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Chris Church Matters the HOUSE in a PANDEMIC YEAR Christ Church Matters 45 a HILARY TERM 2021 | Section 45 Chris Church Matters THE HOUSE IN A PANDEMIC YEAR Christ Church Matters 45 a HILARY TERM 2021 | CCM Section Editorial To mark a year which none of us will forget, this special edition of Christ Church Chris Church Matters draws together reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic from across the Development Christ Church community. It explores its impact in a variety of disciplines – around and Alumni Office the UK and abroad – and considers how life has changed both for those living, Christ Church working, studying and researching in the House over the last year, and alumni Oxford OX1 1DP United Kingdom members across the globe. We, as a community, can feel proud of the ground- +44 (0)1865-286325 breaking global contribution that researchers at the University of Oxford have development.office made in response to this crisis. @chch.ox.ac.uk www.chch.ox.ac.uk We are grateful to our contributors for sharing their expertise, reflections, and personal experiences. We have only been able to include a selection of contributions here, although every submission will be archived, or, alternatively, may be used in the regular e-Matters newsletters. CCM is not intended as a record of news, but brings an eclectic mix of experiences and thoughts. The Annual Report, of course, is the House’s chronicle. As Members will appreciate, the last twelve months have been particularly challenging for those pursuing their studies at the House. The Covid-19 Student Support Fund offers alumni the opportunity to support current Members who are faced with unforeseen costs because of the pandemic. It also helps to finance Opposite: Tom Tower those changes required to make College buildings ‘Covid-19 secure’. We are hugely illuminated in blue appreciative to those who have already contributed towards this Fund – and we in tribute to all frontline NHS workers. would be delighted to hear from anyone who feels able to offer their support. Photo by Steve Brown Valediction I think Dante was my age when he said Days drop from the calendar, and the press from the crossroads of his desk doesn’t roar as it churns out the news any more. that he found himself in a dark wood It just hums, and we tune in, more or less – you might call it Dantesque: immune to the shocks: twenty four his wood was common or garden bosk schoolkids on some shore and the shadows were – the kind of shadows at a jamboree, swept off by a breaker that clot between branches at dusk – lives and hearts and GDP hit the floor, where things hide. still we wait for the bright I was fitter than Dante when, out for a run, coin that’s owed us, the glint of an end Claudia Daventry I stopped by a badger who lay on the road to this, to all this – to the florist’s wreaths (1983, Modern Languages) with her lower jaw mangled: her tongue that say Paula, Joey, Nana, Charlie, Ben, and her mouth were a mess. She was dead the candles, the chorister’s cheekbones and her sleek humbug head and Ave Maria. If I could start again had collapsed, as it would, on the impact of steel. I would begin by saying adieu She’d been scuffling home, taking food every day to everyone I love – then – her teeth were small. I would be less afraid to lose you.. Christ Church Matters 45 | 1 Contents HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE An unexpected gift of time Jacqueline Thalmann, The plagues of Oxford Curator of the Picture Gallery 26 Judith Curthoys, Archivist 4 The Gardens of Christ Church John James, Head Gardener 28 THE CHRIST CHURCH COMMUNITY How ‘life found a way’ The view from Tom 8: censorial Oliver Karnbach 30 perspectives onthe pandemic Professor Geraldine Johnson 2020 – not the year I expected Senior Censor 7 Layla Stahr 31 Steward’s report ‘Unprecedented’: a graduate Pauline Linières-Hartley, Steward 9 fresher’s reflection Emilé Radyté 32 Life within the walls of Christ Church during the national lockdown Trying to conduct ‘business as usual’ Steve Brown, Clerk of Works 12 Darian Murray-Griffiths 33 In praise of Jasper Mayne Undergrad welfare – Sam Lane 34 Revd Canon Richard Peers, Sub Dean 14 The challenges of lockdown Services as usual Eoin Simpkins 35 Steven Grahl, Organist and Tutor in Music 17 SCIENCE & HEALTH Music at Christ Church during the pandemic Working as the world watches Dr Jonathan Cross, Student and Tutor Professor Sarah Gilbert 37 in Music 19 Building diagnostic capacity and On the joy of Teams mapping the spread of the virus Dr Anna Clark, Student and Tutor Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones 40 in Roman History 21 Mathematical modelling during The Art Room in lockdown the Covid-19 pandemic Peter Rhoades, Fine Art Tutor 22 Dr Robin Thompson 42 Christ Church’s finances The pandemic and public health: and the pandemic a year of 100+ hour