregated, the shape of the family massive opposition, Oxford being a classic about in the book, but now there’s empirical changes in the other direction. As family case study. This is not because people are evidence that confirms the effect. When a size shrinks you have fewer siblings and bad or evil, but essentially it means that we company pension scheme closes to new families become tall, thin bean shoot as the occupiers, as the owners, are making members, if it’s got a deficit – and the families: you have a great-grandparent, you it very hard for the next generation ever to requirements to plug the deficit are so much have grandparents, you have parents, you own houses on the terms that we did. And more onerous than they ever were before have kids, so you have tall thin families in if you look at it in more detail, you find that – they collect extra contributions from the a wide, flat, age-segregated society. The when we took out our mortgages there company workforce. This includes people family becomes more important and one of was a period of very high inflation, which who aren’t even in the company pension the barriers to social mobility in our country wiped away a lot of the burden of those scheme. So young workers are working becomes, therefore, which bean shoot you mortgages. Inflation came at a convenient hard to plug the deficits in the pension belong to, what network of parents and time for our age group. Meanwhile, we leave schemes to which retired employees and grandparents you have above you. That is the generation behind us with very high older employees of that company belong, the form of intergenerational exchange that house prices and, if they do borrow to buy but which are closed to them. This appears really matters because most other forms of their house, there’s no sign of any inflation in the statistics as labour income, but it intergenerational exchange weaken. that’s going to wipe away the debt the way isn’t take-home pay for those younger it did for us. For me, as a former politician, the failure of workers; they are working to pay, literally, for politics to engage with these issues meant our pensions, but with no similar pension It is tough for our younger generation and that a whole kind of language about the promise available for them. That is what is the stark economic evidence on these two contract between the generations was happening in pensions. classic assets brings it out very clearly. lost. There’s a very interesting thought You then look at the other main asset, What does all this mean both for our experiment, in which a group of people are housing, and it’s even more vivid. I suspect society and our politics? As far as society asked to imagine that they are the Board many people in this room own their own is concerned it has a rather peculiar effect. of Trustees of a patch of woodland and home. My experience as a constituency Because it’s so hard to get started in the must make an argument to explain the case

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for keeping the trees or not keeping. One we delay cutting the trees down. And that When you look at the social contract that argument – and you may recognise this – argument had some rational appeal and got holds a society together, my view is that this roughly aligned with conventional political some support. social contract, what makes us a society, is disputes. The value of this woodland actually a contract between the generations. The most powerful argument by far was the does not just belong to us as the property third argument, which said the only reason The Rt Hon David Willetts, a former owners, it’s a local amenity, the people in we have this woodland is because previous Minister for Universities and Science is the nearby town come and enjoy it, we have generations preserved it and passed it on now Executive Chairman of the Resolution an obligation to protect it because there’s to us, we have a similar obligation to pass Foundation, a think tank which has a wider amenity value. That argument had this woodland on to future generations. produced some of the most interesting some weight and some people voted for it. That argument was much more compelling work in areas of social and economic There was a second argument, a more than either the egalitarian argument policy of any British think tank, and which is economically rational one. It said the timber about amenity or an economically rational increasingly turning its attention to this area in this woodland is worth £X,000 now, the argument about maximising value. My of intergenerational equity. He is the author price of wood is going up, if we delay and view is that British politics has been of The Pinch: How the Baby Boomers don’t cut down the trees now but wait, impoverished by a conventional debate Took Their Children’s Future and Why They they’ll be worth more in the future; our between the first two types of argument and Should Give It Back (Atlantic Books, 2010) company, our trust will be more affluent if a failure to embrace that third argument. The old have got it easy IAN GOLDIN It’s not just in the UK that the younger actually less there. We always imagine economy characterised by stagnation and generation are at a disadvantage, it’s the US to be the place where students austerity. Across Europe and the advanced a global phenomenon and no one, leave with great debt, but the US$35,000 economies the prospects for growth and including politicians, is doing anything (£24,000) estimate of student debt in the employment, for dynamism, are lower than about it US is less than in the UK. they were for us at their age. We’ve created the financial crisis because we haven’t Let me give seven reasons why I believe the We are giving these young individuals understood the technologies and tools and old are unfair to the young. starting in life an immense challenge to leverages that have been created, and as overcome: resolving the debt that we’ve The first is that they have given the young a result we have real catastrophes for the created in our societies. The UK economy is an extraordinary burden of debt, calculated young in many parts of Europe: 60 per £1.6 trillion in debt and the US much more. in the UK at about £150,000 per child. Not cent youth unemployment in the south of We kick the debt crisis down the road; they only have they handed on a per capita debt, Europe, in Greece and in other places; even will have to pay it. they are now giving them student debts, in the UK, youth unemployment is three which the Institute of Fiscal Studies has The second reason why I believe we are times the level of the national average. estimated at about £44,000 per graduate. unfair to the young is because we’ve The young are particularly disadvantaged It’s rather similar in the US although it’s given them a wrecked economy, an and it is a global phenomenon. If you

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picked up the front page of the Financial did for the same standards of living during girls no longer look after you in your old age Times today, you will have discovered that their retirement. This is because when our and the technologies exist to allow you to in India there were 2.6 million applicants systems were created it was assumed that choose, and you only have one child, then for a position that was offering 386 jobs, average life expectancy on retirement was more people are choosing to have boys and over 20,000 of these applicants about seven to ten years, and average than girls. The average (of girls to boys) had graduate degrees. This is a global real risk-adjusted returns were around 4 around the world is going down to 1.6. phenomenon, where the young simply per cent. Today, average life expectancy When there are too few girls to go around cannot get into the labour market because on retirement is already 25 years and will you get lot of very frustrated young men. economies have been structured against be over 35 years for the young, while This of course creates a vicious circle: too them and will be compounded by risk-adjusted returns are under 1 per cent. few young brides, declining fertility and this automation in the workplace. This is one of That’s why you have to save so much. is one of the reasons why the projections of the themes that the Oxford Martin School is Where are the savings going to come from, fertility are so low. working on. We estimate that many, maybe and how will this impact on disposable as many as half of all jobs will be lost going incomes and consumption of the youth? When you put this cocktail of demographics forward, and we haven’t thought through The elderly will have to hold on to their and economics together with bad power the consequences. savings because they are living so long, politics, you get rising extremism, such as and the State will not support them in the we see in North Africa and the Middle East: When this is compounded with way it used to do. So your kids will inherit very high levels of youth unemployment, demography, it’s obviously a very dangerous your houses when you are in your nineties very low median ages, around 22 or 23, and cocktail. The demographic dynamics are or hundreds and they’re 70. The elderly will elderly people clinging on to power using the third reason why I believe the old are be more reluctant to pass on their assets to the young as foot soldiers for their wars as unfair to the young. the young and will be wealthier relative to we have always done. Median ages are doubling everywhere the young. The young will have fewer assets And so we have this terrible phenomenon around the world over our lifetime: they are and will have to work harder and harder. in Isis and in other parts of the world, well over 40 in many societies, well over Another way in which the demographics where the young feel hopeless and turn 50 in our societies across Europe and in are playing against the young is that we to extremism. Given the lack of prospects Japan. In the UK it’s above 40, and people are having too many boys relative to girls: because they don’t see the old being fair to under 18 can’t vote so the elderly, as David there’s a big gender imbalance growing them in the future, they don’t see a future has indicated, are increasingly dominant everywhere in the world. Already in parts of for themselves in the world. That’s the fourth in politics. Dependency ratios – the ratios China there are 13 boys at the age of one reason why I believe the old are unfair to the of how many dependents each working for every ten girls, but even in our society young: the sense of poor opportunities and person has to take care of, how much they and across Europe, across the world, every extremism that emerges from this situation. have to worry about, how much of their single country in the world has a gender taxes will go to look after social security, The fifth reason is that the young – single imbalance because parents are choosing to health and other needs of the elderly – are males, early-twenties, late-teens – tend have boys rather than girls. The reasons are rising dramatically. to make up the majority of refugees and obvious: when you live in a sexist society immigrants. We, the elderly in our better off While we benefited from defined benefit where the benefits for men are greater than societies in Europe, the US and elsewhere, pension schemes, the youth of today have for women – career prospects, income don’t want to let them in. We would rather to save roughly 100 times more than we prospects, status, etc. – and where the

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have more elderly people who look more cascading risks and where many of the old road, there’s a whole series of different like us – from Eastern Europe or elsewhere solutions, be they antibiotics or exploring areas in the public and private space where – migrate across our borders than we would more resources – water, land or anything problems are not being resolved but are young people from other parts of the world. else – will no longer be available. being left to fester. And it’s the young who This, of course, does not make economic are going to have to deal with them. The young will not have rhino, or the fishing sense and is unethical. potential, or nature: they will not have For these seven reasons I believe the old The sixth reason why the old are unfair to optionality as we had in so many areas, and are unfair to the young. the young is because the old have wrecked these are irreversible changes. Professor Ian Goldin is the Director of the planet and are giving the young a planet The final reason why I believe the old are the Oxford Martin School, which promotes that has much worse resource capabilities unfair to the young is because the old, interdisciplinary studies. In October 2013, than they enjoyed themselves. Whether maybe because they won’t be around for the Oxford Martin Commission for Future it’s climate change, biodiversity loss, the as long, think more short term. They are Generations produced its report Now destruction of the oceans and the fisheries, unable to take on board long-term thinking for the Long-Term. He is Professor of putting space craft up into space without and this was the focus of the Oxford Globalisation and Development at Oxford working on how to get the junk down, Martin Commission for Future Generations. University and was previously Vice President pushing out antibiotics without thinking There’s a great deal of evidence that as and Director of Policy at the World Bank about the consequences – that antibiotics societies are increasingly dominated by and prior to that Economic Advisor to will no longer be effective for the young elderly people, they become more and more President Mandela. His most recent books as they get older – the old are creating short-term in their horizons. Whether it’s in are: Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks a growing series of dangerous global business, with market to market accounting and Rewards of Our New Renaissance common problems. The spill over effects – what some have called quarterly (Bloomsbury, May 2016) and The Pursuit of rational actions which, accumulated capitalism – the ageing of infrastructure, of Development: Economic Growth, Social over time, mean that the young will have the focus on current problems, the kicking Change and Ideas (OUP, May 2016). a system which is much more fragile, a of the difficult long-term issues down the system which leads to much more systemic Look on the bright side TERRY O’SHAUGHNESSY Economists are not usually optimists, in my lifetime – in my subject, in the Let me start by saying that I really enjoyed but here’s one who while playing universities I teach in and the societies I David’s book and as I read it bracketed with against type comes up with some have had the privilege to be a member of – it another book that made a big impression interesting evidence that runs counter and I see lots of reasons for thinking that the on me: Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the to our other speakers’ conclusions story you have just been given is incomplete Twenty-First Century that came out in 2013. and, in some ways, quite misleading: it You might think these two books are rather What helps me to be an optimist is leaves out crucial things, some of which are different, certainly their authors come from that I came to Oxford from Australia via surrounding us as we speak. very different political traditions, but what Cambridge. I have seen massive changes struck me about both of these books, is

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that they are taking on large themes and boomers, but the generation after that, older people. I thought that was a slender attacking these themes head on. Both look Generation Y, people born between 1980 base for the political economy part of the at intergenerational changes in income and 2000. argument and we need to debate that, but distribution and both engage doggedly and in terms of the first part of the argument that So the question is: have Generation Y creatively in the best way with many data the baby boomers were lucky, I think that’s had their birthright pinched, as the title of sources, which they bring together in novel clear. the book asks us to believe? We have to ways. I enjoyed that aspect of both books, make a choice. If the baby boomers did But we have to face the fact that there’s David’s in particular. particularly well as we’ve heard, is this something else going on, which has The other thing they have in common is because they were lucky or because they again been referred to, and this has to that both books draw on literary sources were clever and manipulative? My reading do with who is going to be better off of and popular culture, not just on boring of the evidence is that the case for their these two generations. The fundamental, economics. Both tell stories in which the being lucky is well established; I don’t think underlying and obvious, point is that lifetime key actors are the family and the state, there’s much doubt about that. There were consumption for the baby boomers was and leave out another actor: both have in a number of variables that worked in their very buoyant and we’ve all enjoyed it. common what they exclude as well as what favour and there were a number of variables But consumption levels now are much they include. I’ll come to this later. that have worked against the interests higher than they were when the baby of Generation Y. A key point that David boomers were first on the scene. My Both see the post-1945 generation mentions is the fact that being in a relatively calculation suggests that per capita lifetime as having experienced a golden age. small generation should have pushed up consumption for a typical baby boomer Nineteen-fifty-eight was a peak year for real wages for them and pushed up work in the UK in today’s prices is about £1.3 the meritocracy and for social mobility opportunities. But at the same time as million. according to David; the 1960s and 1970s this generational change was happening, were the most equal decades according It’s obviously very difficult to estimate we’ve also seen a big move towards to Piketty. Both see a bleaker future, lifetime consumption for Generation Y. millions of new workers coming into the substantially bleaker in the variables that These people haven’t yet experienced their global workforce, in Asia particularly, and matter. lifetime; they don’t know what their incomes globalization putting downward pressure and their consumption are going to be. I Now, using the data, is there any way we on real incomes for lots of categories of tried to do some calculations. I looked at can get a handle on to show whether this is workers in rich countries, including in the lots of different data sources and thought correct or not? We’ve already had a useful UK. That is bad luck, but it has nothing to about this quite hard; in the end I just made definition of who the baby boomers are: do with the manipulative behaviour of the up the numbers. those born between 1945 and 1965. It’s previous generation. useful to compare that generation with the But I was very conservative in this because There is a political economy argument, other generations that are also described lots of things can happen in the future and which has been alluded to, namely that in David’s book. He offers a number of I will mention a couple of these things that the old tend to use their voting power different generations, and it gets quite I haven’t accounted for. But one thing I did more than the young, and there is some complicated if you have to keep them all account for, because I’ve been thinking evidence cited in the book on how pension in play, but let’s just focus not on the next about this hard and studying it quite closely, provision is more generous in countries generation, Generation X, who came along is the impact of the worldwide economic where the demographics are favourable to too quickly to be the children of the baby crisis that began in 2007/08. What that

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seems to have done in many countries, This is what economic growth does and construction and maintenance and including Britain, has been to reduce what Keynes talked about in the inexorable transmission of knowledge. That’s what’s production. As well as cutting output it operation of compound interest. This is the left out of his analysis, and also that of seems to have reduced the productive inexorable operation of economic growth. Piketty. If you want to think about the way capacity of the economy. Now optimists in which knowledge has added to the What this leaves out is some of the say we will eventually get back on trend potential for the flourishing of human life things that Ian mentioned. If we have growth and will make up for this, but for the in the next generation, and the generation environmental catastrophe, if the failure purposes of today I will be very pessimistic after that, think of two people, both to solve the problems of climate change and assume that the entire effect of what members of my Cambridge college, Alan lead to social breakdown in countries like happened in 2007/08 and in subsequent Turing and John Maynard Keynes. Neither Bangladesh, and millions of people, not just years is permanent: we never get back to had children but both magnified their hundreds of thousands, but millions, try the trend line of growth that we were on impact on the world, not just in their current to migrate to rich countries or to countries before, but that we start to grow, as we are generation, but in future generations, that are not built on river deltas, then the growing, from that lower base. through their transmission of knowledge to calculations change. Wars and other global those generations. Assuming that these effects are permanent shocks can easily make any picture look we get a slightly more pessimistic negative. But just as we have looked in And there are others. It’s one of the answer, but even with those pessimistic the spirit of Thomas Piketty, we should go functions of a university. When you assumptions, running this generation’s back and do what Piketty does and look support and encourage and contribute lifetime consumption forward, we get a at the actual cost of the catastrophes of to the creation and transmission of that figure of almost precisely twice as much World War I and World War II. These were knowledge, you are passing it on to the next as the baby boomers: £2.6 million each. In enormous shocks, but shocks from which generation, and that is why they are going other words, this generation is going to be the economies of the world recovered. And to be richer than we are and good luck to much richer in their consumption than the they recovered for a reason. Again, I have them. And in doing so you’re not being baby boomers. put this little genie in a box. selfish, you’re being extraordinarily generous and I commend you for it. But that’s not all: the other thing we have But now I will tell you what’s in my box: been told is that Generation Y is going to what’s been left out by both authors. And Dr Terry O’Shaughnessy is Tutor in enjoy six more years of healthy life. How this is why I’m an optimist. David says there Economics at St Anne’s specializing in much do you value six years of healthy life? are two places where the issues that he’s Microeconomics, public economics and I value six years of healthy life quite a lot, discussing and we’ve been discussing are international economics, with a particular but according to the current estimate the discharged: the family and the nation state. emphasis on the relationship between National Institute of Clinical Excellence uses I would add a third institution, in Edmund unemployment and inflation. for calculating a quality-adjusted life year, Burke’s words quoted by David at the end Dame Frances Cairncross (1962) was I’m supposed to value them at £34,000 of his book: ‘a partnership of all science, a a student at St Anne’s and spent 20 years each. If we multiply that by six we get partnership of all art, a partnership in every as a journalist on The Economist. She was another £200,000, add that to 1.3 million, virtue and in all perfection.’ Rector of Exeter College, Oxford, from 2004 the extra benefit that this generation gets What does that describe? I suggest that to 2012. She is now Chair of the Court at over and above the baby boomers is 1.5 it describes this institution, the University Heriot-Watt University and a Trustee of the million. That’s a lot: they are going to be and, more broadly, the process of the Natural History Museum. much richer than we are and that’s good.

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3.45 – 5.00pm Afternoon Tea and Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2016 Farewell to Tim Gardam

All St Anne’s alumnae and guests 17 – 18 September 2016 Association School of Architecture, London. are invited to an afternoon tea to say On graduation he was design director at goodbye to Tim Gardam and celebrate All St Anne’s alumnae are warmly invited Wolff Olins then founded Fletcher Priest his twelve years as Principal. to the annual Gaudy, taking place on 17 – Architects with Michael Fletcher. Their 18 September 2016 to coincide with the There is no charge to attend this event work spans urban design, architecture, Oxford University Alumni Weekend (https:// but if you wish to make a gift towards interior design and design research with www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni_home). We the Tim Gardam Student Welfare Fund, studios in London, Köln and Riga. Outside hope that you can join us at some of the St named in Tim’s honour to mark his of the practice he was President of the Anne’s events over the weekend and take time at St Anne’s, this would be most Architectural Association and he lectures the opportunity to meet with old friends welcome. The College is creating this widely. Fletcher Priest Architects have and fellow alumnae. Accommodation is endowed fund to help to cover the rising designed the new Library and Academic available in College for alumnae and their costs of welfare support in the years Centre. guests (due to limited ensuite availability to come. Further details are available there is only one guest per person in the 1.00pm Gaudy Lunch on our website: www.st-annes.ox.ac. first instance) on a first-come, first-served uk/alumnae/supporting/tim-gardam- 2:30 – 3.45pm Gaudy Seminar: Our built basis for the nights of Friday 16 and student-welfare-fund heritage: a gem or a millstone? What’s Saturday 17 September. worth keeping and why? 5.00 – 6.00pm Annual General Meeting of the St Anne’s Society (formerly Saturday 17 September With competing demands on our resources known as the Association of Senior From 10.30am Gaudy registration and and environment, how much do our historic Members) tea, coffee and pastries buildings matter? Can we afford to keep them? How do we safeguard our heritage – 7.00 – 7.30pm Pre-dinner drinks 11.45am Alumni Weekend Lecture: past, present and future? reception Designing with St Anne’s – masterplans, architecture and landscape by Keith A discussion chaired by Dame Helen 7.30 – 9.30pm Dinner Priest. Ghosh, Director-General of the National Sunday 18 September Trust, with contributions from Dr Michael The inside story of several years spent Fradley, a landscape archaeologist 10.30 – 11.30am Gaudy Service unearthing hidden attributes of earlier with a research emphasis on archaeo- masterplans and other good intentions from To book your place at this event, please topographical survey, Liane Hartley, 1930 to the present day. And what does a book online at http://tinyurl.com/ alumna and co-founder of Mend, and building have to do to survive for 400 years? gaudy2016. If you have any queries about Caroline Stanford, Historian and Head of the Gaudy and Alumni Weekend, please Keith Priest studied at the Architectural Engagement at the Landmark Trust. email [email protected].

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In memoriam George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, GBE Matthew Reynolds

13 September 1919 – 20 January 2016 putting his finger on the ‘blind spot’, as he Dignity (shortlisted 2007); Ciaran Carson’s called it, that in many novels – including his version of Dante’s Inferno (winner, 2003) and Creative hub and generator of cultural own – he felt to be paradoxically a source Peter Daniels’ of Vladislav Khodasevich’s exchange of illumination, a puzzle that generates Selected Poems (shortlisted 2014). An It is summer, and Umberto Eco is standing clarity. Or Ali Smith, standing professorially Internet search for ‘St Anne’s Weidenfeld outside Hall in the warmish drizzle, at the podium in dungarees, and giving us, Past Winners’ will give you the full list. In chatting to a devoted group. Someone has not an academic discourse but a fiction of 2016, the field has been so strong that we asked him: ‘Maestro, what is the perfect loss, love and reading, in which critical and have joint victors, Philip Roughton for Jón translation?’ A symphony of words pours philosophical reflections were intertwined. Kalman Stefánsson’s The Heart of Man out of him and his hands soar and twitch (MacLehose Press) and Paul Vincent and It is summer, and translators and publishers, like a conductor’s, one of them grasping John Irons for 100 Dutch Language Poems writers and readers, and of course dons a little white baton, a cigarette. Only Eco (Holland Park Press). and students are gathered for Oxford is trying to give up smoking and it is not Translation Day and the award of the This wealth of thinking, conversation and a real cigarette but a plastic tube. All the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Ours is encounter, this influx of creativity, languages, same, as he sucks (in the very occasional unusual among translation prizes because and plastic cigarettes, is all owing to the pause) on his fake cigarette, he still projects it is not limited by genre or language: it impulse and generosity of George, Lord a Rive Gauche cosmopolitanism and is for a book of fiction, poetry or drama Weidenfeld, who died earlier this year. I panache, the spirit of the Weidenfeld Visiting translated from any European tongue. The knew George only very slightly, towards Professorship of Comparative European list of winners and shortlists over the past the end of his life, as a figure who every Literature. two decades forms a smorgasbord of now and then was driven up from London It is summer, and Mario Vargas Llosa is continental creativity. A few of my personal in a Toyota Prius to join the committee lecturing in the MOLT. Or is it one of the favourites are Natasha Randall’s translation that oversees the Professorship. He other Weidenfeld Professors, perhaps of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We and Jamie edged painstakingly down the stairs and Bernhard Schlink, or Nike Wagner, Martha McKendrick’s of Giorgio Bassani’s The through the room; but when he sat and Nussbaum, or Amos Oz. There have Garden of the Finzi Contini (both shortlisted lifted his head his eyes were bright with been many memorable airings of ideas, 2008); Michael Hofmann’s translation puckish intelligence. Often he would make many moments of intellectual drama. Two of Durs Grünbein’s Ashes for Breakfast: some apparently odd or even outrageous that stick in my mind are Javier Cercas, Selected Poems (winner, 2007) and Sverre suggestion and the rest of us would only speaking in vigorously Hispanic English, Lyngstad’s of Dag Solstad’s Shyness and slowly come to see the point.

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George Weidenfeld/Courtesy Times of Israel

George’s association with St Anne’s took a risk on Lolita, and had the idea that which helped establish the International goes back to the early 1990s when he Eric Hobsbawm might possibly be able to Prize for Arabic Fiction. He also established met the then Principal, Ruth Deech, at a find a readership outside universities. He the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Scholarships for lunch. They discovered that her father, was a great generator of cultural energy, students from emerging and transitional the journalist Josef Fraenkel, had been and a projector of institutions from the economies, and the Humanitas Visiting a mentor to him before he fled Vienna, famous dinner parties that doubled as Professorships in pretty much every aged 18, in 1938. And so it was that St high-level seminars to the ‘Club of Three,’ a humanities subject you can think of, shared Anne’s came to benefit from the energy, the structure for fostering cultural and political out between Oxford and Cambridge. As open-mindedness and the talent-spotting conversation between Germany, Britain and Ruth puts it, ‘He was always looking for a brilliance that made him such an innovative France in the 1990s, and now the wider- place to park the carrying out of his ideas’: and successful publisher, the one who ranging Institute for Strategic Dialogue we are extremely fortunate that one of his

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favourite parking places was St Anne’s. creating imaginative spaces where people’s new Library and Academic Centre. identities can travel, transform themselves All the same, champions-league European We have launched research projects, or find shelter. Linked workshops looked at intellectuals tend to bring with them, developed international collaborations, how stories and poems can emerge from not only plastic cigarettes but other held conferences and written books: a Babelic places where languages meet and idiosyncrasies and demands. Not all of new volume on the resilience of borders is only partially understand one another – for the Weidenfeld Professors have been alive coming out later this year. We put podcasts instance when a non-Arabist (such as to the distinctive Spartan charm of a flat and other material on our website: www. myself) tries to grasp the principles of Arabic in Wolfson or Rayne. George Steiner was occt.ox.ac.uk. Graduate students and early metres with the help of the distinguished happy to go for an after-dinner drink with career academics are especially vigorously Palestinian poet Tamim Al-Barghouti, or our then Librarian David Smith, until they involved. We like our work to circulate when the Epic of Gilgamesh is translated, got within earshot of the College Bar: ‘This,’ beyond the boundaries of the academy: by Philip Terry, into contemporary business he said, ‘is for animals,’ and turned on his we draw translators, writers and artists into English, creating effects that are powerfully heel. Roberto Calasso appears to have our endeavours, and invite all interested strange. thought the duties of the Principal included people to participate in public-facing events seeing to his laundry. But these quirks For some years, the Visiting Professorship like Oxford Translation Day. In the spring of are little things beside the energy and the and the Prize seemed rather at odds with 2016 a startling email came round from the vision that the Professorship and the Prize the structures of the University. After all centre of the University inviting proposals embody. there was no degree course in comparative for ‘innovative, new degree courses’. So literature or translation. But with the we submitted a proposal for a Masters They stand for an idea of literary culture establishment of The Oxford Research degree in Comparative Literature and that is all the more worth asserting now Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) in Critical Translation, to bridge the faculties than when they were set up in the 1990s. 2012/13 things began to change. One of of English, Oriental Studies and Modern Of literature as not confined within separate the first interdisciplinary initiatives supported and Mediaeval Languages. The powers- monolingual channels controlled by nation- by TORCH originated in St Anne’s and that-be approved, and the course is now states, but rather proliferating across was inspired by Weidenfeld’s example. being developed with a view to starting in languages and cultures. Of translation as Now called Oxford Comparative Criticism 2018. There is much more to do: research a full participant in literary creativity, not an and Translation (OCCT), it brings together to pursue, studentships to endow, new anonymous servant. Of continuity between academics from across the various faculties pathways to develop at undergraduate level. academic and imaginative writing. Of a of literature, languages and arts to explore But in Oxford, now, the literary humanities Europe that is not walled off from the rest of how texts circulate and metamorphose are moving in a Weidenfeldian direction; and the world but opens its intellectual borders between cultures, and to project new ways St Anne’s is at the heart of it. to Africa, Asia, Israel and the Middle East. of thinking about literature in transnational This year’s Weidenfeld lectures, by Marina Matthew Reynolds is Fellow and Tutor and global contexts. Thanks to the Warner, have underlined this aspect of the in English Language and Literature at St generous support of an alumna, Maria enterprise. Titled ‘The Sanctuary of Stories’, Anne’s, and chair of OCCT Willetts (Ferreras 1974), OCCT is anchored they presented a view of narrative as in St Anne’s; and it will find a home in the

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The Wake: before and after PAUL KINGSNORTH

‘What matters for a writer is writing,’ strangeness and stubbornness, a book or misunderstood to know that this is says the author of The Wake, an that came from somewhere old in me and just another turn of the wheel. It’s been a eleventh century tale ‘more truly from somewhere outside me too, and that I welcome one, but I’ve been trying to get relevant to where we are now’ than thought would have a small audience if any through it all by treating it as if I were an many contemporary novels, say audience at all. I expected to have to self- intrigued observer rather than a participant. reviewers publish it, and that didn’t matter because As my wise and experienced publisher said books are not written to be published: the to me just the other day: ‘Prizes are lovely, publishing is a bonus, and anything that as long as you don’t mistake them for happens after that is a privilege and usually anything that matters.’ a source of anxiety too. Writers are anxious The Wake is an historical novel set in people. Or is that just me? the deep mythic past. It is hung carefully But The Wake has been my most on the known historical facts about the successful book, in worldly terms. It has almost forgotten, decade-long war of been garlanded with praise. It won the 2014 underground resistance which spread Gordon Burn Prize and the Bookseller Book across England in the decade after 1066. of the Year Award, was long-listed for the Most importantly – certainly most strangely Man Booker Prize, the Folio Prize and the – it is written entirely in its own language: Desmond Elliott Prize, and was shortlisted my interpretation of Old English, recreated for the Goldsmiths Prize. It’s found a great for modern eyes and ears. American publisher. It’s had rave reviews The Wake is an ageless story of the collapse all over the place and I’ve now sold the of certainties and lives; a tale of lost gods film rights to the one person – the actor and haunted visions, narrated by a man of Mark Rylance – who I imagined playing the Lincolnshire fens bearing witness to the the central character in my idle daydreams end of his world. It was published in April during the writing. I’ve sold a few of the 2014 by Unbound. The paperback was things too. published in April 2015. This is all heady stuff. If it had happened Books do strange and unexpected and It’s interesting for me to think back to the to me when I was 25 it would have been sometimes disturbing things, independent very beginning of The Wake, and to try a disaster, but I’m old and cynical enough of their creators. It’s one of the saving joys and trace its development. It’s been a now to take it in my stride. I’ve had enough of being a writer. Exhibit one: The Wake: nearly four-year process, and it began with years in which my writing was ignored my first novel and a labour of love and the discovery of a book in a bookshop

