St Anne’s College Record 2016 – 2017 • Number 106 • Annual Publication of the St Anne’s Society The Ship 2016 – 2017

St Anne’s College University of Oxford The Ship 2016 – 2017  @StAnnesCollege  @StAnnesCollege St Anne’s College St Anne’s Road Woodstock Oxford OX2 6HS +44 (0) 1865 274800 [email protected] www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk charity number: 1142660 Registered It’s been a turbulent year since the last issue of the last year since a turbulent been It’s referendum of the EU result : the shock The Ship the in the UK; election unexpected and an elections in presidential of result unexpected of Europe divisive impact across the USA; the War exodus since World refugee the biggest intolerance – religious of II; and the growth attacks from cause of terrorist the underlying reaches and London to the further Manchester Africa. of the Middle East and reflected in the pages of this will find all this You a positive and, of more issue. And a good deal British passion the I hope, entertaining nature: our enduring for our amazing built heritage, reminder fiction; a stirring fascination with crime alongside a vision for its of our College history Principal; and a celebration our new from future long-awaited new library. of the opening of our WithAll this and more. the certain knowledge myself, I marvel every year that I am repeating at the range and engagement of our alumnae may not have succeeded the world. We across President from in getting a comment direct Oval Office, but the inimitable Alex, as Trump’s on the changing face always, has the last word of the student world. I cannot thank all our distinguished contributors enough for taking the time to make this latest is There issue of The Ship an essential read. but don’t to list everything, not the space here Column, nor the miss out on an unusual Careers to inspirational Donor Column. My thanks, too, time to the who have given busy College staff, issue and, as always, to the indefatigable Kate whom Davy in the Development Office, without would be no magazine. there St Anne’s College St Anne’s College

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Contents

From the Editor – Judith Vidal-Hall 2 Gaudy Seminar: Our built heritage 59 From the SAS President – Hugh Sutherland 3 The many faces of heritage – Helen Ghosh 59 From the Principal – Helen King 5 Millstones into gems – Caroline Stanford 60 Mending our connections – Liane Hartley 63 From the Librarian – Clare White 8 Archaeology from the air – Michael Fradley 66 The roof garden – Laura Mackenzie 10 In Trump’s America: On the slow train – Penelope Farmer 69 Founding Fellows’ Lecture – Keith Priest 12 SAS regional branch reports 73 From the Development Office 16 From the JCR 80 From the Senior Tutor 18 From the MCR 81 Founders’ Dinner Speech – Ruth Deech 20 Finals results 2016 82 Profile: Sarah Ntiro – Brian Magoba 24 Graduate degrees 2016 83 Refugees: The Price of Compassion 26 Governing Body 84 A Country of Refuge – Lucy Popescu 27 Fellows: news, honours and appointments 85 Campsfield Refugees – Helen Salisbury 28 Alice in Space Inappropriate Staring – AL Kennedy 30 Gillian Beer on – Claire Armitstead 87 The Colour of Pomegranates – Roma Tearne 32 Alumnae: news, honours and publications 91 34 Homes for Refugees – Penelope Farmer Obituaries 96 Brexit: the priorities for Oxford – Stephen Rouse 36 - Anne Badenoch 97 Russell Taylor Column 38 - Mary Campbell 97 - Catherine Erskine 98 Donor Column: Knowing what to do – Robert Gardner 41 - Sylvia Hawkes 99 Careers: Decision time – David Langer 43 - Victoria Fairbairns Schankula 101 Poetry for our times – Tom Chivers 46 - Janet Newson 102 - Gina Pollinger 103 Oxford Letter – Elisabeth Salisbury 48 - Joyce Pollon 104 Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2017 49 - Memorial tribute Rosemary Pountney 105 - Ann Taylor 107 Devaki Jain Lecture – Noeleen Heyzer 51 - Stephen Tindale 108 Translating crime fiction – Siân Reynolds 57 Thank you to donors 110

www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 1 From the Editor

Look to the future JUDITH VIDAL-HALL

It’s been a turbulent year out there, over the four days it takes to cover just one Gaudy Seminar; awed by the wit and but with a new Principal and the new journey across the vast and varied wilds of wisdom of Gillian Beer on Lewis Carroll’s Library finally completed, things look the US. Alice in Wonderland; and charmed by Ruth set fair in College Deech at her best defending the principles But our main feature is dedicated to of free speech and the independence of the The year since our last issue of The Ship refugees. In November, ‘The Price of university against the various grabs on its has seen a number of issues come to Compassion’ saw writers, academics, integrity by students and government alike. dominate the media and consume our musicians and medics gather in the Mary attention. Forget the extraordinary results Ogilvie Lecture Theatre to express their And in addition to all our regular features of the recent UK election for now and concern over the treatment of refugees there is more, including the pains – but consider just three: the referendum on the and migrants in the UK, and the hope that mostly pleasures – of translating that most EU and the implications of the vote in favour we might recover some of the compassion enduring of all genres, crime fiction; the of Brexit, the global ramifications of the that had seen the UK welcome refugees ‘rediscovery’ of a 650-year-old poem’s election of Donald Trump in the USA and in the past. The event was inspired by relevance to our current political dilemmas; the bitter debate on the ‘floods’ of refugees Lucy Popescu’s A Country of Refuge, and an illuminating piece on ‘restoring a arriving in Europe. The first two continue to a rich collection of fiction, memoir and sense of place’ from the architect of our preoccupy attention to the detriment of the reminiscence that reminds us of that past new building. Plus an exciting and different last, even though this is the biggest refugee and looks to the present situation. careers column, and a donor with a very crisis since World War II and despite the particular passion. Not forgetting our most And there have been important fact that the boats with their human cargoes popular regular, Alex, courtesy of Russell developments over the past 12 months have seen a record number of deaths so far Taylor. closer to home: the arrival of a new Principal this year. with an unusual – for an Oxford head of As always, I am hugely grateful to all our All of the above are represented in the house – background, and the revelation contributors who have generously given pages that follow. The impact of Brexit of the delights of the new Library, both of their time to make The Ship such a good on UK universities is seldom included in which feature here. read. My thanks, too, to Kate Davy in the the increasingly polarized debate on the Development Office for doing the really We are also introduced to the second subject. Alistair Buchan, the University’s hard part of this job. Without all of you, Devaki Jain lecturer, Noeleen Heyzer, former new Head of Brexit Strategy, weighs the none of this would have been possible. You Under-Secretary-General of the United pros and cons of its consequences for continue to ensure we have the most lively Nations, who looks at making the world Oxford in a carefully balanced piece. We college magazine in the University. a better place for women; challenged to have an unusual view on Trump’s America define what we really mean by ‘Heritage’ Judith Vidal-Hall (Bunting 1957) from the observation car of an Amtrak train and how we plan to deal with it in the

2 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk From the SAS President

Bringing it all back home HUGH SUTHERLAND

Taking his cue from life at St Anne’s, as students, alumnae, researchers and our new SAS President looks at teachers. It’s only when the going gets the virtues of healing social and tough that we find the will to engage in generational divides in our society the struggle to overcome the divisions thrown up in our society and take a stand One purpose of an Oxford college is to against the people who seek to exploit help people cross the barriers that divide them. Becoming aware of social divisions them: academic specialism, theoretical is, after all, a significant discovery: an camp, geographical location, social opportunity to reconcile conflicting background, language, nation, belief. interests and find a resolution that Universities have enjoyed and extolled the enlightens and benefits those who were benefits of a global approach to human otherwise opposed. endeavour, seeing exponential growth in human knowledge, its dissemination One division, which has become apparent and use. The frontier of potential further in the political dimension, is that between gains has expanded. We are privileged to generations. In a recent Gaudy Seminar, participate in an institution which works ‘Are the old unfair to the young?’ (The every day to remove barriers, going round, Ship 2015-2016), in his talk ‘Time to over or through them, enabling people to share the assets’, David Willetts set access knowledge and opportunity: to out some of the intimidating challenges realise that potential. presented by the demographic changes in our society. Voting in national elections It would seem that two of the constraints has started to become polarized between on this academic project are the ability to St Anne’s know that these issues can young and old. The interests of old people communicate to a wider public the scale be resolved and we can all be richer who need care, the economically active and nature of the rewards at stake, and for it. The academy is explicitly the retirees, the asset rich, conflict with the to be able to share them equitably across place where wisdom is passed from aspirant young, waiting ever longer to society. As we have failed to address the old to the young. The process of begin their adult lives, either in work or at those issues, we have seen a backlash teaching conditions and improves the leisure. against globalization, initiating a period of understanding of the tutor. By binding reaction, suspicion and recrimination. I hope we are too sensible to let these members of the College into a lasting conflicts really divide us. People lucky community, the SAS is one way in Perhaps it takes a period of reverse and enough to be part of communities like which we can extend our participation loss to remind us of the worth of our role

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throughout our lives beyond the all too provide it. Since our history is so short, settlement as a result of the new Library. brief years we are students. Let’s reach we are fortunate in being able to meet The leadership of the College goes out across the generations to learn from some of those people who helped to literally from strength to strength: from the each other and resolve the conflicts that make St Anne’s what it is now. One departure of Tim Gardam to the arrival of might otherwise leave us isolated and generation of formidable alumnae passes Helen King. With this backdrop, we are impoverished. the baton to the next. How shall we be lucky to have the opportunity to pause described when our time comes? for a moment and reflect on what sort of While we are a relatively young institution, community we would like St Anne’s to the principles and values it embodies The title of ‘President’ has lost some of be in the future. I hope the members of are increasingly relevant to Oxford and its sheen in recent months. Fortunately, the St Anne’s Society will contribute their society as a whole. St Anne’s came the role is a continuing delight, and I experiences, insights and views to that about and prospered as much because would like to thank my committee and question over the coming year. of the determination of its students to the College staff for their support and gain an education as through the formal hard work. St Anne’s as a physical place Hugh Sutherland (1983) foundation of the Governing Body to now has a sense of completion and

4 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk From the Principal

Why would St Anne’s appoint a police officer? HELEN KING

A good question and one that many of being in care or in prison as they do Our academic and support staff also may have asked of the College’s latest of going to university. Policing has been come under increasing demands. The appointment. But one to which our working hard to become a more accurate uncertainties around Brexit have a new Principal has some persuasive reflection of the communities it serves and particular resonance given the international answers as well as exciting plans for the lessons police forces have learnt have nature of College. The pressures on the future direct and indirect application to outreach police officers and staff are different but and admissions. I have personal insight my experience of managing people (in If you look down the handy Wikipedia list into the social as well as educational and one role over 20,000 of them) means of Oxford Heads of House (the generic financial barriers ordinary young people that I know the importance of having a term for Colleges’ Principals, Masters, face before they even apply for a place supportive environment to help cope with Presidents, Provosts and Rectors), you’ll at Oxford and, with our Governing Body, professional and personal challenges. This note the numbers of eminent academics, I am determined to work to address the is why I have started my first term at St lawyers and journalists/media executives. on-going reality that even when applicants Anne’s by launching a wellbeing initiative Until now there has never been a retired with non-traditional Oxford backgrounds entitled Be Well, Do Well with the goal of Police Officer on the list, so what on apply to study here, they are still less likely encouraging everyone here to look after earth was the St Anne’s Governing Body to secure or take up a place. their physical and mental health, thus thinking of when it elected me? building the personal resilience that will From the outside Oxford looks a halcyon Of course no one should be surprised help them enjoy their time at university place. If you are brutally honest when you that it was St Anne’s rather than another and also stand them in good stead for life scour your memories of being here, you College that took this step. Throughout afterwards. may also remember academic pressures our history we have been a College and feelings of social anxiety. St Anne’s is Some may believe that the role of the that has never been afraid to do things a supportive community but our students, College and University is solely to focus differently and to take bold decisions. like those elsewhere, do worry about the on developing academic excellence in We pride ourselves on being down to debt they are accumulating and about our students during their time here, and earth, open minded, outward and forward securing internships and employment this will always be the central purpose. looking. alongside the essay crises and exams. However, I believe that we also owe it to In fact, with our determination to ensure This is exacerbated when individuals also students to encourage them to develop young people from all classes, regions, have health concerns, difficulties at home their personal and professional skills races and types of school access an or indeed no home or family support to fall and thinking, helping them choose and Oxford education, it’s useful that I have back on. The need for student welfare and then succeed in their future careers. worked amongst those communities mental health support continues to grow. Our graduates go on to instigate and where young people have as much chance effect change across a huge range of

www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 5 From the Principal

organizations, sectors, communities and intend, with the support of other alumnae, acquire a lot of experience of working countries. We sell them and society short if to use this employers’ perspective to help with experts from different professional they’re not given every opportunity to think our students demonstrate that it’s not just backgrounds. I’ve learnt to be very broadly about where they want to apply their academic achievements but also comfortable chairing meetings where I their talents and to what ends. Oxford the personal qualities they’ve developed am the least expert person in the room, has a remarkable Careers Service (which through their sporting, cultural, social or ensuring challenges from large chemical is available to all graduates throughout volunteering experience that make them leaks, public space arts events, terrorist their lives). This, careers fairs and talks, employees of choice. threats, IT system roll-outs to moving and College supported internships, work out of New Scotland Yard are dealt with So what else might a police officer bring to experience and incubators should provide effectively and in a coordinated way. I feel the role of Principal? students with every opportunity to think hugely fortunate at the expert support widely about the areas and roles they want Well, senior police officers, like any that St Anne’s has in place and the good to work in, whether that’s in employment, other senior managers, develop skills in will and motivation shown by staff and further study or as entrepreneurs. I also managing people, budgets, buildings, advisors that make the role of Principal have significant experience in designing, events, technology, communications, so much easier, especially in the areas assessing and interviewing for jobs, and structural and cultural change. They also where my knowledge is currently lacking.

Helen King became a Police Constable role in Liverpool’s year as European Capital in the Cheshire Constabulary after of Culture, as well as firearms, public order graduating in 1986. She worked her and counter-terrorism operations. She also way up through the ranks in Cheshire, chaired almost all misconduct panels. After in uniform and detective roles. As well two years back in Cheshire as the Deputy as time on the beat and responding to Chief Constable, Helen was promoted in incidents, she also led serious crime 2014 to Assistant Commissioner in the investigations including murders, was a Metropolitan Police Service responsible firearms incident commander and for three for policing across London’s 32 Boroughs, years was Borough Commander of Halton Roads and Transport Policing and Criminal (Runcorn and Widnes). As a Detective Justice. Her last role, before retiring to Chief Superintendent she was Head of become St Anne’s Principal, was Assistant the Professional Standards Department Commissioner for Professionalism. when the Independent Police Complaints This included responsibility for Training, Commission was established and Professional Standards, Counter contributed to their first set of statutory Corruption and the Met response to a guidance. In 2005 she took up the role of number of Inquiries including the Under Assistant Chief Constable in Merseyside Cover Policing Inquiry. Police. In her time there she led the Force’s

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and purpose to the College’s people. I feel humbled to be entrusted with the baton carried by the previous Principals of St Anne’s. The College’s motto, consulto et audacter, means purposefully and boldly. In the coming months I will be seeking to involve all those whose lives have been shaped by St Anne’s in defining and focusing our ambitions for the College for 2025 and, with Governing Body support, boldly pursuing those ambitions.

I hope that all those who read The Ship will contribute to what we are calling the St Natasha Ryan receives a ‘Stanner of the Term’ award from Helen King Anne’s 2025 Conversation so we get the I’m particularly grateful for the support and responsible for their decision-making and broadest range of views and ideas about advice so generously and graciously given actions. They largely also do their work the College’s future. At the core of the in a voluntary capacity by already busy in public places out of direct view of their Conversation is the question ‘What would professionals for the good of the College. supervisors and are, in effect, independent St Anne’s need to be and to be doing practitioners. In character they tend also to Some have expressed the view that an in 2025 for you to be overwhelmed with share with academics the quality of being Oxford college must be a very different pride at its achievements and reputation?’ independent thinkers. So my experience culture from the ‘command and control’ We want to build on the College’s history is that, outside of an emergency situation, environment of policing. Of course they are of being at the forefront of change and behaviour is directed more effectively right that ‘command and control’ would our values of being forward and outward through consultation, evidence, discussion, be a disastrous and demeaning style to looking. There will be lots of opportunities education, persuasion and monitoring take into chairing College’s Governing to join in this Conversation over the rest of than it is through a reliance on issuing Body, which is a democratic decision- 2017, including at SAS Branch meetings instructions or orders. I also know that the making body. Even the appointment of the and at the Gaudy Weekend, as well as most impact often comes from initiatives Principal is determined by a vote. However, online. Please do play a part in setting our designed and implemented by those on what this view misunderstands is that direction of travel (see p.17). the front line. ‘command and control’, even in policing, Thank you for your support, good wishes is largely an illusion. Police officers may So I won’t be turning the quad into a drill and interest so far and I look forward to wear epaulettes displaying their rank and square, but I hope I can bring new ideas meeting many more of you and hearing senior officers are still generally addressed and diverse people and perspectives your ideas. as ‘Ma’am’, ‘Sir’, ‘Boss’ or ‘Guv’, but the into St Anne’s, while providing support, law requires that officers are individually guidance and a strong sense of community Helen King (1983) Principal

www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 7 From the Librarian

The new Library: up and running CLARE WHITE

Complete with Lego, jigsaw puzzles have moved are mainly the social sciences, students spilled out from the reading rooms and colouring books, not to mention sciences and medicine, which previously into the seminar and outreach rooms; 1,100 metres of books and journals, the occupied the ground floor of the old Library. and the JCR clamoured for changes to new Library finally comes into its own The majority of the arts and humanities our system for leaving books on desks books remain in Hartland House, along with overnight because every reader space was Much has been written about the new law, which retains its home in the Geldart permanently full. Library and Academic Centre in recent Room. At the same time as the books, issues of The Ship and this year has seen Yet the new building has provided much the first ‘Academic Centre’ element of the close of one chapter as the building more than study spaces and room for the building’s title also moved in, with the was completed and the start of a new one our growing collections. It has given us Centre for Personalised Medicine and the as the building opened for use and started space to change the way we work as a research programme Oxford Comparative to become an integral part of College life. College and strengthened our links with Criticism and Translation taking up other colleges and departments across the Admittedly, there were times when we residency on the top floor. University. Early in Trinity term we ran our thought that it was never going to be The new Library opened for students in first workshop in the Library for our second finished. Unexpected delays in the final January and has proved to be every bit as year historians to help them find and stages of the build saw provisionally popular with them as we hoped it would. manage resources for their dissertations. booked dates for the Big Book Move Indeed, our first student through the door – As the exam season approached, the come and go. Then finally, towards the an international undergraduate who came library staff set up a ‘relaxation zone’ end of November, we reached ‘practical to the Library straight from the airport after complete with Lego, jigsaw puzzles and completion’ and the new building was a trip home for Christmas – has used the colouring books so that stressed students officially handed over to the College. same desk almost daily for the remainder could take a break and clear their minds for One week later, as the students vacated of the year, the neatly stacked books and a few minutes without leaving the building. the ‘old’ library for the Christmas files ever increasing as Finals approached. Our postgraduates have started to hold break, the book removal firm took over. Seeing the students take ownership of the ‘Shut up and Write’ sessions where they ‘Practical completion’ did not include a space has been one of the greatest delights meet together in the group study rooms fully-functioning lift, yet undeterred the of opening the new building. Within the or seminar rooms to work on writing their intrepid team carried the linear equivalent first few weeks there were groups revising theses and overcome the isolation felt of 1,100m of books and journals from together for Collections in the collaborative by many doctoral students. When the Hartland House into reading rooms spread study rooms; in the evenings there were Psychology Faculty was suddenly evicted over three floors in the new Library. It took rows of shoes lined up underneath the from its building due to asbestos we five days, over 700 crates and a small large comfy pod chairs as the owners gave a temporary home to the St Anne’s mountain of biscuits. The collections that curled up above with books and laptops; Psychology Fellow and her research group.

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Our Conference and Events Team can now entice visitors with a beautiful new roof garden. We have even become a constant source of advice for other colleges planning library refurbishments or building projects who now look upon us as a model of a modern college library.

I should admit that there have been a handful of teething problems. The lift, as mentioned, did not work initially; the entrance door displays varying degrees of enthusiasm for opening automatically; and the heating and cooling system has proved so innovative that we are still trying to get to grips with controlling the temperature. However, these are minor niggles in comparison with all the things we have gained. Some of the most unexpected gains are more about the atmosphere the building creates than the space it provides. Whether by clever design or happy coincidence, the floor to Reader Services Librarian Catherine Hartley: lost among the crates during the book move ceiling windows frame some of the most the generous donations that made it After yet another tour for an interested stunning views in north Oxford over the possible. The building more than amply external group, one of the Finalists Radcliffe Observatory; at dusk the lamplight provides the attractive, flexible space we remarked, ‘It’s so nice to have something on the golden stonework of the sunken sought for library resources, for study, for at St Anne’s that other people want to garden casts a warm glow into the lower research activities, for collaboration across visit!’ We hope that many of you will come ground floor reading room; and at night disciplines, for outreach, for conferences and visit too; we would be delighted to the illuminated building offers glimpses of and for events. It also completes the quad show you around the new Library, and the students hard at work to passers-by on the and reveals the western view of Hartland traditional offer still remains that alumnae Woodstock Road – showing the heart of House as it was intended to be seen, are always welcome to use the library the College to the outside world. transforming the entrance of the College (in both buildings!) whenever you are in From the first few months of use the new into an open, welcoming area. Its main Oxford. Library and Academic Centre has certainly users, our students, are rightly proud of the Clare White (1990) Librarian achieved its aims and done justice to new architectural addition to the College.

www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk 9 The roof garden

Gardens in the air LAURA MACKENZIE

The designer of the new roof garden I met with Tim Gardam for a briefing and atop the kitchen describes its layout and site visit in the summer of 2015 and agreed planting I would draw up a sketch design for Tim and the garden committee to look at in early When it was suggested that I become autumn. Tim explained the roof was to be involved with the design for the roof garden used informally, by students taking a break on top of the new kitchen at my old college, from the new Library, and also for receptions by luck, earlier that year I had been asked of various sizes. to design a roof garden in Edinburgh. This meant I had done some homework on the I also contacted Fletcher Priest, the architects technical details of roof gardens and looked for the new Library. One thing they wanted at examples in Edinburgh. to keep was the view from the quad through the upper windows in the dining hall to the From looking at existing roof gardens, Radcliffe Observatory. one or two things were clear. Trees look weird perched on the top of buildings and The scheme I presented divides the roof never do well: it is almost impossible to garden into three discrete but linked spaces. was proposed to form a centre-piece for the achieve an adequate depth of soil for them There is an intimate space just to the left as largest area and a focus for the scheme seen to thrive. Second, unless a roof garden is you come out of the Library, a slightly larger from the library. The suggestion was that this very extensive, grass is not a good ground space to the right and the largest space should be the three ravens from the College surface. In small pockets it looks out of beyond the light shaft. The roof garden would coat of arms, as used in the stairwell of the scale and is difficult to maintain when all the be enclosed by a yew hedge, echoing the building. The Queen’s Flowers stone has been clippings have to be removed down several existing hedge on the Woodstock Road. incorporated into the planter wall in the largest storeys. A built in irrigation system is vital and Surfacing was made up of a combination area of the garden. A trellis-pergola with adequate drainage as well. of paviours, matching the existing paving climbers formed a backdrop to the scheme associated with the new building, and bound as seen from the Library and a screen for the At St Anne’s, drainage was taken care of as gravel, which has been used elsewhere in the service area, which is boxed in at the south a temporary roof garden was made when College. end of the garden. This would also make an the kitchen was rebuilt. The elephant in ideal area for a bar if required for receptions. the room was the light shaft. This is a large Planting beds form the edges of the garden tapering funnel in front of the access door and also create the division of the space As far as possible, the planting has been from the new Library. It cannot be ignored or within. The planters, formed of metal, were chosen to provide interest throughout the disguised, but on the other hand it is the start built to seat height to provide integral seating year, for resilience to wind and, in certain of a natural division of the space on the roof. and a central, circular pebble paving motif areas, quite a shallow depth of soil. Wooden

10 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk The roof garden

slats were proposed on planter walls to provide integral seating and reduce the need for free standing benches, which might interfere with the flow of the spaces.

The Fellows accepted my design but, after costing the plan we needed to make certain amendments. Because a stone facing for the plant beds to provide integral seating was expensive this has been reduced and more free-standing seats have been introduced. The balance between bound gravel and stone paving has been changed, reducing the amount of stone paving, and a curved planter edge in the largest area has been straightened up. The integrity of the scheme has been maintained while achieving a manageable budget.

The garden has now been built and planted, and the pebble mosaic of the three ravens, designed and built by Maggy Howarth, installed.

I had a very enjoyable year coming down from Scotland for site meetings and thoroughly enjoyed reconnecting with St Anne’s, meeting

Tim Gardam, the garden committee, Jim The birds of the garden: raven mosaic designed by Maggy Howarth Meridew and Daniel Lee. I was able to see my old tutor Gabriele Taylor on numerous suggesting me as a designer for this scheme, Post Script from the Bursar, Jim Meridew and to Jim Meridew and Daniel Lee for being occasions during my visits and, on top of This project took 15 months: the time flew so helpful and practical while the scheme was that, it so happened my daughter was doing and the garden is now there for all to view. being built, and finally to Mark Firmin and his an MA at St Antony’s that year, so I saw My spirits soar when I see and touch the team who built it. much more of her than I would have done beguiling combination of sight, smell and otherwise. Laura Mackenzie (1972) is a Landscape texture that the space brings. We are so I owe a huge thanks to Michelle Clayman, Architect and Garden Designer based in fortunate to have such a wonderful area to my exact contemporary doing PPE, for Scotland. enjoy.

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Designing with St Anne’s: masterplans, architecture and landscape KEITH PRIEST

The expression of identity through through place and architecture is one of by Howell Killick Partridge & Amis had place and architecture is one of the the most powerful manifestations of an envisaged a sequence of elegant concrete most powerful manifestations of any organization. Thinking about this is what framed buildings, known as the ‘string of organization. The architect of the new we do at Fletcher Priest, working for a pearls’, grouped around the garden. In Library and Academic Centre explains variety of individuals, corporations, cities the end, only two of these buildings were how his work has restored a sense and universities. We bring together teams realized, but we felt the original intention of place and brought together the of urban designers, architects, interior was worth holding on to. College’s diverse architecture designers and researchers to consider There was, of course, the issue of books: place and identity at different scales. As a non-alumnus of St Anne’s I’ve given as St Anne’s remarkable collection of much thought to how I should approach When we were appointed in 2008, the first books has grown there was the desperate the subject of its architecture for a group question we asked was what the physical need for a new facility to house them and of alumnae who know it intimately. I hope idea of a college means at St Anne’s. to provide contemporary workspaces to to give a glimpse of the inside story of With a distinct history, based initially on a anticipate future arrangements. several years spent unearthing the hidden nomadic existence in Oxford, the College’s But before turning our attention to the attributes of the College’s masterplans and sense of place is characterized by trees, new Library and Academic Centre, we other good intentions from 1930 to the villas, hidden treasures and abandoned needed to tackle an issue at the heart of present day and, along the way, to look at or forgotten plans – combined with a College life: the kitchen. Another hidden what a building has to do to survive for 400 set of current and foreseeable practical architectural asset, the 1959 Dining Hall years. requirements. by Gerald Banks had for many years My education was in architecture at a We considered the distinguished list of been separated from the main lawn by a similar-sized institution: the Architectural architects that have worked for the College temporary two-storey kitchen block. By Association in London’s Bedford Square, since Giles Gilbert Scott’s first purpose- incorporating a new kitchen and servery where I studied in the 1970s and returned designed building on the site, Hartland into the existing building we were able to in 2011 as President (or chair of the board House in 1937. We observed that some of increase the capacity of the kitchen and of trustees). One of my tasks then was the good intentions of our predecessors provide better working conditions for the to oversee long-term plans for the AA’s had been lost in the course of providing catering staff. This move restored views estate and to consider how its identity practical facilities. For example, the façade from the Dining Hall across the main lawn could be strengthened through its building of Hartland House had been hidden by and created an opportunity to strengthen programme. The expression of identity the Gatehouse. The 1960s masterplan the College’s presence on Woodstock

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Road with a curvaceous riven limestone wall, roof garden and oculus roof light.

Interior details such as the star light ceiling were restored in the Dining Hall while new furniture ordered by the College completed the transformation. In the servery area the tiling is an abstraction from the design of the new Library, creating a three- dimensional pattern that refers to its cubed form. The oculus above the kitchen echoes the central skylight in the Dining Hall and the Radcliffe Observatory.

The next phase of work was to restore the entrance to the College and create a new hybrid building to anticipate its future needs. St Anne’s distinctive history as a women’s college has placed a particular importance on the role of the library, which is acknowledged as one of the largest college libraries in Oxford. Hartland House was the College’s first commission and we felt that it was important that the façade of this fine building should once more define the architectural identity of the College as intended by Gilbert Scott.

Fletcher Priest has created a third masterplan for the College which reinstates Gilbert Scott’s vision, acknowledges the benefits of the HKPA masterplan and would not hinder the College if it ever decided to continue the ‘string of pearls’. The first step in implementing the master plan was to remove the 1966 Gatehouse and create a welcoming courtyard Looking through Hartland House and the new Library / David Grandorge alongside the entrance gate. The new

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air. Its architectural character is derived from its load-bearing walls made from local stone and its regular pattern of windows. These allow complete flexibility of use and adaptability of the floors within, which can be moved or removed to reconfigure the building while maintaining the integrity of the structure. In the future the building can accommodate a variety of uses, from a grand full height banqueting room, to offices or even an accommodation block.

On the top floor, diagonal bracing with engineered steel connections creates a more intricate grid that defines the skylights to the roof, bringing northern light into the second floor offices, which now include the Centre for Personalised Medicine, and The new Library and the Tower of the Winds / David Grandorge the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Library and Academic Centre would be the building was too specific, and so we Translation research programme. positioned between Hartland House developed designs that would provide an There are a variety of study and seminar and the Dining Hall, and opposite Kohn adaptable, hybrid building. spaces in the new building. Each floor Pedersen Fox’s Ruth Deech Building. Fletcher Priest designed a building that is has a generous floor to ceiling height, When seen on plan the areas form a series capable of adapting to a number of uses paramount to providing flexibility and of squares, which in three dimensions as the requirements of the College change. longevity, and a grid of steel and timber become a cube to create the volume of the Oddly enough though, there are no flitch beams, made from a beech laminated new building. industry standards that will apply for built veneer lumber, is exposed on the ceilings Working closely with the Librarian, Clare structures beyond 150 years, even though of all four levels. The rooms are filled with White, and her predecessor, David Smith, a donor asked us why it is that some natural light, while being protected from we gave much thought to the question of nearby college’s buildings have lasted 400 solar glare by the thick stone walls. what a library is, and what it will become in years and suggested we should aspire to a Partly dug into the ground, the building the future. The brief was simple: a building similar lifespan. adjoins its own sunken garden which that will grow and adapt well into the The structure is based on a nine square brings light to the basement. The College’s twenty-first century. At a time of change grid plan and supported by four steel coat of arms was incorporated into the in working practices and technology, the columns that also serve as ducts for fresh interior as a feature in the stairway. The College’s ambitions could be limited if shapes and colours were made from solid

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Corian, cut out using computer technology treated plastered soffits increase the thermal has just been completed – a roof garden and welded to create a seamless and mass of the building, which reduces cooling designed by alumna Laura Mackenzie resistant surface that folds around the lift loads and energy consumption. Many of the (1972) that sits alongside the new Library shaft. windows in the façade are designed to be and above the kitchen we designed in opened, allowing natural ventilation so that 2010 as the first phase of our work Sustainable use of materials and energy people working in the building can control is an important element of the design. We Keith Priest studied at the Architectural their own environment while achieving worked with Arup structural and services Association School of Architecture, energy savings. engineers (led by St Anne’s alumnus London. On graduation he was design Graham Aldwinckle, 1990) to come up with As we approach the tenth anniversary of director at Wolff Olins then founded a strategy for the services that achieves 31 our involvement at St Anne’s, you may Fletcher Priest Architects with Michael per cent savings over and above the Part gather that developing the identity of a Fletcher. Their work spans urban design, L Building Regulation (conservation of fuel place is a long-term project. We hope that architecture, interior design and design and power): the heating and cooling system our work has restored a sense of place research with studios in London, Köln that uses low carbon technology including and rebalanced the College’s relationship and Riga. Outside the practice he was both ground and air source heat pumps. with its architecture and landscape. It President of the Architectural Association The structure and the exposed acoustically is gratifying to see that the latest phase 2011-13, and he lectures widely

The ground floor reading room / David Grandorge

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Keeping in touch JULES FOSTER

What should St Anne’s be doing by helped run CV clinics, and others who offer achievements and reputation?’ There 2025 for alumnae to be overwhelmed varieties of advice, guidance and support. will be lots of opportunities to join in with pride at its achievements and this Conversation over the rest of 2017 I’d also like to thank everyone who has reputation? The St Anne’s 2025 including events such as the Alumni chosen to support St Anne’s financially: Conversation is just one of the ways Weekend afternoon tea, face-to-face since 2008, we have raised £23 million the Development Office is engaging for projects including the new Library, the with alumnae kitchen and hall, teaching fellowships and Immediately after graduation, the the Annual Fund. We recently launched a Development Office becomes the main campaign around ‘Access to Opportunity’ point of contact for our alumnae. All supporting outreach and access, hardship alumnae are welcome to come back to and vacation grants, and bursaries. You College anytime, including for lunch during can support this online at https://www. term time, and our doors are always open. campaign.ox.ac.uk/st-annes-college. Other ways of keeping in touch are via our During January every year, we hold our website, connecting with us via Twitter annual telethon. Our students relish the and Facebook, and receiving our regular opportunity to speak with alumnae and to updates via the e-newsletter. However you hear about your time at St Anne’s while do it, please do visit: come and see the asking you to consider making a donation. new Library, just take a look around, attend The majority of this income goes towards an event or lecture, or even come and get our Annual Fund, without which we would your wedding photographs taken here! simply not be able to provide the support and opportunities we do. There are many ways to give back to College and we are exceptionally grateful On page 7, Helen King refers to the ‘St to those who sit on committees, including Anne’s 2025 Conversation’. We want to the St Anne’s Society, those who run build on the College’s history of being at the SAS regional branches and events the forefront of change and of making throughout the UK, those who have an Oxford education accessible to those joined the Oxford Alumni Community previously unable to participate. At the and offer mentoring and advice through core is the question ‘What would St this platform, many who have come into Anne’s need to be doing in 2025 for College to speak to students at events or you to be overwhelmed with pride at its Alumnae relax on the Quad at post-2000 Reunion in June 2017

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meetings, in workshops and through our online survey available at https://www. St Anne’s 2025 Conversation surveymonkey.co.uk/r/XVWKHX3. At the start of 2017, the new Library How to get involved Online survey became available to St Anne’s students and we hope to hold the official opening All members of the College community You can let us know your thoughts by of the building in October. All those who are invited to be involved with this process completing our online survey available at: supported this project will be invited and I initiated by Helen King and we look forward https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ look forward to seeing many of you at this to hearing your thoughts and ideas. XVWKHX3 occasion, as well as at our other events Events taking place in 2017 and 2018. A list of Meetings events is included in the letter with The There are lots of opportunities to get Ship – save the date(s)! involved with the 2025 Conversation at If you would like to be involved but are not able to attend our events or complete the And finally, in the coming months, we events including: survey online, we can arrange a phone shall be getting in touch to check what ■■ The Alumni Weekend Family Afternoon call or meeting with you. Get in touch with communications you’d like to receive from Tea. Book online at http://tinyurl.com/ us at [email protected] or St Anne’s College in the future, and to let st-annes-alumni-weekend-2017 or 01865 284536. you know what data we hold on you and telephone 01865 284536. the purposes for which it will be used. This is in advance of changes to data protection ■■ We hope to hold events in the North and the implementation of the EU General West, Cambridge and Bristol in the Data Protection Regulations in May 2018. autumn. Alumnae living in those areas Some forms of communication will be will be sent an invitation or get in touch ‘opt in only’. If you want to keep in touch to register your interest. with College in these ways, you will need to confirm that this is the case, including if you would like to receive calls in the telephone campaigns. I very much hope that you will remain a part of the St Anne’s St Anne’s 2025 community and if you have any comments Conversation or concerns, please get in touch with the team at [email protected] or telephone 01865 284536.

