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From the Editor – Judith Vidal-Hall 2 Devaki Jain Lecture: Eudine Barriteau 69 From the SAS President – Hugh Sutherland 3 From the JCR – Gagan Khurana 72 From the Principal – Helen King 4 Student News 73 From the Librarian – Clare White 7 College News 76 From the Development Office – Kate Davy 10 Fellows’ News 78 Community Week and Giving Day 13 Alumnae publications 80 Alex on Giving 14 Events 81 COSARAF Foundation - Jonathan Freeman 15 College News: Aim for Oxford 82 Anniversaries: Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act - Jo Delahunty 18 Darcey Bussell at St Anne’s - Thomas Robertson 83 Anniversaries: The women who made Ireland - Patrick Gaul 22 Alumnae News 85 Anniversaries: Forty years on - Roger Crisp 26 Human Papilloma Virus - Diane Ackerley 87 Weidenfield Translation Prize - JVH 29 Silly Monkeys - Robert Gardner 90 Tribute: Amos Oz - Jonathan Freedland 31 Prison Reading Groups - Sarah Turvey 91 Centre for Personalised Medicine - Jason Torres 34 Self Publishing - Ann Revill 94 Anniversaries: Iris Murdoch Centenary 36 Publications 96 Oxford Letter - Sister Frances Dominica ASSP 39 In Memoriam 99 Careers: Peace keeping with the UN - Peter N Due 42 Obituaries 100 Domestic Bursar - John Banbrook 44 Donations 112 Profile: Raymond Killick 46 Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2019 119 Profile: Tom Ilube 49 SAS Branch reports 51 SAS London - Adam Smith 57 Gaudy Seminar 2018: Howard Hotson 59 Russell Taylor column 67 From the Editor From the SAS President

Future Imperfect Look to the future HUGH SUTHERLAND

A year of nationwide uncertainty sixth form students from the North East. As ever, space prevents my doing justice It's a time of change in the College or ambition a representative body before and behind countered by the This is a key aspect of the University and to everything in the issue. To mention just and the University. Is it also time and cannot have a formal voice in the progress of important initiatives in St Anne’s outreach programme committed a few pieces that reflect issues currently to rethink the role and purpose governance or running of the College. the University and St Anne’s to ensuring that the opportunities of an in the news: Jason Torres unpicks the of the SAS? An obvious purpose we could take up is Oxford education are accessible to all, tangled ethics of genetic engineering; Forgive me if I begin by more or less Defining the purpose of the St Anne’s fund raising. There is a point of view that regardless of background. Sister Frances Dominica challenges us with repeating myself. Little has changed for Society is difficult. We have a ship, we says that the prospect of being asked for the news that in one of the UK’s richest the better in the UK in the past year, if A project that has been significantly are captains of our destiny, but we lack a money is a barrier to members engaging cities, rough sleeping has doubled in the anything, things are worse: the Brexit furthered by the support of the COSARAF mission. The constitution of the Society with the SAS. Raising funds through past year; and though we may think we live impasse, a mind-numbing contest for the Foundation’s Sheikh Family Scholarship uses wording which is wide in scope and charging for events is disproportionately in unprecedented times, Adam Smith and Tory leadership and a toxic internecine Programme for Muslim students in which potential for interpretation: ‘preserve risky: it is quite hard to make an event Howard Hotson remind us that even the branches in facilitating members meeting, battle in the Labour Party continue to St Anne’s is a key participant. This unique and strengthen links’, ‘keeping in touch’, successful and harder still to reliably most intractable contemporary issues have exchanging ideas and making friendships dominate the media, while the ‘democratic project will significantly advance diversity ‘the exchange of ideas’. That wording is return a surplus. Oxford has a reputation parallels in the past. where they live. Having gone out into the deficit’ of our parliamentary system in the University and begin to redress admirable in its lack of constraints, but also as an accumulation of great wealth and world with what our time at St Anne’s gave and a loss of faith in politics generally the paucity of Muslim students in UK We don’t get a lot of feedback on The Ship a bit vague and so not much help in setting power. Fund raising from the wider public us, there will be a time to acknowledge is increasingly apparent. Thanks to the Universities. but one of the few comments we have out a mission or objectives. Much of the is a big ask so members are an important that influence, to return and to give back, inimitable Alex and his creator Russell had was that unlike many publications hard work with which the Society became source of donations and a validation of the Once again, we have some important but that must be at a time and in a way we Taylor we need say no more on this. circulating around the University, our involved in the past is now done wholly donations of others. But fund raising is an anniversaries to celebrate. While 1918 saw decide. magazine was ‘totally unthrowawayable’. by capable and dedicated professionals activity that is increasingly tightly regulated Meanwhile, neither the University nor the granting of the vote and the right to And that, of course, is entirely due to the – maintaining a directory of members, and must be done in a way that ensures This is the final year of my tenure as St Anne’s has allowed events to block sit as MPs to (some) women, Jo Delahunty variety, range, experience and skill of our organising events, encouraging donations. members’ data and rights are respected. President and nominations for the post important developments over the past recalls a less well-known, but possibly contributors. I thank you all who over the Some of those professionals are employed and for the committee generally are year. As we went to press we heard that even more significant step on the road There is a tendency to see the SAS as years have not only kept The Ship afloat, by the College; the University also does most welcome. You can contact the Hon an unprecedented £150 million grant to equality, the 1919 Sex Discrimination drawing people back to the time, the but made it the rich vessel it is. The person similar work, even leading with initiatives Secretary through the College. I would from US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, (Removal) Act. And Patrick Gaul reminds us place and the experiences that played who has more than anyone over the past in areas such as mentoring and faculty like to thank the committee and the will fund the building of a Humanities of the role played by Ireland’s women in its such a big part in their lives. We might nine years ensured this was possible, is networks. College staff for their patience and help. In Centre and, more important to many, will fight for emancipation and independence. seek to complement that tendency by Kate Davy of the Development Office. She's particular, I would like to thank Jules Foster, put the University at the cutting edge of We can reflect on what the Society should emphasising the mission to tell the world And our own particular anniveraries? Roger recently moved on, but I want to thank her Kate Davy and Ali Albrecht for their work the development of AI and enable it to not or cannot do. The members of College about what goes on at St Anne’s now, that Crisp, now a Fellow of the College, recalls one last time for all the time, energy and in contributing to make the Development ‘construct an ethical framework’ at a time are a source of wisdom and advice, so all members of the SAS, including current the moment that changed St Anne’s for patience she put into the magazine over Office so successful in a demanding period of rapid change.' the strong links are important to make students, are welcome to take part, that ever: the arrival of the men 40 years ago; the years we worked together. of transition and change, and to wish them sure the Principal and Fellows are able it is a marvellous institution and should And there is good news for St Anne’s too. and we celebrate the centenary of one of well in their future endeavours. Judith Vidal-Hall (Bunting 1957) to consult with members on their views. be supported. As part of that objective we In May, the Principal launched the Aim for the best known members of St Anne’s, Iris However, the Society is not by constitution would put greater emphasis on the role of Hugh Sutherland, (1983) Oxford programme for state-educated Murdoch.

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rising by almost a quarter since 2014. In contextualised form, so that tutors can developing these schemes and gaining 2017 over 21,500 applicants (nearly all understand how a candidate compares University-wide support for them. The Reaching out of whom had top grades, school support with other applicants from similar initiatives also have the support of St HELEN KING and convincing personal statements) schools. Interviews are designed to Anne’s Governing Body and we hope in St Anne’s was one of the first doing really well academically, with a competed for about 3,300 places. In take applicants beyond what they have due course to welcome students to the colleges to reach out to students generous automatic bursary, enjoying the most competitive subjects, it is been prepared for and to explore their College through both new routes. Once from ‘under-represented himself playing University sport. only possible to interview fewer than a potential for thriving in the tutorial fully rolled out, Opportunity Oxford will backgrounds’. Now, despite third of applicants. Departments now system of teaching. provide 200 places a year to students criticism, the University itself has That student is one of many who co-ordinate admissions so as to ensure who have achieved the standard Oxford The huge care taken by tutors during rolled out new initiatives to further motivate us to continue to spend College choice does not prevent the best offer grades whilst experiencing home admissions has produced progress in that cause over £100k a year as a college on our candidates overall from being the ones and/or school disadvantage (captured making the student body at Oxford outreach work. We go into schools, to receive offers. This results in one in nationally recognised measures). Any Over the past 12 months I have been more diverse and more representative attend university and careers fairs in four offers of a place being from a gaps in their teaching and confidence working with Governing Body and of the brightest and most ambitious and welcome school and other youth College that is not the one the candidate will be addressed through a summer College Officers on a wide range of students in the UK. Just one (very groups to St Anne’s in order to raise applied to. ‘bridging’ programme. The ambition initiatives and plans that take forward imperfect) way of measuring this is aspirations of pupils, teachers and for Foundation Oxford is to select the College Purpose (The Ship 2017-2018 Some schools and families are able that in 2018 more than 60 per cent of parents. We provide them with accurate up to 50 students a year who have pp7-9). St Anne’s has a proud history of to offer a huge amount of academic, Oxford’s UK freshers came from state information about what it is like to experienced severe educational or making an Oxford education accessible practical and emotional support to schools. However, this still compares study at Oxford and guidance about social disadvantage (such as in care, an to under-represented individuals and pupils preparing for the admissions with 73.2 per cent of A-Level students how to apply. Our Outreach Officer, asylum seeker or significantly disrupted groups, so in The Ship this year I wanted process and run special sessions and achieving at least three A’s at A-Level tutors and student helpers are fantastic educational background) for a one to update you on what we are doing to events for their Oxbridge applicants. being state educated. You can find more ambassadors for St Anne’s. They are year, funded, Foundation Year, which, if ensure this continues to be the case and This often includes intensive preparation data and other comparisons in the all involved in University Open Days successfully completed, will give them that we’re not missing out on talented for admissions tests and interviews. annual data release on the University’s and I can’t recommend these events the knowledge and skills to flourish in students from schools and communities Other candidates have none of website, which shows that progress, more highly for any secondary school the first year of their undergraduate that don’t have a tradition of sending see applying to Oxford as an attractive these advantages and may well be in while significant is also quite slow. pupil, or teacher or parent of bright and degree. pupils to Oxbridge. or realistic option, often because of schools where the teachers’ focus is, ambitious students. In 2019 these take Concern about the pace of change led stereotypes and misinformation they understandably, on helping other pupils These programmes don’t replace the In the College’s Purpose, we committed place on 3 and 4 July, and 20 September. to the University’s announcement in have been exposed to. One of our to achieve C, D or E grades. College’s outreach work. In fact they to being the ‘home of choice for the St Anne’s will be open from breakfast May 2019 of two initiatives that should current, first-generation-at-university make it even more important that we brightest and most ambitious students, and throughout the day. Please see the Admissions tutors at Oxford are increase the proportion of students from students shared the following: his Gran share news of these opportunities including those from under-represented website for details. provided with contextual data on under-represented and disadvantaged had told him, ‘People like us don’t go with the pupils who will benefit from backgrounds’. Broadly there are two candidates, including the area where backgrounds from the current level of to Oxford’, his Dad had said, ‘I can’t The second challenge is how we ensure them. St Anne’s has decided to take a main challenges in achieving this goal. they live and the schools they have 15 per cent to 25 per cent in the next afford for you to go to Oxford’, and his all applicants have a fair chance of leading role in our link region of North The first is to provide information, attended pre-16 and post-16 as well five years. I’ve been Deputy Chair of teacher had said, ‘Don’t apply to Oxford, receiving an offer in the admissions East England by launching a new two- insight and inspiration to bright and as whether they have been in care. the Admissions Committee, whose you’ll have much more fun at another process. Oxford admissions are more year programme for less advantaged, ambitious students who currently don’t Grades at GCSE are also provided in a members have played a key role in university’. Of course he is now here, competitive than ever with applications academically able sixth formers, called

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Art at St Anne’s CLARE WHITE

It’s very different from the Old Singer Sargent. Thus the collection Masters in some other places, but began before the Society of Oxford the St Anne’s art collection includes Home-Students even had a premises of some of the most eminent names its own in which to display the works. of the twentieth century The tradition of portraits of principals has continued with likenesses of Grace As well as being rich in awe-inspiring Hadow, Eleanor Plumer, Lady Mary buildings, books and brilliant minds, Ogilvie, Baroness Ruth Deech and Tim Oxford is home to some impressive art Gardam keeping a watchful eye over the collections. At St Anne’s we may lack the Edward Lear, The Quarries of Syracuse, buildings and rooms which bear their type of Old Masters hanging in Christ Sicily, Italy. names. Church’s Picture Gallery, but we do have subsequently gave the painting to an extensive and interesting collection Portraits at St Anne’s are not limited the College. As the saying goes, every featuring names as significant as Pablo to principals. The seminar rooms picture tells a story. Picasso, John Minton, Paul Nash, Edward named after Fellows Gwynneth Lear, Walter Richard Sickert, Marie- Matthews and Margaret Hubbard each Another portrait with an interesting Above: The launch of the Aim for Oxford programme at St James’ Park: (from left to right): Joseph Turner, Current Student, Bronwyn Riani, Current Louise von Motesiczky and Barbara contain drawings of their namesakes. story is that of Philosophy Fellow, Dame Student, Tom Ilube CBE, Advisory Fellow, Chi Onwurah, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, Helen King, Principal, Ryan Dornan, JCR Access Rep, Hepworth. Interestingly their creator is a St Iris Murdoch, painted by Marie-Louise Anne’s alumna, Dr Judith Tucker, who von Motesiczky. Marie-Louise was Gagan Khurana, JCR President The art collection exists mainly thanks matriculated in 1978 to read Fine a Jewish émigré who fled her native to generous donations from former Art and who remains an artist and Austria in 1938. The two women met Aim for Oxford (see p.82). This has to provide opportunities to those who my lasting hope that their experience students, tutors, principals and friends academic. In a further pleasing twist, through the writer Elias Canetti and been designed to provide some of the will benefit most from them. In turn, at Oxford will equip them in every way of the College. The Book of Benefactors Judith, along with her sister Catherine, became friends. When Iris resigned types of guidance and support more every student from this generation will to address the many important issues held in the College archives records appears as the subject of a painting her post at St Anne’s in order to advantaged pupils enjoy and to generate benefit from socialising, making friends that it appears my generation has failed the first gifts in the 1920s as portraits, by the Welsh artist Claudia Williams, concentrate on writing, the College a supportive peer group for students and learning with and from others from to grasp. In this way, I believe that drawings and photographs of the first Two Children with a Cat. At the time wanted to have her portrait painted as who may be the only one from their the widest range of backgrounds. Of increased diversity of Oxford students two principals, Bertha Johnson and the painting was made, Judith’s parting gift. Iris suggested her friend school aspiring to a top university. course, they take the understanding has the potential to change the world Christine Burrows, as well as early father was a colleague of Gwynneth’s for the commission, writing in a letter they gain from this experience with resoundingly for the better for us all. supporters of women’s education in I’m proud, and I hope you are too, to at the University of North Wales to the Principal, ‘I admire her work very them when they graduate. Many will Oxford. Several of these are pastels by be a part of a College and a University Helen King Principal in Bangor. He gave the painting to much & I think she is not well enough go on to careers where they have the Jane Emmet de Glehn, the US portrait that is determined not to rest smugly Gwynneth and Margaret, with whom known in England.’ Mindful of the opportunity to change the world. It is painter, wife of British Impressionist on its laurels, but constantly to seek he remained friends, and the tutors cost, Iris also requested to be allowed Wilfred de Glehn and friend of John

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to pay the difference between the Whereas most of the art works at Society (or the Association of Senior Members as it was known contribution offered by the College and St Anne’s have been donated to the at that time). Marie-Louise’s normal fee. The finished College, Nash’s Poised Objects, 1932 Along with Harding and Barley a further sizeable donation portrait, which depicts Iris against a belongs to a group of pieces that were from another alumna, Honor Balfour (PPT, 1931), ensures background of the sea and the prow actively collected, slightly surprisingly, by that St Anne’s is never short of art work to decorate its of a ship (no doubt in reference to the the JCR. In the 1950s and 1960s several walls and to inspire, challenge and occasionally provoke its ship as an emblem of the College), of the JCRs across the University took staff and students. The pieces can be found throughout the was received with mixed opinions by part in a scheme to buy contemporary College, carefully curated over the past three decades by the the Fellows of St Anne’s. Lady Ogilvie art for their own colleges, with some designated Fine Arts Fellow – first Dr Ann Pasternak Slater wrote in a thank you letter to Iris, ‘Not of the works even being displayed as followed by Professor Kathryn Sutherland until her retirement everybody likes it as a picture of the Iris an exhibition of JCR pictures at the in 2017. Together the paintings act as mini exhibitions – we knew, but everyone agrees that it Ashmolean in 1950. The JCR collection Hepworth’s Aegean Suite in the corridor of Hartland House, is a powerful and impressive picture.’ at St Anne’s includes fauvist and the modernist pieces of the Barley collection in the foyer and Troubled by the thought that College expressionist styles with works by seminar rooms of the Ruth Deech Building, the botanical should be paying towards a painting not Georges Braque, Georges Rouault and illustrations from Shirley Sherwood’s collection in a seminar everyone liked, Iris subsequently offered John Houston. room in 48 Woodstock – whilst Fellows and staff are able to pay the entire fee for the portrait The war artist and surrealist painter Paul to choose individual favourites for their offices. The overall and asked that the sum of money Nash features in two other collections at collection is as eclectic as our architecture, perfectly reflecting contributed by her former colleagues St Anne’s which were donated by former the style, atmosphere and ethos of the College. In fact, the towards this controversial leaving Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Iris Murdoch. © students Beryl Harding (Medicine, 1917) only place you will not find any paintings and portraits, in present instead ‘be devoted to books for Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust 2019. Harris and Marjorie Mynard Barley contrast to other Oxford colleges, is in the Dining Hall. After all, the Library’. It would seem that in the (Modern Languages, 1947), both avid as we proudly say in our video St Anne’s: Your Oxford College, end, the College benefitted doubly from their 2017 exhibition The Working Artist: collectors of modern art. Amongst ‘You wouldn’t want a dead guy staring at you while you eat.’ Iris’ generosity. The East London Group. These works are the pieces in the Harding collection particularly interesting because they Clare White is the Librarian at St Anne’s Motesiczky’s Portrait of Iris Murdoch are works by Eric Gill and Gertrude have been painted on the front and back was loaned from St Anne’s in 2007 for a Hermes from the 1920s-1940s alongside of the same canvas. The Signal Box, which touring exhibition of galleries in Austria, watercolour landscapes by Paul Nash is the piece the Nunnery Gallery wanted Germany and the UK marking the and his younger brother John. The Barley to display, has been partly written over centenary of the painter’s birth. Other collection spans the twentieth century (we assume by Hawthorne) and the paintings in the College collection have with a particular focus on the 1980s, but front of the framed canvas shows the also been loaned to London galleries also includes earlier pieces by both Nash work Landscape with House. The Nunnery for more recent exhibitions. Paul Nash’s brothers. Images of a small selection of Gallery was able to display the work in Poised Objects, 1932, appeared in the works in the Barley collection were used a custom-made plinth so that visitors 2016 Nash exhibition at Tate Britain to illustrate a Commonplace Book, which to the exhibition could view the framed and two paintings by Elwin Hawthorne some readers may recall was produced work from both sides to see the two were loaned to the Nunnery Gallery for in 2006 by members of the St Anne’s paintings. Paul Nash’s Poised Objects, 1932

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Professional fundraising is now a key Events area for the University and its colleges, Over 220 events of all Developing Development and the growth of the Development different shapes and KATE DAVY Office reflects this. sizes have been held After a decade of expansion both office of seven though technically only the Director of Development and news since 2010 including in staff and its range of activities, six people in terms of working hours. will be shared as soon as possible. We’ve raised a fantastic £23.6m since the Alumni Weekend the Development Office is facing a In August, we will be joined by Janette 2010 from 3,793 donors! This includes and Gaudy each time of change. Kate Davy, who has Gilbert as Communications Officer and Fundraising £1.1m in donations for the Kitchen, September, year and been in the office in different roles Helen Nicholson as Alumnae Relations Given the extraordinary challenges of £8.6m in donations for the new Library, subject reunions, St for the past nine years, and has Officer as we say a sad farewell and funding higher education in the UK, and over £3m for bursaries and a further Anne’s in the City, a played a pivotal role in so much of thanks to Ali Albrecht who is returning in particular Oxford’s highly intensive £4.5m for other areas including welfare, fundraising dinner this, looks back at her time with St home to the US. There have been teaching methods, the support we outreach, the library and travel grants. and auction in 2011, Anne’s changes to roles since 2010 so that we receive from you is vital. Without your We continue to hold our annual and the Royal Charter can focus on different areas of activity help many of the buildings that make telethon and we are about to trial this celebration in 2012. As many of you will know, Jules Foster, including communications, database up St Anne’s today would not exist, our in September instead of January. Our Over 3,000 alumnae Family Day Director of Development, has moved to management, thanking our donors and library would have far fewer books and students really enjoy talking to alumnae have attended and raising essential funds for the a fantastic new role at the International supporters, and careers and internships. we would not have been able to reach different events as our Family Day, were added following College with Direct Debits helping us to Red Cross and after nine very happy Recruitment is currently underway for out to as many prospective students. over the past nine years (though I am direct feedback that we needed to do plan for the future. years at St Anne’s, I will be moving to a not sure that I have managed to meet more to cater for families and friends of position in the University of Oxford. It’s everyone). St Anne’s. All alumnae are welcome to Over the past nine years, we have an exciting time for the Development host their own reunions in College. The tried to replicate St Anne’s pioneering Office and I’ve been asked to write There are plenty of events in the pipeline Development Office will work with you to approach and looked for different the Development Office report forThe for the coming months and I encourage select dates, send event invitations and ways to fundraise – experimenting with Ship in which I will reflect on some of you to come. Many events have talks will oversee all logistics for the reunion crowd-funding for student projects for the changes and our achievements given by our world-leading researchers as needed. You just need to share the instance – and this year, ahead of other over the past nine years. I hope this and provide excellent food for thought event within your own networks. will also provide an overview of the colleges and universities in the UK, we on the day. We also provide excellent held our first ever Community Week and different areas of our work and if you food from our kitchen! We know that Volunteering Giving Day (See p13). would like to know more, or want to get sometimes people worry that they won’t A big area of change has been the involved, please get in touch with us at know anyone but we assure you that development of careers and internships. I’d like to thank everyone who has given [email protected]. even if that is the case, you will be made In 2010, just a handful of opportunities to St Anne’s both during these years and to feel welcome. were available to students. Through the previously. Your support has made, and The team Danson Foundation, Mike and Helen continues to make, a huge difference to The Development Office had just We welcome ideas from alumnae to get Danson generously support St Anne’s the lives of our students and the College grown from three people to five when more people coming back to College and students through bursaries and also community. I joined in 2010 and we are now an some of the most recent additions, such internships available exclusively to our The New Library and Academic Centre

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students each summer. 109 students produced nine Annual Reviews, over have received Danson bursaries and 184 40 email newsletters (I know that many I would like to take this opportunity to Community Week and Giving Day 2019 internships have been undertaken since of you have commented over the thank Judith Vidal-Hall for all the work 2012. Thanks to alumnae and friends, years that you know my name from that she puts into The Ship every year The success of St Anne’s first Giving quiz and College Dash. other companies including ByBox, CQS, various emails), fundraising and event and for our time working together. For Day has ensured the progress of • A telethon with student callers getting Delta Holdings and Deutsche Boerse brochures, the College History with David me ‘the mag’ (as she fondly calls it) gets important projects in the College in touch with alumnae for 30 of the 36 have also provided internships. This Smith and many other things. I hope you better every year with a greater range hours that the giving day was running, summer there will be 36 internships have enjoyed reading these as much of articles and contributors. I know that St Anne’s prides itself on being ahead of the starting at 8am on the Friday morning taking place altogether, plus three as I have enjoyed working with Fellows, Judith puts in a huge amount of work curve and at the end of February leading to and calling around the world. students will undertake a year in Japan. staff and students to find out the latest and I hope that she knows that this is 1 and 2 March St Anne’s held its first ever news, hear about their research and appreciated not just by me but by all Community Week and Giving Day. We were • Alumnae and friends getting involved as In 2013, the first careers day was achievements, and find out a whole host in the St Anne’s community. Thank you amazed at just how many of our alumnae Social Ambassadors and sharing content held and this has now evolved into a of things about the St Anne’s community Judith for all our time working together. and friends came together to get involved on Facebook and Twitter. programme of CV clinics and workshops in order to produce them. I never cease – there was a great buzz around College in • Matched funding offered by alumnae throughout the year with more to be amazed at the different stories and I’ve enjoyed meeting so many alumnae the Week and on the Day. that doubled the value of gifts made at than 52 students able to meet with remarkable lives of our people. over the years, working with the St Thanks to your support the campaign certain times and in certain ways. Giving Day 2020 alumnae for advice in Michaelmas term Anne’s Society, and being a part of raised £99,627 and had 428 donors. Fifty- • Communications sent by post, email and Following the success of 2019, we are 2018. Feedback indicates that many I certainly feel that our communications the College. I am going to miss the St five donors under 30 donated, 27 of them on social media planning a Giving Day for February 2020. students were applying for jobs and/or have become more streamlined since Anne’s community very much. And for the first time, and 151 people who It is thanks to your generosity during the We hope to make it even bigger and better wanted to update their CV. A review is 2010 and improvements to our database I am sure that the next chapter for hadn’t given in the last five years also gave. Giving Day that we will be able to fund the than 2019 and welcome any ideas you currently underway so that our careers allow us to take your preferences into the Development team will be just as have for this. We’d like to bring together We had lots of positive feedback about this first year of our Aim for Oxford programme programme for students can be further consideration in a way we never could exciting and full of change as my time as many St Anne’s members as possible exciting new form of fundraising, including for disadvantaged and under-represented tailored for 2019/20. when I first started. You can get in here! to further strengthen the bond between from alumnus and parent Dan Morrow 6th form students in North East England. We continue to work closely with the St touch with us at any time to update our alumnae and to grow our community (Modern History, 1997) who said, ‘I thought Read more on p.x. Your donations will also Anne’s Society, as well as other alumnae these – if you’d rather only receive Kate Davy, Deputy Director by holding even more events across the the Giving day was superb and really help us to provide the very best welfare who offer venues for events and their communications by email, or you only of Development and Head of UK and around the world. If you would like showcased how progressive and forward support services, helping new students time as speakers – most recently Eva want event invitations, just let us know. Communications to help host an event, support us as an thinking the College has become. It made cope with the practical, academic and Kurz (1983) gave this term’s ‘Be Well, ambassador, or donate matched funding me very proud indeed as an alumnus as emotional challenges of transitioning to Do Well’ talk. There are now so many to encourage your contemporaries to give, well as a Dad.’ Thank you very much to University, as well as supporting the Annual different ways to get involved and If you’d like to write an article, get involved with careers, volunteer for the St then we would love to hear from you. everyone who took part. Fund. volunteer to support St Anne’s and our Anne’s Society, make a donation, update your preferences, come along to our students. Whether you made a gift, spread the Get in touch with events (or hold your own), visit the College and/or dine in hall (see inside back There were lots of different elements to the word as an ambassador, offered matched [email protected]. cover), then contact us at [email protected]. The team would love Week and Day including: Communications funding, set a challenge or got involved Rachel Shepherd, Regular Giving and to hear from you and we look forward to welcoming you back to St Anne’s. • A bake off, puppy-petting session, Since 2010, I’ve worked with Judith with one of our Community Week events, Stewardship Officer and Kate Davy, Vidal-Hall on nine editions of The Ship, lecture and drinks reception in New thank you again for your support. Deputy Director of Development and Head York, outreach discussion and dinner, of Communications

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Righting the balance JONATHAN FREEMAN

Muslims make up 7 per cent of the others, is not attracting the full spread supporting young Muslims, we know UK population and 15 per cent of of talent that it should be welcoming to that far too many bright and capable 16-24-year-olds, but only 0.5 per benefit from its amazing support. young students in Muslim communities simply don’t feel they will be welcomed by cent of students at Oxford. The Wind forward 30+ years and I am now universities such as Oxford and Cambridge. COSARAF Foundation joins with honoured to support the trustees of the St Anne’s to start the process of COSARAF Foundation in launching an Put simply: change exciting new university scholarship scheme Access to Russell Group universities is to support young Muslim students at Back in 1986, an ambitious over-confident far from ‘fair’1 for those from poorer four leading academic institutions, which young student from a comprehensive backgrounds and those from certain includes St Anne’s and which was launched school decided that he would apply ethnic minorities, particularly Pakistani and at College at the end of April. I am so proud to Oxford University. He wasn’t alone; Bangladeshi, which comprise the majority that my old college, which welcomed me ten others from his school, urged on of UK Muslims communities. Evidence so very warmly all those years ago and by teachers who wanted the best for shows that ‘students from some minority supported me so well, is at the forefront their students, applied to Oxford and ethnic groups are significantly less likely of this important new initiative as part of Cambridge. The young student got a place, to attend higher status institutions. ... its wider commitment to become the most admittedly by the skin of his teeth, to For average applications from Pakistani diverse college in Oxford. study PPE at St Anne’s College – one of his candidates, the model predicted seven friends got a place at Balliol and two others David Lammy MP’s well-publicised additional rejections per 100 applications went to Cambridge. Not a bad result for campaign highlighting the worrying lack compared with the number from a comprehensive school, even one from of young black students being accepted comparable white British applications.2 Surrey. at Oxford University and Stormzy’s Muslim and other minority ethnic students scholarship programme for black students You will have guessed that I was that young also know, and the evidence unfortunately at Cambridge University have brought to student. When I set my sights on Oxford, backs them up, that they probably won’t public attention the important issues of like most applicants I worried that I wasn’t do as well as their peers even if they do get access and diversity at our top universities. bright enough; I worried that I might not fit a place. The Higher Education Academy’s The COSARAF Foundation has focussed in and I worried that I might not be able to 2012 report found that: cope with the stress. However, I never really on the position of young Muslim students. worried that Oxford wasn’t for someone Why? Because according to the Oxford […] even after controlling for the majority like me. Sadly, that is the case today for too University Islamic Society, Muslims of contributory factors (prior attainment, many young people from minority ethnic comprise 7 per cent of the UK population subject of study, age, gender, disability, and lower socio-economic backgrounds. and 15 per cent of 16-24 year olds, but deprivation, type of HE institution attended, This means that the University, like so many only 0.5 per cent of students at Oxford. type of Level 3 qualifications, mode of From our other work at the Foundation study, term-time accommodation and

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ethnicity), being from a minority ethnic St Anne’s Fellows gave their backing to this comprehensive school student, somewhat every possible background – who today group (except the Other Black, Mixed and new scheme – and to hosting the launch daunted by the history and reputation might dismiss the thought of applying to Other groups) was still found to have a event as well. I have also been grateful of Oxford, I was encouraged to apply somewhere like St Anne’s to think again statistically significant and negative effect for the support provided by Tom Ilube and supported throughout my time by and recognise that they have just as much on degree attainment..3 CBE, Honorary Advisory Fellow, whose reassuring, tolerant and understanding right as anyone to study at this wonderful leadership on matters of diversity at the staff across College. My fervent hope is place. There are also additional pressures on College has been superb (p.58). that these new scholarships, coupled Muslim students, particularly around with the College’s wider drive to properly Jonathan Freeman (1987) is CEO of student finance, with the government’s St. Anne’s has a proud history of inclusion widen access to all communities, will COSARAF Foundation and Managing Director promise in 2014 to introduce Shariah- and equity – and bravery in challenging enable young Muslims – and others from of Earlsbrook Consulting Ltd compliant student loans still not having unfairness and social barriers. As a been delivered.