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in Oxford. The book was called The going to work: his story was where the and be quiet’, and that is exactly what I English Resistance by Peter Rex, and it meat of the thing was. intend to do now. I have plenty of work to documented the hidden history of the do. One of the other things that happened And so I began telling it: the tale of a guerrilla resistance movement that sprang to me this year (2014/15), as a result of The Lincolnshire sokeman bearing witness to up after 1066. I remember thinking even Wake’s success, was that Faber and Faber the end of his world. I didn’t know where before I read it: what a great basis for a have lured me into their stable and will be it would take me or how it would end – I novel. publishing my three next books. I didn’t wrote several different endings before I take much luring. In an age of corporate That, then, was the spark. Having decided settled on the one in the book – but I began conglomerates and depressing e-books, to look further into it, I had to spend six it with a clear enough vision of who I was Faber are the last great independent British months or so researching the period in dealing with, and the language he spoke publisher, one that still takes risks and does order to understand how life was lived and began to define what the book was to interesting things with physical books, and what the historical context was. During that become. their backlist reads like a who’s who of most time, cocooned in the Bodleian Library, Except that even this was not the end of it. of the authors I loved when I was younger, I ran through any number of possible Because Buccmaster of Holland, my main from William Golding to Ted Hughes. ways of constructing the book. One early man, turned out not to be as straightforward approach was an attempt to tell the story For Faber (and for Graywolf in the US), I’ll as I had imagined; and neither did his story. of the same period in history from varying be writing a new non-fiction book – my It wasn’t just the language that began perspectives: that of a man involved; that of first for a decade. It’ll be an examination complicating matters. Another voice began a nineteenth century historical novel; that of of the implications of the rising age of the to come through, and this one was older, a contemporary historian; and some other Machine, of all-encompassing technology and darker. It was speaking, it turned out, perspective I’ve already forgotten. in the age of extinction, and how we can not to me, but to him. It took me some time stay rooted to places as it envelops us. It’s But it didn’t work, and the reason it didn’t to work out who I was hearing – and who a biggy, and I’m looking forward to taking work is that that voice of the first of those Buccmaster was hearing – but when I did, it on. But it’s a few years off yet, because I stories – the resistance fighter, who I had I realized that there was a whole other layer have something else to do first. decided after reading an essay by historian to this story that I hadn’t considered when Frank Stenton had to come from the I began it. This was where the old gods, That something is the second novel in Lincolnshire Fens – began to come through and the old spirits of pre-Christian England, what, it turns out, will be a trilogy begun distinctly in my head. It was this man’s began to assert themselves in a story that by The Wake. This wasn’t the intention voice that eventually led to me creating had not, when it began, been intended to when I wrote it, but I now see The Wake the language of the novel: I could hear him feature them at all. as the first of three books which delve speak, and he was not speaking in my into the mythical and actual landscapes of It’s strange what you hear when you start idiom. I had to work the words around him, England across two thousand years of time, listening. not try to make him subject to my speech linked by their related protagonists and patterns. And it became clear soon enough What matters? For a writer, writing. by other coincidences and connections. that diluting his story with others was not Robinson Jeffers advised his peers to 'write, The next book in the trilogy, Beast, is set

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in the present day. The final one will be set a thousand years in the future. Call me A woman for our time ambitious. Or call me an idiot. I don’t mind. GARY BROOKING

She began her professional life as a reflected her interest in and knowledge of philosopher but became best known continental philosophy. as a novelist. Today, Iris Murdoch’s Although well versed in Oxford philosophy philosophical work, strongly affected and aware of the Cambridge scene, by her engagement with post-war after spending a year in Cambridge Europe, is once again the centre of after the war under the supervision of attention John Wisdom, she aimed to bring to her Iris Murdoch matters. That is clear. Yet the philosophical perspective the ideas of question why she matters is worth asking. continental European philosophy. She She was a remarkable woman, who was was knowledgeable on Kant and Hegel pre-eminent in many fields, maintaining and she read Sartre, De Beauvoir and many interests and intense relations with Merleau-Ponty. She liked the excitement numerous friends. She was a philosopher at and engagement of continental philosophy St Anne’s College, and it was in philosophy though she also valued the care and rigour that her talents were first recognized. of the Anglophone variety. Her first book She was an insightful and original voice was an excellent study of Sartre. It was in philosophy, who questioned standard sympathetic and critical, showing how notions and developed challenging ideas in Sartre opened up the idea of subjectivity moral philosophy. and freedom, while limiting how the individual is to be seen in relation to others. Her views in moral philosophy reflected Her moral essays, such as ‘The Idea of ‘The purity of an ancient fable with blinding the times in which she lived and her own Perfection’ and ‘The Sovereignty of Good’ flashes of what it means to be alive today.’ experience. She lived during World War II were notable in taking moral life seriously. and recognized that things were changing Instead of seeing morality as a matter of in morality and politics. She had seen at subjective choice or ordinary language she Paul Kingsnorth (1991) The Wake was first first hand the wreckage of people’s lives aimed to make sense of an important way published in April 2014 by Unbound. Beast, caused by the war in her work for UNRRA, of seeing and acting in the world. She saw the second book in the Buckmaster Trilogy, an organisation dedicated to helping morality as mattering and as something was published on 7 July 2016 (Faber & refugees at the end of the war in Europe. in which one could get things right or Faber) Throughout her life, her sympathies were wrong. She valued attending carefully to engaged by the idea of Europe and the people and things in an effort to make the fate of Europeans. Likewise her philosophy right moral decisions. She saw morality

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as being realized in loving considered relations rather than in a series of decisions executed by atomistic individuals. Although she recognized that traditional religious and metaphysical accounts of morality might be unsustainable, she perceived how they presented morality in an important light that resonated with felt experience.

While developing a standpoint in moral philosophy, Murdoch also developed as a novelist. She became more famous as a novelist than as a philosopher, writing a series of thoughtful novels in which ideas mattered rather more than is standard in English novels. Her novels were entrancing in their tracing of complex webs of love between characters, who were often engaged in moral and developmental quests. Her great novels such as The Bell, Under the Net, The Sea The Sea and The Good Apprentice will last; they deal with big themes such as the nature of goodness, the quest for religious and personal redemption and the nature of life, while providing endless narrative twists and turns. Do the novels reflect Murdoch’s philosophy? Murdoch herself often denied that they did. But they do deal with some of the same themes as her philosophy and show how characters reflect forms of love and egoism, with which Murdoch was concerned. Her status as a novelist surpassed her reputation as a philosopher. Her novels have gone out of fashion somewhat as her interests and intellectuality are no longer in vogue, but they will continue to be read as they deal with the grand themes of the nineteenth-century novel in particular and engrossing ways.

Does Iris Murdoch matter? Her philosophy and novels are well- worth reading. A case can also be made for attending to her life, her adventurous relations with friends that are recorded in letters that she sent to them. A selection of these letters has recently Iris Murdoch painted by Marie-Louise von Motesiczky in 1964 been published under the title Living on Paper (edited by Anne © Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust 2016. Rowe and Avril Horner). Yet what makes her of most interest is values. It contributes to the capacity to see afresh things that she how she connects the various parts of her life and experience. values in moral life. Iris Murdoch matters a lot and for all these inter- Her philosophy relates to lived experience, her novels portray connected reasons. experience and her friendships testify to the effort she put into loving relationships. She takes art very seriously and it is the Gary Brooking is Professor of Politics at Oxford Brookes University concentrated attention of practising and observing art that she and was the convener of a 2015 conference on Iris Murdoch

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A decade of centenaries PATRICK GAUL

Easter 1916, which was celebrated moment in the course of Irish and British Bill had been introduced in 1886; nearly throughout the Republic earlier this history. 30 years later it was still not on the Statute year, was at the heart of a troubled Book. The background to the 1916 rising included decade in Ireland. Other events, whose the 1912 government introduction of 1914 saw the outbreak of World War I and centenaries also fall in 2016 and in a Home Rule Bill (for the third time) in the first major split among Irish nationalists. which many Irish men and women appreciation of the support of the Irish Most favoured John Redmond’s were involved, go unremarked and un- Parliamentary Party. That led, in the North constitutional path to Home Rule. Redmond commemorated of Ireland, to the formation of the Ulster secured a promise from Prime Minister Volunteers who increasingly feared the Herbert Asquith that Home Rule would be threat of government from Dublin. deferred while the war continued but if the Irish joined in the fight against Germany they The Dublin lock out of 1913 saw employers would have Home Rule when the war was in Dublin refusing to recognize union over. labour. Jim Larkin from Liverpool led mass resistance until the people were effectively Those who favoured the armed struggle, starved into returning to work in early-1914. Fenians like Tom Clarke, Irish Republican Dublin at the time was regarded as the Brotherhood men like Pearse and the leader second city in the empire but witnessed of the Irish Citizen Army, James Connolly, near famine among people who dwelt in saw England’s difficulty as Ireland’s some of the worst slums in Europe. opportunity and planned an armed rebellion. Patrick Gaul’s grandfather, Bartholomew Gaul, survivor from the sinking of the Lusitania. There was, of course, a much longer Of course, there were many who bitterly history: since the Act of Union had come opposed Home Rule and this decade also Ireland has just commemorated the into force at the start of the nineteenth saw the Curragh Mutiny of 1914 when the centenary of the Easter Rising. On 24 April century, Ireland had been ruled from British army refused to obey orders to quell 1916 rebel forces took key strongholds Westminster. Over the course of the century a rising of Ulstermen loyal to the Crown in the city of Dublin and Pàdraig Pearse there had been attempts to bring in Home who had formed their own army to oppose proclaimed the first Irish Republican Rule for Ireland through the United Irishmen Home Rule. ‘Ulster will fight and Ulster Government from the steps of the GPO and the Fenians, who were in favour of will be right!’ was the battle cry of Edward in what is now O’Connell Street. This was using physical force, and Prime Minister Carson, a wealthy lawyer from Dublin who just one, arguably the most important, in William Gladstone, Charles Parnell and the became the leader of the Unionists. The a long list of anniversaries in a decade of Irish Parliamentary Party, who favoured Ulster Volunteer Force brought guns into centenaries from 1912 to 1922, a pivotal constitutional methods. The first Home Rule Larne to get ready for the fight. The other

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side brought arms into Howth just North of future.’ whose 150th anniversary was celebrated Dublin to prepare for their fight. worldwide in 2015: The Easter rising did not last long. The I write it out in a verse – The Irish kept alive their hunger for rebels were by the time the fighting started MacDonagh and MacBride, sovereignty through commemoration. The on Easter Monday divided and distracted, And Connolly and Pearse, parades to mark the 1798 rebellion in 1898, the numbers who turned out to fight Now and in time to be, Robert Emmet’s 1803 rebellion in 1903, the were modest and the fighting was largely Wherever green is worn, memorials to the Manchester martyrs who confined to Dublin. The battle was over in Are changed, changed utterly: had been executed in 1867, the annual six days, crushed by the far superior forces A terrible beauty is born. pilgrimages to the grave of Wolfe Tone, all and weaponry of the British army. Many helped to reinvigorate the desire for national of those who fought the rebels were, of The executions created huge political self-determination. course, Irish. And while the rebels fought controversy and turned public opinion the forces of the Crown, many Irishmen in Ireland, England and the USA. There There were many forces and influences were fighting for the Crown in foreign lands. would have been more had Asquith not encouraging rebels onto the streets of intervened. The executions of Éamon de Dublin in 1916: a flourishing of Irish culture Pearse surrendered on 30 April to avoid Valera, who went on to become the great and language in the late-nineteenth century further civilian bloodshed. fixture of Irish politics for the following half- gave a heightened sense of identity and The men who had fought for the republic century, and Constance Markievicz were difference; socialism; anti-imperialism; but were rounded up by British troops and narrowly avoided. The little rebellion went perhaps most of all a sense of history, marched through the streets of a city in global. as evidenced in the commemorations ruins where the local population made a above – and the words of Pearse, whose point of jeering at them and spitting on graveside oration at the funeral of the them. The rising had caused great suffering Fenian O’Donovan Rossa in 1915 made a to the civilian population: food shortages, huge impact: looting, innocent civilians, many of them They think they have pacified Ireland children, shot in the streets. Hasty trials saw … but the fools … they have left us our severe penalties, including the execution Fenian dead and while Ireland holds of 15 leaders, guaranteeing heroic status these graves, Ireland unfree shall never and immortality for the likes of Pearse and be at peace. Connolly.

There was a strong sense amongst the Within a short time those who had jeered rebels that they had a duty to rise against the rebels took to commemorating them the foreign oppressor as had previous through badges and pictures, prayers, generations of Irishmen. Pearse again, after songs and stories. Inevitably these men the fight was over: ‘We have kept faith with and their deeds would come to be the past and handed on a tradition to the commemorated. In the words of WB Yeats Éamon de Valera

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There was lasting resentment at the at the end of the war. They went to war as regretted that for many years. The story heavy-handed and indiscriminate tactics. heroes and they fought a heroic fight. But in our family was that he had sent his war These involved the internment in England they returned to Ireland not as heroes but medals back as a protest against British rule and Wales of thousands of Irish men and as men who had fought for the Crown when in Ireland but years later we discovered that women, many of whom had nothing to do Ireland was fighting for its freedom. Those was not the case (although we never saw with the rebellion. After an amnesty and men came to be largely forgotten in Ireland the medals). History is part mythology. release of prisoners in December 1916, and have not been commemorated in the My great aunt Kate, a sister of William, was men such as Michael Collins and De Valera same way as those in England. This year a busy and active member of the Gaelic returned as heroes. Others, who had fought it might be different: 100 years on, we are League in Liverpool 100 years ago and she to free small nations on the battlefields of in a better position to commemorate them knew many of those who fought in 1916 Europe, were ignored in Ireland, then and in properly. and in the subsequent civil war. She knew the decades since. Over the course of the All of this history can be read in books Michael Collins and Jim Larkin and on one rest of the war it became harder and harder and online, but some of it was part of my famous occasion she sheltered De Valera for the British to recruit in Ireland. family history: the stories that were told, the after his escape from Lincoln Jail. She was Although 1916 was a pivotal point in reminiscences shared on family occasions. arrested for her sins. She went on to do a the decade it was not the end of things. degree in English at Birmingham University, My grandfather on my father’s side and The men of 1916 went on to lead the an extraordinary achievement for a working his brother were on the Lusitania in 1915 fight against the Black and Tans as when it was sunk by a German submarine Ireland descended into chaos. Prolonged patrolling the waters off the South West negotiations with the British government coast of Ireland. Over 1,000 people lost culminated in the Anglo-Irish treaty in their lives. My granddad Bartholomew Gaul December 1921, which set up the Irish Free survived but his brother Richard died. My State, confirmed the partition of six counties granddad did not live to a ripe old age: he in Ulster and inevitably led to a bloody civil died in his early-forties from tuberculosis in war in the following year. 1932 when my dad was a boy. Last year But to return to 2016: we shall be there were great commemorations of this commemorating the battle of the Somme, event. There was a display in the Maritime which started on 1 July and went on until museum in Liverpool. A delegation from November 1916. In Britain there is no Cork visited the Irish centre in Liverpool as question that this is the right thing to do. In part of their commemorations. Ireland it has been very different. My granddad on my mother’s side, William Over 200,000 Irish people fought in World Furlong, fought for Britain in World War War I. Tens of thousands died. At the start I and was at the Somme. He was one Standing up: great aunt Kate (Furlong) and her of the war the promise to those men was of those Irish nationalists who ended up sister Lily. Kate knew the likes of Michael Collins that there would be Home Rule for Ireland fighting for the Crown and I suspect he and Éamon De Valera.

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class woman in the early-twentieth century. home some important lessons. It is understand the world I have lived through important that we commemorate because and how to put the future into context. The Gauls and the Furlongs came from it is a way of learning the lessons of history. The past I am talking about is a lot closer Wexford and were part of the great Irish Fifty years ago the remembrance of 1916 than it looked when I was an 18-year-old. diaspora that emigrated in the decades was more difficult for Ireland and Britain: That was partly because I had never been after the famine in the 1840s and settled in 1916 was still a political minefield. There taught about it in any formal sense. What a places such as Liverpool, London and much were all sorts of no-go areas. We were, of wasted opportunity. I knew so many people further afield. One of my grandparents, Mary course, on the verge of the troubles that who could have been the best teachers, Sloan came from Warren Point in County scarred the North of Ireland over the course people who had lived through the events Down. In 1916 her brother and his daughter of the next quarter of a century. Things look that shaped a century. I did not need to lost their lives in one of Ireland’s other major different now the Queen has visited Ireland read the books that I now devour as I try maritime disasters when two vessels, the and the Irish President has visited England. to understand who I am and where I came Retriever and the Connemara, collided in And of course there has been a lengthy from. I could have asked my dad and his Carlingford Lough. My great uncle, who was period of relative peace. sister. I could have asked my grandmother a ferry man on boats sailing from Carlingford and her sister. Lough to Garston in South Liverpool, had But the events of 1916 still resonate: the visited Liverpool to go to a funeral and on reaction to the rising – large scale military Reflecting on these commemorations his return lost his life along with about 100 force, summary justice, internment, reminds me of what extraordinary people others, a reminder that while momentous widespread arrests – did not work then or lived through those times and what events are happening on the world stage, many years later. extraordinary lives they lived. To me growing people are involved in their everyday up they were merely ordinary and their Commemoration also reveals the complexity dramas and tragedies. old lives had little relevance to my youthful of the problems people were wrestling excitements. We grew up with fragments of these tales with and it teaches us that there will not be and never really showed the slightest solutions without understanding. The events My great hero was my father, whose young interest in them. Another thing I remember of 1916 had their gestation period over life was brutally interrupted by the outbreak from my youth was visiting cousins and hundreds of years. It is clear that some of of World War II when he was 18, the same meeting their grandfather, Joe Hearty, who the leaders knew that the rebellion in itself age I was when I went to Oxford. He was in had fought on the side of the anti-Treaty would not solve anything and was doomed the navy for six years and was at D-Day. He forces in the Irish civil war. He would show to fail but the sacrifice did inspire others, definitely did receive his medals for fighting us his medal proudly and we would listen to not only in Ireland but in many parts of the for his country and I still have them. I never songs that commemorated the events. In British Empire such as India and Egypt. asked him to tell me about his experiences the 1960s and 1970s, however, 1916 and 1916 marked the beginning of the end of and he hardly ever volunteered anything. World War I were ancient history, of little Empire. His part in that history is largely gone and relevance to our lives. Had the world not forgotten. The decade of commemorations has taught moved on? me much about how I look back at the Patrick Gaul (1980) The recent commemorations have brought past and try to understand it better; how I

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From Anschluss to Albion: Memoirs of a refugee girl 1939-1940 ELISABETH ORSTEN

In the nine months preceding the medicine and in 1948, she joined the outbreak of World War II, an organized Women’s Army Corps (WAC) and translated rescue effort that became known as captured German military documents for the Kindertransport, brought nearly three years. Her love for England eventually 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees brought her to Oxford and St Anne’s. to the United Kingdom. Predominantly From Anschluss to Albion explores her Jewish, they were taken in and cared life until her arrival in New York, drawing for by British families and institutions. significantly on her long-neglected Elisabeth Orsten’s diary records the childhood diary. As she explains in her feelings common to any refugee child preface: struggling to understand what has happened while trying to cope with a It may help to explain how a child new language, new culture, new world feels when snatched out of its world – and reminds us of our obligations to and suddenly placed into another. refugee children today Children do not easily express their feelings, especially when these are Arriving in England in January 1939 with as complicated and ambiguous as a trainload of fellow refugee children, is the trauma of adjustment to a Elisabeth Orsten (formerly Ornstein) was new environment. A child that is torn placed with a foster family with whom she between two countries and confronted spent the next 21 months. Separation from by divided loyalties, perhaps even afraid her younger brother was hard and 11-year- of further displacement, in what stranger old Elisabeth confided her anxieties and the increasingly intolerant conditions of can it trust, to whom would it dare to challenges to the diary she had been given Nazi-occupied Austria. Her parents later complain? by her beloved nanny before she left Vienna. managed to escape to the USA, where the Part memoir, part extracts from the diary, Born a wealthy, ‘rocking horse’ Catholic, her family was reunited in 1940, the siblings From Anschluss to Albion shows Elisabeth baptism aged seven was encouraged by travelling separately on two of the last struggling with her changed circumstances, her non-practising, Jewish heritage parents children’s transport ships to cross the fearful of losing her birth language, learning but the children’s evacuation to England Atlantic. Elisabeth completed her education the mores of a new family, understanding was the only way to secure their safety in in New York where her father practised how to behave with her acquired ‘sisters’

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and anxious for the welfare of her brother the matter. So when Aunt Evelyn (her me on to admit, ‘I believe that at the George, who was fostered by another foster mother), who naturally assumed time I took things much too seriously’, family. The following extracts, selected and that my classmates were at fault, went but then, to illustrate such misplaced printed with her permission, give something to the headmistress and demanded seriousness, I mentioned that I had a of the flavour of her book. an explanation, no very satisfactory long discussion with Seb (her foster answer was forthcoming. … She family’s French governess) as to whether Settling into an Ursuline convent school in informed the nuns that she had not or not I wanted a new doll. London and having ‘carefully memorised rescued this child from the bullying of the one essential English sentence “I do The adult Elisabeth observes her younger the Nazis to be bullied now by Catholic not understand”,’ Elisabeth encountered self’s irritation that others have borrowed schoolgirls. Since she had promised to difficulties both social and linguistic: her books without asking and her pleasure have me raised as a Roman Catholic, in a good school report, noting that her I seemed to come home almost every she agreed that I might continue with diary for 31 July 1940: day in tears. Years later, through one of the private catechism classes which a those inexplicable flashes of illumination German priest had been giving me at Originally contained only one sentence which unearth a long suppressed the convent school … (but) all other saying ‘Today absolutely nothing memory, I suddenly realised what arrangements were cancelled and she happened.’ However, later on I seem to must have happened and solved the removed me from the school, telling have remembered that something did verbal riddle to which it was linked. … the nuns that she would pay the fees happen, because writing as small as I Quite often the girls would also discuss for my education in some smaller, more possibly can, I have squeezed in two the attacks by Irish terrorists, which congenial institution. more sentences which say ‘Only my were springing up all over England. Report came and I was quite pleased. Elisabeth’s perennial anxiety was being … Since I could not really follow what Mrs C said nothing about the school…’ separated from her younger brother. The was being said, and knew nothing Perhaps she said nothing because she diary describes how he once came on a of the political situation … the word felt that I had already received sufficient visit and shared his bitter complaints that in ‘Irish’ and especially the term ‘IRA’ praise; given all the wartime problems, his new home he was: sounded very much like ‘Aryan’ to she might also have been preoccupied me. Understandably, I was extremely Given only one face cloth to wash all by weightier matters. frightened and upset to be encountering of himself. Angrily exaggerating, he Preparations for her journey to the USA this hateful word again, and remember claimed to have caught whooping cough were underway at this time but the child’s sobbing ‘even here’ as I walked home. and an enormous cold because all the diary entries remain focused on making Undoubtedly someone there tried to rooms were so chilly, and rejected all my dolls’ clothes and gathering wild berries. find out what was wrong with me, attempts to encourage him, declaring Observing this, adult Elisabeth notes: and though I might have complained firmly: ‘Altogether, it isn’t nice here.’ … in a vague way about the behaviour This problem was solved when Aunt There still exists an impressive foolscap of the other girls, the truth appeared Evelyn purchased a sponge which I was Certificate of Identity, stamped 3 August to be so dreadful that I was much allowed to send him. Remembering all 1940 … in lieu of a passport, bearing my too afraid to admit what was really my concern about my brother leads smiling picture … and its reverse side

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stamped by the American Consulate made me hate the idea of having to Still struggling with numerous selves in London, granting me an Immigration leave civilised England to go and live in that needed to be sorted out – the Visa (on 26 August 1940). … And a such an undesirable, barbarian country. Austrian refugee who wanted to pass as postcard from the Refugee Children’s English, the Jew who wasn’t a Jew but The final diary entry was written in New York Movement Ltd confirms: ‘We have a Catholic, the upper-middle class girl on 3 July 1941, when Elisabeth, now almost obtained your American Visa today, so reduced to living in what was practically 14, was settling into another new life and there will be no need for you to come to a slum tenement, the child who rejected trying to analyse the situation she was in: the Consulate again.’ Obviously then, the claims of blood and preferred a on at least one occasion, US officialdom I’ve forgotten all my German dear diary, distant foster-mother. … It would be a had required a personal interview, and I haven’t had time to write till now. … (I long time before all these different selves while at the Consulate that day, I had left) a country in which I had lived nearly could be reconciled in some measure, apparently written to my parents. The two years and which I truly loved, even allowing me to become a whole person. diary, however, which faithfully records if I did not care for, or hated a great My childhood years in England were the daily activities of the entire summer, many of its people. … I was going to a only partially responsible for all these appears to leave no room for such a country towards which I was … strongly difficulties of course, but their influence visit! prejudiced, and I was going to meet had been a profound one. my parents again, parents to which I There were conflicting opinions about the Elisabeth Orsten (1953) From Anschluss was attached, but in whose midst I had USA in Aunt Evelyn’s household; supplies to Albion: Memoirs of a refugee girl 1939- always felt lost. from across the Atlantic were vital but 1940 (Acorn Editions, Oct 1998) Roosevelt’s commitment to any further The memoir concludes with her observation Excerpts selected by Maureen Hazell action was questioned: that she was: (Littlewood 1971) All around me I heard frequent ridicule directed at gum-chewing ‘Yanks’, at America’s total lack of culture and at US nomenclature, exemplified by their absurd emphasis on middle names or initials as well as by their propensity to appoint public figures whose ludicrous, polysyllabic names sounded Germanic rather than English. While some of these critical remarks might have gone over my head, I registered enough of them to realise that, in Nancy Mitford’s terminology, America was definitely non-U. Not surprisingly, I too accepted this worldview; the resultant snobbery 2016: more than 90,000 unaccompanied refugee children are travelling to Europe. Courtesy unu.edu

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Does international aid do the good it could? DIANA GOOD The aims are undoubtedly well intentioned, but do we ask enough questions about the outcomes of aid projects around the world? I have a strong memory of a very old man in a school yard in Zimbabwe where, in the worst of the political crisis, teachers had received no pay and schools had been used as centres of intimidation and even torture. But this school had stayed open thanks to international aid. He walked slowly across the dusty yard of the school towards me and the NGO staff and said, ‘Do you people realise that you only have jobs because we are still poor?’ Even in this remote corner of Africa, he had seen many aid agencies come and go and was cynical. After working as a lawyer in the City for 30 years, eight years ago I went to work in international development, four of them as a Commissioner with the UK aid watchdog. I learned a great deal and now realise what an important point the old teacher was making. Aid exists to alleviate the on-going desperate poverty of so many people in the world. But philanthropy has become a vast global industry which risks losing sight of the needs of the very people it exists to serve. Aid is now receiving a lot of attention and rightly so. Since the government committed to the UN target of donating 0.7 per cent of gross national income to aid, the UK Diana Good with a ‘self-help’ pottery founder in Ethiopia

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budget has gone up in five years from just over £7 billion to just under £12 billion. A massive increase. The media have been full of criticism with sensationalist headlines such as ‘Aid fuels corruption!’ put forward as an argument for abandoning aid. A Mail on Sunday petition has secured a parliamentary debate to encourage abandoning the commitment. But the issue for me is not whether there should be aid but how can we do it better? The taxpayers and, even more crucially, the poorest people in the world, deserve it. Peoples’ lives are at stake so what’s at issue is far too important not to be done as well as possible. The need for aid is overwhelming. There are half-a-billion people who live on less than US$1.25 per day. With population growth and climate change the numbers are likely to grow rather than shrink. In Nigeria, the population is currently 170 million (with an average age of 19). In the next 25 years the population will reach 430 million. What are all those young people going to do unless they are educated, have food and Education for women in Madhya Pradesh, India jobs? Already we are seeing huge migration Development Goals (MDGs) have made we haven’t achieved that in the UK or the caused by extreme poverty, oppression and a significant difference but many are still US yet so how is it going to work in Nigeria war. way off track with 57 million children out or the Democratic Republic of Congo? In September 2015 the UN agreed the of school at primary level and 67 million at Yes: let’s set the ambition high but let’s be ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) secondary. It’s good to set high ambitions. realistic about what can actually be done so to which all UN members have committed But we need to look behind the bold talk that a real difference is made. to see how the aid is being planned and for the next 15 years. The commitment The money flow is huge. The UK delivered. There are now 17 new SDGs is to ‘leave no one behind’ by eliminating government is the world’s second largest (there were only nine MDGs) and 169 inequality throughout the world by 2030. donor and will provide £40 billion over the targets (far too many to remember), and the A high aspiration, one which will push the next four years, equivalent to the entire GDP detail is still being worked out. One example global aid budget up to an estimated £95 of either Croatia or Kenya. Spending this is the target to end all violence against billion per annum. The earlier Millennium money needs a lot of people and there are women and girls. I couldn’t agree more but