Jules Foster Director of Development

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Be well, do well SHANNON MCKELLAR STEPHEN

The ever-increasing best and most accessible student housing it help one another when work gets difficult.’ pressure on students can; the kitchen caters as far as possible for We are proud of our ethos of unselfish love; as they get to grips all dietary needs; the Dean aims to ensure our sharing of knowledge and learning. with their courses, that the College site, occupied by about Happiness is partly about feeling build CVs, compete 475 people each day, is conducive to living accomplished and having self-esteem, for internships and learning. We try to create a space that and St Anne’s is very much about setting and negotiate the is safe for students and staff: a space that up relationships and encouraging success transition from allows free speech, the freedom to think and then celebrating these achievements. student life to the and also ensures personal safety. Our annual Freshers’ Dinner introduces world of work, One of the College’s principles is the values of the College to its new arrivals makes greater demands on College ‘collaboration’. ‘We are a college that and encourages these students to begin to welfare systems encourages intellectual generosity and bond, to make friends, to see the College as I used to think that welfare was about a sense of solidarity,’ our website says, a community, to feel that they belong here. chickens. The contentment or otherwise ‘Students who do best work together, Founders’ Dinner gathers the whole College of battery hens loomed large in the learn from each other. St Anne’s students together, student, scout and senior tutor, to collective social conscience when I was a connect across different year groups and remember our reason for being, and to look student back in the early 1990s. Student forward to what is to come. Scholars’ Dinner welfare didn’t really figure. We got on. celebrates academic achievement. Mental illness, though present, went But what of those who feel less largely unrecognized. It was only when I accomplished, who are not healthy, who joined St Anne’s as its Senior Tutor and are anxious? We quite often ring-fence the its coordinator of student welfare that I concept ‘Student Welfare’ to be about what began to understand ‘student welfare’ and is lacking, about someone who is not well, the College’s aim to ensure the health, who is not happy or who is disadvantaged happiness and fortunes of the people for by a situation. The College and the University whom the College exists. have invested heavily in resources to respond So how do we do this? Looking after the to these needs and concerns. St Anne’s brightest young adult minds in the world instituted a Dean of Welfare position in 2015 regardless of background is not a small and in 2016 launched the ‘Tim Gardam undertaking. Every part of St Anne’s works Student Welfare Fund’ to celebrate his to assure the welfare of its students: the contribution to the College. The departing Paralympian, Clare Griffiths, spoke to accommodation department provides the Principal decided on this fundraising students in April 2017

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their full potential. Being a student at Oxford should really be about creative self-growth and fulfilment and, while focused ‘welfare provision’ is important, St Anne’s would like to offer much more than this. We recently launched our ‘Access to Opportunity’ appeal and this really does aim to help students get the most from their university experience and to achieve their full potential. A portion of the fund will go to supporting students in unexpected hardship; another part will be targeted at assisting students with accommodation costs outside term time. We will also use the fund Student-organized well being with dogs from Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary / Edgar Brucke to reach out to potential students who have campaign having observed what he identified assistance comes in many forms. In the the talent to thrive in Oxford but who might as the ever-increasing pressure on students College it comes from peers, JCR and MCR not think about applying, and encourage and the growing anxiety in their everyday Welfare Officers, the Lodge Porters, Assistant them to apply for a place here, regardless lives to get to grips with their courses, build Deans, the Dean and the Dean of Welfare, of background. Our message is: ‘If you are CVs, compete for internships and negotiate the Senior Tutor, subject tutors, the Academic talented and passionate about your subject, the transition from student life to the world of Registrar, the College Nurse, the College St Anne’s and Oxford could be for you. You work. In Tim’s words: ‘Over my time here I doctors, the College Disability Coordinator, should not feel disadvantaged here. We will do have seen the complexities of student life and Harassment Officers, JCR and MCR advisors, all we can to bolster your confidence and help the growth of the essential role that College the Domestic Bursar and the Treasurer, to you to be successful.’ plays in supporting [students] throughout their name a few. At University level there are the Our new Principal, Helen King, started her time with us. I would be delighted, if, through Counselling Service, the Disability Advisory tenure with a challenge: ‘be well, do well’. It the generosity of alumnae and friends, we Service, the Careers Service, Student seemed to me that with her arrival the focus could secure the future of welfare provision Funding, Harassment Advisors and Childcare in the College shifted slightly, from ‘welfare’ at St Anne’s.’ Thanks to the generosity Services. There are also the services run to ‘wellbeing’. Be well, fare well. It’s welfare of donors, we have already raised over by students for students, such as Oxford turned literally on its head. I think I like it. £100,000 from 178 donors to secure our Nightline and the Student Advice Service. offer to students in the years to come. Shannon McKellar Stephen joined There is, though, more to faring well if we St Anne’s as Senior Tutor and Tutor for It is said that one of the advantages of agree that we are working not just to ensure Admissions in April 2015. She completed her Oxford’s college system is that students have the health and narrowly defined ‘welfare’ BA in Law and Music at Rhodes University, all the benefits of a large and international of students, but also their happiness and South Africa, and her DPhil in Musicology at university while living in small, friendly fortunes. Oxford as an institution is in an Oxford in 1997 communities and so have support available enviable situation of having the most lofty of to them at several levels. Certainly, this aims: to help those who study here to achieve

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What are universities for? RUTH DEECH

Ruth Deech warns against increasing She was responsible for our internationals Tim, as you know, was our first male attempts to curtail academic freedom Victor Ubogu, Don James, Gary Hein, principal. But he immediately absorbed and free speech using ‘safe spaces’ Brian Smith and David Curtis, and for our the special ethos of St Anne’s, reaching and ‘trigger warnings’, as well as reputation as a rugby college. out to the non-traditional student, raising the government’s recent grab for power over universities via the Higher Education Bill

We are here to reminisce about our Founders and the reasons for establishing this College in the late-nineteenth century.

Even I am not that old, but my memories of St Anne’s go back to 1961. More interestingly, I think this is the first time we have had four living principals watching over the College and each other.

Claire Palley, principal in the 1980s, was one of the great human rights lawyers of her time and the first woman to be a full professor of law in the UK. Not to mention having had five sons born in five years but never missing a beat. She was the UK representative on the predecessor of the UN Commission on Human Rights, where she was a fearless upholder of human rights, often to the irritation of our government. She was the architect of the Claire Palley building and the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, and when we went mixed, she insisted on having lots of male rugby players in the College and negotiated the shared sports ground deal with St John’s. St Anne’s College Founding Fellows: Annie Barnes, Elizabeth Ely, Peter Ady, Annie Rogers, Margaret Hubbard, Dorothy Bednarowska (no photograph available), Jenifer Hart, Iris Murdoch, Margery May

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me a husband, a nursery for my daughter, a career and lifelong friends.

Of course we were a women’s college then. Women were sent down from the University for harbouring a man in their room overnight, whereas the man would only be rusticated for a couple of weeks. These days that differential treatment would give rise to litigation based on human rights and discrimination. The College doctor was Dr Herrin, a pioneer as a woman doctor. No matter what ailment you went to see her about, she would not let a girl leave the surgery without contraception, needed or not, while ignoring the cold or cough or whatever brought you there, because she knew of the dire consequences that might St Anne’s College Founding Fellows: Mary Kearsley, Kirstie Morrison, Dorothy Livock (no photograph ensue. Indeed our generation should have available), Marjorie Reeves, Ann Taylor, Elaine Griffiths been more vocal about injustices but we were being given a first-rate education funds to build the new Library, building brings to mind the story of the teacher at no cost to ourselves, we were in a up the graduate school and enlarging our who was giving the children a class in tiny minority and we knew it. The more endowment. He travelled the world to current affairs. What is ‘the economy’, the you pay for your education, the more meet alumnae and formed a special bond teacher asked. One little boy put his hand commercial the relationship with your with our overseas graduates. He was wide up: ‘It is where the other people sit on the university. open to new ideas and left the College in plane.’ I think she is a wonderful choice better shape than when he joined it. We and all my good wishes are with her. In my view, students are not consumers, congratulate him and wish him well in his they are learners, and they have to prove My own Principal was Lady Ogilvie. My important new post. themselves worthy of the qualification start was unpromising, a failed A Level they seek. I have heard it said, ‘I’ve paid Now we will have Helen. I am delighted behind me, and my moral tutor Marjorie my fees, I expect an upper second.’ that we have a St Anne’s graduate, indeed Reeves (we had no law tutor at first) told The student contract outcome cannot PPE, so that she is prepared to ride with me in my first term that she had seen be guaranteed. There are obligations the College over the political storms that a red light over me – I think she meant on both sides: indeed, the student’s will undoubtedly face all of us in the next academically. I owe Oxford everything: obligation to attend lectures and do the few years. Her academic background admitting me on the fifth attempt, finding

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written work required is omitted from here in about 1992 to open the Mary research and teaching provided, the famous national student satisfaction Ogilvie Lecture Theatre he made a speech contribute to society locally, nationally survey. The academic relationship is more indicating that in his view there was no and internationally, and be free to act as like belonging to a gym. It provides the good college architecture north of The critics of government and the conscience facilities and some help, but you will only Broad. To which I replied that the quality of society. get out of it what you put in, and even of Oxford college architecture seems to go University is not just a place to prepare then some people just don’t get slim no in inverse ratio to its wealth. Now we have you for work and higher earnings. It is a matter how hard they work. But hard work the magnificent new Library to disprove his matter of inducting successive generations and application are prerequisites. views, not to mention the Radcliffe Quarter into the society in which they will be and the Blavatnik building. Oxford’s centre I was very glad when the college participants. It is education for citizenship of elegance has moved north. went mixed in 1979, although the and leadership. It should impart ambition, undergraduate body booed Harold And now I am in the House of Lords, motivation for living, ability to savour work Macmillan, the Chancellor, when he colleague to the chancellor, Lord Patten, and leisure, independence of thought, referred to it at Founders’ Dinner in 1979. who always understands what Oxford articulacy, an appreciation of politics, the It was a final defeat for the philosopher needs and always has the right words to feeling of a stake in the future and control Nietzsche, who said that when a woman express it. Lord Patten and I have both over one’s destiny. That is why the Home becomes a scholar there is usually been sitting through the government’s Students were established, for women something wrong with her sexual organs. recent grab for power over universities, the had been excluded from those advantages As with Tim’s joining us, there was Higher Education Bill. in public although they sought them in something about the ethos of the college private. It will introduce an Office for Students as that gently settled on the men who joined the regulator, and the Teaching Excellence Today, too, all students need to hear the us in the late-1970s, whereas women who Framework as a guide to being able to higher aims of university education and went to the former men’s colleges found raise fees. It will allow all sorts of so- the self-confidence it should impart, in an that the male way of doing things was called alternative providers to set up echo of the way women were excluded imposed on them. here – the McDonalds University of burger from those goals 150 years ago. I was then tutor for admissions and I flipping, Trump University of how not to The Higher Education Bill will downgrade went to the local public school Radley run a country – and they will all quickly university education: it puts levers in the to recruit more boys. I gave them my acquire degree-awarding powers. The hands of the government that can close usual talk and then the headmaster told many academic peers in the Lords have universities, close courses and rubbish me that they had just the candidate for been fighting back with amendments. the reputation of universities. Universities us, he was a hooker… The last vestige We have succeeded in adding a clause are going to be awarded gold, silver and of the former gender snobbery was the defining a university, which says it must bronze stars according to their standing late great Chancellor, Roy Jenkins, who be: autonomous, have academic freedom in the Teaching Excellence Framework. found former women’s colleges did not and freedom of speech, promote freedom This framework places a straitjacket on fit his image of Oxford. When he came of thought and expression, scholarship, lecturers. I always say Isaiah Berlin would

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have come a cropper under that. His never have the protests been so wide and the authorities are sitting with arms PowerPoint presentation would not have and indiscriminate, or the universities folded. Sadly, Jihadi John, (the most been up to scratch; David Daube the so passive in allowing free speech to notorious graduate of the University of Roman lawyer, made tasteless jokes; S be closed down. Students claim a right Westminster), the underpants bomber A de Smith chain smoked but was the not to be offended. But we cannot have of UCL and the killer of Lee Rigby were author of judicial review, the very process freedom of expression if we also claim a university educated here. Campuses which led the Supreme Court just days right not to be offended, because offence have become notorious for anti-Semitic ago to rule that Parliament must take is subjective. Examples of intolerance incidents, sometimes brushed aside. If charge of the Article 50 process. The of what is legal range from wanting to we want to live in harmony with each reputation of some universities marked take down the statue of Cecil Rhodes other in the future we cannot allow our bronze in the scheme will be ruined in the to banning the wearing of sombreros students and future leaders to be exposed eyes of foreign would-be students. and lectures by Germaine Greer. But to an atmosphere of hate speech, where universities have a unique statutory intolerance of people of different beliefs We have to insist on academic freedom, responsibility to promote and secure free and nationalities is becoming routine. another amendment, which will stop the speech, within the law, even unpopular risk of telling a lecturer what to teach Students should be told that life contains views, not only for the advancement of and how to teach. To insist on academic no safe spaces or trigger warnings, and knowledge but because they are training freedom is a safeguard for lecturers that they should stop being sanctimonious our future leaders and professionals against students’ censoriousness in this ninnies. If they are prepared to protest whose careers may revolve around age of safe spaces and trigger warnings. against President Trump’s discriminatory debating what is right and what is wrong. A lecturer must be able to lecture, despite actions, they should be just as brave at Unwelcome but lawful views should be the disapproval of his colleagues and university, standing up for lawful speech challenged, not repressed. students. I instance an LSE lecturer, Dr and protesting the unlawful and hate Perkins, whose well researched views We have all been shocked by the reported speech. on benefits and their recipients were not rising numbers of hate incidents since Come back Cardinal Newman. In his The welcome and who was stopped. Sir Tim the referendum. Sadly they are not new Idea of a University he said it is a ‘place Hunt, Nobel Prize winner, ended up losing but are more visible. In recent years, of teaching universal knowledge’. This his job at UCL because of a poor joke some universities have been used as phrase should be emblazoned on every made at a conference abroad. platforms for invited extremist speakers fresher manual and they should be armed defying the law, preachers of violence, We also have to protect freedom of with the procedures to defend it. enslavement of women, hatred of gay speech. Many of us here will have been people, who call for religious law to Our Founders’ ideals are as relevant today students when there were troubles of prevail over democracy, intolerance of as ever. one sort or another, depending on the minorities and non-believers, and support age. Indeed, we may have cut our teeth Ruth Deech (1962) was Principal from for convicted terrorists. They are not on some of them. There were protests, 1991–2004 being challenged, because the students sometimes violent, in the past. But themselves are silencing the challengers

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Dr Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro: the story of a Ugandan Rosa Parks BRIAN MAGOBA

She celebrated her ninetieth taught. Like the African-American woman birthday last year and remains an Rosa Parks, whose action in refusing icon in Uganda renowned for her second-class treatment when ordered achievements in furthering education to the back of the bus in segregationist for girls as well as the more general America inspired a revolution, Ntiro held advancement of women. Sarah Ntiro her ground. The impasse ended with the was also the first woman in East and lecturer walking out, issuing an ultimatum Central Africa to graduate from Oxford that he would not teach while she polluted – from St Anne’s his class with her presence. The revolution whose ignition she would cheerlead had In the age before ‘a woman’s place is in just gained more kindling. the kitchen’, officially transformed into ‘a woman educated is a nation trained’, More scrapes with the patriarchal system imagine if you will, a schoolgirl in Bunyoro- were still headed her way. Years later she Kitara and at King’s College Budo, doing would refuse to be paid less than her Sarah Ntiro at the 2012 Dr Sarah Ntiro Lecture corrections in mathematics with her similarly qualified male counterparts with and Award Event, initiated by FAWEU in 2000 to schoolmates in what then was a male- the same workload. She offered the radical celebrate her achievements / Abdu Kiyaga. dominated field. The said schoolgirl in this choice of working for free rather than case is today Dr Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro. putting up with the gender-discrimination pioneer generation of the multitudes of imposing financial inequality on her When Ntiro joined Makerere College, the other girls whose education and lives she abilities. It took the intervention of Anne luminary aspect of her attitude to life came would come to influence, both directly and Cohen, wife of then Colonial Governor Sir through in an incident which must have indirectly. Andrew Cohen, to restore parity. significantly influenced her subsequent While teaching, she also became a efforts at spearheading education for At the time though, only out of student of Latin, studying with clergymen Ugandan girls in particular. consideration for her classmates did she based in Bunyoro-Kitara, before change to History, Geography and English, When she took her place in the lecture attempting the proficiency test at Fort and it is qualifications in those subjects room, the male Maths lecturer advised Portal’s Virika Mission. Her results made that she took with her to Kyebambe Girls’ her to ask for and go to where ‘female’ the cut for admission to Oxford’s St Anne’s School after graduating in 1950. The courses like knitting and tailoring were College and from then on she solidified her 1950-51 class she taught was only the

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reputation for being a woman of ground- varsity whose ‘Let Us be Men’ motto at its her a Woman of Distinction Award for breaking achievements of the type that inception in 1922 had only been changed using her achievement and status to affirm the resilience of the human spirit. to ‘We build for the Future’ in 1945, the promote girls’ education. year females were granted admission. In In 1954, she returned to Uganda, She shares the distinction with other Sarah Ntiro, the right person was at the triumphant as the first woman in East and movers and shakers like Lady Sylvia right time and place to add momentum to Central Africa to graduate from Oxford. Nagginda, Justice Julia Sebutinde, Ms the gains for girls’ education signaled by The ripple effect of this accolade would Rebecca Kadaga, Dr Speciosa Wandera Makerere College’s change in attitude. span decades of awards designed to Kazibwe and Ms Angelina Wapakhabulo. celebrate her effect on mainly education- At home, she started the Teaching Service FAWEU later felt that even with company related issues, as well as her direct and Commission in 1965 before it became the of such pedigree, her efforts deserved indirect influence as a role-model for Education Service Commission, taught more personal appreciation. Thus the Dr Ugandan girls battling the odds to get a at Gayaza High School and was one of (courtesy of an honorary doctorate from meaningful education. two women on the Uganda Legislative Spellman College in Atlanta, Georgia) Council. In these positions she exerted Sarah Ntiro Lecture and Award Event Just the next year, Makerere would her influence to standardize education was first held on 12 December 2000 at realize its first female graduate in Eunice practices, and passed on her faith in the the Kampala International Conference Lubega Psonansky, no mean feat for a validity of girls’ education to her students Centre. The goal of the award was to at Gayaza High School. Even exiled to use it as another platform to celebrate Nairobi in 1978, she did not stop her achievements in girls’ education and advocacy for education, establishing highlight challenges of bringing education an Education Consultancy of Higher to more and more girls. But, in spite of Education for African Refugees. Family or because of the fact that women’s planning, associations of university achievements in education are still cause women, alliances of young Christian for celebration, she would probably women, name it and if it has anything to analyse the cause, and her efforts thus far do with education or women’s issues, or a in steering it, with a phrase from Samora combination of both, she probably initiated Machel, the Portuguese independence it or was the motivation for it. leader: aluta continua.

For instance, there is now a Sarah Ntiro Brian Magoba is a Ugandan writer and Girls’ Vocational Secondary School in contributor to the Daily Monitor Uganda’s Hoima, a government-aided effort to instill leading independent daily newspaper. This in other girls some of the spirit that got article is published courtesy of the Daily her to the place where the Foundation Monitor of Activists for Women’s Education in 1952: The opening of Hartland House (stage 2) Uganda (FAWEU) saw fit to bestow upon during Sarah Ntiro’s time at St Anne’s

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The Price of Compassion JUDITH VIDAL-HALL

The number of people globally and governments pass controversial anti- challenge the negative press given to those displaced by conflict is at the highest immigration legislation. seeking a safe haven on these shores as well level ever recorded, says the UN as serving as a testament to the strength of One issue alone came to dominate the refugee agency the human spirit.’ It is a moving, poignant, debate, and in the end to determine the sometimes painful but always enlightening By the end of 2015, 65.3 million people outcome of last year’s referendum: migration, read. A Country of Refuge explores Britain’s were either refugees, asylum seekers or not the economy, stupidly, won the day for history as a place of sanctuary ‘for those internally displaced, an increase of 5m in a those in favour of exiting the EU. The climate fleeing conflict, poverty or terror’ and dares single year. It adds: ‘a worrying climate of of fear and xenophobia fostered by much of to hope that we may re-discover our one- xenophobia’ has come to dominate debate the media is likely to set the tone for future time sense of responsibility and compassion. in Europe as it struggles to cope with its discussions on the subject. It is this that we gathered to discuss in biggest influx of people since World War II. It is this that Lucy Popescu’s anthology College late last year. In the UK as elsewhere, far-right politicians A Country of Refuge sets out to address. exploit the situation to their advantage Judith Vidal-Hall (Bunting 1957) She says her book is ‘intended to directly

Syrian refugee camp: half the world’s refugees are children / Unicef

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A Country of Refuge LUCY POPESCU

Britain has a long history of providing asylum seekers with medical treatment, A Country To Call Home edited by safe refuge to those fleeing conflict, counselling and therapy. The stories we Lucy Popescu poverty or persecution and it is hear are about the emotional scars of something we should be proud of. torture, the pain of leaving behind loved Can we recover that sense of duty and ones and the struggles of building a compassion? new life. Imagine the sheer loneliness of sitting in a room weeks on end without I first conceived of the project that led anyone to talk to, with nothing you hold to A Country of Refuge in January 2014, dear, nothing that is familiar. No friends, after receiving a copy of the anthology no family. You know you are lucky to be A Country to Call Home is a collection of A Country Too Far, co-edited by Rosie alive, but the solitude is crushing. This writings on asylum seekers and refugees Scott and Tom Keneally. Their book aimed is the reality for many refugees. Some focusing on the experiences of children to set the record straight about asylum have forged new lives for themselves and young people and featuring some seekers in Australia and to protest their but the relentless struggle to assimilate, of our finest children’s writers including government’s treatment of them. Inspired, to integrate in a new, often alien, culture David Almond, Moniza Alvi, Simon I sent out a flurry of emails, got some takes its toll. Some have been forced Armitage, Brian Conaghan, Judith Kerr, terrific writers on board and immediately to leave their children behind, some are Patrice Lawrence, Chris Riddell, S.F. set about trying to find a suitable coping with bereavement, some have lost Said, and Michael Morpurgo. Our goal is publisher here. My agent, Andrew Lownie, for the book to be read widely in schools, their entire family. Few are able to practise approached a number of mainstream perhaps even to be on the national their original occupations – teachers, publishers but drew a blank. I then spent a curriculum, in the hope that the next academics, writers, lawyers, journalists, further year trying the smaller, independent generation will have a kinder response to accountants… Most are desperate to presses with no success. Fortunately, in refugees and asylum seekers and better return home, as soon as the situation in June 2015 the pioneering Unbound Books understand some of the reasons people their country has improved. came on board, we crowdfunded and here are forced to flee their native countries. we are. I wanted A Country of Refuge to focus Lucy Popescu is crowdfunding with on the experiences of refugees, asylum I work closely with refugees as a volunteer Unbound to make this happen. You seekers and migrants in an attempt to mentor with Write to Life, Freedom from can visit the link below to pledge. There directly challenge the negative press, to Torture’s creative writing programme. is a special pledging level for schools. cast a more positive light on a situation Freedom from Torture (formerly the The book will be distributed worldwide that, for many, is a living hell. The by Penguin Random House. https:// Medical Foundation for the Care of contributions – short fiction, poems, unbound.com/books/a-country-to-call- Victims of Torture) provides refugees and memoir and essays – have exceeded all home

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my expectations; original, enlightening, The role of artists and writers in effecting ability to articulate truths. I want A Country knowledgeable and profound. change is a theme taken up by AL of Refuge to demonstrate that ‘art is Kennedy in her rousing essay, which stronger than propaganda,’ compassion a We heard an extract from AL Kennedy’s concludes the anthology. Kennedy more vital force than distrust. It has been ‘Inappropriate Staring’, which conveys the observes: ‘True art is not an indulgence, a long journey to get this anthology into terrible disdain from certain quarters for but a fundamental defence of humanity.’ the public domain and I hope it will make a those perceived as ‘the other’. They are She goes on to argue that writers, in positive contribution to the current debate watched and commented upon as though particular, have a duty to respond to the and foster a kinder attitude towards our they are animals in a zoo. Roma Tearne’s media, propaganda and public opinion fellow humans who are fleeing violence, extract from ‘The Colour of Pomegranates’ as ‘guardians of imagination, of wider persecution, poverty or intolerance. Thank lyrically evokes the trek many endure in thought, of culture’ because, she warns, you all for supporting the anthology. order to reach safety. We also heard from ‘Imagination is, on all sides, apparently Haymanot, a remarkable refugee artist and Lucy Popescu is the editor of A Country of failing. And when it fails, it fails us all.’ singer, who provided the artwork for the Refuge (Unbound June 2016 . P/b £8.99) stunning cover of A Country of Refuge. Like Kennedy, I believe writers are uniquely Her next book, A Country to Call Home is Her unforgettable rendition of an Ethiopian placed to challenge pre-conceived currently being crowdfunded by Unbound. anthem closed November’s event. ideas and stereotypes because of their See p.27. understanding of the power of words and

Confined to Campsfield HELEN SALISBURY

The impact of hostility to ‘the other’ in But the current government and the tabloid there is no automatic judicial oversight. It is our society weighs heavily on both sides press do not define who we are as a nation expensive and ineffective – more than half or as individuals: we each of us have a those detained in the second quarter of In November we heard accounts of being a choice to exercise compassion and to 2015 were eventually released back into the stranger in a strange land and of being poor work for the society we believe to be right community or given leave to remain. in a rich country. All around us we see lack and just. of compassion towards ‘the other’ in our Among those detained are asylum society: our government penalizes those I would like to discuss immigration detention seekers, including victims of torture, rape, unable to work and excludes or detains and a charity called Medical Justice. Each trafficking, FGM and political persecution. those fleeing war and torture; the worst year, approximately 33,000 people are held The Home Office’s own rules (rule 35, elements of our newspapers label the poor in administrative indefinite detention without section 3) state that where there are as scroungers and those seeking asylum as charge or trial in the UK. This detention reasonable grounds to believe a person immigrant hordes. is not part of any criminal sentence and may have been a victim of torture, he

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try to be, it still feels like an intrusion into grief and pain, asking about things the detainee has no wish to revisit or explain. But the detail is necessary if we are to convince a court about the truth of the asylum application. I then write a formal medico-legal report which may be used to challenge the detention or help to lodge a fresh claim.

Others in the charity campaign for adequate health care in detention, for an end to the detention of children and of pregnant women, and against the excessive use of restraint and physical force. Currently the charity is caught up in legal challenges to the Home Office, which is trying to restrict the definition of torture.

The evening was entitled The Price of Caught behind the wire: refugee children in limbo / Unicef Compassion. For me the price, in time and energy is outweighed by the reward – but or she should not be detained except in that may support their account. The I am worried about the price we pay as a exceptional circumstances. However, the physical scars may be diagnostic or non- society when we lose compassion, when Home Office is very good at ignoring its specific but are easier to define objectively we stop seeing the person behind the own rules and routinely disregards the Rule than the mental scars, which for many headlines – the detained asylum seeker, 35 forms submitted. As a result, many very are more serious; and these wounds are the rough sleeper – as a person just like traumatised people are re-traumatised by re-opened by being held in ‘indefinite ourselves, who with a different roll of the being locked up again. administrative detention’ with jailers and dice could have been you or me. keys and clanging prison doors. I volunteer for Medical Justice, writing Dr Helen Salisbury (1983) is an Honorary medico-legal reports for detainees at It is hard: difficult for me, but much harder Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Nuffield the local Immigration Removals Centre, for the detainee. Often working through a Department of Primary Care Health Campsfield House. In the past nine years I translator, I need to gather a lot of specific Sciences, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in have seen people from 16 countries, taking detail: how many men were there? What Oxford a detailed history of the mistreatment – exactly did they hit you with? You were usually imprisonment and torture – they tied up – what did they use? Are there any have suffered and documenting the scars marks to show this? However sensitive I

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Inappropriate Staring AL KENNEDY

‘Look at that one.’ ‘He’s a boy. Boys are like that. Look at carry on that way with Pauline?’ his little face. That’s a boy, that is. And ‘Where?’ ‘Why would Pauline want to give me a there’s his little fingers.’ row?’ ‘The little one. There. He’s a cheeky ‘There’s his dirty little fingers.’ one, isn’t he?’ ‘I should imagine she’d have lots of ‘Well, he’s been playing, hasn’t he? reasons. Why isn’t she here, anyway?’ ‘Where?’ Oh, and here’s mum… And she’s not ‘Work.’ ‘There. Right there. You don’t know happy with him, you can tell. I can tell... how to spot them, you don’t.’ A mother knows a mother, no matter ‘Didn’t want to be with the mother-in- what. You can be different as anything, law.’ ‘Oh, yeah... Fast isn’t he?’ but a mother knows when she sees a ‘She’s working. I said. They must be ‘And cheeky.’ mother. And he’s caught on that she’s strong... Her lifting him like that. I mean cross – he’s nervous. Wants to hold her ‘He’s into everything. Look at that.’ he’s got to be a bit of a weight.’ hand. You always wanted to hold my ‘I was looking. You were the one that hand when I was going to give you a ‘She’ll be used to it. And they are didn’t notice him.’ row, remember? She’ll clout him, I bet.’ strong, aren’t they? I mean, they’re stronger than us.’ ‘Is it a him?’ ‘Well, she can’t give him a row can ‘Stronger than you.’ ‘Of course. A girl wouldn’t be like that. she? They don’t exactly speak.’ Girls aren’t into everything. Girls are ‘They understand each other.’ ‘Cheeky boy.’ quiet. Should be.’ ‘I doubt it... Ah – you didn’t expect that. ‘Sitting about and staring at the telly, ‘You can’t tell, though, can you? Not Wrong there, weren’t you?’ eating chocolate brazils and mini with that lot. I mean, they’re all like that. pizzas... Pauline does spinning and free ‘Giving him cuddles instead. Well, that’s See? Running about and climbing and weights and all that – cardio vascular.’ sweet. He’s got round her. That’s how getting in everywhere… Whole swarm you used to get round me – give me ‘Personal trainer now, are you? And I of them.’ the big brown eyes and put up your don’t want to look like a weightlifter. ‘They can’t be a swarm - that’s bees.’ arms for a hug.’ She’ll end up built like a bloke. She’s got mannish shoulders.’ ‘He’d be in your windows and up on ‘Dunno what you mean.’ the roof and sitting on your chairs all at ‘She’s got stamina.’ ‘You still do that with me. Early training, once... That’s a fact. I’ve read they’re that is. And you get spoiled. Do you ‘Don’t be disgusting to your mother. very strong. Impulsive - that’s the word.’ And what would you want me to have

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stamina for – cleaning the kitchen?’ ‘I’ve told you, don’t be disgusting... His even got to you. Just thinking about mum’s fond of him. She’s carried him all it... I bet he’d break your neck with one ‘When do you clean that kitchen?’ along and up there.’ hand, I bet you he could.’ ‘Cheeky boy... I spoiled you.’ ‘So she’s a mum – she’s his mum. ‘He looked at me.’ ‘Yeah, I’m horrible... I’m a terrible son. That’s all instincts, isn’t it – with them. ‘No, not at you. Don’t be daft.’ Hey, do you think that one’s ill? Him It’s the same with anything. When I was under the blanket. I wonder where they six or seven, you remember that cat ‘Yes he did.’ get the blankets...’ had kittens and I picked one of them ‘He’s just looking at everything, it’s up – just a kid and I didn’t know better ‘What, him? Leastways, I think it’s a not at you. It’s just... you’re one of – and the mother clawed all across the him. Can’t get much of an idea about the things in the way of him searching back of my hand.’ him, can we... No, he’s sleeping. I think. about. He doesn’t understand.’ And I suppose they feel the cold the ’And she was a good cat the rest of ‘He looked at me.’ way we do. Or a bit, anyway.’ the time.’ ‘You’re all right - he can’t get to you. ‘Could be hiding – I’ve seen ‘em do ‘Not that day.’ He can’t get near you.’ that. Maybe he’s hiding.’ ‘Well, she seems fond of him, doesn’t ‘Sometimes they get out.’ ‘We can see him.’ she? His mum. We’re not the same – but you can tell. That’s all I’m saying.’ ‘There’s electric fences and all sorts of ‘It’s not us he’s hiding from, is it?’ stuff. We’re safe here.’ ‘Want her round your house, would ‘I’ve read they creep about. Or you? Give her tea. Have her kiddie ‘I don’t think so. I don’t like how he someone told me.’ shitting on your floor.’ looked at me. That was personal.’ ‘We don’t know how they work, do we, ‘Babies mess themselves... Oh, my ‘It can’t be – he’s not a person – he I mean it stands to reason they’ve got goodness – he’s big. He’s a big one.’ can’t look like a person looks at you. ways of knowing each other and they’ll It’s not like you stared into his big have fights with some and like others ’Where’d he come from?’ brown eyes and you could tell he was and there’s mums and kids...’ ‘He’s got a turn of speed.’ thinking. He’s not thinking – they don’t.’ ‘I think people send in blankets and ‘You wouldn’t want him heading for Excerpt from ‘Inappropriate Staring’ by AL stuff for them to have and do what they you. He’d tear you in half.’ Kennedy published in A Country of Refuge want with. I think.’ ‘The size of him... You see pictures in ‘And they’ll fancy each other...’ magazines and places, but you don’t ‘Don’t talk about it like that.’ understand until you see them for yourself.’ ‘Like what? It’s just nature. It’s just mating. It’s animals making other little animals.’ ‘You’d have a heart attack before he

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The Colour of Pomegranates ROMA TEARNE

Everything Khalid did on the trek was a previous almost-forgotten war. The her back but before he could formulate small. He ate little, talked less, smiled journalist told Khalid the tracks they the thought and turn it into action there not at all. Once a man from England walked were ancient; others had fled was a blood-curdling scream. Some making a television programme fell in along these paths. of the people in the long straggling line step alongside him. When asked, he told stopped walking, lifted themselves out ‘My ancestors took this route during the man, what had been broken could of their apathy, and went to investigate. the war,’ he said. ‘Carrying their not be fixed. They found the woman rotating slowly bundles with them, fleeing from different on the branch of a tree. ‘Why England?’ the man asked. chambers of death.’ ‘Don’t look,’ the journalist shouted in Khalid did not know. He had wanted Khalid said nothing. For him exodus was warning but it was too late. to die, he still wanted to die. So why part of life. couldn’t he? The man, a journalist, Khalid had looked. ‘I wanted to see for myself what such a walked off a little way and then returned journey was like,’ the man said. Evening was falling and the last train from with some bread and tomatoes and in the border would be leaving soon. The spite of himself Khalid ate hungrily. Hearing these words Khalid looked at the last shreds of the sunset still lingered and journalist’s face. And for the first time a Guilt was mixed in with the food but he they would have to work fast. Someone faint glimmer of a smile crossed his own. ate without caring. He was alive and his found a spade in an abandoned family were not but still his body made its It was late afternoon of this fifth day cowshed and three of the men dug a own imperious demands. His body held of their trek and the sun was moving hole and buried the woman. In death she him hostage. westward. The day was nearing its end. continued to remind Khalid of his wife. High overhead a large bird glided, large The journalist gave him money. The ‘Remember this world is just a corridor,’ and slow and golden as an angel. The food fed Khalid’s guilt and the money someone cried in warning. sky was still clear but a milk-white fog the man’s. Was guilt a sin, he asked this was forming in the woods. Twisting itself ‘But who are we Muslims?’ asked another. man who shook his head helplessly. into small pockets the mist thrust out Khalid has a sudden sharp memory While they had been walking the tongues. Ahead of them was a woman of his wife. She had fallen into his landscape had been changing. Vast with her head covered in black. Khalid life like ripe fruit falls from a tree. He plains gave way to rolling fields. It noticed her and was reminded of his remembered her with her face thrown was still hot for this time of year and dead wife. The woman strayed off the back, laughing on that day when their the rough paths they trod meandered path into the trees and Khalid had a son was born. through boundaries carved out after strong impulse to follow her and bring

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‘The Muslims are people,’ he murmured. He remembered their courtship. ‘Why don’t you say something, Khalid?’ one of the men in the Camp asked. Some time later they arrived at the station And the first time he saw her without her and were packed into a train taking them veil, on their wedding night and during Khalid saw that this man was different north and Khalid lost sight of the journalist all the thousands of nights that followed from the others. He was not a man and his cameraman. The carriage was full until her untimely death. who had suffered personal tragedy yet of distressing sounds and the countryside his anger was great. He quoted the He thought of her voice as she sang was shrouded in darkness as once again Koran but he made mistakes, as if he lullabies to the children when they were they waded through time and space. did not know it too well. As if someone tiny and could not sleep. There were no stars for several nights. had given him a condensed version of He thought again of her ready laughter that great holy book, but stripped bare In Calais it rained for seven days and when their son was born and with the beauty taken out. Khalid nights and the mud was everywhere. shook his head. Something of his earlier Khalid shared a tent with twelve men And when he teased her self flickered like a broken light before listening to their conversation from a And when she teased him. switching off again. great distance. Time on this occasion stood still. For seven days the twelve ‘How do I look?’ she would ask every A woman from a local charity arrived. men talked. They had twelve different time she veiled herself before a trip out. She had a box of pomegranates that she ways of dealing with their situation. Only She would stare at herself in the mirror offered them. Khalid shook his head but Khalid had no view. Once he had wished and say, the woman insisted he take one. When he to die but now he was beyond wishes. broke it open the juice ran down his hands ‘I look like a fat old woman in this!’ in dark rivulets. A Government official ‘You are in shock,’ one of the men came to their tent to speak to them. observed. ‘Good!’ he’d say. ‘Good no one sees your true beauty!’ ‘You, you, and you,’ the official said. ‘You need to fight for your country,’ another said. ‘Kill a few of these western ‘You are not fat and you are not old,’ He was not unkind, just matter-of-fact. bastards so they know what it’s like for us.’ their eldest daughter would say. Khalid was one of those chosen to leave the Camp. And the man who could not Khalid thought of the journalist and his And then they would laugh; all together. quote the Koran correctly was another. cameraman and how they had stood For all that was wrong in their country The Government official took them head bowed crying as they buried the they had been happy once. When the away to another tent for questioning. He Muslim woman. war was declared they had listened to the radio, their hearts heavy with fear. needed to be sure their thoughts were And he thought of his dead wife. He But nothing had prepared them for the pure and that they would not cause thought about her for so long and with terror it would bring. Until that moment trouble in this new country. He wanted such force that his thoughts blurred and they had thought they would survive. to be sure they would respect this place buckled. that was not their home.