This all really matters. It matters for reasons of fairness and equity but also because of the importance of higher education to social mobility and to integration. The Social Mobility Year 10 students from Mulberry Academy Shoreditch visiting the College as part of the Commission’s recent report painted a stark COSARAF launch event. picture of the consequences of this issue: Foundation has launched the Sheikh Family cohesion, as well as a commitment to Inequitable access to high status Scholarship Programme. The programme public and community service. With a universities, compounded by young will provide graduate and undergraduate split between students on undergraduate Muslims having significantly lower degree scholarships to Muslim students from courses and those pursuing studies attainment than their white non-Muslim poor backgrounds, and preferably to first- with a view to becoming faith leaders, peers, inhibits subsequent access to generation university students, at St Anne’s the Foundation’s overall scheme is an high status employment and thus has College, Oxford University, Cambridge investment in the future of UK Muslim direct implications for social mobility. The University, Warwick University and the communities and wider society as a whole. practices and policies of higher education Open University at Cambridge Muslim are at times enacted in ways which feel This programme represents a significant College. In addition to funding support discriminatory or racist. These practices and ground-breaking package of support L-R: Tom Ilube CBE, Advisory Fellow, St Anne’s. Farouq Sheikh, Trustee, COSARAF Foundation; Helen King QPM, Principal, St Anne’s. of up to £10,000 per year, each Scholar are often under-challenged or under- to promote access to leading universities Dr Rosena Allin-Khan MP, for Tooting and Shadow Minister for Sport; Asad Ahmad, Reporter and Presenter, BBC London News (Asad was will receive a package of tailored support addressed, which can contribute to young in the UK for Muslim students from our compere for the event). Hafsa, Sheikh Family Scholar, University of Warwick; Yaqub Eneborg, Sheikh Family Scholar, Cambridge Muslim including a personal mentor, a paid Muslims feeling unsupported or not working class backgrounds, in line with College; Haroon Sheikh, Chairman, COSARAF Foundation summer internship in a leading charity and accessing support. This can, in turn, result the COSARAF Foundation’s commitments access to a leadership support programme. in them aiming low, and thus being unable to enabling young people to realise their 1 Vikki Boliver (2013), How Fair is Access to More Prestigious British 3 Higher Education Academy (2012), Black and minority ethnic student degree to achieve their potential.4 These scholarships will provide long-term potential and building strong and cohesive Universities? British Journal of Sociology 64 (2): 195-382 retention and attainment support to develop leadership within UK communities. 2 Philip Noden, Michael Shiner, and Tariq Modood (2014), ‘University offer 4 Jacqueline Stevenson, Sean Demack, Bernie Stiell, Muna Abdi, Lisa Clarkson, Against this backdrop, and given its Muslim communities, across all walks of rates for candidates from different ethnic categories’, Oxford Review of Farhana Ghaffar, Shaima Hassan (2017) The Social Mobility Challenges Faced commitment to enabling young people I was delighted that, with the strong life, to enable enduring integration and Education 40 (3) by Young Muslims, Social Mobility Commission to realise their potential, the COSARAF personal backing of Principal Helen King,

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Equality: where are we now? JO DELAHUNTY

This year marks the centenary of to the case that challenged the the Sex Disqualification (Removal) exclusion of women from the Act 1919. It was a first step on the legal profession. The court ruled road to equality for women, but that women were incapable of there is still a long road to travel carrying out a public function argues a distinguished barrister in common law: a disability that must remain ‘unless and until’ As I write this article there are 238 days left Parliament changed the law. ‘Are 1913: Gwyneth Bebb (R) and Maud Ingram to the centenary of the Sex Disqualification Men Lawyers Afraid of Women’s following the loss of their case in the Court of (Removal) Act 1919. How many people Brains?’ asked the (mostly) Appeal know the significance of that Act? Many sympathetic press. The publicity readers may think the pivotal moment helped to mobilise a campaign in women’s fight for equality was when Doctor of Civil Law and in 1956 she was for equality. women over 30 got the right to vote elected an Honorary Fellow of St Anne’s. under the Representation of the People After repeated bills in So was professional equality gained in Act 1918. But did you know that until the Parliament, the Sex 1919? Hardly. Some women were pioneers Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 Disqualification (Removal) Act par excellence. 1949 marked the year Act women weren’t recognised in law as 1919 finally admitted women two women took silk (Rose Heilbron a legal entity? I have been granted my to the legal profession. It also and Helena Normaton). Dame Heilbron Jurisprudence degree. I have been called enabled them to receive the became the first woman to lead in a to The Bar. I have sworn my Judicial Oath. I degrees from university they murder trial in 1950 and in 1956 was the am married but I maintain my maiden (and had earned and to serve as first appointed woman Recorder. Dame only) name and my children take it along jurors and magistrates. Gwyneth Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 Elizabeth Lane become the first judge of with my husband. One hundred years Bebb had been expected to be the county court in 1962 and the first High ago I would have been denied all those the first woman to be called Court Judge in 1965. St Anne’s had its own rights to professional and personal self- to the Bar; her early death first woman to qualify as a barrister in receiving her BA or MA until the regulations leader amongst its ranks in the impressive determination as a lawyer for no reason in childbirth prevented that. England. It had taken her 19 years to get were reformed in 1920 after the passing of (but wholly approachable) person of our other than I was born a woman. In law I did Gwyneth Bebb had been the what a man could have claimed as his own the 1919 Act. She was a woman of ‘firsts’. In former Principal, Claire Palley (1984-1991), not exist as a ‘person’. sixth woman to study law at by right of his gender. Dr Williams had 1920 Dr Williams became the first woman who in 1970 had become the first female Oxford, her predecessors Law was the last profession in England, completed all her law examinations by to teach law at university (The Society of law professor of a UK university (Queens included Ivy Williams: our very apart from the Church, to hold out against 1903 but was prevented by the prevailing Oxford Home Students, forerunner of St University, Belfast). Barbara Calvert QC own St Anne’s alumna. In May women’s entry. In 1913 Gwyneth Bebb, who regulations concerning the qualification Anne’s College). In 1923 she became the became the first female Head of Chambers 1922, Dr Williams became the in the Temple in 1974. We saw the passage had read law at St Hugh's, gave her name Ivy Williams of women at Oxford from matriculating or first woman to be awarded the degree of

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of the Sex Discrimination Act in 1974. to see the first woman appointed as a Lord caring responsibilities for children. The Bar creative woman called Dana Denis-Smith politics. We need to be prepared to hold Jo Delahunty QC (Jurisprudence 1982) is But these fabulous women were clearly Justice of Appeal (the indomitable Dame Council Report of 2015 found the main (a former solicitor, international journalist factors such as allocation of briefs, chances one of the UK’s leading barristers, rising to thought to be exceptions to the rule rather Elizabeth Butler-Sloss who later became the reasons for women leaving were current and now entrepreneur) conceived and set to be led and to speak at seminars (at the prominence for her work in the field of child than illustrative of what women could and first female President of the Family Division and future income, the impact of criminal up ‘The First 100 Years’ project in 2014 in Bar), work allocation in the office and a abuse, winning multiple industry awards for should do. in 1999). Women were still not allowed to legal aid cuts, child caring responsibilities order to help women place themselves in transparent reward systems (in private the legal and medical significance of her work. ‘wear the trousers’ at the Bar. For nearly (mainly those aged 35-44) and an increase history. She has been a phenomenal force practice) up for scrutiny and accountability. She was part of the legal team acting for 76 Consider this text from a 1978 Careers ten years I was forbidden to wear a trouser in expected pro bono work. in making visible the hidden achievements Equal treatment should be expected for families in the Hillsborough Inquests, the only Advice Book which sagely advises readers suit in court. It took a sustained campaign of women in law for generations. As she both men and women at all levels. As family QC instructed . She was appointed that ‘an advocate’s task is essentially Statistics from recent QC appointments from the Association of Women Lawyers for has recently said, ‘Diversity is not just Christina Blacklaws said, ‘Of course women Gresham Professor of Law in 2016. She is comparative, whereas women are not indicate that even though women that frankly ridiculous position to change about what you can see in terms of race need to support other women to achieve a part- time judge and Bencher of Middle generally prepared to give battle unless applicants are more likely to be successful in 1996. It was not until 2004 that Alison or gender … it can be found in the details this but men raising their awareness, Temple. She is an outspoken commentator they are annoyed. A woman’s voice, also, in the competition, the number of female Russell QC was appointed as a judge of of the challenges and struggles they have taking responsibility and being accountable on issues of equality and diversity at the does not carry as well as a man’s’. Really? applicants remains low. A 2016 report the High Court of Justice, assigned to the experienced to get where they are today.’ for gender equality is also critical to Bar. This year, on International Women’s Tell that to the witnesses I cross examine. by The Bar Council highlighted that if Family Division. She became the first judge The clarion cry she sounded was this: achieving true diversity and inclusion in the Day, to commemorate the Centenary of the The women I know go not only into battle current trends continue, the proportion of formally addressed as ‘Ms’ Justice, which ‘One Hundred Years ago the battle was profession.’4 Representation of the People Act 1918, Jo was but do it with panache and skill. We dance women QCs is unlikely ever to mirror the made the news (not in a flattering way). for participation in the legal system. With granted the Freedom of the City of London in with words and when compared to a man number of women entering the profession. The unanimous call is for action and for Our own former Principal Baroness Ruth more women than men now entering recognition for her contribution to law. I channel this vibe (apropos Fred Astaire’s Christina Blacklaws, President of the Law advocacy to support equal rights. I strongly Deech ‘retired’ from St Anne’s in 2004 to the profession what we need now is skills): ‘Sure he was great, but don't forget Society of England and Wales, wrote this believe that it is the responsibility of those become the first Independent Adjudicator equal numbers of men and women in that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, April1 that whilst in 2017 women accounted who have climbed the ladder not to knock for Higher Education and in 2005 was leadership positions, receiving the same backwards and in high heels.’ for 50.2 per cent of practising certificate away the rungs but to lean down to offer made a life peer sitting as a cross bencher. remuneration.’ holders as solicitors, out of 30,000 partners a hand to hold as others climb up and not It took commitment and sheer bloody By 2009 Lady Hale had become the first in private practice only 28 per cent are Dana and I are in accord when we say to be afraid of taking a public stance to mindedness for women of my generation, woman Justice of The Supreme Court, women. that ‘culturally we seem to need our give a voice to those who don’t have the who didn’t have any family tradition or Deputy President in 2013 and our first female leaders to be perfect and at the autonomy to speak up and out. I am not contacts in law, to assail the Temple walls Some words ring true across the female President in 2017. She remained top of their game while mediocre men alone in that belief. There are fantastic role with the brazen confidence of courage generations. Some 25 years ago, Helena the only woman at this level until joined by climb the ranks all the time by simply models out there: The Lady Hale, Baroness born out of ignorance of the obstacles we Kennedy QC, Baroness of The Shaws Lady Black in 2017 and Lady Justice Arden being capable of doing their job’.3 The Helen Kennedy QC and our own Baroness faced. Without St Anne’s as my academic said: ‘As in other professions, there is the following year. task I believe we face in this hundredth Ruth Deech QC (Hon). They haven’t risen pedigree, as a child of a single parent family a glass ceiling for women, which means So have we now broken through that glass anniversary year is to identify and tackle to prominence by being quiet and avoiding from a comprehensive school, I wouldn’t that getting to the top floor involves a ceiling? Quite simply: ‘No.’ While increasing barriers to advancement. We need to look controversy. We need women to take up have got off the career starting blocks at detour out through the window and up the numbers of women have entered the at unconscious bias. We need to confront their baton. Many do. Listen out: the call for the Bar. drainpipe, rather than a direct route along profession over the past two decades, sexual harassment and male bias power equality is now a clamour. the charted corridors of power.’2 I was called to the Bar in 1986. By that high numbers of women are leaving. Jo Delahunty time Lady Hale had started her ascent to Women are more likely to leave if they While progress has been made, change is judicial success by being appointed to the experience discrimination or harassment, happening far, far too slowly. How long can 1 ‘Women and Equality in Law: a century on’ Family Law April 2019 Vol 49 3 March 2019 Solicitors Journal p 18 Law Commission. I had to wait until 1988 the situation be tolerated? A fantastically if they are BME or if they have primary 2 Kennedy H Women and British Justice (1992) pp 344-45 4 Women and Equality in Law: a century On’ April Family Law April 2019 Vol 49

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the Rising. She is a good example of Belfast). She was the most prominent figure women’s struggle in Ireland and elsewhere. The women who made Ireland the diversity amongst the revolutionary in Cumann na mBan and in her uniform Markievicz, born into the Anglo-Irish PATRICK GAUL women. Born in Surrey, the daughter of an Markeivicz provides the most iconic female ascendancy, who became an aristocrat officer in the British army, she converted to image of the Rising during which she through marriage, fought for most of her Easter Rising, Irish women thought, wrote, In 1900, after being excluded from A passionate reappraisal of the the Irish cause, of which she was a fearless was second in command in one of the life for the common man and woman. campaigned, organized, agitated, fought, national groups because of her gender, often forgotten contribution of supporter throughout her life. In the War of garrisons based at St Stephen’s Green. were imprisoned. Many worked at the grass Maud Gonne founded Inghinidhe na Maud Gonne and Constance Markievicz the women who made Ireland’s Independence she campaigned against the Like Maud Gonne, Markeivicz (born 1868) roots and a small number became leaders hÉireann (The Woman of Ireland). This are probably the two best known. They had revolution a century ago activities of the Black and Tans and in the was a member of the upper class. She was at the highest levels of Irish political life, for organisation sought Irish independence the highest profile at the time and their When Padraic Pearse read out the Civil War founded the Women’s Prisoners’ a debutante, mixed in high society and example in trades unions. Many formed and championed Irish culture, including connections as well as their achievements declaration of the Irish Republic on Easter Defence League. Like many of the women attended art school in London. She married networks across Ireland, some established language. An educational programme with guaranteed their place in history’s books. Monday 1916 from the steps of the General she suffered her share of personal a Polish count in 1900 and became known international reputations. They were its focus on Irish history was instituted, There were many others, however, who can Post Office, in what is now O’Connell Street, hardship, being imprisoned and going on simply as ‘the Countess’. Her conversion significant contributors to nationalism, bringing the stories of Irish heroes to the rightly be regarded as great Irish writers, Dublin, his words were addressed to Irish hunger strike. She supported Republican to Irish nationalism occurred in the early feminism, republicanism, pacifism, trades working class children of Dublin, as well thinkers and political figures. They came men and Irish women, and they included a politics until her death aged 86 in 1953. part of the twentieth century. She was a unionism and socialism. Regrettably, for as a series of lectures and debates for from all classes of society. guarantee of equal rights and opportunities fearless, uncompromising soldier of Ireland much of the past century their history adults. Plays were put on. A newspaper Also involved in Inghinidhe na hÉireann to all its citizens. The Proclamation declared and was sentenced to death for her part in Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was the was hidden and their contribution under- was published. Inghinidhe na hÉireann was Constance Markievicz who in turn a provisional government pending the the Rising, the sentence being commuted to daughter of a Nationalist MP who was jailed estimated. did a huge amount to raise political founded Fianna Éireann in 1909, a boy establishment of a permanent national life imprisonment. She was the first woman repeatedly during the agrarian conflicts in consciousness and can be seen as the scouts’ movement (with a branch for girls in government that would be elected by to be elected to the House of Commons Ireland in the 1870s. She married Francis start of a movement which led to the Irish universal suffrage. It was in many respects in the 1918 Sheehy Skeffington, who unusually and Women Workers’ Union (IWWU) in 1911 a radical document: its commitment to general election. symbolically took her name, and became and Cumann na mBan, the military wing equality and its recognition of the place She abstained a member of Irish Women’s Suffrage. She of the women’s movement, which aimed of women owed much to the influence of from attending formed the Irish Women’s Franchise League to assist the armed struggle for national James Connolly, the great socialist writer, Westminster but and became a militant campaigner for independence, in 1914. The IWWU attracted who had established the Irish Citizen Army sat in the first Dail, votes for women, being jailed in Mountjoy many women to the Labour movement in 1913 and who joined the fight with the a rebel Parliament, at one point and, another time, going on who became involved in the Dublin Lockout Irish Republican Brotherhood not long in Dublin in January hunger strike. Francis was murdered by a of 1913-14. This in turn led to women before the Rising. 1919. She fought British army officer on the first day of the joining Connolly’s Irish Citizen Army, an in the Irish Civil Rising; after the Rising Hanna went on a Many of the women involved in political organisation committed to equality for War and when long and successful fund-raising tour of activities in these revolutionary times had women. she died in 1927 the USA. She fought in the Irish War of great respect for Connolly but his thinking Gonne was one of the leading female was practically Independence and for peace in the Civil was, in turn, shaped by the contribution he figures of the time. She will be immortalised destitute. She is War. She became a journalist and opposed witnessed from the women who changed though the poetry of WB Yeats who was a good example the anti-women legislation of the 1930s the lives of Irish people through their Detail of 'Portrait of Constance Countess Markievicz' by Boleslaw von hopelessly in love with her. She married of the selfless and the amendments to the Constitution courage and determination, their ideas Szankowski (1873-1953), oil on canvas, 1901. Collection: Dublin City John MacBride, who was executed after nature of the referred to below. She has been described and imagination. Both before and after the Gallery The Hugh Lane. Permission to reproduce granted by the Estate Maud Gonne MacBride of Boleslaw von Szankowski.

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as the most significant feminist in After World War I, one of the major issues These were different, pre-World War oppressive, and the position of the women over the past century, the focus is on the twentieth-century Ireland. in Britain to resolve was the franchise, II times, a time of a different type of of Ireland even today can in some respects national struggle, the political history, the especially the right of women to vote. This turmoil. Ireland, now under the Catholic, be considered less advantageous than their conflict. The struggle of the women of Finally in this quartet, Nora Connolly actually split the women’s movement in conservative, De Valera was indeed European counterparts. Ireland became a footnote and a curiosity O’Brien was politicised through her Ireland: for many, the national question changed utterly (in the words of WB Yeats) fairly quickly. The women’s struggle became father James Connolly before the Women activists were not of course was all that mattered and women’s from the inclusive country envisaged by swept up in the narrative of the Rising Rising and fought on the Anti-Treaty an Irish phenomenon. In 2018 there votes could wait for another day. Other Connolly and Pearce. The Republic had (1916), the War of Independence (1919- side in the War of Independence, were celebrations marking the 100th divisions appeared along the fault lines of become a theocracy and would remain 1921) and the Civil War (1922-1923). The becoming Paymaster General of the anniversary of legislation which socialism and nationalism for example, the so for most of the rest of the century. post-Civil War peace was an uneasy one IRA in 1922. She worked to build allowed women to vote for the first complication in Ireland of course being that The position of women would be firmly and Ireland’s new government treated up the Labour party and became a time and stand for election to the the majority in Ulster had a strong identity located in the domestic sphere, rarely her women activists as disreputable Senator in the 1960s. She wrote of Westminster Parliament. The heroic with Britain. seen, barely heard. There would be no troublemakers. By the start of World her father (Portrait of a Rebel Father) exploits of Emmeline Pankhurst and divorce, contraception or abortion in this War II, the counter-revolution had put and other works and her whole Most of the women who fought and others were commemorated: they Ireland. Things started to change in the Ireland’s women firmly in their place. life was dedicated to the political campaigned prior to the Rising maintained were revolutionary because they took 1980s, which coincided with the rediscovery It was only with Margaret Ward’s aptly struggle that James Connolly gave ideological purity. They opposed the Treaty action; and so they famously chained of the vital role played by women in the entitled Unmanageable Revolutionaries: his life for. and the Free State. They carried on with themselves to railings, went on hunger revolutionary Ireland of the first part of the Women and Irish Nationalism, which came their fight for a united Ireland and the strike and went to prison. One hundred In that respect Nora Connolly twentieth century. out in 1983, that the contribution of promotion of women’s rights including years ago women were still not allowed O’Brien was fairly typical of Ireland’s Ireland’s revolutionary women began to be universal suffrage. It is the great tragedy of During this period Ireland became known to take degrees at Oxford. It was thought revolutionary women. They stuck understood properly in the modern era. their story that a movement which had, to on the international stage for its great by some at the time that women had to their principles throughout This short article does them scant justice. an exceptional extent, recognised women’s literary figures, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, smaller brains than men and that their lives. They tended to remain Eventually they will be recognised for their rights through the 1916 Proclamation O’Casey and Shaw. She should be equally justified their inferior status and their opposed to Partition and in favour extraordinary achievements in their proper was disregarded. In the words of Kevin proud of the women who shaped the relegation to menial roles. St Anne’s of a 32 county united Ireland. They historical context and on the international O’Higgins, Minister of Justice in the Irish political landscape of the country and was founded in 1879 and is described were not rewarded by their country stage. government in the 1920s, they were by far whose legacy has now somewhat belatedly on the website as the work of a radical following the establishment of the the most conservative revolutionaries in been recognised. No other country had coalition of Victorian women and men. Patrick Gaul (Jurisprudence 1980) Free State and few rose to any history. In failing to adopt the promotion a women’s movement as diverse, radical, In the 1920s St Anne’s was still some way position of power or authority in the of women’s rights and to adhere to the inspiring and brilliant as Ireland had during off being a recognised Oxford college new Ireland. It took many decades commitment to equality, conservative those formative years. Some defend the but its formation and development was before there was any significant Ireland took a backward step. Just over 1937 Constitution on the basis that it was really part of the same movement that female presence in the Dail. 20 years after the Proclamation, the Irish broadly in line with the approach of other features the women referred to above – In 1916, after several decades of Constitution of 1937 pronounced that the European countries, but this is to miss the women who were prepared to suffer for political activity, many Irish women position of women was within the home point: in 1916 Ireland had the potential their beliefs and dare to change things. fought for Irish freedom. Many and they should not engage in labour to the to be in the vanguard of women’s rights. When Ireland’s revolutionary times are were imprisoned after the rising neglect of their domestic duties. Having missed that opportunity, having discussed as they have been extensively and became even more politicised. chosen not to be progressive it became Hanna Sheehy Skeffington in 1916

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It wasn’t long before a proper bar was essay or listening to one read by one’s comfy seats and spaces where they can Forty Years On installed and St Anne’s itself became a place tutorial partner. Now, like most tutors, I organize joint study or just talk. to socialize in. That move in the direction pre-read essays sent to me electronically, ROGER CRISP In recent times, perhaps the biggest of a more ‘holiday camp’ atmosphere was and this, along with the greater emphasis change in the ‘student demographic’ at St In 1979 St Anne’s admitted male find the College easily: ‘Pass the Radcliffe expressed their dissatisfaction through matched by a certain decline in academic now placed on revision tutorials, means Anne’s has been in the size of the MCR, students. One of the men of that Infirmary, and walk up Woodstock Road some rather mis-androus JCR motions. standards. The steepness of that decline that students receive significantly more and in its increasing internationalization. year looks at the changes and until you see St Anne’s on the right.’ Always We were for a short while an oppressed has perhaps been a little exaggerated, teaching time than they did. That in itself The Principal during most of my graduate challenges to the College and the one to follow instructions to the letter, and minority, but our oppressors were also but there is no doubt that the rigorous is of course a good thing, though I think having a rough idea of what an Oxford in a minority and, in general, relations years, Claire Palley, was as friendly and University in the past 40 years collections and other measures introduced that, as suggested in the Franks Report of college might look like, I kept going until between the sexes were cordial. Indeed I supportive to me as Nancy Trenaman had during the principalship of Ruth Deech 1966, there is a strong case to be made for I reached the ring road. Margaret was, shall always be grateful for the many ways been when I was an undergraduate. But as made a real difference. Our performance focusing undergraduate work on fewer, for the first of many times, patient and in which the classicists and others in the the MCR expanded, in response to greater since 1979 has been at the very least solid, longer essays, perhaps four per term in reassuring, and after making sure I had years above went out of their way to take awareness of the intellectual contribution and it could plausibly be said that St Anne’s each subject, rather than six or eight. a basic grasp of various Greek particles us under their wings. graduates make to a college community, has the strongest academic record of any of offered me a place to read Lit. Hum. in Another aspect of student life that has Tim Gardam introduced ‘subject family’ There are still significant gender-related the ex-women’s colleges. October. I have been a member of the changed hugely is often forgotten. Like events each term, bringing together the issues facing Oxford and St Anne’s in College since that time, except 1989-91, I was remarkably lucky with my tutors. other undergraduates four decades or so various common rooms for intellectual particular, for example in relation to when I bravely travelled south of the High Margaret taught me Greek literature, ago, I would spend many frustrating hours and social interaction. As the MCR grew in admissions and examination-performance Street to take up a research fellowship at Margaret Hubbard Roman, Barbara Mitchell each week chasing books and articles, size, the need for accommodation became in certain subjects. But one of the greatest University College. ancient history, and Gwynneth Matthews often to find that they had already been ever more salient. I served as Tutor for challenges for our current Principal will be philosophy. We currently have just one bagged by others in the Bodleian or taken I have talked with several of the Fellows that of diversity in our intake, and she must Graduates for 13 years, before our first fellow in classical literature, Matthew from the departmental or College library. of that period about the College’s decision be warmly congratulated for facilitating the ‘professional’ Senior Tutor, Anne Mullen, Leigh, and share our ancient historian, Ed The idea that the most obscure article to go mixed. As far as I can tell, the launch of the Sheikh Family Scholarships was appointed. Each year, I would tell our Bispham, with Brasenose. There are now might be available to us in our own rooms progressive wing was in a minority. The scheme at St Anne’s for British Muslim Treasurer, Robert Saunders, that we should many more options available for finalists at any time would have seemed a distant problem was that the men’s colleges were students who face financial hardship and, build more graduate housing and Robert in philosophy and more teaching is now dream. I have had a good deal to do with now taking women, and the Fellows could ideally, are the first in their family to attend would tell me, with genuine regret, that we done outside College. In that respect, libraries over the years, serving twice see which way the wind would blow them if university. did not have the resources. That was until then, it is unlikely that I will ever ‘shape’ as the honorary librarian of the faculty they did not act. In that first year, they did Robert told me that the current lending Until 1979, St Anne’s had been consistently the development of any of my students library, as chair of the humanities library not know quite what to expect, and neither rate would allow us to take out a mortgage, one of the academically highest performing in the way Gwynneth did mine, and this committee and as a curator of the Bodleian. Roger Crisp Courtesy Harriet Crisp did the group of 40 or so men admitted. which we used to fund the building in South colleges. It was a place of the intellect, is no doubt true of most colleagues As libraries began to change, I feared that The welcome we received from our tutors Parade that now bears his name. from which its students tended to travel across the University. The tutorial system students working in their rooms would was entirely warm and positive, as was elsewhere to find entertainment. The ‘bar’, itself, however, remains as central to become isolated and less available for Current students, both undergraduate In 1979 St Anne’s threw me a lifeline. St that from the vast majority of students for example, consisted of a cardboard Oxford as it has ever been, though again discussion with others. But it turns out that and graduate, seem to me on the whole Anne’s needed men, and I was invited to in the years above. But some, who had box containing various dubious bottles of there have been changes. When I was libraries are as popular as ever, though more emotionally and socially mature interview by Margaret Howatson, tutor campaigned against the admission of men, ancient sherry and peculiar liqueurs, and a an undergraduate, the standard way to these days students are allowed to take than those of my own generation. That in Greek literature. Margaret told me I’d were understandably a little resentful, and tatty book for recording one’s purchases. begin a tutorial was by reading out an in their water bottles and there are often is partly, I suspect, because parents and

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teachers have developed a more rounded me to become self-reliant. I can imagine functions, and in that sense it is a model view of education. But students now also that without those qualities I would have for the University itself. The College, if ever Translation matters seem considerably more anxious, and of found adapting to a new life at St Anne’s it was at the margins geographically and JVH course the massive rise in reported mental considerably more difficult than I did. politically, is no longer. I can now walk to health problems among students over the the Philosophy Faculty in less than two Translation is not a matter resistance, and why it is fundamental to the UK, now. The quality of the translation One of our principals once said to me that last decade or so is well documented. The minutes, and University committees are no of words only: it is a matter literature and the arts. is perhaps the paramount criterion – after Oxford now is like the BBC before John of making intelligible a whole all, the prize money goes to the translator causes of that are still being investigated, longer dominated by the ‘older’ colleges. Of his experience as a judge of the Birt. The effect of spiralling administrative culture – but this should be judged primarily not but I do notice a striking contrast between The continuing flourishing of Oxford, and Weidenfeld Prize, he writes: and legislative demands, almost entirely by measuring translation against source parenting then and now. My parents, and hence of St Anne’s, is of great significance The Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for translation externally imposed, along with the absurd [E]ach time, when faced with the pile of (in any case impossible to do fairly across those of my friends, tended to let us get on not just for those who care about these celebrates its twentieth anniversary this complexity of Oxford’s own structures, eighty-odd entries, the multiple source so many languages) but by gauging the with things. They might have paid for our places, but for everyone in the UK. Our year. First awarded in 1999, it is for book- could well have led to collapse in recent languages (a few known to me, most strength of the English writing that has rail tickets for an open day, but they would undergraduates and graduates go on to length literary translations into English decades were it not for the subsidies not), the gamut of genres – from crime been done on behalf of the original, and never have dreamt of coming with us, let make huge, though often insufficiently from any living European language. It provided through top-slicing of research fiction and chick lit through Dumas which is offered here by the translator alone of joining us in our conversations recognized, contributions to every sphere aims to honour the craft of translation funding and huge transfers from OUP. The (say) to Tolstoy and the poetry of Rilke as its representative. (From ‘On Judging with tutors (though it is fair to say that if of our national life, and I consider it a great and to recognise its cultural importance. challenge is to modernize without losing or Kaplinski; not to mention the variety the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize’ my parents had been with me on my first privilege to have been able to play a minor It was founded by Lord Weidenfeld and is what is truly valuable, and this challenge of translation challenges and ways of in Translation and Literature, 17. 1 2008.) visit to St Anne’s, I would have arrived on role in making that possible at St Anne’s. supported by New College, The Queen's will not be met through conflicts between meeting them, from the exfoliation time). Further, schools are now, fortunately, College and St Anne's College. The 2018 shortlist included eight books parties. Each issue has to be dealt with of a much-translated classic to the significantly less unpleasant places than Roger Crisp (Literae Humaniores 1979) is from an outstanding entry of 112 titles in open-mindedly and on its own merits. In In his Translation: A Very Short Introduction acute responsibility of introducing a many of them were. My schooldays taught Professor of Moral Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow translations from 24 different languages. my experience, this is largely how St Anne’s (OUP 2016) Professor Matthew Reynolds, writer for the first time, from the fairly me resilience and my parents allowed and Tutor in Philosophy at St Anne’s The announcement of the winner was the Chair of the Oxford Comparative Criticism straightforward demands of genre crowning event of Oxford Translation Day and Translation (OCCT), based jointly fiction to the peculiar meld of liberty last June. It saw Lisa Dillman’s translation in The Oxford Research Centre for the and rigour required by the translation from Spanish of Andrés Barba’s Such Small Humanities and St Anne's Research of poetry – each time, when faced with Hands, published by Portobello Books, win Centre, says: ‘Translation is everywhere, all this, I have asked: How on earth over an impressive shortlist that included and matters to everybody. Translation do you set about it? How can such recently rediscovered poems by Pablo doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed incommensurables be compared? Neruda and Émile Zola’s A Love Story. (For films and instructions for using the The written guidelines give some help. the full 2018 shortlist and winners in recent microwave: without it, there would be no Judges are to consider ‘the quality of the years see www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/ world religions, and our literatures, our translation, the importance of the original the-oxford-weidenfeld-translation-prize.) cultures, and our languages would be work and the value of its being put into unrecognisable.’ Announcing the prize, Simon Park, a English’. The criteria triangulate and qualify member of the judging panel, said: Reynolds covers the field from ancient each other. What counts is not only the Akkadian to World English, from St Jerome imaginative force of the work as brought Dillman’s translation of Mexican writer to Google Translate. He shows how into English, but what one might call the Yuri Herrera’s The Transmigration of translation determines meaning, how it translation event – the feeling that this Bodies was one of last year’s shortlisted 1979 Spot the difference: the first male students... matters in commerce, empire, conflict and book should matter particularly to us, in entries, so her brisk return to the

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shortlist this year is both a testament to her fine skills as a translator, as well as to the publishers who have supported The Radical Empathy of Amos Oz her work. In Such Small Hands, Andrés Barba transforms JONATHAN FREEDLAND the creepy clichés of horror movies into a tense exploration of group psychology and trauma. It is a classic tale of a of-the-way library somewhere in Reykjavik, which became an international bestseller, new arrival disrupting a community, but Barba manages to Valladolid or Vancouver." is obvious. It is brilliantly written, the keep us wondering whether the cuckoo or the nest is more novelist proving to be a patient, sharp- Most of Oz’s admirers in Israel and around terrifying. Barba’s attention to the sometimes talismanic eyed reporter. He has a particular knack the world, those who long assumed that quality of language, phrases that bring security or propel for direct speech. One chapter is devoted Oz was just a year or two away from a uncomfortable revelations, is matched by Dillman’s carefully almost entirely to a monologue delivered Nobel prize, would, I suspect, nominate paced translation, one that takes us into this feverish by a man Oz calls only Z., an ultra- the exquisite, elegiac Tale as the book world animated by the inarticulable desires and violence of nationalist with feverish fantasies of a best suited to incarnate Oz’s spirit, in childhood. Make this your next bedtime reading but bear Amos Oz, 1983. Credit: Dominique Nabokov murderous Jewish militarism. Z. jumps off accordance with his childhood wishes. in mind that this story carries a high risk of keeping you up the page. Indeed, for those readers who It tells the story of his early years in the at night. That this is the case owes a great deal to Dillman’s Revered and reviled as a prophet found some of Oz’s fiction too brooding or Jerusalem of the British Mandate, where he translation, which pushes language to a near-breaking point, at home and garlanded with too slow, In the Land of Israel fairly fizzes was raised by a librarian father whose head into a zone where translation truly takes on a life of its own attention and prizes abroad, the with energy: Z. might be one Oz’s most and acquires its own monsters. We also acknowledge here was forever buried in pages and footnotes, Israeli writer Amos Oz, who died memorable characters. the particular challenges of translating a novella. As the and a mother plagued by a depression that on 28 December last year, was story progresses, the tension that quickly builds between eventually led her to commit suicide when But the reason why the book endures in these characters owes much to the novel’s tight economy Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of her son was twelve. my mind, more than three decades after I of language and to Dillman’s ability to recast Barba’s taut European Comparative Literature read it, does not relate chiefly to its literary It is a magnificent book. Even so, it is not sentences and disconcerting syntax in her own comparably at St Anne’s from 1998 - 1999 merits. Its power was partly a matter of the vessel I would choose to carry my own unsettling English translation. timing. I was sixteen when I picked it up, a In A Tale of Love and Darkness, the 2002 memory of Oz. I would name instead In child raised in a strongly Zionist household, The winner of the 2019 prize is Celia Hawkesworth for her novel-cum-memoir that, his obituarists the Land of Israel, a non-fiction collection of the son of a mother who had been born translation of Ivo Andric's Omer Pasha Latas (New York Review agreed, was surely Amos Oz’s finest literary reported essays originally published in in Petach Tikva in 1936, in what was then Books). work, the Israeli laureate, who died in the the weekend edition of Davar, the now- Mandatory Palestine. I had come of age last days of 2018, wrote these words: defunct newspaper of the Israeli labour This year’s Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in Comparative in Habonim, a Jewish youth movement movement. The book recounted Oz’s European Literature at St Anne’s is Durs Grünbein. Chiefly known "When I was little, my ambition was to grow dedicated to the ideals of the kibbutz and conversations with Israelis and a handful for his poetry, he has also translated Aeschylus, Seneca and up to be a book. People can be killed like steeped in Labour Zionism. I’d been fed of Palestinians, in Israel and on the West Juvenal. His poetry has been translated into several languages ants. Writers are not hard to kill either. But stories of pioneers toiling in fields and Bank, a few months after Menachem Begin and he has won many major German and International literary not books: however systematically you try orchards as they built a socialist utopia, one and Ariel Sharon had ordered the invasion prizes. to destroy them, there is always a chance that would at last allow Jews to shake off of Lebanon in 1982. that a copy will survive and continue to two millennia of persecution and stand tall enjoy a shelf-life in some corner of an out- Much of what commends the book, JVH in the world.