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countless players. There are state donors we reviewed was working well with the need management. The worst programme I such as the UK Department for International for some improvements but 40 per cent reviewed by a long way was Trademark Development (DFID), 30 or 60 UN agencies needed significant improvement. Aid was Southern Africa (TMSA). This was a highly (depending on how you count them) with largely working well in terms of humanitarian ambitious £100 million ‘aid for trade’ 50,000 employees worldwide, contractors, relief tackling major disasters such as the programme. Its goal was to establish a free NGOs, foundations, evaluators, think tanks, Philippines Typhoon and drought in the trade area between 26 countries in East and academics, huge corporations, celebrities Horn of Africa. But much more complex is Southern Africa and create a North South and many more. And the Zimbabwean the longer-term development work such as Corridor 4,000 kilometre road from Dar-es- teacher was right. Many do make careers security and justice or preventing violence Salaam to Durban. Only 21 per cent of the out of it or burnish their reputations due to against women and girls. And this is all the targets had been achieved, not the 83 per the fact that there are still so many poor. So more challenging now that DFID’s work is cent reported; the director of the private it’s vital that aid should be fit for purpose. focused on 28 countries, of which 21 are company had a salary of £230,000 per rated ‘fragile or conflict affected’ such as annum tax free; he and other staff received As an international litigation lawyer and 11 Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan and DRC. US$100 cash payments per day for years as a part time judge in the criminal attending international meetings on top of courts, the world I knew was bound by So what’s good and what’s bad? Yes, there free flights, free hotel accommodation; only rules and regulations where rights and are programmes that go wrong or are badly a tiny proportion of the 4,000 kilometres of wrongs were pursued in the courts and by designed in the first place. road had actually been built although far regulators. By contrast, the aid sector exists One of the biggest issues is outsiders who more was claimed. And the programming to serve people with no voice, no ability to make assumptions about what is needed failed to take into account the needs of enforce rights, no knowledge even of what rather than engage with the very people the the poor such as the risks of huge roads those rights might be, no access to justice aid is meant to help. When I was in Malawi, exacerbating human trafficking and the and no rule of law. But it’s a world with very I was told of an NGO that had come to a spread of HIV/AIDS. The programme was limited or no regulation or independent remote village and told the people that what aberrant and was closed down. oversight. they did was build fishponds. So they did: By contrast, really successful programmes In 2011, I was appointed as one of four and for two months the village had fish and tend to be anchored in the community. I Commissioners to the then new UK aid were able to sell it in the markets but when visited Tigray in the North of Ethiopia, which watchdog, The Independent Commission the dry season came and the NGO had was the scene of the terrible famine that for Aid Impact (ICAI), which was created moved on, the pond dried up, the fish died prompted Bob Geldof to start Live Aid. It is to be the independent scrutiny body and that was the end of that. I asked why a dry and majestic land of huge plains and reporting to Parliament on the effectiveness on earth the NGO hadn’t checked whether sacred mountains where terrible droughts and impact of UK aid expenditure. In four there was a secure supply of water and have become a frequent nightmare. years we published 46 reports on UK why the community themselves hadn’t said DFID has been supporting the Ethiopian aid. DFID was required to respond to our so. But as the village elders told me, they government’s food security programme, recommendations and we followed up each trusted the ‘wisdom of strangers’ and why which provides the people most at risk year. In this time I learned a great deal about would they say no to two months of fish with either food or cash for work building what works and what doesn’t. when they have nothing? schools, irrigation ditches and roads. I On average, about 60 per cent of the aid And I’ve seen bad programming and interviewed groups of women who told me

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how their lives had been transformed. ‘Now only 3,000 unaccompanied, traumatised ■■ How much is spent on marketing no one is migrating as they did. We are refugee children. Such is the concern of and hype? It may attract the donors’ illiterate but we are educating our children. the government that even such a small attention but how much is left to make a Now no one dies in childbirth. My daughters sign of humanity would enrage the anti- difference? will not put up with violence now,’ said one immigration, anti-aid voters. The UK is a woman, the group nodding their heads in significant donor in this space whether it is ■■ Does the website really explain what agreement. helping communities inside Syria to ensure they do with the money? Look behind access to water, hospitals and education, the images and the stories to how they Another said, ‘Before, this was a dry land. or working in refugee camps in Jordan, actually make a difference. Before, women could make no decisions. where refugees make up 20 per cent of Now I am on committees and I’m a self- I believe aid can and does do real good and the population, or helping countries avoid help woman.’ She has set up a village that we have an obligation to help the most famine as in Ethiopia. pottery business and gave me some of her vulnerable and disadvantaged but that there pots with immense pride. Another woman, What can we all do? We need to be is also a critical on-going need for robust who had been widowed and is bringing up generous but questioning. In what other independent scrutiny and questioning. I five children, told me, ‘Women only had two area of life do we hand money over without urge us all to keep the words of the old man purposes before, producing the children any idea as to how it is going to be used? in Zimbabwe ringing in our ears. Unless and doing the farming. Now I’m not afraid Simply because it is meant to do good he or the 500 million people who live on even if the programme stops.’ This success does not mean that it is doing good. My less than US$1.25 per day would feel was a result of working to identify the experience indicates we have to ask: pleased with the work underway, then we people’s real needs at the outset and then all need to stop and ask ourselves: what’s ■■ Does the work put the ‘beneficiaries’ engaging them in the process throughout. the justification for what we are doing? Will They helped decide what projects should at the centre of the programming? The the most vulnerable benefit? And is it really be undertaken and who was most in need. best work involves genuine engagement making the difference it should? The end result was not just a better-fed with the communities who are intended Diana Good (Hope 1975) was a partner population but a whole host of other long- to benefit and are, of course, experts in with Linklaters LLP until 2008 and a lasting and real benefits. their own lives. Commissioner with the Independent But for this programming, this population ■■ Is the work long term? Too often there Commission for Aid Impact from 2011 to would have joined the migrants risking is pressure to generate short term June 2015. She is now a Specialist Adviser their lives to cross the Mediterranean. results and ‘announceables’ such as to the International Development Committee The humanitarian crisis is vast. In 2014 ‘we have educated 4 million children’. in the House of Commons. UNHCR figures showed that there were a Test the reality of what this means. Did Photographs courtesy of the author. staggering 59 million people in the world the children do more than enrol on day who had been forcibly displaced from one? Can they read and write? Are their homes. Globally, one in every 122 there any teachers? human beings is a refugee and half of them are children. To me it is shaming that our ■■ Is the work realistic and tailored to Parliament could have refused entry to tackle specific problems?

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Doing good better WILLIAM MACASKILL

How to find a career that is both of hours you typically work in your life) co-founded a charity, simply because I had personally satisfying and will make a in order to help people choose a career no experience of management, or sales, difference with a big social impact. We’ve coached or fundraising). Instead, take the attitude hundreds of people like Peter. Based on of an experimental scientist or investigative this experience, and years of research at journalist – learn as much as you can about Oxford University, we recommend focusing different jobs. Speak to people in different on three factors that will help set you on the fields. Ask what traits they think are most road to a satisfying and impactful career. important to success, and see how you measure up. If possible, actually try out 1. Personal fit different types of work: take advantage of What we call ‘personal fit’ is simply how work experience, internships, and short- good you’ll be in a particular job. Of course, term placements. Most importantly, in every there’s nothing revolutionary in the idea case ask, ‘Is this something that, with work, of looking for a job you’ll be good at. The I could become good at?’ interesting question is how to go about 2. Immediate impact doing so. The next consideration is how much impact A lot of career advice encourages people to you’ll have within the job. ‘look inward’, to discover their ‘passions’. As Peter Hurford entered his final year at We think that this is bad advice. Most The most obvious way to make a difference Denison University, he needed to figure out people don’t have work-related passions is to work in the social sector: charities, what he was going to do with his life. He and, even if they do, they are often in the NGOs, or corporate social responsibility. was 22, majoring in political science and same fields everyone else is passionate Undoubtedly, these can give you great psychology. He knew he wanted a career about (music, sports, etc.) which makes opportunities for direct impact. However, that would both be personally satisfying and careers in those fields particularly many non-profits achieve little – according would make a big difference to the world, competitive. to one estimate, 75 per cent of social but he had no idea where to start. Instead, you should think of passion as programmes are found to have no impact Many people find themselves in positions something you cultivate, by finding work when tested. And direct impact is not the like Peter’s. But how should young, socially that you become excellent at. Not just a only way to make a difference: you can motivated people like him think about their way to achieve fulfillment on the job, this is work in a high-flying corporate career and career decisions? what will help you achieve your full social do a huge amount of good by donating a lot impact potential. But you can’t find this of money, or you can go into journalism and I founded a non-profit organization called out by introspection (I never thought I’d advocate for important causes. 80,000 Hours (which refers to the number be a good social entrepreneur until after I

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The crucial thing is the effectiveness of the Against Malaria Foundation, spent many comparatively easy to go the other way organizations and causes you’re working years building skills in strategy consulting around. It also cast doubts on law school: for, funding, or promoting. Is the cause before moving into the charity sector. This he’d be committed to one path, learn a particularly large in scale, neglected, or meant that by the time he set up AMF, he very specific set of skills and end up with tractable? Does the organization you’re had an excellent grasp of how to run an considerable debt after three years. working for, funding, or promoting evaluate organization well, and had earned enough By contrast, software engineering looked their programmes and publish the results? not to need to take a salary – a major selling extremely promising. It would help him to Does this kind of social programme have a point to donors. quickly gain extremely flexible skills, pay track record of success elsewhere? At 80,000 Hours we’ve condensed this him enough that he could donate a decent 3. Later impact framework into an online career decision amount to effective charities and allow him tool. We’ve found that the biggest mistakes sufficient free time to focus on non-profit The final question is how much impact people make are focusing on an overly projects. will this job allow you to have later in your narrow range of options, sticking too much career? People focused on getting rich As a result, in his final year at school he with the status quo, overestimating their will always consider how their current job invested heavily in developing his computer chances of success, or merely going with improves their future prospects. The same programming skills. After graduation, this gut instinct rather than making a more should be true of people who want to enabled him to get a job as a software deliberative, reasoned decision. make a difference, but this factor is often engineer at a start-up in Chicago. He’s neglected among wannabe altruists. Going back to our protagonist: Peter already having an impact – both through Hurford had always imagined that he’d donations and charity work in his spare At the beginning of your career, it’s generally go to grad school to continue studying time – while simultaneously learning coding, more important to build skills, networks, political science. However, after reading statistics and business skills. and credentials (‘career capital’) than it is our research, he widened his search to have an immediate impact. When you’re Peter’s path is not for everyone: a lot will considerably. He drew up a list of 15 just starting out, you don’t have many useful depend on what you’re good at and what possible options across a range of areas skills: you need to ‘level up’ before you can you could become good at. But by focusing and spoke to people who knew about beat the bad guys. Most of your working on the factors set out here, you’ll give them. Based on that research, he was hours occur later in life and that’s when yourself the best possible chance to have quickly able to rule out some of his options: you’re at your most influential. a satisfying career and make the world a consulting would involve a lot of travel, better place. What’s more, there are many ways of which he’d hate; medicine would require a boosting your later potential that have a lot of retraining. William MacAskill (2008) is the co-founder high return on investment, such as getting of 80000hours.org and the author of Doing Peter then focused on his potential impact an advanced degree or an MBA, learning Good Better: effective altruism and how later in life, and how well the different to programme, or building your network. you can make a difference (Guardian Faber options would allow him to keep his Taking a few years to focus on this now can Publishing, 2015). All author profits will options open. This made nonprofit work pay off with increased impact over a much be donated to the world's most effective less appealing: it’s hard to transition from longer period. For example, Rob Mather, charities. non-profit to for-profit work, whereas it’s who founded the outstandingly effective

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Everything in the garden is lovely for We held our ‘A Good Read’ meeting, been a long-standing active member of the our members. We would be delighted to hosted by Alison Dodd, in early November. Bristol and West Branch and will be missed. have you join us in your local SAS The discussion this year ranged from a Peggy Osborne (who met Betty at St Anne’s desire to reinstate Anita Brookner at the in her first term) spoke about Betty at the In June last year, 17 members and friends front of library shelves with A Closed Eye, commencement of our ‘A Good Read’ of the Bristol and West branch travelled to a debut novel depicting the life of the meeting, paying tribute to her determination north (relatively speaking that is) to enjoy last woman condemned to death in 1820s and groundbreaking success, among other a private tour of the house, gardens and Iceland, Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. Two things, in being the first female teacher at famous fountain at Stanway House. The books provided differing insights into life Bristol Grammar School. We remember tour of the house showed us a much lived- during the Second World War: a thriller/ her husband Jim who accompanied her in Jacobean manor house, still a family spy story from Ben Macintyre called Agent on many St Anne’s Society events, as well home of the Earls of Wemyss. Following the ZigZag, based on a true story, and Alone in as her daughter Penny, also a St Anne’s obligatory afternoon tea that accompanies Berlin by Hans Fallada, a fictional account graduate. all of our summer outings (a very good tea (again based on real life) of the lives and too), we were treated to a demonstration struggles of people in an apartment block of Stanway’s 300 foot, single-jet gravity in Berlin. For those interested in reading a fountain and then left to roam the gardens trilogy, Marilynne Robinson’s Lila is one of and drink in the heavenly scents of herbs three books tracing the intricacies of lives and flowers that perfumed the beautifully in a small Iowa town in the early to mid- sunny afternoon. twentieth century. Finally, staying in the The branch welcomed seven Freshers to USA, Damon Runyon’s collection of short the St Anne’s community at our Freshers’ stories, Runyon on Broadway, provides Tea, hosted in September by Dawn enjoyable insight to a shadowy section of Hodgson at her home in Bath. We are New York society. Several of us had read delighted that previous students from the books recommended at last year’s meeting, region re-joined us for this and were able and went off to fill our shelves in readiness to pass on a few tips for surviving those for long winter nights curled up with other Treasures of Trinity Hall Old Library. Courtesy first few weeks. Our branch covers a broad ‘good reads’. Trinity Hall geographic region, and we invited freshers On a sad note, we are sorry to report that In mid-September the Cambridge branch from Gloucester and Cheltenham, South one of our members, Betty (Elizabeth) of the SAS visited two large gardens Wales, Devon and Cornwall. Cook passed away in November. Betty had that contrasted markedly, both in their

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personality and in the sculptures that fill excursion to West Lynn across the Great Punch Tavern in Fleet Street, where we had them: the Henry Moore Foundation at Ouse River. The ferry service has been a chance to recruit new members. Perry Green and the Gibberd Garden near operational since the mid-thirteenth century. After requests from some members for a Harlow. Both gardens were delightful, and it We held our annual summer garden party ‘scientific outing’, the April event was a was a pleasure to visit an area that most of in Fen Ditton in June on the weekend of the visit to The Crystal, claimed by its designer, us did not know well. Later in the month we Bumps races, and are planning another day Siemens, to be the most sustainable welcomed three Freshers to the College at out in September to enjoy some autumn building in the world. For some of us, the our annual Freshers’ welcome supper. We colours. journey there was an experience in itself. held our AGM in Cambridge in November, In our new incarnation as the St Anne’s The Emirates Air Line cable car from North and enjoyed our usual pub lunch at New Society, the London branch has had a busy Greenwich on the Jubilee Line offers superb Year to recover from Christmas. year trying out new events to complement views over the City, Royal Victoria Docks our traditional spring outing and AGM and East London. dinner.

In June last year we had great fun exploring the world of Argentinian wine and beef at Gaucho restaurant in Smithfield. We discovered how the various cuts of beef are complemented by Malbec wines grown at different altitudes in the Andean vineyards.

The annual Freshers’ event in September was hosted again by Accenture, where 14 Cambridge members outside the Customs House Freshers and five second years enjoyed a in King’s Lynn splendid reception. The evening continued In March, ten of us, with friends, family and as usual in a local pub. Our AGM in some Old Girtonians, visited two Cambridge November was as lively as always, with libraries. We were shown around the Old 50 members and guests enjoying dinner London branch inside... Library of Trinity Hall by the Librarian, one of at Royal Overseas House. Our speaker, our members, and were intrigued to see the the archaeologist John Shepherd, gave chained books and a display of incunabula a fascinating talk on the Roman London and many fascinating documents. Mithraeum, now beneath a new office block We continued to the Pepys Library at in the City, and the plans to restore it for Magdalene College to inspect another public viewing. historic collection. Five of us, plus friends, In early March Sunnil Panjabi (1983) kindly spent a day in King’s Lynn in late April, on hosted drinks for St Anne’s alumnae at the a guided tour of the historic centre and an ... and outside The Crystal

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The tour provided an overview of the On a lovely July Saturday, we covered a Winter events are indoors and we were building’s sustainable technologies, looking five-mile circular walk through very typical lucky enough to have David Smith, our at parts normally closed to the public, Midlands rolling countryside: flat terrain wonderful retired Librarian, come along including the ground source heat pump, along canal and public footpaths, country and chat in an informal way about his air handling units, rainwater garden and lanes and over fields running through the experiences over a career as a librarian, and rainwater harvesting plant. The Crystal grounds of the Packwood House Estate the exciting plans and developments of the produces 70 per cent fewer CO2 emissions (NT). We do like to eat well and had an new College Library. Things have changed than comparable UK offices, has no annual excellent pub lunch near the end of our in global communications since the start of heating bill; and uses recycled water for circuit at The Punch Bowl in Lapworth. We David’s career; but happily, students and flushing. spent two hours walking and an hour and their love of books and the Library go on as a half eating: about normal for our amiable strongly as ever. After an excellent lunch in the cafeteria, group. We always plan so that people can some of us toured the exhibition on urban We always give our Freshers a flying walk an easy circle, suitable for all ages, and sustainability. It looks at cities in 2050, send-off to College just before they go up. eat, or just meet to eat if walking is a bit too the main challenges they will face and The events are still very popular. Some much. technologies which will make them more things about student life have not changed sustainable. There is a reading list at www. in 50 years but the new ones need, and crystal.org. appreciate, the friendly advice of their peers. When leaving, one of this year’s Freshers In June we held a gin-sodden evening at instantly promised to come back next year Sipsmith’s distillery in Chiswick, followed by as a wise, experienced second year. We are supper at a local pub. so lucky that St Anne’s has always felt like a Our publicity subcommittee are working family reaching across the generations. with College on a project to encourage July 2015 saw North West branch alumnae to record their reminiscences of members return to the Buxton Festival for College life verbally, as a shared resource Midlands branch at locks... two very different events. Sarah Quill spoke for all SAS members. If anyone is interested on Ruskin’s Venice: The Stones Revisited, in participating, please contact the her project to trace and record Ruskin’s Development Office. Venice. Her talk was illustrated with some We extend a warm welcome to any of her many photographs juxtaposed with alumnae living or working in London to join Ruskin’s nineteenth-century drawings. We us. learned much about Ruskin’s many trips to the city and his prescient sense of the Our regular Midlands pattern is to meet dangers of unsympathetic, if not downright for member events twice a year, inviting destructive, restoration of buildings and alumnae, friends and family. palaces. ... and fields

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Sarah has been photographing the Sanctuary from the Trenches. In April 1917 to him when he left the hospital was told architecture and daily life of Venice for more Dunham Massey became the Stamford through archive photographs, letters than 40 years, creating a unique and ever- Military Hospital, having been offered to the and records kept by nursing staff. The growing photographic archive. After a stroll Red Cross by its owner, Penelope, Lady attention to detail made for an enlightening through the Pavilion’s exotic hot houses Stamford to provide sanctuary to soldiers experience of just one aspect of the conflict. and a convivial lunch at The Old Hall Hotel, whose injuries, while not life-threatening, For two visiting New Zealanders, the visit it was a quick dash to the Pavilion Theatre were of sufficient gravity to require medical was deeply personal, as they were able to for a moving talk by Helen MacDonald care. By the time it closed, in February trace a relative’s wartime stay at Dunham. on her book H is for Hawk, an account of 1919, 282 soldiers had found sanctuary in Following the winter’s traditional Manchester how she survived the grief of her father’s Dunham’s beautiful surroundings. pizza suppers, our May event found us death by training a goshawk named Mabel. returning to Chester to visit the cathedral Alongside that story is the intertwining one and explore the delights of this fascinating of T.H. White and his disastrous attempt ancient city. An enjoyable late lunch in a to train Gos, a male hawk. Obsessed by nearby restaurant was followed by more falconry from an early age, Helen described exploring and choral evensong. her first close encounter with a goshawk in language both lyrical and transformative. The Freshers’ event this year will be in Despite the book’s tremendous success, September as usual and in October we shall Helen appeared genuinely surprised at the return to Manchester for a visit to the John delight her work had brought to people. Rylands library and an exploration of one of Manchester’s newer districts, Spinningfields. The Freshers’ evening took its customary North West members and guests enjoying the format in a Manchester bar, where four autumn sun at Dunham Massey The Oxford branch organized four events Freshers and five second and third years for members and guests in 2015. In April, a became acquainted. The food and The hospital’s main ward (Bagdad), the small group visited the Ashmolean Museum drink lubricated the undergraduates’ soldiers’ recreation room, the operating and were given an expert introduction to conversations as we oldies reflected on theatre and nurses’ station were all faithfully some items from the Eastern Art collection. the annual pleasure of the new students’ recreated and we were given (as the We had a private hands-on session looking relief and growing confidence as they soldiers were) a hospital admission ticket at some specially selected pieces in the encountered people just like them. The best on arrival. Each ticket carried the name and museum study room and were fascinated part of this rewarding evening is always the short history of a particular soldier, whose by some beautifully made Manju netsuke newcomers’ insistence that they be asked progress we were able to follow as we and prints illustrating traditional ghost to come and help the following year. journeyed through the hospital. Each of the stories. hospital beds in Bagdad Ward represented The autumn event took place at Dunham Our June visit was to a stunning six-acre a named soldier whose plight illustrated a Massey, a National Trust property, to view garden in Buckinghamshire. Kingsbridge particular war injury. His story, the medical the Trust’s flagship WWI commemoration Farm Garden is the product of 27 years treatment he received and what happened

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a view of the Wellby Collection of gold and silver items from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries recently acquired by the Ashmolean and described by curator Tim Wilson as ‘the most important accession of objects of this sort to any UK museum’ since the nineteenth century.

The speaker after our AGM in November will be Andrew Goodwin, Professor of Materials Chemistry. Details of the branch and our events may be seen on the St Anne’s website alumnae pages.

In 2015 the South of England branch organized three main events, in addition to our Book Group, which meets twice a Oxford members in Kingsbridge Farm Garden year, and our annual Freshers’ Lunch in September. On 9 May we hosted a talk in of care and dedication in transforming can lead to important advances. Her Chichester by St Anne’s alumna Harriet a farmyard into a beautiful garden. We illustrated talk was an eye-opener: we shall Spicer, who was one of the founders of enjoyed the colourful borders, abundant never view chocolate in quite the same way The Virago Press. Her talk, ‘All Our Viragos: roses and peaceful woodland area as again. the story of Virago Press and its impact well as the views from the ha-ha over the For the second time we held our AGM at on women’s literature’ gave rise to a very countryside. The Plough in Wolvercote. Business was interesting discussion on women writers. Elisabeth Salisbury served up another followed by a talk by Paul Tyler, former MP Fifteen members and guests attended the delicious supper for the 2015 Freshers at for North Cornwall, Lib Dem. spokesperson talk and lunch in George Bell House, near the home of Hugh Sutherland and Helen for Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chief Whip Chichester Cathedral. It was followed by Salisbury. and Shadow Leader. Now a working peer, our AGM, where members shared ideas for and passionate about constitutional and future events. In the autumn we were privileged to have political reform, he told us about life in the Professor Elspeth Garman, the eminent On 30 May we made our annual visit to Lords, and some of his experiences serving macromolecular crystallographer, come to the Chichester Festival Theatre, to see on committees. talk to us about her research work. She The Rehearsal by Jean Anouilh, described explained the complicated and labour- Plans for 2016 include an outing to as a ‘savagely funny and devilishly clever intensive technique of x-ray crystallography, Gloucestershire to the Woollen Weavers’ comedy’ and set in an elegant French which she uses to further the understanding museum and a private tour of a garden château, where an amateur dramatic group of DNA, insulin and other molecules, which in Eastleach. In the autumn we will have are preparing a performance. After the play,

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enjoyed by 10 members and their guests, March 2016 we held another Book Group one of our Committee members hosted meeting to discuss Brooklyn by Colm tea in her garden near the theatre, where Tóibín. Once again we enjoyed a stimulating everyone could continue discussion of the discussion followed by an excellent tea. play over tea and homemade cakes. In As well as providing an opportunity for May 2016 we again visited the Chichester exchanging ideas and opinions about Festival Theatre to see Ibsen’s An Enemy of interesting books, the Book Group meetings the People. help to raise funds for the St Anne’s Domus Fund, which offers postgraduate bursaries. Our Freshers’ lunch was held in Winchester As a result of donations at the Book Group in September, with five freshers and two meetings and the small profit we aim to current students, who convinced the make at our other events, the Branch was Freshers that St Anne’s is a welcoming and Scary Science... pleased to donate £500 to the Domus Fund friendly college. This clearly worked as the in 2015. last students left at 4pm! I have greatly enjoyed my time as Chairman We held a very successful family event of the branch, mainly because we have for Halloween. Professor Neil Downie such interesting members (currently and his wife, St Anne’s alumna Dr Diane about 40) and a friendly and supportive Ackerley, provided an afternoon of ‘Scary Committee, but I have decided that it is time Science’ in Beech Village Hall. The invitation to hand on the baton to Stella Charman. offered ‘an afternoon of suitably spooky She has been an active member of the science activities … feel free to dress for Committee for several years and will take the occasion’. The invitation was eagerly over the chair in June. accepted by about 40 people, including neighbours from Beech village, with children Linda Deer Richardson (1966) compiled ... at South England Halloween family event dressed as witches or spooks. The science and edited reports from: activities were hugely enjoyable and were that it was the first book to be reprinted Liz Alexander (Simpson 1977) Bristol followed by a Hallowe’en themed tea and by Virago in their ‘Virago Modern Classics’ and West, Sarah Beeston-Jones helium-filled balloons for all. The enjoyment series. The book was by no means popular (1972) Cambridge, Lynn Biggs (Perrin can be seen in the photos. Our ‘thank you’ among all the nine members who attended. 1972) London, Jane Darnton (Baker to the Downies received the reply, ‘It was A ‘thank you’ from one of our members 1962) Midlands, Lizzie Gent (1976) and great to have such an engaged audience.’ summed up our book group: ‘I wanted to Maureen Hazell (Littlewood 1971) North Our Book Group held two meetings. We say what a stimulating and warm-hearted West, Hugh Sutherland (1983) Oxford, discussed Antonia White’s Frost in May in gathering we all enjoyed yesterday; Maureen Gruffydd Jones (Woodhall 1959) November. We had been inspired to choose the session set a standard for lively South of England. this book because Harriet Spicer mentioned disagreement leading to enlightenment.’ In

82 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk From the JCR

A most unusual year BEN HARTRIDGE JCR Bollywood dance workshop St Anne’s JCR hit the national headlines this year – but for all the right reasons the notions of no-platforming, safe spaces articulate and thoughtful. While there was and trigger words that attempt to silence the occasional careless choice of words, As mental health has drawn increasing people who express views contrary to the I was happy that there was no malicious attention across the country, we have presumed unspoken consensus. intent and the complexities of the issues been putting student welfare squarely were explored thoroughly. In the end, the on the agenda. The JCR now offers a The entire disagreement about these motion was defeated quite convincingly. number of listening and advice services, practices has become an ideological from the elected Welfare Representative to battleground, where the (largely right-wing) The recently-elected Vice-Chancellor of intensively-trained Peer Supporters, that national press and the (normally left-wing) the University, Louise Richardson, has mesh together formal and informal support student assemblies sling mud at each other. expressed concern that no-platforming, networks. In Hilary term, we hosted two The issue is of course more complicated. safe spaces and trigger warnings allow speakers on two important areas: identifying While the Oxford University Student Union students to excuse themselves from hearing the signs of mental illness compared to just (OUSU) and individual JCRs are overzealous opposing views. They stifle students’ feeling sad or nervous, and what steps can in their promotion of, for example, safe intellectual development and render us be taken once signs are spotted. spaces, it is not to say that the idea of incapable of handling complexity. At a safe spaces should be done away with time when online and social media permit The Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre has been completely. They ensure that voices that people to hear only the news and views busy with JCR events this year. Charlotte would otherwise be dominated are heard in they find most comfortable, forums such as Proudman spoke powerfully on sexism the discussion. JCR General Meetings have the potential in the law and the legal profession. In to represent vital (and safe) spaces where Trinity, the St Anne’s College Arts Festival Against this backdrop, St Anne’s JCR has students engage with differing opinions. welcomed authors, poets, musicians and had a unique experience this year. In Hilary artists to perform and talk about their work. we debated a motion calling for the statue The above measures have been taken too Add to this the return of Bops (themed of Rhodes at Oriel College to stay up; most far in political discussion at Oxford, to the fancy dress evenings) to the College bar other JCRs passed motions calling for the extent that freedom of expression has been and very popular open mic nights: the St statue’s removal. The Telegraph reported undermined and intellectual engagement Anne’s social scene is thriving. that we had joined ‘the fight-back against with complex ideas has been stifled. Any [the] Rhodes Must Fall campaign’ before critic of this must, however, remain aware For an external observer of the University of we had even discussed the motion, let that freedom of speech and safe spaces Oxford, however, this year might stand out alone voted on it. The student press were are themselves complex ideas that generate for the wrong reasons. Students here have impatient for the outcome. The debate was complex problems to which there are no been accused of undermining free speech the most difficult I have chaired. Despite simple answers. and refusing to engage with complex this, it was conducted with remarkable issues. Central to these accusations are Ben Hartridge (2014) JCR President dignity; the speakers on both sides were

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Facing up to challenges MATTHEW GRACEY-MCKINN