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‘Of course we will be loyal to our new country,’ the man who did not know Homes for refugees the Koran said. PENELOPE FARMER

He raised his face towards the sky Refugees at Home is a small the organization up officially. The first and Khalid saw his eyes glint in the organization that started almost refugees were hosted in the spring of light. Although they looked alike accidentally in 2015 when a Jewish 2016: by the following autumn 222 more Khalid had a vague sense they were family in Surrey with empty-nest had been placed in anything from a sofa not. Underneath, their brokenness syndrome and memories of family bed in a small flat above a shop in North took different forms. refugees from Europe in the 1930s London to a suite in a ritzy apartment in decided to host a Syrian refugee. This Notting Hill. Today, requests for help and The Government official nodded. It was so successful that Sara Nathan, hosts are pouring in ever faster. was his unfortunate job to find out from Acton, sister and sister-in-law, took how stable the refugees were; how My own involvement began with some the idea on and ran with it, starting off much pain they could withstand vague intentions early last year. Fuelled via a Facebook page to gauge reactions. by shame at the Cameron government’s without becoming monsters. His Encouraged by the response, by the pathetic response to the Syrian refugee job was long and arduous. After he offers not only of beds but also technical crisis, I emailed the refugee council about had finished interviewing the men help in anything from legal aspects to hosting; in vain. Apart from signing the and satisfied himself they were safe the use of IT, she and her family set to be allowed into the country the odd petition I let things slide for a while. Government official sighed deeply. Then, with a clear conscience, he went off to eat his lunch.

Excerpt from ‘The Colour of Pomegranates’ by Roma Tearne in A Country of Refuge

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But then came Brexit. The appalling rise in His own journey was difficult and be approved of back home. Obviously the racist incidents convinced me that signing dangerous enough and lasted for months. situation in Syria haunts him; on the other stuff was no longer enough. Though I was He followed the usual routes: Lebanon, hand, having spent life in a war zone since still baffled about the logistics, it turned Turkey, the dangerous crossing to Greece, the age of 11 he has managed through out that Sara Nathan was a friend and where he spent two months, then north, Sara and me not only a secure home for neighbour of an ex-editor and old friend of across Hungary, Austria and finally to several months but also some kind of mine with whom I discussed the problem. Calais, where he managed to get under a adolescence: he keeps adolescent hours Bafflement no longer; she put me in touch. lorry and so across the Channel. Part way for sure, rarely surfacing before lunchtime to London he jumped off, walking the rest when he hasn’t got classes to go to. As for Initially – my partner is rarely in London – I of the way to Lunar House in Croydon to me, I have gained not just him but other contemplated hosting a woman but agreed claim asylum as an unaccompanied minor. new friends. A highlight was his nineteenth to consider a man when told the refugees A canny young man, resourceful and well birthday; the party – at a larger house were mainly young men. Both my flat informed, he did have the advantage of than mine – saw four English women, two and I were assessed and found suitable; some family money and a valid passport. Brazilian musicians, an Iranian, an Eritrean, not least, one essential, I had a separate Even so I wonder how many English a Sudanese and two Syrians eating curry bathroom and loo, the need for which adolescents would have had the social made by Maan’s previous host and a became more than apparent once Maan and mental resources to manage such a birthday cake made by me. A magical arrived less than two weeks later. I have to journey and such dangers. Maan’s, and evening. admit to some qualms then, once it was other stories, give me huge respect for the too late to turn back. But I need not have strength and capabilities of these young had them. Maan was not only young but men, still really only boys. I daresay it helps delightful, and had a degree of English that that adolescence is a time when risk-taking made him easy to communicate with. Still is normal, but many alas do not survive only 18 – but nearly 19 he insisted – he told the experience, or at the very least remain me he came from a Sunni village along the trapped in France or Greece or Macedonia. Jordanian border. Though bombed once by Those who do succeed, like Maan, are the Assad’s planes – I saw the photo – it had lucky ones. seen less violence than some. The eldest of Refugees are welcome / Courtesy Lord Alf Dubs four brothers, he had been dispatched by Maan has been a delight to host – much his middle-class parents at the age of 17, less demanding than some of his fellows, Refugees at Home continues to look for to avoid being drafted into Assad’s army, I suspect. His English improving by the hosts: though preferably not in too deep not a desirable fate for Sunni boys. (His day, I regard him as my Syrian grandson, country places without decent transport. next brother down is of military age these and the affection seems entirely mutual. You can get in touch via the website, www. days so unable to leave the house: the He holds to his past via food – he prefers refugees.org. route Maan followed by now far too difficult, to make his own – music and religion: Penelope Farmer (1957) he remains there, trapped. Maan keeps in though with some adjustments: I’m not touch with them all via WhatsApp.) sure his visiting Bulgarian girlfriend would

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Brexit: the priorities for Oxford STEPHEN ROUSE

What does Brexit mean for Oxford? – that there is no way but to refuse the three – Professor Buchan’s international Professor Alastair Buchan, the results of the referendum to Remain. It’s research career has helped transform University’s new Head of Brexit a view that for the University to come out the prevention and treatment of strokes. Strategy, talks about the twin of the EU with no free flow of students After ten years in Calgary, Canada, where challenges of his new job. ‘To stay or academics is an unmitigated disaster he established a comprehensive regional competitive we must remain open and and there is no Band-Aid, no UK-based academically-led treatment programme, he attractive to the most able students, substitute, which will have anything like returned to Oxford in 2005, continuing his the most able academics,’ he says the potency that access to European work on limiting and reversing the damage resources gives us. that strokes can do. Not many people can please both the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph when it At the same time, this idea we can He helped establish the NIHR Oxford comes to Brexit. When Professor Alastair regain the standing we had at the end Biomedical Research Centre, drawing on Buchan, Oxford’s new Head of Brexit of Empire, or somehow magically join the research strengths of the University and Strategy, gave evidence to a Parliamentary the US in leading the western world, is the OUH NHS Foundation Trust. In 2008 Committee in January, the Guardian seized delusional. If you take more control of he was appointed Head of the University on his comment that quitting the EU, for your borders, you risk becoming a very Medical Sciences Division and for the universities, risked ‘absolutely shooting small nation state. Research knows no past six years straight has seen Oxford at ourselves in the foot’. The Telegraph, borders. Every student coming here is a number one in the Times Higher Education meanwhile, was enthused by Professor gain for the UK. That was true before we world university rankings for clinical, pre- Buchan’s emphasis on Brexit’s potential joined the EU and it has to be true after clinical and health subjects. Professor opportunities: ‘We now have to start figuring we leave the EU. Buchan sees the research collaborations he out what’s possible in order to look at the helped establish with the NHS as critical to It’s Professor Buchan’s job to navigate benefits, rather than what’s being taken the rise up the rankings. Oxford between the two, treating triumph away.’ and disaster just the same. From January He also believes that membership of the EU The fact that both papers quoted Professor this year, he has been tasked with has been a powerful factor. Buchan accurately, and that both defending the University’s interests as It’s very easy to get misty-eyed about comments are simultaneously true, reflects negotiations with the EU progress and how things were before we joined the complex nature of his new post. The also with developing the new international Europe. I came here first as a student twin pitfalls of Brexit despair and Brexit partnerships and opportunities that will arise in 1977, just as we were beginning to euphoria are not lost on him. from Brexit. get involved, and things were not good. The easiest course is the one many Born in Germany – he now regrets not When I came back in 2005, the quality people in higher education have adopted keeping up the language after the age of of the work, the quality of the students,

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even the quality of the food was are recognized and reproduced across people have had enough of experts, it’s transformed beyond all recognition. I national boundaries? We cannot wall partly our fault. wonder if that would have been the case ourselves off on this. This University should be leading the had it not been for Europe. Professor Buchan is working with way in understanding Brexit. We should Putting any culinary gains to one side, the University’s Brexit Impacts Group, which research and teach what happened there are three key areas of EU benefit that he chairs, to make sure these messages last year, what is happening now and Professor Buchan believes are at risk and are widely understood in the upcoming what will happen. Oxford should be the should be protected in the Brexit deal. negotiations. place to understand and be educated about Brexit. It’s the Government’s job We are a growing, successful world- He has begun a hectic series of meetings to negotiate the settlement with the EU. leading University. To stay competitive with ministers, union leaders, Universities But we want to make it clear to them we must remain open and attractive to UK and the European Commission. But that we, as a university, are here to help, the most able students, the most able he is also keen that the flipside – the to teach people about Brexit and to get academics. We need to maintain access advantages and opportunities Brexit offers the right evidence which will enable the to quality students, not just from the EU – is appreciated across all the University’s Government to get the right deal. but from the whole world, and whatever divisions and colleges. settlement we get must maintain the free It’s no mean agenda: a Brexit deal that does The silver lining is the possibility to flow of academics to work in the UK. not disadvantage Oxford; an ambassadorial attract new resources and to build new role to build networks with the wider world; On research, funding is one priority and networks beyond the EU. Some of the and a mission to re-connect the public we must have an agreement in place to biggest research challenges we face – with experts. If Professor Buchan can pull ensure the money currently coming from whether it’s climate change or threats that off, both the Guardian and the Daily the European Research Council and to health – require us to work across Telegraph – not to mention the University elsewhere in Europe is maintained. But disciplinary boundaries and national itself – should be applauding once more. the bigger risk is to the pan-European boundaries. So we should be looking for research networks that have been built opportunities to work with people on the Stephen Rouse Reprinted courtesy up, whether at CERN or at Culham or kind of scale we’ve been working with BLUEPRINT: Staff magazine for the Harwell. It has taken us 30 years to build in the EU – whether that’s in Australia, University of Oxford. March 2017. Further these networks and we must preserve Latin America, the US, China or India. information on the implications of Brexit for them. The qualities that have made Oxford Oxford, along with expert analysis of the attractive as a research partner in Europe latest developments, can be found at www. The third area of concern is regulatory. will make us attractive to them as well. ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/oxford-and- Whether it’s on nuclear research through brexit Euratom, or drug discovery through the But there is a wider point. Professor Buchan European Medicines Agency, how do we believes that universities must shoulder make sure that the way we do research, some blame for not getting their message the access to data and confidentiality across during last year’s referendum. If

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Brave new world RUSSELL TAYLOR

Antediluvian? Maybe. But is everything 1979 (stereo, speakers, boxes of LPs), I What, none of those badly-perforated really so much for the better in this had persuaded Tilly that the modern ‘vinyl coloured paper tokens in different monetary new student world of the twenty-first is better’ theory is all hype and nonsense denominations that we would carry century asks a puzzled parent – that supposed ‘warm’ sound is just pink crumpled in our pockets and would have noise I assured her – and instead bought to tear off clumsily in the dinner queue? No If you read my article in last year’s Ship her a portable Bluetooth speaker and an climbing over the wall at 2.00am or having you may recall that I had just found myself Apple Music account. to blag your way past Brendan the night in a strange role reversal situation where porter? my 18-year-old daughter had been offered Just eight short weeks later (do terms at a place at Oxford. Happily Tilly got the Oxford really finish that ridiculously early?) Instead of ‘Daily Information’, that hallowed required grades to take up her place at I am back with the other grizzled dads to yellow piece of A0 cardboard that once Lady Margaret Hall and you have thus been repeat the process in reverse, all so that the hung on college noticeboards and supplied spared my thoughts this year on Brexit, college can pimp out the students’ rooms details of all forthcoming university activities, Trump or Corbyn. over the vacation to conference delegates. today’s students have Facebook. If you fall in love with some unknown beauty pedalling This was how I found myself early last Tilly’s best college friend Edwina joins us down St Giles with gown floating in the October (do terms at Oxford really start on the trip back to London and I take the breeze, you can just post a message for that ridiculously late? I asked myself in the opportunity to quiz them about how their them on the OxLove Facebook page. What, first of many pieces of altered perspective lives differ from my own student days no pining for the rest of your life over a lost, hypocrisy) driving down the Banbury Road some 35 years previously. First of all it’s idealized, fleeting vision? into an Oxford which, like Dorian Gray, reassuring to know that there are still Oxford remained superficially unchanged while undergraduates called Edwina. I also take Undergraduates these days are supported I – the portrait stashed in the attic – had comfort in discovering that the three Esses by an emotional infrastructure of college succumbed to the ravages of time. I saw that defined Oxford existence for me – ‘mothers’, ‘fathers’, ‘husbands’ and ‘wives’ myself mirrored in the other dads dropping subfusc, scouts and sherry – still exist. But (possibly entire extended families, including off their offspring (we had our children later after that the two realities begin to diverge. great aunts and second cousins once in life clearly) in their unbecoming uniform Tilly’s generation seems to inhabit some removed too). Did that exist in my day? I of shin-length cargo shorts, sandals and Philip Pullman-style parallel universe Oxford, seem vaguely to remember that there was scrubby grizzled beards. except that instead of being steam punk it’s a student from the year above who was all futuristic. assigned to say hello to me on day one, Thanks to the digital age we twenty-first showed me where the library and JCR bar century parents have it a bit easier than our Students these days, I discover, carry a were and then vanished to enjoy the heady forebears. Remembering the enormous ‘Bod Card’. This gains you admittance excesses of the second year, never to be amounts of kit my father and I had to lug to the Bodleian and to your college and seen again. up the stairs of Bevington Road back in also stores your credit for dinner in Hall.

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Student nightlife today revolves around a dozens of jostling outlets on every high leave a message on their door, only to find club called The Bridge, Tilly and Edwina street, but in Oxford back in the early 1980s on your return that they had been leaving inform me. Was it there in my day, they ask? there was just the St Giles’ Café, where a message on your door at the same time. I have to break the news that not only did you went for hangover cure fry-ups, and Then repeat the procedure ad infinitum. The Bridge not exist, but neither did clubs at Brown’s in the Covered Market, where By now Tilly and Edwina have concluded all in the sense that they understand them: you breakfasted before Finals and were so that I am a total dinosaur and I find it hard for the good reason that the musical genres nervous you couldn’t eat the Full English not to agree. The University of Oxford has that modern club culture is based on – i.e.: you ordered. Did real coffee exist in those been around for 900 years and it seems as techno and rap – also hadn’t been invented. days? Possibly. Did students have any if my tenure there was somewhere in the ‘What?’ the girls ask me, wide-eyed in conception of what it was? Unlikely. A jar late-Middle Ages rather than just three-and- disbelief. ‘Music hadn’t been invented?’ For of Nescafé Gold Blend was considered the a-half decades ago. what other sort is there? height of sophistication. The Nespresso machine Tilly has in her room seems Still I may be old but I am not without It begins to dawn on me that there are all impossibly upmarket in comparison. guile. I am starting to think like a parent. sorts of staples of modern life that simply As we head back up to LMH for Hilary didn’t exist in my undergraduate days. By now I am unabashed in my antiquity and term I sing the praises of living out in one’s Coffee shops for example. There are now describe how I used to write my essays second year: independence of spirit, taking on a portable Remington typewriter, which control of your life, learning to be an adult was considered pretty advanced for the blah blah... But seen from the parental day. They are fascinated by the concept of perspective there is a more appealing this arcane contraption. No cut and paste reason: to avoid that six times yearly ritual of facility? You couldn’t correct mistakes? No, I driving Tilly’s clobber up and down the M40. don’t think there was even Tipp-Ex in those And if she’s up in Oxford the whole year her days. You had to write everything correctly mother and I can Airbnb her bedroom in first time and in the right order. What, no London. Perhaps I’m not such a dinosaur Google search facility? after all. I induct them further into the realities of an PS. As I put the finishing touches to this antediluvian age before mobile technology piece Tilly comes in and announces that and social media. The only communication she wants to buy a dictaphone. There is device we had in the accommodation block hope for steam punk yet. was a pay phone in the hallway. Cue more bemusement: ‘You had to pay to use a Russell Taylor MBE (1979) phone? No Skype? No WhatsApp?’ I tell them how students would have a notepad hanging on their room door for people to write messages on and how you would June 2017 Open Days: a meeting of mascots / sometimes cycle to a friend’s college to Laura Wilsmore, Lady Margaret Hall

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Knowing what to do ROBERT GARDNER

He aims to make 100 million people ‘The rowing facilities, such as they were, boats at St Anne’s in 1999 and continues from four-year-olds to pensioners for both the women’s and men’s boats still. In ‘Fifteen reasons why rowers make financially secure and has a passion consisted of a rack or two in St John’s great graduates’, he reflects on the for rowing, which is why he provides boathouse plus a couple of decaying qualities needed by rowers that transfer vital support for the St Anne’s Boat eights, one of which was clinker-built, into their post graduate employment. After Club resting on trestles outside,’ says Matthew listing the virtues he sees in rowers he Ridgwell, writing in The Ship 2012/13. sums up: ‘If it weren’t for Rob the St Anne’s Boat ‘Len Andrews, the St John’s boatman Club would be in poor shape,’ says a Rowers understand that nothing comes and a last of his kind type of figure, would member of College who knows more of immediately. Success is not dependent kindly patch up our fourth-hand boats these things than many. If we go back to on one’s talking or stated goals, or the with third-hand parts in return for a smile the 1980s, it was a very different story: pressure applied by someone else, and a bottle of whisky at the end of the but comes with quiet, diligent, hard season.’ work and patience. Setbacks must be Since then, the rowers have raised the learned from, and overcome, so as not money to build the College boathouse to jeopardise future success. and both men’s and women’s crews have Armed, on graduation, with these risen dramatically in the rankings. But as fifteen traits, what rower can fail? What the SABC website points out, rowing is an business could fail when it employs expensive sport: from boats and blades a good number of them? A master of to coaching and training facilities, from these disciplines is a master of people, administration to insurance, the costs of teams and of businesses. are on-going. Even now, the Boat Club is crowdfunding for a coaching launch ‘to In ‘Do pension funds need a cox?’ he aid victory in the years to come!’ carries the metaphor further in describing the aims and ethos of Redington, an And if it weren’t for Robert Gardner life independent investment consultant would have been a lot tougher. Since to pension funds and other long-term 2009 Redington, the firm jointly founded savings institutions. by Gardner, has been the sponsor of the SABC. Why the interest in rowing? Why Success, in any form, can’t emerge did he choose to sponsor SABC? It goes without a clear idea of the goal. No Robert Gardner signing copies of Save Your Acorns back to the time he was vice-captain of crew can finish the race without

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knowing what race they are rowing and uncertainty to clarity, confidence saving, investing and sharing. Rob chairs and where the finish line is. No pension and control. They aimed to solve the the Children’s Savings Policy Council for fund can reach full funding without pensions crisis by managing the risk: final the Tax Incentivised Savings Association understanding the route and having an salary pension funds were unaffordable (TISA). This aims to ensure all children in idea of what the end looks like. and billions of pounds in deficit, as the UK can live the financial life they aspire demonstrated by British Steel and BHS. to by equipping them with the attitude, At Redington we work with our clients People were living longer but not enough skills and resources to achieve their to help in determining the length of was being saved and investment returns personal and financial goals. He has been their race, the location of the finish had been poor, a situation finally exposed active in lobbying government for financial line, and then to form a strategy for by the global financial crisis. Rob sums education at primary school. reaching it. Then, we band together up his ambition for Redington: ‘What if and row with them. We are the voice of Rob is a trustee of The FairLife we can transform people’s financial future the cox, encouraging them, and, when Foundation, which helps people save and from hoping for the best to knowing what needed, we sit in the boat with them to invest money for their future. To sum up to do?’ take the blades when times are hard … in his own words: ‘We’re on a mission to Whether we are former sports people Last year Redington celebrated its tenth liberate everyone from ever having to think or not, to achieve great things we must birthday to acclaim: it was named one of about saving or budgeting again.’ A grand understand the power of collective the top 1,000 companies by the London vision, but one that doesn’t forget those goals, accountability and responsibility Stock Exchange and was awarded ‘New less fortunate. As well as being a boating to our team members, and the power Growth Firm of the 20 Years’ by Financial enthusiast, Rob is an avid supporter of of perseverance and ‘grit’. News. In 2015 it had already been named Commando Spirit, a charity supporting Investment Consultant of the Year by four ex-marines and their families; he abseiled Rob’s achievements since graduating are separate industry bodies. down the Shard to raise money for them. formidable. In 2000, he joined Deutsche He is also a board member of the Catalyst Bank’s graduate programme from where, And it doesn’t stop there: Rob also Club, part of Cancer Research UK – and in 2003, he went to Merrill Lynch to work co-founded mallowstreet, an online he still finds time to play tennis. in the Pensions and Insurance Group – community for the pensions industry that and met his future business partner and brings together skills and resources, the Robert Gardner (1997) is married with co-founder of Redington Dawid Konotey- better to solve the pensions and savings two children and lives in Richmond. Ahulu. In 2006, with the financial crash crisis through education and collaboration. Redington is the sponsor of St Anne’s of 2008 already looming, Redington was Not only for older generations, but for Boat Club providing essential funding to born with the aim of solving the growing the very youngest. Which is why in 2012 support the club’s aims and ambitions crisis in pension funds. Convinced there he launched RedStart a financial literacy was a better way to manage pension programme that aims to plant the seed funds and other long-term savings, they for the financial wellbeing of young people wanted to transform people’s experience and last year wrote Save Your Acorns to of pensions and savings from fear help children as young as four learn about

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Decision time DAVID LANGER

How to choose between running your The first thing to say is that there is no only recruit two to three new analysts each own enterprise and a regular job? ‘Serial right answer. Each person has slightly year and they often prefer applicants with entrepreneur’ – his own words – David different needs, priorities and values. To help two plus years relevant experience. Langer weighs the options understand what might be the best option, Pros: High kudos – there’s no doubt these let’s weigh up the pros and cons: On many, many occasions during a degree, places are hot, you get a very good work–life you contemplate what will come next. Some Join a Large Corporate balance (normally < 60hrs/week work), direct people are completely set on moving on to exposure to top people (both within the This is the easiest option to take. get a PhD in Theoretical Physics while others company and meeting clients), a relatively have decided that a corporate firm is by far Pros: You get a good name on your CV, high starting salary, reasonable job security and away the best place they could start good training, your friends and family will be and high long-term financial upside (if you their career in business. immediately proud of your new job, you get reach fund manager). a good work–life balance – except in IBD! However, most people aren’t fortunate Cons: Training is on-the-job (albeit with (Investment Banking Division) – you have enough to have this level of certainty. For an some useful professional qualifications), relatively good job security and you receive a intelligent, talented student, furnished with your impact on investee companies can be high starting salary. a diverse range of skills and experiences, significant although your pre-occupation with about to receive a good degree, how on Cons: It’s unlikely you’ll get public credit leverage and a target IRR (internal rate of earth do you choose from the thousands of for your work, your personal development return or ‘yield’) can conflict uncomfortably business–related career options available? is likely to be quite niche and narrow with their non-financial objectives and (management consultancy is broadest), personal development is again relatively You basically have four options: long-term financial upside is often low niche and narrow. ■■ Join a Large Corporate (Investment (relative to starting and selling your own Start your own Company Bank, Consultancy, Law Firm, successful company), your role often has Professional Services etc). little or no impact on the wider world, The scariest option – not for the faint- you’ll have to deal with internal politics, hearted. ■■ Go into Investment Management (Private established organizational structure, and Equity, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds, Pros: Incredibly steep personal development your department is always likely to get bent Pension Funds etc). – you have to learn and adopt new roles very out of shape a little. fast, you can personally have direct impact ■■ Start your own Company (or continue Go into Investment Management on the world, it’s definitely best for getting with your existing company if you public credit, it’s your idea so you’ll be super- recently started one). This one is tough to do straight out of passionate about coming into work every university. Elite Investment Managers may ■■ Join a Start-up Company. day, you have no boss, there’s no politics as

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everyone is equal to start with, you only have paid well and have a lot of fun (particularly in opportunity cost of not getting a job. to work with people you like and there is London). And anyway, having interviewed many huge financial upside if you nail it – you could Internships also help you work out what you employers and worked as a professional become rich and famous. don’t like. This helps you home in on what Careers Coach myself, I know that Cons: No brand name for the CV, no you actually do want to do. experience of starting and running a training or guidance – you have to work business is valued highly by employers. The Kulveer Taggar, ex-President of Oxford out everything yourself from first principles, amount a candidate will have learned is now Entrepreneurs and Co–founder of Boso. terrible work-life balance – the start–up will well understood – irrespective of success or com and Auctomatic.com took a slightly be your life, you risk public humiliation if it failure. different path having spent six months at an fails and you have no initial salary. Investment Bank after graduating: Not only this: if your start-up fails, you’ll have Join a Start–up Company learned many lessons from the mistakes I actually did both, the graduate job you made first time round and you’re more In contrast to jumping into starting a before leaving to do entrepreneurship. In likely to succeed if you try to start another company yourself, this can act as an my case, I quickly realized I’d have more company. intermediary bridge. immediate control over my future by doing my own thing rather than working in ‘...I need to get some experience before Pros: Good for personal development – an Investment Bank. I valued working with starting a company.’ you’re likely to get stuck into lots of different dynamic people and in situations where I areas, little politics (if it’s still a small team), FreshMinds – founded by Charlie Osmond was out of my comfort zone. Also, I very salary is stable (especially if the company and Caroline Plumb in 2000 within a practically believed that entrepreneurship is funded by venture capitalists), long-term year of graduating – Google, Microsoft, would get me to financial independence financial upside is potentially high if you Facebook, Yahoo! and countless other quicker than a graduate job. joined early enough to receive a significant (1 successful companies were set up by first per cent+) equity share. The reason why some people end up in time entrepreneurs with no serious work the wrong job is they didn’t think things experience. Cons: Unlikely to be a brand name for your through enough; they didn’t play the tape CV, no formal training, work-life balance isn’t ‘...a big company will pay me more money.’ forward. Here are some of the popular great – there’s a lot of work still to do, less misconceptions people have: Yes: it will in the short term. You get a nice, public credit than if you were a founder and large salary. However, you don’t get equity long-term financial upside is still much lower ‘...starting a company is too risky.’ beyond a few token employee stock options. than the founders. Is it? How much risk are you actually taking? You don’t get access to a potentially massive Many of these pros sound great. How do I When you graduate fresh out of university financial upside in the future. choose? you’re young and broke. So you try starting a How much money do you need straight out company for a couple of years and it doesn’t Internships are one way. Internships not only of university? Many people care much more work out. You’re still young and broke. provide you with an education and insight about the money they’ll have to support their What are you actually risking? It’s only the into a prospective industry, but you also get family and live on when they have the time

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to enjoy the money. If this is the case, then marketing, strategic, management and many from Charlie Osmond: surely the long-term financial upside should other skills. Surely learning all these has Overall, there is no right route, whatever be what you are looking for? serious value? decision you make, the key is to learn What is more, money is just one currency. In his Guide to Career Planning Mark from it and reassess your options. Don’t What about learning skills and developing a Andreesen went on to say: get stuck in a job and find you never take network? Do they have value? Did you think the risk of starting up. Equally, if you start After graduating is when you should about them? What would you learn in that something that’s going nowhere, make optimize for the rate at which you can job you are considering? Who will you build sure you fail fast and move on. develop skills and acquire experiences relationships with? Even if you do ultimately that will serve you well later. You should David Langer (2004) www.davidlanger. want money, is it therefore better to choose specifically take income risk in order to co.uk. First published in Career Gateways the option which will give you more money do that. Always take the job that will best Limited now, or the option which furnishes you develop your skills and give you valuable with the tools required to make a lot more experiences, regardless of its salary. money? For example, starting up a company will require you to learn financial, legal, sales, I’ll leave this debate with a closing quote

David Langer: profile

Since graduating in Mathematics in 2007, While at St Anne’s he was a member of Along the way, for a couple of years he when he was awarded second place in the Oxford Entrepreneurs, Oxford University also found time to work as a columnist 2007 UK Graduate of the Year competition, Motor Drivers’ Club, Oxford University on entrepreneurship for The Gateway, an David has had an awe-inspiring career. Triathlon Club – a sport he still pursues online business and careers newspaper for – and won a half-blue for table tennis. students. He served a number of internships with The big launch came in 2012 with the Lehman Brothers, McKinsey & Company foundation of Zesty. Based in San Francisco, and J.P. Morgan and in 2006 also found Zesty empowers companies to be healthier time to co-found GroupSpaces, developing and more productive. Its team creates technology to help real-world groups and tailored, world-class food programmes communities manage themselves online. By for offices with 20 to 1000+ employees. the time he departed for his next venture in They work with hundreds of clients serving 2012, its software was helping to manage balanced and delicious breakfasts, lunches, over one million memberships for sports dinners, happy hours and special events. clubs, charities, university societies, national David raised over US$20 million in funding associations and many other groups. from top Silicon Valley investors including

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Index Ventures, Founders Fund, Forerunner scratch and an Angel Investor, a group of Zesty, says: Ventures, SV Angel and Y Combinator. successful entrepreneurs providing funding David is a hyper analytical visionary who and expertise for the next generation of In July last year David retired as CEO of operates with a high level of empathy entrepreneurs. Zesty. When asked what comes next he is and integrity. I’ve watched his presence cagey: rest and time for reflection? Maybe, David’s most recent activity, since early this and mind-set inspire others around him but he still has plenty to occupy him. Using year, is as a pledger with Founders Pledge, to do the same, cultivating a culture of the skills learned from his own experience a UK-based programme launched in June doers, makers and thinkers that all push of start-ups, he is a Mentor at Seedcamp, 2015 out of Founders For Good to catalyze boundaries. a funding organisation investing capital tomorrow’s philanthropists today. Through One of his biggest qualities is how he in pre-seed and seed stage startups. the Founders Pledge, tech founders and understands the big picture without It offers a lifelong platform of learning, investors commit to donating at least 2 losing touch with the details. This network and capital to support the most per cent of their personal proceeds to the alone makes him an extremely effective ambitious founders. He is also an advisor charities of their choice when they sell their leader. He possesses excellent product at Entrepreneur First, a company supporting business. awareness and execution, and has a engineers and computer scientists to How to sum up? Danny Keane, a freelance true deep-rooted meaningful passion for build world-class tech companies from product designer, who worked with David at making an impactful change in the world. Poetry for our times TOM CHIVERS

Why would a progressive, young theatre I thought. I remember waiting impatiently bookshelf at random, that the idea of a company stage a production based outside Vincent’s office door, which at theatrical production began to emerge. I was on a 650-year-old poem? The answers one point carried an A4 printout of then- immediately hit by how many parallels there emerge all too clearly in Fair Field, a Education Secretary Charles Clarke, along are between the world of Piers Plowman, new play based on William Langland’s with his comment, ‘I don’t mind there being and the world that we’re currently in. Piers Piers Plowman some mediaevalists around for ornamental Plowman is, fundamentally, a poem of crisis. purposes, but there is no reason for the state I was first introduced to the 7,000-line Written in the late-fourteenth century by to pay for them.’ There is a lot of Vincent’s wit mediaeval poem Piers Plowman by the the Herefordshire poet William Langland, in that gesture, and perhaps something of the charismatic English lecturer (now Tolkien Piers Plowman takes the form of an poet of Piers Plowman too. Self-deprecating, Professor of English) Vincent Gillespie while at allegorical dream-vision. It tells the story inquiring and sharp as a knife. St Anne’s. It was wild, weird and, as the poet of a wandering dreamer, Will, who ends promises in the Prologue, full of ‘wondres It was almost ten years later, after pulling up on a quest to find Truth. Will is an to here’. ‘This is even better than Chaucer,’ my old copy of Piers Plowman from the archetypal anti-hero: an unreliable narrator

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like Don Quixote or Stephen Dedalus in a time of huge social and economic change, seems as alive today as it did 650 years ago. Joyce’s Ulysses. At the start of the poem in which old feudal hierarchies were coming My new production, Fair Field, aims to make he falls asleep in the Malvern Hills in under pressure from an assertive labour accessible live theatre, which also honours Herefordshire and then sees a vision of force and new forms of trade – what we the poem’s wildness. It is highly collaborative, the world as a ‘fair field full of folk, working might identify as early capitalism. It’s a theme involving young theatre company Breach, and wandering’ – a bustling panorama taken up by the journalist Paul Mason in his early music renegades the Society of Strange of mediaeval life. But this dreamscape book Postcapitalism. ‘In high feudalism,’ and Ancient Instruments, theatre-makers is beset by problems: spiritual decay, Mason writes, ‘credit is seen as sinful. So Francesca Millican-Slater and Nick Field, corruption, binge drinking, you name it. when money and credit burst through the poets Steve Ely and Ross Sutherland, and boundaries and create a market system, it Despite being firmly situated in the mediaeval playwright Annette Brook, along with an feels like a revolution.’ Christian imagination, with its focus on sin, ensemble of five actors. The production confession and penance, Piers Plowman This sense of the dangerous, revolutionary opened in Ledbury and the Malvern Hills (30 has clear links to modern problems, such as power of money floods through Piers June – 1 July) with an outdoor spectacle of the MPs’ expenses scandal. In the very first Plowman. Everyone seems to be on the music, performance and processions. The section Langland attacks absentee priests make, from false beggars and dodgy friars to following week the production decamped who spend none of their time in their parish, ‘regraters’, city merchants who buy up food to Shoreditch Town Hall in London (7–8 but instead live in London, living off the fat in one market, mark up the price and unload July). The wider project also included a free of the land while their parishioners starve. it in another market. Langland concentrates exhibition at the National Poetry Library at Abuse of power and the corrupting influence an entire early passage of the poem on ‘Lady the Southbank Centre (till 9 July), featuring as of money are key ideas in Piers Plowman; Mede’, a character who represents ‘reward’ its centrepiece an exquisite early manuscript and while modern parallels are never far or ‘payment’, and through that passage of Piers Plowman (as well as a content-rich away, these ideas emerge from stark stages a debate about the use and abuse of website) and workshops about mediaeval historical reality. The fourteenth century was money. It’s a carefully poised argument that poetry for primary school children. I hope audiences will experience something of what I did back at St Anne’s almost 15 years ago: to hear some of Langland’s extraordinary language performed aloud in resonant spaces, and to explore the strange, hallucinatory world of ideas that it creates.