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In the mid-1980s, those dreams were own. For all his denunciations of successive the moral reasoning that underpins his Zionist and the liberal anti-Zionist equally, will be at your throat and kill you. For your often in a political thinker. For Oz, however, colliding with reality. I’d seen the pictures Israeli governments, for all his fluent and position. He visits the small — it was small for they insist that either all nations have own good.’) it was the foundation stone on which of the Lebanon war on the news; I’d read furious protests against wrong-headed then — West Bank settlement of Ofra. He the right to govern themselves or none everything else was built. Empathy runs The second principle was a demand — about the massacres at the Palestinian wars and military brutality, his fundamental listens to the settlers; then their leaders does. The illiberal Zionist is urged to through every chapter of In the Land of not always realized — for moral rigour, refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila, conviction in Jewish self-determination was invite him to address an audience of forty concede that right of self-determination to Israel, as Oz uses his imagination to identify for moral judgements to be consistently which, yes, were committed by Christian not shaken. or fifty of them at a public meeting, on Palestinians, the liberal anti-Zionist is urged with all those he encounters: religious applied. Oz was enraged by double Phalangists but, as Israel’s own Kahan a Saturday evening, once the sabbath to concede it to Jews. settlers in Tekoa, angry Mizrahi Jews in Bet Indeed, and this was what made such a standards, often faulting Israel’s Western Commission had found, under the eye is over. He lets us hear his own voice, Shemesh, Palestinians in Ramallah, even powerful impression on my younger self, Oz’s version of liberal Zionism, expressed and European critics for slamming Israel of the Israeli military. I had also travelled uninterrupted. Deploying one of the Z. It’s the quality that enabled him to tell he refused to accept that there might be not only in In the Land of Israel but also in for behaviour they readily forgave in in Israel enough that it was becoming trademark metaphors that were his their stories, the quality that made him a any contradiction between the two stances: his later writings, media interviews, and themselves. He disliked lazy conflations and plain, even to my teenage gaze, that the sharpest tools of persuasion, he argues that natural storyteller. But it is also what made he insisted that it was his very Zionism that public lectures, had three core components. comparisons. He used to say that ‘He who comforting stories diaspora Jews had long the justness of the Jewish claim to historic his hostility to fanaticism and belief in led him to believe in the Palestinian right I now understand that these elements were fails to distinguish between degrees of evil told themselves about the country were not Palestine is ‘the justness of the drowning compromise a defining creed. Because he to independence. He supported the not confined in scope to the Israel-Palestine becomes a servant of evil.’ true. The discrimination, the inequality, the man who clings to the only plank he can…’. understood that one’s enemy is also, and Palestinians not in spite of the fact that he conflict, but were applicable elsewhere, if occupation: they were all too visible to be I don’t pretend that Oz always got it right. always, a human being. was a Zionist, but because he was a Zionist. And the drowning man clinging to this not everywhere — that they amounted to a ignored. Plenty on the left, inside and outside Israel, plank is allowed, by all the rules of natural, world-view. This, then, is why Oz was both revered and One chapter in In the Land of Israel sees Oz were disappointed when he supported the The obvious response to all this was clear objective, universal justice, to make room reviled as a prophet at home and garlanded visiting the offices of Al-Fajr, a Palestinian The first was a belief in compromise, not Operation Cast Lead offensive in Gaza enough. I could have decided that the for himself on the plank, even if in doing so with attention and prizes abroad. Of newspaper whose name means ‘The Dawn’. just as a sometimes necessary evil but in 2008-2009 and felt similarly let down whole thing was a shame, that the Zionist he must push the others aside a little. Even course, part of it was his rugged good looks, Oz reflects on the fact that in 1868, in as an ideal in itself, to be cherished and when he described the repeat performance enterprise was rotten from the start and if the others, sitting on that plank, leave his astonishingly eloquent English, and Vienna, Peretz Smolenskin had founded a admired. He once wrote that too often in 2014 as ‘excessive but justified’. But that everything I’d been taught was myth him no alternative to force. But he has no his sonorous, broadcast-ready voice. But Zionist, Hebrew newspaper also called The is compromise seen ‘as weakness, as no one could deny that Oz wrestled with and propaganda. Plenty of my Jewish natural right to push the others on that mainly it was his moral clarity and, deeper, Dawn. He quotes the opening page of the pitiful surrender’, whereas, he explained, these judgments seriously and demanded contemporaries made precisely that move. plank into the sea. And that is the moral that gift for empathy. Long after liberal very first issue of Smolenskin’s version, ‘in the lives of families, neighbours, and of himself no less than of others a moral But then, at that very moment, along came difference between the ‘Judaization’ of Jaffa Zionism had come to seem quaint in an which was full of dreamy talk of a people nations, choosing to compromise is in fact coherence. Mere tribal solidarity was Amos Oz and In the Land of Israel. and Ramla and the ‘Judaization’ of the West Israel whose heart had grown harder, those reclaiming its destiny and national self- choosing life.’ The opposite of compromise insufficient to commend an action or policy: Bank. qualities retained their value — none more The book did not tell me I was wrong respect. ‘It occurs to me,’ Oz writes, ‘that is not pride or integrity. ‘The opposite of he would ask himself how he would react so than the compassionate knowledge to deplore the occupation or Israel’s it is surely not difficult to translate those In other words, the logic that makes the compromise is fanaticism and death.’ (Oz if the boot were on the other foot, if Israel that people are frail creatures, frightened, mistreatment of the Palestinians. On the words into Arabic.’ Oz is telling us that existence of 1948 Israel legitimate is the was fascinated, in both his fiction and was not doing but was being done to. flawed and ultimately, like Oz himself, contrary, in that collection, and in later the needs of these two peoples, Jews and same logic that makes the post-1967 non-fiction, by the figure of the fanatic, Which brings us to the third element of mortal. essays and articles — which I gobbled Arabs, may not be identical but they are occupation illegitimate. defined as the man ‘who wants to change what we might call ‘Ozism’: a deep, even up — Oz regularly supplied fresh and not so very different. If you believe in self- other people for their own good.’ When he I remember reading those pages over radical, empathy. Empathy is, of course, Jonathan Freedland Reproduced with kind damning evidence of where Israel was at determination for one, then logic compels and I met in 2016, Oz put it to me like this: and over again. I have returned to them an essential requirement of the serious permission of the author and the New York odds with its own declared values. But he you to believe in that same right for the ‘He [the fanatic] is a great altruist, more in the years since. They represent as clear novelist. Oz’s day job meant that he was Review of Books was firm that none of that contradicted a other. interested in you than in himself. He wants a statement of the liberal Zionist creed as constantly imagining himself in the shoes basic belief in Jews’ right to a home of their to save your soul, change you, redeem you In another chapter, Oz works through I have read. They challenge the illiberal of others. But that capacity is found less — and if you prove to be irredeemable, he

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trial and emphasize that their reagents a corresponding increase in ambitious treatments for the blood disorders beta- The promise and the perils are for non-therapeutic research use only uses for it that range from humanizing thalassemia and sickle-cell anaemia, and – but to underscore how accessible this pig organs for human transplantation to trials regarding various cancers, metabolic JASON TORRES technology has become. bringing back the woolly mammoth from diseases and neurodegenerative disorders editing to treat human disease as a ‘moral According to the US National Academies of extinction. Moreover, the introduction of –all of which involve editing disease- The use of the latest gene Gene editing is not new: researchers necessity’, described this experiment as Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, any the CRISPR-Cas9 system for gene editing relevant somatic cells – are currently technology to defeat complex, have been introducing targeted genome ‘monstrous’. such experiments – if they are to be done has had a seismic effect on biomedical underway. There is indeed genuine promise life-threatening diseases can only changes for decades. In 1996, researchers at all – should only be done with ‘rigorous research where it has provided researchers from gene-editing that pierces through the be a good thing. But as the science Shortly after Dr Jiankui’s announcement at Johns Hopkins University successfully oversight’, ‘maximum transparency’ and in with an expanded toolkit to disentangle hype. But as we’ve recently witnessed, the advances and the means become via social media, he presented his work fused a bacterial nuclease protein capable the ‘absence of reasonable alternatives’. the molecular basis of common, complex potential for abuse – even with the best of more openly available, genetic formally to the scientific community at the of cutting DNA with a protein with long None of which seem to have been met in diseases such as type 2 diabetes as well intentions – is very real and ever-present. engineering presents some difficult Human Genome Editing summit in Hong finger-like extensions capable of binding this first clinical use of human germline as give them a promising new avenue ethical issues Kong, work that to this day has not been specific DNA sequences. These Zinc Finger editing. to develop treatment against intractable published in any peer-reviewed scientific Nucleases or ZFNs have been repeatedly In November 2018, He Jiankui, a scientist genetic diseases such as sickle-cell Jason Torres is Junior Research Fellow in journal and was conducted under a ‘cloak Now as we grapple with the societal and used to introduce specific DNA changes working out of Shenzhen China, announced anaemia. CRISPR has already been Personalised Medicine at the Centre for of secrecy’ such that even his academic ethical implications of this experiment, it to different cell types up to and including that he had successfully edited the DNA used to cure disease in mouse models Personalised Medicine at St Anne’s. He has a institution was purportedly unaware of his is easy to overlook just how revolutionary human cells. However, the use of this of human embryos that were implanted for congenital cataracts and muscular particular interest in the genetic basis of type clinical trial. It quickly became apparent the CRISPR-Cas9 method has become molecular technology in particular and into a woman and resulted in the birth dystrophy (a severe muscle-wasting 2 diabetes. that there were myriad issues with this within the field of biology. It is important gene editing in general was largely limited of twin baby girls that he claims are now disease). Significantly, human clinical study that ranged from the concern that to note that Dr Jiankui is not a world- to researchers with expertise in protein genetically immune to HIV infection. trials are already taking place that involve Dr Jiankui did not secure proper informed renowned expert in gene editing: most engineering and extensive research The development of a vaccine against consent from the patients enrolled in of his publication record reflects his funding. This has changed dramatically HIV infection – genetic or otherwise – his study to the concern that he failed to experience in the adjacent field of single- over the past six years with the discovery would undoubtedly be a laudable goal make his intended DNA edits but instead cell sequencing. However, he was able to and subsequent modification of the CRISPR that could improve the lives of millions. introduced novel alterations to the genome order the reagents he used for this clinical system, an ancient immune system present However, the reception of this news by with unknown health consequences for trial easily and affordably from private in archaea and bacteria that confers scientists familiar with the technique that these children. companies over the Internet. He purchased resistance against ubiquitous microbe- he employed to alter the DNA sequence the Cas9 bacterial protein used to slice DNA killing viruses known as bacteriophages. By of these children was far less than But even if we ignore all these issues, from Massachusetts-based Thermo Fisher isolating, altering, optimizing and ultimately enthusiastic. Berkeley Professor Jennifer he still contravened a global consensus Scientific and ordered the synthetic guide commercializing molecular components of Doudna, a co-creator of the CRISPR-Cas9 regarding clinical use of genetic RNAs from Bay Area start-up Synthego. this ancient system, researchers have now technique that Dr Jiankui applied in his modifications to the human germline (ie Journalist Megan Molteni offered the made it possible to introduce a variety of unsanctioned clinical trial, was ‘horrified’ sperm cells, egg cells or embryos). Unlike following analogy: ‘If gene editing were a precise genetic alterations that range from to learn about this experimental use of the the somatic cells that make up most of butcher's shop, Thermo Fisher would craft entirely disabling a gene within a cell to technology. Francis Collins, the director the cells in our bodies, genetic changes the knives and Synthego would instruct on subtly activating or repressing the activity of of the National Institutes of Health, was to germ cells can be directly passed on which cuts to make.’ I’m not mentioning one or more genes in an entire organism. ‘profoundly disturbed’ to learn of this work from generation to generation and have these companies to indict them specifically and Oxford ethicist Julian Savulescu, who the potential to direct human evolution. The rapidly increasing availability of this – both have denounced Dr Jiankui’s clinical had previously described the use of gene technology has been accompanied by The Cas9 enzyme in action Credit: Felicity Cormack and Katia Mattis

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was the question. She asked me to out her unique philosophical position. In Professor of English, kept her locked into Celebrating a Centenary: Iris Murdoch at St Anne’s give an example that might make his introductory essay to the anthology the Oxford milieu and in close association Hume’s deliberatively provocative claim Iris Murdoch, Philosopher, which charts with the intellectual life of the University. FRANCES WHITE clearer and more vivid. I responded, her reception in the philosophical world, It was thanks to her being at St Anne’s that One hundred years after her birth, informed her of the post, that it made congratulated you on Miss Scrutton – ingenuously, with the first thing that Justin Broackes observes that ‘she could Murdoch and Bayley met. her feel sick to be competing against her but Miss Murdoch is a great acquisition came to mind: a man caught between hardly have been more enthusiastically Iris Murdoch is an international Murdoch is now an international figure and contemporary at Somerville, Mary Midgley and a most welcome one.4 his duty to his wife and his great received’.8 She wrote reviews for Mind, figure both as novelist and as her centenary is being widely celebrated (née Scrutton), Murdoch was glad to return passion for his mistress. Reason, if it is gave Aristotelian Society talks and BBC philosopher. Her work is finding The 14 years Murdoch subsequently spent across the world, with conferences in st after six years absence. John Wisdom, her seen as being principled, says one thing, Radio broadcasts. In 1950 she produced new resonance in 21 century at St Anne’s – she was made a Fellow in the Czech Republic and Amiens as well supervisor at Cambridge, had strongly desire another? She asked me what ‘The Novelist as Metaphysician’ and ‘The debate on ethics and aesthetics 1952 when it became St Anne’s College as events in Dublin, London, Cambridge supported her application: do you think he should have done? I Existentialist Hero’; in 1951 ‘Thinking and – were formative in her development as and Oxford. The ninth International On 28 April 1948 Iris Murdoch wrote to said, ‘This is truly a moral dilemma – Language’ and in 1952 ‘Nostalgia for the She is an able woman with great a philosopher, as a novelist and in her Iris Murdoch Conference, organised by Miss Plumer, the Principal of St Anne’s whichever way, he would hurt one of Particular’ and ‘The Existentialist Political subtlety and integrity of mind and her personal life. the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at Society, as St Anne’s College then was, them.’ But what power can reason have Myth’; in 1956 ‘Vision and Choice in Morality’ heart is in her work. She can use what the University of Chichester under the saying: Murdoch brought her own distinctive when it’s up against the force of a man’s and ‘Knowing the Void’: Review of Simone others have done without losing her directorship of Miles Leeson, was held at and original style to teaching philosophy. deepest passions? And even if he ended Weil’s Notebooks; in 1957 ‘Metaphysics I should like to apply for the post of power to look at things for herself. St Anne’s College from 13-15 July 2019, Her plan for an Introductory lecture up staying with his wife, as reason and and Ethics’; in 1958 ‘A House of Theory’ tutor in philosophy which St Anne’s All this makes me think that she may culminating in the conference dinner on series included, ‘Ethical concepts.5 Nor duty demand, wouldn’t it be because and ‘Existentialists and Mystics: A Note on have been advertising [....]. I read ‘make a contribution to thought’ in a her hundredth birthday, at which her was her tutorial teaching conventional. he found that it was his passion for the Novel in the New Utilitarian Age’ and Classical Mods and Greats at Somerville way in which very few do. If she teaches biographer and friend, Peter J Conradi, was Jennifer Dawson remembers reading doing his duty that was the stronger in 1959 ‘The Sublime and the Good’ and in 1938-42, and obtained a second in she will put all of herself into it and the after-dinner speaker. The Philosopher Political Theory with her, officially studying force? Deep down, isn’t it passion all the ‘The Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited’. Mods and a first in Greats. From 1942 those she teaches will like her I believe. Miklós Vetö, who was the last PhD student Hobbes, Rousseau and Aristotle’s Politics. way? This illustration seemed to have ‘Against Dryness’ was written in 1961 and to 1944 I was a temporary Assistant They will have to face the good air of Murdoch supervised at Oxford, was the But Murdoch was ‘blithe and insouciante’ impressed her.6 ‘Mass, Might and Myth’ in 1962. The first Principal in the Treasury, and from criticism but they will feel that it comes opening plenary speaker: also speaking [sic] about set-texts and exams, and edition of her later work The Sovereignty of 1944 to 1946 I was with UNRRA, first in from someone with sympathy and Many years later Murdoch was to explore were Valentine Cunningham from Corpus ‘roamed over philosophical ideas’, being Good (1970) has ‘St Anne’s College, Oxford’ the London office, and later in Austria, understanding. I am confident that if this moral dilemma in her Whitbread Christi and Steinunn Sigurðardóttir who ‘marvellously eclectic’ and quoting ‘from beneath her name on the title page. Nearly where I worked eventually in a camp she is appointed you will find the work Award-winning novel The Sacred and interviewed Murdoch for television in St Anselm and Engels in almost the same half a century on these seminal texts from of D.P. students at Graz. When I came you want done done well.2 Profane Love Machine (1974). 1985. The actress Annette Badland was breath’. Dawson recalls that her eccentric this early period continue to be analysed home I worked by myself at philosophy, ‘In Conversation’ with Anne Rowe, Visiting On 11 June Miss Plumer wrote to Iris tutor ‘loved the earthy and concrete’, Her prolific career as a novelist began while and discussed by new generations of with some help from my former Professor at the University of Chichester, Murdoch to appoint her and, on 14 June had met Jean-Paul Sartre, was mystical she was teaching at St Anne’s, during which philosophers and Murdoch’s input is finding tutor Professor D. M. MacKinnon. I who convened the first international Murdoch replied that she was ‘very happy and was influenced by existentialism and period she wrote Under the Net (1954), new resonance in twenty-first century then obtained the Sarah Smithson conference on Murdoch, at St Anne’s in indeed to hear the news’ and ‘much looking Simone Weil..5 Devaki Jain has also recorded The Flight from the Enchanter (1956), The debate on ethics and aesthetics. Studentship at Newnham, [….] I have September 2002, out of which the research forward to my work next year’.3 Isobel Murdoch’s ‘quality of passionate intensity’: Sandcastle (1957), The Bell (1958), A Severed been most glad of this breathing space In 1963 Murdoch resigned from St Anne’s, centre grew. Delegates from across the Henderson, Fellow of Somerville College, Head (1961) and An Unofficial Rose (1962). at Cambridge – but I feel a very positive One incident particularly stands out where she was made an Honorary Fellow, globe gave papers on a wide range of 1 wrote warmly to Miss Plumer: But before that she had already written desire to teach philosophy. in memory. Iris had set me for my and moved on to teach philosophy at philosophical and literary aspects of Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), the first Congratulations on Miss Murdoch, weekly essay, Hume’s dictum, ‘Reason the Royal College of Art in London. But research into Murdoch’s work. An exhibition Moving to St Anne’s was to be a life- book on Sartre to be published in England: and many thanks for re-importing is, and ought only to be, the slave of her marriage in 1956 to John Bayley, the focusing on ‘Iris Murdoch and Oxford’ changing choice for her. 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Somerville College. Before the conference rather than diminishing. One reason for contribution to thought in both philosophy Peter Garrard (St George's, University of this resurgence of interest in Murdoch’s and literature is being reassessed, valued The city of dreaming spires and rough sleepers London) presented his new research into novels in the twenty-first century is her and celebrated, and her reputation Murdoch's writing and Alzheimer's Disease prescience. She was ahead of her time secured. St Anne’s College played no small SISTER FRANCES DOMINICA ASSP at the Weston Library Lunchtime Lecture in presenting and questioning matters part in the development of her mind and In one of the wealthiest cities in the been said that such dogs are healthier than on 12 July; after the conference there was that are transgressive, taboo or cross talents. UK, rough sleepers have doubled in pampered pets who live in houses because a symposium on ‘Iris Murdoch: Novelist or boundaries. Today’s prevalent concern with Frances White, the University of the past year ‘homeless’ dogs walk with their owners, Philosopher’ at Oxford Brookes University such issues as gender fluidity, sexual abuse, Chichester have constant companionship, and they on 16 July. Earlier in the year a symposium incest, the misuse of power and the mental You may be familiar with Matthew Arnold’s probably fare better with treats given by on Murdoch and theology was held at health of children finds echoes throughout poem ‘Thyrsis’, published in 1866 in passers-by than does their human friend!) Regents Park College, Oxford. her oeuvre keeping her fiction astonishingly memory of his friend, Arthur Hugh Clough, contemporary. In the academic world PhD who had died in 1861 aged only 42: Earlier this year, the Guardian reported that Two decades after her death Murdoch’s students in many countries are studying there were five tents pitched a few yards standing is steadily increasing. From And that sweet City with her dreaming spires, her work (five at Chichester alone) from from the front door of Oxford’s 56-bed being somewhat mired in the mytho- She needs not June for beauty’s heightening… wide-ranging new angles such as eco- main homeless hostel, in addition to which, biographical murkiness created by the 35 people were sleeping on the floor of criticism. New publications being launched This is the city that draws tourists from memoirs of John Bayley and the film Iris all over the world. They marvel at the the hostel. Lucy Faithful House, a purpose- in this centenary year include Iris Murdoch housed people in Oxford. These are directed by Richard Eyre, her reputation is architecture of the colleges, the immaculate built hostel, which provided 61 beds, was by Anne Rowe in the Writers and their often charities dependant on grants and finding itself on the higher ground of her grounds in which they stand, all depicting demolished this year to make room for Work series, Contemporary Cinema and donations; others are run by the local intellectual achievements in philosophy a world apart, saturated with history, conventional housing, Simon House is due the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch by Lucy authority. They offer varying kinds of and fiction. Emphasis is now shifting away perpetuating customs handed down for closure, drastically reducing the number Bolton and Iris Murdoch’s People A to Z support. Yet the fact remains that so far six from her personal life – her sexuality and through the centuries. of beds available to homeless people. by Christopher Boddington as well as rough sleepers have died on our streets her illness – to her thinking, which is her We understand that there are plans to a festschrift edited by Miles Leeson, Iris in the winter of 2018/19. The majority true legacy. Her books continue to excite Yet today we – and they – can hardly be build new accommodation for homeless Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration. unaware of a very different aspect of the of homeless people have mental health new generations of readers – Penguin 1 Iris Murdoch’s letter of application for a teaching people but it is unclear when this will be issues or problems arising from addiction, Vintage has produced new covers, and Murdoch is also being studied alongside post at St Anne’s Society, St Anne’s College Archive. City of Oxford from that described by completed. 2 some have experienced the breakdown of commissioned new introductions, to six her contemporaries Elizabeth Anscombe, John Wisdom’s reference in support of Iris Arnold. Murdoch’s application to St Anne’s Society, 26 May The Vagrancy Act of 1824 makes it an a relationship or have come out of prison of her most popular novels. Murdoch Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley, each of In a city where house prices have soared, 1948, St Anne’s College Archive. offence to sleep rough or to beg. Scotland with nowhere to go. mistrusted technology and did not even whom differently made a forceful impact 3 Appointment and acceptance letters between second only to London, there is an ever- and Ireland repealed this Act some decades use a typewriter let alone a computer. on twentieth-century philosophy, by the Miss Plumer and Iris Murdoch, St Anne’s College My involvement is as a trustee of The increasing divide between the ‘haves’ and ago but it still stands in England and Wales. One can only imagine that she would have In-Parenthesis Project, inaugurated at Archive. the ‘have nots’. Our pavements are peopled Porch, which offers support between 4 Undated letter from Isobel Henderson to Miss Layla Moran, Liberal Democrat Member of looked askance at social media. But in Durham University in March 2017 and co- with rough sleepers, the more fortunate the hours of 10am and 7pm six days a Plumer re Iris Murdoch’s appointment, St Anne’s Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon contemporary society it is unignorable and directed by Clare MacCumhaill and Rachael week. One of our ‘members’ describes his College Archive. with their duvets and sleeping bags, the is quoted as saying, ‘Homeless people are conversations about Murdoch’s work range Wiseman. Benjamin Lipscombe is writing 5 experience of being released from prison: The Oxford University Archives, FA 9/1/219. less fortunate just with the clothes they vulnerable, not criminal. The Law is 200 across the world via Facebook and Twitter a group biography of the quartet and the 6 17 June 1999, St Anne’s College Archives. stand up in, regardless of the weather. This 7 years out of date. The Vagrancy Act has no I had just been released from prison, as readers share their love of her books Royal Institute of Philosophy is marking Devaki Jain, ‘Iris Murdoch- A Personal Narrative’, winter, 89 rough sleepers were counted Public lecture at the University of Chichester, 11 place in a compassionate society.’ which left me penniless and unemployable, and their questions about her thought. its centenary year by focusing the London on one night. Others take up their position November 2017 standing up in just the clothes that the She would be glad to know that her Lectures 2018/2019 on their work. One 8 Big Issue There are a number of organisations Justin Broackes, ed., Iris Murdoch, Philosopher during the day, some selling , many prison had issued me with on release. I was influence on her readers’ lives is growing hundred years after her death Murdoch’s designed to help homeless or vulnerably (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), p.4. with a devoted dog beside them. 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hostel for the homeless in Oxford. We had to Bank of Mum and Dad to fall back on but and, after part-time placements, he is now There are many effects that result from million words spoken and deprived endemic problems but the fact remains be out of the hostel by 9am. The Porch made it possible – for food and working full-time in the kitchen of one of child poverty: homes where they will hear 15 million that many families on Rose Hill are living in clothing, books and equipment, a PC and the university colleges. • you may be hungry; words; poverty. And this is only one such estate in Destitution doesn’t even come close to tools. I graduated with a 2:1. I am now a • as you reach adulthood you will have Oxford. There are others. describing the predicament I faced. A fellow These are success stories that delight us. • you may be cold; self-employed handyman with tools and a a greater chance of earning lower wages, I wonder how Matthew Arnold would react resident at the hostel told me about The Equally rewarding is the number of elderly • your clothes may be unwashed; van and plenty of work. being unemployed, spending time in if he returned to the City of Dreaming Porch, that they had a clothing store, and members who come to The Porch most • your hair may not be washed as often as prison (men) or becoming a lone parent Spires now. my involvement started there. I could get a Another member, Jim, was made redundant days for the social aspect as well as the it should be; (women); hot shower, use the laundry facilities, get tea after 26 years with the same employer. facilities we offer. However, we are aware • you may be bullied; • you will have a greater chance of Sister Frances Dominca OBE, DL is a to drink, a hot meal twice a day and other Unemployed, he soon went into arrears that there are homeless and vulnerably • you may not be able to go on school trips suffering from mental health issues; trustee at The Porch ( www.theporch.org.uk) people to talk to. When I felt able I could with his rent. This led to eviction from housed people in Oxford who have not or have friends home for tea; • Rose Hill residents are likely to die ten I am very grateful to Fran Gardner, Rose Hill use the internet to job hunt with the help of his flat and he ended up sleeping rough. found the support they so desperately • you may not experience family holidays; my project worker and, most importantly, He did not tell his family or friends about need. years earlier than people living three Community Worker, for providing me with • you will have a limited vocabulary. A there were people who were used to dealing his situation, leading to social isolation, miles away. statistics concerning Rose Hill. There is another aspect of poverty in recent study found that there is a 30 with people in my situation and who had, alienation from his family and former Individuals, voluntary organisations Oxford less immediately visible than the million word-gap between more affluent in many cases, had similar experiences associates. He initially came to The Porch and schools are doing courageous and overcrowded hostels or rough sleepers. homes where children will hear 45 themselves and had recovered after a time for a shower and a hot meal. With help he imaginative things to try to address these Rose Hill, an estate built for the most part of rehabilitation. got a room in a hostel and eventually he in the 1920s and 1930s, just two miles from moved into shared accommodation. His At 53-years-old I decided to go to Oxford the City Centre, might appear to be an mental state gradually improved, as did Brookes University to get a degree in ordinary estate. However, it is in the 10 per his social skills. He enrolled in our job club mechanical engineering. I didn’t have the cent most deprived areas in the country: 52 per cent of the children are classified as living in food and fuel poverty; 44.5 per cent of year 6 children at the primary school are obese as a result of fast food and poor nutrition – the Oxfordshire average is 30 per cent. Poor diet often predisposes to a range of complex behavioural and educational needs, with 32 per cent of children in the primary school having Special Educational Needs, more than double the national average of 14.6 per cent.

The effects of Universal Credit are huge, with an increase in extreme debt, food poverty and fuel poverty.