Despite the challenges of the year, our MCR more broadly in the University who need it. Tim, the LGBTQ+ Officer, has the MCR’s dedication to a spirit of community. been a similarly active and valued member inclusiveness, diversity, openness and of the community. Together, our welfare, Our social secretaries, Laura, Matthew, free debate has enhanced its strength women’s, and LGBTQ+ officers worked with Lucy and Kate, have done a great job in and unity neighbouring colleges to create a series of creating and running social events. Hardly events for Sexual Health and Gender Week, The year has been a challenging one for a day passes without some happening, one of the highlights of the year. the MCR. Hilary Term saw the Rhodes and the great variety means that there’s Must Fall movement reach the College and something for everyone. Our Charities rep, Henry, has been tireless the rise of concerns about anti-Semitism in inviting speakers from various charities and no-platforming in universities around to come to St Anne’s to speak and in the country. Trinity Term will see debates encouraging a principle of effective altruism, about both the upcoming referendum on so that the MCR’s charitable donations whether Oxford University’s Student Union and activities have as broad an impact on should remain affiliated to the National improving the world as possible. (See Will Union of Students and, on the national level, MacAskill p.75). Brexit. Throughout these challenges the However, as always, the focus of the MCR MCR has remained committed to a spirit community is on academic matters, and this of emancipation and inclusiveness. Despite year has seen the continuation of the Three the potentially divisive nature of such Minute Thesis and Poster Competitions, a politically charged debates, members of the fantastic opportunity for students and staff MCR continue to demonstrate respect for The MCR social secretaries organise a range of to engage with topics and research outside the views of others, and engage in positive events/Ross Gales their usual remit. Further fostering a sense debate. This has allowed the MCR to Our welfare officers, Emily and Ross, have of interdisciplinary academic community weather the political storm well, maintaining also built on the work of their predecessors, are the popular Interdisciplinary Discussion its community and inclusivity. organising yoga sessions, welfare teas Groups. This year will also see the re-launch Building on the successes of previous and sexual health provision, and also of St Anne’s Academic Review, which we years, the Committee has expanded and introducing board game nights and other hope will showcase the fine work and high improved on existing functions while also new events. Our women’s officer, Dianna, academic standards of St Anne’s MCR engaging the MCR community in new ways. has also been busy, holding regular talks Community. Many of these new events have been run and film nights highlighting women’s issues Matthew Gracey-McKinn (2014) in conjunction with other colleges, involving and providing advice and support for any MCR President

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Finals results: Trinity Term 2015

Results are shown for those student Bachelor of Arts in History Bachelor of Arts in Modern Master of Earth Sciences who gave permission to publish. A Allin, John 2.1 Languages (Spanish) Bidgood, Anna 1 total of 117 students sat finals. Causer, Meghan 2.1 Gadsden, Rosamund 2.1 Pain, Alana 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Biological Dufton, William 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Modern Roelofse, Chantelle 2.1 Sciences Ellis, Emily 2.1 Languages (Spanish) and Linguistics Master of Engineering in Engineering Haskell, Lucy 1 Fan, Xin 2.1 Eve, Ruth 1 Science Fuller, Tobias 2.1 Choo, Jia Wen 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Music Fong, Wai 2.1 Cook, Adam 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in History and Bowcock, John 1 Ramasamy, Rohan 1 Hubbard, Tove 2.1 Economics Perry, Francesca 1 Seo, Jordan Pao Hong 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Cell and Systems Mcpherson, Thomas 1 Suguna Balan, Rabin 1 Bachelor of Arts in Oriental Studies Yu, Jeffrey Hong Cheung 1 Biology Bachelor of Arts in History and (Chinese) Wang, Xining 2.1 Politics Parrott, Daniel 2.1 Master of Engineering in Materials Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Richards, Caitlin 2.1 Thornton, Mariah 2.1 Science Flavell, Gregory 1 English Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence Bachelor of Arts in Oriental Studies Rickett, Elizabeth 2.1 Bidd, Rhushub 2.1 Hazi, Josef 1 (Japanese) Leide, Alexander 1 Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science Carroll, Oliver 2.1 Patel, Shyam 2.1 Wright, Andrew 1 Green, Alistair 2.1 Master of Engineering in Materials, Hain, Michal 1 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Economics and Management Bachelor of Arts in Classics with Lack, Max 2.1 Politics and Economics Feather, Charlotte 1 Oriental Studies Bornstein, Alexander 2.1 Mclellan, Calum 2.1 Damian, Mona 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Literae Davies, Jack 2.2 Humaniores Haria, Shivani 2.1 Master of Mathematics Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Fielding, Lucy 2.1 Baker, Thomas 2.1 Management Lock, Lillianne 2.1 Gerretsen, Isabelle 2.1 Mansell, James 2.1 Bergmann, Lutz 2.1 Adams, Jonathan 2.1 Iles, Joe 1 Slack, David 2.1 Selby, Andrew 2.1 Macquarie, Robert 1 Krishnamurthy-Spencer, Jasmine 1 Toenshoff, Christina 1 Sulzer, Valentin 1 Bachelor of Arts in English and Stockwell, Patrick 2.1 Triggs, Constance 1 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Modern Languages (German) Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics Master of Mathematics and Battle, Cara 2.1 Modern Languages (German) Stone, Joseph 2.1 Storey, Clare 2.1 Philosophy Bachelor of Arts in English Language Wang, Kaiwen 3 Bolt, Josef 1 and Literature Bachelor of Arts in Physics Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Thorn, Andrew 2.1 Master of Physics Davies, Haf 1 Statistics Brown, Jemma 2.1 Fibert, Timna 2.1 Wallis, Emma 2.1 Ge, Mengyang 2.1 Woodhouse, Sally 2.1 Lee, Sangjae 1 Haughton-Shaw, Eliza 1 Ridley, Matthew 1 Lambert, Elizabeth 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Modern BFA Fine Art Marshall, Zara 2.1 Languages (French and Italian) Ioannou, Galatia 2.1 Medicine - Preclinical (3yr) Mcshane, David 2.1 Smith, Hannah 2.1 King, Josephine 2.1 Ananthan, Kiruthika 2.1 Moffat, Freya 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Modern Dowdall, Katherine 2.1 Master of Biochemistry in Molecular Gallois, Jacques 2.1 Nicholls, Ashley 1 Languages (French and Spanish) and Cellular Biochemistry Simpson, Emma 1 Walsh, Alison 1 Gillett, George 1 Brockley, Branwen 2.1 Mcgill, Shaun 2.1 Bachelor of Arts in Experimental Becker, Jemma 2.1 Millar, Robert 2.1 Whitehead, Lucy 2.1 Pilkington, Darren 2.1 Psychology Master of Chemistry in Chemistry Bruckmaier, Merit 1 Bachelor of Arts in Modern Medicine - Clinical Connolly, Michael 2.1 Campion-Smith, Timothy Distinction Baker, James 2.1 Languages (French) Sivachelvam, Saranja 2.1 Ding, Jacqueline 1 Stephens, Anna 2.1 Robin, Sophie Pass Sandkuehler, Julia 2.1 Master of Computer Science in Medicine - Graduate Entry Bachelor of Arts in Modern Computer Science Bachelor of Arts in Geography Languages (German and Italian) Chen, Mitchell Pass Ford, Alexander 1 Sammour, Roweida Pass Brown, Lauren 2.1 Tyler, Naomi 2.1 Wilders, Xavier 1 Hynes, Joanna 2.1

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Graduate degrees 2015

Bachelor of Civil Law Franchini, Daniel Fischer, David Master of Science by Research Hardwick, Beth Tzachrista, Afroditi Galava, Denis Han, Yi Van Romburg, Lucien Groth, Ophelia Master of Business Heard, Charlotte Master of Studies Bachelor of Philosophy Administration Ichsan, Ayesha An, Yoojeong Demaree-Cotton, Joanna Ayoola, Babatunde Jarvis, Myles Ball, Nicholas Knoche, Julia Banks, Anda Doctor of Philosophy Jeffery, David Yao, Phil Kaim, Mati Burke, Zach Alabort Martinez, Enrique Champion, Jessica Aslanidou, Ioanna Master of Philosophy Kaufer, Libby King, Diana Clark, Thomas Billingham, Paul Abel, Tim Cohen, Adam Brady, Oliver Castaneda, Paola Kline, Taylor Kumah, Stephanie El Hadi, Sandra Brittles, Greg Gracey-Mcminn, Matthew Kamil, Miriam Cavell, Alex Kailas, George Lam, Ivan Leung, Helen Nicholson, Phoebe Danial, John Lim, Yee Chuin Smith, Michael Davies, Dominic Mpofu-Walsh, Sizwe Luminari, Diletta Mccormick, Brian Wilkinson, Honor Espinoza Quintero, Gabriela Pavlov, Vladimir Zhang, Shuang Greenan, Charlotte Yorke, Rupert Mcintosh, Iain Hakimi, Laura Zoffmann Rodriguez, Arturo Moss, Emily Master of Studies by Research Herring, James Moss, Simon Traschler, Thomas Kadikov, Artem Master of Philosophy by Mulay, Radhika Kaul, Himanshu Research Nedovis, Robert Postgraduate Certificate of Lavan, Rosie Miyandazi, Victoria Nicola, Tara Education Lei, Qin Onobote, Michael Anderson, Megan Master of Public Policy Palmer, Cristen Bemath, Anisah Leung, Ka Ming Charniakovich, Ales Lewis, Alexander Pavlou, Chrystalla Brown, Katie Dajer, Diana Phelan, Jason Crawley, Ailsa Maguire, Eamonn Lee, Eric Marcuzzi, Stefano Posanipalli, Pramida Fisher, Elizabeth Salles Portela Castro, Mariana Potikit, Kankanit Harris, Andrea McClenaghan, Conor Tarraf, Amina McPherson, Ian Randriana, Zoavina Harris, Joe Millgate, Tom Master of Science Retief, Rudolph Jandu, Harpal Ortega Ferrand, Lorena Adusumilli, Susheel Saribekyan, Lily Knott, Lizzy Papageorgopoulou, Katerina Ahearn, Eve Shah, Rehan Maclean, Iona Reuss, Thomas Badi, Yusef Sheldrake, Lydia Mason, Sam Schnabel, Manuel Bailey-Watson, William Shuai, Xing Parsons, Jamie Sekita, Karolina Barry, Terri Sinha, Suharsh Saunders, Michael Tchernychova, Maria Bent, Alexandra Spence, Graeme Watkins, Kate Turner, Sophie Bryan, Matthew Sukumaran, Nish Winslow, Louise Virvidaki, Katerina Carr, Matthew Sun, Aaron Wong, Umar Tong, Kelvin Whitley, Alan Chadee, Aaron Postgraduate Diploma Wu, Kim Chan, Iat Velasco Arguello, Patty Vivash, Laura Kaufl, Andreas Wu, Min Chan, Peter Ostrowski, Sebastian Yang, Jie Chapple, Ian Walton, Olivia Croci, Matteo Yan, Wei Magister Juris Deepankar, Divya Zhang, Li Coendet, Thomas Dewar, Craig Zhang, Cheng

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■■ 2009 Goodwin, Andrew, BSc Computer Science. ■■ 1997 Reynolds, Matthew, MA PhD Governing Body PhD Sydney, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ ■■ 1999 Lancaster, Tim, MB BS MSc Camb, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in English, Times Professor of Materials Chemistry, Tutor Harvard, MA Oxf ‡ § Reader in General Lecturer in English Language 2016 in Chemistry Practice ■■ 2015 Rice, Patricia, MSc MA Warick, ■■ 2009 Goold, Imogen, BA LLB PhD ■■ 2000 Lazarus, Liora, BA Cape Town, DPhil Oxf Supernumerary Fellow Principal Tasmania, MBioeth Monash ¶ Tutor LLB Lond, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Tutor in Law ■■ 2015 Rogers, Alexander, BSc in Law ■■ Position vacant ■■ 1997 Leigh, Matthew Gregory Durham, PhD Southampton, Professor Fellows ■■ 2006 Grønlie, Siân, BA MSt DPhil Oxf Leonard, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science ¶ Tutor in English, Kate Durr Elmore ■■ 2011 Abeler, Johannes, BSc Aachen, of Classical Languages and Literature, ■■ 2009 Rosic, Budimir, MSc Dipl Ing Fellow in English MSc Karlsruhe, PhD Bonn¶ Tutor in Tutor in Classics Belgrade, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ Tutor in Economics ■■ 1990 Grovenor, Christopher Richard ■■ 2000 Lyons, Terence John, MA Engineering Science Munro, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of ■■ 2011 Baird, Jo-Anne, BA Strath, MA Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS, FRSE ‡ ■■ 2015 Schwanen, Tim, MSc PhD Materials, Tutor in Materials Science Oxf, MBA Sur, PhD R’dg ‡ Pearson Wallis Professor of Mathematics Utrecht, Tutor in Geography Professor Educational Assessment ■■ 2012 Hall, Todd, MA PhD Chicago ¶ ■■ 1996 ρ MacFarlane, S Neil, AB ■■ 2005 Shuttleworth, Sally, BA York, Tutor in Politics (International Relations) ■■ 2011 Belyaev, Dmitry, MSc St Dartmouth College, MA MPhil DPhil MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ § Professor of and Balfour Fellow in Politics Petersburg, PhD Stockholm ¶ Tutor in Oxf ‡ Lester B Pearson Professor of English Literature Mathematics ■■ 2000 Hambly, Benjamin Michael, International Relations ■■ 1978 Speight, Martin Roy, BSc BSc Adelaide, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ■■ 2003 Briggs, George Andrew ■■ 1998 McGuinness, Patrick, MA Wales, MA Oxf, DPhil York ¶ Reader in ¶ Professor of Mathematics, Tutor in Davidson, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ‡ Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, MA York ¶ Entomology, Tutor in Biological Sciences Mathematics Professor of Nanomaterials Professor of French and Comparative ■■ 1996 Sutherland, Kathryn, BA ■■ 1989 Harnew, Neville, BSc Sheff, MA Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages ■■ 1990 Chard, Robert, MA Oxf, BA MA Lond, MA DPhil Oxf ‡ Professor of Oxf, PhD Lond ¶ Professor of Physics, (French), Sir Win and Lady Bischoff PhD California ¶ Tutor in Chinese, Vice- Bibliography and Textual Criticism Tutor in Physics Fellow in French Principal and Dean of Degrees ■■ 2007 Szele, Francis, PhD ■■ 1984 Harris, David Anselm, MA DPhil ■■ 2015 McKellar Stephen, Shannon ■■ 2000 Christian, Helen Clare, Pennsylvania ¶ Tutor in Medicine Oxf ¶ Tutor in Biochemistry Colwyn, BA Rhodes MA DPhil Oxf BSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in ■■ 2012 Tzanakopoulos, Antonios, LLB Senior Tutor Biomedical Science ■■ 2008 Harry, Martyn, MA Camb, MPhil LLM Athems, LLM NYU, DPhil Oxf ¶ PhD City Lond ¶ Tutor in Music, Dorset ■■ 2015 Meridew, Jim, Domestic Bursar ■■ 2005 Cocks, Alan, BSc Leic, MA Oxf, Tutor in Law Foundation Lecturer in Music, Annie PhD Camb ‡ Professor of Materials ■■ 2015 Murphy, Victoria, B.A.H. ■■ 2009 Vyas, Paresh, MA DPhil Oxf ‡ Barnes Fellow in Music Engineering Queen’s, MA PhD McGill Reader in Clinical Haematology ■■ 2005 Hazbun, Geraldine, BA MPhil Supernumerary Fellow and Professor of ■■ 1991 Crisp, Roger Stephen, BPhil ■■ 2007 Waters, Sarah, MA Camb, PhD PhD Camb, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in Spanish, Applied Linguistics MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of Moral Leeds ¶ Tutor in Mathematics Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Spanish ■■ 1989 , MA DPhil Philosophy, Tutor in Philosophy, Uehiro Murray, David William ■■ 2006 Watkins, Kathryn, BA Camb, Fellow in Philosophy ■■ 2015 Holmes, Christopher C, BSc Oxf ¶ Professor of Engineering Science, MSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in Brigh MSc Brun PhD Lond ¶ Professor Tutor in Engineering ■■ 2000 Davies, Gareth Bryn, BA Lanc, Psychology in Biostatistics in Genomics ■■ 2007 , BA Camb MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Tutor in American Nelson, Graham ■■ 1996 Wilshaw, Peter Richard, BA History ■■ 2005 Hotson, Howard, BA MA DPhil Oxf Supernumerary Fellow and Camb, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of Toronto, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of Lecturer in Mathematics ■■ 2015 Deane, Charlotte, BA Oxf DPhil Materials, Tutor in Metallurgy and Early Modern Intellectual History, Tutor Camb Supernumerary Fellow ■■ 2002 O’Shaughnessy, Terence Science of Materials, Wolfson Fellow in in Modern History Joseph, BSc BE Adelaide, MPhil PhD ■■ 1996 Donnelly, Peter James, BSc Materials Science ρ ■■ 1996 Irwin, Patrick, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Camb, MA Oxf Tutor in Economics Queensland, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS ‡ ■■ 2016 White, Clare, BA MA Oxf, MSc Reader in Physics, Tutor in Physics Professor of Statistical Science ■■ 2011 Penslar, Derek Jonathan, BA Wales, Librarian ■■ 1999 Jeavons, Peter George, MSc Stanford, MA PhD Berkeley ‡ Stanley ■■ 2010 Firth, Roger, BEd Lanc, MEd ■■ 2014 Wordsworth, Sarah, BSc Lond, Leic, MA Oxf, PhD Lond ¶ Professor of Lewis Professor of Israel Studies Birm, PhD Nott Trent ¶ Tutor in MSc York, PhD Aberd Supernumerary Computer Science, Tutor in Computer Education ■■ 2012 Phillips, Ian, BPhil MA Oxf, Fellow in Health Sciences Science PhD UCL Gabriele Taylor Fellow in ■■ 2009 Flyvbjerg, Bent, BA MS PhD Note on symbols ■■ 2007 Johnston, Freya, BA PhD Camb, Philosophy and Tutor in Philosophy Aarhus, MA Oxf, DrTechn DrScient MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in English and Hazel * Fellow or Honorary Fellow of another Aalborg ‡ Professor of Major ■■ 2003 Porcelli, Donald Rex, BSc college. Eardley-Wilmot Fellow in English Yale, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ Tutor Programme Management ¶ Holder of a university post (including ■■ 2015 Khan, Samina, BSc, MSc and Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Earth ■■ 2016 Ford, John, MA Oxf Treasurer London, PhD Loughborough, PGCE Oxf Sciences and Lobanov-Rostovsky CUF appointments) other than a ■■ 2014 Foster, Jules, BA Liverpool Supernumerary Fellow University Lecturer in Planetary Geology statutory professorship or readership. Supernumerary Fellow and Director of ‡ Holder of a statutory professorship or ■■ 2007 Klevan, Andrew, BA Oxf, MA ■■ 2006 Pyle, David, BA PhD Camb, MA Development PhD Warw ¶ University Lecturer in Film Oxf ¶ Professor of Earth Sciences, Tutor readership. ■■ 1981 Ghosh, Peter, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in Studies in Earth Sciences ρ Former Rhodes Scholar Modern History, Jean Duffield Fellow in ■■ 2015 Koutsoupias, Elias, BSc NTU ■■ 2013 Reed, Roger, BA PhD Camb A date in the left-hand column indicates Modern History Athens, PhD California at San Diego Professor of Engineering Science the year of election to the current Supernumerary Fellow and Professor of fellowship (or other position) held.

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Fellows’ news, honours and appointments

Professor Jo-Anne Baird, Fellow, Nanodevices (QuEEN) and Quantum Dr Imogen Goold, Fellow and Tutor in Pearson Professor of Educational Technology Capital, and two by the John Law, has been awarded the Des Voeux Assessment and Director of the Department Templeton Foundation Quantum for Chambers Oxford-HKU Visiting Fellowship of Education, was appointed as a Professor projects investigating simulators of Complex for 2016. The Fellowship provides an II in Psychology at the University of Bergen. Molecular Networks and the Nature of opportunity for an Oxford Law Faculty Quantum Networks. member to spend one month visiting Hong Professor Andrew Briggs and his Kong University thanks to the generous co-author Roger Wagner launched their Professor Roger Crisp, Professor of sponsorship of Des Voeux Chambers. She book entitled The Penultimate Curiosity Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor will be there in August and September published by Oxford University Press in in Philosophy, will be Vice-President of the working on the regulation of surrogacy and February 2016. The book asks why it is Mind Association from July this year, and other medico-legal questions. that throughout the long journey from cave then President for a year from July 2017. painting to quantum physics what we now Professor Patrick Irwin, Professor, Fellow Professor Peter Donnelly, Director, refer to as ‘science’ and ‘religion’ – the and Tutor in Physics, was awarded two the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human attempt to describe the physical world STFC research grants in April as part of the Genetics, Professor of Statistical Science that we can see, and the aspiration to following consolidated grants: and Fellow of St Anne’s, has been awarded see beyond the rim of the visible world – the 2016 Howard Taylor Ricketts award. ■■ Astrophysics at Oxford 2016 - 2019. have been so closely entangled? It has This is awarded annually (globally) from Project: Exoplanet and Brown Dwarf been favourably reviewed in The Financial the University of Chicago, for ‘outstanding atmospheric radiative transfer. Times by John Cornwell announcing it as achievements in the field of the medical a ‘gripping work of history and reference ■■ Solar System Planetary Science at sciences’. Ricketts was a doctor who (which) deserves to be read on both sides of Oxford 2016 - 2019. Project: The pioneered research into bacterial infections, the science-arts divide. Without espousing a dynamic atmospheres of Uranus and including typhus, in the early years of the particular faith or denomination, the authors Neptune. 20th century. have provided a much-needed antidote to Dr Matthew Longo, Clayman Junior the New Atheists’ promotion of science at Professor Todd Hall, Tutor in Politics Research Fellow in Politics and Political the expense of spirituality, a campaign that and Associate Professor in International Ideas has been awarded the 2016 Leo has done much to coarsen and misinform Relations, was co-winner of the DPLST Strauss Award of the American Political public understanding of both.’ Book Prize for 2016. This biennial award is Sciences Association for the best presented to the author(s) of the book that Professor Briggs has also been awarded doctoral dissertation in the field of political best advances the theoretical and empirical two grants by the EPSRC for projects philosophy. study of diplomacy. investigating Quantum Effects in Electronic

88 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk The Penultimate Curiosity

The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions HOWARD HOTSON

Religion and science are commonly Prayer. So today, as one crosses the from these – and continued most recently portrayed as mortal enemies. A threshold of this sancta sanctorum of British by Richard Dawkins’ best-selling The new book, praised by scientists and science, one is reminded that, ‘The works God Delusion of 2006 – that it seems theologians alike, suggests a far more of the Lord are great, sought out of all them paradoxical to find glowing testimonials on interesting relationship that have pleasure therein.’ the dust jacket of The Penultimate Curiosity from the Astronomer Royal and the Director Above the doorway to the Cavendish The ‘devout research student’ in question General of CERN alongside the former Laboratories in Cambridge, beneath a was Andrew Briggs, now Oxford’s Professor Chief Rabbi and the current Archbishop of pointed arch filled with gothic tracery, a of Nanomaterials and Fellow of St Anne’s. Canterbury. passage is carved in stone: ‘Magna opera The Penultimate Curiosity – a book which Domini exquisita in omnes voluntates ejus.’ he has co-written with the leading religious This text, the Vulgate rendition of Psalm artist Roger Wagner – can be regarded as a 111.2, was chiselled there in 1874 at the 450-page attempt to explain the paradox of request of the first Cavendish professor, the Cavendish doorways. the brilliant physicist and ardent Christian, I say ‘paradox’ because modernity is so James Clerk Maxwell. A century later, often defined in terms of secularization, when Latin was no longer an entrance and religion so often conceived as the requirement for Cambridge physicists, archenemy of science. The pedigree of ‘a devout research student’ suggested these ideas goes back centuries, to the that the same passage be re-inscribed in Enlightenment’s secularization of Protestant English above the far more utilitarian new claims that history progresses by freeing doorway to the new Cavendish labs recently the mind from mediaeval dogma and constructed in west Cambridge. Maxwell’s superstition. But they were only given wide successor, the Cavendish professor Sir currency in the English-speaking world with Brian Pippard, ‘put the proposal to the the five dozen reprints of John Draper’s Policy Committee, confident that they would History of the Conflict between Religion and veto it’; but to his surprise ‘they heartily Science (1875) and Andrew Dickson White’s agreed both to the idea and to the choice more substantial History of the Warfare of Coverdale’s translation’ from the original between Science and Theology (1896). It is Hebrew, familiar from the Book of Common thanks to a long series of works descending

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A less ambitious book might be content world we call modern science is predicated obtaining intellectual and practical dominion merely to demonstrate that the normal on the assumption that the world is over nature was also part of the divine plan. relationship between western science ultimately intelligible because it is governed The poetic statement that science swims in and religion has not in fact been one of by universal, mathematical laws. But the slipstream of theology can be rephrased perpetual war. A slightly more broadminded what is the basis of that assumption? historically as the claim that biblical book might have argued that this Viewed philosophically, the answer is monotheism tinged with Greek metaphysics relationship is fully symbiotic, with each not obvious. According to Karl Popper, provided a series of interconnected transforming the other to the benefit of this assumption rests on ‘a faith which is premises invaluable (if not strictly necessary) both. From St John’s Gospel onward, completely unwarranted from the point of to the genesis of modern science. Jerusalem was as thoroughly reshaped view of science, and which to that extent is This is not to say that these premises by Athens as Athens by Jerusalem. That metaphysical’ (p.434). Max Planck is quoted were either revealed on Mount Sinai dialogue, to be sure, has been punctuated to similar effect in a passage uncannily or discovered in the sacred groves of by episodes of dispute and disagreement; reminiscent of the Cavendish laboratories: Athena. On the contrary, they evolved, but the same holds for the discussions ‘Over the entrance to the gate of the temple very gradually, over at least two millennia in within the individual domains of science of science are written the words “ye must Europe and the Near East from a process and theology. The Penultimate Curiosity have faith”.’ in which the heritage of Greek natural does not give equal treatment to the Yet if the philosophical basis of this philosophy and mathematics was reshaped transformation of theology by science, and assumption is difficult to substantiate, its by dialogue with the deepest principles this imbalance sometimes gives the book historical origin is more readily traced: to of Judeo-Christian-Islamic monotheism the air of religious apologetic. Instead, it the domain of theology. Throughout the and vice versa. Most of the book traces is devoted primarily to exploring the more centuries-long gestation of modern science, stages in this historical process from Athens interesting side of this relationship: the the intelligibility of the natural world was via Alexandria and the Muslim world to sense in which the ‘penultimate questions’ guaranteed by belief in a single, beneficent the mediaeval universities and onward pursued by science ‘swim in the slipstream rational agency who created that world and throughout the seventeenth century as far of ultimate questions’ associated with endowed it with universal laws governing as Newton and the first Newtonians. theology. the smallest particle as well as the longest For the authors, discovering these stages What precisely is meant by this evocative process. Our capacity to grasp those laws was clearly a process of personal discovery, metaphor? This book leaves its reader free was guaranteed in turn by the doctrine that and this story is related as a series of to distil an answer from huge quantities we were made in the image and likeness excavations by gentlemen virtuosi straying of fascinating historical anecdote loosely of that agency, with enough of its rationality far from their specialist fields. This is a knit together by sparse passages of crisp to perceive the marks of the Creator on slightly dangerous technique, since it can analysis. So perhaps the title is best the creation. Empirical study of the natural easily arouse suspicions of amateurism expounded by illustrating the book’s thesis world was therefore a means of revealing and tendentiousness; but that impression at its most impressively robust. the wisdom of the Creator, and could is misleading. In fact, Wagner and Briggs be regarded as both a right and a duty. The immense effort to understand the are themselves swimming in the slipstream Since the world was created for mankind,

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of a huge amount of patient scholarly work the Cavendish laboratory has other slightly Which of these two principles more nearly undertaken at an exponentially accelerating different but no less powerful contemporary captures the motivation of the Astronomer rate as the history of science gradually resonances as well. ‘The works of the Lord Royal, the Director General of CERN, emerged as a specialist discipline over the are great, sought out of all them that have Oxford’s Professor of Nanomaterials, or his course of the past century. pleasure therein.’ Why might these words artistic collaborator? Which best sustains resonate with scientists not consciously a culture adapted to raising ultimate as If the maturity of any field is demonstrated moved by ‘ultimate curiosity’? Do scientists well as penultimate and antepenultimate by its capacity to revise its foundational today recognize themselves in this ancient questions? assumptions, the history of science in description of ‘all them that have pleasure’ the past generation has passed this test. For the time being, it seems, modern in unravelling the secrets of nature? Do they Amongst the assumptions most thoroughly science still swims in the slipstream of like to be reminded that the pure delight in overturned by a century of scholarship ancient values and aspirations. But how discovery has helped sustain the western is Draper and White’s thesis about the long can it continue to swim against intellectual tradition since the dawn of perpetual warfare between science and the current of the alien orthodoxy of recorded history? Do they agree that this religion. That Hellenistic cosmology, early our own age? The crass materialism of pursuit of natural knowledge can legitimately Islamic mathematics, or the scholasticism contemporary ‘modernizers’ may yet be described as sacred both because it of the high Middle Ages drew much of lead scientists to rediscover their ancient constitutes one of the most magnificent their energy from theology is perhaps roots. Not the least significance of The activities human beings are capable of and not surprising. That the same holds for Penultimate Curiosity is its contribution to a because it endows our species with so many of the architects of the ‘scientific debate which is acutely political as well as much of the value we possess? Do they revolution’ – Bacon and Kepler, Leibniz deeply theological. perhaps even draw the conclusion that and Newton, and even such arch-heretics modern science is better served by these Howard Hotson is Professor of Early as Spinoza – has been a more recent and perennial values than by the short-sighted Modern Intellectual History and Fellow of St surprising discovery. With the secularization utilitarianism of our own day? Anne’s College. The Penultimate Curiosity: of Newton’s legacy in the Enlightenment, to How Science Swims in the Slipstream of be sure, this trail cools. More could certainly One task of intellectuals is to critique the Ultimate Questions by Roger Wagner and be done to argue that modern science dominant ideology of the age, and the Andrew Briggs (Oxford University Press, continued to ‘swim in the slipstream of overbearing orthodoxy of our own era is 2016). ultimate questions’ in many currents of the not the theology of any universal church but Enlightenment, in German Idealism, and the secular dogma of neoliberal economics in the mind of Einstein as well as Maxwell, propagated in the interests of global for instance. But within the pages of The capitalism. Like the Psalmist, Aristotelian Penultimate Curiosity, the contemporary metaphysics began from the principle application of this thesis remains an open that all human beings by nature desire to question. know. Neoliberal economics begins from the principle that all men by nature desire Yet the biblical motto above the doors to to maximize profit while minimizing effort.