Tom Chivers (2001) is director of independent publisher and arts producer Penned in the Margins. He is artistic co- director of Fair Field (www.thisfairfield.com)

Fair Field: Robin Berry as Will

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Oxford Letter ELISABETH SALISBURY Since 2010 the number of people the Gatehouse, originally in St Michael’s be trained, money was raised. But, to the sleeping rough on the streets has more Street, now in St Giles Church Hall. Six frustration of the organizers, health and safety than doubled. Oxford is no exception, evenings a week Gatehouse opens to anyone requirements defeated attempts to open but the newly formed Oxford Winter homeless or vulnerably housed, offering food, emergency accommodation. Night Shelter aims to change all that company, clothes, advice: a place to go – but Which led to a rethink. What is really needed not to sleep. On one of your visits to College recently have is not just temporary shelter when the you walked into town to visit the Bodleian, You may have heard of SWEP, the Severe weather is fiercely cold – though we should Blackwells or the Ashmolean? If so, you will Weather Emergency Protocol by which not abandon that – but a bed throughout the undoubtedly have seen one of the most local authorities are obliged to shelter all, winter months. So, for the coming months shameful sights in this wealthiest of cities: regardless of where they come from, if the we’re working on OWNS (Oxford Winter our fellow citizens sleeping on the streets temperature is predicted to fall below zero Night Shelter). We’ve formed a committee, because there is nowhere else for them to go. for three consecutive nights. Oxford City appointed a secretary and treasurer, started Earlier this year 62 beds were lost with the Council asked if CTCO could organize this the process of applying for charitable closure of one of the first stage night shelters. for the winter of 2016-2017. To the delight status and are hoping to open for January, More cuts are anticipated. of many working in the field there was a February and March 2018. We’ve had useful terrific response from within and outside conversations with organizers of similar Thirty years ago, Churches Together in the churches. A city centre church offered projects in High Wycombe and Bracknell. Central Oxford (CTCO) joined forces to open its premises, many people volunteered to So far four city churches have offered their premises for one night a week and others will almost certainly follow suit. The plan is for each church to open on a regular night each week so visitors know where to go each night. Because no single venue will be open more than 27 days, health and safety regulations, which prevented us operating earlier, will not come into play. There is still much to do, but a great deal of enthusiasm has been generated to ensure that no one who doesn’t want to should be forced to sleep in a cardboard box on St Giles. Sleeping Rough: a community-based film due to appear later this year. The film, by Pastles Productions, aims to raise awareness of growing homelessness in the UK / Courtesy Pastles Productions Elisabeth Salisbury (1956) (www.pastlesproductions.com)

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Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2017

15 – 17 September 2017 With an estimated spend of just under £5m 2025 Conversation annually on outreach, Oxford endeavours All St Anne’s alumnae are warmly invited We want to build on the College’s history to attract the best young minds from all to the annual Gaudy on 15-17 September of being at the forefront of change and backgrounds or financial means. But 2017 timed to coincide with the Oxford our values of being forward and outward what does a multi-million pound outreach University Alumni Weekend (https://www. looking. At the core of the Conversation programme look like and, more important, alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni_home). We hope is the question, ‘What would St Anne’s is it working? that you can join us at some of the St need to be and to be doing in 2025 for Anne’s events over the weekend and 1.30pm Gaudy Lunch you to be overwhelmed with pride at its take the opportunity to meet old friends achievements and reputation?’ There will 2.30pm Gaudy Seminar: ‘The and fellow alumnae. Accommodation is be an opportunity at the Afternoon Tea to Unreasonable Effectiveness of available in College for alumnae and their share your views and help shape the future Curiosity in Quantum Nanomaterials’ guests (due to limited ensuite availability direction of the College. See p.17. Professor Andrew Briggs there is only one guest per person in the 5.00 – 6.00pm Annual General Meeting first instance) on a first-come, first-served Curiosity about ultimate questions such of the St Anne’s Society (formerly basis for the nights of Friday 15 and as meaning and purpose can create an known as the Association of Senior Saturday 16 September. environment that is conducive to scientific Members) breakthroughs, and many of the best Saturday 16 September minds in science have also been curious 7.00 – 7.30pm Pre-dinner Drinks about deeper realities. Professor Andrew Reception From 10.30am Gaudy registration and Briggs, Professor of Nanomaterials tea, coffee and pastries 7.30 – 9.30pm Dinner and Fellow of St Anne’s, will explore 12.30pm Founding Fellows’ Lecture: the potential of this kind of interplay in Sunday 17 September ‘University and College perspectives quantum nanoscience. 10.30 – 11.30 am Gaudy Service on widening participation: Current and 3.30pm Meet the Principal and Family new initiatives and challenges around To book your place at this event, please Afternoon Tea access’ book online at http://tinyurl.com/st-annes- Dr Samina Khan, Director of All St Anne’s alumnae and their families alumni-weekend-2017. Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach, are invited to meet St Anne’s new Principal If you have any queries please contact the and Fellow of St Anne’s; and Dr Shannon Helen King while enjoying afternoon tea in Development Office at development@st- McKellar Stephen, Fellow, Senior Tutor and the Dining Hall. annes.ox.ac.uk. Tutor for Admissions at St Anne’s

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At the frontlines of change: feminist leadership transforming lives NOELEEN HEYZER

In the second of the Devaki Jain lectures, Noeleen Heyzer focuses on her lifelong work in ‘making the world a better place for women’, in peace as in war

For me, feminist leadership is individual and collective leadership that addresses and transforms power structures and relationships, norms and practices of discrimination, injustices and violence that destroy women’s lives and potential. It is leadership that brings about societal change, transforms the situation of women, empowers them and provides them with opportunities to live in dignity and freedom with rights as full human beings.

Gender discrimination reduces women’s October 2016: Noeleen Heyzer (centre) with Deirdre Mullan and Moya Mullan at the Devaki Jain Lecture humanity. The inequalities and humiliations political voice and the right to vote, to the the stable, clean and prosperous country are deeply entrenched in structures, norms women who organized for ‘peace and bread’ that we know today. It had a poor migrant, and practices. Every continent has a history against World War I. They include the women mainly Chinese, population, brought in as of women morally outraged by these who organized to change the working and coolie labour by the colonial powers. It had a injustices and the subordination of women. living conditions for women textile workers history of young girls ‘Sold for Silver’ (the title Many women fought at the frontlines to remembered on every International Women’s of the 1958 autobiography of Singaporean change the terms of living and engaging, Day on 8 March, to the women who fought author Janet Lim) or given away as ‘Mui Tsai’ transforming their own lives and that of for entrance to universities and the right to (‘bonded girls’). In the context of grinding their societies. They include the women in be educated. poverty, the alternative to selling was to the suffragette movement in Europe and abandon new-born infants if they were girls. I was born and grew up in colonial the United States in the late-nineteenth In my childhood I still remember many new- Singapore. It was a very different place, not and early-twentieth century who fought for born girls left at the doorsteps of convents

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or in rubbish bins to die. Polygamy was equality, they engaged persistently at the equality. The global legal instruments and common and women and girls were easily United Nations to hold their governments Platforms for Action supported by a strong discarded, left in vulnerable situations with no accountable to international norms and constituency have helped to strengthen state legal rights and protection. standards. They took advantage of the accountability at national levels. changed political context and membership The situation appalled many women in the Gender Equality: where are we now in of the United Nations to forge effective global country. About 2,000 women formed the Asia? alliances to advance women’s human rights, Singapore Council of Women (SCW) in April including four world conferences on women However, in spite of the changes that 1952 to provide a united voice for women, to between 1979 and 1995. women have succeeded in bringing about, start a movement for better protection and much remains to be done. In Asia, the legal framework for women and girls, and Through these alliances, women were able to creation of societies founded on equality, to wage a campaign against polygamy and set global ground rules and secure important justice and rights is unfinished business. child marriage. The tenacity of these women, international commitments and legal Gender inequality still remains a barrier to who were social reformers during the struggle instruments, including the Convention on progress and social stability, and deprives for political independence, paid off when the the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination the region of its full human potential. Yes, Peoples Action Party (PAP) included women’s Against Women (CEDAW), which came Asia has transformed itself over the past legal rights in the Party’s election manifesto in into effect in 1979. In addition, women four decades: ‘Rising Asia’ has lifted more the 1959 election and passed the Women’s created new policy agendas and broke the than half its people out of poverty, from 52 Charter in 1961 in government. silence on sexual violence, which had been per cent in 1990 to 18 per cent in 2012. a largely hidden phenomenon, regarded The struggle in Singapore was not unique It has created rapid growth, an expanding as a private matter that did not merit the but one of many across Asia and, indeed, educated and technologically savvy middle attention of governments or of the United the emerging post-colonial world. As the class of men and women who have taken Nations system itself. It was only in 1993 colonial empires disintegrated and new advantage of new opportunities. This is the that the UN Declaration on the Elimination countries were born, many women played crux of the Asian Miracle – the generation of Violence Against Women became the an active role in political independence of shared prosperity and the reduction of first international human rights instrument struggles and subsequently contributed to poverty in the shortest period of human to deal specifically with violence against building effective state institutions, working to history. But the work is incomplete. In many women. Today, the pandemic of violence democratize the state, build its capacity and countries and communities, gender inequality against women features on the agenda of strengthen its accountability to all citizens. remains entrenched even in this era of rapid almost every government, as well as the Because of the discrimination they had faced economic transformation. UN and other multilateral organisations. for so long, women took every opportunity In almost every country there are now In our region as a whole, women are living to bring their struggle for equality into every groups working to revise discriminatory longer lives and our daughters are better political space that opened up, whether laws, to introduce new legislation, to educated, with more opportunities. More at the local, national or international level. strengthen implementation, to educate women are participating in the economy When women realized that national policies and change mind-sets, and to mobilize and Asia has the second highest ratio were inadequate to guarantee gender both men and women in support of gender of employed women of working age in

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the world at 49 per cent. More women choices, reduce their inheritance rights many conflict-affected communities and are leaders in the corporate world. Many and control over assets, including land. women are still excluded from the peace young women are heading their own October 17 [the date of this lecture: Ed] is and decision-making tables. These are just businesses and actively involved in the the International Day for the Eradication of a few glimpses of how women and girls are issues of their day, showing intellectual and Poverty. We can make poverty history by still devalued, made vulnerable and weak in creative leadership, and leading in many ending the feminization of poverty. society, and the inability of society to provide technological as well as social innovations. them with basic human security. They are Progress for women in Asia is too slow when A handful of countries are narrowing the violations of women’s basic human rights. it still has the highest male-female sex ratio gender gap in political participation. Asian They are societal failures, which take place in in the world with sex-selective abortion and countries, as members of the United every region of our world. Much more must female infanticide, resulting in about 100 Nations have made formal commitments to be done, and done urgently. That is why I million ‘missing women’ in China and India, implement CEDAW and international and joined the United Nations. despite the two countries’ high economic regional agreements. Yet, despite these growth over the past decade. Progress At the frontlines of change: my UN proud achievements, Asia lags behind on is too slow when maternal mortality and experience several aspects of gender equality compared other gender-related MDGs (Millennium to other developing regions. The Charter of the United Nations was Development Goals) are the hardest to written while the world was engulfed in the Great disparities exist between and within achieve in remote and rural communities. horrors of World War II. Established in the our sub-regions. Women and men may live There is no progress when girls are still given name of ‘We, the Peoples’ it entered into in the same region or country but in different away in child marriage or as debt payment. force on 24 October 1945 with the promise worlds as a result of growing inequalities in When girls like Malala are shot for wanting an of a just and better world ‘free from want, economic assets, power and status. Whilst education because of the growing extremist from fear, and all forms of discrimination’ for many parts of East and Southeast Asia forces against women’s human rights. When present and future generations. The Nobel are moving forward, progress is too slow over 1,000 women garment workers lose Laureate, Ralph Bunche, who was closely in South Asia. Indeed, ranking on gender their lives with the collapse of Rana Plaza, involved in drafting the Charter, wrote: ‘The equality indicators developed by UNDP’s Bangladesh, caused by the corruption of United Nations exists not merely to preserve Human Development Report shows many political elites and poor working conditions the peace but also to make change – even parts of South Asia close to or even lower in the supply chain of the global garment radical change – possible without violent than sub-Saharan Africa when it comes to industry. Today, violence against women upheaval.’ The collective power of people health, adult literacy, economic participation. continues to destroy the lives and talents of to take stewardship of our human future Poverty has a woman’s face not only far too many women and girls. According to and shape a shared destiny of peace and because of discrimination in earnings the independent Human Rights Commission security, development and human rights is but also because of women’s inability to of Pakistan (HRCP) there were around 1,100 greater now than ever before and the need access economic opportunities because of ‘honour killings’ of women in 2015 alone by to exercise it more compelling. entrenched discriminatory structures and family members in Pakistan while many more practices that restrict women’s mobility and cases go unreported. Rape still continues I have worked for almost 30 years in the threaten their security, limit their employment to be used as a weapon of war in far too United Nations. I fully believe in the founding

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principles of the UN, and this is why I have everyone. But women were targeted in very guns, often at the expense of long-term spent most of my life in its service, practising specific ways as systems of protection, the peace building. Women and other significant these principles and leading change rule of law and the rules of war collapsed. groups were therefore completely excluded whenever there was an opportunity. There is We witnessed how rape and other forms of from the peace table, and from post-conflict time this evening to share just one example sexual violence were used as weapons of decision-making. I argued that peace is more of being at the frontlines of change through war to destroy communities and traumatize than the absence of violence. Peace building the United Nations. them beyond recovery, to humiliate the men must mean an inclusive political process, a from the other side and to destroy identity commitment to human rights in the post war Security Council Resolution 1325: in identity conflicts. Mass rape during the period, and attempts to deal with issues of women, peace and security Rwanda genocide in 1994 affected 250,000- justice and reconciliation. When I was appointed as the Executive 300,000 women. The scale and horror of Having no female representation during Director of the United Nations Development this together with that of the mass rape peace negotiations rendered women’s Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in 1994, I was of women in Bosnia and Herzegovina in grievances unheard and unaddressed. The determined to make the world a better place 1992 shocked the world. I worked with the exclusion of a gender perspective from for all women, supporting the progress of Security Council for a full-scale assessment peace building and recovery processes member States and their people, using the of the impact of armed conflict on women. therefore weakened the foundations for United Nations’ principles and values. In conflict after conflict, I met women choked sustainable peace and security. If the goal with painful experiences and memories On the first UN Day of this millennium, 24 is to build sustainable peace, it required of their own humiliation and those of their October 2000, a major opportunity arose more diverse inputs from the rest of society, loved ones: husbands, brothers, daughters for me to address the issues that go to the and women have a critical role to play in and sons. In response, I demanded that the heart of our Charter. For the first time, my shaping a fairer and more inclusive future. protection for women and girls in conflict be team and I succeeded in putting the issue We fought for the need to move from a addressed at the highest level of the United of women, peace and security before the male and elite-dominated approach to more Nations, the Security Council. Security Council. Since my appointment, inclusive governance and decision-making UNIFEM had provided assistance to women However, women are not just victims, they by engaging women in all aspects of conflict in conflict-affected countries and supported are part of the solution to transitioning from resolution, peace building and recovery. their participation in peace processes. conflict to peace. Through UNIFEM’s support The Security Council finally heeded the But the frontlines of war had changed. for women’s peace initiatives, I convinced voices of women and passed the historic The distinction between a war front and a the Security Council of the importance landmark resolution 1325 on Women, Peace home front had eroded. Targets could be of supporting women’s leadership and and Security (SCR 1325) in October 2000. anywhere: homes, markets, schools, trains, agency in peace building and post-conflict It marked the beginning of the Women, cafés, theatres. Just as the venue of war reconstruction. When it came to peace Peace and Security Agenda in the Security had become diffused so had the fighting making and recovery, we witnessed how Council. I am happy to have acted as the forces, with state and non-state fighters warlords were invited to the peace talks. technical advisor to the then President of comprising private militias, paid mercenaries, Mediators frequently perceived the peace the Security Council, Namibia. UNIFEM criminal gangs. The violence of war affected process as ceasefires and the silencing of

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was proud to have facilitated the women – from public execution to their complete visit Afghanistan with my team to identify who organized for peace and security removal from social, economic and political and work with women on the ground on the ground to dialogue as experts life – provoked international outrage. For who wanted change. We held intensive with members of the Security Council. It me, the world finally got it. The condition consultations with the government and represented a long overdue recognition of of women in a country is the barometer of with a wide range of women from doctors, their accomplishments and challenges. peace and security and is associated with teachers and lawyers, to displaced women better governance and functioning states. and girls in the refugee camps. Resolution 1325 consists of four pillars: This was the message of SCR 1325. prevention, protection, participation, peace By the time the first International Women’s building and recovery. It promotes the human I was thrilled when the United Nations Day was celebrated in the country on 8 rights of women in conflict-affected countries, Secretary-General Kofi Annan invited me to March 2002, the Ministry of Women’s emphasizing women’s rights to inheritance, be part of his delegation to the International Affairs headed by Minister Sima Samar and property and land, health, education and Conference on Reconstruction Assistance UNIFEM were able to mobilize over 1,000 employment, in recovery and rebuilding to Afghanistan in Tokyo, January 2002. Afghan women from seven districts to make processes. In fact, post-conflict recovery is Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi had overall their voices and demands heard. In the the opportunity for society to address the authority for the political, human rights, ruins of a Kabul cinema burned down by root causes of conflict, to change direction recovery and reconstruction activities of the the Taliban, Chairman Karzai, Ambassador and work towards gender equality. SCR United Nations in the post-Taliban transition Brahimi and members of the cabinet listened 1325 became the resolution that inspired of Afghanistan. He was in the midst of to the aspirations of women from rural substantive and widespread action in the solidifying the 2001 Bonn process that and urban areas, from all ethnic groups. whole UN system, in the security sector of created the current Afghan Government. Their message was united and clear: the our member states and among advocates for With all the difficulties of bringing stability, women of Afghanistan wanted to help build women’s human rights. It is regarded as one self-rule and security to the country that he a government accountable to all Afghans, of the UN’s most transformative and legally had to handle, he advised me to postpone at peace with itself and with its neighbours. binding frameworks that we have created the issue of gender equality and women’s They knew the cost of accumulated conflicts, together with women living in conflict-affected empowerment to some future date in the what it meant to have sons, brothers and countries. hope that it would be easier to handle. husbands who were forced to fight, and On my side, with UNIFEM’s experience daughters, forced to hide, totally excluded Afghanistan: a test case for SCR 1325 in supporting women in Rwanda, Liberia, from public life. These women were now the I tested the first implementation of SCR Burundi, Kosovo, Guatemala and Timor- highest stakeholders of peace, stability and 1325 in a very difficult political context – Leste, I knew that support to women development. Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. affected by conflict and in countries From that day, Special Representative Images and stories of all forms of violence undergoing transition could not wait. Brahimi became our champion and helped against women dominated our television Ensuring gender equality in Afghanistan’s with UNIFEM’s work to support 100 women screens and media after the 11 September legislative, judicial and policy frameworks leaders to engage with the 500-member 2001 terrorist attack in New York. The is an essential starting point for building Constitutional Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly suffering and exclusion of Afghan women the new future. I immediately prepared to

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for major decisions) in December 2003. In conclusion against ethnic and religious minorities, Eventually, after difficult negotiations, women the challenge of feminist leadership today Women who practised feminist leadership were recognized as equal citizens for the is taking our struggle beyond a focus on across time and place shared some first time in the constitution of Afghanistan. women even while continuing to work on common attributes: their outrage at injustice The inclusion of women’s equal rights gender equality. Today, we must work with when society fails women; their courage in the constitution was a huge historic the same tireless determination to end all in breaking barriers and entrenched victory. However, societies do not erase forms of discrimination against any human discrimination; their determination to rise discrimination overnight because of a new being. We must take the lead in saying and succeed in the fight for legal, social constitution. The legacy of discrimination ‘never again’ and in fighting for equality for and economic equality and justice despite remains entrenched and implementation is a all, to protect and restore the dignity and strong resistance; and their leadership to very big challenge. But equal citizenship for humanity of each and every one of us in our give voice to the voiceless and mobilize women in the constitution is real progress human community. for change in public mind-sets, institutions and will always be the beacon of hope for and practices. Their work has embedded Noeleen Heyzer, a social scientist, was women in the country. respect and dignity for women into our an Under Secretary General of the United Our work on rebuilding conflict-affected economic and social fabric making it a reality Nations and a founding member of several countries through the empowerment of for generations. They have committed their international women’s networks. She served women, using the legitimacy of SCR 1325, lives to shaping a world where all daughters, on the UNDP Human Development Report, continued to deliver results. By working with independent of background, could be the High-level Commonwealth Commission Women’s Affairs Minister Gayfor, educating educated, could have economic power, on Respect and Understanding chaired by women voters and supporting peer could have legal rights to fulfil their dreams, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. She was also a networking, women elected Ellen Johnson to improve the quality of their lives and that of jury member of US Secretary of State Hillary Sirleaf as the first woman President of Liberia their society. These dedicated and tenacious Clinton’s Innovation Award for Women’s and and of Africa. By supporting women to women are relentless in their pursuit of a Girls’ Empowerment in 2010 become elected leaders, Rwanda has the world where every girl is wanted, valued and This lecture is based on her forthcoming highest percentage of women in parliament loved; where every life counts. book Women at the Frontlines of Change, in the world with women playing a bigger Such leadership is more relevant than ever, Singapore 2017. All rights reserved. Lecture role in shaping the new direction of their not only for women, but for all people who delivered at St Anne’s on 17 October 2016 conflict-affected country. These experiences face discrimination and a denial of basic are testimony to the fact that, against The 2017 Devaki Jain Lecture on human rights. In a world where today we all odds, people are the most powerful Monday 6 November will be given by face multiple protracted civil wars, such as agents of change and when supported Sonia Montaño, a Bolivian sociologist Syria and the Democratic Republic of the and empowered in the direction envisioned currently Officer in Charge of the Division for Congo, a breakdown of peace treaties, such by the UN Charter can shape their destiny Gender Affairs at the Economic Commission as in South Sudan and Burundi, the highest towards a future of greater freedom and for Latin America and the Caribbean number of displaced people since the end dignity. (ECLAC, United Nations) of WWII, and widespread discrimination

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Translating crime fiction SIÂN REYNOLDS

How to account for the enduring most writers of detective novels are resigned crime writing easier or harder to translate popularity of crime fiction? A leading to being in a ‘genre’ pigeonhole. Still, in than other kinds of fiction? It makes certain translator of the genre explains Britain they have their own club, the Crime demands of the translator. The linguist Karen Writers’ Association, which gives away actual Seago identifies two key points. Crime When I was an undergraduate, we used to try daggers as awards. fiction under whatever label – whodunit, to do better than Scott Moncrieff at translating psychological thriller, police procedural – Proust. (We couldn’t.) Translating Proust is a What explains the genre’s enduring appeal? tends to be context-laden and plot-driven. challenge, yes, but crime fiction poses one It can certainly be addictive, but addicts too. By chance, after retiring from the day choose their own poison. One classic Context-laden: most crime fiction is set in job, I was asked to translate a detective novel answer – if we stick to the mainstream crime the contemporary world of the time it is by the French writer Fred Vargas. Previously novel with a mystery and a detective – is written, so the translator must recognize typecast as a translator of history books, I that it’s comfort reading. The story starts and perhaps explain the context, creating a now seem to be typecast as a crime-fiction with disorder (a crime), but by the end of believable cultural setting – register, dialogue, translator. An old crime-fiction translator, the book order has been restored, the guilty social milieu, conventions, unfamiliar that is. I read with much sympathy Penelope unmasked, justice done. We have identified institutions and legal systems. Linguistically, Farmer’s account in The Ship (2014-2015), of with the detective, Philip Marlowe, say, or VI it can mean going well outside your comfort the publishing world as it affects older writers. Warshawski, discovering clues as the story zone (slang, swearing and sex come to One good thing about the invisibility of the unfolds satisfactorily. We have had a frisson, mind). Some writers locate their books in a translator, as it is sometimes called, is that but the crime has been resolved. Except of particular place – Maigret’s Paris, say, or Ian no one cares how old you are. My heroine, course that order isn’t restored: the victim Anthea Bell, brilliant translator of WG Sebald remains dead, most characters have seen and Astérix, is not young. their lives in ruins, terrible secrets have usually been revealed. Perhaps the frisson What is crime fiction? Not ‘literature’ anyway. is the key ingredient, then. Greek tragedy is Not even ‘mainstream fiction’, apparently. almost entirely based on crime of some kind In the local library it sits alongside thrillers, and they had a word for what it does to you. in bookshops it has a special section, well away from General Fiction A-Z. It’s reviewed Can crime fiction work in translation? in ‘crime round-up’ batches on book pages. Although it is usually written for a home If a crime novel makes the Booker shortlist, audience, it travels widely. The world’s most- Coming soon: surprise is expressed. Intellectuals own translated author is Agatha Christie, by a latest offering up to taking it seriously if it’s described as very long way. Scandinavian crime novels from Fred ‘noir’ – or written by Raymond Chandler. So have recently done well in English. So is Vargas and Siân Reynolds

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Rankin’s Edinburgh, where I happen to live. whose prose is deliberately pared down, is In both cases, in my experience the para- In a Rankin novel I read in French recently, paradoxically tricky to translate, because textual features of publishing loom large. the excellent translator was stumped by of what is left out. Penguin has recently It’s not the translator, the editor (or indeed not recognizing the Hibs football ground, so re-issued the Maigret novels in versions by the author) but the marketing department made the detective support the wrong team. contemporary translators of whom I’m one. who has the last word on presentation It’s an interesting assignment: we needed – cover design and even title. The first Plot-driven: the crime usually happens early to harmonize terms (police ranks, place- three Simenons I translated appeared with on and the detective is working backwards names), to avoid anachronisms in speech, headless women on the jackets, in no way to uncover the past – but living forwards in and of course to retain simplicity of style. plot-related. The French title of a recent the present. The narrative is discontinuous Simenon’s first translator (and promoter) Vargas, Temps glaciaires (2015), refers and fragmented: Umberto Eco declared Geoffrey Sainsbury, had no qualms about appropriately both to Iceland and to the that the detective story is ‘the narrative par ‘embellishing’ Simenon’s lean prose. chill of the French Terror of 1794. But the excellence’. Clues must be picked up. What Sainsbury’s versions of A Crime in Holland publisher vetoed ‘cold’ or ‘ice’ for the English is being foregrounded or backgrounded? Is and The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin, both of version, as ‘too much like Scandi-fiction’. We a given detail or even a metaphor significant? which I have re-translated, read very smoothly ended up with a rather bland title, A Climate What about period items from earlier times? – but don’t exactly sound like Simenon. of Fear. The German translator of a Poirot story failed to recognize what a ‘spills vase’ near It’s actually rare for crime fiction to be re- I should end with a cautionary note and a fireplace was, thus missing a vital clue. translated like this. Only if it is by a ‘classic’ a confession: the translator – of crime (Younger readers may share her bafflement.) writer; and the key, as with Chandler, may or anything else – has both great power Both context and plotting make the be in the writing. Certain authors of crime and considerable responsibility. Since my translator the crime writer’s most assiduous fiction can be read over and over, and as schooldays, I have confused the French for reader. Most people read such novels only something of an addict myself, these are the floor/ceiling (plancher/plafond). When I had a once, rather quickly, rarely spotting the fault ones I return to for pleasure. suspect in a police station stare at the ceiling lines. Here I should salute my copy-editors, instead of the floor, it might not affect the The other novelist I often translate, Fred who are eagle-eyed. French copy-editors, overall narrative. But it had made him sound Vargas, a future classic perhaps, is still on the other hand, do not appear to exist. cocky, rather than – as he was – submissive. writing. Her books are the opposite of Manchots – penguins – in Iceland? The The reader might never know (power); but I Simenon’s: extraordinarily baroque and author meant to write pingouins – ‘little auks’. got it wrong (responsibility). quirky romances disguised as police In terms of style, if translation is compared procedurals – though oddly, a little easier Siân Reynolds (France 1958) is Emerita to interpreting a musical work (and it to translate. The problem with Vargas, Professor of French at Stirling University. She often is) a wrong note may be pounced however, can be the ‘maguffin’, the key to has the odd CWA Dagger in the attic and on. More so perhaps in a Mozart sonata the mystery: infuriatingly, it often turns on is currently co-editing the 2nd edition of the than in an orchestral work. To push this an untranslatable word or proper noun. Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women comparison further than you may think Ingenuity is called for. (EUP). Her translation of The Accordionist by acceptable, a writer like Georges Simenon, Fred Vargas is out in August

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Our built heritage: a gem or a millstone? What’s worth keeping and why?

In September 2016, we welcomed Lady to the founding of the building preservation We also welcomed Dame Helen Ghosh, Smith to the Gaudy Seminar, who as Christian charity, The Landmark Trust, which celebrated Director-General of the National Trust, who Carnegy came to St Anne’s in 1948 and 50 years last year. kindly agreed to act as Chair, Caroline whose life’s work is the inspiration for this Stanford, the Historian and Head of Christian has not only been a benefactor year’s seminar topic. She studied English Engagement at The Landmark Trust, Liane of St Anne’s but because of the Landmark Language and Literature here and met her Hartley, Co-Founder of Mend, and Dr connection has saved for us all upward of late husband, John Smith, who was reading Michael Fradley, Research Assistant on the 200 buildings, astonishing buildings, which history at New College. They married in 1952 ‘Endangered Archaeology’ project. might otherwise have been lost. and their partnership of shared interests led The many faces of heritage HELEN GHOSH

What do we mean by heritage and how as a senior civil servant, but when I’m telling including Sir Roy Strong whom you may have do we pay for it? the story of the National Trust, at supporters’ seen in the press recently with his views on associations and events, even long-term me and the National Trust, think is the thing We’ve got this rather long cumbersome title, members are astonished to learn that actually we should really concentrate on. but it’s what one might call compendious and we didn’t have any grand houses, no stately will, I think, give us a wonderful opportunity to But all our members will have different views homes, until the late-1930s and 1940s. Our talk about all sorts of aspects of heritage and and in recent years you will have seen, founders, Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and how we deal with it in this country. When the alongside our longstanding commitment others, were all about green space: heritage four of us thought about what we felt to be to countryside, to looking after our great for them was natural heritage, green spaces some of the key issues there were four areas houses, to coast, our starting to acquire bits particularly for the urban poor, and, insofar that came to mind, and you will hear these of heritage that are very different. I think it as they ever collected houses, with a couple picked up in the talks. was John Smith who, when he was a trustee of exceptions before World War II, they or possibly a council member at the Trust, The first one is, of course, the US$64,000 were ‘olde worlde’, merry England kind of was passionate about industrial heritage, so question: what is heritage and who decides places. Octavia, I think, would be completely we’ve got a lot of industrial heritage: we’ve what it should be? I took over as Director- astonished that the thing we are now most got canals, we’ve got windmills, latterly we’ve General of the National Trust almost four years famous for is our grand houses, our tea got things like the Beatles’ houses in Liverpool ago after 30 odd years in government, latterly rooms and our scones, which some people,

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– I think 21 of our members resigned at the seen that in a number of our great cities, contributed enormous amounts through disgrace that we’d acquired these. Because in Liverpool, for example, terrific examples the Heritage Lottery Fund. Is that the way that’s not heritage is it? And nowadays we of urban regeneration alongside heritage forward? Lots of issues about how we pay for think about what of the present we should be regeneration of all their Grade I listed industrial heritage and invest in the broader sense. collecting. I was having a lively conversation buildings. So here is a strand that it might be We also thought it would be good to take our with a journalist the other day who was telling worth exploring. minds off our own situation and think of the us we should buy lots of Art Deco cinemas; And then again that question: how do you pay wider world, which is what Michael Fradley and what a fun thing that would be to have. for it? I suppose there are always two schools is going to do. He will be talking to us about So what is heritage? How do you get people of thought: that you should try and create an archaeological issues around the world in to engage with heritage? How do you get economic case for looking after heritage and which he has been involved. everybody to feel that history, heritage, is investing in it that brings tourists, that you can Now I’ll hand over to my colleagues and leave relevant to them? I think Brexit gives us a use it for other purposes; and then there’s it to them to introduce themselves. chance to think about this: is heritage, in all its what I imagine many of us in this room feel, aspects, a way in which we can bring society the intrinsic value of heritage. But how do you Dame Helen Ghosh has been Director together, have some kind of common idea of fund it? You can fund it through charitable General of the National Trust since 2012. She our heritage and where we’ve come from in a organizations like ours, you can fund it was formerly a British civil servant and until way that isn’t at all exclusive? through The Landmark Trust model, which is November 2012 was Permanent Secretary of course a wonderful business model which of the Home Office. In March 2018, she will Another strand, which Liane in particular will, I has saved so many great buildings. In recent become the first woman Master of Balliol think, be talking about, is about how heritage years, our Lottery playing fellow citizens have College, Oxford can play a part in regeneration. We’ve

Millstones into gems CAROLINE STANFORD

We are more preoccupied and give more We raise the money for the restoration as a We are eternally grateful to Christian and her of ourselves to heritage than almost any charitable activity. If there’s sufficient cultural husband John for bringing us into existence other country in the world. But we have worth embedded in that building then we now 51 years ago, a really enlightened act to do more than simply preserve in aspic will find a way to raise the money to save it; in the grand tradition that we have in Britain relics of the past after that it is let for holidays. Access is there of philanthropic and passionate individuals for the whole population and the money making a difference to heritage. Without the Landmark is essentially a building that is generated by the holidays pays for William Morrises, the Octavia Hills, the John preservation charity that rescues historic the maintenance. We now care for 200 sites and Christian Smiths, heritage in Britain buildings at risk for all to enjoy for holidays, a would be a very different matter. across Britain from 1250 to the present day. rather unique sort of social business model.