Hot dinner at The Porch Courtesy The Gatehouse (oxfordgatehouse.org)

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in the UN’s peacekeeping department, diplomatic service often lacks vision, and coordinating closely with the UN’s Why join the United Nations? hoping to help make and keep peace. idealism and inspiring leaders who believe development, humanitarian and human Assignments followed in Sierra Leone, in in what they do. At the UN, I have been rights activities, which are all equally PETER N DUE the midst of civil war between another privileged to work for some deeply inspiring important. I write these lines to you from It’s far from perfect and often at the Graduate Institute for International fighting in Monrovia. Our offices were horrendous rebel group (the RUF) and a leaders, often from developing countries, Afghanistan, where our political mission is odds with itself, but the world Studies in Geneva and at the University of looted, most UN staff were evacuated, but weak Government, and in the Western who were dedicated, driven and willing to trying to assist the Afghans with elections, would be a more dangerous and Copenhagen. The Cold War (and history, some of us were asked to stay on. I recall Balkans: one deployment was to Kosovo endure hardship and even risk their lives peace and reconciliation. according to some) had ended and a Liberians thanking us for staying and for in 1999 immediately after the end of the in the service of peace. Sadly, I have also inhumane place without it So did the new world order and the UN new world order was dawning. I wrote a trying to deliver aid during the fighting. fighting and the NATO bombing of Serbia, lost many such UN colleagues and friends. collective security system I hoped for Together with Professor Todd Hall, I Masters thesis on the concept and practice That is what the UN is all about: trying to the second was as head of the UN Office Some were killed by rebels or terrorists, in the early 90s materialize? No, and it recently gave a talk to alumni in New of collective security and argued that save succeeding generations from the in Belgrade many years later in 2013. I for example in Afghanistan, Iraq and in probably never will, as the world remains York on “Views of the International the security challenges facing the world scourge of war, as it says in the UN Charter. witnessed progress in the Balkans, but also multiple African operations, others by fundamentally anarchic. The UN is no System”. Todd spoke of the anarchy of required a comprehensive and united I was hooked. many unhealed wounds, continued ethnic natural disasters, including the earthquake world government and we are seeing some the international system and theories response. While fundamentally a realist, hatred and seemingly insoluble crises such in Haiti in 2010. Taylor went on to become the President regression with authoritarian, nationalist, of realism, institutional liberalism and I believed liberalism and international as Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which of Liberia and subsequently a convicted You often hear about the many and populist tendencies gaining ground in constructivism. As a practitioner, I focused organizations could help bring some order both remain in political limbo. From 2015 war criminal incarcerated in The Hague. I failures of the UN (and the twenty-fifth many countries, and the Security Council on the role of the UN in the international to the anarchy of the world. During my through 2018, I was back in New York and returned to New York and grew increasingly commemoration of the genocide in is more divided than it has been in many system. More alumni than I had expected studies, I interned at the grandly named responsible for all peacekeeping operations interested in the political and peacekeeping Rwanda is a stark reminder), but there have years (some argue it is now as bad as showed up and asked insightful questions. Commission on Global Governance and outside Africa. work of the UN. While I felt humanitarian also been successes. I saw tremendous during the Cold War). The event made me reflect on my time at also did some work on refugees. assistance provided immediate relief and I have enjoyed my work, but I have also suffering in Liberia and Sierra Leone. St. Anne’s and where it helped me go. However, I remain convinced that there is I thought collective security was finally satisfaction, it is in some ways a band-aid had doubts about the UN – and about our However, at least partly due to the various no alternative to the UN and there is no Reading PPE made me realize that I was within reach and landed a job with the UN that does not address the root causes humanitarian and peacekeeping work. UN peacekeeping and political efforts, there doubt that “new” challenges to international not the great philosopher that I had hoped Secretariat in New York to try to implement of conflict, so I became a political officer As a result, at one point I left and joined is now peace and relative stability in those peace and security such as climate change to be and an even worse economist, but it it. I started off as a humanitarian. After the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs two countries as well as in neighbouring and violent extremism require a UN strengthened my interest in politics and, a few months in New York, I was sent to and spent some years at the Ministry in Côte d’Ivoire, and the UN successfully response. While flawed, the UN has helped thanks to tutors such as Dr. Nigel Bowles, Liberia, which was in the midst of civil Copenhagen and at the Danish Embassy closed its peacekeeping operations in these us achieve a slightly more mature anarchy. it also improved my analytical thinking war in 1995-96. It was a classic case of in Eritrea. However, I came to realize that three West African countries. Currently, As Dag Hammarskjold said, the UN was not and my English. I am Danish, but I was the somewhat privileged and naïve young representing a national perspective (that some 100,000 military, police and civilians created in order to bring us to heaven, but raised abroad as the son of a diplomat European being sent straight into the often changes with a new Government) is serve in 14 UN peacekeeping operations in order to save us from hell. and thought my English was pretty good. African heart of darkness. I soon learned less meaningful, at least for me, than trying across the globe at a relatively low cost However, after my first tutorial, Dr. Bowles to know fear and the smell of death. I met to implement the UN Charter and to work of US$7 billion per year. Often UN Peter N. Due (PPE 1989) is Director, Asia told me to read Jane Austen’s Emma to child soldiers on drugs and warlords with for the common good, despite the many peacekeepers go where no one else will go. and the Pacific, UN Secretariat, New York enhance my English style. He also taught big guns and big smiles. Charles Taylor of frustrations that are inherent in the huge, Recently, I changed jobs, as part of the me how to think about politics in a the NPFL was the most charismatic – he flawed and often Kafkaesque bureaucracy never-ending reform and restructuring structured manner. charmed many of us (I attended one of that the UN also is. Afghanistan, April 2019: Peter Due with of the UN Secretariat, and I now do less his birthday parties) – and probably also I often tell people that the average Danish After St. Anne’s, I studied more political the Governor of Kandahar, Mr. Hayatullah peacekeeping and more traditional among the most brutal. There was heavy diplomat is generally more competent than science and international relations at Hayat political work, covering Asia and the Pacific, the average UN civil servant, but a national

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Welcome to our new Domestic Bursar JOHN BANBROOK

The responsibilities of a domestic to Governing Body for the overall domestic competing at club, regional and national undergraduate student accommodation and this will most likely quality of our outstanding catering service. Throughout my career, bursar seem vast. But the latest management of the College, including events. He is a director of Bowmoor need to come from a new build. I’ve been fortunate to work as part of many extraordinary teams accommodation, catering, conferences, Sailing Club, of which he was Commodore and it looks as if St Anne’s will be no exception. Ultimately, a College addition to the college staff seems ‘We also need to address the condition of the Bevington Road estate management, the lodge (reception) from 2015 to 2018 and led the strategy to is all about its people and I guess my contribution is to continue undaunted houses to provide rooms suitable for the twenty-first century; it and security activities. increase membership by over 60 per cent. to improve the environment for staff, students and academics to looks very much like this particular challenge will fall to my ‘shift’ He is also a senior instructor for the Royal enable them all to do brilliant things.’ Before coming to St Anne’s, John enjoyed as Domestic Bursar. More immediately, with the departure of Yachting Association. Aside from sailing, a successful 22-year career in the Royal Air Ray Killick, our Head Chef for 31 years, we will need to rebuild John Banbrook John enjoys keeping fit, essential at St Force Regiment, retiring in the rank of Wing our catering team to ensure that we can continue to improve the Anne’s when the food is so good… Commander. He served on operations in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, two tours of Why did he choose St Anne’s? ‘I was very Bosnia and Kosovo. He commanded the happy in my last job and not looking for a Royal Air Force Recruit Training School in change, but a chance visit to the College 2003 and completed the prestigious Joint at the end of 2017 to meet Jim and I was Services Advanced Command and Staff seduced! My first impressions have not Course in 2008, achieving a distinction for let me down: I am still thrilled to come his Masters Degree with King’s College to work each day. St Anne’s is such a London. He finished his Royal Air Force friendly, positive and inspirational place career in 2012 in the finance department to be. The staff have been fantastic and I at the Ministry of Defence’s strategic thoroughly enjoy the time I get to spend headquarters in Whitehall where he played with fellows and students. Education is Saving St Anne’s history a key role in the 2010 Strategic Defence & such an engaging sector to work in because An appeal to St Anne’s Students and Alumnae Security Review. Following his career in the new students arrive every year with fresh St Anne’s is proud of its history and heritage. The College There is currently no space in the library to take your unique Royal Air Force, John was the Business & energy, expectations and optimism.’ and St Anne’s Society would like to make sure that the story and precious archive materials, but if you throw them away, Finance Director for Faringdon Academy And what plans and hopes does he have of the College lives of past and present students is kept for they will be lost for ever. of Schools, the first multi-academy trust for the future? ‘By the end of my first year posterity. to be established in Oxfordshire. John was We will let everyone know when we can begin to in post, I hope I will have established myself appointed to create the trust, which he If you have ephemera, particularly photographs or records accommodate what you have and will ask you to sign a Our New Domestic Bursar, John Banbrook, firmly in College life. I think those new to grew to comprise eight schools, over 2,700 of social and society events in St Anne’s or organised release form so that your memories can become part of the was appointed on 1 August 2018, taking Oxford Colleges need to spend a full year pupils and 400 staff. by St Anne’s students, please identify the people in the St Anne’s Archive. over from Jim Meridew when he retired. to get used to the cycle of the terms and, in photographs and add dates to both the photographs and the As Domestic Bursar, John is a Fellow of the John lives in Faringdon with his wife and the case of the bursary, the busy vacation other records and keep them safe in an envelope marked College, a member of the Governing Body two sons, Matthew (14) and Toby (12). Away periods. I’m working with consultants to FOR ST ANNE’S COLLEGE for the future. and a Trustee of the College reporting from College, he is a passionate dinghy produce a master plan for the development directly to the Principal. He is responsible sailor and spends weekends with his sons of the estate: we desperately need more

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refurbishment in 2012. Now we have one years, the Guild of Chefs dinner at St Anne’s And Catering Manager Natalie Smyth, who Farewell Raymond of the best kitchens in Oxford. When we at which he had the opportunity to ‘show has worked with Ray for what she calls ’20 rebuilt the present kitchen it was designed off what we can do’, this is the nearest Ray plus wonderful years’ has the last word. In addition to ‘looking for a new challenge’ he says he’s planning to keep busy ‘doing sport and going to the gym’. by the catering team. I really feel it is the gets to boasting – except, of course, noting It’s not been easy, we’ve had our ups and After 31 years, Head Chef Raymond Killick leaves his kitchen behind best College kitchen in Oxford; we all like that it was here he met and won his wife downs, we’ve not always agreed on things the environment: it’s clean, spacious and Lisa, Deputy Bursar and Conference and the Year. The most recent prize is for his and we’ve definitely had plenty of discussions. well laid out with up to date equipment. Events Manager, three years ago. He’s a protégée Daisy Street, who has just won But the fun and laughter we've had together We also have a second kitchen in the Ruth modest man, reluctant to be interviewed Catering Apprentice of the Year Award (See far outweighs the discussions! He's always Deech Building, the Mary Ogilvie Lecture and deprecating about his achievements. p.81). The kitchens are even high on Oxford been there for me and nothing is too much Theatre and the new Library. But he is the first to praise his team in the City Council’s Food Safety Officers’ list: in trouble. He always wants to try and help kitchen. January this year they were awarded the ‘We may not have a others, especially the younger team members, top 5* Food Safety rating. ‘This word “team” can be used in a trite way, encouraging them to progress; a lot of chefs grand Harry Potter doesn’t mean anything. Here it’s true: we around the Oxford Colleges at some point Before we go any further, I want to know like each other and work together. It’s not worked with him here at St. Anne's. He has what brought Ray to St Anne’s from a dining hall, but we’ve about one moment it’s about building that huge respect not only from his staff here at career in London that included the Drury team: where we’ve come from to here, now. St. Anne's but also a lot of chefs from other Lane Hotel – where he remembers seeing got the goods.’ I’ve seen people start as kitchen porters colleges. L-R: Natalie Smyth, Catering Manager; Raymond Killick; Lisa Killick, Deputy Bursar June Whitfield – and the Institute of As Ray says, ‘It’s not just catering facilities – some of them while still at school – and Directors in Pall Mall. ‘Well, I came to work We get a lot of compliments about the food I vividly recall the opening of St Anne’s of choice and the accommodating staff’. that have changed, the College as a whole work to go on and become college chefs.’ for Robert Maxwell at Pergamon Press, but here and thankfully very rarely a complaint dining hall all those years ago in 1959. ‘St Anne’s is renowned for the quality of has continued to improve, grow and He never mentions his own role in all this I could see the way things were going there but when we do, he takes it to heart and The building was impressive and won its food’; ‘the St. Anne’s dining experience progress. There is now more of everything – so let his staff have the last word. and thought the time had come to move investigates why it's happened and ensures it prizes for its architects. The food was is one of the best in Oxford’ adds the MCR students, staff, fellows, buildings – and the on. I heard there was a severe shortage of Colin Yon, Senior Dining Hall Supervisor for doesn't happen again. Last minute requests less distinguished. While we had looked website: the praises sing on. The majority conference business has grown hugely to good, skilled people in the Oxford Colleges many years cannot speak too highly of his are accommodated wherever possible: forward to an improvement on the still just of clients for conferences and the like claim around £2million each year.’ so when I saw the St Anne’s job advertised I years with Ray, but starts with the reflection nothing is too much trouble. post-rationing austerity of our meals in they return to St Anne's every year as much thought I’d apply.’ He’s seen five Domestic Bursars and four that simply to work for St Anne’s for over 30 our various hostels, the inconvenience of for the culinary delights as the professional I’ve had the most fantastic working life with Principals come and go, as well as living years ‘is an achievement in itself!’ He goes having to dress and rush to get breakfast – service provided by the staff. In the course of his 31 years Ray has seen Ray and no one will ever come close to what through the extensive building works on to speak of his ‘respect and admiration’ rather than slopping down in slippers and many changes; when he arrived in 1988 we have had together, there is going to be a And it’s all thanks to one person. Though that have gone on around the kitchen in for Ray adding that he is also ‘a fun guy dressing gown in our own houses – there were two chefs, two apprentices and huge void in my life now at St. Anne’s but I invisible to those enjoying his catering recent years: he talks of ‘the mess all that to be around whose kindness should be far outweighed any pleasure in the ‘a 30-year-old kitchen showing its age,’ he wish him all the happiness in the world for his front of house, Head Chef Raymond Killick caused, not to mention the huge increase shared around the world’. dining experience. says. ‘Today, we have 11 chefs and five well deserved retirement. has transformed the food eaten daily by in students and staff the new buildings kitchen porters, the dining hall staff led by Raymond has taught me a lot, to look and to A far cry from today when St Anne’s students and raised the standard and made possible’. Which means the volume Natalie and Colin are not the only people Natalie, our senior dining hall supervisor, listen to both sides of the story – sometimes dining is recognised as among the best reputation of College catering to new of meals produced by the kitchen has in the kitchen and in College generally plus four supervisors and six general even three – to be fair and honest, and to have in Oxford. You don’t have to rely on the heights. In the process, Ray and his team increased out of all imagination under who will miss Ray. But they can try out his assistants.’ patience. He’s great company to be around College website that tells us of its ‘enviable have won many coveted awards including Ray: ‘In July 2017 we produced 20,735 favourite recipes when they feel particularly especially when the catering manager makes reputation’, the Oxford University Alternative Chef of the Year for Ray and Developing And what of the premises? ‘I’ve seen three meals, from January to December 2018 it nostalgic for those feasts in Hall. him coffee (black no sugar please). I will Prospectus published by the Student Union Chef of the Year for his deputy Andrew kitchens – including the time we spent amounted to 190,499!’ personally miss him but I know he deserves to praises the ‘award-winning food, the wealth Castle, as well as Food Production Team of cooking under canvas during the latest JVH Apart from recalling the highlight of recent have a rest from us! Look after him Lisa…

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Raymond Recommends What am I doing here… TOM ILUBE

SALMON WITH PEA AND ASPARAGUS RISOTTO FILLET OF BEEF WITH PEPPERCORN SAUCE …asks our latest Advisory Fellow? result, I became closer to the college and to companies, serves on the Board of the INGREDIENTS (SALMON) INGREDIENTS (FOR FOUR PEOPLE) And gives some pertinent answers former Principal Tim Gardam. When Helen BBC and RBS Technology Advisory Board, 4 x salmon (150g) skin on 1 tablespoon olive oil King took over as Principal we had several has been a Governor and Trustee of 14 In June 2018 I received an email from 2 tablespoons olive oil 4 fillet steaks (150g) very interesting conversations about secondary schools including founding the Principal, Helen King, saying, ‘I am 25g unsalted butter 1 tablespoon black peppercorns crushed the direction St Anne’s was heading and Hammersmith Academy, Chairing ADA delighted to be able to share with you Salt 50g butter whether I could assist in some way. College, the National College for Digital that the Governing Body of St Anne's Pepper 3 shallots finely diced Skills, and my pride and joy, founding and College unanimously elected you as an As Helen explained in the last edition of INGREDIENTS (RISOTTO) 150ml red wine chairing the African Science Academy in Advisory Fellow.’ I am hugely honoured The Ship, St Anne’s has set out a purposeful 160g sliced asparagus 200ml double cream Ghana. Along the way I’ve picked up a and see this as a real privilege, but it raises and bold vision for the future. Its stated 1 litre vegetable stock 2 tablespoons brandy couple of Honorary Doctorates (‘those ones several questions. For instance: what is my ambition is: ‘To be a diverse and inclusive 30g finely chopped shallots Dash of Worcester sauce you don’t have to do any work for’ as my connection with the College? Why did St community contributing to the University’s 1 garlic clove finely chopped 1 tablespoon chopped parsley big sister says), a CBE in the 2018 Queen’s Anne’s elect me to be an Advisory Fellow? vision to lead the world in education 30g unsalted butter Salt Birthday Honours and been selected by What exactly is an Advisory Fellow? In fact, and research, and securing the College’s 250g risotto rice 1 tablespoon green peppercorns the annual Powerlist as the most influential who the hell am I anyway? All very good legacy and future.’ This puts diversity and 250ml white wine black person in Britain in 2017, which questions! Let me try to answer them. inclusion at the very heart of what St Anne’s 1. Season fillet steak with black peppercorns and salt. actually caused my wife to laugh out 50g peas is about and it is in this context that the 2. Cook fillet steak in a hot frying pan with the oil. My relationship to St Anne’s goes all the loud. Apparently I am ‘not even the most 30g finely grated parmesan Fellows felt that I may have something way back to 1979 when my elder brother, influential black person in my own house.’ (I 1 tablespoon olive oil 3. Remove fillet steak and leave to rest. to offer and therefore elected me as an Jim Stanfield, came up to St Anne’s to read come in third or fourth depending on who Salt 4. In the frying pan add butter and cook shallots without colour. Advisory Fellow. Pepper Chemistry as one of the first intake of men. you ask). 5. Add brandy and red wine, bring to the boil and reduce by half, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley He loved his time here and surprisingly What is an ‘Advisory’ Fellow? Fellows come add the double cream and simmer. Jim and I grew up in Sunbury-on-Thames even managed to learn some chemistry in different guises, including Honorary, 1. Make risotto. Heat olive oil in a saucepan, sweat the and in Richmond, Surrey, with Liz and Sue, along the way, thanks to the dedication Emeritus, Research and Supernumerary shallots and garlic without colour. our sisters, and our other brother, Roland. of his Personal Tutor, the wonderful Dr Fellows. The College can also elect a small 2. Add the 30g butter and the risotto rice and cook for I moved to Kampala, Uganda for a few Hazel Rossotti. Sadly, Jim died in 2012. number of Advisory Fellows, from outside 2 minutes, add the white wine and stir until evaporated. years in the late-1960s/early-1970s with Jim was Chair of the Association of Senior the College community, to support and 3. Add the sliced asparagus, start adding the vegetable stock, my father. I was there when the dictator Idi Members and St Anne’s was so much part advise the Principal and College in specific add a ladleful at a time to absorb the rice until the risotto Amin took over and, as things got difficult, of his life that his family and friends wanted areas of expertise. I am the first Advisory is cooked, add peas. we had to depart rather rapidly through to ensure that we kept that relationship Fellow to be elected in quite a while. 4. Using a frying pan, heat the olive oil and butter, cook the Uganda, across the border into Kenya and alive. With the support of several alumnae, salmon skin side down until crispy. Turn the salmon over So, who am I and what do I know about jump on a flight back to the UK. After a particularly Mike Colling, and our family and finish cooking in the oven. diversity and inclusion? Well, in a nutshell, few wonderful years in London with the we created the Jim Stanfield Memorial 5. Add parmesan to the risotto and season with salt and I’m a black British chap who has lived in whole family back together I was off again Fund to provide scholarships to St Anne’s pepper, add chopped parsley. three countries, created five tech start-up to Nigeria where I finished my education, students in his name in perpetuity. As a 6. Divide risotto into 4 bowls and top with the salmon.

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reading applied physics at university. I Stock Exchange one of my older colleagues returned to London in 1984 and embarked sidled up to me and whispered, ‘Tom, there SAS branch reports on a career in information technology, first are friends of mine who would have you with big companies like British Airways, swinging from the nearest tree.’ But I have Bristol and West of England has a some beautiful grounds and we enjoyed Cambridge was unable to hold a London Stock Exchange, PwC and Goldman navigated a path through and I see my role new secretary and along with other good weather. We found the house welcome supper for the small number of Sachs,then as a start-up guy, thinking up now to share my experience, knowledge, branches is pitching for younger moderately interesting but the highlight Freshers in our region in late-September: ideas, raising venture capital, building contacts and tactics with others whether members. Cambridge is concerned was a splendid tea, which, we found unfortunately, none responded to our companies, selling them and doing it all they are minorities trying to forge a career about falling numbers. A common towards the end, was their mistake, as we invitation. We enjoyed an interesting and again. I’m on my fifth one now and I think or organisations trying to become more theme, strongly urged by South of had ordered a much more modest repast! informative guided tour of the Cambridge Botanic Garden in early November followed I’m just about getting the hang of it. diverse and inclusive. So when St Anne’s England, is the need to establish At the Spring Meeting in April we had a by a delicious light lunch of bread and asked whether I would be happy to help what the purpose of the SAS is talk from former secretary of the branch, About 15 years ago I decided to start giving soup in the Garden Cafe. Fresher events, advise and support its diversity journey and how its members can most Ann Revill, who has recently published back in a meaningful way, and inspired the relatively small branch membership I leapt at the opportunity. I think I can effectively support the College a historical novel set in the seventeenth by my mother, Eileen, who has taught and our proposed activities for the year bring something useful to the party and I century, The Lunatick’s Wife (pxxx). We all thousands of students across London, Bristol and West of England’s September ahead were all discussed at our AGM, am looking forward to making a positive enjoyed hearing about her research and Uganda and Nigeria, I decided to focus on outing to Tredegar House near Newport, which we held over a light supper at the contribution to life at St Anne’s. the real-life characters who featured in the secondary education. After serving on a a historic house which has recently been home of one of our committee members novel, along with pictures to bring it to life. number of school governing bodies, I had These are early days and we are at the restored by the National Trust, attracted in late-November. We decided to review the opportunity to set up a school from start of what I’m sure will be a long journey. ten members and friends. There was Currently the plan for our next outing is to the viability of our branch later in the year. a blank sheet of paper. Actually, it was I am listening and learning. What is the a choice of two self-guided tours, one visit the Holborne Museum in Bath and we In March, a small group of us visited the from scribbles on a napkin in a London current state of play? What has already exploring the life of a maid and the other are hoping for a good turnout. newly renovated Museum of Zoology at coffee shop. The result, six years later, was been tried and what has worked? What is of the lady of the house. There were also the University of Cambridge. One of our Hammersmith Academy in West London, measurable and what is so obvious that members, who read zoology, gave us the a brand new state school with specialisms we should just get on and do it, whether benefit of his expertise as he guided us in Creative and Digital Media that now has we can measure it or not? What is within St through the new galleries showcasing nearly 1,000 students. I then felt ready Anne’s direct control to change and what the amazing diversity of animal life. We to launch my dream school and in 2016 requires influencing the wider university then retired to the Graduate Centre for we opened Africa’s leading all girls STEM community? I am excited about the future. a convivial lunch. Our spring outing this school, the wonderful African Science St Anne’s has always been a beacon of year was to be to Peterborough, to visit Academy in Ghana, taking disadvantaged social mobility and inclusiveness. We the cathedral in the morning and the city but academically gifted young women from should be justifiably proud of that heritage museum after lunch. Since only three all across the continent to study A levels in and perhaps more than any other college members had said that they would attend, maths, further maths and physics in just 12 we have the opportunity to stand out as the outing was cancelled. To round off this months, all on full scholarships. the very definition of a modern, inclusive academic year we are looking forward to Oxford college. On diversity, as a black man, I will admit our annual summer garden party in Fen that building a successful career in London Ditton, to be held in mid-June. Tom Ilube, Advisory Fellow has not been without its challenges. I recall The London Branch was busier than usual at the end of my first week at the London Bristol and West: Grand tea at Tredegar House: Far Table Alison Jackson, Alan Jackson, in 2018. Following the events recorded Tom Ilube Philip Revill, Peggy Osborn. Near table Eve Phillips and guests

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On 15 January 2020 we have tickets to a Our winter event in March 2019 was London Symphony Orchestra concert at something out of the ordinary. Once again, the Barbican where Simon Rattle has a new we were in a nice warm pub, the Victorian- format called ‘Half Six Fix’, a short concert at flavoured Jekyll and Hyde in central 6.30 (including Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, Birmingham, this time for a Gin Cocktail my favourite) which will give us time to Class. The date fell outside term so we were have a relaxed meal afterwards. Our AGM hoping that some of our current students and dinner will again be at the Lansdowne would be able to come along too. We Club on 7 November. attended a gin cocktail master class, joining one of their ‘gin gurus’ as they took us Our regular pattern in the Midlands is through the murky and mysterious history to meet for events twice during the year, of gin, offering some classic gin cocktails inviting alumnae, friends and family; guests along the way and ending the afternoon are always welcome. The summer event is with a chance to create an individual a leisurely circular walk of about five miles cocktail. with a lengthy pub lunch in the middle. We have beautiful walks available on either Another academic year is almost over side of the easy access corridor of the M40. Midlands: Super gin-sized smiles: no, they swear, they did not drink that bottle dry! and again it feels like only last week that The countryside is undulating but usually the North East Branch was hosting its London: Sunny Sunday members in Chelsea Physic Garden non-onerous in terms of ridges between annual Freshers meet-up. All the way back in last year’s magazine, and in complete Our speaker was Adam Smith, Professor valleys. Experienced walkers, who try out in September 2018, Richard Huzzey and contrast to Fenton House and Willow Road, of United States History at UCL who the paths and the pub in anticipation, plot I hosted two Freshers for an evening of on a hot day in July we took a guided tour gave a fascinating talk on whether the our route: they have never let us down. drinks and St Anne’s style conversation of the architecture of the Barbican (I have current interesting state of US politics was On 22 September 2018 we started at the at the Slug and Lettuce on Newcastle’s lived there nearly ten years and still found unprecedented (See pxxxx). He has been wonderfully named village of Avon Dassett quayside. a part I hadn't seen before!) followed by invited to speak at the Gaudy Seminar in and ate at a tiny sixteenth-century coaching At the time of writing, our next event is an tea by the lake and a visit to my place to College in September. inn at Warmington. The weather did not informal meet-up at The Broad Chare pub see a typical flat. The annual Freshers’ put us off and we were equipped with Our first Spring outing on Sunday 28 April in Newcastle, which will be a great chance event in September, hosted once again by shower-gear, which was not needed in the was a morning visit to the Chelsea Physic to catch up and to discuss the direction of Accenture, was much appreciated by the end. Alumnae who do not wish to walk are Garden with lunch in their lovely cafe the Branch, from the kinds of events we Freshers. It was bigger than ever this year invited to meet at the pub just to eat lunch: followed by a tour of Thomas Carlyle’s would like to host to the ways in which we, as some branches around London did not we cater for everyone. House in Chelsea. We are currently looking as alumnae, can help College in its mission have enough Freshers for a viable event forward to a lunchtime wine tasting and Data protection consent issues were a to increase applications from pupils in the so we were able to invite any who could master class on 2 June with Cindy-Marie problem this year in the arrangements North East. reasonably get to London on the day. Harvey, at member Isobel Carter’s home. for our usual late-September Freshers’ If you would like to be added to the mailing Our AGM and dinner in November was We shall no doubt find the answer to welcome event, but we shall be up and list for events in the region, or are keen to again at our new venue the Lansdowne our expert’s question ‘Why is Italian wine running again in September 2019. help with establishing a Scotland Branch of Club in Mayfair and was a great success, so food friendly?’ in the course of the North West: In the seats of Marx and Engels: L-R: Jane Davies, James Simon, Phillida and with 35 members and guests attending. afternoon. David Shipp, Lizzie Gent, Wyn Davies and Jane Simon at Chetham’s Library

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the SAS, then please don’t hesitate to get in shrine for communist pilgrims. We, of the time. We are keen to hear from new members touch at [email protected]. course, had our photograph taken there by and for nominations to the committee. In June 2018 Oxford Branch visited one of the extremely informative volunteer Contact details are available on the branch For its autumn outing the North West Woolstone Mill House garden, maintained guides who showed us round. Afterwards page of the St Anne’s website, see below for Branch visited Chetham’s Library in the by two generations of the descendants of we repaired to the Cathedral’s tearooms, details. centre of Manchester. Seven of us gathered Thomas Mawson, an early influence on ProperTea, for tea and delicious cakes, and for one of the frequent free guided tours modern gardening. Unfortunately our plans At the time of writing, our programme of the chance for a good chat. on a Tuesday afternoon. Chetham’s is to welcome back Michael Pickwoad, the events for 2019 in the South of England the oldest free public reference library In September we welcomed ten Freshers popular and highly respected production has only just begun so this is a partial in the English-speaking world, and was and four undergraduates to the Slug and designer to talk to us at St Anne’s were view reflecting our activity from June 2018 established in 1653 under the will of Lettuce wine bar in central Manchester. sadly thwarted by his unexpected death a to March 2019. Our annual programme Humphrey Chetham for the education of Aided by three alumnae, over drinks and few weeks before the planned date. has settled into a regular pattern which ‘sons of honest industrious and painful snacks, they mingled and provided mutual includes a lecture or seminar, one or more At the end of the year, after our November parents’. The building was originally the support ahead of Michaelmas term. outings to places of historical, scientific or AGM, Ann Pasternak Slater gave a manor house of Thomas de la Warre who, Funded by North West branch alumnae, cultural interest, a trip to Chichester Festival fascinating and moving talk about her in 1421, donated it for use as the college of the Freshers’ Welcome Party helps local Theatre and three book discussions, of grandfather Leonid Pasternak, the Russian priests’ buildings for the collegiate church Freshers launch their St Anne’s career. which one is non-fiction. Impressionist painter. Illustrated with (later to be Manchester Cathedral). Some Oxford Branch at Quiz Night at St Anne’s: Elisabeth Salisbury and her husband John Gould, On 29 April we gathered at Gallery Oldham pictures of his works, Ann told the story This coming year, however, we want to of the doors to the cells that housed the Hugh Sutherland and Helen Salisbury, Jackie Ingram and Ele Crichton for a visit to the major retrospective of of his life, giving a sense of immediacy to celebrate, along with College, the centenary priests still retain their cat flaps. work by Oldham son William Stott. Born experiences and vignettes from Russian of Iris Murdoch We are planning to read and Isle of Wight OUS, but reduced again we saw the excellent Chalk Garden by Enid The library holds more than in 1857 at Rhodes Bank to a family of and European history and culture. and discuss AN Wilson’s memoir Iris slightly on the day due to the closure of the Bagnold, starring Penelope Keith, who 100,000 volumes of printed books, of cotton spinners, Stott first began to hone Murdoch As I Knew Her, then in October M27, which created travel chaos in the area. lives locally and is known to many. It was Planned events in summer 2019 are visits which 60,000 were published before 1851. his craft at Oldham Art School before organise a larger event at Chichester However, our attempt to provide something attended by 17 people and followed by to the soon to be completed HB Allen They include collections of sixteenth- graduating in 1878 to the Manchester University in partnership with the Iris for alumnae in the east of our area was less afternoon tea at Maureen Gruffydd-Jones’ Centre – the Keble College complex of and seventeenth-century printed works, School of Art, where he worked alongside Murdoch Society, which is based there. successful, and we had to cancel a visit to home in Chichester. buildings on the Acland hospital site next to periodicals and journals, local history other important local artists including G This will involve a panel discussion drawing the Middle Street Synagogue in Brighton St Anne’s – and a tour of the Exeter College Our book discussions are easy to organise sources, broadsides and ephemera. H Wimpenny and F W Jackson. Less than on the memories and reflections of four in July due to lack of numbers. Perhaps Cohen Quadrangle built on the erstwhile and have attracted between seven and 12 a year later, however, he was off to Paris people whose lives she touched. It will be this little-known architectural gem lacked Chetham's was the meeting place of Karl Ruskin College site. members each time. Both novels this year where he quickly developed a reputation widely advertised. wide popular appeal, or people were away Marx and Friedrich Engels when Marx were by US writers and greatly expanded for his outstanding ability as a painter, My thanks to Jackie Ingram for organising on their summer holidays in July, or were visited Manchester in the summer of Returning to the past year, at the end of our knowledge of the troubled history of exhibiting at the Paris Salon. Exactly 120 the events, to Dinah Lintott for her years put off by Brighton traffic? Whatever the 1845. Facsimiles of the economics books September 2018 our guided tour of Butser that country... Toni Morrison’s Beloved in years after his death (he died unexpectedly of service as Treasurer, to Ele Crichton reason, we continue to try to develop a they studied can be seen on a table in the Ancient Farm near Petersfield was a great March and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain whilst travelling on a ferry from London for taking over as Treasurer, to Sally van programme that is both appealing and window alcove where they would meet. success, attended by 27 adults and two in November. The US theme has continued to Belfast in February 1900), it seems Noorden for taking on the Membership accessible to alumnae from all over the The research they undertook during this children, and followed by a lovely pub into 2019, albeit via a very different genre only fitting that the work of the Oldham Secretary role, to Elisabeth Salisbury for South and South East of England. series of visits to the library led ultimately lunch. of novel. We read American Gods by born and raised, international-renowned hosting the Freshers Dinner once more and to their Manifesto of the Communist Party. The one event that our members always English fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, which artist should return to Oldham to appear to the other members of the committee for Our numbers were swelled by the The library continues to acts as a popular travel long distances to attend is our annual generated friendly controversy, as personal alongside other significant local painters of hosting and attending. enthusiasm of members of the Hampshire visit to Chichester Festival Theatre. In June scores ranged from 3 to 9 out of 10! For