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How to be your own wine expert

It only takes 24 hours says a leading her own words, Robinson ‘aims to make style makes it more than a training expert on the subject. Why not give it you a self confident expert in 24 hours’. manual, rather a tool for continuous a try? In the process, she explodes the myths, reference and help. Think of it as debunks the snobbery, shares tips learned having your own personal pocket-sized What you see is what you get: it’s all there over 40 years in the trade and enhances the Sommelier on hand whether out to on the cover. ‘Red, white, rosé, fizzy, pleasures of drinking with succinct guidance dinner, hosting friends or on holiday. screwcap v cork, wine myths, how to … through the wine jungle. Even if you only choose food and wine, matching … The 24- The 24-Hour Wine Expert by Jancis read the words of wisdom on the intriguing Hour Wine Expert by Jancis Robinson, the Robinson (Penguin Books, 2016, £4.99) ‘black pages’ that punctuate the text, it will most respected wine critic in the world.’ have been worth it. And there you have it, a welcome antidote Let a fellow traveller in the business, to the increasing warnings against the Giles James, wine consultant and brand demon drink. According to the latest report manager, have the last word: on the subject in May this year, relaxing the licensing hours has not morphed UK Having been involved in wine in one drinking habits into a more restrained form or the other for the past 25 years I ‘continental style’ but has led to increased have read my fair share of books on the heavy drinking; binge drinking continues subject – and been subjected to some and, the latest – drink causes cancer. In mind-numbing texts. One of the more summary: alcohol is one of the three biggest memorable reads worked because it lifestyle risk factors for disease and death in broke down the subject into bite-sized the UK, after smoking and obesity, alcohol pieces, stripped it back to basics and related accidents and illness cost the NHS gave one a sense that maybe the world £3.5 billion per year. of wine wasn’t so scary after all. I read that book when I first started out and it’s Not that The 24-Hour Wine Expert sets out a pleasure to find another in the same to tackle the downside of drinking. On the vein. contrary, this slim, pocket-sized manual offers advice and guidance to the increasing Whether your knowledge is at a novice, numbers in the UK who now prefer wine intermediate or advanced level, this to beer and spend around £10 billion a little nugget delivers a concise, simply year on their favourite drink, often without laid out and easy to understand guide the knowledge to steer them through the to developing your pleasure and growing range of wines now on offer. In understanding of wine. Its informative

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Publications

Denise Bates (1978) Historical Research Elisabeth Jay (Aldis 1966), British Writers That evening, Andrew sat down and began Using British Newspapers (Pen and and Paris 1830-1875 (OUP, 2016). a letter to his dead son. Part love letter, part Sword March 2016). Digitisation has thank you letter, Dear Motik is also, as one Marion Leigh (1968), Dead Man’s Legacy made old newspapers more accessible to reader commented, ‘a beautifully written (Matador, 2015). Dead Man’s Legacy researchers. Based on practical experience, meditation on the miracle and complexities is the second novel in her Petra Minx the book introduces the context and of parenthood.’ Motik was an extraordinary series of adventure thrillers. The first book content of newspapers and the skills person, and if the letter allows his spirit to in the series, The Politician’s Daughter, needed to get the best out of them as live on and help others, then it will have was published in 2011. Birmingham- historical sources. served as a fitting tribute to his memory. born Marion Leigh studied languages at For further information see www. Oxford University, worked as a volunteer in Andrew O’Mahony is a full-time father who denisebates.co.uk/britnews Indonesia and enjoyed a successful career lives in West London with his wife and sons. in translation before turning to writing. Her Since Motik’s death his work with West Marian Folkes (Watts 1958) and Daphne print and e-books are available through Middlesex University Hospital has brought Warman, Brooke: An Handsome Village major retailers worldwide. changes to their care for patients and their with Some Neate Houses (Aylsham, 2015). relatives in A&E, and their training of medical Andrew O’Mahoney (1992), Dear Motik: Rebecca Henderson (2013) and Nora staff for dealing with bereaved families, as Today You Died (Acorn Independent Press, Martin (2013), St Anne’s College 2013: Les well as the creation of a charity to improve 2015) Matriculables (2016). the A&E department as a whole. He works On Monday 14th March, 2011, Andrew part time for a world-leading data analytics David Hills (Visiting Student 2016), “Blue O’Mahony took his four-and-a-half-year- organisation. Sky Dreaming” in Flight: an Anthology of old son, Motik, to West Middlesex Hospital Poetry in Response to the Refugee Crisis, Rebecca Probert (1991), Cretney and A&E after what had seemed to be a bout edited by Sarah Lyo, Benedict Gardener, Probert’s Family Law. 9th edition (Sweet of gastroenteritis worsened. A little over Theophilus Kwek, Samuel Ilyas (2016). and Maxwell, 2015). two-and-a-half-hours later, Andrew and Simon Hart (1991), Here We Go: Everton Yulia, Motik’s Mum, held their younger son’s Anne Scott (Conway 1961), Piers Plowman in the 1980s: The Players’ Stories (De hands as they heard the crushing words, and the Poor (Four Courts Press, 2004); Coubertin, 2016). ‘Time of death, 11.06.’ Motik died as a European Perceptions of Terra Australis result of a rare congenital condition called (Ashgate, 2010); Experiences of Poverty in Viola Ho (2010), How I Became a Physicist: Diaphragmatic Eventration. His doctor later Late Medieval and Early Modern England a Journey of Self-Discovery in Science said, ‘If I lived for a thousand years I would and France (Ashgate, 2012); Experiences of (2016). not expect to encounter what happened to Charity 1250-1650 (Ashgate, 2015). your son again.’

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St Anne’s Society: members’ updates, honours, news and appointments

Leonie Cassidy (Rhind 1975) was awarded will continue the 419-year-old tradition of Professor of Philosophy at the University an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours delivering free public lectures aimed at the of California, Irvine, has been elected in June 2016 for services to paediatric intelligent and interested public within the to the American Academy of Arts and dermatology. City of London and beyond. Sciences, which recognizes leaders from the academic, business and government Sarah Chivers (Dustagheer 2001) and Professor Delahunty will continue to practise sectors who are responding to challenges Tom Chivers (2001) are delighted to at The Bar during her appointment and, as facing the nation and the world. With announce the birth of their daughter Martha such, her lectures will reflect developments three other UCI colleagues, Gilbert will be at St Thomas’s Hospital, London on 2 May in law and society. The series of six free inducted at a ceremony on 8 October 2016, 2016. public lectures will deal with issues arising in Cambridge, Mass. from her work with the law and legal Carys Davies (Bowen Jones 1978) has processes around families and children, Gilbert is recognized for her distinguished been selected as one of the New York including cases of child abuse, radicalisation contributions to the field of philosophy, Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. and cases that involve complex and particularly her founding contributions Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers contentious medical evidence. The hour- to the philosophy of social phenomena. Fellows. long free public lectures will take place at She is the author of six books, including Carys Davies is the author of two collections the Barnard’s Inn Hall, EC1N and full details Joint Commitment: How We Make the of short stories. Her second collection, are available at http://www.gresham.ac.uk/ Social World (OUP, 2013 and 2015) and A The Redemption of Galen Pike, won the series/when-worlds-collide-the-family-and- Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, 2015 Frank O’Connor International Short the-law/ Commitment, and the Bonds of Society Story Award and the 2015 Jerwood Fiction (OUP, 2006 and 2008). Celia Ferner (Moss 1969) was awarded Uncovered Prize. Davies also won the Royal an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in Ann Spokes Symonds (Spokes 1944). Society of Literature’s VS Pritchett Prize and June 2016 for services to communities in Last year (December 2014) saw the the Society of Authors’ Olive Cook Short Wales. publication of her latest book Also Rans:The Story Award. At the Cullman Center she will Injustice of History (see 2015, The Ship). be working on a new collection of stories Christopher Howard (1991) has been She hopes to see the publication of a local about love and morality in wild or lonely announced as President of Robert Morris church guide and the re-publication of places. University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. the story of the Oxford children who were Prior to taking up this role, Dr Howard was Jo Delahunty QC (1983) has been evacuated to Canada and the USA in 1940. president of Hampden-Sydney College in appointed to the 1597 Law Professorship at In November 2015, she celebrated her Virginia. Gresham College, London’s oldest Higher ninetieth birthday, and is still playing golf Education Institution. In her role as Gresham Margaret Gilbert (Kripke 1965), Abraham and gentle tennis to keep fit. Professor of Law, Professor Delahunty I Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy and

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Positive hell JOAN SHENTON

A saga of controversy, threats and the festival sponsors premises ‘if we [LIFF] don’t views on HIV/AIDS. But we are still growth of student censorship comply’. Schultz said he had received 20 worried about this act of silencing protest letters including one from the LGBT brought about by campaign groups and I was very excited when I heard that our half society at the University of London where censorious students … At the heart of hour documentary Positive Hell had been he teaches and where all of his selection the decision to pull Positive Hell from the selected for screening on 17 April at the committee comes from. He wrote, ‘And festival is the idea that words, or films, London Independent Film Festival (LIFF). now, my selection committee is unanimous are dangerous, and that challenging the We prepared a press release and were in wanting to step away from screening medical consensus would lead millions looking forward to a lively debate after the Positive Hell.’ We were given no reason for unthinkingly to change their course of screening. this blatant censorship. treatment and suffer as a result. But Shenton and her colleagues are only Our film tells the story of five individuals It seems odd that the committee that airing an opinion … We must give people in the north of Spain who had been either selected our film was suddenly unanimous the right to make up their own minds, intravenous drug users or alcoholics in their in wanting the film withdrawn. However, it is and we should trust them to do so, teens. They were treated in rehab units and not unusual for HIV/AIDS charities to receive even about the most difficult of subjects. overcame their addictions but they had funds from the pharmaceutical industry, Shame on LIFF for refusing its audience tested ‘HIV’ antibody positive. Twenty-eight always on the lookout for any challenges to that right. years on, when we filmed them they are their medical policies and their profits. fit and well having refused to take antiviral Joan Shenton (1961) has produced and It is not the first time such interference has medication. presented radio and television programmes taken place. Only last January (2015) before for 50 years. Her independent production Positive Hell has already been nominated the screening of Positive Hell at the Frontline company Meditel Productions has won for best documentary at the Marbella Club in Paddington, the club received seven television awards and was the first International Film Festival, and selected for complaints from several groups objecting independent company to win a Royal LACinefest, Digital Griffix online festival, and to the screening. Happily, the club ignored Television Society Award for an episode of the Indie Festival 01. the complaints and we went ahead with a Channel 4’s Dispatches. Her book Positively peaceful screening to a full house with a To our dismay, on the day our press release False: Exposing the Myths around HIV and lively debate afterwards. was sent out, the festival director, Erich AIDS (1998) was updated and republished Schultz, wrote to tell us that he had ‘pulled’ In an article following our press release in 2015. our film. He said he had received warnings publicising the ban, the online magazine from four HIV/AIDS charities urging him spiked said the following: not to screen our film. They threatened spiked certainly doesn’t share Shenton’s protests at the screening venue and at the

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Herbert Hui 30 August 2014 Ruth Tait (1974) 26 November 2015 Notice of Barbara Hutton (Britton 1939) 02 October 2015 Ann Venables (Richards 1949) 06 December 2015 Gillian Innes (Lowe 1953) 30 August 2015 Rosemary Waddington (Duggan 1967) 08 June deaths Deborah Jackson (Mansergh 1953) 04 May 2015 2015 Terry Jones 14 September 2015 Jane Wardle (1970) 20 October 2015 Elaine Kaye (1948) 21 October 2015 Neila Warner (Millard 1974) 02 November 2015 Mary Abraham (1937) 10 May 2015 Therese Kennard (Walter 1942) 18 May 2016 Brenda Watts (Benson 1951) 28 February 2015 Elizabeth Aldworth (1940) 17 January 2016 Dorothea King (Haines 1933) 24 July 2015 George Weidenfeld 20 January 2016 Raymond Ardrey August 2014 Philippa Macliesh (1945) 23 October 2015 Joyce Whittaker (Wilkinson 1942) 24 July 2015 Margaret Bagley (Tong 1952) 17 September 2015 Ian Maunder 04 December 2014 Ruth Wickett (Cadoux 1943) 25 August 2015 Ruth Beesley (Ridehalgh 1938) 31 August 2015 Miranda Mcintyre Shennan (Mcintyre 1977) 19 Rose Wood (2014) 16 September 2015 Elisabeth Birch (Jenkins 1938) 07 December 2015 April 2015 Please note that some dates are approximate as no Ursula Bowen (Williams 1949) 28 April 2015 Revill Susan McIvor ( 1961) 19 May 2016 exact date was provided when College was notified. Megan Budge (Parry 1945) 14 October 2015 Eileen Mitchell (Rabbinowitz 1946) 2015 Betty Cook (Willcox 1952) 03 November 2015 Millicent Monck-Mason (1948) 29 January 2016 Betty Rutson 29 July 1935 – 9 August 2016 Deborah Cooper (1939) 2015 Janet Newson (Dawson 1954) 17 June 2015 It is with great sadness that we report the death of Miss Betty Rutson, Emeritus Fellow in French at Elizabeth Crawshay (Reynolds 1946) 06 October Ruth Nineham (Miller 1941) 17 March 2016 2015 St Anne’s. Her association with St Anne’s was a Valerie Pearl (Bence 1946) 20 February 2016 long one: as an undergraduate she read Medieval Hilary Cross (Payne 1965) 01 April 2015 Irene Pinder 21 October 2014 French Literature here from 1955 to 1958, in which Clare Currey (Wilson 1955) 26 April 2016 Clare Porter (Stubbs 1972) 02 October 2015 she gained a First, then a BLitt from 1958 to 1961. Barbara Currie (1943) 13 December 2015 Rosemary Pountney (1969) 30 March 2016 She became a Fellow very soon afterwards, and Konstanty Jerzy Maria Czartoryski (2005) 5 May retired in 2000. More than 200 people attended Elisabeth Prideaux (Griffin 1963) 10 June 2015 2016 her retirement party, including former students that Jennifer Pugh (Murray 1949) 25 September 2015 Christine Davis (Mcgaw 1948) 10 February 2016 travelled from the US, Canada, Germany, France Margaret Ralphs (Thomas 1937) 16 December Jean Duncan (Pidsley 1948) 02 February 2014 and Ireland as well as nearer home to wish her well. 2015 Barbara Edwardes-Evans (1946) 15 February Her many contributions to St Anne’s include serving Mariabella Rosalind Richards (Gardiner 1957) 1 2014 both as Dean and as Vice-Principal. She was for March 2016 a long while also closely involved in University Audrey Fader (Johnson 1944) 01 April 2015 Henry Rollin (1964) 06 February 2014 administration, as a member of the General Board, Pamela Fairbank (Bradbury 1942) 07 January Virginia Rushton (Jones 1963) 14 May 2015 and Chair of the General Board’s Undergraduate 2016 Studies Committee. A full obituary will follow in The Margaret Russell (Pinion 1944) 01 February 2016 Nancy Flint (Marsden 1945) November 2015 Ship 2016/17. Joan Saxton (Clark 1949) 08 April 2015 Elizabeth Gloyne (1932) 08 September 2015 Vicky Schankula (Fairbairns 1966) 17 February Correction Joyce Gray (Edmunds 1944) 01 October 2015 2016 In the 2014/15 edition of The Ship, Susan Margaret Hardcastle (1954) 04 April 2016 Gythia Somervell (Fuller 1944) 23 December 2014 Medycott (Jones 1963) 14 May 2015 was listed. Eva Holloway (Neumann 1937) 14 May 2015 Elizabeth Strevens (1938) 01 March 2016 This is incorrect and should have read Virginia Joyce Holmes (1940) 13 August 2015 Susan Medlycott Rushton (Jones 1963) 14 May Joan Stuart-Smith (Motion 1948) 12 December 2015. Mary Hughes (Chetwyn 1950) 30 June 2015 2015

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In memoriam to sign the Official Secrets Act, and fire In memoriam Elizabeth Aldworth (1940) watching, where she greatly enjoyed the Ursula Hill Bowen (Williams 1949) 13 July 1921 – 17 January 2016 view from the university roofs. 2 July 1930 – 28 April 2015

She gained her degree, and trained to teach in Oxford, starting a career which she followed until her retirement. She taught English, briefly, in Denbigh, North Wales and Southwold, Suffolk before moving to Bristol, where she spent 17 happy years at Colston’s Girls School, becoming senior English Teacher.

In 1966 she returned to Abingdon to care for her parents and took up a post at John Mason School, where she was Head of English, Head of Sixth Form and, finally, Deputy Head. She was a much loved and Ursula Bowen passed away in Oxford on respected teacher, and many of her pupils 28 April 2015 at the age of 84. Her career remained in contact with her for the rest of as an environmental biology teacher in her life. the Oxfordshire area will be remembered Elizabeth was born in 1921 in East Harting, Her mother died shortly after she returned by many. She was born in Windsor in Sussex. Her parents had met when her to Abingdon and her father in 1974. 1930 and was one of the first pupils at mother, a Scottish nurse, was caring for her Elizabeth herself retired in 1980, having Upton Preparatory School there before father, who had lost a leg in World War I. taught for 36 years, but continued to live WWII. After attending Windsor County a very active life. She retained a love of Girls’ School during the war years and When Elizabeth was three months old reading, learnt to paint, took an active part then Malvern Girls’ College, she staged the family returned to Abingdon, then in the local church, was a member of the a memorable production in Windsor of in Berkshire, which was her father’s National Association of Decorative and Fine 1066 and All That with her Upton School hometown. She attended the school of St Arts Societies (NADFAS) and had many friends that cemented friendships she Helen and St Katharine in Abingdon before friends. She was diagnosed with cancer in actively maintained through the rest of her gaining a place at St Anne’s College, then June 2014. She died in Wantage on Sunday life. Clothing rations were still in place, so the Society of Home-Students, in 1940, 17 January 2016. Her funeral was attended her costumes for the show were pieced where she was taught by such people as by 95 people, one for each year of her very together painstakingly from fabric scraps, Tolkien and CS Lewis, an experience which active life. cardboard and milk bottle tops. She then lived with her for the rest of her life. While in went to St Anne’s, where she studied Oxford, she did war work at the Bodleian Janet Watts (cousin) Zoology under notable mentors EB Ford, Library, for which, she told us, she had

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Alistair Hardy, Charles Elton, David Lack with the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and in Shakespeare’s plays. At her request, it and Niko Tinbergen, each of whom sparked Oxfordshire Naturalists’ Trust, she published was very fitting that Ursula was laid to rest her lifelong interests in science teaching, booklets on Projects for Environmental in a willow casket at a woodland burial site animal ecology, bird behaviour and nature Studies and How to Make a Small Pond, overlooking the Uffington White Horse in conservation. At Oxford, she married both of which were reprinted and revised West Oxfordshire. She is survived by her Humphry Bowen, who shared and spurred in several editions. She also instilled many sons, Jonathan, William and Ben, a brother, on her natural history interests. schoolchildren (and adults) with a respect Desmond and two grandchildren, Alice and for conservation and ecology through the Emma. After University, she taught at Holton Park nature trails she designed at sites such Girls’ Grammar School in Wheatley and Ben Bowen as Chinnor Hill, Coombe Hill, the Warburg then Rye St Anthony in Oxford, at each of Reserve at Bix Bottom and the Field Studies In memoriam which she was appointed Head of Science. Centre at Didcot Power Station, way ahead Clare Currey (Wilson 1955) With three children to support, she moved of the time that such activities were either 15 November 1936 – 26 April 2016 on to Lady Spencer Churchill College, trendy or mainstream. a teacher training college in Wheatley, eventually heading the Science Department Ursula did not slow down in retirement. there, before becoming a Principal Lecturer She received her licence to ring birds in in Biology at Oxford Polytechnic, where she 1967 and continued to ring and record remained until it became Oxford Brookes birds until she was in her seventies. She University. She was proud of her students first moved to one of the Coastguard who fondly referred to her annual field trip Cottages in Langston Herring, Dorset and to observe birds at Slimbridge, where she then to Bagenham in Somerset, where was on the Education Committee with the she singlehandedly converted an old barn Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, as ‘F@*k a and developed a wonderful garden and Duck’ week. During the 1970s and 1980s, bird habitat. Finally, she spent most of Ursula was also active on numerous other her last years in Nant Glas, Powys, where educational committees with organizations she was attracted by the nesting red kite such as the Royal Society, the Royal Society population which, at that time, had not been Clare was a very remarkable person who for the Protection of Birds, the British Trust widely reintroduced to the rest of the UK. had a tremendous influence without ever for Ornithology, the Royal Society for Nature In Wales she worked with the Radnorshire needing to hit the high spot of publicity Conservation, the Society for the Promotion Wildlife Trust and chaired the Builth Wells herself. The celebration of her life, held of Nature Conservation, the Council for Photographic Club. In addition, she in the Friends Meeting House in St Giles National Academic Awards, and the researched and managed the replanting of in its sunlit garden full of forget-me-nots Association for Science Education. the Hay Meadow at Penlanole, where she revealed in how many ways and how many is remembered fondly for also planting the people she motivated and encouraged – Ursula was a pioneer in setting up ecology meadow around the Willow Globe Theatre sometimes in a quite forthright manner but centres and nature trails primarily meant for with many of the wildflowers mentioned full of humour. In her room at Springfield younger people. Through her volunteer work

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St Mary, the large old St Anne’s hostel on York and as an assistant to a Cambridge later, in Oxford. She conjured up memorably the Banbury Road, Clare kept a Visitors’ academic doing aerial photography, she unusual speakers for the Oxford U3A and Book signed by all the many people she met up again with James, home on leave was energetically involved in the St Anne’s entertained there: she was a tall good- from the OUP in Cape Town. Following a Society. But she was so well organized that looking girl with her dark hair in a bun and whirlwind engagement and marriage they she never gave the impression of hectic her own distinctive style of dress: not for her set off for South Africa together. Here Clare activity and could often be found deep in a the rigid fashion of the fifties, of tight waist, showed her fortitude in both open and book. full skirt, permed hair. clandestine (but always non-violent) work Juliet Clough in ‘Other Lives’ (6 June 2016) against apartheid. Clare’s family were Quakers and although in the Guardian pointed out how ‘Women she never officially became a member of She helped James design and produce the were often at the centre of Clare’s concerns, the Society of Friends, she inherited the radical monthly The New African which was particularly women in education. Living in Quaker ethos of social concern and public continuously harassed by the SA special rural Hertfordshire, she encouraged women service. As a small girl at Wychwood School branch. All copies of one issue were seized who might not otherwise have considered in Oxford, she made a lifelong friend who and the owners charged with obscenity doing so to join her in taking A Levels at the came from Jamaica and stayed with her and blasphemy. She herself contributed local comprehensive school and even to get in Jamaica before coming up; this led to a an account of the final days of the Rivonia to Cambridge.’ lifelong interest in racial problems. While up trial, wondering what Mrs Sisulu and Mrs Clare was the driving force behind James at Oxford, as well as being Vice-President Mandela were feeling as they watched Currey Publishers which, having started of the JCR with another Wychwood friend their husbands in the dock. In July 1964 in 1985 in their Islington basement flat, Gilia Whitehead as President, she became James and Clare enabled Randolph Vigne became the leading publisher of academic involved in JACARI, the Joint Action the Editor of The New African, to escape books on Africa. Clare as the Company Committee Against Racial Intolerance; and to Canada by sea and they themselves Secretary in charge of finances enabled the at a British Council meeting she met James, fled South Africa to avoid arrest and firm to survive, thrive and move to Oxford. her future husband, who worked with her interrogation. on the Oxford International Committee Cancer was successfully treated four years Son Hal and daughter Tamsin arrived for re-establishing links with Germany ago, but came back 18 months ago. With now that there was no danger of their (it was only ten years since the end of her customary stoicism she made little of having South Africa as place of birth on WWII) and other continental universities. the protracted treatment and was as active their passports. In rural Hertfordshire she History, her degree subject, was never her as possible to the last organising, to the was always the initiator. A playgroup was greatest enthusiasm but all her life she was delight of her four teenage granddaughters, needed. She started one. A book group interested in literature, particularly poetry, photographs of her life. Though at first she would be a good idea. She started one – and art. She got an Open University degree insisted that she wanted no official memorial and indeed a second one in Oxford. She in Art History, not least to encourage a occasion, she finally helped to plan it. ‘I wish brought three families together to rescue friend who was too hesitant to embark on I could be there,’ she said. Her spirit was, and transform a Hertfordshire water mill Higher Education alone. and her influence lives on. into three homes. She worked for the After a time working for Rowntree in Citizens’ Advice bureau in Stevenage and, Gabrielle McCracken (Chavasse 1954)

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In memoriam for film and theatre. His prize-winning They were taught golf and cricket and, on Konstanty Jerzy Maria Czartoryski sculpture commemorating the Orange cold mornings, they had to break the ice on (2005) Alternative movement is to be seen in the their washing-water. She read mathematics 9 Jan 1985 – 5 May 2016 Leon Schiller Alley in Łód ´z. He worked in at the College then gained a qualification films and video – producing, co-producing, in statistics. After Oxford, she worked in directing and co-directing, even acting. statistics at the RIBA before spending a He appeared in A Marvellous Negative period teaching at Haberdashers’ Aske’s. Capability (2011), a snide send-up of art critics’ jargon, and Porcile Remake (2013); he also collaborated on the series Raiders of The Lost Art (2014).

Musically active since his mid-teens – as player and band manager, concert organizer Descended from Prince Adam Kazimierz and promoter, radio jazz presenter and and Izabela Czartoryski, cousins of the last composer – Konstanty, or ‘Kot’ for short, king of Poland, and from Count Zygmunt was endlessly inventive, ever spouting new Krasióski, a romantic poet ranked as one concepts and ideas. Lately, he dreamed of Poland’s national bards, Konstanty up a new spatial vision for transforming the She then worked from 1963 with a little- Czartoryski was born in Munich in 1985. ancestral seat at Pełkinie near Jarosław in known American company called IBM, Following in the family’s Anglophile tradition, South East Poland, into a Contemporary just as computers started to become he came to St Anne’s in 2005 and also Arts Centre, with a museum of modern commercially available. A large 1401 studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing sculpture set in the old landscape park. computer, the first really mass-produced and Fine Art. On graduating in 2008 with machine, might have an internal memory of Konstanty died tragically in Pełkinie on a dissertation on Bruno Schulz, he joined up to 4,096 characters! Shortly afterwards, 5 May 2016. He was laid to rest in his Central Saint Martin’s College of Arts and she became a (then rare) female manager. great-grand-parents’ tomb at the Salwator Design in London, completing his MA in Cemetery in Kraków, Poland. Her real love, however, was music, which 2011 with a thesis on the human condition: continued to the end of her days, even the self in relation to mind, thought and Nina Taylor-Terlecka (1961) when in the grip of Parkinson’s. She sang body. In memoriam with the Oxford Madrigal Society and, Over the years he exhibited work in Oxford Christine Davis (McGaw 1948) in London later, under Charles Kennedy (Modern Art Gallery & Ruskin), London (Oxo 1930 – 10 February 2016 Scott with the Oriana Madrigal Society and Tower Gallery, Cultivate Gallery and The others. Christine McGaw came to St Anne’s in Underdog Gallery), Madrid (Journey to the 1948 from school in St Andrews, where Later, having married a fellow IBM colleague Centre of My Mind 2013), and at Spectra she had family connections. Her boarding and adopted two sons, she moved to Art Space in Warsaw in 2015. He designed school (St Leonard’s) seems to have been work for F International, a largely female posters, record sleeves and scenography modelled on the worst sort of boys’ school. company, where the central group at office

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parties, busy talking shop, were women; In Memoriam involved in research on several villages in husbands or boyfriends lurked around the Margaret Hardcastle (1954) Yorkshire, Cumbria and southern Scotland. outside, with nothing much to say to one 25 May 1935 – 4 April 2016 In her teens and early-twenties, Margaret another. Perhaps taking this role-reversal enjoyed many walking and cycling holidays too far, the managing director, having given – she loved the countryside, especially birth, was back at work within 24 hours. that of her native Yorkshire, also the Lake One advantage of this organization was that District and the Highlands. In the 1960s it expected employees to do a lot of work at and 1970s she used her geographical home, which made it easy for Christine to knowledge and map reading skills to plan move to Bath in 1976, where her husband and organize holidays with friends, always had a short contract. They enjoyed it so with a substantial historical and sightseeing much that they continued living there up to content, in France, the mainland and islands the present. of Greece, and in Turkey. In the early- 1970s, when the Historical Association Most of this time was spent in a large ran a pioneering holiday to China, among Queen Anne house with an extensive the participants were Margaret, Ella garden running down to the river. Christine Margaret was an outstanding teacher who, Simpson and I, friends since meeting on was able to manage this house and her while head of the history department at a train returning to Yorkshire after sitting teams of programmers, raise her two Wakefield Girls’ High School, enthused the College entrance exam, together with boys and be Chairman of the Planning a generation of history students; several our tutor Marjorie Reeves. A photo of us Committee of the local Parish Council, all of her pupils have risen to high office in on the Great Wall appeared in The Ship. while pursuing an active social and political our national life or achievement in cultural Margaret was a keen musician. She played life. spheres. Her teaching was scholarly but her the piano, reaching grade 7 at the age of After a few years, however, she had to cut lessons were often entertaining, as when 14, and accompanied school choirs. She down on some activities and, finally, in 1988 she ended a lesson omitting the punch had a rich alto voice and at Oxford sang she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. It line when recounting a dramatic event. in the Bach choir. After graduating, she was a slow decline until she had to enter a Margaret’s decision to teach was influenced joined the Huddersfield Choral Society nursing home three years ago. But she still by Marjorie Reeves by whom she was and was a member for 36 years, serving did cryptic crosswords and recited great tutored both in mediaeval English history on the Society’s committee for 30 years, lengths of poetry from memory. She enjoyed and in the newly-revived special subject on frequently writing programme notes for concerts on Radio 3 and wanted others to Politics in Florence in the Age of Dante. the Choir’s concerts and taking part in its share such civilizing activities. tours and recordings. She was a great Margaret served for many years on the opera enthusiast. For 50 years she went Christine is survived by me, her husband, Joint Matriculation Board, involved in to Glyndebourne every year and in her Peter and son Alexander. developing the curriculum on history and sixties and seventies was a member of the in archaeology, attested by the large piles Peter Davis Glyndebourne Festival Society. of meeting papers in her study. She was

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Several of Margaret’s ancestors had been At Oxford, where she studied modern She was active in Quaker meetings and Methodist ministers. While at Oxford she languages, she was one of a group of continued to attend Church whenever she was a member of the John Wesley Society. friends who shared a house. She enjoyed could. She was a member of the Huddersfield annual reunions with her college friends. Deborah was an active member of the Methodist Mission’s Governing Committee Deborah was excellent at sport: she played Cambridge Branch. I got to know her in and at services would accompany hymn lacrosse for Oxford and later for Cambridge. 2004 when we were both ‘volunteered’ singing when needed. She taught her children to swim and play to help Sarah McCabe plan and carry out tennis. Margaret was a keen member of and her famous strawberry parties. Working generous donor to the National Trust and She studied Russian and was enthusiastic with Deborah, and Sarah, was a delight. was nominated a grand patron in her about new methods of language teaching. Deborah had a depth to her, a kind of final years. Sadly, it was after attending In 1967 she took a course in applied stealth technology, that did not show on a National Trust event hosted by Prince linguistics at Edinburgh University, where the surface. She was certainly quiet and Charles in Windsor Castle several years she met her husband Ted; they were gentle, but underneath was the steel that ago, that Margaret sustained a heavy fall married in 1968. A few years later, with two must have made her a formidable lacrosse from which she never fully recovered. young children, she moved to Iran, where player. Her daughter, Eleanor, remembered Ted was working for the British Council. at her funeral that, when she was a child, Jill Hume (1954) She quickly learned enough Farsi to do the she used to tell her mother that she was In memoriam shopping. beautiful. Deborah disagreed, but, just as in Deborah Gyllian Jackson (Mansergh saying her life was uninteresting, she was When the family returned to England, 1953) wrong. Photos show a beautiful young Deborah resumed her language teaching 1 November 1933 – 4 May 2015 woman, and the woman I knew was both part-time, and taught in various schools strong and beautiful. I can still see her, Deborah was an amazing person who lived and colleges. She took great joy in being a standing in Sarah’s kitchen in her pinny, an interesting and fulfilling life. But when mother and grandmother, and was dearly ready to take on whatever needed doing. I asked her to contribute a biography to loved by her family. Cambridge Lives, the collection of memoirs Linda Deer Richardson Although she was always quiet and gentle, of Cambridge Branch members, she said she was passionate about social issues, Thanks to Deborah’s family for the use of no, her life was not interesting enough. organic farming and the environment. In her biography. Judge for yourself! spite of serious health problems in her later Deborah spent most of her childhood in years, she did voluntary work for the CAB South Africa, where her father was head of in Cambridge, served as a school governor, Hilton College. She returned to England for and taught a U3A French class. She secondary education, and spent her school faithfully attended sessions of Sustainable holidays helping on the farm that her parents Uttlesford in Saffron Walden, and was an had bought in Cornwall. Her interest in enthusiastic WI member. farming stayed with her all the rest of her life. Deborah had a deep Christian faith.