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Aldeburgh: Antony Gormley statue on Martello tower So this word ‘heritage’. I don’t really like There are many meanings of heritage: it something that invigorates us to give that the word: to me it’s a slightly jargonist can be valued property, something that is level of time and resource and attention; it portmanteau of a word. Perhaps it carries an passed down the generations, something has to be something that does more than implicit localism that verges into a sense of that’s preserved especially for the nation and, simply preserve in aspic relics of the past. national identity and so on, but I would like in a sense, we’re possibly a bit obsessed. For heritage to be worthwhile, and this is to propose a slightly less formal sounding The National Trust has 4.5 million members something we believe in very strongly at definition: it’s the point of intersection and is still growing; more than seven per Landmark, that heritage has to inspire our between the evidence and relics of the past cent of the British population is a member own present lives. and our own present lives. It’s that sense of of this single heritage organization. We intersection that is crucial to how we care for The East Banqueting House at Chipping are more preoccupied and give more of our heritage – which I will continue to use as Campden, a wonderful seventeenth-century ourselves to heritage than almost any other a convenient shorthand term – as we move banqueting house and all that’s left of a once country in the world. However, it has to be forward into the future. great house that was burned down during

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the Civil War is one of my favourite buildings; built heritage as we do: that’s part of a future Arkwright for his workers in about 1770 when it captures that sense of reinvigoration, even legacy. he started his Cromford Mill, the earliest piece possible withdrawal from the world one can of planned industrial housing in the world. But there’s a great deal more to it than the imagine such buildings inspire. Fast forward 200 years to 1970 and most of leisure and enjoyment of heritage sites. the cottages were so dilapidated Derbyshire For our fiftieth anniversary last year, Antony Something that I carry permanently on my County Council wanted to demolish them. Gormley took five of our sites as inspiration shoulders as a member of the project team Along with Sir John, the Ancient Monuments for an installation nationally of his work, on many of Landmark’s rescue projects is the Society got involved and a deal was brokered highlighting what it means to be human and sense of responsibility one has as the curator, whereby Landmark would buy a certain what it means to be human in the beautiful presenter of historic fabric. There is a huge number of the buildings in the street, restore natural landscapes and historic sites that we sense of responsibility in deciding how to them, let them for people to live in and keep care for. present these things. one building, number 10, as a Landmark Another tiny building we’ve rescued on the There’s also a strong need to transmit Trust holiday let for people to experience South Coast is Clavell Tower. We actually traditional craft skills. Heritage Lottery funded what it’s like to stay in a cottage that Richard dismantled it and moved it back from the apprentice craftsmen learn on our sites. That Arkwright built for his workers. Today, crumbling edge of the cliff. Completely mad, kind of forward transmission and training is Cromford is part of the Derwent Valley World and I don’t know that it’s anything we would incredibly important as a spin off from the Heritage Site and the terraces are protected ever do again, but there was sufficient local work that we do in preserving heritage. If it’s within that site. Without the intervention and national belief that this little building was to be meaningful, our heritage has to be able of Landmark and the Ancient Monuments worth saving for Landmark to be able to raise to transmit things onwards in a very human, Society these streets would have been the money. immediate and personal way. demolished and what embedded value we would have lost there, both in a cultural sense We are also connecting forwards as well Another aspect of our work, and one that and as valuable accommodation. as backwards in our treatment of the past. I know Liane will be picking up on later, is We enthuse and bring our sites to life for heritage as a catalyst for change. John Smith Astley Castle is a joint conservation- children so that they continue to care for the was enormously prescient in his founding of restoration project by Landmark to The Landmark Trust: not only did he have introduce contemporary accommodation that light bulb moment of ‘perhaps people will into the shell of a ruined fortified manor. pay to stay in these buildings for holidays and A bold, nerve-wracking, ground-breaking enjoy and be invigorated by them’, he also initiative on our part, and it won the RIBA used the private trust fund that was backing 2013 Stirling Prize for Architecture for us in those early days for some really seminal the most influential building of the year in and pioneering regeneration projects. One British architecture. It’s an example of how such is North Street, Cromford. a different approach can not only bring something really fresh and new to a historic This little terrace and the matching terrace building but how it can transform the local East Banqueting Hall, Chipping Camden: ‘one of across the road were built by Richard my favourite buildings’ community in terms of its own involvement

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part in today’s Britain. But there are many Despite fierce campaigning, Save lost buildings that are not finding that kind its appeal and by September 2016 the of a solution. The case of Lime Street in developers had demolished the whole of this Liverpool, is from another sister organisation, historic frontage. This raises another question Save Britain’s Heritage. It’s been a long we might think about: to whom does heritage running campaign by Save to prevent belong? I would say it belongs to all of us the developers from stripping away this and what we have to decide is whether we historic frontage. The Futurist cinema was simply stand by and watch its replacement built in 1912 when cinema was the future by unambiguously modern architecture and and is a good representative example of a structures, or whether we prefer to continue Clavell Tower: before and after Landmark purpose-built building for something that to try and stitch together our past and our absolutely summed up its particular period: present in a way that gives us an inspiring with heritage. That again is a Heritage a particularly outstanding example of its and invigorating way to move forward to the Lottery funded project. time and of its type. It’s set within a frontage future. And finally, something we do need to of many other historic buildings, part of Caroline Stanford has been Historian at consider is this sense of heritage as burden. the pleasant and varied streetscape that The Landmark Trust since 2000 and Head What Landmark does, and we are lucky personifies so many of our towns and cities. of Engagement since 2013. She co- enough to have found a way to do it, is turn Liverpool is a World Heritage Site – and also authored Landmark: A History of Britain in millstones into gems and enable buildings on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites 50 Landmarks to celebrate the Trust’s fiftieth at risk to play an active and invigorating at risk. anniversary Mending our connections LIANE HARTLEY

A relatively new organization sets regenerating Britain’s cities. I grew up in On leaving St Anne’s at the height of New out to empower people by giving Cardiff, a great city that always inspired Labour’s popularity and exuberance, I them greater control in their local me to learn more about how cities work, immediately threw myself into a career in communities – and redefines ‘heritage’ how we can reproduce cities and how urban regeneration, which to me felt like in the process fundamental it is to feel that personal the right thing for me to be doing. Ten connection to a city. So when I got to years later, after all that youthful optimism I was at St Anne’s between 1996 and St Anne’s I actually went from being a and excitement instilled in me by Labour’s 1999, and was inspired by the advent of physical geographer, obsessed with regeneration plans for our cities after New Labour, my very first vote cast as rocks and rivers, to very much a human decades of underinvestment, I realised, an 18-year-old. What inspired me about geographer. I’m concerned about how to my horror, that what they meant by New Labour was their commitment to cities are made and remade. regeneration was far from changing

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people’s lives and injecting energy back Cameron, was talking about people psychological connection to place. I felt it into these places; it was simply a cynical having a greater level of decision making was important to bring that back. attempt at raising land values. over local affairs, and whether that’s I was strongly influenced by a book by actually what’s happened or not, to me I spent the early part of my 15-year career Iain Sinclair, a fellow Cardiffian, a very it was a very attractive proposition. Real working in East London in areas that are particular type of geographer. He’s a regeneration and city making is about now comfortably regenerated as part of psychogeographer, a discipline concerned people and the connection they have the Olympic project. It very quickly became with the effects on the psyche of the to it, not necessarily about bricks and apparent, despite all the promise of shiny geographical environment, about marrying mortar. The word ‘Mend’ was about new buildings – hospitals, housing and together the emotions you feel, the mending people’s connection to place, more – in working on these projects, that experiences you have and the stories you which I felt had been eroded largely it actually was a very cynical attempt at hear with the place you’re in. because the built environment had been just regurgitating and recycling the same over professionalised: to have a say – an Iain is brilliant at invoking a sense of place old thing. When you actually spoke to opinion – on the built environment you without your even being in that place. In people living in these areas very little was have to be a professional. It felt wrong. one of his most seminal works, Hackney, changing, very little impact was being That Rose-Red Empire, he takes a corner made; in many cases these places were As humans we have a very strong of London, which, until the bearded deteriorating in their eyes, no changes connection to our environment, a sensory hipsters moved in, was largely forgotten whatsoever were seen, certainly not in a connection. We also have an emotional and had been battered over the years. positive sense. connection to our place, our sense Hackney was never a glamorous place of home: it’s very personal to us, it’s By 2010 I realised that I’d spent a good but he loved it and lived there for a long unique, it’s comforting, it’s strong. You part of my career living a bit of a lie and time, spending his time walking the streets can extrapolate that to other places: felt I needed to put my money where of Hackney and encountering various whole cities could be described as a my mouth was. As we moved into a characters. He encountered local history in social network. It manifests physically recession I decided to quit my job and its rawest sense, not necessarily the official but actually it works as a set of social start a business with no funding and no history or a formalized version in history transactions and interactions, and key to experience. This was a mad thing to do, books, but folk history, the history of the that is a sense of anchoring. When we talk but also a very exciting and liberating one. everyday. What he found was a richness, about heritage, when we talk about old an incredible diversity and intrigue that I set up a company called Mend, a social buildings, essentially what we are saying was completely integral to that community: enterprise, the purpose and motivation is that these buildings act as an anchor: how it had grown and propagated, the of which is to enable people, in any they help us have a connection to our own buildings that had shaped it and in turn community, to have a greater level of past and our collective past, a collective shaped the characters in the stories that involvement in local decision-making on identity. In crude terms, my issue with he’s collecting. urban development. It came at a time regeneration was that it was missing out when the then Prime Minister, David this entire aspect of our human, emotional,

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There are other ‘geographical folk studio deep in Hackney that had seen conversations that took place, it changed historians’ doing much the same. Estates the likes of the Clash, Madness and other its policy. They had received similar by Lynsey Hanley tells the history of the musical gems. The well-known Belgian outrage over their approach to painting modern housing estate and, far from being street artist ROA had painted a 12 feet over another piece of street art, notably banal, far from being stark, depressing, high rabbit on the side of the studio. It had a Banksy on Stoke Newington Church and negative, is full of the rich, diverse been there for years and was much loved Street, which was also on private property history of the experiences of people who by the community. Far from seeing it as and had been painted with the permission live there. vandalism it had been absorbed by the of the owner. community as a piece of local heritage. What am I getting at? Just as history What all this taught me was that the Unfortunately the council saw things is written by the victors, so the term precise nature of local heritage is finely differently and had decided to paint it over. ‘heritage’ is often applied only to winning nuanced; unless we have an ability to buildings. There’s nothing wrong with When the post started to arrive at the properly consult communities about receiving funding to preserve or save recording studio lamenting that this what they value it’s very difficult to buildings for their heritage value, it’s a rabbit was dirty and contravened the avoid these scenarios. Local heritage shame that the value inherent in not so council policy against litter, effectively built may not have formal recognition as sexy, glamorous or historically significant environment litter, they were threatened ‘landmark’ or ‘heritage’ but nonetheless buildings doesn’t necessarily get saved or with legal action if they didn’t paint over plays a massively important part in local valued. it. It was on their own private property, so community identity. when the recording studio said thank you Who is heritage for? Who decides what My and Mend’s role is to act as a but we like the rabbit, we’re keeping it, is heritage? Shortly after setting up Mend broker for these conversations. We like things erupted into a full-blown dispute. we encountered somebody who was to describe ourselves as seeing the concerned about what she considered to We got involved when, with the help of community as a client, not just a bystander be a local heritage landmark, a piece of the recording studio, a local petition to for regeneration or planning or decision street art painted on the side of a recording save the Hackney rabbit took off; it made making, but actually a key player, key Channel 4 news and put the council under stakeholder. However, I do appreciate that a lot of pressure. We were approached this is an area fraught with emotion and to try and broker a civilized conversation emotive responses. between the recording studio, the Liane Hartley (1996) is the Co- community and the council to see if a Founder of Mend, a social sustainability compromise could be made. We called a consultancy specializing in responsible public meeting, well attended by the local procurement, planning and place-making, community and councillors. The council and Urbanistas, a women-led network hadn’t realized that this piece of street art amplifying the voices of women to make ROA’s rabbit, Hackney, London: the one was effectively local heritage and, as a that got away cities better for everyone result of that meeting and the subsequent

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Archaeology from the air MICHAEL FRADLEY

Technology in the form of satellite be, another small team at the University of Aerial Archaeology in Jordan project. It imagery such as that produced by Durham. The project is due to run until 2020 became apparent how rapidly, even within Google Earth is helping archaeologists and is headed by Andrew Wilson here in the past two decades, the landscape was discover unknown sites and identify Oxford and our Director Robert Bewley and changing and the archaeological heritage those at risk David Mattingly in Leicester. being lost. That provided the incentive for our project. I am at the School of Archaeology here at The project grew out of the work of Oxford and I’m here to talk to you about APAAME (Aerial Photographic Archive for There are two key parts to the project. The a project that began in January 2015, the Archaeology in the Middle East), founded first is the production of an open access Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East by Professor David Kennedy in 1978 and database of archaeological sites and their and Africa project (EAMENA), generously mainly active in aerial reconnaissance over heritage condition across this ridiculously funded by the Arcadia Group. It funds quite Jordan. In 1997, Robert Bewley joined large region running from Mauritania all a large team here in Oxford, a small team the team and has conducted annual aerial the way through to Iran, taking in many at the University of Leicester and, soon to reconnaissance over Jordan as part of the conflict zones and disputed areas such as Western Sahara: a very difficult landscape. We intend to feed this through to the state organizations of these countries where possible to help inform their own decision- making. Compared to English Heritage here in England, these state institutions are often very poorly funded and poorly equipped.

Throughout my talk lots of ethical questions will come up and I’m not going to discuss them in too much detail, but I assure you that we have thought about them and discussed them at length with our team. Access to so many of these countries is obviously very difficult; how valid is it that we, a bunch of academics in UK institutions, involve ourselves with the heritage of another country? Caroline said that heritage is often used in the context of a nation and

Looting at Apamea, Syria: ‘count the holes’

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its identity. That’s very much at the origins the same as in the UK where the deep And it’s not just the historic environment of archaeology’s discipline, but we are ploughing of sites that don’t need planning that is changing. These are desolate desert moving into a new age, and that’s where decisions is a key means of the destruction regions and the effect on the hydrology of we come to the second part of our project. of archaeological sites. the site is completely unknown and is going The key thing is satellite imagery and how on without any real monitoring from the state In Apamea in Syria, we see more meaningful that is changing the way we can look at groups who would usually monitor changes destruction in terms of looting. Each one of archaeology, look at the globe and the way it to both the natural and the archaeological these small dark spots is a looting pit. The is changing. environment. As I said, part of our project is rate of change between 2012 and 2013 to work with the state authorities, but in this We are immediately into another ethical shows what can occur on sites. But this case the Ministry of Antiquities in Egypt had issue: the origins of satellite imagery are as is an agricultural landscape in which the no idea of what was going on in the Eastern a spying technology and this has difficult damage was already occurring with the Desert. It is under huge pressure to give connotations across this region, particularly ploughing of the site. priority to tourist sites, particularly the Nile in the Middle East. But the digital world is Urban expansion is another huge issue: Valley and the Nile Delta, and has very few changing rapidly and we suddenly have in Egypt, for example, settlement is resources to think about these areas such access to satellite imagery, particularly encroaching on sites as we discover from as the Eastern Desert, which are largely through public domain sources such as Google Earth. As in the UK we’re seeing uninhabited, generally inaccessible, and Google Earth, which is allowing us to look at certain urban environments constantly aren’t the kind of destinations for tourists. landscapes archaeologically that have never expanding; unlike the UK, discussions do been looked at before and make some quite And then we get to the issue of conflict, not really involve local communities at any remarkable discoveries. there’s the example of Taiz in Yemen where level in the Middle East and North Africa. satellite imagery allows us to monitor how Many of the issues that affect the heritage Prospecting in Saudi Arabia also causes the site was slowly being restored and then of these regions are very similar to those massive destruction of archaeological sites. reports are that the site was occupied by we encounter in the UK; some are very It’s seen as the everyday process of life, of militant groups and was then bombed in different. Although our project has a huge the economy as it develops. In the Eastern the early stages of the recent campaign in research potential, it is really about heritage Desert of Egypt a massive multinational Yemen and largely levelled. management, about collecting data on sites mining firm has moved in and completely and their condition and what’s changing. As our project started we did get a lot of demolished what was a really interesting Over the past two years, the media has kept media attention because people wanted gold mining settlement running from at us informed of what’s happening, notably to hear about these events. Unfortunately least the New Kingdom through to what in Syria and Iraq, in terms of fundamentalist our narrative, which was largely about how we would term the early Arab period, all destruction of heritage sites and the there was a much larger issue in terms of legal and with the consent of the Egyptian destruction of heritage sites in conflict. In the unregulated management of the historic Government. There’s been no monitoring reality that’s a very small issue within a much environment across the Middle East and of the heritage of the site and what few more common process of how agriculture, North Africa didn’t really chime with what the elements remain are going to be highly in particular, affects archaeology, much media wanted to hear. We generally ended contaminated.

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up on the cutting room floor for many of the unimaginable levels of poverty are not what at least 50 years and has only looked at a programmes that we spent all day filming. we want to see, but we all agree on the small part of the UK, it’s virtually impossible idea of sustainable development and we in five years to cover this whole area. The media keep us informed of hope our project is providing a platform on Obviously we’re hoping funding will continue fundamentalist destruction at major sites which this can be investigated. Recording and the project will go on. such as Palmyra in Syria, but our project all these events that don’t make it into the is also monitoring small, forgotten events We really are changing these environments media will allow people to start trying to as in Yemen. A largely forgotten conflict in terms of the data available because we monitor these broader processes in train. So has come into the media again recently in are systematically analyzing landscapes we are hoping that our project will provide terms of UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia, in terms of identifying archaeological sites an essential platform on which we can start but Yemen is an interesting example: unlike but also bringing as much published data seeing sustainable environment. most of the Middle East and North Africa and unpublished data as possible into our where urbanisation and agriculture are the This has given you an idea of the kind of database. In the process, we are finding a big issues, in Yemen because it is so poverty coverage we have been able to make so ridiculously large number of archaeological stricken there is relatively little development far but we have only scratched the surface. sites that aren’t recorded. For example, just and in many ways its heritage is at a far When you think that aerial photography of outside Saada, in Yemen again, there is a better level of preservation. Obviously such archaeology in the UK has been going on for fantastic fortified settlement of some sort on the edge of a cliff, but there is no information about this site at all.

I would argue quite forcefully that our project is a benign use of multinational tools such as Google Earth to really change the way heritage can be monitored and how that heritage data can be used to develop the landscape in the future across this region. We come back to that question of nation and heritage: should a group of archaeologists in Oxford and Leicester, talk about it in terms of our own state, our own nation, or are we global citizens who can talk about a global heritage?

Michael Fradley is Research Assistant on the ‘Endangered Archaeology’ project

Dhamar Province, Yemen: unknown site discovered by the EAMENA project / Courtesy Digital Globe via Google Earth

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On the slow train PENELOPE FARMER

Varieties of experience and opinion By its very existence, Amtrak denies much willing to pay, they offer ‘roomettes’ for across President Trump’s America of what we assume about the USA viewed sleeping in, like the one I had over the four only from the East or West Coasts. Amtrak days and three nights the network took In autumn, last year, before the US trains are never ‘Express’ in global terms. to deposit me in New York City. Though election, I booked a journey on the Slow, rattling, not the least reliable, they many trains now have Wi-Fi, the Californian Californian Zephyr, from Emeryville by are, frequently, held up by goods trains – Zephyr does not, given its fondness for San Francisco to Chicago, and then to freight much more profitable than people trundling up and over mountain ranges New York on the Lake Shore ‘Express’ – and by other accidents such as cattle and through canyons – such things do (so-called), which proceeds through the on the line. Long distance they provide as not good signals make. But, due to its Hudson valley, a spectacular landscape, much food as you can eat, mostly edible maintenance of nineteenth-century speeds, and it was landscape that I was after. but with few flourishes, and, if you are pretty much, that journey in particular, unlike aircraft, or even travel by long- distance buses, provides the truest sense of just how vast the USA is, and how remotely many of its inhabitants live.

What it also does is create, over a few days, a community of travellers, their lives lived publicly, with few boundaries, a bit like those townships we pass in the less mountainous parts of the journey where no fence divides one property from another, back and front lawns run together and lawns slide into the roads unchecked. Unless you choose to remain in your sleeper, you sit together in the observation car, all of you awestruck, gutted, exhausted by landscape. And you dine – the food is free to those in sleepers – with whoever happens to arrive in the dining car alongside you, a conjunction rarely if ever arrived at twice. Alliances are made and Amtrak stopover: time out for the staff / Penelope Farmer unmade. As Jenny Diski put it, succinctly,

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in her book about Amtrak: ‘Just because their fellow travellers very carefully before (variations of such opinions I heard we are all going in the same direction an us making opinions known; a fact that made elsewhere, among long-standing has been formed.’ clearer than anything just how the Trump Democrats; I didn’t like to ask if the result phenomenon has divided people; in such of such abstentions having led to Trump’s Having travelled by Amtrak before, surroundings no one wants to cause election had made them regret their high- though more briefly, I already understood trouble. A pair of aged environmentalists mindedness.) There was a loudmouthed its ways. This trip seemed the more from rural Wisconsin, who ran a local Californian ‘Old Timer’, with dungarees, interesting because between the time of newspaper business said, ‘We blame check shirt, long beard, worn boots, a my booking and the time of my travels, Trump’s election on the Democrats and baseball cap, who expressed all kinds of Obama’s America had turned into Trump’s. Hillary running a bad campaign. We have a rural opinions on the dangers of standing I assumed I’d have the chance to find out bad republican governor and a democrat too close to rams, and the good sense what they really thought about their new senator. Wisconsin has always gone for of sheepdogs, but also extolled his use President, to hear the kind of opinions I’d a democrat president so they took us for of GPS. He had worked in technology never hear from my liberal friends on the granted. We dread what will happen. By before ending up as a handyman, this East and West Coasts. the way we envy you your short election profession evidenced by the ruined state But it did not turn out like that. On the campaigns in Britain. Ours go on for of his hands, one of them bearing large first two thirds of the trip, at least, many years.’ swathes of Band-Aid on every finger. The of my companions were Californians with only likely Trump supporters I encountered There was an elderly upstate New opinions much like my own, as awe- were an uptight couple from Florida, who York couple sharing a roomette, clearly struck by the landscapes we trundled made polite efforts at conversation, but sounding each other out. I heard the through as I was. There was a Hispanic were not to be drawn on anything the woman declaring loudly, ‘I couldn’t vote couple not afraid to express, loudly, their least controversial; like everyone else they for Hillary. I didn’t trust her – some of loathing for Trump, which was unusual; questioned me closely about Brexit but in the things she did as a young woman,’ in general my companions sounded out response to my suggestion that there were

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political upheavals on both sides of the office. Which costs, unless they accept He’d found these in the place he’d got on Atlantic they merely changed the subject. Medicare patients, which most don’t, at. I asked him if he’d done a degree in the remuneration is too low. Preventative science, given how articulate and well- On the other hand I did get some contrary medicine? Well Obamacare does make informed he sounded on technical matters. opinions over the four days of travelling, some attempt at that, but it mostly failed ‘No I read English, but I worked in the oil not least from an elephant keeper. Though because health businesses wouldn’t take industry as an accountant, so I picked up not quite the insights into Trump voters part – to do this they wanted to be allowed all that, I didn’t find it difficult. I’m out of I was hoping for, they were interesting to grow and to amalgamate with each work now. After the regulations against enough in the context of current US politics other, but the rules wouldn’t let them. The fossil fuel, my firm went down, I lost my job to be worth recounting. system’s crazy, you can’t have people of course. The first day, as we began trundling up dying all over the place without access to ‘I am managing all right, I didn’t come through the Sierra Nevada, I lunched with a medical help. It’s got to change.’ from a family with money, my father was gay couple, together for 20 years. Kim, not On the second day, climbing up through a teacher and my mother a homemaker thin exactly but of a normal-enough size the Rockies, both the Nevada desert and so I know how to be frugal. My only was a retired garden designer. Her partner, canyon country, though not the Colorado extravagance is my ex-wife. She’s made Stephanie, not just fat but enormous, was River, behind us, I find myself sitting in the some mistakes but she’s a good person much more vocal. An ex-nurse turned observation car, between a skinny and and looks after our boys so I can’t resent health care manager, she was clearly sad-looking widower visiting grandchildren, it. I don’t like Trump but I don’t know if not pro-Trump, let alone his attempts to and a rotund man in a baseball cap who everything he does is bad. One problem ditch Obamacare. ‘I do think health care had joined the train at a previous stop, is he didn’t expect to win so hadn’t has to be run as a business, on business a Colorado ski-resort, laden with several started recruiting anyone. He needs principles, but the way it is now can’t go large books, which he pored over while 3,000 staff and they all have to be vetted on – something like your NHS is inevitable most of us were looking at the country. The and approved by congress. So it’s hard here, I give it 30 years or less. You can’t widower told us he had been in Vietnam for him to get going. I think there’s too treat patients properly and efficiently with the Air Force, his job being to assess much regulation overall and Trump’s as things are. Even with Obamacare sites worth bombing and plan subsequent right about that. Obamacare? Of course medicines are not free – doctors give a action. He came back to university to study putting all those people off medical care diagnosis, they provide prescriptions but science. He said he had campaigned for is not a good thing, I think it’s generally many patients can’t afford them, they still Bernie during the election, a statement on accepted that people should have a right end up untreated and then they get worse which Bookman made no comment, apart to medical care but some things about and have to come back again. Under from saying that he had voted for Obama, it were difficult, for instance having to our system, too, patients go straight to first time round. He did not say whom he accept previous conditions.’ I interjected hospitals because that’s free, they get voted for in 2016. here: ‘what about families with genetic seen, they get taken in sometimes, but problems?’ ‘Well, allowances have to be they rarely see the doctor again. You never Bookman told me he lived in Denver and made for things like that. I certainly think see a doctor in hospital, only in his or her often came on this line. He loved books. that insurance company salaries should be

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limited; CEO remuneration is far too high. insurance, but my premiums went up to instance, were all African-American. On the Why do people need so many cars? I don’t pay for people who didn’t have insurance last lunch on the Californian Zephyr I came understand that. I don’t need so much and couldn’t pay for it otherwise. I could in late, and sat by myself in the hindmost money. see why, but it wasn’t too good for us. Of car, along with the staff, all celebrating course the insurance companies are to the end of their long shift. Though I ‘Will the oil business recover under Trump? blame for a lot of this – though I do think couldn’t understand everything they said, People will always need oil, it will come we should attend to Americans first, I in rapid southern accents, I could get the back, it’s good. Do I believe in climate don’t blame immigrants who come in; they humour – even the stone-faced manager change? No, not really. Those people who want to work; whereas our people are lazy relaxed, hobbling up and down, imitating look at tree rings have been able to show they don’t always want to. I have trainees, a passenger carrying baggage. The car climate change has been going on for they’re on Facebook all the time sending came to life as never amid the more centuries. So I don’t think Trump’s removal pictures. Told to pick up elephant poop, decorous chatter of the, mostly white, of environmental regulations will make they say ugh, don’t think it’s their job, passengers. I did wonder whether some any difference. Why do I think Trump got whereas I say go on Facebook after work, suspicions of African-American citizens elected? Because populism is the name put it away now, it’s work time. Also there’s among white ones arise not from prejudice of all games now and likely to be for some all this team stuff now. My wife used to against the other, but from sheer envy of time to come. Look at your Brexit, look at work in business, the Staples organisation, their vitality. Also whether this lot let their Le Pen in France. What I am waiting to see she’s an introvert, she doesn’t want to hair down in front of me because I was here is what will happen under Trump, if join in, just do her job. They brought British and so safer - or maybe I just didn’t things will really turn out badly or work out. ping-pong tables into her office, she’d count. Whether my kind of job will come back.’ say to someone, come on this has got to Such eyeball-shattering landscapes have My final conversation was with the bearded be done now, they’d say, let’s finish our their effect. The train had headed across elephant man as we passed along the game first. But because she wasn’t into the Denver plain into a vast storm; the shore of one of the smaller great lakes, in the team building, she was the one made outline of the distant city was purple, a Pennsylvania; he was on his way back to redundant. No, I don’t let my children see small road winding towards it, like the his zoo in Boston, along with his family, TV. Regulations? Climate ones? What yellow brick road in the Wizard of Oz, I who did not join us for breakfast. about them? It’s always been like that, found myself seeing Trump too, for all Democrats put them in, the businessmen, He was pragmatic about everything – his pervasive presence, as the ultimately the Republicans, scrap them; back and or tried to be. ‘I came originally from insignificant wizard, a pathetic eight year forth, that’s how it goes. It isn’t any Cleveland in Ohio, always a red state. I old, hiding within his golden towers, within different now.’ wasn’t expecting Trump to be elected, the grandiose robes of office, storms of all but then American elections are always After Albany the train divided, an kinds failing to conceal his dangerous, if swinging from one side to the other, from observation car was no more. I watched little, narcissistic heart. Democrats to Republicans and back, the wonders of the Hudson River from Penelope Farmer (1957) that’s how it is. Obamacare? Well there my roomette, alone, reflecting on this and are problems with it. I’m in work, I’ve got that. On both trains the catering staff, for

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Our regional branch reports this intact Royal Hunting Lodge dating from Gainsborough House, a Georgian fronted year have a varied tone. While some the time of the Norman kings. It comprises timber framed home where the artist’s family are fearful of ageing membership, ancient coppices and wood pasture that lived and where some of his paintings and diminishing numbers and the lack of support rare and specialized wildlife. drawings are hung. Our day finished with younger members to pick up the SAS We held our AGM in early November; ‘pop up’ tea and cake in a room overlooking banner, others continue to flourish. discussions included the on-going issue of the small, enclosed garden with its ancient Maybe it’s time to think of alternative low membership. mulberry tree. Our annual summer garden or additional ways of ensuring alumnae party in Fen Ditton, was held in mid-June, remain connected and we are planning meetings for the next academic year. Bristol & West of England is among those branches facing difficulties with an The London Branch has had a busier year ageing membership and the departure of its than usual growing our activities with more excellent Secretary for a post in the north of outings and innovations. Since our last England. With the assistance of College we report we have enjoyed a fascinating visit hope to relaunch the branch later in the year. to the Sipsmith Gin Distillery in Chiswick followed by supper at a local pub. We have In October 2016 we held ‘A Good Read’ Cambridge members and friends at Hatfield Forest now got very fussy over our gin and tonics. meeting, at which members shared Our New Year visit in Cambridge was to the Our regular freshers’ event in October suggestions and recommendations of fiction Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. We was again kindly hosted by Accenture. At they had enjoyed. The Spring meeting in marvelled at the displays documenting the March 2017 was enlightened by Judith 4.5 billion year history of Planet Earth and Vidal-Hall on the pleasures and vicissitudes were not surprised to encounter clusters of travelling in Albania. of children in the section on dinosaurs. In late-September, the Cambridge branch Six of us plus friends and family spent a welcomed two freshers at our annual fascinating day at Sudbury in mid-May. freshers welcome supper. In mid-October, Sudbury is an old market town and historic six of us, with family and friends, admired port on the River Stour in Essex renowned the beautiful autumn colours at Hatfield for its silk weaving industry and the birth Forest near Stansted Airport and followed place of the artist Thomas Gainsborough. this with lunch in the old Essex town of A guide showed us around the town Thaxted. The forest has the only remaining in the morning. After lunch we visited London Branch enjoying their gin at Sipsmith’s Distillery in Chiswick

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As you must realize by now, we like to get together for a meal as often as possible and our supper club continues to meet regularly at Salieri’s restaurant in the Strand. We have now started a lunch club on the same lines The New Design Museum, Kensington

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history goes back much further into Saxon At the end of 2014 we carried out a survey times with a burial site in the Park. The site of our members to see how the branch was discovered by workmen in 1908 and might function or develop in the next few had 35 skeletons lying head-to-foot. Buried years. The results were fairly lacklustre, with them were pottery and a Saxon sword. with many members acknowledging that Their injuries indicated a violent death and it perhaps the organization has ‘had its seems likely they died in a battle some time day’. There are no new, younger members during the sixth or seventh century. The first coming forward and there is little appetite church on the site pre-dates the Domesday for organized events among an ageing Survey and occupied an area covered by membership. The North East is a huge the nave of the present church, which has area and many would have to travel great huge, ancient north and south doorways. distances to attend. Events in College, the The church’s chancel arch is typically website and enewsletter have, for many, transitional Norman and dates from the late- taken the place of local activities for the twelfth century. purpose of keeping in touch with College. It seems likely that, apart from welcoming the On a warm April day we had what Freshers each year, the NE branch will not sounded as if it might be a ghoulish visit hold many more activities in future. but which proved to be of interest to all ages, even teenagers. We visited the Newman Brother Coffin Works: The Gaudy Service in College was once again among the shrouds now-closed Newman Brothers Coffin led by Gillian Pickford, Reader at Beverley Works, situated in the Jewellery Quarter We always give our freshers a flying send- Minster and co-ordinator of the NE branch, of central Birmingham. Newman Brothers off to College just before they go up. Their on the theme of love as the foundation was established in 1882 and the factory is enthusiasm is a credit to the St Anne’s for all good relationships. This was widely a time warp, with shelves and workbenches system of picking winners! appreciated by all those who attended. full of original stock and tools of the trade. The North East AGM was held immediately STOP PRESS: It seems that North East The firm produced some of the world’s before our annual freshers’ Event. Once is about to get a new lease of life with a finest coffin furniture, including the fittings again we invited freshers, undergraduates younger graduate willing to take over as for the funerals of Joseph Chamberlain, and senior members from the North East organizer. Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother. area to lunch in the Foyer Café of the Bar An enthusiastic volunteer guide led the tour The year’s events in the North West began Convent in York. The event took place and treated us to extra time and plenty of in the sunshine of early May with a day on Friday 16 September 2016 and was detail, including the patterns of the shrouds. trip to Chester. It was also Ladies Day at attended by four freshers, one parent, three Shrouds are only front panels; male and Chester races, so those of us who travelled undergraduates and four seniors. Everyone female differ in pattern and could be made by train had already been entertained by agreed it had been very enjoyable and was in the colours of a local football club, for our beautifully dressed fellow passengers. special and valuable time spent together. example the claret and blue of Aston Villa. Eight of us met in the refectory café of the

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cathedral for a coffee and a chat before huge windows at either end which depict going our various ways. Some elected to historical figures from art, science and make the most of the beautiful day with a religion – not in stained glass but painted complete tour of the walls. Others walked on. In one alcove of the gallery were the five a bit of them followed by a riverside stroll different designs of chair Mrs Rylands had and an organ recital in the cathedral. commissioned to decide which was most Philip Rushforth, music director, gave a suitable for the reading room. We all agreed virtuoso performance of Percy Whitlock’s she had made the right choice! Organ Sonata. We all reassembled at a Between 2003 and 2007, the building restaurant for a late and leisurely lunch, underwent major conservation work more conversation and good company. One North West Branch at John Rylands including the replacement of over 8,000 of us stayed for a last flourish of cathedral Library Manchester glass roundels in the windows and the music at choral evensong, a suitable end to as a memorial to her husband, cotton construction of a new, pitched roof over the a lovely day. manufacturer and one of the country’s first historic reading room. The electric lighting is Our freshers’ event on 20 September was millionaires. Designed by Basil Champneys as it was when the building opened in 1900, one of our biggest ever when eight freshers in a mere six weeks in fine Victorian gothic, but Ian told us it is increasingly difficult to from throughout the north west were it boasts numerous charming details: the source LED bulbs to fit the lights. welcomed to the fellowship of St Anne’s by dragons, rabbits and green men in the After such an exhaustive tour, we thanked five undergraduates and five recent, and ceiling bosses, the rich and varied colours our guide for his time and expertise and some older, alumnae. Hearty food and a in the sandstone of the 52-foot-high wall repaired to the café for a restorative cup of glass or two quickly helped to break the ice at the top of the staircase, the little oculus tea and generous slabs of cake. and we became a very noisy group in our over the stairwell, whose function is purely central Manchester venue. Questions were decorative but, with a low balustrade, not The winter months saw the Manchester- answered, nerves were calmed, friendships one for vertigo sufferers! Mrs John Rylands based section eating pizza against the made and by the time the bill payers left, clearly was a very ‘hands on’ client and backdrop of the vast Christmas markets the younger people were comfortably enjoyed spending her dead husband’s and in March some of us gathered for chatting away. We fund this event from the fortune on this eccentric building. lunch at The Clink, the training restaurant small surpluses accrued from other activities at Styal Women’s Prison. The food was of The core of the library’s collection amassed and we all regard this as a most important a very high standard and one of the staff by Mrs Rylands is the Spencer collection, aspect of what our branch does for College. gave us a very interesting history of the which she bought for £21,000 from the building (formerly a children’s home) and Mid-October found us at John Rylands Spencer family to pay off its gambling explained how the Clink Project helps so Library in Manchester, where we were given debts. The upper galleries of the main many prisoners throughout the country to a most entertaining and informative tour by reading room are normally only open to develop skills, which enable them to gain buildings manager, Ian Massey. The library members of the Research Institute so it employment on their release. was commissioned by Enriqueta Rylands was a rare treat to get up close to the

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In early June, we headed once more to the west of the county to visit Norton Priory in Runcorn, Cheshire to explore its newly renovated museum’s display of many of the mediaeval and later objects discovered on the site during archaeological excavations. We found a treat for historians and gardeners alike as we explored the undercroft and priory ruins as well as the Georgian walled garden, home to the National Collection of quince. After a tour, lunch was taken in the café and there was free time to explore further.