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non-fiction, we read Patrick Leigh Fermor’s been applied has been detrimental to these Biggs (1972) London, Jane Darnton (1962) A Time of Gifts, which provided fascinating events and hope that changes put in place Midlands, David Royal (2007) North East, How bad is it? observations into life in Europe in 1933/34, for 2019 will ensure that our local students Lizzie Gent (1976) North West, Hugh ADAM SMITH in the build up to the World War II, from the receive a personal invitation and that we Sutherland (1983) Oxford, Stella Charman perspective of a very adventurous young can revitalise the September Freshers’ (Rees 1975) South of England A thought-provoking speech at Presidents who lost the popular vote by election, has coarsened public discourse man. lunch which has been so appreciated by the substantial margins; and voter suppression and undermined constitutional norms to a All our branches are keen to welcome new the SAS London dinner looks at new students in past years. measures have deliberately been used previously unimaginable degree. But if he is In April we held our first outing, to members. You will find contacts and the political and institutional to marginalise the electoral power of defeated in 2020 what will be left? There is Gilbert White’s House and the Captain On a personal note, we are delighted to details at: www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/ challenges facing a post-Trump US racial minorities and the poor. In the 2016 no shortage of ideas about how American Oates Museum in Selborne. This will be report that on 17 March Maureen Gruffydd- alumnae/sas/regional and compares the present situation election it has been estimated that more government can be reformed – from followed by our bi-annual AGM, a welcome Jones attended the one-hundredth birthday to past moments of crisis than half of all political donations came abolishing the Electoral College to removing opportunity to talk to our members about party of our oldest member – Joan Aubrey The question that hangs over US politics from just 158 extraordinarily wealthy big money from politics, to a ‘Green New the new St Anne’s Purpose and how Jones – who matriculated in 1938. She took is whether there is any way back. Can the families. Deal’ or (from the right) the dismantling alumnae can respond to the challenge it a birthday card signed by members of our political institutions of the United States of much of the Federal government – but presents. We see the SAS as the bridge book group, which Joan attended faithfully become functional enough to address no one can explain how any grand change between the College and the outside for several years, as well as best wishes and its problems, whether that be inequality, could be brought about. world, helping to raise its profile, attract congratulations from the whole Branch. gun violence, the opioid crisis, educational the brightest and most ambitious rather From a historian’s point of view, the Branch reports provided by Eve Phillips underperformance, climate change or the than the most advantaged students, and troubling thing about the present moment (2010) Bristol and West, Sarah Beeson- manifestly crumbling state of the country’s support College staff and students. It will is not that the US is facing challenges Jones (Beeson 1972) Cambridge, Lynn infrastructure? also be an opportunity to ensure that our greater than ever before but that unlike formal membership of around 40 alumnae None of these things can be addressed in the past there is no longer the political supports the aims and values of our at the moment. Congress has not passed and institutional capacity to address the Committee, sets our direction of travel and a major piece of legislation since the problem. Compare, for example, today’s hears about the exciting developments in Affordable Care Act (aka ‘Obamacare’) in political crisis with those of the period and around College. 2010. The Supreme Court, which, for better 1968-1974. Back then, riots in the streets, or worse, was for a while an engine of political assassinations, mass opposition The success of our 2018 programme has social reform – enabling the equal rights to the war in Vietnam and the criminality enabled the Branch to give £500 to the revolution of the 1960s and 1970s – has of a President all shook the self-confidence Domus Fund and a further £200 to the now reverted with its conservative majority of the political class in profound ways. Access and Opportunity Fund. We are to its older regressive role. Confidence in Commentators talked about a US coming hoping to schedule a talk by one of the the political process as recorded in opinion apart at the seams, unable to heal Domus Fund recipients into our 2019 surveys has never been lower, nor has itself, riven by racial, gender and even programme of activity. partisanship been higher or pessimism And all of this can be said before even generational conflict. There were really Finally, we are very sad to report that our about the future more intense. Only 30 per mentioning the word Trump. The current two inter-related dimensions to the crisis annual Freshers lunch did not take place in cent of voters from households earning President, who appears to have been of the late-1960s and early-1970s. The first 2018 as we had only one response to the less than US$30,000 bother to vote. In the elected with the active connivance of a was the demand of previously excluded publicity sent out by College. We believe twenty-first century, the Electoral College hostile foreign power and who definitely people (notably African-Americans) to the way in which GDPR regulations have has enabled the lawful election of two lied about his business interests during the be allowed into the democratic process, South of England: tea with Maureen

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and the backlash against that. The second would carry on rising. Since then, wage of the population. Like today, partisans was the rise of what has become known growth has flatlined for most Americans on each side read their own media and Cultural explosions as the ‘culture wars’, pitting an ideal of an while the wealth of a small minority has basked in their own righteousness, utterly HOWARD HOTSON ordered, stable and internally hierarchical soared. If that most pliable of terms, the uncomprehending of the world view of community against an individualist and ‘American Dream’, was the hope that their opponents. Like today, Congress, the Explosive creativity, unprecedented events in Leonardo’s world after 1492, Sea was lost when the Ottoman Sultan ethically liberal alternative. anyone could succeed in the US it is, with President and the courts were all utterly change: do we live in exceptional comparable to the interval between the Mehmed ‘the Conqueror’ appeared before good reason, now far harder to believe in incapable of resolving the big issue of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the previously impregnable Theodosian Half a century later those conflicts are times? It all depends how you look than it was half a century ago. time, which of course was slavery. Like today. walls of Constantinople with a terrible ongoing, but are now harder to resolve. at it; check out 2019, for instance, today, the country was broadly divided into new weapon: a huge bombard capable Back then, before the Internet and even If there was another period when that from the perspective of 1519 January 1492 – around the time Leonardo states that strongly supported one side of of hurling a 600-pound stone over a mile. cable TV, Americans got their news from vision of the ‘American Dream’ was in sketched his famous Vitruvian man – saw the divide and those that supported the The pace of life keeps accelerating. The The result was to prompt one of the most mostly the same, generally trusted sources. serious doubt it was the 1930s when the the fall of Granada, the capture of the other. The major difference between the speed at which we communicate is dramatic reversals in human history, as There were, therefore, independent American people suffered an economic Alhambra, and the end of a 700-year-old bitterly divided polity of the late-1850s and unprecedented; so is the rate at which we Europe, at the margins of Eurasian trade arbiters who could create common downturn far more devastating in its effects project: the reconquista of the Iberian that of today is that today hardly anyone clock up air miles; and now the political, by land, repositioned itself as the centre of ground. Congress, moreover, was more than anything we see today. Fascism had Peninsula from the Moors. A second thinks that the solution lies in breaking up economic, and ecological orders are all in world trade by sea. able to operate in a bipartisan way when far more popular purchase in Depression- major watershed followed three months the Union (though Liberals occasionally flux. But what about the pace of history? necessary – such as when confronted era America than we often remember, and later, when the entire Muslim and Jewish Two other epoch-making events followed fantasise on Twitter about annexing the Are events following one another at an with unequivocal evidence that President wannabe authoritarians like Huey Long or populations were given a choice: convert within a year. One was the end of the ‘blue states’ to Canada). When war broke unprecedented rate? Or are they unfolding Richard Nixon had engaged in impeachable Charles Lindburgh gained mass popularity to Christianity or leave. A third and even Hundred Years War between England and out in 1861 it was an extraordinary human in slow motion? activity. The political parties were bigger – though none, unlike now, became more significant turning point took place France, also in 1453, which revivified trade tragedy but it provided the means – tents than now and so were less polarised; President. But the massive difference Much depends on the point of between these two, when Ferdinand of between northern and southern Europe. perhaps the only means – of resolving the there were liberal Republicans and between the 1930s and today was that back comparison. A Briton born in 1881 would Castille agreed to finance Columbus’s The other was the publication of the first political tensions that the political system conservative Democrats, and so there then the political system was capable of have witnessed incomparably more attempt to reach the east by sailing west. Gutenberg Bible in 1454, which precipitated couldn’t contain. And when the war was were many more swing voters, especially responding. Franklin Roosevelt worked with change by 1948 than their 67-year-old Over the next 12 years, Columbus would the most abrupt and consequential over, the Northern victors secured their in presidential elections. In the three or Congress to transform US government, equivalent has today – including the undertake four separate voyages but died communications revolution in history, gains through a series of constitutional four decades after 1945, it was possible accruing vast new authority for the Federal spread of photography, the cinema, the believing that he had found an archipelago before our own day. amendments which, in effect, radically for the right candidate of either party, government in the process. One can automobile, the aeroplane, the telephone, off the coast of Asia. redesigned the constitutional system. So events around the time of Leonardo’s in the right circumstances, to win big, as approve or disapprove of what the New electrification, radio, the BBC, two World What drove this Genoese merchant to birth touched off a series of parallel Lyndon Johnson did in 1964 or Richard Deal did and tried to do but no one can No one seriously expects an actual civil Wars, the apex of the British Empire, attempt this unheard-of feat? A map of Nixon in 1972. No longer: since the 1980s, deny its far-reaching effects. The political war to break out in Trump’s America. But the beginning of its dissolution and the narratives: a communications Genoese mercantile networks suggests an presidential elections have been tightly system, in other words, offered a means of without it, who knows how the deadlock founding of the NHS. Yet much earlier revolution (printing), a military answer. The wealth of mediaeval Genoa, fought with most voters locked into a addressing problems. can be resolved? periods also suggest thought-provoking revolution (gunpowder), a revolution in like that of Venice, came from trading partisan allegiance. And then there’s the comparisons. transportation (overseas navigation), And what then of the Civil War? Clearly with the Eastern Mediterranean and up state of the economy: half a century ago, a dramatic new phase of globalisation the war represented a massive break One such yardstick is provided by the through the Bosporus into the Black Sea, wealth in the US was far more equitably Adam Smith is Professor of United States (overseas contact with Africa, the down of the political system, one that lifetime of a famous European who died which was the closest an Italian sailor could distributed; a large ‘middle class’ was History at UCL. From October he will be Americas and Asia), the consolidation resulted in the deaths of three quarters exactly 500 years ago at the age of 67: get to the centre of the world’s economy: able to buy a house and a car and send Edward Orsborn Professor of US Politics and of national states (Castille, Aragon of a million people or the equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). To sharpen in China. But in 1453, the year after their kids to good public schools in the Political History at Oxford. He will be speaking and the Reconquista), and the story more than 6 million today, as a percentage the comparison further, let’s focus on Leonardo’s birth, free access to the Black reasonable hope that living standards at St Anne’s Gaudy Seminar in September-

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of Renaissance art and architecture sailing west across the North Atlantic: a mere outpost of Asia: it was a new c. 1492 (personified by Leonardo himself). setting sail from Bristol in 1497, he continent. On the Waldseemüller map reached Newfoundland and Labrador of 1507, you can see the new continent We tend to treat these simultaneous and returned to announce that he had coming into view; and it’s named for developments separately: there’s an discovered the lands of the Great Kahn. the first time as ‘America’, Vespucci’s art history, a military history, a political To the south, Vasco Da Gama rounded Latinized name in its female form, to sit history, an intellectual history, a history the Cape of Good Hope in December alongside Africa, Asia and Europa. of science and technology, and so on. 1497, explored the coast of Mozambique Superimposing these narratives for a The following year found Michelangelo and arrived in Calcutta on 20 May 1498. Genoese mercantile networks few intervals in the life of a single person in the Vatican, beginning four years Gutenberg Bible, 1454 provides a more adequate impression of Between 1503 and 1505, Leonardo of work on the Sistine Chapel (1508- the explosion of change and creativity in was painting the Mona Lisa. What 12). Just down the corridor, Raphael Leonardo’s day. else was happening on the European was at work on a series of frescos artistic scene in these years? In painting, (1509-14), which included the famous Between 1495 and 1498, for instance, Albrecht Dürer was in the midst of School of Athens. While they were at Leonardo was in Milan, at work on the his unprecedented nature studies, work on these projects, the evolution Last Supper. What else was happening while Hieronymus Bosch produced of gunpowder weapons accelerated: in his world during those years? The the Garden of Earthly Delights. In the wheellock pistol was invented, French had invaded the Italian peninsula architecture, Henry VII began his Lady and the first revolver (preserved in the with a siege train of highly mobile Vitruvian man, c. 1492 Chapel in Westminster Abbey (1503-19). Ashmolean) appeared precociously soon China and the Silk Road bronze cannon, beginning a century Meanwhile, Bramante began plans for thereafter. 1511 is the year commonly of Habsburg-Valois Wars, subjecting St Peter’s Basilica in Rome (1503) and associated with the invention of the Italy to foreign domination until conceived his Tempietto – the great pocket watch. By the time Michelangelo 1871, and precipitating a revolution grandfather of the Radcliffe Camera. completed his frescos, work had in fortifications which would quickly In sculpture, Tillman Riemenschneider commenced on the vault of King’s spread across Europe and to every created his own depiction of the Last College, Cambridge, completed in 1515. continent. The Aldine press in Venice Supper for an altarpiece in Rotenburg ob Meanwhile overseas, in 1513 Ponce de began printing its celebrated editions der Tauber (1501-5) while Michaelangelo Leon claimed Florida for the Spanish (on of the classics in Greek. A few years Theodosian Walls of Constantinople was carving his David. In 1506 the 4 April), the Portuguese explorer Jorge Alhambra, conquered 1492 later, the Venetians began printing Printing Press, 1454 Laocoön was dug up from a vineyard Álvares became the first European to polyphonic music with moveable type, in Rome, stimulating a whole other reach China by sea (in May), and Vasco without which the subsequent European wave of sculptural experimentation in Núñez de Balboa led the first European orchestral tradition would have been Italy. The Venetian navigator Amerigo expedition to reach the Pacific Ocean impossible. To the North, another Vespucci returned from a Portuguese from America (on 29 September). displaced Italian, Giovanni Caboto (aka voyage to announce that the Brazilian The same year saw the circulation in John Cabot), proposed to Henry VII in coast he had just explored was so manuscript of the most profoundly 1496 to find the route to the east by extensive that it could not possibly be disruptive work in the Western tradition Voyages of Columbus 1492-1504 Turkish bombard Printing in Europe, 1454-1500

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of political philosophy: a Latin draft of between Charlemagne and Napoleon. had acquired no resistance, including Machiavelli’s The Prince in 1513. The Yet his power was more than matched bubonic plague, cholera, diphtheria, following year saw the circulation of by the steadily expanding dominions of influenza, malaria, measles, scarlet fever, the analogous work in astronomy: a the new Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid, typhus first summary of what would become Magnificent, who ruled from 1520 to and whooping cough. In the 150 years Copernicus’s treatise On the Revolution of 1566. Luther’s Reformation succeeded after Columbus’s landfall, 10,000 years’ the Heavenly Spheres in 1514. partly thanks to the resulting ‘clash of worth of epidemics were visited upon civilisations’, which distracted Charles the indigenous people of the New World, Leonardo died on 2 May 1519, according from fulfilling his vow to crush the resulting in the greatest demographic to Vasari in the arms of Francis I. In Leonardo's Last Supper, 1495-1498 Gunpowder fortifications renegade monk. disaster in human history. By 1519, the his final months, the pace of events population of Hispaniola (the first island continued to accelerate. Events across the Atlantic were adding on which the Spanish settled) had fallen to Charles’s dominions. Two months On New Year’s Day 1519, Ulrich Zwingli’s to 10,000, a fall of 98 per cent. before Leonardo’s death, Hernan first sermon in Zürich marked the Cortés set sail from Cuba bound for One consequence was to provoke the effective start of the Swiss Reformation. Mexico (10 February 1519), where he greatest trans-oceanic forced migration The German Reformation had begun captured the emperor Moctezuma in history as well: the first African slaves only 14 months earlier, when Martin before the year was out. In January 1519, arrived in Hispaniola in 1503, one Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses Balboa was beheaded and Francisco decade after Columbus, to compensate in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517. The Pizzaro – Cortés’ second cousin once for the plummeting local population. fratricidal warfare within the West, removed – was made mayor and Ten million Africans were compelled to compounded by the Reformation, would French invasion of Italy, 1494-5 Voyage of John Cabot, 1497 Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, 1498-1511 magistrate of Panama City, from which follow them in subsequent centuries. be the main laboratory for military he would launch the first of a series of experimentation for several centuries, So who lived through a period of expeditions that ultimately conquered with profound consequences for the greater upheaval and more astonishing the Inca Empire. Later that year, on balance of world power. creativity: Leonardo da Vinci (1452- 10 August 1519, Ferdinand Magellan 1519) or someone born exactly 500 On 12 January 1519, Charles of began what was to become the first years later? A typical British 67-year- Habsburg was made archduke of circumnavigation of the globe. old today has never witnessed war Austria. Charles already ruled the These events were overshadowed, at first hand. The so-called ‘clash of Seventeen Provinces of the Burgundian in turn, by the demographic disaster civilisations’ between Christianity Netherlands (since 1506), as well as visited on the New World by contact and Islam was incomparably more Spain, Naples and Sicily (since 1516), with the Old. The New World had been potent 500 years ago than it is today. and on 28 June 1519 he was elected cut off from the Old since the end of The digital revolution in our own day Holy Roman Emperor. Thenceforward the last Ice Age, and the European is even more abrupt than the print until his abdication in 1555-6, Charles invaders brought with them a host of revolution of Leonardo’s; but it remains ruled over a larger swathe of western diseases to which Native Americans to be seen whether it will precipitate Leonardo, Mona Lisa, 1503-5 Dürer, Large Piece of Turf, 1503 Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey, 1503-19 and central Europe than any other ruler

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Raphael, School of Athens, 1509-11 Lutheran Reformation, 1517 Demographic disaster, 1518 onward

Machiavelli, 1513

Michelangelo's David, 1503 Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, 1504

Wheellock pistol, 1510

Copernicus, 1514 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 1519-56 Suleiman the Magnificent, 1520-66 Bramante's Tempietto, 1502 / 1511

Laocoön, discovered 1506 Pocket watch, 1511

Riemenschneider, Last Supper, 1501-5 Waldseemüller's map 1507 Dürer’s rhinoceros, 1515 Magellan’s ship Victoria Trans-Atlantic slave trade, 1511 onward

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Negotiating the minefield RUSSELL TAYLOR

Bored with Brexit? No apologies. Here’s a rather I could write something on Brexit. And every year I politely demur. different take on the whole thing by the inimitable co- ‘I can’t do Brexit, Judith,’ I protest. ‘The last thing your readers want creator of Alex when they open their copy of The Ship is to read yet another person banging on about Irish backstops and Canada Plus.’ The whole nation has been protesting for a long time now that they’re bored of Brexit (that’s the Brexiteers obviously: the Remainers, who tended to go to posher schools would state, more correctly, that they are ‘bored with Brexit’). Brexit is a minefield. Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508-1512 Ceiling of King’s College Chapel, 1512-15 There’s nothing new to say on the subject; and anything I did say would almost certainly be no longer true by the time the magazine appears. Most importantly it’s the one issue that totally and utterly a schism as profound as the Reformation. The earlier phase Then as now, the greatest consequences of globalisation divides the nation. By comparison people’s views on Marmite are of globalisation, reliant on new technologies of navigation, were biological. In 1519, the consequence of the Columbian a matter of harmony, tolerance and mutual respect. So whatever was as abrupt as that dependent on digital technology now; exchange of pathogens and slaves still lay mainly in the future; I wrote would be certain to alienate half the readership. In short and although it initially touched a smaller proportion of the and the same applies to the ecological crisis today: if present there are a stack of reasons why I should under no circumstances planet’s population, it was far more lethal to those it did touch. trends continue, future historians will doubtless rewrite the attempt to write a piece on Brexit. The rebalancing of the global economy between East and West history of the past 67 years as the story of how humanity OK, so here goes. is more rapid in our day than it was 500 years ago, but also plunged headlong into an ecological disaster similar to that I’m writing this in early-April so I’ve no idea what will have happened more predictable: nothing in human history is more surprising visited on American populations after 1492, but on a global when this edition of The Ship drops through your letterbox. Maybe than the emergence of Western Europe from backwardness scale and involving the entire biosphere. Although apocalyptic by the time you are reading this the Brexiteers, won over by the to ascendency in the centuries after 1500. The most striking expectations were rising in 1519, it is not the pace of recent silky Gallic charm of M. Barnier, have changed their minds about contrast to the internecine warfare which plagued sixteenth- change but the threat of catastrophic future transformations wanting to quit the EU and the nation is now at peace with itself, century Europe is one which too many 67-year-olds today which most distinguishes 2019 from 1519. secure once more in the bosom of Europe. take for granted: the peaceful dissolution of the Warsaw Pact Or possibly we are about to go to the polls in a Second Referendum and the welcome of most of its members into an expanded Howard Hotson is Fellow and Tutor in History and Professor of (or even a Third or a Fourth) and everyone is scratching their head European Union. In the field of artistic achievement, nothing Early Modern Intellectual History at St Anne’s. One of his current over a ballot paper that offers the choice of ‘No Deal, Norway 2.0, in the past half century can remotely match the outburst of projects is a new, second-year thematic paper on ‘Global Networks EEA Without Customs Union, Canada Plus Plus’, or ‘A Solution of creativity of Leonardo’s lifetime: in our day the chief locus of Innovation: China, Islam and the West, 1100-1700’ Your Own Devising (please write legibly in black ink and use an of that creativity has shifted from arts to sciences. How Copyright Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor. This cartoon first extra sheet of paper if required)’. Renaissance Europe proved so fertile with a small fraction of appeared in The Daily Telegraph on 27 March 2019 Or perhaps there has been a General Election and Jeremy Corbyn the population, and an even tinier fraction of the economic Every February a slightly apologetic email slips into my inbox from is Prime Minister. And many of the people who wanted Britain to resources, of the Western world today is something we still do the editor of The Ship, asking me if I could possibly see my way to leave the EU have now themselves left the country for various tax not fully understand. contributing an article this year. Perhaps, she invariably suggests, havens and dumped the rest of us with the problem.

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Or maybe we crashed out last minute in a bad news is what Brexit has delivered in Trump got elected). Therapists and stress No Deal Brexit and the EU has declared war spades, whatever your stance on it may be. counsellors should do well too. Coming into Our Own? Women and Power in the Caribbean on renegade Britain and all those North This may not be enough to reverse the slow Last, but certainly not least, there are the VIOLET EUDINE BARRITEAU London Millennials, who took out Irish slide into oblivion of the print media, but satirists, such as myself. On the morning citizenship, thanks to their grandmother it’s hopefully helped prolong its life. Now The energy, activism and over sexual, economic, political and cultural twenty-first century. These new women’s of 24 June 2016 I woke up, like most having been born there, have found the only question is: which will last longest? confrontational politics of a new citizenship and categories of belonging. groups are highly effective because they people, expecting to see that Remain had themselves drafted into the new European Newspapers or Brexit negotiations? That’s a generation of Caribbean feminists is combine feminist philosophies, dedication prevailed by a comfortable margin in the Not only do I not believe in victimhood, like Army and are even now in the front line hard one to call. centre-stage in the Caribbean and activism with strategic deployments of EU Membership Referendum. Having been Guyanese poet Grace Nichols, I believe: facing up to the First Paras. digital and social platforms. Then there are the consultants. Brexit has assured by those in the know that Brexit On 16 May 2019, Eudine Barriteau gave What they really want Or – the most likely scenario of all – many similarities with the Millennium Bug would prove to be a lot of fuss over nothing the third Devaki Jain Lecture at St Anne’s at times Life in Leggings In November 2016, Ronelle absolutely nothing has happened. This of the late-1990s. If you recall, the Y2K Bug I had (foolishly) written my next week of College, focusing on what women are doing is a specimen King, a 23-year-old Barbadian woman would prove that, whatever the Brexiteers was a hardware glitch that was supposed to cartoons in advance. I had to bin every on the ground in Caribbean countries, whose heart is in the dust and mother, co-founded Life in Leggings. Frustrated with conversations behind closed may say, we Brits are firmly European in paralyse all computers on 1 January 2000, single one of them. But in the three years examining multiple instances of women’s A mother-of-sufferer doors of violence against women, especially our thinking. Kicking the can down the road leading to a doomsday scenario whereby since, there have been 76 Alex cartoons on activism to underscore how the politics and trampled, oppressed sexual violence, tired of the impunity with (ie pretending to do something, but actually planes would fall out of the sky, shops run the subject of Brexit. It’s truly the gift that methodologies of engagement, and the they want a little black blood which powerful men operated, and tired of doing nothing) is the EU solution to most out of food etc (sound familiar?). This was keeps on giving. By the time you’re reading issues around which women mobilise have undressed being harassed on the streets, they established insoluble problems. It’s what Mario Draghi whipped up (or perhaps wholly invented) this the total will probably be up to three fundamentally changed. Excerpts from the and validation a regional network to respond primarily but and the European Central Bank have been by IT consultants as a way of persuading figures. So my personal message to our lecture are included here – you can read for the abused stereotype not exclusively to sexual violence. doing for the ten years since the financial companies to hire them at great expense political leaders is: please keep kicking the the full lecture on our website. already in their heads crisis. to solve the problem. Even 20 years can. Introducing the lecture, Eudine questioned Of Course When They Ask for Poems About They chose the name of their network to afterwards no one can work out whether all Whichever of these outcomes has whether women’s historical location on the the 'Realities' of Black Women symbolize that women had a right to wear the money spent on consultants saved the transpired it’s likely that just about Russell Taylor MBE (1979) margins of power might finally be changing. whatever clothing they wanted without being world from digital meltdown or whether it Grace, Nichols. 1989. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy everybody is still angry and frustrated and harassed. They wanted women to understand simply enriched the consultants and that I assess whether women activists are finally Woman and Other Poems. Virago Press Ltd. telling us how dreadful it all is and how that the pervasiveness of sexual violence, all the computers would have gone on coming to terms with autonomy, financial we should have done whatever they want Discussion was then given to regional should not be accepted and wanted to expose working anyway. Brexit, too, has spawned power, greater self-awareness and confidence instead. But let’s focus on the positives for campaigns established to end sexual how masculine silence was complicit in sexual a host of £1,000-per-day professionals to occupy and control cultural, political, once. What about the people who do well violence. Eudine outlines how women’s harassment and assaults. They decided they advising companies on their strategies economic and social spaces. out of Brexit? activism around issues of sexual rights has had to utilize all the tools at their disposal in in the event of various scenarios. The Eudine first provided background on the grown stronger and Caribbean women order to mobilize quicker, in real time and Newspapers are a good example. Sales of downside of the Y2K Bug was that it had contours of Caribbean societies before activists fearlessly claim their rights to across a range of social media platforms. hard copy newspapers have been in a scary built-in obsolescence (ie 1 January 2000). going onto discuss how Caribbean people bodily autonomy, sexual and gender The Group first held a consciousness raising, decline since that pesky thing called the Brexit, on the other hand, can run and run, are always on the move and seeking roots, identities, LGBTQ relationships, protection self-awareness activity in November 2016, Internet came along 25 years ago. This has with seemingly limitless fees there to be even as they establish new locations. from gender based violence and predatory and launched a major regional campaign on accelerated in recent years (does anyone made. advertising that casts women in traditional, We existed, but we never felt settled. It is 11 March 2017, the ripple effects of which know a Millennial who buys a newspaper?). And let’s not forget divorce lawyers. As subordinate roles. Eudine went on to critical to consider these dynamics as we continue to reverberate throughout the The only thing that can still make people Brexit divides households, the divorce provide a snapshot of women’s activist assess whether Caribbean women have come Caribbean and internationally. They and their fork out their £2 at the newsagent is some rate goes up (as it has in the USA since groups formed in the Caribbean in the proper bad news on the front page. And into power, are now exerting autonomy

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networks held demonstrations simultaneously named alleged sexual offenders online. Caribbean women and men does not engagements – they are bold and courageous and in Barbados, Bahamas, Dominica, Guyana, Her arrest and charges set off a storm of feature in the work of these new women’s have altered the status quo. Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago marching regional and international activity around groups. More traditional, more established Though they have been vilified by state institutions for the empowerment of survivors of rape and her release,standing in solidarity with her groups, with the exception of Red Thread and some political leaders, and in some cases other forms of abuse, for the rights of women action. She was eventually released after Collective of Guyana, are also paying rebuked by some members of more established with disabilities, for the empowerment of girls falling ill in jail and the criminal charges insufficient attention to macro-economic women’s organisations, they have also garnered and especially to prevent further acts of sexual were dropped. She was sued by one of the policies, development approaches and their strong, widespread, local, regional and international violence. men named and lost and was ordered to differential, deleterious impact on women support. There is a vibrancy and an insurgency pay significant damages in the civil court. and men. Ms King received a Queen’s Young Leaders to their interventions that reflect our histories of Award in December 2018 for the work Womantra describes itself as a community- Red Thread Collective was founded contestations, conflict and confrontations. There she is doing to help end violence against based Caribbean feminist organization in 1986 as an autonomous, multi-racial is still an ephemeral quality to this resurgence of women in the Caribbean. in Trinidad and Tobago with linkages Guyanese women’s group that focused women’s activism. Now more than ever we need throughout the diaspora. It was founded heavily on helping women earn income. It solidarity and we need to protect them. The Tambourine Army is a powerful in 2011 by Stephanie Leitch and has tackles issues such as health care, housing, network of Jamaican feminists who In answer to the question whether women from the pursued actions committed to ending transportation, documenting women’s describe themselves as a radical social Caribbean have come into their own, Eudine says: sexual violence, women blaming and stories, building multiracial coalitions, justice movement, committed to uprooting slut shaming. Leitch states that although promoting social and gender justice, and To Womantra, Life in Leggings, the Tambourine the scourge of sexual violence and women have made important gains they very importantly, is extremely supportive Army, Powa Up, Red Thread, and all the varieties safeguarding the rights of women and are still marginalized in decision-making of the new women’s groups and maintains of organising that now exist and create exciting girls. By February 2017 they had already and economic activities, and as such, the solidarity and support for all their pathways to centring Caribbean societies on the full launched #SayTheirNames campaign network has a gap to fill in protecting campaigns. citizenship of Caribbean women, you have taken which encouraged sexual assault survivors women’s rights and bodily autonomy. us closer. The next frontier is to achieve a synthesis to name their abusers online. They also Eudine went on to discuss how the of the work on economic autonomy and the work provide support for these women. In 2016 when a Japanese pianist Asami restlessness and mobility that defines on sexual sovereignty. I want to see a wider, fuller Nagakiya was killed during Trinidad the Caribbean is very evident in the latest They participated in the Life in Leggings approach to activism, as practised by Red Thread, and Tobago’s carnival, Womantra was manifestations of the Caribbean women’s Regional protest marches in March 2017 become part of the focus of the newer groups instrumental in organizing a massive movement. She also discusses the two as a demonstration for survivors of abuse without losing the richness, vitality and sheer protest outside City Hall, demanding the themes which unite these new feminist and were joined by 700 women and necessity of what they currently do. mayor’s resignation because of comments groups: cyber-feminist strategies and an men. Sometime earlier, the Co-Founder he had made which suggested ‘women emphasis on sexual sovereignty. These of the Army, Latoya Nugent, described have a responsibility to ensure they are not women harness information and digital Violet Eudine Barriteau, PhD, GCM, is a professor as a prominent LGBT activist, had used abused’. So successful has the network technologies to operate simultaneously in of Gender and Public Policy, Pro Vice Chancellor and a tambourine to hit the head of a pastor been that in 2013 they won a grant from virtual sites and physical locations. These Principal The University of the West Indies Cave Hill who had been accused of raping an FRIDA, Young Feminist Fund to organize new methodologies of raising support and Campus, Barbados ©®2019. A complete recording underage girl, hence the group’s name. a summer camp for girls transitioning to spreading information are highly effective. of the lecture can be found on the College website Days after the march, Nugent was arrested secondary schools in Trinidad and Tobago. www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk and charged with three counts under the These dynamic women have drawn a line in Cyber Crime Act of the use of a computer However, Eudine points out that the the sand and are daily declaring to all who for malicious communication after she exploitation of the labour power of cross it, be prepared for serious feminist