weeks James Lawrie, Treasurer 23 Ruth Tennant 44 The Library in the pandemic The race for a vaccine Judith Curthoys, Library Manager 24 Kate Bingham 46 Whose health is it anyway? Dr Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard 47 2 | Christ Church Matters 45 Contents Contents EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL POSTCARDS FROM... CCCS in lockdown – Richard Murray 49 Politicized Pandemic – Kate Teale 65 Blended learning at MCS Maskless in Washington Helen Pike 50 Gary O’Donoghue 68 Teaching during a pandemic A Covid-19 letter from America Rebecca Ling 52 Dr Avi Spier 70 Brixton House – Darryl de Prez 53 Notes from Berlin Dr Benjamin Ullrich 71 Dichotomies in Corona times POLITICS & MEDIA André Andersson 72 Keeping the nation informed Experiencing the virus first hand Hugh Pym 55 Max Johnson 75 We are capable of being a better Covid-proofing the arts in Hong Kong community than we were Eugene Birman 77 Lord Michael Dobbs 56 2020 – a challenging year in Beirut A tumultuous first year in Parliament Dr Hadi Maktabi 78 Felicity Buchan 57 Relative normality in the land Notes from a civil servant of the long white cloud in Whitehall Haydn Rawstron 80 Anonymous 58 Acknowledgements The editors of CCM 45 are Dr Anna Port ECONOMY & TECHNOLOGY and Simon Offen. With thanks to the following for their contribution of James Reed’s Labour Market Review photographs for this edition of Christ Church Matters: James Reed 60 Steve Brown, Tino Chiwariro, Garry Chung, Jim Godfrey, John James, Micah MacKay, Hugh Warwick and Revd Ralph Williamson. The impact of Covid-19 on the graduate job market CCM online… To help reduce the impact printing and mailing Lord David Willetts 61 Christ Church Matters has on the environment, we ask subscribers to consider opting for reading the latest Technology to the rescue? edition online at: LJ Rich 62 www.chch.ox.ac.uk/alumni/christ-church-matters-1. If you are interested in supporting this initiative, please contact: [email protected]. Researching the potential of Solid Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee 63 Follow us on Twitter: @ChCh_Oxford and Facebook: www.facebook.com/chchoxford. Cover image: © Revd Ralph Williamson Design and layout: Baseline Arts Ltd, Oxford. Printed by Holywell Press, Oxford. Christ Church Matters 45 | 3 Historical perspectives The plagues of Oxford Judith Curthoys Archivist and Data Protection Compliance Manager It seems astonishing that it is a year since we were first a time when some sort of disease – including influenza, following the news of the passage of coronavirus from China typhoid, and malaria – wasn’t raging across the country and and other countries of the Far East into India and Europe. particularly in the cities. Medieval and later monarchs would In the modern era, we don’t expect to see disease rage across leave London when things were especially bad, taking refuge wealthy western nations, but it has happened frequently in country houses. throughout history up to the present day. The Black Death came to Oxford in November 1348, five We all remember learning about the really big outbreaks months after it had arrived on our shores at Weymouth. It is of bubonic and pneumonic plagues in 1348 and 1349 (the probably no coincidence that a guild of barber-surgeons was Black Death) and in 1665 but, in reality, there was rarely incorporated in Oxford that year and maintained a light in 4 | Christ Church Matters 45 Historical perspectives the Lady Chapel. Oxford suffered particularly in the early adviser in the City of London during the outbreak, who months of 1349 but St Frideswide’s priory, and the other recommended the isolation of the sick and of those who monastic institutions, fared better than most. The residents had been in contact with them, and cleanliness. He also were better-fed and so healthier and, of course, could easily suggested the consumption of sack – or sherry – to draw shut themselves off from the town. Even today, that ability out infection! to be able to retreat behind the gates and operate almost as a closed community has stood us in good stead. Another disease hit Oxford in the mid-nineteenth century – cholera. In July 1832 after forty people had lost their lives, One dangerous ‘plague’ that spread almost exclusively there was a tremendous hue-and-cry over the disgusting within the United Kingdom was the much-feared stream which emptied itself into the Thames at Folly Bridge. ‘sweating sickness’ which spread around the country – This was, of course, the Trill Mill Stream, which ran round apparently affecting young wealthy gentlemen in rural two sides of the worst-affected areas – the parishes of St surroundings more than anyone. It first appeared in 1485 Ebbes and St Aldates – before making its way down the west and disappeared in 1551 but not before it had caused huge side of the Meadow to the river.
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