The Oxford branch programme for 2016 -17 included a visit to Gloucestershire when, on a wet day at the end of June, despite the rain, we had an interesting and enjoyable outing to Gloucestershire to visit the Woollen Weavers’ Museum and shop Oxford Branch on a wet day in Eastleach gardens in Filkins, and a private tour of the attractive We held our AGM in November at The as the library for Lincoln College. We also garden of Eastleach House. Plough Inn in Wolvercote. Lunch was saw some of the rare books held by the preceded by a talk from our guest speaker, college. Afterwards we visited the library at Before the start of Michaelmas Term, Andrew Goodwin, Chemistry Fellow at Jesus College and had an introduction to Elisabeth Salisbury generously hosted an St Anne’s, who spoke about ‘Order and history and treasures from the librarian there informal supper for freshers, who had the Disorder’ in his work on condensed matter before seeing the dining hall, where there chance to meet some undergraduates who sciences and its applications. He has a is a full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, shared what their first year had been for ‘healthy disregard for traditional subject and the chapel. them and gave them a warm welcome. boundaries’. We were fascinated by how he Our Summer 2017 outing, in June, was to In October, the Curator of nineteenth- combines his twin passions of mathematics the gardens at Appleton Manor, designed century Decorative Arts at the Ashmolean and chemistry to look at the patterned by the exciting and creative Arne Maynard Museum showed us the beautiful, intricate arrangements of atoms in solids to make who has restored several nationally and precious treasures of the recently materials with unexpected properties. important Elizabethan landscapes. The acquired Wellby Gift of goldsmiths’ work In March 2017, accompanied by the head gardener showed us round. and shared his expert knowledge to explain librarian, we admired the former All Saints their provenance. We have plans to change the format of City Church in Turl Street, which now serves our next AGM (in October) combining an

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opportunity to meet our new Principal, gift, and this year, we decided to contribute Helen King, with an invitation to branch £600 to this fund, rather than to the Domus members to tea. Fund as we have done in previous years. We feel that providing support to students Details of the Branch may be seen on the St in need of counselling or guidance is a Anne’s website Alumnae Pages. particularly important task in an increasingly This is my first report as chairman of the challenging world for young people. Our South of England branch, having taken annual donation of £500-£600 represents over from Maureen Gruffydd Jones in June the financial contribution we make 2016. Under Maureen’s leadership we collectively to the College, rather than as continued to develop into one of the SAS’s South of England on a bibulous visit individual SAS members. South of England most active branches, and I wish to begin to Nutbourne Vineyard has contributed a total of £6,700 since by thanking her for all her efforts on behalf In September, changes to the constitution 2005. of our members in the South. Maureen were passed by the required two-thirds In early July we organized an enjoyably remains on the committee so we continue majority of those in attendance at the bibulous and very informative tour of to benefit from her wisdom and support. SAS AGM. Although not all members Nutbourne Vineyard, one of Britain’s Over the summer of 2016 I contacted as of our Branch voted in favour, we were loveliest boutique vineyards, just outside many members of the Branch (37 in total) pleased to hear that constitutional reform Pulborough, West Sussex. Twenty-two as possible, both to introduce myself and remains a ‘work in progress’ for the main people attended and enjoyed a picnic lunch consult on the proposed changes to the Committee, and that new President Hugh with our wine tasting among the vines. Later SAS constitution being put to the AGM in Sutherland is committed to developing in the month, six members met at our Book September. I spoke to 31 members, which a clear purpose and direction of travel Club (held three times a year) to discuss gave me a good insight into what our for the SAS, and to strengthening and Bob Geldof in Africa. Geldof’s passionately membership wants from the branch. While improving communication with the national argued analysis of the problems in Africa many have no great interest in committee membership. At our own AGM in April engendered much heated debate. activities, the majority expressed confidence 2017, attended by 14 members, we In September, committee member Ruth Le in our local arrangements and a willingness committed ourselves to working with Hugh Mesurier hosted our annual welcome lunch to let the branch committee speak on their and the new Principal Helen King, and for freshers. Ruth’s lovely Winchester home behalf. It was pleasing to hear how much to engaging fully in her ‘St Anne’s 2025 has for many years proved the perfect our programme of activities is enjoyed Conversation’. However, we still believe that setting for freshers to meet each other and and members reinforced the importance a more streamlined and inclusive committee current undergraduates. This year seven of holding events that are accessible to structure would work better for the SAS freshers and one undergraduate attended. members of all ages, in all areas of our long term. ‘patch’. This is quite a challenge as we In October, 15 of us enjoyed a guided tour As departing Principal, Tim Gardam set up stretch from Dorset and Wiltshire in the west, of Basing House outside Basingstoke. his Student Welfare Fund in lieu of a leaving to Brighton and East Sussex in the east. Now in ruins, Basing House was the focus

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of particularly bitter battles during the Civil around the Brighton area. We are making War. After the tour we settled down to a special efforts to advertise the existence of discussion over a picnic lunch on the legacy the branch to members living in this area of the War led by Sue Knight, a history and to encourage them to meet us at our graduate of St Andrew’s. The day ended planned visit to Charleston Farmhouse near with members of The Civil War Society, who Lewes in October. had set up camp for the weekend in the In conclusion, this has been another grounds, re-enacting a skirmish complete productive and formative year for the with musket fire. Unfortunately rain stopped South of England branch, which thrives play! Reunited: Helen Marriage and Helen King due to great team-working on the part In November, member Gillian Ellis hosted 12 in Merseyside and Liverpool was European of the committee and the friendship and members for our third and final Book Club Capital of Culture. This was only one of a mutual respect between members. We of 2016 at her home outside Chichester. number of interesting coincidences and look forward to building on this in 2017–18, We discussed Graham Swift’s Mothering connections that were revealed at this which we hope will be a year of growth for Sunday. The first book club of 2017 was a meeting, one that demonstrated the power both the SAS and the College as a whole discussion of Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, and value of networking between SAS under its new leadership. which took place at Tessa Cunningham’s members. Reports provided by Ann Revill (Radford home in Winchester and attracted ten On 13 May, we held our annual trip to 1955) Bristol and West, Sue Collins members. As usual, there were diverging Chichester Festival Theatre to see Forty (Blandford 1969) Cambridge, Lynn Biggs views – sometimes created by which Years On, the first play written by Alan (Perrin 1972) London, Jane Darnton translation each had read. It certainly taught Bennett and first performed in 1968. Twenty (Baker 1962) Midlands, Gillian Pickford us about the importance of the translator in people attended an exciting and stimulating (Atkin 1979) North East, Maureen Hazell appreciating foreign literature (See p.57). performance; one of our members wrote (Littlewood 1971) North West, Jackie On 29 April, we were thrilled to host St afterwards: ‘We found the play a feast; Ingram (1976) Oxford, Stella Charman Anne’s alumna Helen Marriage (1977) as music, singing, choreography, script (Rees 1975) South of England our speaker at a very well-attended meeting and acting combined to make a really and lunch in Salisbury, which preceded memorable occasion. I shall be thinking our AGM. She is the founder of Artichoke about it for days.’ Afterwards, Jill Hooker, a (The Ship 2015–2016) one of Britain’s most member of our committee, invited the group exciting public art events companies. We to tea in her lovely garden very near the were also delighted that incoming Principal theatre, giving us an opportunity to discuss Helen King was able to join us and meet the play over tea and homemade cakes. members of the branch. Helen King met We are always mindful of the need to attract and worked with Helen Marriage when she and retain new members, and have been (Helen King) was Assistant Chief Constable made aware of a ‘hotspot’ of alumnae living

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From the JCR PRANAY SHAH

Building on their activism and initiatives institutions demanded a risk assessment over the past year, students look of the boycott, which would have delayed forward to an exciting year ahead it and possibly allowed the HEB to pass. St Anne’s JCR voted against this boycott, I think it is safe to say that the last year or along with the majority of Oxford colleges, so has indeed seen huge changes, both in leading to OUSU voting against it too at an terms of global events, but also on a more NUS meeting. The majority of universities local level at College. With the arrival of both shared this view and the boycott proceeded. a new Library and new Principal, 2017 is The JCR Fresher Helpers at the first Combined with other actions, this led to the off to an extremely exciting start for us. the BOP of the year House of Lords voting against the HEB. new Library has been exceptionally well College, some of which have taken place received among the JCR, whose comments Furthermore, a motion was raised in the and some still to come. Hadley Freeman have been extremely complimentary. With JCR to condemn US President Donald (1996) gave an inspirational talk to a packed the new Principal, Helen King, work has Trump’s policies that specifically harmed audience in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre. already begun on a wellbeing programme for marginalized groups. Following an intense Hadley is currently a columnist at the students during the exam-filled Trinity term. debate on the political role of the JCR, the Guardian and spoke on the topics she writes motion successfully passed, highlighting With mental health continuing to grow as a about as well as how current issues influence the JCR’s support to the affected groups. talking point, particularly when associated her writing. In addition, she spoke of how This was followed by St Anne’s taking the with universities such as ours, it is wonderful to be successful after university. Her advice motion to an OUSU meeting of all colleges, that Helen King has put student wellbeing inspired many. where it also passed. This demonstrates high on her agenda. The ideas being the contributions of our JCR in addressing JCR committee members have also planned discussed for the programme include talks, current issues at a university-wide level and wide-ranging events such as LGBTQ+ wellbeing sessions and general advice. is particularly important for St Anne’s with its Week, Equalities Week and Arts’ Week. St Anne’s JCR has also been involved huge diversity. These include speakers, workshops and in other current issues such as the classes for all students to take part in. They Alongside these wider issues, students have Higher Education Bill (HEB), in which the celebrate diversity within College and also devised their own initiatives for St Anne’s government wanted to link the National give everyone a chance to try something itself to combat current matters such as food Student Survey (NSS) with university fee new such as life drawing classes. waste, for which a crowdfunding campaign increases. In response, the National Union of was set up to purchase composting bins and Pranay Shah (2015) JCR President Students (NUS) chose to boycott the NSS, equipment. JCR committee members have which it saw as an unreasonable method also organized a huge range of events within of judging teaching quality. However, some

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Full steam ahead LUKAS BECK

St Anne’s MCR continues to set the foundations for future tasks and benefits for the postgraduate community

One of our College’s main values, and one specific to its postgraduate body, is constant change, without any inhibitions about modernity. The obvious example is our new Library building – a flagship for this College, increasing the space for academic engagement of the growing body experience richer opportunities at St Anne’s welfare reps offered personal help for any of postgraduate students in St Anne’s and now and in the future. issue within the MCR. displaying our values to the outer world. Through this future-directed investment, the The MCR firmly believes that innovations Valeria, our academic officer, is successfully new Library ties in with the current aims of can be achieved through inclusiveness organizing Interdisciplinary group talks. Our the MCR. and openness. Our social events have own academic journal STAAR is thriving increasingly run in conjunction with other this year. We have had a record number of The MCR community itself tries to invest in colleges, involving our MCR more broadly submissions for the forthcoming issue and the future equitably, to allow our students in the University community. Our social the editorial board, led by our equalities the best possibilities to fulfil their academic secretaries Antje, Joyce, Mikkel, Chris and officer Emily, is working very hard. Their potential. In addition to the College’s support, Ben have done a great job in organizing workshop on journal editing will be one of we continue to allocate travel grants to exchange dinners and joint college bar the academic highlights of Trinity term. The postgraduate students to help them further crawls, in addition to popular events like the other successful academic events include their research outside Oxford. Murder Mystery Dinners and a Games and the ‘Shut Up and Write’ series, where people We have introduced a new artistic BBQ day in the summer. gather to write, as well as the termly ‘Three enrichment fund to contribute to the minute thesis’ competition. Welfare officers, Hillary and Ross, have artistic life of our MCR. Past successfully continued regular sessions of welfare teas Finally, the MCR is very much looking forward sponsored events include the screening of and board game nights, with our popular to collaboration with our new Principal Helen A Plastic Ocean [a film documenting the welfare afternoons being joined by our four- King, so that we can be sure that our main environmental issues associated with plastic legged friends from the Oxfordshire Animal issues such as postgraduate accommodation pollution and its impact on the environment. Sanctuary. Together with our women’s officer, and funding possibilities will be tackled. Ed] and a live art exhibition. This fund Nicole and Alison, the LGBTQ+ officer, the will allow our postgraduate students to Lukas Beck (2016) MCR President

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Finals results: Trinity Term 2016

Results are shown for those students BA History BA Modern Languages (FRE) and MEarthSci Earth Sciences who gave permission to publish. A Brereton, Fern 2.1 Linguistics Davis, Scott 1 total of 115 students sat finals. Kelham, Oliver 2.1 Whiteley, Abigail 1 Fox, Ryan 2.1 Lovell, Hannah 2.1 Horn, Charis 2.1 BA Ancient and Modern History Murphy, Anna 1 BA Modern Languages (SPA) Smith, Ceri 2.1 O’Connell, Ellen 2.1 Tompkins, Kayleigh 2.1 Back, Stephanie 2.1 Medicine - Preclinical (3yr) BA Biological Sciences BA History and Economics BA Music Baker, James 2.1 Binnie, Sarah 1 Lever, Michael 2.1 Bradshaw, Stephen 2.1 Kurmani, Sanya 2.2 Greer, Deborah 1 Stafford, Thomas 2.1 Ladva, Vishaal 2.2 Reeve, Olivia 2.1 BA History and Modern Languages Peppiatt, Jennifer 1 (ITA) BA Oriental Studies (Chinese) Porter-Hope, Charlotte 2.1 BA Cell and Systems Biology Moody, Susannah 2.1 Harvey, Stefan 2.1 Ravi, Krithi 1 Read, Andrew 1 BA History and Politics BA Philosophy, Politics and MEng Engineering Science BA Economics and Management Grant, Naomi 2.1 Economics Jia, Ruo 2.1 Cobbold, Jack 2.1 Lawrence, Thomas 2.1 Belton, Eleanor 2.1 Khawaja, Muhammad 2.1 Lam, Chin Ting 2.1 Teoh, Nicole 1 Dhariwal, Neha 2.1 Lee, Matthew Cheeyan 1 Ray, Oishika 2.2 Kamat, Abhishek 2.1 Palucki, Krzysztof 1 Sharma, Kiran 2.2 BA Jurisprudence Mckellar, Duncan 2.1 Wongphanlert, Nicha 2.2 Lee, Amelia Jin Yi 2.1 O’Dwyer, Colm 2.1 Xia, Jinghong 2.2 BA English and Modern Languages Robinson, Thomas 2.1 (FRE) BA Jurisprudence (with Law in MEng Materials Science Snow, Evelyn 2.1 Europe) BA Physics Faulkner, Frederick 1 Zielinska, Katarzyna 2.1 Donnelly, Patrick 2.1 Marco Dufort, Bruno 1 BA English Language and Literature Irwin, Rory 2.1 Sordo-de Cock, Liviana 2.2 Alexander, Sneha 2.1 BA Literae Humaniores Armstrong-Benson, Rebecca 2.1 Hare, Florence 2.1 BA Psychology, Philosophy and MEng Materials, Economics and Clarke, Abby 2.1 Kim, Roger 2.1 Linguistics Management Cull, Laura 2.1 Lodge, Thomas 2.1 Sirk, Ryan 1 Foster, Frederick 1 Hume, Sophie 2.1 Wilshaw, Cai 2.1 Suleiman-oba, Sherrif 2.1 Inglis, Jonathan 1 Zanetti, Anna 1 BFA Fine Art Lumley, Cosima 2.1 McFadden, Wilhelmina 2.1 MMath Mathematics Reed, Martha 2.1 BA Modern Languages (FRE and Ong, Liang Jie Alvin 1 Allen, Alfred 1 Russell, Alison 2.1 GER) Davey, Natasha 2.1 Thomas, Helen 2.1 Poynton, James 2.1 MBiochem Molecular and Cellular Ferguson, Tom 2.1 Biochemistry Miles, Rachel 2.1 BA Experimental Psychology BA Modern Languages (FRE and Adams, Oliver 1 Morris, Helen 1 Heywood, Kate 2.1 POR) Jones, Sal 2.1 Leston, Meredith 1 Stennett, Thomas 1 Lee, Yi Fei 2.1 MMathPhil Mathematics and Wright, Lucy 1 Philosophy BA Modern Languages (FRE and SPA) MChem Chemistry Gilbert, Alexander 1 BA Geography Carter, William 2.1 Ellis, Jane 2.1 Benson, Catherine 1 Purslow, Lucy 2.1 Osterrieth, Johannes 1 MMathPhys Mathematical & Denniston, Leila 1 Theoretical Physics Goodman, Alexander 2.1 BA Modern Languages (FRE) MCompSci Computer Science Tapper, Alice Distinction Stretch, Eleanor 2.1 Shaw, Eleanor 1 Clark, Joshua 2.1 Wallis, James 1 MPhys Physics Grice, Jonathon 2.1 Karadag, Tiber 2.1

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Graduate degrees 2016

Synthetic Biology (EPSRC & Magister Juris Eber, Anya Smith, Ian BBSRC CDT) Collaboration Episcopo, Francesca Garcia Millan, Rosalba Su, Nan Bartoli, Vittorio Sebastian Hashemi, Fatemeh Gardner, Nicholas Thewlis, Patrick Morrison, Peter Kaptan, Esra Gemoll, Mario Tong, Ngai Gil Vázquez, Ester Wada, Hussein Bachelor of Civil Law Master of Business Goakai, Joseph Wong, Sonia See, Jia Yi Rina Administration Grant, Emily Yeo, Yee Hui Ciobotaru, Bogdan Gupta, Niyati Young, Laura Haiselden, Jonathan Yuan, Hang Bachelor of Medicine and Coulis, Andrea Lo, Andrea Hermanto, Emil Elestianto Zhang, Boyu Bachelor of Surgery Hu, Zicong Balai, Edward Mamajonov, Ravshanbek Monye, Chukwuka Instone, Robert Master of Science by Research Cross, Joe Iqbal, Maheen McGrath, Conn Pjevic, Marina Han, Yi Singhania, Ritesh Jesudasan, Allwin Johnston, Samuel Bachelor of Philosophy Kannan, Radhika Master of Studies Phipps, Henry Giles Mclaren Master of Philosophy King, Valerie Anderson, Dianna Prinzing, Michael Abel, Timothy Loebl, Zbynek Bowens, Maxwell Castaneda, Paola Mahzabeen, Sinayat Dixon, Jennifer Dickson, Victoria Dwyer, Seamus Doctor of Philosophy Mbinza, Lewis Gracey-McMinn, Matthew Nannerini, Augusta Gourisankar, Sai Alabort Martinez, Enrique Kailas, George He, Charles Yuchen Ashcroft, Helen Olivia Ning, Colleen Larkin, Maryellen Nkopo, Athinangamso Lee, Daisy Brittles, Greg Daniel Lesourd, Martin Bruckert, Lisa Ocampo Herrera, Ernesto Jose Master of Public Policy Ojukwu, Kingsley Manuel, Travis Cavell, Alexander Mark Martins, Ryan Dub, Alice Fatima, Qurat Ul Ain Osborne, Jonathan Hasan, Md Abir Oyetunde, Olubukola O’Neill, Daniel Gastall, Heidi Ysabella Salter, Frances Greenan, Charlotte Catherine Mathew, Sasha Paranjpe, Srushti Anil Silva, Guilherme Pentrel, Naomi Venter, Timea He, Zhengyu Viner, Christopher Hollewand, Karen Eline Zou, Biyao Phifer, Thomas Ianovski, Egor Alexandrovich Porter, Jessica Kontis, Paraskevas Master of Science Rachovitsky, Daniel Master of Studies by Research Lau, Chit Siong Amjad, Hiba Rana, Birendra Traschler, Thomas Leung, Ka Ming Archer, William Rijhwani, Daanish Lewis, Alexander Azghari, Hazim Robinson, Mark Postgraduate Diploma Ortega Ferrand, Lorena Constanza Babayev, Eldar Roesch-Knapp, Andrew Schwanecke, Hans Papageorgopoulou, Maria Aikaterini Battison, Alex Sabas, Sven Saunders, Alex Michael Boyce, Melanie Sandford, Camilla Sekita, Karolina Bruhn, Sarah Santori, Claudia Shepherd, Celine Castellanos Salinas, Arturo Shi, Xiaoan Sun, Chuang Chinyerere, Ishumael Shkurti, Idlir Tchernychova, Maria Chubunov, Ievgenii Simpson, Joshua Wisson, James Michael Clarke, David Skalistiras, Grigorios Zhang, Qiong Collis, Celine Skinner, Adam Demange, Arnaud Slowik, Simon

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■■ 2009 Goold, Imogen, BA LLB PhD ■■ 2000 Lazarus, Liora, BA Cape Town, ■■ 2015 Rogers, Alexander, BSc Governing Body Tasmania, MBioeth Monash ¶ Tutor LLB Lond, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Tutor in Law Durham, PhD Southampton, Professor in Law ■■ 1997 Leigh, Matthew Gregory of and Tutor in Computer Science ■■ 2006 Grønlie, Siân, BA MSt DPhil Oxf Leonard, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor ■■ 2009 Rosic, Budimir, MSc Dipl Ing 2017 ¶ Tutor in English, Kate Durr Elmore of Classical Languages and Literature, Belgrade, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ Tutor in Principal Fellow in English Tutor in Classics Engineering Science ■■ 2017 King, Helen, MA Oxf, MA Manc, ■■ 1990 Grovenor, Christopher Richard ■■ 2000 Lyons, Terence John, MA ■■ 2015 Schwanen, Tim, MSc PhD Dipl Camb QPM Munro, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS, FRSE ‡ Utrecht, Tutor in Geography Materials, Tutor in Materials Science Wallis Professor of Mathematics Fellows ■■ 2005 Shuttleworth, Sally, BA York, ■■ 2012 Hall, Todd, MA PhD Chicago ¶ ■■ 1996 ρ MacFarlane, S Neil, AB MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ § Professor of ■■ 2011 Abeler, Johannes, BSc Aachen, Tutor in Politics (International Relations) Dartmouth College, MA MPhil DPhil English Literature MSc Karlsruhe, PhD Bonn¶ Tutor in and Balfour Fellow in Politics Oxf ‡ Lester B Pearson Professor of Economics ■■ 1978 Speight, Martin Roy, BSc ■■ 2000 Hambly, Benjamin Michael, International Relations Wales, MA Oxf, DPhil York ¶ Reader in ■■ 2011 Baird, Jo-Anne, BA Strath, MA BSc Adelaide, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ■■ 1998 McGuinness, Patrick, MA Entomology, Tutor in Biological Sciences Oxf, MBA Sur, PhD R’dg ‡ Pearson ¶ Professor of Mathematics, Tutor in Camb, MA DPhil Oxf, MA York ¶ Professor Educational Assessment ■■ 1996 Sutherland, Kathryn, BA Mathematics Professor of French and Comparative Lond, MA DPhil Oxf ‡ Professor of ■■ 2011 Belyaev, Dmitry, MSc St ■■ 1989 Harnew, Neville, BSc Sheff, MA Literature, Tutor in Modern Languages Bibliography and Textual Criticism Petersburg, PhD Stockholm ¶ Tutor in Oxf, PhD Lond ¶ Professor of Physics, (French), Sir Win and Lady Bischoff Mathematics ■■ 2007 Szele, Francis, PhD Tutor in Physics Fellow in French Pennsylvania ¶ Tutor in Developmental ■■ 2003 Briggs, George Andrew ■■ 1984 Harris, David Anselm, MA DPhil ■■ 2015 McKellar Stephen, Shannon Biology Davidson, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ‡ , BA Rhodes MA DPhil Oxf Oxf ¶ Tutor in Biochemistry Colwyn ■■ 2012 Tzanakopoulos, Antonios, LLB Professor of Nanomaterials Senior Tutor, Tutor for Graduates and ■■ 2008 Harry, Martyn, MA Camb, MPhil LLM Athems, LLM NYU, DPhil Oxf ¶ ■■ 1990 Chard, Robert, MA Oxf, BA PhD City Lond ¶ Tutor in Music, Dorset Tutor for Admissions Tutor in Law MA PhD California ¶ Tutor in Classical Foundation Lecturer in Music, Annie ■■ 2015 Meridew, Jim, Domestic Bursar Chinese and Vice-Principal ■■ 2009 Vyas, Paresh, MA DPhil Oxf ‡ Barnes Fellow in Music ■■ 2015 Murphy, Victoria, B.A.H. Reader in Clinical Haematology ■■ 2000 Christian, Helen Clare, BSc ■■ 2005 Hazbun, Geraldine, BA MPhil Queen’s, MA PhD McGill PhD Lond, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in Medical ■■ 2007 Waters, Sarah, MA Camb, PhD Camb, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in Spanish, Supernumerary Fellow and Professor of Science PhD Leeds ¶ Professor of Applied Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Spanish Applied Linguistics Mathematics and Tutor in Mathematics ■■ 2005 Cocks, Alan, BSc Leic, MA Oxf, ■■ 2015 Holmes, Christopher C, BSc ■■ 1989 Murray, David William, MA DPhil PhD Camb ‡ Professor of Materials ■■ 2006 Watkins, Kathryn, BA Camb, Brigh MSc Brun PhD Lond ¶ Professor Oxf ¶ Professor of Engineering Science, Engineering MSc PhD Lond, MA Oxf ¶ Professor of Biostatistics in Genomics Tutor in Engineering of Cognitive Neuroscience and Tutor in ■■ 1991 Crisp, Roger Stephen, BPhil ■■ 2005 Hotson, Howard, BA MA ■■ 2007 Nelson, Graham, BA Camb Psychology MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of Moral Toronto, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of DPhil Oxf Supernumerary Fellow and Philosophy, Tutor in Philosophy, Uehiro ■■ 2016 White, Clare, BA MA Oxf, MSc Early Modern Intellectual History, Tutor Lecturer in Mathematics Fellow in Philosophy Wales, Librarian and Curator of College in Modern History ■■ 2002 O’Shaughnessy, Terence Pictures and Works of Art ■■ 2000 Davies, Gareth Bryn, BA Lanc, ■■ 1996 Irwin, Patrick, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Joseph, BSc BE Adelaide, MPhil PhD MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Tutor in American ■■ 1996 Wilshaw, Peter Richard, BA Professor of Physics and Tutor in Physics Camb, MA Oxf Tutor in Economics History Camb, MA DPhil Oxf ¶ Professor of ■■ 1999 Jeavons, Peter George, MSc ■■ 2017 Park, Simon, MA MSt DPhil Oxf Materials, Tutor in Metallurgy and ■■ 2015 Deane, Charlotte, BA Oxf DPhil Leic, MA Oxf, PhD Lond ¶ Professor of ¶ Tutor in Portuguese Science of Materials, Wolfson Fellow in Camb Supernumerary Fellow Computer Science, Tutor in Computer ■■ 2012 Phillips, Ian, BPhil MA Oxf, Materials Science ■■ 1996 Donnelly, Peter James, BSc ρ Science PhD UCL Gabriele Taylor Fellow in ■■ 2014 Wordsworth, Sarah, BSc Queensland, MA DPhil Oxf, FRS ‡ ■■ 2007 Johnston, Freya, BA PhD Camb, Philosophy and Tutor in Philosophy Lond, MSc York, PhD Aberd University Professor of Statistical Science MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in English and Hazel ■■ 2003 Porcelli, Donald Rex, BSc Research Lecturer ■■ 2010 Firth, Roger, BEd Lanc, MEd Eardley-Wilmot Fellow in English Yale, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ Tutor ■■ 2017 Yadgar, Yaacov, BA PhD Bar-Ilan Birm, PhD Nott Trent ■■ 2015 Khan, Samina, BSc, MSc and Ferreras Willetts Fellow in Earth ‡ Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel ■■ 2009 Flyvbjerg, Bent, BA MS PhD London, PhD Loughborough, PGCE Oxf Sciences and Lobanov-Rostovsky Studies Aarhus, MA Oxf, DrTechn DrScient Director of Undergraduate Admissions University Lecturer in Planetary Geology Note on symbols Aalborg ‡ Professor of Major and Outreach and Dean Programme Management * Fellow or Honorary Fellow of another ■■ 2007 Klevan, Andrew, BA Oxf, MA ■■ 2013 Reed, Roger, BA PhD Camb college. ■■ 2016 Ford, John, MA Oxf Treasurer Professor of Engineering Science PhD Warw ¶ University Lecturer in Film ¶ Holder of a university post (including ■■ 2014 Foster, Jules, BA Liverpool ■■ Studies 1997 Reynolds, Matthew, MA PhD CUF appointments) other than a Supernumerary Fellow and Director of ■■ 2015 Koutsoupias, Elias, BSc NTU Camb, MA Oxf ¶ Professor of English statutory professorship or readership. Development and Comparative Literature and Tutor Athens, PhD California at San Diego ‡ Holder of a statutory professorship or ■■ 1981 Ghosh, Peter, MA Oxf ¶ Tutor in in English Supernumerary Fellow and Professor of readership. Modern History, Jean Duffield Fellow in Computer Science. ■■ 2015 Rice, Patricia, MSc MA Warick, ρ Former Rhodes Scholar Modern History ■■ 1999 Lancaster, Tim, MB BS MSc DPhil Oxf Supernumerary Fellow ■■ 2009 Goodwin, Andrew, BSc Harvard, MA Oxf ‡ § Professor of ■■ 2016 Robinson, Stuart, MA DPhil Oxf A date in the left-hand column indicates PhD Sydney, MA Oxf, PhD Camb ¶ Primary Healthcare and Director of ¶ Tutor in Earth Sciences the year of election to the current Professor of Materials Chemistry, Tutor Clinical Studies fellowship (or other position) held. in Chemistry

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Fellows: news, honours and appointments

Dr Zoi Alexopoulou, Lecturer in Dr Gareth Davies, Fellow and Tutor scattering methods – in the form of both Neurosciences at St Anne’s College and in American History, has co-edited and pair distribution function and (increasingly Hertford College, and Clinical Research published America at the Ballot Box: frequently) single-crystal diffuse scattering Fellow, Nuffield Department of Clinical Elections and Political History, edited measurements. Neurosciences, has been awarded the by Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer Dr Imogen Goold, Fellow and Tutor in Thomas Willis Early Career Researcher Prize (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). Law, Associate Professor in Law, ‘The for 2017 from the Nuffield Department of Professor Charlotte Deane, legal aspects of cognitive enhancement’ Clinical Neurosciences. Supernumerary Fellow, was involved in Rethinking Cognitive Enhancement, Simon-Pierre Chevarie-Cossette, Non- with research linking a gene mutation to edited by Ruud Ter Meulen, Ahmed Dahir Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy, has won rheumatic heart disease. This was picked Mohamed and Wayne Hall (2017). an OUSU Student-Led Teaching Award for up by the New York Times and ABC Radio Professor Terry Lyons, Wallis Professor Best Postgraduate Teacher. The award is for National in Australia. Find out more at: of Mathematics, Oxford, Director of the a graduate student who is teaching during https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/ Wales Institute for Mathematical and their degree, helping undergraduate and health/rheumatic-heart-disease-strep- Computational Sciences (WIMCS), was PGT students. This award is to recognise genes.html and read the article at http:// awarded an honorary degree from the those graduates who have excelled at this dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14946 University of Waterloo, Canada on 16 June in any way, be that by making a difficult Professor Andrew Goodwin, Fellow 2017. He currently has a two-day per week concept a little easier to grasp, or making and Tutor in Chemistry, Professor of secondment as faculty fellow to The Alan a lab experiment that much less likely to Materials Chemistry, has been awarded the Turing Institute. explode! Corday-Morgan Prize 2017 by the Royal Professor Patrick McGuinness, Professor Roger Crisp, Professor of Society of Chemistry for his innovative Professor of French and Comparative Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and studies of correlated disorder and its role Literature, Sir Win and Lady Bischoff Fellow Tutor in Philosophy, has been awarded a in functional materials. Andrew currently in French, Tutor in Modern Languages, Professorial Fellowship at the Centre for leads a research group of about 20 was a joint winner of the Society for Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics (IRCI), students and Research Fellows in Oxford’s French Studies R Gapper Book Prize 2016 Australian Catholic University, from March Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory. The main for Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de 2017 to February 2020. It involves annual goal of his research programme is the siècle France: From Anarchism to Action visits to either the Melbourne or Rome development of a broad understanding of Française (Oxford: OUP 2015). campus. the role of correlated disorder in functional materials. From an experimental viewpoint the group specializes in the use of total

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Dr Eleanor Parker, Stipendiary Lecturer Dr Jonny Steinberg, Supernumerary Jane Austen?’ running from 23 June to 29 in Italian, has won an OUSU Student-Led Fellow and Associate Professor Non-Tutorial October. Find out more at https://www. Teaching Award for Outstanding Pastoral Fellow in African Studies, has been awarded bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2017/jun-03. Support. The Outstanding Pastoral Support a Visiting Professorship at the MacMillan Dr Francis Szele, Fellow and Tutor award is for a Tutor who consistently Center for International and Area Studies at in Developmental Neurobiology, is a takes student welfare into consideration; Yale. contributor on a research paper ‘Calretinin recognises that the welfare of students and Professor Kathryn Sutherland, interneuron density in the caudate nucleus academic progression are closely linked; Professorial Fellow in English, has curated is lower in autism spectrum disorder’. This and makes reasonable adjustments that two major national exhibitions for the identifies the biggest difference in brain allow the best chance for a student to bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death neuron density in autism thus far found in progress. this year: one in the Discovery Centre, the forebrain. Ann Pasternak Slater, Senior Research Winchester, ‘The Mysterious Miss Austen’, Fellow, Evelyn Waugh (Northcote House which ran from 12 May to 22 July; the Publishers Ltd, 2016). other in the Weston Library, Oxford, ‘Which

St Anne’s College Nursery

The St Anne’s College Nursery had an Ofsted inspection on 21 March and received an award of ‘Outstanding’ in all areas. St Anne’s College nursery is the oldest nursery within the University and one of just a few on-site College nurseries. It was founded to provide childcare for tutorial fellows and staff of the College. It is located in a purpose-built detached building within the College grounds and caters for up to 12 children aged six months to five years. Find out more about the nursery at: http://www.st-annes.ox.ac. uk/about/places/college-nursery.