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Out with the old, in with the new Finals Results: Trinity Term 2018 GAGAN KHURANA RESULTS ARE SHOWN FOR THOSE STUDENTS WHO GAVE PERMISSION TO PUBLISH A busy year for the JCR led by has made the JCR more open and inclusive activity for undergraduates, by the end of changes to old practices to bring the with the addition of referenda to make big the long vacation the space will have been entire community together decisions more democratic. Work done by given a new lease of life. BA Ancient and Collier, Rosie 1 Gunther, Anna 2.1 our Welfare Reps, Josh Hindley and Corin Modern History Csongrady, Franciska 1 Iyer, Miranda 1 With the college’s inaugural Giving Day and With each new year comes a new cohort of Harrison have led to the introduction of Collin, Elizabeth 2.1 Davis, Ewan 2.1 Majewski, Kacper 1 Community Week over, we saw members students, and this year’s crop of first year “text-a-chocolate”, a new scheme allowing Mavin, Romilly 2.1 Ong, Gaius 1 of the JCR get involved with perhaps the students joined a college where there’s any member of the JCR to anonymously BA Biological Sciences Peirson-Hagger, Ellen 2.1 more fun side of the week – plenty of JCR a real openness to change and shifting send a chocolate to any other member Cockell, Eugenie 2.1 Stanley, Jeannie 2.1 BA Literae Humaniores members were on hand to eat cake and pet the existing paradigm – a college true to which has been very well received. O'Brien, Duncan 2.1 Linley, Elsie 1 its ethos of being forward looking and puppies, all to help college raise money for Rouse, Sarah 1 BA Experimental outward facing. A flagship Equalities Week was put on longer term access and welfare initiatives. Psychology BA Medical Sciences by our equalities rep, Tracey Mwaniki, Finally, work done by our JCR Vice President Cribben, Hannah 1 Carroll, Dervla 2.1 Motions passed through the JCR this BA Cell and including amongst others a drinks Tom Ashley has resulted in college-branded Dave, Dijay 1 year have had a focus on bringing our Systems Biology reception with the Oxford First-Gen puffa jackets and fleeces being worn Norman, Alex 2.1 Eaton Hart, Charlotte 2.1 undergraduate community together by BA Geography society, an LGBTQ+Pizza Night, as well as throughout the undergraduate population; Flagg, Andy 2.1 Pope, Philip 2.1 showing support for large-scale events. an incredibly well attended International this came in useful when watching the Kilbey, Bethany 1 Roxburgh, Francesca 2.1 Due to an exceptional Entz [entertainment] BA Classics and English Food Fair which saw tutors, staff and men’s football team get promoted to Hardman Lea, Eliza 2.1 team in Jake Turner and Rachel Jones, students from all backgrounds cook and the premiership, and the women’s boat Haworth, Nadia 2.1 this year we’ve seen the return of dining BA History BA Modern Languages share food from across the world with bumping twice in Torpids this year. Beswick, Emily 1 Broome, Eleanor 2.1 hall bops – events that have been widely one another. This focus on diversity is Foster, Archie 1 Cornford, Tom 2.1 anticipated across the university with BA Classics and also why the JCR committee is currently Gagan Khurana (Physics 2017) James, Rose 2.1 Morton, Rebecca 1 tickets selling out in just a few hours each Oriental Studies working on some ‘reverse Barrie, Gabriel 1 Llwyd, Elan 2.1 Narbone, Eleonora 2.1 time. interviews’ to be put on Corsi, Veronica 2.1 Newton, Kenji 2.1 Protheroe, Michael 2.1 On a more charitable front we’ve passed YouTube where students Ho, Bertina 2.1 Opzoomer, Indi 1 Rittoo, Krishmeela 2.1 motions to support Oxford Pink Week will be interviewing tutors Winstock, Amy 2.1 (which raised over £9,000 to support to humanise and demystify BA History and Economics BA Music several breast cancer related charities) as what an Oxford tutor is. BA English and Garnett, Milly 1 Baker, Harry 1 well as Engineers Without Borders – an Perhaps the biggest Modern Languages Eldridge, Tegan 2.1 international development organisation project undertaken by the Opara, Amaka 2.1 BA History and Politics English, Richard 1 allowing students to tackle poverty through committee this year is a Whitehouse, Chris 1 engineering. renovation of the physical BA English Language Zagoria, Thomas 1 BA Neuroscience Alongside the above, some exceptional JCR. Aided by a new and Literature Hughes, Megan 2.1 work has been done by the JCR committee domestic bursar in a bid Ball, Frances 2.1 BA Jurisprudence this year; a rehash of the JCR constitution to make it a hub of social Bradshaw, Calum 2.1 Allen, Jane 2.1 BA Oriental Studies Bus, Natalia 2.1 Chan-Wei, Ryan 2.1 Gaffney, Rosa 2.1 February 2019: JCR students throw snowballs

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Dr Jonathan Katz Dr Patricia Rice Governing Body 2019 Stipendiary Lecturer in Literae Humaniores: Classics (2017) Supernumerary Fellow in Economics (2015) Dr Andrew Klevan Professor Stuart Robinson Principal Mr Peter Ghosh Associate Professor Non-Tutorial Fellow in Film Aesthetics (2007) Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences (2016) Ms Helen King (2017) Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in History (1981) Professor Elias Koutsoupias Professor Alex Rogers Dr Imogen Goold Supernumerary Fellow in Computer Science (2015) Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science (2015) Fellows Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Jurisprudence (2009) Professor Liora Lazarus Professor Budimir Rosic Professor Johannes Abeler Dr Siân Grønlie Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Jurisprudence (Law) (2000) Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science (2009) Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in Economics (2011) Associate Professor Tutorial Fellow in English 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United Nations Relief and Works Agency Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos, her research: https://www.theguardian. Fellows’ news, honours, appointments and publications (UNRWA). There are three major strands Fellow in Law at St Anne's and Associate com/science/2019/jan/25/electrical- to this work, with Shameq's work being Professor at the Law Faculty of the stimulation-of-brain-trialled-as-aid-to- centred primarily around the third of these: University, also serves as a member of the treating-stutter. Dr Catherine Charlwood presented her • Is there a link between certain cognitive Delahunty to give an ‘in conversation’ talk Scientific Council of the Greek Ministry of work entitled ‘Such a Pair: The Twin Lives problems and the chances of developing on 2 May at Gresham College discussing • supporting the newly established Foreign Affairs. In that role, he advised the Watch an interview on BBC Breakfast: of Humans and Trees’ at this year’s Hay dementia after a stroke? decision-making on behalf of critically ill (2010) Family Medicine specialty training Greek Foreign Minister in the run up to the www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWAF9D Festival on 30 May. Catherine is the winner programme; FjI_c&list=UU8tXw7ivZO6ILcNblwJWz- • Is there a link between specific problems children. View the lecture: www.gresham. ‘Prespa Accord’, an international agreement of the annual Institute for Sustainable A&index=1 with thinking and reports of fatigue after ac.uk/lectures-and-events/child- • developing primary care clinics that work struck by Greece and its northern Practice, Innovation and Resource stroke? medical-treatment according to the pillars of Family Practice neighbour, (now) North Macedonia, Effectiveness (INSPIRE) Lecture, organised resolving a 27-year dispute over the name (see below); FELLOWS’ PUBLICATIONS by the University of Wales Trinity Saint • Which of these problems have the Professor Matthew Leigh, Professor, of the state, which was named in the UN David (UWTSD) and the Association for the greatest impact on the day-to-day lives of Fellow and Tutor of Classical Languages, • creating a blended learning Transitional and other international organisations as the Professor Andrew Briggs (Professorial Study of Literature and the Environment, people affected by stroke in the long- has been invited by Princeton University Training Programme to support the 'former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'. In Fellow of Nanomaterials): UK & Ireland (ASLE-UK). The INSPIRE lecture term and what effect do they have on to spend the 2020 Spring Semester as transition towards those pillars for the January and February, while the agreement With Hans Halvorson and Andrew Steane, is competition-based and aims to showcase continued recovery after stroke? Professor of Classics. He will take a senior thousands of healthcare professionals was before the Greek Parliament, and in It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from research which explores the relationship level Latin class and a graduate seminar. currently working within the Palestinian the midst of a motion of no confidence in Find out more: www.stroke.org.uk/ Science, Philosophy and Religion (OUP, 2018). between literature and the sustainability primary care setting. research/long-term-psychological- the Greek Government on account of the debate. Her illustrated lecture traced Dr Liora Lazarus, Fellow and Tutor in consequences-of-stroke Dr Robert Stagg, Lecturer in English deal, Antonios appeared in many Greek With Julia Golding and Roger Wagner, The the twin lives, and connected deaths, Law, Associate Professor in Law, has Language and Literature, will be the media, explaining the legal details of the Curious Science Quest Series (Lion Children’s of humans and trees in English verse, been appointed Head of Research at the Pforzheimer Visiting Research Fellow in the deal and dispelling misinformation. Books, 2018). Books 1 - 4 have been especially in the poetry of Thomas Hardy Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. Humanities at the Harry Ransom Center, published, 5 - 6 will be released early in and Charlotte Mew. Antonios has been nominated for this Professor David Murray, Engineering University of Texas, Austin, 2019-20. year's Student Led Teaching Awards, 2019. Dr Nele Demeyere, Lecturer in Psychology, Science, has been presented with a Gold Dr Ed Tarleton, Lecturer in Maths for organised by the Oxford University Professor Roger Crisp (Professor of Moral has been given the Stroke Association's Excellence in Teaching Award by the Materials, has won the Rising Stars in Student Union in the category of 'Most Philosophy, Uehiro Fellow and Tutor in Priority Programme Award. The formal Department of Engineering Science. Computational Materials Science Prize. Acclaimed Lecturer'. Every year Oxford SU Philosophy) and Shlomit Harrosh (ed) Moral award was presented on 15 May at the acknowledges the University's lecturers Dr Shameq Sayeed, Clinical Tutor, is The aim of this initiative is to recognize Evil in Practical Ethics (Routledge, 2018). Stroke Association’s yearly Keynote Lecture. the accomplishments and promise and staff members who stand out from the The aim of the research is to increase working with the Foundation for Family Professor Imogen Goold, Fellow and of researchers in the early stages of rest and inspire, challenge and engage their Professor Bent Flyvbjerg (Professorial our understanding of how stroke affects Medicine in Palestine (FFMP) in the Tutor in Law, Associate Professor in Law, their independent careers and draw students. The Student-Led Teaching Awards Fellow): people’s thinking and mood in the longer- occupied Palestinian Territories towards delivered the 2019 Baron de Lancey international attention to the work they scheme highlights the importance of the term. The study aims to answer several developing family medicine capacity as The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Lecture on 8 March 2019. It was entitled are doing. The papers invited for inclusion student experience and student's voices. questions: part of a collaboration with An-Najah Management (OUP, 2018), paperback 'Should parents have the final say on in the Rising Stars initiative are featured in National University (Nablus) and the Professor Kate Watkins, Professor of edition and Chinese edition. • How common are specific the medical treatment of their children?' a special issue of Computational Materials Medical Aid for Palestinians charity. The Cognitive Neuroscience, Fellow and Tutor neuropsychological problems, such as Watch the lecture: www.lml.law.cam. Science. Oral Evidence: The Government’s work is in partnership with the two major in Psychology, is the principal investigator language, attention or memory ac.uk/news/imogen-goold-baron-de- Management of Major Projects (November providers of primary care in the West Bank View the winning paper online: www. in a clinical trial using electrical brain problems, after a stroke and how do lancey-2019 26, 2018). Available at SSRN: – the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ stimulation to improve fluency without the these change over time? www.ssrn.com/abstract=3294656 Imogen also joined up with alumna Jo S0927025619301491 need for speech training. Read more about

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View a full list of publications at: http://bit. Cai, Ning-Ning Cai, Richard Wade-Martins in Andreas Zimmerman and Christian J cell level’. Nature Immunology 19 p85-97 to have been awarded a knighthood by good, for-profit start-ups emerging from university with over 2500 staff and ly/2NbPGGY and Francis G Szele, ‘The A30P α-synuclein Tams (eds) The Statute of the International (2018). Her Majesty The Queen. This honour is a recognition not just of my work but volunteers around the world. Find out more mutation decreases subventricular zone Court of Justice—A Commentary (Third edn, ‘Minimal/measurable residual disease in Professor Imogen Goold (Fellow and Tutor also that of the outstanding researchers at www.hultprize.org proliferation’, Human Molecular Genetics OUP, Oxford 2019) [‘Article 46’ 1330–1342, AML: consensus document from ELN MRD in Law, Associate Professor in Law): I have collaborated with over many years (2019). and ‘Article 47’ 1343–1350] Working Party’. Blood 131 p1275-91 (2018). Find out more about AttAIn: in pursuit of new insights into human 'Digital Tracking Medication: Big Promise or Twitter: twitter.com/AttAInOxford Parkinson's disease (PD) is a fatal With Dapo Akande, ‘Treaty Law and ICC Big Brother?' (2019) 11(2) Law, Innovation Find out further details and view a full list genetics and its role in common diseases.” neurodegenerative disease of uncertain Jurisdiction Over the Crime of Aggression’ Facebook:www.facebook.com/AttAInOxford and Technology. of publications and contributors at causes. A few gene mutations have been (2018) European Journal of International Law http://bit.ly/2N69HPh linkedin www.linkedin.com/company/attainoxford With Cressida Auckland, 'Parental Rights, isolated in rare families that give rise 29. Best Interests and Significant Harms' (2019) to heritable ‘familial’ PD. These can be With Daniel Franchini, ‘The Kosovo Crisis Boat Race 2019 78(2) Cambridge Law Journal. studied in animal models to develop (1999)’ in Olivier Corten and Tom Ruys (eds) An update on Amelia Standing (Engineering Science 2018) better understanding of PD endogenous With Cressida Auckland, 'Defining the International Law and the Use of Force: A was selected as stroke for the Boat Race repair mechanisms. The Szele group some of the latest Limits of Parental Authority: Charlie Gard, Case-based Approach (OUP, 2018). 2019 and Tilly Edwards (Biological Sciences used a genetically engineered mouse in Best Interests and the Significant Risk of events in College 2016) captained the second boat (Osiris). which a particular human mutation in the Professor Paresh Vyas (Professor of Harm Threshold ' (2018) 134 Law Quarterly Amelia started rowing in 2013 after being alpha-synuclein gene had been inserted Haematology and Honorary Consultant Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019 Review 37 [Case Note]. inspired by the women’s pair’s performance Haematologist and Group Leader MRC to replace the normal gene. They studied St Anne’s is pleased to announce that three Rabii Malik and Gagan Khurana win at the London Olympics, and previously Dr Andrew Klevan (Associate Professor Molecular Haematology Unit) et al: of our fellows were named in the Queen’s the effect of this mutation on the process Hult Prize regional final rowed for GB, winning two golds and a Non-Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer of adult neurogenesis, in which new-born Birthday Honours List: silver at the Coupe de la Jeunesse. Tilly is St ‘SCL/TAL1 cooperates with Poltcomb RYBP- St Anne’s students Rabii Malik (PPE in Film Studies), Aesthetic evaluation and neurons are generated throughout life. Anne's Boat Club President. You can read PRC1 to suppress alternative lineages in Sarah Friar, OBE for services to 2017) and Gagan Khurana (Physics 2017) film (Manchester University Press, 2018). The subventricular zone stem cell niche an interview with Tilly and Amelia in the blood-fated cells’. Nature Communications. entrepreneurship and financial services. have been taking part in the Hult Prize www.manchesteruniversitypress. exhibits adult neurogenesis and among Annual Review 2019. Andy McLoughlin, OBE for services to UK competition. The team has been working co.uk/9781784991241/ others makes the kind of nerve cells ‘Molecular remission and response business and technology leadership. on a new technology project, called AttAIn, Daisy Street wins Catering that selectively die in PD: dopaminergic patterns in patients with mutant-IDH2 Professor Patrick McGuinness (Professor Lesley Titcomb, CBE for services to to help provide job opportunities for 50,000 Apprentice of the Year Award neurons. The Szele group shows that acute myeloid leukemia treat with Pensions Regulation young people in the coming decade; this of French and Comparative Literature, Sir Daisy started at St Anne’s College in August general neurogenesis decreases in the enasidenib. Blood. High expression of has been selected as one of the top 40 Win and Lady Bischoff Fellow in French, 2017 as an apprentice chef. For anyone mutant mice but that dopaminergic HMGA2 independently predicts poor Professor Peter Donnelly has been of 100,000 applicants after they won the Tutor in Modern Languages), Throw Me to making the transition from school or neurogenesis is spared. The finding clinical outcomes in acute myeloid awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s London regional final. Gagan and Rabii with the Wolves (Penguin, 2019) college direct to a working environment the suggests that pharmacologically boosting leukaemia’. Blood Cancer Journal. Birthday Honours for pioneering research the other two team members have been step-up can be daunting and demanding. www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1116925/ neurogenesis for PD may be a viable option into human genetics. The award of a invited to a six-week accelerator over the ‘Clonal Heterogeneity in Differentiation Indeed, Daisy would be the first to admit throw-me-to-the-wolves/9781787331464. for future therapies. knighthood recognises the impact of summer to perfect their idea, and if they Response and Resistance to the IDH2 that getting used to the exacting standards, html Peter’s seminal work on the use of genomic are within the top six teams they will be Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos inhibitor Enasidenib in Acute Myeloid high pressure and long hours that are all analysis in understanding human biology flown out to the UN headquarters for a Dr Francis Szele (Fellow and Tutor in (Fellow in Law, St Anne's College and Leukemia’. Nature Medicine Jul 2016. associated with life as a chef provided some and its application in drug discovery and chance to win US$1M. Developmental Neurobiology): University Lecturer in Public International real challenges. However, after a tricky ‘Functional and transcriptional clinical medicine. Professor Donnelly said: The Hult Prize Foundation is the world’s start and with encouragement from the Xue-Ming Zhang, Sabina Anwar, Yongsoo Law, University of Oxford): heterogeneity of human hemopoietic “I feel thrilled and tremendously honoured biggest engine for the launch of for- team around her, Daisy has developed into Kim, Jennifer Brown, Isabelle Comte, Huan With Sabine von Schorlemer, contributions lympho-myeloid progenitors at the single

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It is made up of 13,000 members and over an Oxford education are accessible to all be interested in applying. 50,000 supporters from more than 130 those with the potential to thrive here, countries. Volunteers and contributors are regardless of background. Oxford’s colleges The Year 12 programme will include one-to- researchers, health professionals, patients, work with schools across the UK. Under one meetings with selected participants and carers, people passionate about improving the University’s ‘Link Colleges’ scheme, their parents/carers including personalised health outcomes for everyone, everywhere. St Anne’s particularly focuses on working Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) with schools in the London boroughs of support. Further activities involve academic Many of their contributors are young Southwark and Hillingdon, and the North enrichment and IAG sessions delivered people working with Cochrane as East of England as part of the North East across four dates in the North East, a researchers, citizen scientists, medical an extremely promising young chef. She Consortium (with Christ Church, Trinity summer independent research project, students, and volunteer language completed her apprenticeship and started and Lincoln Colleges). During 2017-18, a four-night summer school in Oxford, translators and they want to recognize the as our fourth chef in Michaelmas Term the College was involved in 108 outreach including free travel, accommodation work of this generation of contributors 2018. Most recently she was nominated for events, involving 3,200 students from more and meals, taster tutorials, library and as part of the series called Cochrane’s ‘30 and won Catering Apprentice of the Year than 170 different schools and colleges. departmental visits, application support and under 30’. by the Freemen of the City of Oxford; the guidance, and admissions test preparation In addition to maintaining a core level of award ceremony took place on Thursday 14 One of those selected is Santiago Castiello support. outreach provision across the region, the March. For the nomination de Obeso, a full-time DPhil student College is now launching a more targeted, Students completing Year 12 of the process, our Deputy Head Chef, Andrew researcher at St Anne's, Member of high-intensity programme based in the programme who go on to make applications Castle, noted that ‘[Daisy] has improved Cochrane Mexico and author with Cochrane North East. St Anne’s will be working in to Oxford will progress to the Year 13 beyond all recognition since starting her of Schizophrenia. Read the full interview at: partnership with Christ Church on this Programme, which will include interview apprenticeship at St Anne’s College. Gone www.cochrane.org/news/cochranes-30- programme, which will support a specific preparation workshops delivered in the is the shy and quiet individual, replaced under-30-santiago-castiello-de-obeso cohort of young people in a sustained North East, an academic support allowance by a confident, professional and talented manner over several years. for each offer-holder to support attainment young chef. She is a credit to herself and Aim for Oxford programme and preparation for Oxford, and a two-night the whole of the catering team here that The Aim for Oxford programme will be transition visit for each offer-holder. launched Final Curtain: Song of the Earth 2007. Credit: Scillystuff at en.wikipedia have contributed to her development. All open to pupils entering Year 12 of a of the team at St Anne’s are proud of her On Friday 3 May Principal Helen King and state school in the North East of England. Successful applicants from the first cohort of achievements. She has gone from someone Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Selection for places will be on the basis of Aim for Oxford will start their studies at the Darcey Bussell at St Anne’s who was inspired by other team members Outreach Samina Khan hosted a discussion contextualised educational achievement University of Oxford in October 2021. to someone who now inspires others on widening participation at the University at GCSE together with indicators of social Find out more about outreach and access THOMAS ROBERTSON week and serves as preparation for around her.’ of Oxford and launched the Aim for Oxford and educational disadvantage. The 40 initiatives at the University of Oxford at: The presence of one of Britain’s the term ahead. There was immense programme for state-educated sixth form successful applicants will be expected to www.ox.ac.uk/about/oxford-access/ leading ballerinas makes for a excitement in college for the event Cochrane's 30 under 30: Santiago students from the North East. The event meet at least one of a number of widening outreach very special evening took place at St James’ Park and was participation criteria. and the large turnout was testament Castiello de Obeso It was a great thrill when Dame Darcey supported by Chi Onwurah MP and Tom If you are based in the North East and can to the breadth of Dame Darcey’s Cochrane is a British charity formed to The programme will be advertised to Bussell came to college in Hilary term. Ilube CBE. help us to promote the programme, or know popularity. organise medical research findings to teachers in our link schools from late- people interested in applying, please contact: The evening was part of St Anne’s ‘Be Although primarily a ballerina, since facilitate evidence-based choices about The University of Oxford and St Anne's August 2019 and outreach staff will [email protected] Well Do Well’ series, which involves a health interventions faced by health are committed to widening participation be visiting schools in the North East to speaker event every Monday of first her retirement she has moved into professionals, patients, and policy makers. and ensuring that the opportunities of introduce the scheme to students who may

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broadcasting, most notably as a judge on out of retirement in her late-40s and is universal power and importance of dance. Strictly Come Dancing (she assured us we still dancing today aged 55 – but Ferri As she had said during the event, dance is Alumnae news could ask questions on this subject!). For is an exceptional artist. Nonetheless, a innate: as intrinsic as clapping our hands a ballet enthusiast such as myself, it was a demanding career such as dance also to a tune or tapping our feet to a beat. I truly incredible experience to hear Dame demands preparation for a future beyond believe that dance is the most rudimentary Jenny Brown (Cullen 1987), is currently In March NASA cancelled its first ever all- of the story. Her current project is a version Darcey speak about her career in person. dancing. It was wonderful to hear of Dame form of human expression and the most Headmistress of St Alban's High School female spacewalk outside the International of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, for She is undoubtedly one of the greatest Darcey’s passion for these parallel careers beautiful. for Girls. From September 2019 she will Space Station after it emerged it did not performance at the Royal Lyceum Theatre ballerinas of our time, acclaimed for her and to see that it can be an exciting and become Head at The City of London School have enough suits to fit women. in May 2019, a new play for the Royal Dame Darcey also supports numerous for Girls. Court Theatre and a new television series unusual combination of athleticism and rewarding step to make a transition such as Social media addicts can see more dance charities and is an ambassador for BBC1. She became the Professor of lyricism; she spent almost the entirety of she has done. Kathleen Daly, BA, DPhil (1975) Registre on www.facebook.com/jennygrovewriter for the importance of dance. She is the Playwriting and Screenwriting at St Andrews her career as a Principal of the Royal Ballet, Delphinal par Mathieu Thomassin (avec Dame Darcey also spoke to us about the President of the Royal Academy of Dance Sayli Chitre (2010) was awarded a Top University in 2017, and is now a fellow of a position she held from 1989 to 2007. la collaboration de Gillette Labory), Paris, criticism she had received throughout and has created DDMIX (Diverse Dance 50 Female Future Leader award by the the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Société de l’Histoire de France, 2018, Interviewed by the Principal, Dame Darcey her training and how this impelled her to Mix), a project that aims to get everyone Financial Times. She works as an Associate awarded the Deuxième Medaille du Anya Heilpern (Thompson 1979) studied led us through her career from ballet work even harder and strengthened her dancing, emphasising the fun of movement (manager) at Oliver Wyman. The HERoes Concours des Antiquités de France by the law at St Anne’s and worked as a lawyer school to post-retirement, culminating in a ambition. She was promoted to Principal in and offering a huge variety of dance styles. lists celebrate company leaders who Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres until 2005, but then took up art history short video of clips from her performances 1989 at only 20-years-old and after just a We saw her beaming enthusiasm for dance support women in business. Individuals (Institut de France). The medal is awarded and studied for two years at the Courtauld in a selection of ballets and other dances. year at the Royal Ballet, during which time participation and education. were identified as champions of women: all for a work of outstanding scholarship in Institute in London. Anya was awarded I was particularly pleased to see an MacMillan, one of ballet’s great geniuses, were nominated by peers and colleagues She left followed by a stream of fans, all of French regional history. a PhD in the History of Art from the excerpt from Sir Frederick Ashton’s Sylvia, chose her to create the lead role in his last and the nominations then reviewed by a them grateful for Dame Darcey’s generosity University of York on 23 March 2018. The possibly my favourite ballet, and Sir full-length work The Prince of Pagodas. She Ruth Deech (Fraenkel 1962) has been panel of judges. in giving up her evening to speak to us. It title of her thesis is: See God Face to Face: Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth, her referred to the negative critical reaction appointed a non executive member of the was an honour to meet one of the most Jo Delahunty (1982) received a Freedom Pray for the King: The late mediaeval painted farewell performance. I found it especially to her casting: she was too young and, it Board of the Law Commission starting June exceptional artists of her craft: someone of the City of London. Professor Delahunty glass of Winchester Cathedral c1495-c1515. interesting to hear about her transition followed, too inexperienced. Once again, 2019. who is truly inspiring. was nominated for her contribution to to work post-retirement. Besides Strictly, this criticism became an impelling force. I Nancy Hubbard (Burton-Prateley 1985) Jenny Grove (Hughes 1959) Over the past the Law and efforts to advance diversity Dame Darcey has presented numerous found this message particularly inspiring: has been appointed Dean of the College decade Jenny has had more than 100 and equality. More than 100 women will documentaries and Covent Garden’s live not to be quashed by criticism, but to use it, Thomas Robertson (2017) of Business at the University of Lynchberg, limericks published in the Daily Mail and receive the Freedom of the City of London cinema relays; late last year her new book however demoralising at the time, to feed Virginia. Dr Hubbard came to Lynchburg thought readers of The Ship might like to to commemorate the centenary of the Evolved was released to coincide with her ambition and determination. It was evident from Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, see her latest: Representation of the People Act 1918. The fiftieth birthday. that it is this attitude that enabled Dame where she was Director of the Center Darcey to become one of the greatest ONE GIANT LEAP FOR WOMANKIND Freedom is the highest honour the City of Ballet is by nature an unpredictable for Education, Business and Professional ballerinas of our generation. Of course, CALLED OFF London can bestow and is one of the oldest vocation and the threat of injury always Studies. she proved those critics wrong: the first By Jenny Grove surviving traditional ceremonies. looms over a dancer. No doubt helped milestone in an exceptional career. ‘The all-women spacewalk’s revised,’ Harriet Johnson (Hall 1988) was ordained by developments in medicine and Zinnie Harris (Shaw 1990) is a playwright, Nasa’s space mission quickly advised, priest in Rochester Cathedral on 29 physiotherapy, dancers today have the I was lucky enough to speak with Dame theatre director and screenwriter, with a For despite their reliance September 2018 and continues to serve as possibility of much longer careers. Italian Darcey at the buffet supper after the event. recent trilogy of plays at the Edinburgh On cutting-edge science, Assistant Curate in the parish of St Edmund dancer Alessandra Ferri (prima ballerina I was pleased, though should not have been International Festival in 2017, including Their spacesuits were not woman-sized. King and Martyr, West Kingsdown. assoluta of the Teatro alla Scala) came surprised, that we shared a belief in the This Restless House, a new adaptation of the (Daily Mail Tuesday April 9 2019) Oresteia putting the women at the centre