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In memoriam Light Piston Tunnel (ILPT). He and Don cooling towers, molecular beams, shock Professor Terry Jones encouraged the University to buy the old waves and hypersonics. He published over 14 February 1939 – 14 September 2015 Oxford Power Station which became the 200 academic papers. He supervised 50 first Osney Laboratory. research students, instilling his rigorous methods and sense of discovery. The Osney Turbomachinery Group prospered and in 1975 they built a large Terry was a gentleman, in every sense of ILPT, to Terry’s design, to test turbine the word. He shared his ideas generously, cascades. This became the Oxford Rotor and always gave his time freely to all and is still in use. This was so successful who sat with him in his ‘power station that the National Gas Turbine Establishment superintendent’s office’. Of course, this (later to become QinetiQ) commissioned the also meant that his meetings often finished research group to build a larger ILPT. This late, as he continuously enthused over new operated on the Pyestock and Farnborough concepts and ideas. sites for about 20 years. Recently, when His fundamental approach to research Professor Terence Valentine Jones was an QinetiQ closed down their turbomachinery problems won him great respect and inspirational leader, a compulsive innovator, research, Rolls Royce financed the tunnel’s affection from all who worked with him. His an inventor of genius and a brilliant all-round return to Oxford, where it continues as the considerable achievements were recognized teacher. He had boundless enthusiasm Oxford Turbine Research and is testimony in the wider world. He led a team that was and a genuine warmth appreciated by all to Terry’s innovative skills. awarded the 1996 Royal Society Energy who knew him. He was acknowledged After Don Schultz died in 1987, it was Award, complete with Gold Medals. He was throughout the world as one of the legends appropriate that Terry should take over the a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a of high speed flow and heat transfer. leadership of the Osney group. In 1988 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Terry graduated as a physicist from Oxford. Terry was elected as the first Donald Schultz and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. In He joined the Department of Engineering Professor of Turbomachinery. He moved 2011, he was awarded the prestigious Silver Science at Oxford as a doctoral research from St Anne’s to a Professorial fellowship Medal by the Royal Aeronautical Society student. In 1968 he and his DPhil at St Catherine’s where he continued to for his lifetime contributions to aerospace. supervisor, Don Schultz, realized that the expand the group adding more facilities and And, as recently as 2014, he was awarded short duration wind tunnels and innovative researchers. a lifetime achievement award by the heat transfer instrumentation used to Mathematical, Physical & Life Sciences Terry was the first to see that study hypersonic flow could be profitably Division at Oxford. thermochromic liquid crystals could be applied to gas turbine heat transfer and used to measure heat transfer and this The last decade was not kind to Terry, as aerodynamics. They convinced Rolls Royce flowered into new techniques, now in use he battled illness. He showed remarkable that Oxford had much to offer and started world-wide. As well as turbomachinery, fortitude, remained cheerful of spirit a partnership with the company which Terry worked on innovative measurement and continued to participate in research prospers to this day. Terry invented the first techniques, industrial air coolers and projects, helping many of the latest of many new wind tunnels, the Isentropic

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generation of students. He will be sadly would end his jog in the lab late at night to for knowing him. One said that he was missed. see what was going on, while boasting, I the finest engineer and most inspirational am told, of his low heart rate. Fellows of his teacher he had ever known; another that Peter Ireland and Martin Oldfield generation – and mine – would spend extra he had had an impact on their lives way Ruth Deech adds: hours with students who needed their help, beyond the successful thesis and career, would give them mock vivas, and would be spreading into their attitude to life and to Terry was a College man. Of course he happy to volunteer to serve their colleges, problems encountered on the way. Another was a researcher and a brilliant scientist, as Terry did, in administrative roles. Today’s said, ‘My greatest supervisor, and I learned but for me and the women of St Anne’s, pressures, the conformity demanded by a lot more than engineering from Terry. We as we mostly were in the early-1980s, he assessment methods, and cuts mean we idolised him,’ adding that everyone who was our dream Fellow. I am so glad he was may not get that full-time dedication and had a successful career in engineering after there at a crucial time in our history. He respect for teaching as once we did. Oxford owed it to Terry. was appointed as part of the drive to get more science Fellows and students after Terry played a full part in university Inspiration is the word that came to mind we went mixed in 1979. He was just the committees and also as Dean of the from so many of his students. One former man to help us with the gradual build up College. A perfect choice. He was my right student said that to him, the solution to a of a first-rate school of engineering, from hand man as Pro-Proctor in 1984 when I difficult research problem was as elusive rudimentary to full size – as he did. It is was Senior Proctor. One of the duties of as wildlife in a vast forest. But with Terry, it fitting that we commemorate him here in the Proctors is to represent the University was as if a coat of snow had fallen on the a college, and from a college standpoint, at the Oxford Remembrance Day parade ground, revealing in the woods the track of because he was the embodiment of a by standing on a podium outside St John’s every rabbit, fox, squirrel and mole. Terry university tutor that is rare, and may not be for some hours. It was a chilly November made visible that which was invisible to found or valued as much in future. He was day. Shortly before the date an anonymous those who were too close to it. the type of tutor that clever Freshers came package of thermal underwear turned up in Those who knew him recall charm, dignity, to Oxford to find. Because he was uniquely my pigeon hole in College. I now know that steeliness, a brilliant intellect, exuberance, able to balance the demands of research, Terry’s specialty was ‘heat transfer’! And enthusiasm, attracting respect and affection supervision, teaching and administration in we shared the effort of giving up smoking from his supervisees, passion, positivity, an equal fashion, he never made anyone around that time. curiosity, innovation, calm, gentle, depth demanding one of those services feel that As one of his supervisees reported, Terry of knowledge, speed of thinking, lively and he was giving priority to something else. His had told him that it was important for the engaging presence, full of good natured undergraduates felt he was their priority, University to remember that its primary humour, born experimentalist in and out as did his doctoral students at Osney, and purpose is to educate, and in this he was of the lab, creative, patient, modest, the College. He didn’t count the hours. outstandingly successful. He went far kind, understated, courteous, farsighted, He was always generous with his time beyond producing good scientists and strategic and loyal. He was unflappable, to discuss science and engineering and engineers; he created an atmosphere fun, collegial, approachable, down to earth. always on the look out for a new idea, no of warmth and happiness at Osney that He thought the best of everyone, laughed matter how busy. He loved jogging and meant his team were all better people rather than complained when he was let

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down. He had a huge impact on many In memoriam being in the middle politically, she had an lives. His advice was to avoid upsetting Valerie Pearl (Bence 1946) edge of radicalism, critical of historical others even if annoyed, and to think long 31 December 1926 – 20 February 2016 orthodoxies and the ‘doom and gloom’ and hard before expressing anger. He had school of historians, whom she thought the rare gift of sharing his outside life with sentimentalized and patronized the past. colleagues: his paragliding, for which he She became a Research Fellow and would cut a supervision short if the weather Lecturer at Somerville before being was just right; missing a ferry back to Britain appointed to a Readership at University in order to track down the best chocolatier College London in 1968, and Chair in 1976. in Bruges; never averse to telling a story As Professor of the History of London against himself and educating by example she was one of only a handful of women not by preaching. professors at London University at that No one had a bad word to say about him time. She founded and edited The London and he never had a bad word to say about Journal, an interdisciplinary periodical anyone else. His life was shorter than it about the metropolis past and present, and should have been, but he lived it to the full. My mother, Valerie Pearl was born 31 was the first female Director of the Royal There is the painful awareness of a gap December 1926, in Newport, Gwent. She Historical Society. She also loved teaching, left, irreplaceable in College and Osney life, attended King Edward VI’s High School, particularly her UCL graduate seminar in the irreplaceable for his family, and irreplaceable Edgbaston, where she was Head Girl and 1970s, and relished a visiting professorship in the fate and fortunes of students. But won an Exhibition to St Anne’s to read at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and in another sense, in no way has Terry left History in 1946. Her Oxford DPhil was lecture tours of India and Israel. us. He made the world a better place. awarded in 1954. In 1981 she became the second President His legacy is all around, indeed, it is not Valerie was an influential historian of the of New Hall, Cambridge, now Murray a legacy but a living joy, because his seventeenth century, bridging the political Edwards, and still proudly women-only. teaching, his solutions, his methods and divide between the Marxists (Christopher Her great achievement was to expand the his temperament were handed on to his Hill was her DPhil supervisor and she and college, both in physical buildings (through research students, and from them to theirs, Morris, my father, lodged with the Hills as an innovative relationship with a Japanese and on down the generations of engineers. graduate students) on one side, and the Foundation) and in student and staff The Terry Jones style is eternal. Revisionists, particularly Hugh Trevor Roper, numbers. During her time the college grew Ruth Deech who became a close friend and whose by 25 per cent and climbed the academic scholarship was a model for her, on the league tables. She tirelessly promoted New other. Her ground-breaking book on city Hall, which at that time was seen as on the politics, London and the Outbreak of the fringes of Cambridge both academically and Puritan Revolution (OUP, 1961), won many culturally, and helped it to become outward plaudits. It changed ideas about London in looking and at the centre of the life of the the period as well as the Civil War. Despite University. Starting the New Hall Women’s

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Art Collection, as a legacy of feminist artist she followed her triple passions for drama, Mary Kelly’s residency, was important. It teaching and travel throughout the English- now numbers many hundreds of works speaking world. and has helped cement the reputation of Big-boned and hardy-handsome, the Murray Edwards as a creative, un-stuffy and irrepressible victim of many vicissitudes, inspirational place to study. enviably endowed with defiant vivacity and Among other distinctions, St Anne’s great personal warmth, her final victory appointed her an Honorary Fellow in 1994. was to still the menace of terminal cancer by writing a valedictory autobiographical Valerie met her husband, Morris, who sequence sparking between prose and died in 2000, when they were both poetry, tentatively titled Flashes from All undergraduates. They often reminisced Over. To friends she said that, like Beckett, about their Oxford days, in particular the she wished to leave ‘a stain upon the nightly evasion of the rather innocent nuns silence’. The difference between her image, who were in charge of the St Anne’s hostel, and his, is telling. She was a lifelong lover of Springfield St Mary, where she lived. I was University in order to train for the stage, bright clothes. Her flamboyant hats horrified born in 1955 and am also a St Anne’s and only began her academic career late, her younger and more circumspect brother. alumna. Valerie was very close to her first as a senior status undergraduate, And her memories are radiant. As a small granddaughter, Rebecca, who continued and then postgraduate, at St Anne’s, in child at her first post-war birthday party, she the Oxonian tradition at Wadham. order to write her seminal DPhil. thesis on was ‘dazzled by coloured balloons, such Sara Holdsworth (Pearl 1974) the manuscript development and literary things not seen in war’. On her first major structure of Beckett’s plays (‘the happiest expedition – a £500 Pan Am bargain ticket In memoriam time of my life’). In the later stages of her to go around the world in 80 days (a post- Rosemary Pountney (1969) research she premiered Footfalls and DPhil celebration) – she noticed ‘buffaloes 31 July 1937 – 30 March 2016 Not I in Dublin in 1978, corresponded with painted horns near Agra … Udaipur’s Rosemary Pountney had an international with Beckett, met him, and discussed his Lake Palace Hotel, an island of white lace reputation as actor and scholar. She first work with him. The fruit of her research, transformed into architecture, brilliantly attracted public notice as a schoolgirl of The Art of Shadows: Samuel Beckett’s coloured creepers blazing against courtyard nineteen playing two formidable elderly drama 1956-76, was published in 1988. walls’. Another trip, from Samarkand to ladies, Mrs Guzzard in T S Eliot’s The The rest of Rosemary’s life was divided Bokhara, brought ‘sky blue domes, tiles Confidential Clerk and Lady Bracknell in between teaching contemporary drama fraying, spikily crowned with storks’ nests.’ Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. at Winchester, Oxford (Jesus College, St Her eye was caught by a camel-drawn Her first roles precociously prefigured Cross, and St Anne’s), and elsewhere; lawn-mower beside the Taj Mahal, and in her subsequent portrayals of the dying lecturing on Beckett; and performing his Soviet Ulan Bhator, she noted wryly, ‘all the and dead women of Beckett’s solo and other plays. An inveterate voyager, statues seem to be firing at the public’. plays, Footfalls, Not I, and Rockaby. often recklessly disdaining health insurance As an actress and discriminating lover of She jettisoned a place at Birmingham even under the threat of imminent illness,

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literature, Rosemary naturally focussed on Imagination Shortfall she described to her family how she spent detail. When she played the restless ghostly carefree days cycling through the cane I was visited last week May in Footfalls, her original Dublin director fields of St Kitts. It would have been a real by my ‘End of Life’ nurse – had required ‘a leonine pacing’ across shock to arrive in London in 1953, aged guaranteed to make one feel better. the stage. In a later, private discussion, eight. She came over with her mother and Beckett confirmed her opposite instinct: ‘A What a title! sister, Mary, to see the Coronation and rasping shuffle was what he had in mind Couldn’t they have found to further her schooling. An England just … achieved with emery boards attached a better name for her? recovering from the war and with rationing to the soles of ballet shoes.’ Beckett was still in place must have seemed a world She spoke in honeyed tones also anxious to have May’s pacing slow and away from the sunshine of the Caribbean. which made me want to vomit, finally stop in her last lap. ‘Like an old wind- ‘Get her out!’ my head was screaming – Bess, however, was always quietly up gramophone?’ Rosemary asked. ‘Yes. determined and this won her a place at St Exactly like that.’ But she stayed two hours. Anne’s to read Law, for which her quick, Questions, questions, on and on acute intelligence was particularly suited. slowly noting it all down: Here she met a group of like-minded “Where do you want to die?” women who, she said, had a profound “I don’t” was my reply. influence on her character and outlook. These were friends for life and she was in Ann Pasternak Slater touch with them regularly, the last occasion In memoriam just a few weeks before she died. Elisabeth Prideaux (Griffin 1963) After Oxford, Bess moved back to the 5 May 1945 – 10 June 2016 Caribbean for a period, to Montserrat where her parents were then living, taking her place as the first woman barrister on the island. She was very proud of this achievement, and kept all the press cuttings. One in particular, from the New Later this year St Anne’s will publish York Post, her family treasure. It reads: Rosemary’s reminiscences, with a selection ’Calypso Isle Gets Girl Lawyer’. of her poems, to coincide with a memorial in her honour. Here can be found her gift for She returned to England and in 1970 empathy, her tireless joie de vivre, her gusto married Andrew. Soon Michael and Louisa sharpened by sickness. And in this, her last were born and her life revolved around poem, is her other side: that tart edge, that family in Tunbridge Wells and later Eridge, Bess was born in the Caribbean, on the forthrightness, that indomitable refusal ever with lots of fun and games, jigsaws and island of Antigua, the daughter of a doctor to let go. riding, a time of great happiness. At the and a nurse. Her childhood was idyllic and same time, she was lecturing in Law at

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West Kent College, Tonbridge. When, in use it, though in recent years it would have and landscaping provide variety, colour and 1993 she moved back to London, she made her life much easier. form for every season. began teaching at the Inns of Court School Jennifer Baines (Smith 1963) adds: In of Law where she had a reputation for September 2013 six St Anne’s friends being exceptionally strict, a force to be (including Bess and Virginia Rushton) reckoned with. Here, too, she made really met for a few days to celebrate the fiftieth good friends, and much-valued intellectual anniversary of our first meeting in Bevington companions. Road in 1963, the first time we had all six When Louisa became ill, Bess had to give met for 30 years. We were based near up the teaching she loved and devote Stockbridge, where Bess lived and, as she herself to caring for her. This was a difficult was housebound, we all visited her every time, as her own health had started to day. Though in failing physical health, she deteriorate, but she nursed Louisa to astounded us with her stamina and her the end, making sure she had the very astute observations; her analyses of matters best care and all the love she could give, public and private proved that she had lost whatever the cost to herself. Her family none of her forensic brilliance and wit. remember especially her sense of fun and Many trees and shrubs and bulbs have Adapted by Jennifer Baines and others her great enjoyment in playing games been planted, borders restored and new from the address given at her funeral by together. Holidays on the Isle of Wight ones created, vistas have been opened up, Michael Prideaux. always included long evening sessions of paths widened, new walkways constructed racing demon. And she was a very involved In memoriam and bridges replaced, secret places granny: she visited her three grandchildren Mariabella Rosalind Richards (Gardiner discovered and made inviting. Although every Friday. 1957) work on the garden continues in order 22 November 1938 – 1 March 2016 to fit it for use by groups of all ages, the Bess never lost her interest in other people, essential atmosphere and magic have been or her keenness to engage with those she Rosalind was born and grew up in the preserved, especially the sense of mystery met and express her strongly held political idyllic surroundings of Springhead, Fontmell at the springs. views. This could be a real challenge when Magna, a location with which she was finding carers, as her criteria included not inextricably linked for her entire life. After Rosalind was a woman of many talents just whether they could do the job: she also leaving to go to Oxford, and then later – a musician, teacher and gardener. She wanted an interesting back-story and a raising a family first in London and then in was renowned for her enormous energy, university degree or two, so that she could Yorkshire, she returned to Dorset more than passion and drive, often being described discuss the issues of the day over tea in the 20 years ago and began the renaissance of as a ‘force of nature’. Over the past two morning. She was a woman of principle and the elegant lakeside gardens. decades, under her guidance, the gardens this manifested itself in every aspect of her at Springhead have been gradually coaxed After ten years of work, the challenge to life – she so disapproved of Amazon and its back to their former glory and the air make the garden interesting all year round corporate tax policy that she refused ever to regularly filled with music. has been met. A rich variety of plantings

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Even as her health was starting to fail she carefully chosen pictures and ornaments still managed to design and oversee the reflecting her individual taste, and delicious construction of one of the grandest features food on immaculately laid tables. of the gardens – the grass amphitheatre. After graduation Virginia took a secretarial Her dream of having a Shakespeare play course and then worked for the University performed in front of the grass amphitheatre of Oxford Extra-Mural Studies Department. by the lake was finally realized on a balmy It was at Oxford that she met and married summer’s night in 2015 when nearly 200 Julian and moved with him round other people gathered to enjoy a performance of university cities: Norwich for UEA (where The Tempest. she did an MA in French and English Her death is a huge loss to her family and to Drama), Cambridge and Leeds. A loving all those connected with Springhead. She and supportive mother and very proud of leaves three daughters, Polly, Corinna and her sons Thomas and Edward, she was Tiffany, and a vast hole in Dorset society. the first port of call for her family and gave However, she also leaves a legacy – an unstintingly of herself whenever they needed indelible stamp on a small part of Dorset her. She loved inventing games for her – which will endure for decades if not for grandchildren to play and it was a special centuries. Singing was Virginia’s greatest pleasure treat to have the whole family for Christmas. and the source of many friends, but her Courtesy The Springhead Trust practical and organizational flair soon Meanwhile she studied as a professional soprano under Laura Sarti, Paul Hamburger In memoriam became apparent. She formed her own and Morag Noble. She appeared as a Virginia Susan Medlycott Rushton choir, the Polyphonic Singers. Her St soloist in Israel, Ireland, Canada, The (Jones 1963) Anne’s friends were roped in to this and Netherlands and also developed lecture 25 April 1944 – 14 May 2015 her madrigal groups, and Annie Hunt has a memory of her and Virginia in skimpy recitals on the Brontes. A fellow Schola Before Oxford, Virginia worked as an au pair brownie costumes providing musical member recalls her singing the Queen of in Paris looking after a naughty eight-year- accompaniment to Twelfth Night in Merton the Night’s aria at a concert in Leeds with old, Nicholas Sarkozy: a bracing preparation College gardens. Soon, however, she was ‘such tremendous feeling and beauty – it for reading French at St Anne’s. Oxford accepted by Schola Cantorum and sang was wonderful’. was an important time for Virginia and her round the world with them. Virginia was an inspiring music teacher college friends remained important all her who had the gift of releasing the creativity life; they still recall her fair hair flying, her By now Virginia had already acquired her in others, whether adults or children. She animation, her laughter and her singing in reputation for elegance. Her first Oxford set up the Second Chance Choir for people the corridor. Her energy and administrative room at Bevington Road was an attractive, who had been told that they could not sing, skills benefited the college both in her welcoming haven with a stylish coffee table opening up a world of music and creativity capacity as JCR Vice-President and later as and white porcelain teapot. Later, Sunday for them and winning a BBC Performing the founder of the North East branch of the lunches appeared magically in her bed-sit Arts award. She founded, raised funds St Anne’s Society. in the Cowley Road; all her houses featured

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for and ran Operahouse Music Projects, Virginia touched people in a way that them and communicate his knowledge of a wonderful charity for which she devised changed their lives for the better and her the Sussex flora, which Joan never forgot. projects ranging from inter-generational honesty and integrity had an effect on those In 1940, she was evacuated and billeted musical creations in inner London schools around her. As was said of another Virginia: with the Townley family in an isolated to inter-disciplinary projects involving the ‘I always felt on leaving her that I had drunk cottage near Austwick, North Yorkshire entire community of the Isle of Arran. Her two glasses of an excellent champagne. with no electricity and no running water. ten years as a trustee of the Bronte Society She was a life-enhancer.’ The school had only one class and on and time on a variety of PCCs provided her Adapted by Jennifer Baines and others Friday afternoons, pupils were required to with other opportunities to contribute her from the address given at her funeral by rearrange the furniture so that the premises skills. Timothy Walker. could be used as a Church on Sunday. She Virginia was a keen and knowledgeable returned to Brighton and took her school In Memoriam gardener to whom the natural world often certificate in 1946. Joan Cicely Saxton (Clark 1949) had a spiritual dimension. Her Christian faith 27 February 1930 – 8 April 2015 Joan went up to Oxford in 1949, where she was deeply important to her and she drew existed on an extremely low budget living support from it in life’s crises. From time to hand-to-mouth. Following her degree, she time she contemplated some more formal became a teacher at the North London study of theology, but no time was left for Collegiate School, an independent school her projected Master’s degree. She found where she taught several of the Labour comfort in the great prayers of the Church Cabinet’s offspring, including those of especially in her last, difficult days. Douglas Jay, Hugh Gaitskell and others. Her Christianity was outward looking. She Joan stayed there for five years, until was the first to reach out when others were she married in August 1958 and moved in trouble and was always loyally there for to Leeds, where she became Head of her friends. Her care for others was also Chemistry at Allerton High School. Helen seen in her long years on the Executive was born in March 1962 and John in Committee and Council of the Incorporated December 1963. Society of Musicians where she played an important role in the Benevolent Fund. In 1968, she joined Lawnswood School, When she moved to London about fifteen and in 1970 moved to Roundhay High years ago, she threw herself into her new School, where she resumed her real love, life: taught music, started choirs, developed preparing pupils for university and, where Joan was born in Brighton, the second charities, joined a theology group. Similarly, appropriate, for Oxford or Cambridge. In daughter of John and Cecilia Virginia Clark. on her recent move back to Leeds, she 1971, Leeds Girls’ High School approached She had a happy childhood, enjoying long showed typical flair when completely her with an offer to teach part-time there. walks in the Sussex Downs with her family redesigning her charming old cottage and She accepted and stayed there until her – her father, although gassed in the Great garden. retirement, soon becoming a full-time War, was sufficiently well to accompany

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teacher and then Head of Chemistry. enthusiasm and integrity, her love for and University in comparative literature and from Her students’ results at A Level were justifiable pride in her family. Oxford University in philosophy, politics outstanding and there were occasions when and economics. Ruth had a distinguished Marian Osborne, our friend from her years chemistry was so popular that the number business career in executive search and in St Anne’s and one of Joan’s bridesmaids of girls reading the subject exceeded those coaching. She was a gifted writer. In 1995 adds: reading English. She prepared several she published a book, Roads to the Top, generations of girls for University, including ‘All my recollections of her – most of them an account of the journey of top business Oxford and St Anne’s. In 1992 she retired from our younger days, of course – seem to leaders in the UK. Ruth strongly believed in to Bramhope, West Yorkshire, with her make me smile. She had such relish for so humanitarian efforts and was generous with husband. many aspects of life and such confidence her time and resources in contributing to in it and seemed to ride every difficulty with many organizations. She was a shining light! Joan had a firm Christian faith and was ease and just enjoy doing it. I enjoyed her “To know her was to love her,” in the words a person of high principle never afraid clear, vigorous thinking and what seemed of one of her friends. Ruth had a lively to speak her mind. She was vivacious, a sort of heightened, enlightened common intellect and zest for life. Her smile, warmth, made friends easily and was a good sense. And I loved her sense of fun and her compassion and generosity of spirit lit up conversationalist. She remained lucid faithfulness as a friend, even at a distance.’ the world…as did her hearty laugh! She and alert to her last day. She entered was profoundly touched by the outpouring into everything that interested her with J Edwin Saxton (husband) of love that she received in the last year. enthusiasm and ingenuity. Joan was a In memoriam Thank you to all dear friends who so whole voracious reader of everything from the Ruth Eleanor Tait (1974) heartedly reached out to her. She lived and English classics, to poetry, early science 4 February 1953 – 26 November 2015 died understanding how much she was fiction and the current popular favourites. valued and loved. In the words of Raymond She was also a skilled dressmaker, a skill Ruth passed quietly away in London, Carver: she learned from her mother, who worked England, on November 26, 2015, for many years for the Singer Sewing surrounded by her family and dear friends. ‘And did you get what you wanted from Machine Company. She made many of the Ruth was a loving wife to Andrew Doman, this life, even so? children’s and her own clothes to a high absolutely adored mother to Alex and I did. professional standard. Nicky Doman, a beloved sister to Pamela And what did you want? Bell (the late Tom Bell), the late John Tait Joan loved and took great pride in her To call myself beloved, to feel myself (Sonia Plourde), the late Jim Tait (Cathie garden, and delighted in the birds who beloved on this earth.’ Chartrand), and her twin, David Tait (Andrée enjoyed its feeding stations thanks to the McNamara) and a most cherished aunt And so it came to be for Ruth. crude but effective anti-squirrel device she to Catherine, Jennifer, Kimberley, Kristin, had invented. Unaware of her effect on Material republished with the express Caley, Jamie and Chloé. Ruth was the everyone she encountered she taught us permission of: Montreal Gazette, a daughter of the late Eleanor (nee Raymond) all so much by being the person she was: division of Postmedia Network Inc. and the late Jack Tait. She was educated her warmth and generosity of spirit, her in Montreal at The Study and Neuchâtel, kindness and thoughtfulness, her honesty, Switzerland. She graduated from Harvard