86 www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk Gillian Beer and Alice

The wonderland of Alice CLAIRE ARMITSTEAD

‘I’m a historical remnant from the great writes, ‘space and time were … coming to days of free education.’ Writer and be understood more and more as being in critic Gillian Beer on her new Lewis intricate and shifting relations, both locally Carroll book and going from village girl and worldwide’. to professor While scientists were dividing time into There are some successful literary ever-smaller units, with the German careers that rest on mountains of books physicist Hermann von Helmholtz and others that don’t. Gillian Beer’s is measuring the speed of nerve impulses in one that doesn’t. It’s not that she hasn’t tenths of seconds, the arrival of rail travel published, during more than half a had only recently made it necessary for century in academia; just that much of British time to be standardized at all. From her writing has been essays, which have noting this disjunction, the book sweeps been collected into scholarly anthologies us forward to the twenty-first century via spanning the humanities and sciences. the observation that, to this day, the bell in Carroll’s Oxford college – Christ Church – So to describe her recently published chimes 101 times at 9.05pm each night in study of Lewis Carroll’s thought as long- honour of the old Oxford time. awaited is an understatement. A 2003 book of essays published in her honour With an erudition and economy that is referred excitedly to her forthcoming work typical of Beer’s writing, such thought- on Carroll, while a 2004 Guardian interview clusters illuminate both the intellectual and declared the book imminent. When I draw geographic terrain that formed Carroll and this to her attention, she does a passing the very English eccentricities that make imitation of the White Rabbit: ‘Oh dear! I his nonsense world so resonant a century was hoping you wouldn’t notice that.’ and a half after the publication of Alice in Wonderland. Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll sets the children’s Like many of Beer’s books, Alice in classic in the intellectual wonderland of the Space sits happily in the cracks between late-nineteenth century. Its anxieties about academic disciplines, dealing with history, time, embodied in Alice’s first encounter literature, science, philosophy and some with the White Rabbit and his fobwatch, of the crunchier areas of mathematics. The White Rabbit and his fob-watch are traced back to an age in which, as she ‘I like the fact that Lewis Carroll can do

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things I can’t do, but within the compass thought, she cited her observation of her She was sent off to board at Sunny Hill of things that I’ve drawn together I think I son before he was three as evidence that School in the Somerset town of Bruton. can enhance people’s appreciation. I do human development was not instinctively ‘It was a perfectly good convent boarding know a lot about the intricate comings perceived but a learned concept. ‘He school, but I was used to being alongside and goings of ideas,’ she says. Her friend would often say “when I’m a baby again”, my mother and having lots of conversation and collaborator Ali Smith beats her or “Granny a little girl soon”, or “Daddy with her, so I didn’t enjoy it very much,’ drum more loudly: ‘Gillian is one of the carry me till mummy gets bigger”.’ she says. most open and most multidisciplinary of It is not so far from that perception to At 14, she fell down a flight of stairs in the thinkers and writers. She’s an illuminator Carroll’s Alice, who is always growing steep grounds surrounding the school of the connection between the arts and and shrinking and asking questions and was sent home for six months to the sciences, always revealing that they that appear to be silly but turn out to recover from a serious back injury. By that are not so far apart after all. She disproves be unanswerable. The importance of time, her mother was being kept busy as the notion that dividing our thinking into ‘looking askance’ is key to Beer’s work, headteacher of the local school. ‘I just categories is a good or useful way to go according to Small, as is her use of the started to read: Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. I about thought and understanding.’ child’s perspective ‘as a way of displacing, got one thing, then my ma would go to the In the book-strewn Cambridge house and thereby questioning, our inherited library and get everything else they had where 82-year-old Beer lives with her assumptions about the world’. written. I remember being very struck by husband, the Romantics scholar John Ghosts, which I didn’t really understand By happy coincidence, Beer shares a Beer, she cuts a benign, grandmotherly because I didn’t know about venereal birthday with Carroll. Her first encounter figure. But her kindness masks a disease, but I knew about people going with him was through a copy of Alice in formidable intellect. ‘Her students and mad in a cloistered life.’ Wonderland that she was given as a sixth colleagues are all familiar with her ability birthday present, which she didn’t much When she returned to school, she had ‘made to pronounce the word ‘yes’ so flexibly like. A year later, she read Through the this extraordinary shift, with this packet as to register everything from delighted Looking Glass and loved it: ‘I can’t quite of reading behind me’. It was years since accord to a gritty determination to rescue explain the difference.’ Sunny Hill had sent anyone to university but, something profitable from the unlikely under tutoring from the playwright Robert materials in hand,’ wrote her one-time She was living in Somerset at the time, the Bolt, then working as a teacher, she won PhD student Helen Small, now Professor daughter of a divorced mother who been an exhibition to read English at St Anne’s, of English at Pembroke College, Oxford. posted away from the family home in the Oxford. She got her first academic job at East End of London to work as a village In her scholarship as well as in her London University’s Bedford College at schoolteacher. She recalls ‘a harmonious personal life, Beer has always surrounded the age of 24, and, having decided to get childhood’, happily billeted in the home of herself with friends and family. In Darwin’s married to John Beer, who was based 150 a bricklayer’s family, with Gillian attending Plots, her mould-breaking 1983 book miles away at Manchester University, ‘did the the local primary school, until she excelled about the impact of evolutionary theory thing I had warned my students not to do: I in her 11-plus and the local authority on a wide range of nineteenth-century decided to move’. began to question their living conditions.

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Beer was pregnant with her first son, and had applied for a year earlier. ‘I don’t want says. ‘I’m a historical remnant from the on the point of taking a job at Liverpool to construe my life romantically as this great days of free education: I was carried University, when ‘this mysterious letter’ poor little girl who somehow managed through by the state.’ arrived from Cambridge, offering her a to end up a dame and a professor, but They went on to have two more sons. research fellowship at Girton, a post she at the same time all that happened,’ she ‘That slowed me down but was so

Gillian Beer: ‘The seminars she held at Cambridge were legendary not just for this literal groundbreaking … but for being inclusive and open,’ says the author Ali Smith. Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian

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valuable: it was where a lot of my thinking She combined her Cambridge role with flattered, I signed it,’ she says. She edited came from: evolution, child-bearing, child- an increasingly international life, including Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense in rearing all played together in my mind and stints at the Yale Centre for British Art and 2013, the first time anyone had researched my body, so, though I didn’t write a lot for in the rhetoric department at the University and collected Carroll’s poetry. But it five years, it was when it all opened out to of California, Berkeley. She became a took a push from two former students me.’ fellow of the British Academy and a trustee to make her apply for the fellowship that of the British Museum, finding time to would give her the funding to gather She was also doing a lot of teaching, and chair the Booker Prize in 1997. Welcomed together the years of essays and research there was no maternity leave. ‘I remember as a safe pair of hands after one of its that form the basis of Alice in Space. going to talk to the then mistress of Girton periodic furores, when the novelist AN ‘So much of life is caught in learning and asking if I could have a little time off Wilson denounced the prize as ‘sleazy’, and I must thank many friends for their when my second baby was born in the she ended up in charge of a controversial encouragement and their conversation,’ middle of term, and she said why don’t result. The jury chose Arundhati Roy’s she writes in the acknowledgements. you take a couple of weeks. It was meant debut novel The God of Small Things and True to form, the book is dedicated to her extremely kindly. She was trying to find failed to shortlist Ian McEwan’s Enduring five grandchildren. ‘They all share Alice’s ways of collaborating.’ Love. ‘We got lambasted. It was probably curiosity, and her goodwill.’ Beer stayed at Girton for 30 years the time I’ve come most into public notice Claire Armitstead is books editor for the before moving on to be president of the and had to decide that’s just how it goes: Guardian and Observer. The above article Cambridge graduate college, Clare Hall. the assumption was that I’d only ever was published on 18 March 2017 and is Some of her most important work was on written about George Eliot, when of course reprinted courtesy the Guardian. Virginia Woolf, culminating in a 1996 essay I’d taught modern fiction all along. But out collection, The Common Ground, which, of awkward situations you sometimes get Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian typically, viewed her subject in the context other things.’ World of Lewis Carroll, published by of the political, social, philosophical and University of Chicago Press, has just won The ‘other thing’ on this occasion was scientific shifts of knowledge in Woolf’s the prestigious Truman Capote Award for her discovery of Smith’s first novel, Lucky, own lifetime. ‘She’s one of the reasons, Literary Criticism 2017 which she mentioned in her speech at the along with the growth and nurturing of Booker award ceremony. Smith turned women’s studies courses in the academic out to be a Cambridge neighbour, and institutions, that we have Virginia Woolf at so began a 20-year friendship. ‘Ali has all, as the great writer she is,’ says Smith. become one of the pleasures of my life,’ ‘The seminars she held at Cambridge she says. were legendary not just for this literal groundbreaking she was calmly doing, but Alice in Space began life at a dinner party for their own anomalousness at the time – to celebrate a lecture series Beer had for being hospitable, clever, inclusive and completed in Chicago. ‘I was handed an open in a place where this was pretty rare.’ envelope with a contract in it, and I was so

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Rediscovering the compassion of religions

Karen Armstrong (1967) OBE has been awarded the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

The awards are a series of annual prizes awarded in Spain by the Princess of Asturias Foundation (previously the Prince of Asturias Foundation) to individuals, entities or organizations around the world for notable achievements in the sciences, humanities and public affairs.

The prize was established on 24 September 1980 by Felipe, Prince of Asturias, heir to the Spanish throne, ‘to contribute to, encourage and promote scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of mankind’s universal heritage’. A sculpture, expressly created for the prize by Spanish sculptor Joan Miró, is presented yearly to the recipients of the prize. Previous winners include Mary Beard, David Attenborough and Raymond Carr. This is the fifth of eight Princess of Karen Armstrong / Michael Lionstar Asturias Awards to be bestowed this year. studies at St Anne’s. She left the order in She is considered a leading international They will be presented in the autumn in 1969, subsequently earning a degree in scholar in the comparative study of Islam, Oviedo at a grand ceremony chaired by Contemporary Literature. She published Judaism and Christianity. Her first book TM The King and Queen of Spain. her first book in 1982 and a year later was Through the Narrow Gate (1982), wrote and presented a documentary a memoir she continued in The Spiral Karen entered the Catholic Convent series on the life of St Paul for Channel 4 Staircase (2004). Her books A History of of the Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus television. Since 1984, she has devoted God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, in 1962 and, as a novice, began her herself mainly to writing about religion. Christianity and Islam (1993) and The

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Battle for God: Fundamentalism in living in perilous times. We have Helen Fraser (1967) was appointed a Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2000) created a global market where we are Dame Commander of the Order of the became bestsellers. She has also more closely linked to one another British Empire for services to Education in authored 20 other titles on faith, the major than ever before: our economies the January New Year’s Honours List 2017. religions, the common elements among are deeply interdependent; what She was Chief Executive of the Girls’ Day them and the role they play in the modern happens in Syria or Yemen today School Trust from 2010 to 2016. Prior to world. can have repercussions in London joining the GDST she enjoyed a 40-year or Manchester tomorrow; we are career in publishing, culminating in 13 years Her studies and books on Islam – electronically connected on the as Managing Director of Penguin UK. Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet world wide web; our histories are Ann Kenrick OBE (Warby 1977) former (1991) was the first – established her as a deeply intertwined; and we all face Secretary-General of the Franco-British thinker and researcher among the Muslim the same environment challenges. Council and Chair of the London Cycling community of the United Kingdom and We cannot live without one another Campaign, took over from Charlie Hobson the United States. Armstrong has found and yet increasingly we are retreating as the 33rd Master of The Charterhouse compassion, understood as empathy for aggressively into nationalistic, religious on 13 February. Ann Kenrick has had a and interest in one’s neighbour, to be the and cultural ghettoes. distinguished career in the third sector element common to all religions. In 2009 receiving an OBE and the Ordre Nationale she launched the Charter for Compassion It is therefore essential that we de Merite for her contribution to the vitality movement, which became an international understand the religious, political of Franco-British relations and chairing the organization to promote joint efforts for and ideological aspirations and fears London Cycling Campaign over a period peace. She also gives talks around the of our global neighbours. There is which has seen dramatic improvements in world and writes for various publications much talk about winning the battle cycling provision in London. She has also including the Guardian. for hearts and minds, but we shall been a consultant, speaker and author on be unable to do this unless we know active travel. In 2008 she was awarded the Franklin what is really in them, as opposed to D Roosevelt Four Freedoms Medal and, Catherine McGuinness (1978) was what we imagine might be there. We in the same year, won the TED prize. In elected as the new Chairman of the urgently need to examine received 2013 she received the British Academy’s Policy and Resources Committee at The ideas and assumptions, look beneath inaugural Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for City of London Corporation. Previously the sound-bites of the news to the improving Transcultural Understanding. Deputy Chairman, McGuinness will now complex realities that are tearing our lead on all policy issues affecting the Karen says: world apart, realizing, at a profound UK’s financial and related professional level, that we share the planet not with I want to express my deep gratitude services sector. Her role will also cover inferiors but equals. to the Foundation of the Princess the City Corporation’s responsibilities as a Astorias Award for Social Sciences Karen Armstrong (1967) local authority, overseeing the City’s open for this very great honour. We are spaces, educational commitments and

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cultural institutions. McGuinness assumes the role after serving 20 years as an elected Publications Member. She replaces Mark Boleat, who has served his full five-year term. St Anne’s College is proud to have Stewart Cowley (1982), Man Vs Money so many alumnae who have gone on (Aurum Press, 2016). The book distils to be successful authors. We have the complexities as to how money an alumnae section of books in the and economics govern our world in Library and, in addition to The Ship, this guide to modern-day money and we list books on our website at http:// our relationship with it. Along the way, www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/alumnae/ discover how the statistics that govern our-alumnae/alumnae-authors. Get our world are based on guesswork, in touch if you’d like to be included in why stock markets are like a wandering Catherine McGuinness any of these places. drunken man, what you need to live like a millionaire and why cooking has made Marion Tempé (Hitchcock 1961), Hon. Kai Ambos (1986), Treatise on man the dominant species on the planet. Secretary OUS SW France. Among all International Criminal Law, Volumes I-III His new book Man Vs Big Data is due for the world-wide branches of the Oxford (OUP, 2014). University Society, there is one in south-west publication in September 2017. Ruby Blondell (1974), Ancient Sex: New France, an area favoured by many alumni Robert Gardner (1997), Save Your Essays, edited by Ruby Blondell and Kirk for holidays, and summer or permanent Acorns (Lioncrest Publishing, 2016) was Ormand (Ohio State University Press, residence. Several St Anne’s graduates inspired by a strong interest for financial 2015). have been, or still are, active members. education – the books aims to teach They would welcome meeting up with children the value of saving through berries, others coming here for holidays or to live. Information about our activities can be found on our Branch website: www.ousswfrance. co.uk. Two other St. Anne’s graduates were among the founder members of our OUS branch: Meg Fenn (Digby 1961), and Kathy Young (1970).

Jennifer Waldman (1979) was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the arts. She is Director, 14-18 NOW at the Imperial War Museum.

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bananas and bears. Robert confirmed Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang (1985), The 1970s, and explores its key characteristics. he is planning to write another book, this Last Vicerine (Penguin Random House, It includes a practical section on where to time with a shark as the main character, 2017). buy it, and suggests tips for collectors. exploring the problems of getting into debt. Paul Kingsnorth (1991), Confessions of Mercia MacDermott (1945), Once Upon Robert Gardner is the founder of Redington, a Recovering Environmentalist (Faber and a Time in Bulgaria (Manifesto Press, 2016). sponsors of the St Anne’s Boat Club. See Faber, 2017). This collection of essays p.41. Merilyn Moos (1962), The Language of brings together his shorter non-fiction Silence (Cressida Press in conjunction with (1979), Hewitt on Joint Simon Howley writing between 2010 and 2017. It explores Writersworld Ltd, 2012) set in London in the Ventures, 6th ed. Edited by Ian Hewitt, his disillusionment with environmentalism early 21st century, explores the personal Simon Howley, James Parkes (Sweet and and his attempts to understand the consequences of political events and Maxwell, 2016). historical moment we’re in and how we can resistance, and how these impact across live through it. Also, The World-ending Fire: four generations of one family. Beaten But Thomas W. Hodgkinson (1994) is a the essential Wendell Berry. Selected & Not Defeated: Siegfried Moos - A German journalist and author. His first book, the introduced by Paul Kingsnorth (2017). anti-Nazi who settled in Britain (Chronos exuberant horror novel Memoirs of a Stalker Books, 2014) charts the life of Siegi Moos, Rachel Larkinson (Newton 1964), (Silvertail Books, 2016), is about a man who starting in Germany when he witnessed College Chapel and Culture in Edwardian hides for months in his ex-girlfriend’s home, the Bavarian uprisings of 1918/19 and Manchester (Lulu, 2017). Available from spying on her. His second, How to be Cool moving to the later rise of the extreme right. www.lulu.com (Icon Books, 2016), is an account of how Also, Breaking the Silence: Voices of the the concept of coolness arose in the 20th Dominic Lutyens (1981), Living with Mid- British Children of Refugees From Nazism. century via a survey of the coolest people Century Collectibles (Ryland Peters & Small, (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015). and ideas of the century. 2014) provides a detailed history of mid- Julian Nowag (2009), Environmental century modern design. It analyses why this Anthea Jackson (Edenbrow 1960), The integration in competition and free- disparate and international yet recognisable Druid of Skells (Pixel Tweaks Publications, movement laws (OUP, 2016). style flourished from the 1930s to the early 2016).

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Kaori O’Connor (1968), Seaweed: A the impact on buildings and occupants. Sue Smart (Bailey 1970), formerly a Global History (Reaktion Books, 2017). Marilyn was a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow teacher of history and classical civilisation The first general, popular culinary history in the Country House Technology Project, at Gresham’s School. Sue looks back on of seaweed to be published, it explores University of Leicester, and holds a 2015 the school members who went to fight historical global uses of seaweed as the MBE for services to industrial archaeology during the First World War in When Heroes food source fast becomes fashionable. and heritage. Die: the Last Days of the Schoolfriends Her other publications include The English Who Died For Britain (Breedon Books Sally Percy (1994), Reach the Top in Breakfast: A Biography (2013), Pineapple: Publishing Co Ltd, 2nd ed, 2014). Finance (Bloomsbury, 2017). Sally is a An Edible History (2013), and The Never- Described as ‘beautiful’ and ‘thought- Modern History graduate, and now a Ending Feast: The Anthropology and provoking’, the book captures the lasting Business and Finance journalist, editor Archaeology of Feasting (2015). Alumnae impact of the war on the school, and and commentator. Sally navigates the are invited to order the book from the especially on the Headmaster, George rungs and mazes of a career in finance publishers website at www.reaktionbooks. Howson. to give individuals support on reaching co.uk and enter the code SHIP20 at the the top in what is still a highly competitive Angela Thirlwell (Goldman 1966), checkout for a discount. industry. Skills sets are carefully outlined, Rosalind: A Biography of Shakespeare’s Marilyn Palmer (Allum 1962) Technology and merits beyond numerical literacy Immortal Heroine (Oberon Books, 2016 in the Country House (Historic England, explored, while interviews with CFOs, and Pegasus Books USA, 2017). 2016). Marilyn Palmer, Britain’s first leaders at accountancy firms, recruiters Professor of Industrial Archaeology, and head-hunters provide an insight into explores the motivations for country how to become a respected CFO or senior house-dwellers to adapt to inventions, and partner.

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In memoriam

Stella Abbey (Munro 1957) 1 November Helen Hasler (Wood 1955) 9 May 2016 Allen Prattis (2010) 25 January 2017 2016 Jean Hawkes (Perkins 1945) 28 March 2017 Helen Ramsay (Pasternak 1946) 13 Anne Badenoch (Forster 1940) 14 February 2017 February 2017 Kathryn Heath (Glass 1922) 15 May 2017 Sonia Rose (Clark 1953) 30 September Gladys Baines (1916) 17 February 2017 Marjorie Holmes (Entwistle 1945) 15 2016 October 2016 Mary Bishop (1939) 14 November 2016 Sue Roser (Ellis 1958) June 2017 Elizabeth Horder (Wilson 1939) 22 March Pamela Bousfield (Calvert-Smith 1941) 6 2017 Pat Round (Church 1951) 29 March 2017 February 2017 Angela Howes (Accommodation Assistant) Marie Russell (Wiseman 1943) 25 June Lucy De Burgh (Addey 1938) 18 21 June 2017 2015 September 2016 Anthea Jackson (Edenbrow 1960) 1 June Betty Rutson (1955) 9 August 2016 Mary Campbell (1942) 3 September 2016 2017 Angela Symons (English 1949) 27 October Morven Douglas (1998) 17 November Therese Kennard (Walter 1942) 18 May 2016 2016 2016 Ann Taylor 23 February 2017 Joyce Ellis (1969) 16 July 2016 Jean Lester (1939) 5 February 2016 Molly Thurlow (Yarker 1949) 12 January Catharine Erskine (Mclelland 1944) 25 Ottilie Lunn (Krall 1944) 1 August 2016 2017 February 2017 Gillian McCredie (1964) 4 October 2016 Stephen Tindale (1983) 1 July 2017 Anton Evseev (2000) 21 February 2017 Kathleen Myers (1917) 17 February 2017 Romola Verney (1938) 23 March 2017 Victoria Fairbairns Schankula (Fairbairns 1966) 17 February 2015 Janet Newson (Dawson 1954) 1 June Daniel Wilson (2012) 9 January 2017 2015 Anita Fischel (Despard 1945) 26 February Helen Winnifrith (Young 1965) 14 July 2017 Joy Orr (Stones 1944) 14 January 2017 2016

Wendy Glover (1978) 2 December 2016 Diana Pitt (Lewandowska 1975) 10 Please note that some dates are January 2017 approximate as no exact date was provided Sylvia Gordon (Landau 1948) 23 August when College was notified. This list also 2016 Gina Pollinger (Conquy 1954) 22 March reflects other updates made to our records 2017 over the past 12 months. Jennie Hallett (Pyke 1945) 19 May 2017 Joyce Pollon (Waywell 1950) 19 November Dalbren Harris (1976) 21 April 2016 2016

Michael Harrison (1988) 12 June 2017 Judith Pottle (Mothersill 1969) 31 July 2016

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In memoriam Her future husband Sir John Badenoch Anne died peacefully on 13 February, aged Anne Badenoch (Forster 1940) came up to Oriel College in 1938 and 94. 16 July 1922 – 13 February 2017 attended the wartime Clinical School at the She is survived by her sister Elspeth Radcliffe Infirmary. They married in 1944. Cairns, also an alumna of St Anne’s, her The couple were separated when John four children, her six grandchildren and undertook military service as medical nine great-grandchildren. officer of the West African Rifles in Nigeria; Lindsay Badenoch Anne had joined the Women’s Royal Navy Service. In memoriam Mary Campbell (1942) Reunited in 1948, they had four children, 6 March 1924 – 3 September 2016 James, Lindsay, Catherine and Andy and would live in North Oxford until Sir John’s death in 1996.

Lady Badenoch maintained a keen interest in the life of St Anne’s all her life. She enjoyed being an alumna, regularly Anne Badenoch was born on 16 July 1922 attending College dinners, gaudies and in Warkworth, Northumberland, to parents other College events. She also played Gladys and Lancelot Forster, the latter a her part in the life of the City to full. She professor of education at the University of was a magistrate in Oxford for more than Hong Kong. 30 years, a long-serving member of the Oxford Bach Choir and volunteered at the She spent her early years in Hong Kong Citizens Advice Bureau. with her three sisters Margaret, Helen and Elspeth before the family moved back to She was on the board of governors of Mary Campbell, who died on 3 September England when she was 11. Headington School and attended the 2016, was a history teacher and later a school’s 100th anniversary party at the age headmistress who took The Royal School, After a brief spell at a school in Leamington of 92. Bath, now the Royal High School, into a Spa she joined Headington School in forward looking position, where girls were 1935, before studying history at what was Her passion for music was accentuated encouraged to realize their full potential. then The Society of Home-Students. This through her commitment to the Music became St Anne’s College several years Therapy Charity, an Oxford-based charity Mary was born in St Albans in March 1924. after she had graduated with a wartime researching music as therapy, of which she Her father was the managing director of degree. was a vice-president. the Ecclesiastical Insurance Company.

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Mary’s secondary education began at St been good rather than great. It had been a Peter’s daughters. Albans High School but was interrupted challenging time to be a figure of authority, The writer is indebted to Caroline Lucas, when her father evacuated the family and though her policy of always keeping her another former pupil, for much of the his work to Oxford for the duration of World office door ajar so that troubled pupils information in this obituary. War II. She took the wartime shortened could consult her at any time had been two year course in Modern History at what much appreciated. Caroline Dalton was then St Anne’s Society, now St Anne’s Mary transferred her membership of the In memoriam College, between 1942 and 1944, gaining Soroptomists from Bath to St Albans and Catharine Erskine (McLelland 1944) her BA in 1945. spent more time playing bridge, travelling 5 February 1927 – 25 February 2017 Mary’s first teaching job was at St Monica’s and watching birds. She also became a School, Clacton, where she earned a multitasking Friend of St Albans Abbey, glowing reference from the headmistress. where she could often be found doing a She arrived at the Royal School in 1950, turn at the Abbey bookstall, guiding visitors as head of history and housemistress or acting as sidesman. During this period, of Wellington House. Mary was always she was renowned for her legendary generous with her time, her books, her parties. Her last few years were spent in long-playing records, her TV and her care, initially in St Albans then in Cowfold, hospitality. She had a well-developed Sussex. The funeral took place on 26 sense of fun and was a clear, stimulating September in the Abbey Lady Chapel, teacher of her subject. Her pastoral ability which was filled to overflowing with former was a great strength in a school where pupils. The stewards had to provide many many pupils, children of army officers on extra chairs. As well as the customary overseas postings, only had intermittent order of service, the congregation received contact with their parents. When Mary a leaflet of memories of Mary contributed Catharine Erskine was born Catharine became headmistress in 1968, she guided by family, friends and pupils. Afterwards, McLelland on 5 February 1927 at Wester the school through transition from a most of the congregation repaired to St Housebyres near Melrose in Scotland. She two-form to three-form entry, beginning Michael’s Manor Hotel to hold what was was the elder of two children of Kenneth in 1971. During this time the number of billed as Mary Campbell’s last party, with and Ada McLelland. She and her brother, pupils with an army background gradually some of her favourite foods, including Carrick, grew up in this borders home reduced. The number of boarders similarly strawberries and cream. where the farm, hunting and pony club shrank. Mary’s great friend and colleague Eileen meetings were part of their lives. Their Mary retired in 1982. Her evaluation of her Jefferson predeceased her, as did her father died suddenly in 1938 leaving their period as headmistress was that she had first cousin Peter Crill. She is survived by mother the formidable task of keeping the farm going until Carrick was old enough to

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take over. After starting school in Scotland, Married life started in Edinburgh, where of NADFAS, an arts-based educational Catharine went to Roedean, evacuated to Carol was born. Donald’s work took them charity. Like her brother, Carrick, she had a Keswick. Though unenthusiastic about her north to Aberdeenshire where Fiona and sharp wit, great sense of humour and was schooldays, she did gain her writing skills Jamie were born. In 1961 they returned a wonderful mimic. Both Catharine and and interest in literature, which remained south for Donald to start in the National Donald were generous with their hospitality, with her for life. She went up to St Anne’s, Trust for Scotland in Edinburgh and they filling their home with their children’s friends Oxford to read French in 1944. Here, set up home in Cleish with two more for varying lengths of time, often with their education became a pleasure and she daughters, Julia and Joanna. dirty washing and sometimes no apparent made life-long friends such as Jill Caygill departure date. Catharine threw herself into community and Ann Jacomb (now Ann Joy). life. A regular church-goer, she joined then Catharine is survived by her husband of In Oxford, she lived with Jill and Ann in chaired the Guild and as a member of the 64 happy years, her five children and 12 Springfield, a hostel on the Banbury Road local SWI [Scottish Women’s Institutes] grandchildren. run by some delightful Anglican Nuns. she chaired the Perth & Kinross Federation Julia Flory Transport was always by bicycle and and convened the National Education brown corduroy trousers were all the rage! Committee. Other positions included being In memoriam Entertainment could be a meal at the Taj a Governor at Oxenfoord Castle School Sylvia Jean Hawkes (Perkins 1945) Mahal in the Turl (a plate of dal cost just and a Board Member of Cleish School. 9 March 1927 – 28 March 2017 She also edited the Community Council 9d) or a more exciting outing was with On 28 March 2017 Jean Hawkes passed monthly newsletter. She worked part- some of the pensioned ex-servicemen away peacefully in Minehead, Somerset time with the National Trust for Scotland; who could afford to take the ladies out. not long after celebrating her ninetieth chaired Children First; delivered meals Friendship with the occupant of the only birthday. room out of the nuns’ view was important, on wheels; organized the local poppy being the only entry point after lock up at collection and the church flower rota. As a Born in Ashford Kent, she excelled at the 10pm! Ann Joy also remembers skating talented seamstress, she became part of a County High School for Girls, securing for miles and miles on a totally frozen Port needlework team restoring precious fabrics a place at St Anne’s to read French Meadow! in country houses. She and Donald were Literature. Words and phrases from her regular contributors to village life and one school reports between 1938 and 1945 After graduating in 1947, Catharine of her greatest honours was to be a judge referring to her intelligence, thoughtfulness, returned to Scotland to work at the at the annual poetry competition at Cleish her independent mind and her loyalty Royal College of Physicians as Assistant village school. crop up repeatedly. We came across an Librarian. After meeting Donald Erskine interesting account she wrote a few years Catharine always made time for her here, she was married on 15 April 1953 in ago remembering her experience of being passions: music and theatre, fine arts and Melrose. evacuated to Burford, Oxfordshire in 1940. her garden. She chaired the Perth Branch She describes how she was able to enjoy

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a variety of the cultural treats available he played Handel before the interval and held a reception in the old British Legation, in wartime, largely thanks to CEMA (the Bach variations after. Significant perhaps attended by (among others) William and Council for the Encouragement of Music in that she requested that Bach, among Hetta Empson, IA Richards, Adele Rickett, and the Arts). On one memorable evening others, should be played at her funeral. Pamela Fitt (later Lady Pamela Youde), Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Sybil Jean and David were both keen musicians Robert Ruhlmann and Bishop Thomas Thorndike, Lewis Casson and Joyce and music lovers and Jean still played the Scott of North China. Redman gave a performance of Arms and piano by ear until her last days. They returned to Oxford in 1951 where her the Man in the school hall. Later, Imogen David read Chinese at Christ Church four children grew up and went to school. Holst spent an afternoon in school teaching (changing from Classics following a a number of songs and rounds which she As well as supporting David in his epic wartime stint at Bletchley Park) and passed on later to her four children. translation (including a little teaching at accepted a research studentship at Peking Milham Ford), during the 1980s Jean University from 1948 while Jean attended published two translations from the French the Department of Education in Norham with Virago Press. Her subject was the Gardens as a postgraduate, training to be a French feminist writer Flora Tristan: The French teacher. We still have the handwritten London Journal of Flora Tristan (London and typed copies of Jean’s 1949 testimonials 1982) was followed by Peregrinations of a from Eleanor Plumer, Principal of St Anne’s Pariah (London 1985). Society and L Tomlinson tutor: ‘Miss Perkins proved herself a very hard and conscientious In retirement Jean and David moved from worker, reliable and thoughtful… Under Oxford to rural mid-Wales to renovate a a quiet manner she has some force of near ruined stone cottage on a barren character, and a sense of humour.’ hillside with no running water or mains electricity. Over the years they kept a After a lengthy correspondence David variety of livestock, always goats and finally proposed to Jean in writing and thus chickens, planted pasture and deciduous it came about that in her early-twenties, trees while still managing to attend having never been abroad, she travelled Jean was the widow of David Hawkes, concerts and films at nearby Aberystwyth out on her own by boat from Southampton distinguished sinologist and translator – and taking up weaving alongside to Hong Kong and then on to Tiensin, who died in Oxford in July 2009. They met the numerous chores assocated with where she was met by David. They while both were Oxford undergraduates smallholding. They spent a further few were married in newly ‘liberated’ Peking in 1947 through mutual Chinese friends. years in mid-Wales renovating another old in May 1950, the first foreign marriage They were in a student group attending cottage complete with roof crick beam but ceremony conducted according to the new a concert given by the pianist Solomon this time in a village at least with mains regulations for foreigners. Afterwards they in Oxford Town Hall. Jean recalled that water and electricity and on a bus route!

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Their final joint residence was again in neighbouring, rather grand, ground floor Nor did her easy, companionable Oxford, but after the loss of David and two room (allocated by lottery) on their first temperament give any idea of the shrewd of her daughters, Jean moved to residential afternoon, and plunging instantly into a tactical manoeuvring she would employ to and later nursing care in Somerset. conversation, ranging over their diverse outperform competitors at the university Throughout her life she certainly bore out London backgrounds, books and people – sailing club. early observations regarding her loyalty, a conversation which was to last a lifetime. The eldest of three sisters, Vicky was a independent mind and sense of humour. very family-oriented person. Not all elder Above all, her force of character combined sisters would have been delighted to have with a gentle and thoughtful manner were welcomed a talented sibling as a fellow paramount: never complaining, maintaining undergraduate. Vicky, however, was furious her interests and dignity despite extremely when St Anne’s failed to offer a place to limited mobility in her last years. At the her second sister, already a published point of dying she was reassured that she novelist. was greatly loved, that it would be all right and that we would be all right. At the end of her Oxford career Vicky married and left for Lexington, Kentucky Caroline May Hawkes where she and her Canadian philosopher In memoriam husband settled. There she raised her Victoria Fairbairns Schankula children, Rachel and David, and developed (Fairbairns 1966) a career in psychometrics, assessing 15 July 1947 – 17 February 2015 undergraduates at the University of Lexington, Kentucky. Her talent for Vicky, as she was always known, came Vicky, who was a proverbial English friendship served her well there, both in up to Oxford to read Chemistry, working rose, with long dark hair and a creamy laying down roots for her family in this long and conscientious hours at the labs complexion, swiftly attracted a posse initially unfamiliar territory and in keeping in her first year, before switching to PPP of talented, interesting boyfriends and strong bonds going over the years with her and thus extending her undergraduate we recall meeting many of the Rhodes British friends and family. The transatlantic career to four years. She spent her first scholars at her Rawlinson Road tea-parties phone calls of later years, which Vicky year in the St Anne’s house in Rawlinson (though curiously Bill Clinton, one of their disarmingly described as treats to herself, Road, presided over by the wonderful number that year, was never present!). always came as a delightful surprise. Miss Rosalie Smith, who was renowned Despite Vicky’s elegance it was her smile for cooking breakfasts while listening and chuckle that made the first and most Very sadly, Vicky never got to enjoy a sympathetically to woes about essay crises lasting impression: her charming exterior retirement in which she would surely and boyfriends. Angela Thirlwell (Goldman) gave little indication of her wry sense of have enjoyed her role as a grandmother, recalls meeting Vicky, the occupant of the humour and ability to skewer pretensions. developed her many artistic hobbies and

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felt at greater liberty to visit her family and Janet came up to St Anne’s to read disease, using baboons as an experimental friends in Britain. Instead her final months Zoology in 1954 and was awarded a model. Janet co-authored papers on were clouded by frontal lobe syndrome college exhibition for the best second year the work she had done, including some before her premature death in February student. She lived in Musgrave House. observations on semi-nomadic Turkana 2015. On graduating she began work on her people living in the harsh, arid environment DPhil at Charles Elton’s Bureau of Animal of northern Kenya. After the Wellcome Elisabeth Jay (Aldis 1966) and Population (BAP) beside the University laboratory closed, she helped to set up Angela Thirlwell (Goldman 1966) Botanic Garden, studying how the and run a medical diagnostic laboratory in In Memoriam physiology of field voles is affected over the Nairobi for five years. Janet Newson (Dawson 1954) course of their regular four-year population In 1979, Janet was appointed as a 9 October 1935 – 1 June 2015 cycles. In 1959 she married Robin, a fellow Research Associate at the International graduate student at the BAP. In 1959 Laboratory for Research on Animal and again in 1960, they made field trips Diseases (ILRAD) near Nairobi. The to Norway to observe one of the well- institute was established to study the known irruptions in lemming numbers that host-parasite relationship of two important occur every four years. Janet gained her blood-borne diseases of cattle in Africa doctorate in 1960. that hamper expansion of the livestock There followed two post-doc years in industry (trypanosomiasis and East Coast Canada at Ontario Agricultural College fever). Janet admitted that the switch to (now University of Guelph) participating immunology was challenging, but later said in a project on the 10-year population it was the most interesting and productive cycle of snowshoe hares. In 1962, the part of her working life. She was actively couple returned to Britain and Janet put involved in the publication of some 11 Janet had an enquiring and critical mind, scientific work aside whilst she reared research papers (including three as the and was always keen to pursue fresh two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. In senior author). interests as they became available and 1968, the family moved again and Robin’s When Janet and Robin retired to live welcomed opportunities to live and work work with the UN Food and Agriculture in Oxfordshire in 1991, Janet promptly abroad. In later life she made many shorter, Organisation (FAO) took them first to embarked on new activities. She had holiday visits to see the classical art and Mwanza in northern Tanzania and then on become a respected orchid grower in architecture of southern Europe and the to Nairobi, Kenya, in 1971. Kenya, and devoted much time to it in Near East. Also, whenever possible, she Here, Janet started work as a haematology England over the next 10 years, qualifying enjoyed the brief but spectacular spring technician in a Wellcome Trust project as a judge for the British Orchid Society. show of native wild flowers, especially her studying human vitamin B12 deficiency main interest, the many small orchids.