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Eva Kurz (1983) was born in Bratislava, Gladys Yang, the first undergraduate to in the Czechoslovakia, and fled with her read Chinese at Oxford University. After Science saves lives family to West Germany in 1968 during graduation, she returned to China to teach DIANE ACKERLEY the Prague spring. In 1982 she came to and later translate some of the nation’s England to read law at St Anne’s College finest authors into English before a period A response to Joan Shenton’s can make considered decisions about preferred type of skin cell: for example, where she gained a scholarship to do a of solitary confinement during the cultural Sacrificial Virgins in last year’s vaccination for our children. hand warts are caused by HPV types 2, 7 and 22. There are 40 HPV types that cause MA in EU law at the “Université Libre de revolution. On 19 January 2019, flowers magazine puts another side of the In The Ship 2017- 2018, Joan Shenton ano-genital infections, and at least 13 of Bruxelles”. She then qualified as a solicitor were laid for Gladys to celebrate her 100th HPV story that is backed by the wrote of her Best of Festival award for these are oncoviruses – viruses that have with Clifford Chance and worked for ten birthday. The bouquet of flowers was laid most recent research her documentary film Sacrificial Virgins. I the potential to cause human cancer. The years as a lawyer and investment banker in by two cherry trees that were planted in the am sure the film deserved the award, but ‘Smallpox is dead.’ World Health 1980 commonest high-risk HPV (HR-HPV) types the City and internationally. Following the ground of Merton College on 12 April 2012 my medical mind, nurtured by my time at for cervical cancer are 16 and 18. birth of her first son, Eva took a consultant in honour and memory of her husband ‘Vaccine deniers gaining traction on social St Anne’s, was perturbed by some of the role in restitution of Nazi-looted art. Yang Xianyi and Gladys. St Anne’s Library media as part of fake news movement, NHS statements made in the article about the HPV has a protein coat (capsid) enclosing Her research findings were discussed at has a number of her translations and a boss warns.’ BBC News March 2019 role of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and a very small amount of DNA that contains the “Remembering for the Future 2000” memoir of her life. ‘Measles outbreak: New York County bans the HPV vaccine. I started to look into the the instructions for making more HPV, but conference in Oxford in July 2000 and unvaccinated children in public.’ Guardian evidence for myself, and I cannot agree no machinery for replication. To replicate, published by Palgrave. Following the birth March 2019 with Joan Shelton’s suggestion that the a virus needs to infect a host cell and take of her second son, Eva embarked on a vaccines should be withdrawn. Read on and over that cell’s chemical machinery. HPV career change and gained an MA and an ‘HPV vaccination – Reduction in high grade decide for yourselves! has evolved to do this very efficiently: it is Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapy and cervical disease.’ BMJ April 2019 very infectious, rarely impairs the host and Counselling Psychology at Regents College In 2008 Harald zur Hausen won the In 1979 smallpox was eliminated by evades detection by the immune system. and is a member of the UK Council for Nobel Prize for demonstrating, in the vaccination and global cooperation. By Psychotherapy (UKCP). Since 2005 she has early-1980s, that HPV DNA was present in Ano-genital types of HPV are passed on vaccinating our 12-13-year-old children been working as a psychotherapist in the cervical cancer biopsies. In 2007 Australia by skin-to-skin contact, entering the body today against Human Papilloma Virus we NHS, in charitable organizations and in introduced a national anti-HPV vaccination through microabrasions. The HPV then, could eliminate their risk of certain cancers private practice. programme; by 2066 the rate of new cases after a few hours, enters a host cell and in the future. of cervical cancer in Australia is expected starts its life cycle. The skin surface on the Eva is fluent in four languages and has an But we live in an era of distrust of scientific to fall to less than 1/100,000 women from cervix, the neck of the womb, is particularly in depth understanding of the challenges in and medical authority and the spread of 19/100,000 in the early-1980s. susceptible to infection. the workplace from her previous careers. believable ‘fake news’ by social media. She has been working as a psychotherapist Papilloma viruses have a family tree going A UK study showed that in 2000, before Measles is on the rise in the developed and as a coach with professionals in the back hundreds of millions of years and immunisation started, 11.2 per cent of world because of public unease about the City as well as with students. Eva presented are found in many species. HPV causes 5 18-20-year-old women who were sexually MMR vaccine. Herd protection has been a workshop Maintaining Good Mental per cent of all human cancers worldwide, active were infected with HR-HPV 16 or 18, eroded by low vaccination rates, putting at Health as part of the Be Well, Do Well including nearly 100 per cent of cervical and 48 per cent of the group were infected mortal risk the few who cannot have the initiative. cancer, 90 per cent of anal cancer, 50 per with any type of genital HPV. Infection can Honouring Gladys Yang vaccine for medical reasons. cent of penile cancer and, in the USA, 50 occur on first sexual contact and there Gladys Yang (Taylor 1937)19 January By understanding how HPV affects our per cent of head and neck cancer. There are no symptoms even when the infected would have been the 100th birthday of bodies, and how the vaccine works, we are 170 HPV types, each of which has a person is infectious. Usually the immune

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system will eliminate the HPV Unvaccinated 1995 women also had a lower unvaccinated women, both those too Some national programmes are now within a few months, though for rate of infection: with 92 per cent of the old to have been offered vaccination, introducing the non-valent HPV vaccine HR-HPV 16 this can take up to two group immunised, HPV couldn’t be passed also younger women who do not accept that stimulates an immune response years. so easily from person to person. This is vaccination and those infected as a result against nine different viruses or other herd protection. Immunisation works to of childhood sexual abuse. Screening microorganisms, and immunising male and However, in a small number of protect the individual by stimulating specific programmes that pick up pre-cancer and female, despite the high cost of the vaccine. cases, often where there are other immune responses to the infection, and allow effective treatment will need to The benefits include better herd protection risk factors present, the virus also by preventing the infectious agent continue being offered and accepted. and reduced rates of pre-cancer and cancer persists for many years. HPV16 passing around the community by reducing for males and females. causes the cells to proliferate Having established the benefits of HPV the number of infectious hosts. and damages the host cell’s vaccine, what are the risks? By June 2017, In conclusion: there is a large amount DNA. Five to ten years after first If infection is being reduced, is cervical 270 million doses of HPV vaccine had been of good quality evidence that HPV infection, changes can be seen dysplasia/pre-cancer, the consequence distributed. causes cervical cancer and that HPV by microscope; these are called of HR-HPV infection, also being reduced? vaccination reduces pre-cancer without The University of Adelaide published a dysplasia/pre-cancer, which is Cochrane (a respected international causing significant harm. I hope that my systematic review of HPV vaccine’s adverse what the cervical smear test collaboration) published a systematic young grandchildren mature in a world effects in 2017. Anaphylaxis occurs 1.7 detects. The HPV can still be review in 2018 of 10 good quality studies, where HPV-related cancer has become times/million doses. Ignoring the usual sore naturally or surgically eliminated looking at cervical changes in the 3-8.5 a rarity thanks to scientific research and arms and fainting teenagers, after millions at this stage; however, if the years after vaccination. In women who development, global public health initiatives of doses and ten years, there is no evidence virus persists and viral DNA had no HPV infection prior to vaccination, and a better understanding by the public of that bivalent or quadrivalent HPV vaccine becomes integrated into the unvaccinated women had pre-cancer rates HPV and the benefits of HPV vaccination. causes chronic or severe disease. People host cell DNA, cancer is likely to of 164/10,000, and vaccinated women will get ill soon after an immunisation is develop about 15 years or more 2/10,000. The vaccine is reducing pre- given but the question is always whether after initial infection. In the UK, cancer very effectively. This means that Diane Ackerley MA MBBS MRCGP (1975) this is a coincidence. By using the data the commonest age to develop these women were much less likely to of the original trials, but also by looking cervical cancer is 30-34 years, have an abnormal smear test that needed at huge national databases, analysts can when 18.6/100,000 women are Human Papilloma Virus repeating or to need treatment to the programmes target those who are unlikely look at the rates of events in those who diagnosed, often by cervical cervix. to be already infected with HPV. have been immunised and those who have screening; the commonest age to in 30-year-olds. The solution might be a vaccine made of the capsid coat with the National vaccination programmes only not. It can now be shown that even rare die is 80-84 years (9.6/100,000). This is Scotland vaccinated 92 per cent of viral DNA removed so there could be no started in the late-2000s. These women, diseases like Guillain- Barre syndrome are because the virus can also enter a latent 12-13-year-old girls in 2008. A study looking risk of infection. The vaccine would induce unvaccinated, would be expected to not occurring at a rate of more than 1/ phase, reactivating as the immune system at women born from 1988 to 1995, found an antibody response so that the virus develop their cancers from about 2020 million doses. Individuals falling ill after weakens with age. that 30 per cent of the unvaccinated 1988 would be inactivated before it could enter a onwards. It is too soon to have evidence immunisation often look for an external cohort carried HPV 16/18 at 20-21-years- The problem is a highly infectious virus, cell and start to replicate. that HPV vaccination prevents cervical cause – that is human nature. old. In the vaccinated 1995 cohort only 4.5 very well adapted to the human host, giving cancer. per cent carried HPV 16/18 at the same age, Surveillance of 540,805 pregnancies where no symptoms, often contracted in the HPV vaccines were developed and trialled indicating that the vaccine worked very well There is an important caveat. Cervical vaccination was given has shown no ill first year of sexual activity (which is often from the 1990s; the first vaccine was to protect these women from infection. cancer will continue to occur in effects. under 16) and therefore causing cancer approved for use in 2006. Vaccination

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Silly Monkeys Unfinished sentences SARAH TURVEY

How do you teach your children ‘It’s the most grown up discussion I Why do we read? For information and worlds and other lives. Reading groups about money? ‘Start them young’ have in prison.’ Participants testify instruction of course but also for distraction add another dimension: a kind of critical says the author of a new game to the redeeming value of reading and escape, comfort and consolation, and sociability, a space in which to share and designed to do just that groups in prisons the desire to imagine and inhabit other test out our judgements and feelings. For prisoners all these benefits can be In 2016, he wrote a book to teach children especially valuable in the effort to go as young as four how to deal with money. straight and re-join society. Save Your Acorns (The Ship 2016-2017), which he wrote, says its author Robert I taught English Literature for many years Gardner, purely because he was unable at the University of Roehampton. The to find any books for his daughters on the idea for Prison Reading Groups (PRG) topic, now has a companion in the field. came from research with my colleague Gardner, a passionate financial education Professor Jenny Hartley into the resurgence campaigner and father of two, has invented of reading groups towards the end of the Robert Gardner and daughter at play twentieth century. As well as writing about a brand new card game which builds on the opportunity to get to grips with the them, we wanted to make use of what the ideas encapsulated in his book: ‘Silly that encourages players to eat all their basics of finance – whilst having fun of we learned and decided to see if such Monkeys’ aims to teach four- to seven-year- acorns at once! The acorns represent real course!’ groups could work in prisons. We started olds critical concepts about money that he money; the moral of the game is that if you There have been some criticisms of the in 1999 with a skeleton website and two believes will give them the best chance at work hard and save your acorns, you can whole concept of introducing children to enthusiastic librarians at HMPs Coldingley being financially secure in the future. make sure that when you need resources – the financial world so young. However, and Bullingdon. Twenty years later we fund ie: money – you will always have a healthy Gardner was inspired to develop the game research appears to show we learn our and support over 50 groups in more than supply. Gardner launched the game just in after searching for a children’s activity money saving habits early: by the end of 40 prisons nationwide. In 2018 we supplied time for Christmas last year. that would teach his two daughters key primary school children have formed their over 3,600 books. financial concepts in a fun way. Unable to ‘Children learn their money-saving habits habits and it’s all too late. The groups are flexible to meet the needs find anything on the market that specifically by the age of seven so it’s imperative for us Robert Gardner (1997) is a co-founder of of different target readerships: experienced broke down and taught the foundations as parents to teach our kids the important the investment consultancy Redington and of readers or emergent ones; young offenders of good money habits, such as budgeting lessons – how and why to budget and RedSTART, a financial education initiative that or over-50s; those with addiction or mental and saving, he decided to develop his own save – as early as possible,’ says Rob. aims to improve the financial literacy of young health problems. Groups may meet weekly game. ‘In today’s world of instant gratification people and give them the tools they need to or monthly or something in between and children naturally want things right away ‘Silly Monkeys’ brings back familiar take control of their financial future. regular attendance varies from six or seven without thinking about what this means in characters from Save Your Acorns. The aim members to more than a dozen. of the game is to help your squirrel store the long term. We need to instigate those You can buy ‘Silly Monkeys’ at more acorns than your opponents in a crucial conversations early on, and so this saveyouracorns.com RRP £5.00. Thirty We work closely with library staff and sustainable way and avoid the Silly Monkey immersive game will open up a dialogue per cent of each sale is donated to where possible groups are co-run with an between parent and child, and gives kids RedSTART

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outside volunteer for whom PRG provides and choice. For many prisoners, school was ‘This reading group is a wonderful thing mentoring and support. the scene of failure and alienation so we because I would never have read such a book stress that there are no tests, no certificates on the outside and it’s changed my point of ‘We normally argue a bit, laugh and try to and no right or wrong answers. view entirely.’ listen to each other. It’s undoubtedly the best part of my [prison librarian] job and I come ‘For one hour a month I feel that my opinion Funding from generous supporters means away from the group thinking Wow! I get paid is valid, that I am listened to and that others PRG can supply new books and members to do this!’ care what I say. In the reading group everyone can keep their copies or pass them on to is given a voice, all have an equal say.’ others. For prisoners, as for all of us, books ’Most rewarding for me as a volunteer provide important cultural capital and they is watching hesitant prisoners develop Becoming a reader is about choice so are often displayed proudly in-cell. After the confidence to talk with passion and wherever possible groups choose the release one ex-member sent us a photo understanding about books that have books they read and discuss. Choices are of all the reading group books he had provoked strong reactions’ ambitious and eclectic as the list of one can be explored and enjoyed. Feedback and with ourselves. For prisoners, the responses worth sharing with others. collected while inside, now given pride of group’s recent reads shows: from a group’s discussion of Laird Hunt’s group becomes a place of mutual respect Research confirms that rehabilitation – place in his lodgings. ‘There’s a lot of pressure on men inside to novel Neverhome shows this in action: where members learn not only the skills desistance – is a process, so our groups Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time come across as one of the lads. Book club is a Reading builds empathy, the ability to of speaking and listening but how to are open-ended rather than fixed-term Anthony Horowitz, The Word is Murder A cracking session, full of energy and place where I can be myself’ put yourself in the shoes of someone encourage and support each other. projects. They promote skills over time and Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol enthusiasm. One chap declared, ‘I was hooked else, to experience the world in new and Sarah Turvey (1973) is Director of Prison prisoners remain members for as long as Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live from that opening sentence’. Another said ‘I ‘P found the beginning of the book hard going unexpected ways. It is also seen as an Reading Groups (PRG) they want. Lindsey Fitzharris, The Butchering Art loved that fierce independent girl, she was like but M on the wing encouraged him to stick important element of rehabilitation and the www.prison-reading-groups.org.uk Colm Toibin, Brooklyn Mattie Ross in True Grit (a book we had read with it and soon he found he couldn’t put it The core principles of PRG are informality reading group is a space where empathy [email protected] in the group many months before). ‘I felt swept down’ PRG is part of Give a Book up in her life and I loved the language like Many prisoners pass on their books to www.giveabook.org.uk when she writes “I miss you fierce”.’ family members, which creates a bond and The letters in the novel and a poem we read a way to break the ice during often tricky towards the end of the session led us to letters phone calls and visits. in prison and the pleasure for some in writing ‘My daughter shadow reads our group books and reading them. ‘I never really wrote letters and this connection with my family has helped 'til I was inside and I like the way writing them keep us strong and dedicated to one another.’ makes you think about the other person and [A prisoner who had been inside for 16 years.] what you really want to say. Very different from texts and twitter.’ Another man talked Membership builds confidence and about how the handwriting in a letter seems ambition and can be a stepping-stone to to create a physical connection and that further learning. sometimes the way the writing moves can let Sam reading about the Wild West. CREDIT Above all perhaps, the reading group is you trace the feelings behind it. FOR DRAWING: Matthew Meadows, an artist a place where prisoners can recognise who has worked in prisons for some years, Books connect us: with family and other themselves and start to construct a new teaching and supporting prisoner artists. people, with the wider culture outside identity – as readers with ideas and There are other great images on his website Pride of place www.matthewmeadows.net

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dressed as a boy and finding protection Society in Oxford in 2016. On their advice I the historical events to make a really good A lunatick enterprise? from Cardinal Richelieu in France! submitted some chapters, only to hear no story. A page turner.’ more from them. This, I am led to believe, is ANN REVILL Just as entrancing was Frances’ mother, not altogether unusual. Lady Eliza Hatton, herself a favourite at and alchemy, both in the Bodleian and has ebbed and flowed, ranging in age from Ann Revill (Radford 1955) It took time, effort and hard work court and a close friend of King James’ wife So the novel rested, with the first version Bristol University Library. Research also twenties to eighties, but there was always Copies of The Lunatick’s Wife are available but she made the dream come true and Queen Consort, Anne of Denmark, on the computer, available to family and involved having my own horoscope cast; encouragement to keep writing – and to from Ann at [email protected] Time on my hands. I had been made but continually at war with her husband, friends who were interested enough to inaccurately, I was told, because I could start another novel. For me the subject or 55 High Street, Wickwar, Wotton-under- redundant from teaching history in a Bristol refusing to use his name, complaining that read it on the screen, until 2018, when the not identify the precise hour at which my would be a case of what we would now call Edge, Glos. GL12 8NP Comprehensive. A little teaching in an he removed her goods, including her coach secretary of the Writers’ Group, suggested mother gave birth to me. This enabled ‘domestic abuse’. independent school was on offer but – for and even her clothes, while he accused that as he had been able to get the group’s me to ignore its conclusions, while I the rest – housekeeping had never been I had come across the case of Frances her of changing the gold and silver plate in anthology – which won in its category accumulated enough material for a novel: my favourite occupation. On the other Coke in Antonia Fraser’s The Weaker Vessel: his house for brass. Their lives were spent in a competition held by the National Dee’s life told through the eyes of his hand, I had always loved story telling. Woman’s Lot in Seventeenth-Century England. largely apart, coming together mainly in Association of Writers’ Groups – printed, long-suffering wife. There then passed Perhaps there was a book in me? We’re told The 14-year-old daughter of the renowned lawsuits. She opposed the marriage of their he could do the same for my novel. I many months attempting to interest agents everyone has at least one. And so I began Lord Chief Justice, Sir Edward Coke, had daughter so vehemently that she ran away changed the working title to The Lunatick’s in what I felt was a fascinating tale. The to gather material for a historical novel. been tied to the bedposts and whipped with her. When he found them, Sir Edward Wife, which I hoped was intriguing. Alan interest was, however, confined to the until she agreed to marry the older brother Coke broke down the doors and engaged suggested a local artist, Claire Failes, My chosen story was of the Elizabethan members of the Bristol Writers’ Group I of the Duke of Buckingham, favourite in a physical tug of war, with Frances torn to work on the cover and we chose an astrologer, Doctor John Dee. Research led attended. Taking professional advice, I was of James I. This suitor, Sir John Villiers, between them. illustration of Frances Coke dressed as a me to investigate Hermetic philosophy advised to leave Doctor Dee for a while had recurring mental health problems, page, leading her small son away from and write Friends who heard the story related in the sometimes described as ‘melancholy’, ‘in London to safety. something else. Writers’ Group were enthusiastic, but as his dull fit’, or violently smashing glass and A fresh start friends are notoriously supportive of even I, now in my eighties, was delighted and so becoming ‘all bloodied’. was indicated. mediocre writing, I sent my manuscript to grateful for the friendship, which enabled Another book, The Lady of Bleeding Heart Tim Wilson, who writes historical novels me to hold in my hand a book of my own. On my Yard: Lady Elizabeth Hatton 1578-1646 by under the name of Jude Morgan. He I have gone into a second small print run husband’s Laura Norsworthy, a biography of Frances’ commented on the ‘great pace and succinct and am able to sell the novel at £10 + £3 retirement mother published in 1935, included many storytelling’, but made some suggestions postage for any others who are interested in 1999, we documents and contemporary details, for improvement, which I then worked in reading the story of Frances Coke. moved to which enabled me to start my new book. on. I was also encouraged by winning Wotton-under- As I said, friends and family are notorious And what a life Frances had led – a £200 in a competition with a stand-alone Edge and I for commenting favourably on any writing vivacious beauty at the court of James I, chapter dealing with the lynching of the found another by members of their coterie. However, I but persecuted by her husband’s family necromancer Frances and her lover had Writers’ did receive the following comment from over the refusal of her mother to release consulted. Then began the next round Group almost someone unknown to me: ‘Once I had her dowry, taking a lover and giving birth of submission to agents. There was no immediately. started The Lunatick’s Wife I didn’t want to his child, facing two trials for adultery, joy from those I contacted by email, but I Over the to stop reading – and stayed up very late refusing to do the penance determined as was encouraged by a couple whom I met years the one evening. I love the way she has taken her punishment, twice escaping custody at the Conference of the Historical Novel membership people not generally well known and used The Lunatick’s Wife: cover illustration by Claire Failes Ann Revill

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Cancer and How to Publications Stop Worrying About it. During her years as a GP she was involved St Anne’s College is proud to have so many alumnae Philippa Gerry (1950) says in medical politics and who have gone on to be successful authors. We have an her book We Thought You developing patient- alumnae section of books in the Library and in addition Knew published in April 2018: friendly practices, and contributed to to The Ship, we list the books on our website http:// • Is about the importance books and journals www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/alumnae/our-alumna/alumnae- of words: how a few about aspects of authors. Please get in touch with development@ words, not said general practice. st-annes.ox.ac.uk if you’d like to be included in any of when they could be, or She established a these places. hastily said, shape lives. website which for Huw David (1999) has published Trade, Politics, and Revolution: • About the importance ten years enabled South Carolina and Britain’s Atlantic Commerce, 1730-1790 (University of a loved mother: how 200 medical students of South Carolina Press, 2018). It has just been awarded the George a hunger for love from 20 countries to C Rogers Jr Prize by the South Carolina Historical Society for the occurs when she is pursue their elective best book published in 2018 on the history of South Carolina. suddenly not there; how periods in Cuba, a life- to keep on living. changing experience for some. She has • About the importance of continued to write kindness: beauties of life and Perspectives, published earlier this year, is a collection of essays on a farm; the web of kindness in extended family, school, work; written over ten years for the newsletter of the National Association how, in spite of pain, we seek joy. of Sessional GPs and other journals. Seventy-four short articles • About the importance of patience: failure to reconnect with explore ideas about doctors, patients, the senses, culture, medical returned parents; wrong choices. practice, careers, ethics and politics, and the future. Though written this research and tells of the origins of this enigmatic, remarkable for an audience of GPs, they should be of interest to anyone, building. Sited in a modest Yorkshire Dales village, it is a unique • About a slow recovery: being apprehended by the long arm of professional or patient – and we are all sometimes patients. example of a Baroque miniature almshouse in Britain. The God; repenting, forgiving, learning about love. book explores the life of its benefactor Richard Fountaine, from Jane Houlton (Modern and Mediaeval Languages 1972) is a Me? I'm 87 and quite happy thank you. Though, with present a humble background in Linton, who made his fortune as a retired business and economic development consultant. She wisdom, I would like to re-write the second half. The fiction would haberdasher in Restoration London. It analyses the architectural collaborated with her late husband, architect Michael Devenish, on be more exciting. To forgive sooner, take the offered career, marry detail of the building and considers its likely architect - from a research report into the Fountaine Hospital Almshouse, Linton- the man who offered. Watch this space! amongst the leading exponents of English Baroque. in-Craven, The Fountaine Hospital Almshouse: An Architectural History Judith Harvey (1965) graduated in Zoology in 1968 and went on (unpublished, for the Hospital Trustees, 2018) available in the Cherry James (Lucas, 1977) read Literae Humaniores at St Anne’s to a DPhil in the Department of Zoology. After living in Papua New British Library, RIBA Library and St Anne’s Library. before qualifying and working as a solicitor and then, when her Guinea, Liverpool and London she returned to St Anne’s, thanks two children were small, studying for an LLM at University College Jane’s book An Almshouse for Linton: Richard Fountaine’s Legacy to Marianne Fillenz, to qualify as a doctor in 1985. As a junior London. She has subsequently taught law, first for the Open (www.clhawley.co.uk/richard-fountaines-legacy) draws on doctor in obstetrics she was given study leave to write Cervical University and since 2006 at London South Bank University where Huw David (right)

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she teaches English Legal System and EU In memoriam law and looks after Erasmus students in the Law Division. She Jane Alexander (Bennett 1966) 24 October 2018 Pauline Jackson (Booth 1964) 29 December 2018 was awarded a PhD by Jo Barker (1994) 6 December 2018 Ann Karkalas (Draycon 1954) 18 May 2018 Birkbeck, University of London in 2017 and her Joanna Bazley (Hainton 1965) 8 October 2018 Claire L'Enfant (Cavanagh 1969) 22 August 2018 book Citizenship, Nation- Linda Beaulieu (Nadin 1967) 27 December 2018 Mary Marquardt (Lindsay-Rea 1948) 21 March 2019 building and Identity in the EU: The Contribution Wendy Beckett (1950) 1 December 2018 Mignon Marston (1944) 13 August 2018 of Erasmus Student Dorothy Bell (1951) 16 March 2019 Wendy Mellors (Williamson 1950) 11 January 2019 Mobility, which is based on her PhD thesis was Rosemary Bischoff 5 November 2018 Mary Miles (Sparkes 1943) 9 July 2018 published in January Bridget Bridgwater (Burges 1950) 11 October 2018 Jessica Minchinton (1943) 21 November 2018 2019. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, Pamela Broadhurst (Williamson 1950) 31 July 2018 Wendy Newell (1956) 7 August 2018 running and music. Peggy Clarke (Wood 1956) 18 September 2018 Evangeline Ntiro (Nyendwoha 1951) 22 October 2018 Juliet Fazan McMaster Janet Clarke (Thompson 1954) 22 February 2019 Muriel Odunton (1972) 1 November 2018 (Fazan 1956) has recently published Ann Finucane (De Valon 1948) 7 August 2018 Ruth Rigbi (Landman 1941) 14 June 2018 an adventure novel for young adults, Blades Against the Dark, Joy Flint (Parker 1942) 29 November 2018 Alice Smith (1927) 12 September 2018 which draws on her childhood in Kenya and her experience as a competitive fencer (Friesen Press, 2017). Best known as an Austen Hilda Gaskell (Cowley 1938) 30 June 2018 Christian Smith (Carnegy 1948) 27 October 2018 scholar and founder of the Juvenilia Press, Juliet's previous book Dilys Elizabeth Glynne (1948) 3 April 2019 Christine Speirs (Fox 1947) 2 September 2018 was Jane Austen, Young Author (Routledge, 2015). She will be giving stretching across time and disciplines, and to find shared human a plenary address at the Jane Austen Society of North America next Una Goble (Lewis 1952) 27 December 2018 Kathleen Stewart (Holloway 1950) 4 August 2018 concerns, themes, problems and innovations throughout time. year in Cleveland, Ohio. Barbara Graham (Wilson 1953) 7 August 2018 Gillian Watson (1980) 28 December 2017 Book One, Riddle of the Runes: A Viking Mystery, is set in the fictional Janina Ramirez (Maleczek 1998) is a cultural historian, broadcaster Viking village of 'Kilsgard' and follows Alva, a fearless young Maureen Gunn (Hanna 1953) 8 October 2018 Ruth Whiting (1958) April 2018 and author based at the University of Oxford with a passion for detective and shield maiden as she unravels a series of thrilling communicating ideas about the past. Her research began with a Vada Hart (Readman 1960) 3 September 2018 Justin Willson (1979) 30 November 2018 mysteries with her Uncle Magnus. It is aimed at readers aged nine degree in English literature at Oxford, followed by an MA and PhD and above. Jane Havell (1972) 29 September 2018 at the Centre for Medieval Studies in York on the art, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England. Her interests have constantly Sian Reynolds (1958), Elizabeth Ewan, Rose Pipes, Jane Rendall Briony Hazelton (Bullocke 1951) 22 February 2019 Please note that some dates are approximate as no branched outwards in all directions as she has taught more broadly exact date was provided when the College was notified. have edited The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women Rebecca Henderson (2013) 27 February 2019 on everything from classical architecture to the work of Tracey (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). Emin. Broadcasting has allowed Janina to see narrative threads Frances Ironton (Montgomery 1972) 12 February 2019

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of this time – an outstanding one is of In 1997, she met and married the author as a lab research assistant at Kings Obituaries Muriel learning to ride a bike behind Jim Proser. They moved from Los Angeles College London she became an editor Hartland House wearing bright yellow to Sarasota, Florida in 2014, where she and (German) translator for International IN MEMORIAM ‘bookies’, bringing together ‘town and gown’ IN MEMORIAM knee-high platform boots and green velvet built a successful business as host of The Retrieval Ltd. She met her husband, JOHANNA (JO) BARKER 1995 in a most unique way (but undoubtedly a MURIEL (ADOLEY) trousers. Wellness Revolution, an on-line interview Desmond Bazley through their shared 29 JULY 1976 – 6 DECEMBER 2018 challenge to her studies). ODUNTON PROSER (1972) programme. membership of the London Philharmonic She soon proved to be a gifted actor and 14 FEBRUARY 1953 – 16 JULY 2018 Choir, and they had four children: Harriet, Jo graduated The testimony of many of her former was acclaimed for her portrayal of Olivia Adoley was proud of her Ghanaian Nicholas, Christopher, and Martin. Fellow from St Anne’s students as to the long-lasting effect she Our friend in the 1973 Worcester College open-air heritage and loved its culture. She was a students at Oxford will remember her in 1998 and had on their lives was evidenced by a Day Muriel (Adoley) production of Twelfth Night, directed by very private person but a wonderful and vivacious intellect, energy, and generous subsequently of Celebration of Life, which they organised, Odunton died Patrick Garland. No one who was in the supportive friend, full of energy, funny and spirit. One special memory I have is taught in and by the numerous moving comments of cancer in July audience will forget the thrilling sound loyal. A scholarship fund has been set up in her giving me a spare ticket for Richard Germany, on social media. They were all confirmation 2018. Fellow of her voice floating across Worcester her name to help the neediest children in Strauss’s Elektra at Covent Garden in Switzerland and that she was an inspirational teacher who students from lake. After graduation she worked as a Ghana receive an education. 1966, which sparked my lifelong love of Italy, travelling enriched the lives of many. the early-1970s professional actor, taking a leading role Jim survives her, as do two brothers, opera. As a violinist, Jo played in the U3A extensively in Europe and North America. will remember in the TV show Mixed Blessings (1978- Even in the last week of her life, speaking Allotey and Olu, and a sister, Elizabeth. orchestra and Wimbledon Community Her last European post was as Vice- her incredible 80), which was launched as a ‘ground- from the audience of BBC Question Time, Orchestra, both of which she helped Principal of Rome International, where she style, ironic breaking’ sitcom about an interracial Celia Petty (1972) she argued with a passion for young people to found and run. She and Desmond was successful in obtaining International sense of humour marriage. Carmen Munroe, the pioneering and Mary Harron (1972) who had not been allowed to vote in the established a charity at Dundonald Primary Bacclaureate status for that College. She and outstanding performances in a string black actor who played her mother, Referendum and therefore had had no say School, Wimbledon in order to continue returned to England where she taught of OUDS productions. became a guide and friend. in their future. the orchestra they set up there together. for five years at Hockerill Anglo-European IN MEMORIAM Muriel first travelled to the UK from her While Adoley’s early success was She was a volunteer recorder teacher, too College and was their Oxbridge Co- Jo lived life to the full, despite her last years JOANNA BAZLEY (HAINTON 1965) native Ghana in 1958 when her father, impressive at a time when opportunities - generally, a firm believer that everyone ordinator before her terminal illness forced of ill health, continuing to relish travelling 30 MARCH 1947 – 5 OCTOBER 2018 Joseph Odunton, became the first black for black actors were scarce, she became had musical talent. her early retirement back to Cornwall in and even wild swimming in Ullswater and frustrated by the series’ failure to live up Joanna Bazley African to hold an appointment at ‘Once a scientist, always a scientist’ Jo 2017. off the Cornish coast in her last few weeks. to its promise of radical change in the was a staunch Buckingham Palace, as assistant press said, claiming that all the ‘causes’ she portrayal of race relations. In 1980 she supporter of St She had a passion for enabling students She was buried on the wildest of days last secretary for the Queen’s 1961 visit to took up in later life were influenced by decided to leave London for Los Angeles Anne’s College from state schools to obtain places at December in the most beautiful woodland Ghana. She returned at the age of eight, her background as an Oxford-trained and reverted to her African name, Adoley. and will be sorely Oxbridge, continuing to mentor in her last burial site, chosen by herself, in her when her parents decided that their zoologist. She was keenly interested in There she built a distinguished career missed by her months some local students, resulting in beloved Cornwall. daughter should be educated in Britain. the scientific basis of peace work and as a TV production executive and also family, friends them obtaining offers from Oxford. Despite After attending primary school in West environmental campaigns and in sharing A small legacy in Jo’s name has recently directed a film. Then, following serious and the wider this, she understood the financial pressures London, she won a scholarship to St Paul’s her extensive knowledge with a wider been given by her family and friends to the health problems, her faith and an interest community. and injustices for some students attending Girls’ School and arrived at St Anne’s public. Joanna served as a school governor student bursary fund towards enabling in alternative therapies took her along She was an Oxford. She was one of the first students in 1972. She came up to study PPE, in in three schools in Wimbledon, where she students to have a travel study grant to another path and she began to explore active peace to fund herself by working not only during accordance with her parents’ wishes, but lived for more than 40 years. Committed further their studies, as Jo would have the world of wellbeing through alternative campaigner and environmentalist, who vacations but also in term time. Throughout shortly after changed to English, which is to maximising community involvement wished. therapies. Adoley’s first marriage, to loved music, reading, walking, gardening; her second year, she was employed up where her true interests and talents lay. in schools, she became a respected and screenwriter Johnny Dawkins, ended in but above all, she loved her family. Jo to 20 hours a week in a Cowley Road Barbara and Jonathan Barker Friends will have their own vivid memories trusted advisor, taking on influential divorce although they remained friends. read Zoology at Oxford, and after working