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Student accommodation and Gauld (Marshall), Doreen: 1940 Smith (Gane), Ann: 1949 buildings Gray (Edmunds), Joyce: 1944 Sparks (Davy), Margaret: 1949 List of Kitchen Fund: £1,150 Kennard (Walter), Therese: 1942 Strawson, Ann: 1946 Front of College: £3,197,670 Lorimer (Packard), Priscilla: 1944 Stuart-Smith (Motion), Joan: 1948 Donors to Building Fund: £57,227 McHugh (Barlow), Jean: 1944 Tuckwell (Bacon), Margaret: 1949 Orr (Stones), Joy: 1944 Venables (Richards), Ann: 1949 Teaching Support Stephenson (Berry), Joy: 1943 Walters (Purcell), Anne: 1949 College, Classics Fellowship: £2,568 Studdert Kennedy (Leathart), Gillian: Ward (Hawking), Sheila: 1949 English Appeal: £125 1942 Whitby (Field), Joy: 1949 2014 – 2015 Centre for Personalised Medicine: Thompson, Jean: 1942 Wolf (Eliot), Elizabeth: 1947 £90,000 Watts (Budge), Grizel: 1941 Wolffe (Bailey), Mary: 1945 OCCT: £15,000 Wolstencroft (Browne), Valerie: 1949 A total of £4,529,035 was gifted by St Gabriele Taylor Fellowship in Total given: £5,005 Anne’s alumnae, parents and friends Philosophy: £13,925 Total given: £12,560 between 1 August 2014 and 31 July Ioma Evans-Pritchard Fund: £5 1945 to 1949 2015, to the following funds. Mathematical Sciences Fund: £92,697 Baier (Howe), Ursula: 1948 1950 to 1954 Devaki Jain Annual Lecture Fund: Bailey, Margaret: 1948 Allen (Franklin), Jennifer: 1951 Annual Fund (greatest current College £20,000 Baird (Dutton), Audrey: 1945 Amherst (Davies), Ann: 1951 need): £536,929 Barclay (Hurst), Joan: 1949 Arnold (Roberts), Anthea: 1954 Tong Library Provision Barnes (Ponsonby), Mary: 1945 Bagley ( ), Margaret: 1952 Student Bursaries and Library Fund: £206 Bowen (Williams), Ursula: 1949 Barlow (Finn), Maureen: 1950 Scholarships PPE Library: £4,763 Budge (Parry), Megan: 1945 Barry (Morris), Elaine: 1951 Cosh, Mary: 1946 Beer (Thomas), Gillian: 1954 ASM Graduate Bursary: £500 Levinson St Anne’s College Boat Club Crawshay (Reynolds), Elizabeth: 1946 Bergson ( ), Deirdre: 1951 Bursary Fund: £15,957 Boat Club: £2,574 Forster, Helen: 1946 Birch, Margaret: 1953 Claire Palley Bursary Fund: £8,000 Boat Club Sponsored Row: £7,598 Glynne, Dilys: 1948 Boberg (Sluce), Julia: 1954 Delbridge Bursary Fund: £860 Gordon (Landau), Sylvia: 1948 Brooking-Bryant (Walton), Audrey: 1953 Dorothy Bednarowska Bursary Fund: Many of the fund totals are greater Hale, Barbara: 1948 Brumfitt (Ford), Margaret: 1954 £660 than the figures stated here which refer Honoré (Duncan), Deborah: 1948 Bull (Fife), Anne: 1952 English Henson Prize: £625 only to last year’s donations. Horton (Butler), Carol: 1948 Carus (Bishop), Sally: 1954 GDST Bursary Scheme: £1,000 Humphreys (Smith), Carol: 1948 Clover, Shirley: 1953 Graduate Development Scheme: £375 Brocklesby The Principal and Fellows Jackson (Hurley), Barbara: 1945 Crockford ( ), Freda: 1952 Hardship Fund: £500 Hallam acknowledge with deep gratitude Jones, Madeline: 1949 Dicker ( ), Sylvia: 1954 Jim Stanfield Memorial Fund: £4,267 Perfect the following alumnae and friends Kaye, Elaine: 1948 Driver ( ), Margaret: 1951 Kuala Lumpur Summer School: Eastman for their gifts (1 August 2014 to 31 Lewis, Keri: 1947 Dunkley ( ), Shirley: 1953 £25,000 Wightwick July 2015): Lowis (Harding), Olive: 1949 Evans ( ), Sylvia: 1951 Marianne Fillenz Memorial Fund: £375 MacDermott (Adshead), Mercia: 1945 Evans (Trevithick), Elaine: 1953 Marjorie Reeves Memorial Fund: Everest Pre-1944 Markus (Cotter), Patricia: 1948 Everest-Phillips ( ), Anne: 1950 £1,576 Batchelor (Brown), Jean: 1944 Martin (Sandle), Patricia: 1948 Eysenbach, Mary: 1954 Monroe Bursary Fund: £400,000 Beatty (Cocker), Audrey: 1944 Matthews (Greenshields), Daphne: Fairn, Alison: 1952 Sarah McCabe Bursary Fund: £131 Beesley (Ridehalgh), Ruth: 1938 1948 Farris, Dianne: 1951 The 1979-1989 Endowed Bursary Blake, Mary: 1941 Micklem (Monro), Ruth: 1949 Fox (Wheeler), Rosemary: 1951 Fund: £125 Bousfield (Calvert-Smith), Pamela: Milton (Ward), Irene: 1948 Gazdzik, Barbara: 1951 The Irene Dorner Bursary Fund: 1941 Moffat (Black), Margaret: 1946 Hallaway, Mary: 1950 £25,000 Burtt (Waite), Audrey: 1942 O’Flynn (Brewster), Hazel: 1946 Harman (Bridgeman), Erica: 1952 Year of 1955 Bursary: £60 Chapman, Gwendolen: 1944 Osborne, Marian: 1949 Hartman (Carter), Pauline: 1951 Year of 1962 Bursary: £588 Duncombe, Ruth: 1942 Peaden (Morris), Valerie: 1945 Headley (Pinder), Mary: 1954 Law Book Bursaries: £1,000 Hedges (Young), Wendy: 1944 Price, Maureen: 1948 Heath, Mary: 1950 Horder (Wilson), Elizabeth: 1939 Rogers (Edmonds), Gillian: 1947 Hills (Earl), Audrey: 1954

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Hodgson (Giles), Dawn: 1952 1955 to 1959 Jones, Grania: 1959 Total given: £50,368 Holland (Wilson), Valerie: 1952 Abrams, Evelyn: 1957 Kenwrick, Patricia: 1958 Howard, Christine: 1953 Athron (Ogborn), Ruth: 1957 Knowles (Davis), Jane: 1957 1960 to 1964 Jackson (Mansergh), Deborah: 1953 Bacon (Mason), Ann: 1957 Lewis (Hughes), Pauline: 1956 Andrews (Devonshire), Irene: 1960 Jessiman (Smith), Maureen: 1953 Bannister (Taylor), Jean: 1958 Lintott (Stone), Dinah: 1955 Archer (Weeden), Mary: 1962 Julier (Johnson), Liz: 1951 Bell (Watt), Christine: 1957 Maclennan (Cutter), Helen: 1957 Baines (Smith), Jennifer: 1963 Larkins (Rees), Fay: 1953 Bernstein (Kidson), Sandra: 1959 Magne (Lisicky), Vera: 1956 Blatchford (Rhodes), Barbara: 1960 Lee (Stankiewicz), Krystyna: 1954 Betts (Morgan), Valerie: 1956 Mantle (Gulliford), Wendy: 1957 Broomhead (Lemon), Christine: 1960 Lewis (Keir), Ann: 1951 Boyde, Susan: 1957 Matthias (Leuchars), Elizabeth: 1958 Burling (Hudson), Hilary: 1962 Littlewood (Baxter), Joan: 1951 Brendon (Davis), Vyvyen: 1959 McCarthy (Cook), Jill: 1958 Butcher (Macarthur), Mary: 1963 Lively (Low), Penelope: 1951 Brod (Sofaer), Jessica: 1955 McMaster (Fazan), Juliet: 1956 Buxton (Aston), Margaret: 1962 Loebel (Selipsky), Felice: 1954 Brown (Beer), Christine: 1959 Mercer, Patricia: 1959 Coates (Symons), Liz: 1962 Makin (Winchurch), Margaret: 1952 Cameron (Ungoed Thomas), Katherine: Moore (Slocombe), Anne: 1955 Compton (Fennell), Jennifer: 1961 Marlow (Evans), Iris: 1953 1959 Moreton (Stone), Jane: 1957 Cook (Gisborne), Janet: 1962 McCracken (Chavasse), Gabrielle: Charlton (Nichols), Anne: 1955 Newell, Wendy: 1956 Court (Smith), Rosie: 1961 1954 Christenfeld (Vincent-Daviss), Liddie: Ockenden (Askwith), Ann: 1955 Cutler (Mccoll), Veronica: 1960 Moughton (Parr), Elizabeth: 1951 1957 Ormond (Jasper), Leonee: 1959 Darnton (Baker), Jane: 1962 Murray (Goffart), Claude: 1950 Clarke (Wood), Peggy: 1956 Partridge (Hughes), Joan: 1957 Davey (Macdonald), Elizabeth: 1960 Newman, Sarah: 1952 Clarke (Gamblen), Alice: 1957 Paterson, Mary: 1957 Davidson (Mussell), Jenny: 1962 Newson (Dawson), Janet: 1954 Cochrane (Rose), Margaret: 1956 Paton (Hodgkinson), Anne: 1955 Deech (Fraenkel), Ruth: 1962 Orsten, Elisabeth: 1953 Collins, Norma: 1958 Paton Walsh (Bliss), Jill: 1955 Dennen (Howard-Johnston), Xenia: Parry (Lonnon), Shirley: 1952 Colyer (Hibbert), Freda: 1959 Phillips (Simmonds), Anna: 1957 1962 Peeler (Wynne), Diana: 1953 Cross (Barlow), Rosemary: 1956 Powell, Helen: 1956 Dionisotti, Carlotta: 1961 Penny (Gross), Jennifer: 1953 Cviic (Antrobus), Celia: 1955 Rees (Jones), Margaret: 1958 Dusinberre (Stainer), Juliet: 1960 Pickersgill Draper (Pickersgill), Mary: Davies (Mornement), Margaret: 1956 Revill (Radford), Ann: 1955 Ellis (Barber), Susanne: 1964 1952 Davison (Le Brun), Pauline: 1956 Reynish (Anderson), Hilary: 1958 Evans (Kruse), Lesley: 1962 Powell (Masters), Hazel: 1952 Dixon (Gawadi), Aida: 1957 Reynolds (France), Sian: 1958 Evans (Moss), Isabel: 1964 Pullar-Strecker (Fraser), Anne: 1954 Draper (Fox), Heather: 1957 Roberts (Armitage), Judith: 1957 Forbes, Eda: 1961 Reynolds (Morton), Gillian: 1954 Everest (Lupton), Diana: 1959 Robertson, Valerie: 1955 Freeman (Davies), Gillian: 1962 Robson (Moses), Anne: 1950 Fann, Bridget: 1956 Robinson (Neal), Patricia: 1958 Goldsworthy (Wolff), Joanna: 1960 Rose (Clark), Sonia: 1953 Findlay (Boast), Judith: 1959 Rubins (Lewis), Pat: 1957 Graves, Lucia: 1962 Round (Church), Pat: 1951 Finnemore, Judith: 1959 Rutter, Mary: 1956 Hague (Hannington), Judy: 1963 Sainsbury (Burrows), Gillian: 1950 Fleming (Newman), Joan: 1957 Sasse (Robertson), Patricia: 1955 Harris (Dixon), Jenifer: 1963 Saunders (Topley), Ann: 1950 Fowler (Lloyd), Lorna: 1958 Scott (Groves), Miriam: 1958 Harris (Telfer), Judy: 1964 Sherwood (Briggs), Shirley: 1952 Fuecks (Ford-Smith), Rachel: 1957 Slocock (Whitehead), Gilia: 1955 Hasle (Snajdr), Anna: 1962 Stringer, Judith: 1953 Gosling, Margaret: 1955 Smith (Philpott), Christine: 1955 Hibbard, Caroline: 1964 Taylor, Rosemary: 1951 Graham (Portal), Mary: 1957 Statham (Mcconville), Daphne: 1958 Howard (Warren), Liz: 1962 Taylor (Macadam), Helen: 1954 Grey (Hughes), Mary: 1959 Stevenson, Patricia: 1955 Howe (Shumway), Sandra: 1960 Tomkinson (Minster), Norah: 1952 Griffin (Dressler), Miriam: 1957 Stewart, Annabel: 1957 Hunt (Siddell), Ann: 1963 Tunstall (Mitchell), Olive: 1951 Hand (Bavin), Anne: 1957 Strang (Nash), Jennifer: 1957 Jackson (Edenbrow), Anthea: 1960 Wharton (Mccloskey), Barbara: 1954 Hardy (Speller), Janet: 1958 Thompson-McCausland (Smith), Jones Finer (Jones), Catherine: 1960 White, Gillian: 1951 Hartman, Joan: 1958 Catherine: 1959 Julian (Whitworth), Celia: 1964 Wightwick (Layzell), Pamela: 1950 Hayman (Croly), Janet: 1958 Townsend (Meyersberg), Jessica: 1959 Killick (Mason), Rachel: 1961 Williams (Wareing), Teresa: 1951 Hennessey (Tildesley), Freda: 1956 Varley (Stephenson), Gwendolen: 1956 Kirk-Wilson (Matthews), Ruth: 1963 Wood (Gunning), Maureen: 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Mace, Anne: 1962 Winter (Fountain), Julia: 1960 Foster, Shirley: 1969 Price (Fox), Meg: 1967 Malone-Lee (Cockin), Claire: 1964 Woodward (Hagestadt), Margaret: Fraser, Helen: 1967 Randolph (Randolf), Sarah: 1967 Mann (Ditchburn), Jill: 1961 1961 Gallant (Cox), Rosamond: 1965 Reeve, Antonia: 1969 Mole (Atkinson), Nuala: 1964 Young (Cowin), Pat: 1961 Grocock, Anne: 1965 Robinson (Sutton), Jill: 1967 Moore, Susan: 1964 Haile (Tovey), Helen: 1965 Rooke (Perrett), Anne: 1965 Moss (Flowerdew), Barbara: 1963 Total given: £72,541 Hall (Wills), Caroline: 1966 Scott-Barrett (Lindley), Charlotte: 1967 Murdin (Milburn), Lesley: 1961 Halls (Pett), Judy: 1967 Sheppard (Raphael), Anne: 1969 Neville (Clark), Susan: 1960 1965 to 1969 Hancock (Knox), Janet: 1967 Skelton, Judy: 1965 Newlands (Raworth), Elizabeth: 1960 Alexander (Holland), Marguerite: 1965 Hanes (Foster), Katharine: 1965 Sondheimer (Hughes), Philippa: 1969 Newman (Worsdall), Julia: 1961 Axe (Roberts), Patricia: 1965 Hare, Diane: 1967 Stubbs (Barton), Heather: 1968 Packer (Sellick), Sally: 1964 Axford, Shelagh: 1968 Hart (Salt), Christina: 1966 Swindells (Inglis), Heather: 1968 Palmer (Allum), Marilyn: 1962 Bazley (Hainton), Joanna: 1965 Harvey, Judith: 1965 Taylor, June: 1965 Paton (Parfitt), Sarah: 1960 Belden, Hilary: 1966 Haws (Buckman), Jackie: 1966 Taylor (Moses), Karin: 1968 Peagram (Jackson), Christine: 1962 Boehm (Lees-Spalding), Jenny: 1965 Holland (Tracy), Philippa: 1968 Vaughan (Kerslake), Hilary: 1967 Porrer (Dunkerley), Sheila: 1963 Breeze (Horsey), Fiona: 1965 Howatson, Margaret: 1967 Whelan (Gray), Pamela: 1967 Prideaux (Griffin), Elisabeth: 1963 Brett-Holt (Roscol), Alex: 1969 Hyde (Davis), Ann: 1966 Whiten (Challoner), Susan: 1966 Reid (Massey), Su: 1961 Brown (Lichfield Butler), Jane: 1965 Jefferson (Glees), Ann: 1967 Wilson (Kilner), Anna: 1968 Robbins (Cast), Stephanie: 1964 Brown, Elaine: 1968 Johnston (Maier), Susanna: 1968 Wilson (Hay), Lindsay: 1969 Robinson (Hinchliffe), Susan: 1964 Bryan Schoeb (Bryan), Christine: 1965 Jones (Farror), Shelagh: 1966 Wolfarth (Scott), Lesley: 1969 Rogers (Shaw), Felicity: 1961 Bynoe (Robinson), Geraldine: 1969 Jordan (Draper), Cheryl: 1965 Wright, Joan: 1969 Rushton (Jones), Virginia: 1963 Cadwallader (Eckworth), Debby: 1968 Kaier, Anne: 1967 Yates (Crawshaw), Sue: 1967 Salinsky (Fasnacht), Mary: 1962 Collin (Barlow), Trixie: 1966 Kavanagh (Harries), Shirley: 1968 Yates, Joanna: 1967 Saunders (Popham), Mary: 1962 Constable, Jeanne: 1969 Keegan, Rachel: 1967 Seymour-Richards (Seymour), Carol: Conway (Nicholson), Sheila: 1969 Kenna (Hamilton), Stephanie: 1968 Total given: £46,503 1963 Cook (Clark), Cornelia: 1966 Kerslake, Celia: 1968 Sheather (Hall), Judith: 1962 Cooper (Alexander), Patricia: 1966 Kitson, Clare: 1965 1970 to 1974 Shenton, Joan: 1961 Cooper-Sarkar (Cooper), Amanda: Klouda (Iyengar), Lekha: 1968 Adams (Samuel), Kate: 1971 Shipp (Nightingale), Phillida: 1961 1968 Kuter (Howie), Irene: 1967 Andrew, Elizabeth: 1973 South (Hallett), Vivien: 1964 Coote, Hilary: 1967 Lambley (Booth), Janet: 1966 Ashley, Jackie: 1974 Spinks (Wallis), Leila: 1964 Court (Lacey), Liz: 1968 Lamming, Robbie: 1967 Aston Smith (Johnson), Julia: 1970 Stancliffe (Smith), Sarah: 1961 Cowell (Smith), Janice: 1966 Lanning (Creek), Rosemary: 1968 Barrett, Jane: 1973 Stuart (Garlant), Julia: 1962 Curry (Roullet), Anne: 1965 Laycock, Deborah: 1968 Barringer, Terry: 1974 Tate (Hardy), Valerie: 1960 Dean (Slater), Valerie: 1966 Lee, Judy: 1966 Bayliss (Dakin), Sue: 1974 Taylor-Terlecka, Nina: 1961 Deeble, Liz: 1968 Lees (Nelsey), Pamela: 1968 Biggs (Perrin), Lynn: 1972 Tindall-Shepherd (Dunn), Wendy: 1963 Derkow Disselbeck (Derkow), Barbara: Lumley, Margaret: 1965 Bronwin (Baldwin), Lucy: 1972 Tricker (Poole), Marilyn: 1964 1965 Marett, Karen: 1967 Buchan (Enright), Dominique: 1970 Tuck (Pye), Dinah: 1964 Doran (Savitt), Sue: 1966 Mckenzie (Boswell), Belinda: 1965 Burge (Adams), Sue: 1972 van Heyningen, Joanna: 1964 Drew, Philippa: 1965 McKenzie (Smith), Hannah: 1967 Butler (Dawnay), Gillian: 1972 Van Noorden (Raphael), Sally: 1964 Edgeley (Richards), Wendy: 1966 Morgan (Draper), Sylvia: 1969 Calder (Tapping), Patsy: 1970 Vere (Spalding), Jennifer: 1961 Edwards (Kent), Pamela: 1966 Morrison (Hammond), Penny: 1966 Carter, Miranda: 1974 Wagner, Rosemary: 1964 Ely (Masters), Hilary: 1969 Newill (Sykes), Bridget: 1966 Clarke, Aileen: 1973 Walton (Turner), Gillian: 1964 Fairbairn (Raine), Marilyn: 1967 Nicoll (Sampson), Cathy: 1966 Clayman, Michelle: 1972 Ward (Tubb), Christine: 1962 Fairweather (Everard), Pat: 1965 Ogilvie (Milne), Moira: 1965 Cockey (Ward), Katherine: 1970 Waterhouse (Wraight), Virginia: 1961 Feldman (Wallace), Teresa: 1968 O’Sullivan, Helen: 1969 Darlington (Hill), Moira: 1971 White (Pippin), Ailsa: 1962 Ferner (Moss), Celia: 1969 Owen (Lytton), Stephanie: 1969 Davies (Baxendale), Jane: 1970 Williams (Ferguson), Fiona: 1962 Fisher (Hibbard), Sophia: 1966 Pendry (Gard), Patricia: 1966 Dick (Marx), Irene: 1970 Williamson (Hodson), Valerie: 1960 Forbes, Anne: 1968 Perry (Hudson), Penny: 1965 Dorner, Irene: 1973 Wilson (Ridler), Kate: 1961 Forrester-Paton (O’Toole), Josephine: Pilcher (Mason), Anne: 1965 Dye (Shrimpton), Alyss: 1973 Wilson (Higgins), Margaret: 1962 1968 Pratt (Wedderburn), Caroline: 1967 Dymkowski, Christine: 1972

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Fallon (Geldart), Kathleen: 1972 Nasmyth (Mieszkis), Lalik: 1971 Baatz (Watson), Yvonne: 1975 Harris, Dalbren: 1976 Faure Walker (Farrell), Vicky: 1971 Northover (Granshaw), Lindsay: 1973 Baigent (Prince), Kate: 1978 Harrison, Carol: 1975 Ferguson (Marston), Catherine: 1970 Norton (Pirkis), Anne: 1974 Baker (Smith), Maggie: 1975 Haywood, Russell: 1979 Foister, Susan: 1972 O’Connor, Marian: 1972 Bardsley (Riddell), Kate: 1975 Hazlewood (Hazelwood), Judith: 1978 Forwood (Pearce), Sally: 1974 Onslow (Owen), Jane: 1972 Barnard (Langford), Caroline: 1979 Hobbs (Galani), Efrosyni: 1977 Fowler (Gardner), Pamela: 1972 Ormerod (Tudor Hart), Penny: 1972 Barnes (Gould), Amanda: 1979 Hodgkinson (Coe), Penny: 1977 Fox, Jane: 1971 Osborne (Neal), Joelle: 1971 Barzycki (Polti), Sarah: 1976 Hudson, Julie: 1975 Fraser (Hawkes), Penny: 1974 Ovey, Elizabeth: 1974 Baxandall (Dwyer), Cathy: 1977 Hughes, Rosaleen: 1975 Galley (Rice), Katie: 1974 Parker (Russell), Gillian: 1974 Benson (Graham), Julie: 1976 Hughes, Holly: 1975 Gibson, Anna: 1972 Paul (Driver), Anne: 1971 Bernstein (Bernie), Judith: 1975 Hurry (Williams), Olwen: 1977 Gillingwater (Davies), Helen: 1974 Peacock (Spence), Helena: 1972 Bevis, Jane: 1977 Ingram, Jackie: 1976 Golodetz, Patricia: 1970 Pemberton (Scott), Tessa: 1973 Blandford (Hawkins), Sally: 1978 Isard (Mccloghry), Nicky: 1978 Grant (Ward), Melanie: 1973 Perkins (Thornhill), Melanie: 1974 Bowman (Ward), Christine: 1976 Jagger (Capel), Judith: 1978 Grout (Berkeley), Anne: 1971 Richards (Wardle), Alison: 1973 Bruce-Gardner (Hand-Oxborrow), James (Lucas), Cherry: 1977 Harnett (Turner), Penelope: 1971 Ritter (Dornhurst), Anne: 1971 Veronica: 1976 Jones (Broome), Patti: 1977 Hasler (Abbott), Judith: 1974 Rossiter (Hannay), Sue: 1971 Carney, Bernadette: 1978 Kearney, Martha: 1976 Hatfield (Bratton), Penny: 1971 Rowswell, Ann: 1974 Carson, Denise: 1978 Keeble (Jaques), Helen: 1978 Higgs (Blackett, Nee John), Lyn: 1970 Salkeld, Cecilia: 1972 Cassidy (Rhind), Catriona: 1975 Kennedy, Ian: 1979 Hill (Davies), Valerie: 1971 Setchim (Andrews), Elizabeth: 1973 Charman (Rees), Stella: 1975 Kenrick (Warby), Ann: 1977 Hollowell, Jennifer: 1974 Simon (Holmes), Jane: 1973 Clarke, Mary: 1976 Large (Moore), Pip: 1979 Houlton, Jane: 1972 Stothard (Emerson), Sally: 1971 Clout, Imogen: 1975 Lawson (Tuffs), Helen: 1978 Hughes (Marshall), Susan: 1970 Taylor (Clouting), Nicola: 1974 Cochrane (Sutcliffe), Jennifer: 1979 Leppard (Allen), Jo: 1976 Hughes-Stanton, Penelope: 1973 Thom (Hawkins), Theresa: 1971 Collier (Boerma), Pauline: 1976 Lightley (Edwards), Janice: 1976 Hutchison (Keegan), Ruth: 1972 Thomas (Parry), Kathleen: 1971 Colling, Mike: 1979 Little, Tamasin: 1978 Ironton (Montgomery), Frances: 1972 Thomas (Covington), Anne: 1974 Constantine, Anne: 1977 Lloyd (Chanter), Catherine: 1977 Isted (Rogers), Linda: 1970 Thurston (Hansford), Penelope: 1973 Cramb, Evelyn: 1978 McClenaghan, Pauline: 1975 Jack, Susan: 1970 Tighe, Chris: 1970 Crane, Mary: 1979 McGuinness, Catherine: 1978 Johnson (Davies), Helen: 1973 Tolman (Glanvill), Jenny: 1971 Crisp, Roger: 1979 McKinnon, Christine: 1976 Joseph (Milloy), Anne: 1971 Tonkyn (Mcneice), Shelagh: 1970 Cummins (Chapman), Ann: 1977 Micklem, Ros: 1975 King, Rosanna: 1970 Tovey (Williams), Maureen: 1973 Daniel (Evans), Catrin: 1975 Morecroft (Jackson), Angela: 1976 Kirby, Caroline: 1971 Turner (Davison), Kathryn: 1972 Davis (Francis), Kelly: 1978 Nevrkla (John), Sara: 1978 Kirk (Seconde), Louise: 1974 Vodden, Debbie: 1974 Desnica, Olga: 1976 Nightingale, Linda: 1977 Kroll (Askew), Catherine: 1973 Waller (Foster), Elizabeth: 1974 Dey, Jennifer: 1975 O’Brien, Sue: 1977 Lawless (Freeston), Sally: 1971 Ward, Jean: 1974 Drummond (Behling), Yvonne: 1978 O’Donnell, Claire: 1977 Le Page (Inge), Susan: 1973 Wheater (Jones), Isabella: 1974 Dryhurst, Clare: 1979 Onions (Hine), Sally: 1977 Leighton, Monica: 1970 Whitby (Lodge), Mary: 1970 Ellis (Eton), Rachel: 1975 O’Sullivan (Watt), Catherine: 1975 Lewis (Glazebrook), Jane: 1973 Wilkinson (Spatchurst), Susan: 1970 English, Kirsten: 1979 Ough (Payne), Alison: 1979 Littler Manners (Littler), Judy: 1972 Willetts (Ferreras), Maria: 1974 Feeney (Matthews), Pauline: 1976 Owen, Catherine: 1975 Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen: 1970 Williams, Mary: 1972 Fisher, Elizabeth: 1978 Peters (Bigg), Suzanne: 1979 Marron, Kate: 1970 Williamson (Thakurdas), Lyn: 1974 Freedman (Woolfson), Hadassa: 1975 Philips (Palmer), Wendy: 1977 Martin (Pearce), Mary: 1971 Fresko (Marcus), Adrienne: 1975 Phillips, Susie: 1978