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Through study at the Oxford University it to André Deutsch who accepted it for both moved and honoured. And always, Department for Continuing Education publication in 1963, and that’s when I met at every meeting, or party, or supper at she then developed a keen interest in their enthusiastic new young editor, Gina their welcoming home, Gina would hurry Romanesque architecture and sculpture. Conquy, recently returned from New York forward to greet you with her lovely merry For her last 10 years she was an energetic where she’d worked for two years, first at smile, her verve and vivacity, smartly voluntary field worker for Oxfordshire for Pantheon before she was lured to Simon dressed in her individual style that didn’t the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in and Schuster by the legendary Bob Gottlieb, intimidate but always looked just right. Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) hosted by the discoverer of Catch 22 and editor of an When we first met at Deutsch she was Courtauld Institute. She was still heavily amazing list of great twentieth-century about to marry Murray Pollinger (I’d engaged in this at the time of her death. writers. already heard of that illustrious family of In Nairobi, Janet became a Siamese cat literary agents but wasn’t represented by enthusiast and over the years enjoyed a them) and since that crucial time for me close relationship with a succession of in the publishing world, we kept in touch much-loved pets. and I later joined their ‘stable’. Gina was the most brilliant editor – encouraging Robin Newson but honest, sensitive to the pain a writer In memoriam always feels when a favourite paragraph Georgina (Gina) Henriette Anne is banished as a purple patch, and always Pollinger (Conquy 1954) full of the right amount of good advice 18 May 1935 – 22 March 2017 and suggestions for textual improvement. Murray and Gina were such an impressive THAT MERRY SMILE and unusual duo; each trusted the other’s Literary Agent Extraordinaire judgement and each did their job brilliantly: I didn’t really know Gina at St Anne’s tact, humour and good manners came College, where she read English (a note uppermost always but the tough truth was on her College file reads: Gina got a very Gina would hang out of her office window given when needed. in Museum Street and shout, ‘Hullo Peggy, good second and might have got a first if It was a great shock to the family, to their press the second bell and come upstairs,’ her father had not been very ill in her Finals wide circle of friends, and to the publishing or words to that effect, and up I’d go into year) because she was in her final year when world when Gina was badly injured in a car my future world of authorship of which she I went up to Oxford, but I’ll never forget my accident in California in 1985. Her injuries was such an important part on so many first proper meeting with her. I’d recently were so serious as to leave her partially levels. I learned only very recently that returned from a year’s bursary in Rome, disabled and in pain for the rest of her life, Abraham’s Legacy was the first novel she where I’d written my first novel Abraham’s but she never moaned about them or let Legacy. My agent at that time had submitted edited at Deutsch, and it made me feel

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them prevent her and Murray from doing … The result is a book which presents horrors of war. An airbase was nearby and, what they both wanted to do: to work, Shakespeare’s all-encompassing vision on several occasions, after local bombing take lovely holidays, but above all to love and shows how he continues to illuminate raids, the bodies of neighbours and and support their family: Gina’s mother our world.’Requiem Mass family friends were laid out in her father’s Molly, their son Edmund, their daughter butchers shop which was the only place Here is my journey’s end, here is my butt Claudia and her husband Ben, and their for where they could be kept cool. And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. grandchildren Max and Molly. (Othello, V ii) Joyce was an excellent student and had her When the Pollingers retired from the first book of poems published at the age Peggy Woodford (1956) publishing world in 1996, the contents of*OYCE-ARY Pollonof eight to raise money for the Red Cross. their ‘stable’ went to many other homes, In memoriam She was thanked by the Queen on behalf but however good those homes became, Joyce Mary Pollon (Waywell 1950) of the princesses wishing her every success they never quite have taken the place 26 February 1932 – 19 November 2016 in her literary career. After the Notre Dame of a family duo who worked so brilliantly Convent School in St Helen’s where she together. We will all miss Gina on so many continued to excel she went up to St Anne’s different levels. in 1950 on a State Scholarship to read English. In between studying, Joyce made Her lifelong passion for Shakespeare good friends at Cherwell Edge and also was celebrated in 1995, when she caught the eye of my father Derek. published her own anthology of his work, Something Rich and Strange: A Treasury Her married life got off to a bumpy start of Shakespeare’s Verse. This was aimed when their planned wedding day had to at introducing younger readers to short be brought forward a week as Derek’s passages adeptly chosen by Gina from regiment (he was doing his National his plays and poems, and listed under Service) was called to Egypt to defend the 8 specific subjects, from YOUTH, I DO Suez Canal. Not only had the wedding list ADORE THEE to the final section OUR to be slimmed down with a stand-in best REVELS NOW ARE ENDED. It was vividly man but my mother was left alone on her illustrated by Emma Chichester Clark My mother was born Joyce Mary Waywell wedding night as Derek had to return to and remains a classic celebration of at the Liverpool maternity hospital to barracks. A sympathetic commanding Shakespeare’s greatness, specially angled her loving parents Herbert and Honora. officer then gave him exceptional leave at the young but a treat for any reader. She was a much loved child, as was her and they had a couple of days honeymoon To quote the blurb: ‘Gina Pollinger set younger sister Rita who died tragically before he had to re-join his regiment. They in her late twenties. She had a very out to compile an anthology that would *OHN&ISHER#HAPEL made up however for this inauspicious make Shakespeare’s verse accessible happy childhood in Newton-le-Willows in start by having five children in eight years. 7EDNESDAY$ECEMBERATAMLancashire but was not immune from the

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Joyce taught English full time at a In memoriam on Beckett is still the best book on the number of schools over the next thirty Rosemary Pountney (1969) practicalities of theatre. I remember being years including the Old Palace School, amazed at how stylishly and poetically she Rosemary’s obituary was included in the Convent of the Sacred Heart in wrote about staging practice – lighting, The Ship last year. This tribute by Patrick Woldingham and the Purley Language props, the use of shadow and clarity – the McGuinness is from her memorial event at School. As a teacher, Joyce was poetry, you could say, of things and of the St Anne’s on 19 February 2017. passionate about her subject and freely absence of things: what’s not there as well offered her time to coach students for as what is. I was a little star struck because Oxbridge entrance exams and interviews; I knew that the Rosemary Pountney who many of whom were successfully admitted. wrote with such style and lucidity about what She struck up lasting friendships with the isn’t at all lucid was also an actor, who had students she taught, especially language lived inside what she wrote about. She was students, making full use of the internet not, as most of us in universities are, perched to stay in touch via email and Skype. After on the outside looking in. She also knew retirement she became more active in the Beckett and had acted and premiered his parish and helping others. She taught plays. Beckett, in fact, chose her to premiere English to refugee children, looked after an his work. That was more than a minor detail. elderly relative, comforted the sick, worked This made teaching Waiting for Godot in the with the Oxford Society and, one that really same college as Rosemary a little unnerving. shocked me, gave marital advice to young The thought that a few rooms away couples planning marriage! there was someone who knew its author, I first met Rosemary in 1995, when I She was a very loving mother, grandmother who had put her body and mind into the began my career as an academic at and great grandmother offering freely theatrical moment, the perpetual present Jesus College, where she was a lecturer advice on everything and anything. In the of performance, and who knew it wasn’t in English. We had students in common last few years of her life, she developed just words on the page but a deep visceral and she taught them the modern literature early stage Alzheimers and became very experience, made me feel pretty unequal papers, an extraordinary range of writers dependent on Derek. But after he died in to the task. I had done my doctorate on she knew. Though theatre was her first 2015 she was more dependent on family silence and inactivity in theatre: on the way love, it was closely followed by poetry, and friends and became increasingly frail. even when nothing happens, something which she herself wrote. She died peacefully at home falling asleep is always happening. Rosemary knew while doing a crossword, a passion she But I knew her before through her book on immediately what I meant because she had retained to the end. Beckett, Theatre of Shadows, which I had had lived it and written about it. It wasn’t used in my doctorate and indeed quoted abstract to her: it was something lived and Peter Pollon several times. Why? Because her book a key part of experience.

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When my students asked about Beckett, kind words to say about the people she inherited from my grandmother. The flat was I always said, ‘Ask Rosemary; she knew worked with. Some of them even deserved vast, because I was caretaking it for Queen’s him.’ I wanted to share the starstruckness. it. I wasn’t used to that level of generosity of College, and yet because it was mine it The students loved her: her sympathy, spirit, especially not in English departments, still managed to be messy. There was an her fun, her ease and her passion. She where I had myself started and from which I umbrella on the floor. To Rosemary, it must transmitted what it was like to love was a recent refugee. have looked like a stage set for one of her something – books, plays, poems, ideas – Beckett plays: emptiness with a base note We knew that her health was in a parlous and to love them ongoingly and excitedly of chaos. When she saw my study, which state for years, but Rosemary vanquished and always freshly. was an absolute mess of papers, unmarked things that would have made most people essays, mouldy coffee cups and shredded More and more I think that’s our real job give up. She did so with humour and grace bits of learned journals, she shrieked with in universities, the first thing we need to and an amazing energy for ideas and travel pleasure. ‘I like mess,’ she said. While the do in a higher education world obsessed and experiences. Sometimes she looked others looked po-faced at what Beckett with exams and fees and league tables: quite frail, in body only, because she was would have called the ‘crapulous den’ in to show students what it’s like to love a always laughing and talking about her next which I existed, Rosemary toured it like an subject. Rosemary did that. theatre performance, her next festival, excited visiting dignitary. She even stayed her next draining and exhausting tour. I In person, Rosemary was the opposite of for dinner and fearlessly ate what I cooked. I remember one day coming back from a the forbidding expert and still less of that even remember, or perhaps I’m imagining, a university vacation that I had spent mostly species of person one comes across on compliment on my food. on the sofa watching DVDs, only to find the circuit who tells you endlessly about that Rosemary had been half way across Rosemary was funny, brave, fearless, what ‘Beckett said to them’. the world talking and performing, and had intrepid, irreverent, mischievous, There was a group of us – junior fellows, written a few poems for good measure. She penetratingly intelligent, kind and full of young academics on the up, or so we made us feel old when we were young, and curiosity. It didn’t matter how ill she was thought, some of us on the down – who nearly 20 years later at St Anne’s, when she or how tired she was, she was one of the were drawn to her because of her absolutely would come in for lunch or for coffee, she most alive people I knew. unrelenting energy and sense of mischief. was the same and I was, well... still older. Patrick McGuinness is Professor of She was irreverent, though never about Maybe we’re all still older than Rosemary. French and Comparative Literature, Sir what she loved, and she was funny and full The first time she came to my flat, as it was Win and Lady Bischoff Fellow in French, of jokes. She would join us in the pub, or then, I invited her and a couple of colleagues Tutor in Modern Languages at St Anne’s. invite us to Crick Road where she lived, for for dinner. I had just begun at Jesus and He is joint winner of the R Gapper Book dinner, and tell stories, funny and amazing had almost no possessions: two deckchairs Prize 2016 for Poetry and Radical Politics and absorbing, and sometimes moving. I and a bed, plus some oddly out of place in fin de siècle France: From Anarchism to remember first of all how generous she was luxuries: a painting and a tailor’s dummy Action Française (OUP 2015) about her colleagues. She had nothing but

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Rosemary’s memoirs are available from St Anne’s Development office. Contact [email protected] if you would like to receive a copy of this publication.

In memoriam Dr Ann Gaynor Taylor (Founding Fellow) 30 June 1928 – 23 February 2017

Educated at Oxford High School for Girls, Ann matriculated through Somerville College in 1946 to study Medicine, obtaining a First in Physiology and Biochemistry and going on to receive her BM, BCh degrees in 1956. She became a College Lecturer at St Anne’s College Photo taken for St Edmund Hall ‘Women Inspire’ exhibition / John Cairns the following year and was subsequently first (and for a while sole) female Fellow after teaching and most of her students. She was appointed as Tutor in Physiology and a the 1978 amendment to the Charter allowing especially supportive to some, in a way that Founding Fellow, staying until 1963. women to be admitted to full membership. transcended academic duties, and keeping Her academic career then concentrated It was a challenging position for her – but in touch with them through the years was more on research: she crossed the Atlantic one in which she thrived. As the Senior especially rewarding for her.’ Tutor, Professor Robert Wilkins, recalled in to the USA and worked as a Research Over and above her teaching, Ann played his tribute at her funeral service, ‘While Ann Associate at Stanford University Medical a full part in the life of St Edmund Hall. was very much a research scientist, she was School for ten years from 1965, followed Notably she supported the Boat Club also a hugely gifted and influential teacher. by a stint as an Associate Professor at – both men and women rowers – and Ann Taylor influenced many lives, and she Cornell University Medical College, 1975 served as its Senior Member. She was will long be remembered as an inspirational – 1980. During this time Ann established particularly concerned about crews’ safety tutor.’ One of her former students who an important research interest in the on the river and liaised vigorously with the contacted the Hall on learning of Ann’s death movement of salt and water across the university authorities to improve this. She said that ‘She was a wonderful mentor and cells of the kidney and bladder. was an active member of and eventually I enjoyed her sense of humour as much Ann returned to Oxford in 1980 to take up chaired the University’s Committee on as her teaching skills.’ Dr Kate Cobbold, a university lectureship in the Physiology Student Health, involving herself with her daughter, recalled that Ann ‘loved Laboratory and became St Edmund Hall’s health and welfare issues at both college

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and university levels. Arising from this successful as a leader, first in government these. In a similar spirit, he argued that work, Ann helped to develop the University and then outside it. genetically modified organisms should Counselling Service, which has become not be rejected en masse – some genetic Heading Greenpeace from 2001 until such an important part of Oxford’s student alterations to crops or bacteria were 2006 was Stephen’s most public-facing support provision. benign and would lead to environmental role, at a time when the organisation was improvement and better food security. Ann retired in 1995 and was elected to at its noisiest. In 2005 he was arrested These stances won Stephen many new an Emeritus Fellowship. She continued to during direct action at Range Rover’s supporters, but hurt relationships with live in the Oxford area, enjoying having her SUV plant in Solihull. Greenpeace planted some of his environmentalist peers and family around her, gardening and her dogs. a flag subverting the company’s logo friends. He made these changes based Sadly she became frail in her later years and proclaiming ‘Land Rover: Climate on principles he always held dear, inspired and passed away at the age of 88. Criminals’. Stephen was proud of this act by the urgent need to prevent climate of civil disobedience and a framed image Ann is survived by her sons, Sebastian, change. of his arrest adorned his wall. Nicholas and Daniel; her daughter, Kate; He was born in Baghdad, the son of and her seven grandchildren. But his strength as an environmentalist – Sonia and Gordon Tindale. His father his ability to question perceived wisdoms, A memorial service to celebrate Ann’s worked for the British Council and his intellectual curiosity and his desire to life and achievements will be held on 19 Stephen’s early childhood was spent in come up with a nuanced solution – did October 2017 at the University Church, the Middle East and Africa. He went to the not always sit well with Greenpeace’s Oxford. Leys School in Cambridge and studied opposition to entire sectors or philosophy, politics and economics at Tribute shared by St Edmund Hall technologies. Stephen was uncomfortable St Anne’s College, Oxford, then took a Magazine, 2016-2017 edition with the reliance on scare tactics used to master’s in politics and administration at gain attention, rather than putting forward In memoriam Birkbeck College London. a positive vision for sustainability. He was Stephen Christopher Tindale (1982) proud that during his tenure Greenpeace He joined the Foreign Office in 1986, but 29 March 1963 - 1 July 2017 played a critical role in the birth of the gave up the security and prestige of this The environmentalist Stephen Tindale, offshore wind industry in the UK. job to work on environmental issues. He who has died aged 54, was an influential worked for Friends of the Earth and at the In later years, he became best-known backroom figure in the Labour party who Fabian Society, led the energy team at for breaking with positions he had became executive director of Greenpeace the Institute for Public Policy Research, held in Greenpeace. Stephen argued UK. His brand of environmentalism was 1994-96, and was director of the Green that since the principal problems with driven by his socialist principles. He Alliance, 1996-97. nuclear power were nuclear waste and was international in outlook, pragmatic weapons proliferation, the solution was Many of his colleagues went on to about what could be achieved politically, advanced reactors that could mitigate become government ministers in the Blair- and technologically optimistic. He was

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Brown era. This creative period incubated change levy, a tax on energy rather self-deprecating humour, his blokeish much of the Labour Party’s thinking on than carbon, emerged as a political passion for Spurs and his love of debate, renewable energy, and on green taxation, compromise between the ideals of preferably over a pint of bitter, or better such as carbon taxes, the escalation of environmental taxation and the realities still while hiking on a Munro. fuel duty and landfill tax. Stephen worked of trying to get such a market-based Stephen was twice married and divorced. for the Party’s shadow Environment approach to be adopted by a Labour He is survived by the son and daughter of Secretary, Chris Smith, on the strategy party with deep political roots in the coal his first marriage, and by his sister, Helen, In Trust for Tomorrow, published in 1994. industry. and his parents. This set the tone for Labour for the next Stephen left government in 2000 to decade, outlining the right to roam, justice Courtesy the Guardian join one of its staunchest critics – for future generations and the creation of Greenpeace – and a year later he became Stephen Long (1982) adds: the environment audit committee. executive director. But he found leading Stephen was originally accepted to read Greenpeace’s passionate but vociferous After the 1997 general election, English. However, his growing passion for staff, and implementing its global environment was subsumed into a politics led him to switch to PPE before campaign priorities, exhausting. Stephen sprawling department that combined local he went up to Oxford in 1982. At Oxford suffered from depression all his adult life, and regional government, transport and his lifelong passion for political debate and when, in 2006, he left Greenpeace, it environment. Stephen joined as adviser developed in tutorials with Tony Judt was after an attempt to take his own life. to the Environment Minister Michael and outside tutors, and also with a close His physical recovery took a year and his Meacher. His role was to represent group of college friends, often over a pint health was never fully restored. Meacher within the department, to be his of bitter in the College bar or nearby pubs. ‘vicar on earth’. Meacher was not always After Greenpeace, Stephen could voice Stephen loved debate and was always on the same page as his civil servants his views more freely. He set up a website, respectful of other points of view. He had and sometimes only accepted advice climateanswers.info; he and I wrote a other interests as well, including drama; once Stephen had persuaded him about book, Repowering Communities (2011), at one point he put on a play performed in the idea’s merits from first (socialistic) advocating small-scale and local energy the Hartland room. principles. solutions; and he wrote on environmental Over three fruitful years, Britain signed issues for the Centre for European the Kyoto protocol, launched the climate Reform. He also campaigned tirelessly for change levy and passed right-to-roam renewables, including novel technologies legislation despite vociferous opposition such as the Swansea tidal lagoon. from landowners. Stephen was invariably Friends remember Stephen’s witty and charming in explaining and friendliness, his gentlemanly charm, defending policy decisions. The climate his approachability, his warmth, his

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Sarah McCabe Bursary Fund: The Principal and Fellows Peaden (Morris), Valerie: 1945 List of £200 acknowledge with deep Wolffe (Bailey), Mary: 1945 The 1979-1989 Endowed gratitude the following Cosh, Mary: 1946 Donors to Bursary Fund: £20,170 alumnae and friends for their Craig (Clarkson), Mary: 1946 The Tim Gardam Welfare Fund: gifts (1 August 2015 to 31 Forster, Helen: 1946 College, £29,600 July 2016): Moffat (Black), Margaret: 1946 Year of 1955 Bursary Fund: £60 O’Flynn (Brewster), Hazel: 1946 2015 – 2016 Year of 1962 Bursary: £360 Pre-1944 Strawson, Ann: 1946 Beesley (Ridehalgh), Ruth: 1938 Beesley (Collins), Anne: 1947 Student accommodation and A total of £2.84m was gifted Gauld (Marshall), Doreen: 1940 Lewis, Keri: 1947 by St Anne’s alumnae, parents buildings Blake, Mary: 1941 Merrick (Richards), Celia: 1947 and friends between 1 August Front of College: £1.88m Bousfield (Calvert-Smith), Wolf (Eliot), Elizabeth: 1947 2015 and 31 July 2016, to the Pamela: 1941 Bailey, Margaret: 1948 following funds. Teaching Support Classics Fellowship: £1,480 Watts (Budge), Grizel: 1941 Glynne, Dilys: 1948 Burtt (Waite), Audrey: 1942 Honoré (Duncan), Deborah: 1948 Annual Fund (greatest current English Appeal: £100 College need): £553,000 Running costs for the Centre of Duncombe, Ruth: 1942 Horton (Butler), Carol: 1948 Personal Medicine: £90,000 Kennard (Walter), Therese: 1942 Markus (Cotter), Patricia: 1948 Student Bursaries and Running Costs for the OCCT Studdert Kennedy (Leathart), Martin (Sandle), Patricia: 1948 Scholarships Centre: £40,200 Gillian: 1942 Matthews (Greenshields), Gabriele Taylor Fellowship in Thompson, Jean: 1942 Daphne: 1948 Abraham Bursary Fund: Philosophy: £6,580 Stephenson (Berry), Joy: 1943 Milton (Ward), Irene: 1948 £58,036 Mathematical Sciences Fund: Batchelor (Brown), Jean: 1944 Price, Maureen: 1948 ASM Graduate Bursary: £1,000 £3,625 Beatty (Cocker), Audrey: 1944 Stuart-Smith (Motion), Joan: 1948 Bursary Fund: £7,720 Chapman, Gwendolen: 1944 Jones, Madeline: 1949 Delbridge Bursary Fund: £730 Library Provision Gray (Edmunds), Joyce: 1944 Lowis (Harding), Olive: 1949 Dorothy Bednarowska Bursary Library Fund: £3,330 Hedges (Young), Wendy: 1944 Micklem (Monro), Ruth: 1949 Fund: £100 PPE Library: £6,060 Lorimer (Packard), Priscilla: 1944 Osborne, Marian: 1949 Graduate Development McHugh (Barlow), Jean: 1944 Phillips (Reilly), Pat: 1949 St Anne’s College Boat Club Scheme: £8,530 Orr (Stones), Joy: 1944 Smith (Gane), Ann: 1949 Boat Club: £25,480 Hardship Fund: £500 Spokes Symonds (Spokes), Tuckwell (Bacon), Margaret: 1949 Jim Stanfield Memorial Fund: Ann: 1944 Venables (Richards), Ann: 1949 £2,060 Other: £42,300 Wells (Lehmann), Yvonne: 1944 Walters (Purcell), Anne: 1949 Marianne Fillenz Memorial Fund: Ward (Hawking), Sheila: 1949 £400 Many of the fund totals are 1945 to 1949 Whitby (Field), Joy: 1949 Marjorie Reeves Memorial Fund: greater than the figures stated (Dutton) £420 here which refer only to last Baird , Audrey: 1945 Wolstencroft (Browne), year’s donations. Barnes (Ponsonby), Mary: 1945 Valerie: 1949 Jackson (Hurley), Barbara: 1945 Young (Tucker), Margaret: 1949

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1950 to 1954 Dunkley (Eastman), Shirley: 1953 Cviic (Antrobus), Celia: 1955 Watts (Webb), Angela: 1956 Everest-Phillips (Everest), Ettinger (Instone-Gallop), FitzHerbert (Norris), Kay: 1955 Athron (Ogborn), Ruth: 1957 Anne: 1950 Susan: 1953 Gosling, Margaret: 1955 Bacon (Mason), Ann: 1957 Heath, Mary: 1950 Jackson (Mansergh), Hewitt (Rogerson), Paula: 1955 Bell (Watt), Christine: 1957 Robson (Moses), Anne: 1950 Deborah: 1953 Lintott (Stone), Dinah: 1955 Boyde, Susan: 1957 Sainsbury (Burrows), Gillian: 1950 Larkins (Rees), Fay: 1953 Moore (Slocombe), Anne: 1955 Clarke (Gamblen), Alice: 1957 Saunders (Topley), Ann: 1950 Macleod (Shone), Judith: 1953 Ockenden (Askwith), Ann: 1955 Dixon (Gawadi), Aida: 1957 Wightwick (Layzell), Pamela: 1950 Marlow (Evans), Iris: 1953 Paton (Hodgkinson), Anne: 1955 Draper (Fox), Heather: 1957 Amherst (Davies), Ann: 1951 Orsten, Elisabeth: 1953 Paton Walsh (Bliss), Jill: 1955 Fleming (Newman), Joan: 1957 Barry (Morris), Elaine: 1951 Peeler (Wynne), Diana: 1953 Revill (Radford), Ann: 1955 Fuecks (Ford-Smith), Bergson (Levinson), Deirdre: 1951 Penny (Gross), Jennifer: 1953 Robertson, Valerie: 1955 Rachel: 1957 Evans (Wightwick), Sylvia: 1951 Rose (Clark), Sonia: 1953 Sasse (Robertson), Patricia: 1955 Graham (Portal), Mary: 1957 Farris, Dianne: 1951 Sherlock (Garland), Anne: 1953 Slocock (Whitehead), Gilia: 1955 Griffin (Dressler), Miriam: 1957 Fox (Wheeler), Rosemary: 1951 Stringer, Judith: 1953 Smith (Philpott), Christine: 1955 Hogg (Cathie), Anne: 1957 Hartman (Carter), Pauline: 1951 Webber (Kiewe), Ruth: 1953 Stevenson, Patricia: 1955 Maclennan (Cutter), Helen: 1957 Moughton (Parr), Elizabeth: 1951 Arnold (Roberts), Anthea: 1954 Wilson, Elizabeth: 1955 Mantle (Gulliford), Wendy: 1957 Round (Church), Pat: 1951 Beer (Thomas), Gillian: 1954 Andrew (Cunningham), Partridge (Hughes), Joan: 1957 Tunstall (Mitchell), Olive: 1951 Brumfitt (Ford), Margaret: 1954 Sheila: 1956 Roberts (Armitage), Judith: 1957 White, Gillian: 1951 Carus (Bishop), Sally: 1954 Betts (Morgan), Valerie: 1956 Rogister (Jury), Margaret: 1957 Chadwick (Tomlins), Pat: 1952 Dicker (Hallam), Sylvia: 1954 Clarke (Wood), Peggy: 1956 Tritter (Shorland-Ball), Gill: 1957 Cockerill (Brewer), Charlotte: 1952 Eysenbach, Mary: 1954 Davison (Le Brun), Pauline: 1956 Young (Clifford), Barbara: 1957 Crockford (Brocklesby), Headley (Pinder), Mary: 1954 Fox, Clemency: 1956 Bannister (Taylor), Jean: 1958 Freda: 1952 Hills (Earl), Audrey: 1954 Hennessey (Tildesley), Collins, Norma: 1958 Fairn, Alison: 1952 McCracken (Chavasse), Freda: 1956 Hardy (Speller), Janet: 1958 Harman (Bridgeman), Erica: 1952 Gabrielle: 1954 Hensman (Hawley), Hartman, Joan: 1958 Hodgson (Giles), Dawn: 1952 Newson (Dawson), Janet: 1954 Barbara: 1956 Hayman (Croly), Janet: 1958 Holland (Wilson), Valerie: 1952 Pullar-Strecker (Fraser), Home, Anna: 1956 Kenwrick, Patricia: 1958 Makin (Winchurch), Anne: 1954 Lecomte du Nouy (Welsh), Matthias (Leuchars), Margaret: 1952 Reynolds (Morton), Gillian: 1954 Patricia: 1956 Elizabeth: 1958 Parry (Lonnon), Shirley: 1952 Taylor (Macadam), Helen: 1954 Lewis (Hughes), Pauline: 1956 Rees (Jones), Margaret: 1958 Peacock (Forrester), Wharton (Mccloskey), Magne (Lisicky), Vera: 1956 Robinson (Neal), Patricia: 1958 Margaret: 1952 Barbara: 1954 Newell, Wendy: 1956 Scott (Groves), Miriam: 1958 Secker Walker (Lea), Lorna: 1952 Wood (Russell), Margaret: 1954 North (Chadwick), Smith (Treseder), Judy: 1958 Tomkinson (Minster), Norah: 1952 Stephanie: 1956 Statham (Mcconville), Wood (Gunning), Maureen: 1952 1955 to 1959 Rutter, Mary: 1956 Daphne: 1958 Brooking-Bryant (Walton), Brod (Sofaer), Jessica: 1955 Varley (Stephenson), Wood (Chatt), Sara: 1958 Audrey: 1953 Charlton (Nichols), Anne: 1955 Gwendolen: 1956

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Lloyd, Peter: 1983 Shenton, Joan: 1961 Library donations Other gifts have been received Lunn, Fiona: 1977 Simon (Holmes), Jane: 1973 Gifts of their own work from: Victoria Arrowsmith- Magne (Lisicky), Vera: 1956 Skelton, Judy: 1965 have been received from: Brown, Will Carter, Margaret Mann, Paul: 1988 Smith, David Kai Ambos, Ruby Blondell, Clarke, Neha Dhariwal, Kanta Marks, Winifred: 1944 Speirs (Fox), Christine: 1947 Andrew Briggs, Stewart Dihal, Bethany Dobbin, Tim Massey (Glaser), Lili: 1967 Spokes Symonds (Spokes), Cowley, Frances Cox (Marion Gardam, Peter Ghosh, Charles McCracken (Chavasse), Ann: 1944 Leigh), Gareth Davies, Robert He, Erika Joseph, Radhika Gabrielle: 1954 Stanton (Beech), Mandy: 1981 Gardner, Imogen Goold, Kannan , Alex Karcher, McDonnell (Phillips), Marie- Stoddart (Devereux), Simon Howley, Anthea Matthew Leigh, Dinah Lintott, Louise: 1971 Frances: 1955 Jackson (née Edenbrow), Paul Duncan Mckellar, Ryan Martins, McEwan (Ogilvy), Lindsay: 1940 Tayeb, Monir: 1976 Kingsnorth, Dominic Lutyens, the estate of Janet Newson Moore (Slocombe), Anne: 1955 Thirlwell (Goldman), Angela: 1966 Mercia MacDermott, Patrick (née Dawson), Eleni Philippou Mottershead (Roberts), Ann: 1977 Thomas, Stella-Maria: 1977 McGuinness, Merilyn Moos, (Weidenfeld Translation Prize), Moughton (Parr), Elizabeth: 1951 Thompson, Jean: 1942 Sean O’Brien, Sally Percy, Michael Prinzing, Danny Rees, Munro, Rob: 1982 Thurlow (Yarker), Molly: 1949 Ann Pasternak Slater, Jancis Neil Swindells, Gabriele Taylor, Murdin (Milburn), Lesley: 1961 Tindall-Shepherd (Dunn), Robinson, Sue Smart, Caroline Niall Moon. Newlands (Raworth), Wendy: 1963 Stanford, Gabriele Taylor. Elizabeth: 1960 Tjoa (Chinn), Carole: 1965 Newton (Little), Clare: 1970 Tricker (Poole), Marilyn: 1964 Nixon, Gill Turner (Griffiths), Clare: 1986 O’Donnell, Claire: 1977 Twamley, Delia* O’Flynn (Brewster), Hazel: 1946 Wagner, Rosemary: 1964 Orsten, Elisabeth: 1953 Walter (Chipperfield), O’Sullivan, Helen: 1969 Christina: 1954 Packer (Sellick), Sally: 1964 Wells (Lehmann), Yvonne: 1944 Pattisson, John Wheeler, Heather: 1958 Paul, Helen: 1994 Whitby (Field), Joy: 1949 Legacies Perriam (Brech), Wendy: 1958 Willetts (Ferreras), Maria: 1974 Leaving a gift in your will gives you the opportunity to make Pickles (Wilson), Jane: 1953 Wright, Lynne: 1970 a lasting impact and helps to provide vital funding for the Pomfret (Pearson), Carole: 1979 Yates (Crawshaw), Sue: 1967 College. The Plumer Society is founded to acknowledge Preston (Haygarth), Barbara: 1957 Young (Tucker), Margaret: 1949 those who inform us of their decision to make a bequest to Revill (Radford), Ann: 1955 St Anne’s. Members will be invited to a Plumer Society event Reynolds, Siân (France): 1958 *Delia Twamley is leaving a every two years, which allows us to thank our legators for their Robinson, Crispin: 1979 legacy to St Anne’s College commitment. If you would like further information about legacies, Rowe, Barbara: 1942 from her late mother’s estate please contact [email protected]. Sheather (Hall), Judith: 1962 (Phyllis Wray-Bliss, 1920).

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St Anne’s College University of Oxford The Ship 2016 – 2017  @StAnnesCollege  @StAnnesCollege St Anne’s College St Anne’s Road Woodstock Oxford OX2 6HS +44 (0) 1865 274800 [email protected] www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk charity number: 1142660 Registered It’s been a turbulent year since the last issue of the last year since a turbulent been It’s referendum of the EU result : the shock The Ship the in the UK; election unexpected and an elections in presidential of result unexpected of Europe divisive impact across the USA; the War exodus since World refugee the biggest intolerance – religious of II; and the growth attacks from cause of terrorist the underlying reaches and London to the further Manchester Africa. of the Middle East and reflected in the pages of this will find all this You a positive and, of more issue. And a good deal British passion the I hope, entertaining nature: our enduring for our amazing built heritage, reminder fiction; a stirring fascination with crime alongside a vision for its of our College history Principal; and a celebration our new from future long-awaited new library. of the opening of our WithAll this and more. the certain knowledge myself, I marvel every year that I am repeating at the range and engagement of our alumnae may not have succeeded the world. We across President from in getting a comment direct Oval Office, but the inimitable Alex, as Trump’s on the changing face always, has the last word of the student world. I cannot thank all our distinguished contributors enough for taking the time to make this latest is There issue of The Ship an essential read. but don’t to list everything, not the space here Column, nor the miss out on an unusual Careers to inspirational Donor Column. My thanks, too, time to the who have given busy College staff, issue and, as always, to the indefatigable Kate whom Davy in the Development Office, without would be no magazine. there