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Scott-Thompson (Fox), Jane: 1976 Francis, Rebecca: 1984 Sochacka (Martin), Sheila: 1980 Haynes, Gavin: 1989 Slater (Knight), Beverley: 1976 Funnell, Sarah: 1982 Spyvee (Herbert), Rachel: 1983 Heath (Harrison), Dominique: 1987 Smith, Lizzie: 1977 Garvey, Steve: 1980 Stacey, Martin: 1980 Hennessy, Josephine: 1989 St John-Hall (Browne), Anne: 1978 Gaul, Pat: 1980 Stone, Edward: 1983 Holding, Bill: 1987 Stainer, Mike: 1979 Glasgow, Faith: 1980 Sutherland, Hugh: 1983 Howard, Andrew: 1987 Staufenberg (Hill-Wilson), Penelope: Godfrey, David: 1983 Swinfen, Sally: 1983 Hubbard, Nancy: 1985 1979 Gough (Cobham), Catherine: 1984 Symonds, Richard: 1981 Hunt (Sanz), Eva: 1987 Stead (Mcfarlane), Jane: 1977 Graham, Mark: 1982 Taylor, Jeffrey: 1981 Hurrell, Richard: 1988 Szczepanik (Murray), Lynette: 1975 Griffiths, Simon: 1981 Thomas, Martin: 1982 Huxter, Stephen: 1986 Taplin (Canning), Angela: 1975 Guy, Wesley: 1983 Titcomb, Lesley: 1980 Isaac, Daniel: 1987 Tayeb, Monir: 1976 Halim, Liza: 1981 Weir (Luing), Helen: 1980 Johnson (Davies), Rhiannon: 1987 Vernon (Mcardle), Sarah: 1979 Hewitt, Peter: 1984 Wilcox (Williams), Joanne: 1981 Johnson (Hall), Harriet: 1988 Wace (Rees), Pamela: 1976 Hill (Latham), Kate: 1984 Williams, Anne: 1980 Laughton, Stephen: 1989 Walker, Alison: 1975 Holme (Simon), Philippa: 1984 Williams, Edmund: 1981 Lindblom (Jackson), Fiona: 1985 Weller, Isobel: 1977 Hopkinson, Christopher: 1984 Wilson Wheeler, Martin: 1983 Little, Karen: 1989 Wessel Walker (Wessel), Donna: 1978 Horrocks, Richard: 1982 Wood, Edward: 1980 Mankabady, Martin: 1987 Wheare, Julia: 1977 Ireland, Bill: 1984 McBain, Niall: 1986 Total given: Wightwick (Lombard), Helen: 1979 Jenkins (Bannister), Catherine: 1981 £67,800 Mora Glukstad (Mora), Miguel: 1989 Wood, Lucy: 1975 Kam, Anthony: 1980 Morgan, Rob: 1989 Wright, Ellen: 1977 Khangura, Jasbir: 1982 1985 to 1989 Mullen, Anne: 1988 King, Fiona: 1980 Adebiyi, John: 1986 Murphy (Harwood), Rachel: 1989 Total given: £106,996 King, Helen: 1983 Ball (Flanagan), Justine: 1985 Nebhrajani, Sharmila: 1985 Latto, Andrew: 1980 Baxter, Jonny: 1986 Nunn (Bright), Anne: 1985 1980 to 1984 Lawrence, John: 1984 Bray, Heather: 1985 Parr, Simone: 1988 Allum, Gina: 1983 Lonie, Craig: 1984 Brewerton (French), Linda: 1988 Payne, Martin: 1989 Arah (Griffin), Jessica: 1983 Mayo, Timothy: 1980 Burrows, Peter: 1987 Perrin, Julie: 1986 Artingstall, David: 1982 Mill, Cherry: 1981 Butler, Jenny: 1985 Pollitt, Graham: 1986 Baker (Ffrench), Julie: 1980 Miller (Oakes/Romanczuk), Jane: 1981 Chilman, John: 1986 Raj (Thayakaran), Shivanee: 1987 Bancroft, Louise: 1980 Monaghan, Elizabeth: 1981 Chowdhury, Mohammad: 1986 Redman, Mark: 1986 Benson, Chris: 1983 Montgomery, Bill: 1980 Collins, Susanna: 1989 Richards, Nicholas: 1985 Birdseye, Mark: 1980 Morris, Elin: 1984 Cunliffe, David: 1985 Riley, Simon: 1988 Boddington, Andrew: 1980 Munro, Rob: 1982 Donald, St John: 1986 Roberts, James: 1987 Bone, Ian: 1984 Myers (Pye), Kathryn: 1980 Eades, Cynda: 1985 Sanderson, Andrew: 1986 Brodie, Pete: 1981 Nachoom (Wiener), Sharron: 1982 Eaton (Cockerill), Sara: 1986 Scott, Andrew: 1986 Burns, Julian: 1981 Nugee, Andrew: 1981 Elliott, Edward: 1988 Shuttleworth, Gregory: 1985 Citron, Zachary: 1984 Orr, Frank: 1984 Elmendorff-Geldard (Elmendorff), Stancliffe, Rachel: 1987 Clarke (Hopper), Wendy: 1980 Osborne (Billen), Stephanie: 1981 Justine: 1986 Stephenson (Gratton), Dawn: 1989 Cotton, Andrew: 1980 Parkman, Timothy: 1980 Fazzio (Davies), Sarah: 1988 Street, Michael: 1986 Cubbon, Alan: 1980 Percy, Helen: 1984 Fowler, Brigid: 1988 Swann, Simon: 1989 Davies, Ivor: 1984 Phillips (Gray), Emma: 1981 Freeman, Jonathan: 1987 Tsang, Heman: 1988 Daymond, Andrew: 1981 Pollinger, Edmund: 1983 Fuge, Rhian: 1987 Urmston, Richard: 1987 Delahunty QC (Delahunty), Jo: 1983 Rabinowitz (Benster), Suzi: 1982 Fulton, Guy: 1989 White, Richard: 1985 Dixon (Daly), Cathy: 1980 Ratnam, Arun: 1980 Furness, David: 1985 Williams, David: 1987 Dumbill (Weiss), Charlotte: 1984 Read, Justin: 1980 Gregory, Vanessa: 1986 Williams, Paul: 1987 England, Richard: 1982 Roberts (Stiff), Nicholas: 1980 Griffin, Oliver: 1986 Total given: Filer (Bernstein), Wendy: 1982 Rose, Stephen: 1983 Growcott, Simon: 1986 £49,436 Flanagan (Getley), Kate: 1982 Saunders, Matthew: 1984 Hall, Kersten: 1988 Foggo, Andrew: 1984 Scott, Alastair: 1983 Hanss (Mumford), Katharine: 1988 1990 to 1994 Fox (Wood), Sue: 1984 Shakoor, Sameena: 1980 Hart, Christopher: 1985 Alexander, Danny: 1990

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Appleby (Anderson), Amber: 1990 Lipscomb, Nick: 1991 Bourne, Jon: 1996 Sargeant, Tom: 1996 Baird, Rachel: 1990 Loughlin-Chow (Loughlin), Clare: 1991 Bray, Francis: 1999 Skea-Strachan, Nick: 1996 Baker, Simon: 1994 Marken, Gareth: 1993 Bryson, Andrew: 1996 Stone, Chris: 1998 Banks (Healy), Allison: 1990 McDowall, Alex: 1992 Butt, Sarah: 1998 Sugdon (Bakewell-Stone), Petra: 1998 Bates, Jonathan: 1991 Morgan, Rhydian: 1992 Campbell-Colquhoun, Toby: 1996 Suterwalla, Azeem: 1996 Beck, Sarah: 1992 O’Dornan (Brown), Alison: 1994 Cayley, Emma: 1999 Tapson, James: 1998 Bird, Alasdair: 1992 O’Mahony, Andrew: 1992 Cheema, Kamal: 1997 Tordoff, Benjamin: 1998 Booth, Heather: 1992 Orwell, James: 1991 Christie, Sandy: 1998 Travis, Emily: 1999 Borrowdale (Nichols), Claire: 1991 Paul, Helen: 1994 Copestake, Phillip: 1999 Vaughan, Nicholas: 1995 Bowley, John: 1993 Percy (Truman), Sally: 1994 Cottingham, Faye: 1995 Warren, Joseph: 1997 Breward, Christopher: 1991 Pritchard (Breaks), Amanda: 1994 Crichton (Hunter), Ele: 1996 Weston, Daniel: 1998 Bright, Daniel: 1993 Probert, Rebecca: 1991 Davies, Mike: 1996 Wiles, Michael: 1996 Brown, Camilla: 1992 Sandis, Constantine: 1994 Donohue, Joseph: 1997 Williams, Charlotte: 1997 Brown (Page), Sarah: 1994 Schmidt, Simon: 1990 Dunbar, Polly: 1999 Wyatt, Paul: 1995 Bryson (McGregor), Barrie: 1991 Scroop, Daniel: 1992 Ewart, Isobel: 1998 Total given: £50,369 Carpenter (Barker), Nancy: 1993 Shapiro, Leonid: 1991 Faull, Nick: 1997 Chea, Henry: 1992 Siame, Sebako: 1991 Gardner, Rob: 1997 2000 to 2004 Clements, Sam: 1990 Slater, Shane: 1990 Georganta, Fonteini: 1998 Akehurst, Hazel: 2003 Colville, Johnny: 1993 Smith (Parker), Helen: 1993 Glenville (Foster), Hannah: 1999 Aldridge, Sophie: 2003 Corsellis, Peter: 1991 Spearing (Allhusen), Elnor: 1991 Gray, Anna: 1997 Ashman, Ruth: 2004 Crabtree, Paul: 1990 Thanassoulis, John: 1993 Grimes (Williams), Vanessa: 1996 Asver, AJ: 2004 Donovan, Paul: 1990 Timpson (Still), Julia: 1993 Hallwood, Janie: 1999 Atkin, Lara: 2003 Duncan, Garreth: 1993 Truesdale (Upton), Alexandra: 1990 Hearn (Allton), Sarah: 1997 Aubry, James: 2003 Edrich, Ben: 1993 Turano, Leslie: 1993 Heaton, Daniel: 1998 Baderin, Alice: 2001 Endean, James: 1992 Tyler, Toby: 1992 Henry, Simon: 1999 Baldwin (Eyers), Amy: 2002 Faulkner, Stuart: 1991 Vassiliou, Evelthon: 1991 Hopkins, Lynsey: 1995 Barlow, Timothy: 2002 Friar, Sarah: 1992 Viala (Lewis), Katharine: 1990 Horsley, Alexander: 1995 Birtwistle, Heather: 2003 Gaskell, Alexander: 1991 Wareham, David: 1990 Houlding, Mark: 1996 Brooks (Gilmore), Lindsay: 2001 Giddings, Benjamin: 1992 Warner, Steven: 1990 Ingram, Jonathan: 1996 Burghall, Johan: 2003 Girardet (Schafer), Ruth: 1990 Warwick, James: 1991 Innes-Ker, Duncan: 1996 Carvounis, Katerina: 2000 Greig, Victoria: 1992 Watson, James: 1992 Ip, Florence: 1998 Castlo, Paul: 2000 Gunatilaka, Ramani: 1992 West, Colin: 1994 Kanji, Gulzar: 1997 Chana, Manisha: 2002 Hamilton, Alexander: 1991 Weston, Mark: 1993 Kent, Simon: 1996 Chivers (Dustagheer), Sarah: 2001 Hammond, Ben: 1992 Wiesener, Sebastian: 1994 Levi, Nathan: 1997 Devenport, Richard: 2002 Hammond, Nicholas: 1993 Wright, Nicholas: 1994 Man, Bernard: 1995 Dyke, Chris: 2000 Hampson (Makepeace), Anna: 1994 Mather, Christopher: 1998 Fisher, Philip: 2002 Hawker, David: 1990 Total given: £42,914 Maxim, Jon: 1996 Fox, Sebastian: 2002 Hinxman (Jackson), Harriet: 1991 McKnight, Patrick: 1997 Garbett, Briony: 2004 Huggard, Patrick: 1994 1995 to 1999 Moore (Khinmaung), Jo: 1999 Goodfellow, Edward: 2002 Hughes, Benedict: 1991 Akhtar, Adnan: 1997 Mussai, Francis: 1998 Griffiths, Robert: 2003 Hunt, Gareth: 1993 Allen-Pennebaker (Pennebaker), Betsy: Pantos, Aliki: 1997 Griscti-Soler, Andrew: 2000 Hurley, Isabel: 1993 1995 Patel, Alpesh: 1995 Guy, Thomas: 2004 Illingworth, Robert: 1994 Arnold (Henderson), Louise: 1998 Phillips, Dan: 1997 Harris, Joe: 2001 Ingham, David: 1991 Ashley, Paul: 1996 Pont, Carla: 1998 Hollindale, Christopher: 2004 Jackson, Gregory: 1991 Ashley (Nevill), Sarah: 1996 Purchase, Mathew: 1997 Humpage, Neil: 2001 Jamieson, Sheila: 1991 Barber, Wesley: 1997 Rooks, Gemma: 1997 Hunt, Tim: 2003 Johnson, Robert: 1992 Barclay, Harriet: 1999 Ross, David: 1996 Hunt, Polly: 2003 Killeen (Fenton), Louise: 1992 Beauchamp, Rose: 1997 Roydon, Karen: 1995 Hurst, Chris: 2002 Kingston, Charles: 1993 Bonnal, Karine: 1997 Russell-Mitra, James: 1995

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Huzzey, Richard: 2001 2005 to present Espinoza Quintero, Gabriela: 2011 Kumah, Stephanie: 2014 Hyatt (King), Jodie: 2002 Adams, Jonathan: 2012 Evans, Martyn: 2006 Lambert, Elizabeth: 2012 Jayanth, Meghna: 2004 Adusumilli, Susheel: 2014 Eve, Ruth: 2011 Large, Bithia: 2011 Jones, Gareth: 2001 Al Dalahmah, Osama: 2011 Fan, Xin: 2011 Larkin, Maryellen: 2013 Jones, Timothy: 2004 Antoniazzi, Andrea: 2011 Farmer, Sinead: 2005 Lau, Khim Heng: 2006 Kelly, Adam: 2004 Antwi-Boasiako, Richard: 2009 Faulkner, Freddie: 2012 Leavitt (Karatzios), Joanna: 2008 Kempton, Oliver: 2001 Aveson, John: 2005 Feather, Charlotte: 2011 Lee, Eric: 2014 Lally, Jagjeet: 2004 Baker, James: 2012 Fibert, Timna: 2012 Leide, Alex: 2011 Langley, Clare: 2001 Banks (Pudule), Anda: 2014 Fielding, Lucy: 2011 Lessing, Paul: 2008 Larmouth, Sarah-Jayne: 2003 Barber, James: 2008 Firth, Natalie: 2008 Leung, Helen: 2014 Lee, Edward: 2001 Barrett, Christopher: 2005 Flavell, Gregory: 2011 Lobanovska, Mariya: 2011 Lewis (Robinson), Kathy: 2000 Batcheler, Richard: 2007 Fong, Wai: 2011 Lock, Lilli: 2012 Mao, Fei: 2002 Battle, Cara: 2011 Freeland, Henry: 2007 Lowe, Andrew: 2006 Marlow, Julia: 2001 Becker, Jemma: 2011 Gadsden, Rosamund: 2011 Loy, Xuewei: 2009 McDevitt, Joseph: 2001 Bemath, Anisah: 2014 Galava, Denis: 2014 Luminari, Diletta: 2014 McMahon, Helen: 2003 Berry, Stuart: 2010 Gallois, Jacques: 2012 Macquarie, Robert: 2012 Michaelsen, Allan: 2001 Bidd, Rhushub: 2012 Ge, Mengyang: 2012 Mansfield, Ben: 2005 Newman, Terry: 2000 Bidgood, Anna: 2011 Gerretsen, Isabelle: 2011 Marco Dufort, Bruno: 2012 Opotowsky, Stuart: 2001 Bonham, Sarah: 2006 Gibb, Gary: 2007 Marshall, Zara: 2012 Pang, Stacey: 2004 Bornstein, Alexander: 2012 Gillett, George: 2012 Maxwell, Tobyn: 2006 Patel, Hiten: 2003 Brown, Alexander: 2007 Glynne Jones, Stuart: 2010 Mayer, Christina: 2007 Pilkington, Felicity: 2002 Bruckmaier, Merit: 2012 Graham, Katherine: 2013 McCormick, Brian: 2014 Prichard, Lorna: 2002 Carroll, Oliver: 2012 Green, Alistair: 2012 McGill, Shaun: 2012 Read (Robson), Mary: 2003 Carter, Diana: 2006 Hain, Michal: 2012 McLellan, Calum: 2011 Rees, Kathryn: 2001 Causer, Meghan: 2012 Hare, Florence: 2012 McPherson, Tom: 2012 Roberts-Evans (Roberts), Elin: 2002 Champion, Jessica: 2014 Haria, Shivani: 2012 McShane, David: 2012 Robins, John: 2001 Chan, Samuel: 2009 Haskell, Lucy: 2012 Miah, Nishat: 2008 Sarigat Abraham, Aarif: 2003 Chen, Mitch: 2008 Haughton-Shaw, Eliza: 2012 Millar, Robb: 2011 Shao, Ruobing: 2004 Chowla, Shiv: 2007 Hawley, Mark: 2009 Moffat, Freya: 2012 Sherrington, Alison: 2002 Clarke, Stephen: 2006 Hazi, Josef: 2011 Monaghan, Craig: 2006 Sherrington, Richard: 2002 Cohen, Adam: 2014 Heavey, Anne: 2006 Moss, Simon: 2013 Stawpert (Hulme), Amelia: 2000 Connolly, Michael: 2011 Hicks, Mark: 2006 Moss, Emily: 2013 Still, Simon: 2003 Cook, Adam: 2012 Hodgkinson, Ruth: 2007 Nicholas, Chris: 2009 Tahir, Wasim: 2003 Croci, Matteo: 2014 Houghton, Sara: 2009 Nicholls, Oliver: 2012 Taylor, Carly: 2002 Cukier, Martyn: 2009 Hubbard, Tove: 2012 Nicola, Tara: 2014 Tsayla, Melina: 2001 Dajer, Diana: 2014 Hughes, Laura: 2009 Onobote, Michael: 2014 Waghorn, Philip: 2002 Davies, Jack: 2012 Hynes, Jo: 2012 O’Toole, Thomas: 2005 Wagner, Adam: 2000 Davies, Haf: 2012 Iles, Joe: 2011 Owbridge, Sarah: 2009 Watson, Ruth: 2004 Deepankar, Divya: 2014 Jarvis, Myles: 2014 Pain, Alana: 2011 Webster, Ian: 2000 Ding, Jacqueline: 2012 Jeffery, David: 2014 Parrott, Daniel: 2011 Wilson, Helen: 2003 Donohoe, Andrew: 2009 Jones, Howard: 2009 Patel, Sheena: 2005 Witter, Mark: 2000 Doran, Patrick: 2011 Jones, Scott: 2010 Patrick, Christopher: 2005 Wyatt, Nicholas: 2003 Dowdall, Katherine: 2012 Kaim, Mati: 2013 Pavlou, Chrystalla: 2014 Yates, Lorna: 2002 Dumeresque, Charlie: 2010 Khaliq, Alishba: 2010 Potikit, Kankanit: 2014 Young (Smith), Caroline: 2001 Dutt, Pamela: 2009 Knoche, Julia: 2014 Powell, Matthew: 2007 Dutton, William: 2010 Koenig, Hanns: 2008 Rahim, Fardous: 2006 Total given: £41,963 Eagon, David: 2007 Krishnamurthy-Spencer, Jasmine: Ramasamy, Rohan: 2011 Eldridge, Lorren: 2011 2011 Ray, Oishika: 2012 Ellis, Emily: 2012 Kuetterer-Lang, Hannah: 2006 Read, Andrew: 2012

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Retief, Rudolph: 2014 Wood, David: 2007 Foard, Christine Simpson, Ann Richards, Caitlin: 2012 Woolfson, Deborah: 2005 Fox, A Smith, David Rickett, Alice: 2012 Worsnip, Alex: 2005 Gardam, Timothy Snell, Catherine Ridley, Matthew: 2011 Wright, Andrew: 2012 Garwood, Lynne Sparrowhawk, Zoe Roelofse, Chantelle: 2011 Wu, Kim: 2007 Greaney, Andrea Spencer, Neil Rosenbaum, Ben: 2011 Wynbourne, Sarah: 2006 Greaney, Declan Stafford, Jane Royal, David: 2007 Xi, Karen: 2012 Greszczuk, Jill Stevenson, Olive Sammour, Roweida: 2011 Yao, Phil: 2013 Grove Annesley, Jane Stockwell, Peter Saribekyan, Lily: 2014 Yin, Ying Xu: 2006 Havell, Jane Tobin, Benjamin Scholten, Annette: 2014 Hooper, David Traynor, Andrew Scholz, Anna: 2005 Total given: £11,189 Huen, Isabel Tucker, Alison Scott, Rebecca: 2010 Huen, Patrick Weekes, Edla Selby, Andrew: 2012 Friends Ip, Fung-Ho Weinberg, Bradley Seligman, Henrietta: 2006 Adams, Jonathan Jackson, William Willetts, David Seo, Jordan: 2011 Ahmed, Shadaba Jardine, Ruth Wood, John Shah, Rehan: 2014 Archer, Andrea Kelly, Margaret Yeoh, Seok Sheldrake, Lydia: 2014 Argyle, William Keymer, Thomas Shelley, Felicity: 2006 Armstrong, Ben Khng, Pauline Organisations and charitable trusts Shuai, Xing: 2014 Ball, David Kynaston, David Allen & Overy LLP - London Simpson, Emma: 2012 Bates, Chris Levy, Marcia Americans for Oxford Interest Account Smith, Barry: 2005 Belton, Kevin Lewis, David Atkin Charitable Foundation Smith, Hannah: 2011 Bispham, David Lloyd, John British Land Company Plc Smith, Michael: 2014 Black, Hilary Macdonald, Muir Contemporary Watercolours Snow, Evelyn: 2012 Blackwood, Roger Marriott, Robert Dr Stanley Ho Medical Development Sordo-De Cock, Liviana: 2012 Blyghton, Alan Martin, Ralph Foundation Stephens, Anna: 2011 Brunton, Timothy McCall, Marsh Emile Littler Foundation Stockwell, Paddy: 2011 Bugnion, Janie McCall, Susan Kirow Ardelt GmbH Stone, Joseph: 2012 Caple, Leslie McDevitt, Joseph Mayer Brown LLP - London Suchett-Kaye, Ivo: 2006 Carey, Helen McKernan, Anne SAS Cambridge Branch Suguna Balan, Rabin: 2011 Carpiac, Taras Morgan, Huw SAS Oxford Branch Sulzer, Valentin: 2011 Carr, Simon Palley, Simon Tsuzuki University Sun, Aaron: 2014 Cavaliero, Roderick Patel, Rajendrakijmar Wolfson Foundation Taylor, Eleanor: 2008 Chachamu, Miriam Pattisson, John Thompson, Amy: 2007 Chitty, Geraldine Plaat, Felicity Legacy gifts Thornton, Mariah: 2011 Collin, Martyn Pointing, Liz Brew (Hutton), Anne: 1934 Toenshoff, Christina: 2012 Constantine, Simon Preuss, Andreas Caine (Temple), Pam: 1950 Tyler, Naomi: 2011 Cooling, John Pyle, David Clark, Ailsa: 1944 Unadkat, Jay: 2007 Cunningham, Martin Ramsey, Vivian Colvile (Watson), Anne: 1938 Uttley, Mark: 2010 Cutting, Geraldine Richards, Derek Edwards, Hilary: 1945 Van Den Bogaerde, Laura: 2011 Dallison, Rose Roberts, David Horsfall, Jean: 1942 Walkey, Claire: 2014 Davy, Kate Roberts, Timothy Lang, Margaret: 1944 Walsh, Alison: 2011 Deech, John Robin, Philip Marsland, Pauline: 1947 Wang, Xining: 2012 Dipstale, Francis Rossotti, Hazel Monroe (Burgess), Joan: 1941 Ward, Nick: 2006 Dixon, Sheila Royle, Kenneth Mottershead, Hester: 1941 Whitehead, Lucy: 2011 Donohoe, Bernadette Russell, Libby Pawley (Herbertson), Margaret: 1948 Widdows, Ryan: 2011 Earl, Stuart Sayers, Nicholas Rossi, Marie-Louise: 1975 Wilkinson, Honor: 2014 Egan, John Scott, Jon Stevenson, Olive: 1949 Williams, Jonathan: 2010 Firth, Carole Shelley, Susan Wood, Peter: 2005 Fleming, Mark Shepherd, Neil

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Greenway (Denerley), Ann: 1959 Orr (Stones), Joy: 1944 Wright, Lynne: 1970 Plumer Society Grocock, Anne: 1965 Orsten, Elisabeth: 1953 Yates (Crawshaw), Sue: 1967 The Plumer Society has been Halcrow, Elizabeth: 1948 O’Sullivan, Helen: 1969 Young (Tucker), Margaret: 1949 founded to acknowledge and thank Hale, Barbara: 1948 Packer (Sellick), Sally: 1964 those who inform the College of Hall, Kathleen: 1941 Pattisson, John *Delia Twamley is leaving a legacy to St their decision to include a gift to St Hallaway, Mary: 1950 Paul, Helen: 1994 Anne’s College from her late mother’s Anne’s in their will. Some members Hamilton (Pacey-Day), Susan: 1965 Perriam (Brech), Wendy: 1958 estate (Phyllis Wray-Bliss, 1920). have asked not to be listed. Hampton, Kate: 1977 Pickles (Wilson), Jane: 1953 Hensman (Hawley), Barbara: 1956 Pomfret (Pearson), Carole: 1979 Library donations Alphey, Nina: 2005 Hilton, Catherine: 1965 Preston (Haygarth), Barbara: 1957 Gifts of their own work have been Baker (Gibbon), Ruth: 1955 Home, Anna: 1956 Revill (Radford), Ann: 1955 received from David Banister, Denise Bannister (Taylor), Jean: 1958 Honoré (Duncan), Deborah: 1948 Robinson, Crispin: 1979 Bates, Liz Cashdan, Javier Cercas, Beeby, Valerie: 1952 Hudson, Julie: 1975 Rowe, Barbara: 1942 Catherine Chanter, Marion Folkes, Belden, Hilary: 1966 Hunt (Siddell), Ann: 1963 Sheather (Hall), Judith: 1962 Peter Ghosh, Valentina Gosetti, Todd Bennett, Eric Huzzey, Clem Shenton, Joan: 1961 H. Hall, Gerladine Hazbun, Rebecca Blake (Condon), Richard: 1980 Huzzey, Christine Simon (Holmes), Jane: 1973 Henderson, Viola Ho, Matthew Leigh, Boggis, Margaret: 1940 Hyde, Caroline: 1988 Skelton, Judy: 1965 Nora Martin, Nick Middleton, Andrew Breward, Christopher: 1991 Jack, Susan: 1970 Speirs (Fox), Christine: 1947 O’Mahony, Anne M. Scott, Ann Burton (Heveningham Pughe), Frances: Jarman, Richard: 1989 Spokes Symonds (Spokes), Ann: 1944 Spokes Symonds 1960 Jessiman (Smith), Maureen: 1953 Stanton (Beech), Mandy: 1981 Burtt (Waite), Audrey: 1942 Johnstone, Harry Stoddart (Devereux), Frances: 1955 Other gifts have been received from Bush (Hainton), Julia: 1967 Jones (Smith), Elizabeth: 1962 Tayeb, Monir: 1976 Tahra Abdelmutaal, Jane Annesley in Bynoe (Robinson), Geraldine: 1969 Julian (Whitworth), Celia: 1964 Thirlwell (Goldman), Angela: 1966 memory of her mother Clare Veronica Carter (Palmer), Elise: 1942 Kenna (Hamilton), Stephanie: 1968 Thompson, Jean: 1942 Holder, Rebecca Armstrong-Benson, Chadd, Linda: 1967 King, Fiona: 1980 Thurlow (Yarker), Molly: 1949 Tamuz Avivi, Jacob Cable, Roger Chesterfield, Jane: 1977 Kingdon, Janet: 1976 Tindall-Shepherd (Dunn), Wendy: 1963 Crisp, Paul Donovan, Joseph Fell, Colling, Mike: 1979 Kirk-Wilson (Matthews), Ruth: 1963 Tjoa (Chinn), Carole: 1965 Peter Ghosh, Valentina Gosetti, Todd Coo (Spink), Kathryn: 1972 Lacey (Aykroyd), Juliet: 1962 Tricker (Poole), Marilyn: 1964 Hall, Abhishek Kamat, Andrew Klevan, Cosh, Mary: 1946 Larkins (Rees), Fay: 1953 Turner (Griffiths), Clare: 1986 Matthew Leigh, Colm O’Dwyer, Cox (Ware), Frances: 1968 Lawless (Freeston), Sally: 1971 Twamley, Delia* Rosemary Pountney, Michael Prinzing, Cragoe (Elmer), Elizabeth: 1950 Lewis, Keri: 1947 Wagner, Rosemary: 1964 Michal Przykucki, Ruiqi Shi, Bernice Crane (Begley), Meg: 1965 Lloyd, Peter: 1983 Walter (Chipperfield), Christina: 1954 So, Susie Thomson (from the estate of Darnton (Baker), Jane: 1962 Lunn, Fiona: 1977 Wells (Lehmann), Yvonne: 1944 her aunt, Doris (Elisabeth) Strevens), Deech (Fraenkel), Ruth: 1962 Magne (Lisicky), Vera: 1956 Wheeler, Heather: 1958 Timea Venter, Virginia Programme Donald, Margaret: 1950 Mann, Paul: 1988 Whitby (Field), Joy: 1949 at Oxford, Kate Watkins, Worada Dowdall, Deb: 974 Marks, Winifred: 1944 Willetts (Ferreras), Maria: 1974 Wayrojpitak. Dyne (Heath), Sonia: 1953 Massey (Glaser), Lili: 1967 Evans (Trevithick), Elaine: 953 McDonnell (Phillips), Marie-Louise: 1971 Evans (Kruse), Lesley: 1962 McEwan (Ogilvy), Lindsay: 1940 Legacies Fisher (Hibbard), Sophia: 1966 Moore (Slocombe), Anne: 1955 Fleming (Newman), Joan: 1957 Mottershead (Roberts), Ann: 1977 Leaving a gift in your will gives you the opportunity to make a lasting Flint (Parker), Joy: 1942 Moughton (Parr), Elizabeth: 1951 impact and help to provide vital funding for the College. The Plumer Foreman (Kremer), Susan: 1957 Munro, Rob: 1982 Society is founded to acknowledge those who inform us of their Murdin (Milburn), Lesley: 1961 Forster, Helen: 1946 decision to make a bequest to St Anne’s. Members will be invited to Fowler (Burley), Elizabeth: 1957 Newlands (Raworth), Elizabeth: 1960 Fox, Clemency: 1956 Newton (Little), Clare: 1970 a Plumer Society event every two years, which allows us to thank our Frank (Hoar), Tessa: 1951 Nixon, Gill legators for their commitment. If you would like further information Glynne, Dilys: 1948 O’Donnell, Claire: 1977 about legacies, please contact [email protected]. O’Flynn (Brewster), Hazel: 1946

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