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public roles as chair of governing boards IN MEMORIAM working as a teacher — something that she time, David Johnson, observed, ‘an unself- ‘Sometimes, I wake up breathless with emotional anguish was also profoundly­ and convener of subcommittees. Her SISTER WENDY BECKETT (1950) regarded as a ‘martyrdom’. conscious natural for television’. wonder at what God has given me,’ she aware, intellectually, that God was her exceptional work as a school governor 25 FEBRUARY 1930 – 26 DECEMBER 2018 said. ‘My profound appeal is that he’ll make total life and that she lived only to love Afflicted by stress-induced epileptic fits, As well as more shows, she now gained was acknowledged when she was chosen it possible for me to live up to it. I dread him. A word that appears frequently is Sister Wendy she returned to England and became a opportunities to be a published writer on as Merton’s ‘Governor of the Year’. As a being someone who’ll fritter it away.’ “unwanted”. Beckett, who died consecrated virgin, moving into a caravan specifically religious subjects, such as the peace campaigner, Joanna was active in on 26 December in the grounds of the Carmelite convent saints, icons and prayer. ‘Her profound expositions of the paintings ‘Mother Teresa’s life work was to care CND from the 1980s, working closely with aged 88, had at Quidenham, in Norfolk, and working are deceptively simple,’ wrote our TV for the world’s “unwanted”. Her intense national leaders, and from 2000 to 2018 Her book Art and the Sacred was published been a Religious, on Latin translation. She lived here reviewer in 2013, of Sister Wendy and the Art empathy for them may well have been she led the Wimbledon peace vigil. She in 1992. It contained colour illustrations leading a solitary as a hermit, rising at midnight to pray of the Gospel. ‘Surely, most people would fuelled by her own sense of being edited (and largely wrote) the Wimbledon of works by a range of modern artists, life for two and giving seven hours each day to her be deeply moved by this programme, and “unwanted by God”. It was only a feeling: it peace magazine, for which she extensively with her comments, which were ‘always decades before devotions. drawn to the conclusion that there might was not reality.’ researched global initiatives, especially scrupulously truthful’, our reviewer she accepted be more to this Christianity stuff than they in relation to nuclear disarmament; and The austerity and simplicity of this lifestyle concluded. ‘Quite simply, they justify her Death is ‘the climax of our life, when we an invitation to had ever thought.’ she attended many conferences as well as was reflected when she was later briefly reputation as one of the foremost art pass into the presence of God,’ Sister appear in a BBC innumerable demonstrations. diverted into food writing for The Daily critics of our time, and one of the most It was inevitable that the Church Times Wendy observed in 2012. ‘It’s going to documentary about the National Gallery. Telegraph in 1994: ‘Make yourself a cup of accessible.’ should seek to publish extracts from her happen, whether you try to put it off or Jo was a local tree warden in Wimbledon Rapidly establishing herself as tea and cut a nice slice of brown bread,’ books, and even invite her to contribute. not; so why not see it as a crowning?’ and started a ‘guerilla garden’ to deter litter Sister Wendy’s Book of Saints, published in an unconventional and engaging she instructed. ‘Sprinkle some salt on the It was a slightly daunting task to contact accumulation in her street. She supported 1998, was well received. ‘The saints are the This article appeared in the Church Times commentator, fizzing with enthusiasm, she dish, and, if you want to be really fancy, her, but no less daunting was the tiny local efforts to keep motorised traffic people, weak and imperfect like ourselves, on 4 January 2019. became a household name in the 1990s some chopped chives. Take it and sit by handwriting in which her contributions under control and encourage children to who said a total ‘Yes’ to God’s love. It is not (www.churchtimes.co.uk) in spite of the life of seclusion, which she the window in the sunlight and slowly and returned. walk to school. As a member of the John that they were strong enough, or virtuous maintained between television recording reverently eat this dish.’ Innes Society, she was an active volunteer enough, to win his love, because that love For the column ‘Prayer for the Week’ in sessions. IN MEMORIAM gardener and a regular contributor to Her first book on art, Contemporary Women is always freely given, but only those we August 2004, she chose the shortest and MARGARET CULLEN (JOHNSON 1957) the Society’s newsletter. Jo’s own garden To those who regarded her life as a hermit Artists, was published in 1988. She once call saints actually did that blessed taking; most immediate of biblical and other 30 APRIL 1937 – 11 NOVEMBER 2017 remains a living embodiment of her belief and a TV celebrity as self-contradictory, the observed: ‘It is my apostolic duty to talk accepted the reality of being loved with all prayers, about which she wrote with in ‘natural’ gardening, without harmful response lay in her sense of obedience. about art. If you don’t know about God, art its consequences,’ she wrote. a directness that came from discipline ‘Generations have trod...’ pesticides and with due respect for ‘Making television isn’t the kind of prayer is the only thing that can set you free.’ both intellectual and spiritual. Later that Her attitude to Sister Wendy on Prayer, ‘… the journey was enlivened by the presence wildlife, propagating plants from seeds I would have chosen, but it’s what God year, she advised on coping with a family After Sister Wendy’s appearance in published in 2007, was ambivalent. ‘No of a rather unfriendly professor and about or cuttings. The annual CND ‘Fete of the chose for me,’ she told her interviewer for Christmas. ‘Try, even for a few moments, to the National Gallery documentary, the one would dare write a book about how a 6 male undergrads who didn’t even help Earth’ flourished under her leadership, the radio programme Desert Island Discs. find a place apart. ... Be still; let the wonder Controller of BBC2 rang the film’s director husband and wife are to talk to each other,’ me with my case… It was too darn hot too! raising thousands of pounds for peace become real to you; accept the child as Born in South Africa in 1930, she wanted with the instruction: ‘Give that nun a she commented in an interview (Features, I then went to my room. I like it. It satisfies campaigning. Lord; and thank him for such inconceivable to be a nun as a child and joined the series.’ 17 October 2007). ‘The whole point of me somehow – like a nice new book or love. Let Jesus give himself. Then go back Christine Lucia (1965) Sisters of Notre Dame aged 16. Her great prayer is that it is just us, there before something.’ so writes my mother Margaret Her appearance in an ITV programme, to the festivities and give him to others.’ delight was reading and, after studying at the loving God. I know that the way God Cullen in her diary, October 1957 on her Visions, described as a ‘beautiful vignette’, St Anne’s College, she graduated with a gives himself to me is not the way he gives It was to her that we turned, in 2009, for arrival for her first term at St Anne’s. was followed two years later by her own Congratulatory First in English Literature himself to most people, and it’s no good a review of a book about the darkness programme, Sister Wendy’s Odyssey. She The room in Springfield St Mary (now from Oxford — JRR Tolkein led the just talking about God and me.’ in Mother Teresa’s life: ‘This woman who was, the Church Times TV critic at that incorporated into the St Anne’s campus) applause — before spending two decades felt that there was no God and lived in

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did satisfy Margaret. Reading English over the years. A great teacher, who Jenny Brown (Cullen 1987), Headmistress Joy went up to St Anne’s in October 1942 happened to be for rent at the time. I was limited means, at St Anne’s satisfied her. She found demanded excellence from her pupils and of The City of London School for Girls. to read English Language and Literature born in 1954 and until we moved back to she received an the intellectual energy and wit of both her department, she was literary to the Jessica Brown (2016) currently reading – but only, initially, for a year. During this Wimbledon in 1961, she home-schooled excellent education students and dons suited her own core, and great fun. She recognized the English at St Anne’s. time, she spent some memorable hours me with imagination and patience. She at the Carlisle forceful intellect and personality and she huge privilege of, in Wittgenstein’s words, fire-watching in the blacked-out Bodleian immersed herself in Naworth’s history and Grammar School quickly felt at home. Under the expert ‘working for a future you’ll never see’, or as Library. Late in 1943, she joined the Wrens in the natural world surrounding us. for Girls. There she and rigorous tutelage of Professor Wren, one of her former pupils who followed her (the Women’s Royal Naval Service), where proved to be such After a short period of graduate work, Joy Miss Ingham and Mrs Bednarowska (who to St Anne’s, put it, ‘having incomparable she first worked mending and servicing an outstanding started her long career as an examiner of asked her if she really wanted to write impact and influence on my future and the aircraft, and then as a Plotter, in Liverpool, student that the O and A level English papers, eventually essays on the use of the semicolon), she way I see things’. tracing the movement of shipping and, Headmistress gave becoming Chief Examiner in English for the thrived and took a First. Inspired in part occasionally, aircraft. After demobilization her private lessons in Greek, a subject So positive was she about her experience Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations. by Professor Tolkien she selected the Old in April 1946, she immediately re-joined which was not on the curriculum, but at St Anne’s in the 1950s that 30 years later Meetings took her to Oxford, where, from Norse option, attending all Tolkien’s Old St Anne’s and completed her BA. Back which Maureen pursued purely out of her daughter (Jenny Brown, née Cullen) the late-1970s, she much enjoyed her flat, Icelandic lectures until he retired in 1959. in 1943, she’d met Ray at a hop in the interest. read English at St Anne’s (in turn facing the with its wonderful views over the Dragon My mother fondly recalled the last word of Birmingham student union – he was galvanizing rigour and precision of Miss School playing fields. For many years, In 1953 she started her academic career at his final lecture: ‘Namárië’ [‘Farewell’]. reading Engineering on an accelerated Ingham’s teaching). Miss Ingham may no in Wimbledon, she regularly prepared St Anne’s with an Exhibition Scholarship. degree – and they married in September longer be in the building, but Hartland students for Oxford and Cambridge During her undergraduate years, Maureen 1947. House library now holds the happy spirit of University Entrance examinations. She and I were frequently tutorial partners, IN MEMORIAM three generations of English students from St Anne’s continued to mean a great deal produced an edition of Thomas Hood’s presenting our essays to the scrutiny of JOY FLINT (PARKER 1942), JOHNSON this family, as Margaret’s granddaughter, to Joy throughout her life. Her tutors – Selected Poems for Carcanet. Mrs Bednarowska, an experience that HONORARY FELLOW Jessica Brown is currently loving her time especially Dorothy Bednarowska and made us life-long friends. For some time, 3 FEBRUARY 1923 – 28 NOVEMBER 2018 After a heart attack in 1997, Joy guarded as a St Anne’s English undergraduate. Elaine Griffiths – remained a continual we both lived at Cherwell Edge, which also her stores of energy very carefully Jessica has inherited her grandmother’s Joy Flint was proud point of reference, as did certain created a strong bond between a number – but she still found plenty to enjoy: perverse affection for punctuation: of her Yorkshire touchstones from the literature she of us. reading; gardening; executing exquisite she wrote an essay last summer on background. She was studied: Shakespeare (especially his needlepoint; spending time with her cats; After receiving her BA in 1956, Maureen Shakespeare’s use of parentheses. born in Hanging Heaton, poetry); the Gawain poet; the metaphysical researching family history. She died on 28 went on to do a BLitt under the legendary She found her vocation at St Anne’s: Batley, in a house that poets; Traherne; Keats. She had an Margaret was always grateful to Oxford November 2018 and is survived by Ray and Dominican Gervase Matthew. This she not to become a nun, as the Oxford looked over fields to extraordinary feeling for the beauty of and to St Anne’s College for providing myself. completed in 1958. She then undertook careers advisor suggested on hearing her the family shoddy mill. words and for the power of literature to her with such a comfortable and fulfilling her first teaching job at the College of St activities (Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, She took enormous pride in her maternal move one. She made life-long friends Kate Flint (1973) intellectual space for three years. Margaret Matthias, Fishponds, in Bristol, where she Joint Action Against Racial Intolerance line: they were also in the recycled wool among fellow undergraduates: Philippa revisited St Anne’s during Jessica’s first year taught English literature to students, many Group, Fellowship of Reconciliation), but business, and before that, were farmers McLeish, Ann Bonsor and Nancy Marsden – and scolded Jenny for forgetting her way of whom were preparing to teach in local to become an English teacher. She taught in North Yorkshire. Her grandmother, who married Ray’s brother Don. IN MEMORIAM around – St Anne’s never stopped meaning schools. English with enormous success for 35 Elizabeth Jaggar, was a JP and helped MAUREEN HANNA GUNN (HANNA 1953) home to her. Joy and Ray moved from Oxford to years, first at Latymer School in Edmonton establish Joy’s liking for strong-minded 4 SEPTEMBER 1933 – 28 JULY 2018 In 1961, Maureen came to Canada Kew, then to Wimbledon and, in 1957, and subsequently as Head of English for She died peacefully at home with her women. In her early teens, Joy moved to and joined the English faculty of to Naworth Castle, near Brampton in Maureen Hanna, the only child of James 28 years at South Hampstead High School. husband and three grown up children with Birmingham, winning a scholarship to King Guelph University in Ontario. Since this Cumberland, near where Ray was working and Mildred Hanna, was born in Carlisle She sent dozens of her pupils to St Anne’s her in November 2017. Edward’s School. institution is mainly known for its science and where a border castle tower just on 4 September 1933. Despite her parents’ programmes, including animal husbandry,

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she left Guelph after two years and and cooked wonderful meals themselves. Becca completed a future and it is hard for us to realise that Becca was awarded her MA degree on 27 Ann quickly became a vital force in the accepted a more congenial position at Above all, they were most generous and BA in English and she will not have the chance to fulfil them. July 2019. department. A person of diverse interests, Carleton University in Ottawa. She would their hospitality was legendary. Modern Languages she taught a wide variety of courses, We remember the inspiring and positive From the College website remain there until her retirement. In at St Anne’s College including science fiction, short stories, the After retirement, Maureen and Ian were example Becca showed us in treasuring the addition to a full teaching load, Maureen between 2013 and Bloomsbury group and the literature of able to indulge in their love of travelling, opportunities around her and encouraging also decided to do a PhD for the University 2017. A talented World War I. She also became a force in but Maureen never lost her interest in us to think of others by signing up as organ IN MEMORIAM of Montreal, working part-time on John and enthusiastic the world of Scottish literature, fostering teaching. For a number of years she and blood donors. We will always be proud ANN MARION KARKALAS (DRAYCON 1954) Bromyard, a famous fourteenth-century student, she was the work of a number of writers over the volunteered at the Glebe Centre, reading that Becca, as an undergraduate and 4 AUGUST 1935 – 18 MAY 2018 Dominican preacher. accepted by the years by setting up ‘Writers’ Workshops’. to residents interested in literature; in graduate student, was someone who was University of Oxford I first met Ann in 1956 Established writers were invited to take In 1971 she married Ian Edward Gunn the retirement centre where she spent part of and loved St Anne’s. for an MSt in when we lived in the part in the workshop sessions, reading and who had come to Canada in 1960 and her last years, she started a group who English (650 – 1550), also at St Anne’s. Becca’s tutors shared their memories: same St Anne’s hostel. assessing students’ work. Often this helped after some years working in Montreal, was enjoyed discussing poetry. She herself was We were both reading her student writers towards publication. In employed as a computer programmer a voracious and discerning reader, with a During her studies she fell ill with sepsis 'Becca was a person of extraordinary English Literature and later years, Ann was a frequent visitor to at Carleton University. Although their remarkable memory. Whether proffering and whilst in hospital was diagnosed courage, humour and intellectual our friendship grew the Edinburgh Festival, attending events at academic disciplines were very different, advice or help when asked, her keen with cancer of the heart. She defied the achievement as well as potential. She had the quickly, stimulated which some of her former students might Maureen and Ian shared many interests, intellect was never designed to wound but odds, undergoing surgery and returning admiration and affection of all who taught not only by personal be reading. one of the first being the raising of two was always mitigated with great kindness to her studies last year after receiving a her and learned with her, students and tutors affinities but also by our enthusiasm for children, whom they adopted as babies and a gentle sense of humour. Total Artificial Heart. She was only the 2nd alike.' Later on in her career she played a our mutual discipline. In the years to early in their marriage. Both their son and person in the UK to leave hospital with pivotal role in setting up and designing She faced death with complete equanimity, ‘Becca's positive outlook and her tremendous come we went in very different directions daughter did well in the non-academic a TAH. In January she was placed on the the Department’s Access Programme for happy to re-join her husband who had died courage and determination were an geographically but our friendship never careers they chose, and always remained heart transplant list, having lived cancer adults, providing them with a possible two years earlier. Many members from inspiration to all those around her. In the faltered. close to their parents, gladdening them free for a year, and in February 2019 she route to university studies. She was a co- the Glebe community attended her simple hospital, while recovering from her first heart with a number of grandchildren. The received a new heart at Harefield Hospital. Ann was born in Snodland, Kent and began researcher in two subsequent studies on memorial service. So did residents, as well surgery, she wrote her first two academic house they inhabited for most of their life Tragically after her surgery she suffered her undergraduate studies at Oxford in the Access programme and its students’ as staff members from the retirement papers, both of which she was subsequently was situated in a pleasant wide residential a series of complications from which she 1954. After completing her BA and earning experiences. home where she spent her last years, for asked to publish. And despite the enormous street, restricted to one-way traffic, where could not recover. a BLitt in mediaeval English literature, she Maureen never took the staff, or their challenges of having a TAH, she never Ann did some publishing herself, providing many other couples were bringing up took off for foreign parts, first to Sweden services, for granted and knew them all Becca inspired us all with her unwavering complained; she brought something new to the notes for the Longman edition children. Largely thanks to Maureen and where she taught English for a year, and by name. She passed away quietly in her determination to pursue her studies and every class she attended. Just hours before of Hardy’s Under the Greenwood Tree Ian, Glen Avenue soon became a real then to Denmark where she lectured sleep on 28 July 2018. her contagious enthusiasm for college life. her heart transplant, she was working on (1981). Perhaps, however, her crowning community and, in her last years in a in English literature at the University of She was progressing towards successfully her thesis proposal. She was a true scholar, achievement was her edition of the poems retirement residence, Maureen received a Elisabeth M Orsten (1953) Aarhus. It was here that she met the man completing her Masters despite all the and we all have something to learn from of the well-known Scottish poet Kirkpatrick steady stream of visitors from there. she would later marry, John Karkalas. health challenges she was facing, whilst her dedication. Characteristically, she was Dobie. Comprehensive (it was the first IN MEMORIAM also embracing social opportunities within planning to write her DPhil thesis on attitudes Ann returned to Britain in 1966 and took complete edition of his poems) and with a REBECCA HENDERSON (2013) St Anne’s. Her most recent cause for to disability in the Middle Ages, in hope of up an appointment as a specialist in detailed and discerning introduction, it was Both Maureen and Ian enjoyed fine dining 1 JUNE 1994 – 27 FEBRUARY 2019 celebration before her operation was that contributing towards changing attitudes English Literature in Glasgow University’s published shortly before her death. in special settings and arranged several she had received an offer from Oxford towards disability.’ Department of Extra-Mural Education. memorable banquets for their many On 28 February 2019 St Anne’s Masters Although I eventually went to live in North English Department to undertake a DPhil. (John followed her a little later, joining friends. But they were equally happy to student Rebecca Henderson passed away America, I managed to link up with Ann She had so many hopes and plans for the the faculty at Strathclyde University). grow their own food in their back garden following heart transplant surgery.

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most summers. We took some memorable Claire was brought up in a book-filled awarded Best People Manager at the IN MEMORIAM TechnoServe, her family hosting both AFS women’s rights in Uganda; one website holidays together, walking the Ridgeway, flat in Swiss Cottage by her mother Mother at Work Awards in 2008, cited MARY ELEANOR MARQUARDT (LINDSAY- (an international education organization) described her as ‘a Ugandan Rosa Parks’. touring the Chateaux of the Loire and, and her father was also an avid and for ‘successfully balancing the needs of REA 1951) and Fresh Air Fund students. She was born Sarah Nyendwoha to after her marriage, I stayed often with her scholarly reader. Winning a scholarship, the business with those of her staff long 6 JULY 1929 - 31 MARCH 2019 Anglican parents on 21 March 1926 in Mary was also active with the Wilton and John in their home in the beautiful she attended North London Collegiate, before it was fashionable or required by Hoima, in the oil-rich western part of Mary Eleanor Library, the Wilton High School PTA and Scottish countryside. They were both very playing the violin, swimming proficiently. law’ and left her division five to six times Uganda, then a British protectorate. Marquardt, 89, the Wilton Presbyterian Church, and welcoming hosts and dedicated vegetarian But her engagement with books and larger than in the 1990s, overseeing the Her father was the son of a chief of the passed away following her deep love of music, played cooks. After John’s death in 2008, I English Literature brought her, in 1969, to integration of new acquisitions from the Bakwonga clan – hereditary administrators peacefully on violin with the Fairfield County Symphony continued my yearly visits until Ann’s own St Anne’s. There her insight and aptitude US and elsewhere. of the Bunyoro Kitara kingdom, one of 31 March 2019 Orchestra and sang with the church choir. death in 2018. for hard work served her well as she the most powerful forces in Central and At the heart of her life was the loving at the Meadow After moving to Meadow Ridge in 2007, encountered the formidable tutors of East Africa from the thirteenth to the She is sorely missed by both her students partnership with her husband Nicholas Ridge retirement Mary and Don both became active in the English Language and Literature of the nineteenth century; her mother was a and her friends. Cavanagh, a paediatric neurologist, their community volunteer committees. time: Mrs Bednarowska, Elaine Griffiths princess of the Babiito clan. Both were two children and two grandchildren whose in Redding, Norma Rowen (1955) and Patricia Ingham. And her lifelong Above all, Mary is remembered by her five teachers. love and achievements were her greatest Connecticut. genius for friendship brought her friends, children -- Donald Jr (married to Kathy), pride. A bright child, she was educated at King’s some of whom she met in the breakfast Mary was born on Robert (married to Melissa), Linda, Sandra IN MEMORIAM College Budo, which had only started queue on the first day and who cherished From the first diagnosis in 1998, 6 July 1929 in London, the daughter (married to Hans) and Christopher – and CLAIRE L’ENFANT (CAVANAGH 1969) admitting girls a few years before she her for the rest of her life. Claire thought of her cancer and all its of Mary Eleanor (Waddell) and Robert ten grandchildren as a loving wife, mother 17 OCTOBER 1950 – 22 AUGUST 2018 arrived. In 1945 she joined Makerere Union treatments as something she had to learn Lindsay-Rea. As a child, Mary lived in and grandmother: a devoted and constant After Oxford, Claire found her vocation College to train as a teacher. A Greatly Loved and to live with rather than fight it. This she London, evacuating to West Runton in guiding presence giving her children a in publishing. She wrote in 1973: ‘I am She originally hoped to train in Respected Humanities certainly did, and achieved so much else in Norfolk during World War II. Following the loving home as the family moved around completely publishing struck. I have mathematics, but the story goes that when Publisher those years. war she attended St Anne’s, graduating in the globe and encouraging their interests already written several ecstatic screeds on she entered the mathematics class, the 1951 with a BA in Modern Languages and and efforts in music, sports, language, ‘I don’t think I have ever the subject.’ Beginning at HarperCollins, Her grace and fortitude were never clearer only woman among 31 male students, an Oxford Blue for lacrosse and tennis. scouting and the cultures they were known anyone who Unwin Hyman and Hutchinson Education, than at the end of her life, when she was the teacher asked if she thought she was surrounded by. was so talented who where she built a ‘game-changing textbook cared for at home by her loved ones and In 1951, Mary met her future husband, visiting ‘a maternity ward’, then walked out was so modest,’ wrote programme’, she moved to Routledge an outstanding medical team. Her motto Donald E Marquardt (Brasenose College, Mary was laid to rest on 28 April 2019 at swearing that he would never teach maths one of the authors in 1989, staying until her retirement 25 was to try and make the best of things and LLB, 1952), in Paris and married him on the Wilton Presbyterian church in Wilton. again unless she withdrew. It is said that whom Claire published. But her particular years later, becoming Editorial Director be appreciative of what you have. 1 March 1952 in London. As Don had for the sake of her fellow students she Don Marquardt JR qualities and outstanding achievements for Humanities in their book division. ‘The begun working for the Arabian American submitted and studied history, geography All who knew her were truly fortunate in were wonderfully clear to the many who best manager I ever had’; ‘She pioneered Oil Company (Aramco), the newlyweds and English instead. having Claire as a part of their world. knew, respected and loved her. When postmodernist History in publishing’; embarked on a 20-year tour of the Middle IN MEMORIAM While she was doing teaching practice she died in August last year aged 68, her ‘She had enviable, apparently effortless Harriet Spicer (1969) East – Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Libya – DR SARAH NTIRO (NYENDWOHA 1951) at her old school, one of her teachers intelligence, charm and care for others – in elegance’ (dressed as she so often was as well as Irvington, New York, and London. 21 MARCH 1926 – 22 OCTOBER 2018 suggested that she should go to university both her personal life and in her career in the exquisite knitwear she herself In 1972, Don joined Mobil Oil and the and she decided to apply to read History as one of the outstanding academic created); equally, ‘She had a core of steel, family moved to Wilton, Connecticut. Mary Dr Sarah Ntiro, who has died aged 92, was at St Anne’s College, Oxford, soliciting the publishers of her generation – were a stern quizzical expression signalled became involved with Door Two, UNICEF, the first woman from East and Central help of a Roman Catholic priest to teach recognised in many tributes. disappointment’; ‘She radiated goodness’: the UN Hospitality Committee of Fairfield Africa to take a university degree and her Latin – a requirement for entry. all comments from colleagues. She was County, Amnesty International, and she subsequently became a champion of During her time at Oxford she learnt to

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ride a bicycle and when she graduated Uganda and the author of a report which of her own original character along the A Scot, born and bred in Angus, Lady life’s work was the inspiration for the wisely, and the welfare of others a primary in 1954 was East Africa’s first female persuaded the church to streamline the way. The Smiths ran the Landmark Trust Smith helped ensure Landmark was a seminar. She studied English Language and concern. Her family’s move to London graduate, an achievement celebrated on salaries of the clergy. personally for many years and were closely British, indeed a European enterprise. Literature here and met her late husband, during her childhood opened up a wider her return (with bicycle) to Hoima with a involved in each and every decision about She personally drove the van of furniture John Smith, who was reading history at world of opportunity, and strengthened In 1978 she fled into exile in Kenya where festival lasting a week. how it operated. From the first it had two almost 600 miles from Berkshire to New College. They married in 1952 and her innate love of history and drama. she started an education consultancy aims: preserving buildings and promoting Saddell Castle in Argyll, remembering, their partnership of shared interests led to She began teaching at Gayaza School, and did much work for refugees with the On going down, Ruth spent a year teaching public enjoyment – the latter realised with characteristic humour and self- the founding of The Landmark Trust. Uganda’s oldest girls’ secondary school, but All Africa Conference of Churches. But in Nigeria. Although she remained largely through letting Landmark’s newly deprecation, how she drove straight into discovered that the authorities intended to she later returned to Uganda, where she See The Ship 2016/17, pp59-65 for more ambivalent about teaching as a career, restored historic buildings for holidays. If the castle’s historic gateway on arrival. pay her less than male counterparts with founded many organisations to support details. Christian has saved for us all once home and with a postgraduate Sir John concerned himself mostly with the Her sense of fun and of adventure the same qualifications, so she rejected the women and continued to work for upward of 200 buildings, astonishing teaching qualification at the University acquisition and repair of interesting and imbued the Landmark experience from salary and decided to teach without pay. women’s rights and girls’ education. There buildings, which might otherwise have of London Institute of Education, she eclectic buildings, the furnishing and fitting the first. She revelled in the amusing Her protest came to the ears of the wife of is now an annual Sarah Ntiro Lecture and been lost, as well as having been a obtained a post at Bedales School out of them was Lady Smith’s domain. and exotic, the disappearance of the the British governor who intervened and Award event in honour of Uganda’s women benefactor to St Anne’s. in Hampshire. It proved an excellent Fort Clonque causeway at high tide, the she started to receive a salary equal to achievers. Almost everything significant about the move. She brought to it her enthusiasm treacherous landings on Lundy before Adapted from The Landmark Trust that of men, setting a precedent for other interior appearance of Landmarks was for history, and her commitment Her husband died in 1993 and she is the construction of the jetty, the notion tribute women. of Lady Smith’s choosing or devising; to educational opportunity and the survived by their two sons. of a turreted bathroom reached across a it was her taste that would give rise to importance of academic rigour. For its part, In 1958 she was appointed to Uganda’s leaded roof. She loved Landmark to the Reprinted courtesy The Telegraph the aesthetic cherished by generations Bedales offered her the ideal context in legislative council where she introduced end, a stalwart of every Christmas party IN MEMORIAM of Landmarkers. She selected the ‘Old which to develop her academic strengths a Private Members’ Bill on equal pay for at the Shottesbrooke head office, keen RUTH WHITING (1958) Chelsea’ china so familiar in Landmarks and her incipient inspirational teaching men and women and encouraged women IN MEMORIAM always to meet new staff and supporters on a visit to Peter Jones in the 1960s, Of the very many skill. Quite simply, she proved to have to participate in the democratic process CHRISTIAN SMITH (CARNEGY 1948) and to know what projects were afoot. Her identifying it as just the sort of timeless tributes paid to teaching genius, from which generations by holding civic education sessions. In 3 OCTOBER 1927 – 27 OCTOBER 1918 favourite building she said was probably pattern that would suit the buildings. It was Ruth Whiting of her pupils were to benefit, as she the same year she marred Sam Ntiro, a the Villa Saraceno, where the sensitivity of following her October 2018 saw when contemplating how to furnish the invariably made clear that she was never Tanzanian academic, with whom she spent Landmark’s approach gave her particular untimely and the death, at the houses at Coombe in 1967 that she lighted satisfied with less than the best of which four years in London when he was serving pride. She was mystified, however, by unexpected death age of 91, of the on the idea of printing fabric specially for each was capable. She stayed, and became as his country’s High Commissioner to the fuss about Landmark’s restoration of in April 2018, remarkable Lady each one, informed by a device or feature a legend in her own life-time. Britain. Astley Castle, which won the RIBA Stirling one sentiment Smith, co-founder of from that place. Prize. ‘”Ghastly Castle” I call it,’ was her predominated: From Fleetwood onwards, Ruth formed When she returned to Uganda, she worked the Landmark Trust Together with artists Jennifer and Bob beaming comment. ‘She was the best numerous lifelong friendships. They in the Ministry of Education from 1965 and originator of its Packer she created printed fabrics for teacher I ever included many of her Bedales colleagues to 1967, setting up a Teaching Service celebrated interiors. While Sir John Smith’s genius and scores of Landmark buildings, each unique and former pupils, with whom she Commission. In 1967 she was appointed a generosity made Landmark possible and had.’ On 24 May 1965 to that place and a reflection of its history frequently met up on her international deputy head of King’s College Budo. saw the salvation of scores of special Ruth Whiting read history at St Anne’s in Christian Smith and and character. A talented poet herself, travels. She loved independent foreign buildings, it was Lady Smith’s touch and the era of Lady Ogilvie and Dr Marjorie From 1970 to 1978 she worked as an her husband John signed the deed of trust Lady Smith also took great trouble over travel and, in the case of China, combined taste that made the buildings themselves Reeves. A native of Fleetwood in assistant registrar at Makerere University, creating a new charity, The Landmark the books in Landmarks, sharing with her her visits with the acquisition of extensive such delightful places to inhabit. Lancashire, her strong Methodist heritage where she intervened to protect students Trust. Over the six decades that followed friend Clayre Percy the task of choosing knowledge of its history, culture and left a lifelong mark on her: life should be critical of the regime of Idi Amin. She was she would be intimately involved in the volume by volume just the right range of In September 2016, we welcomed Lady contemporary politics. purposeful, with time and talents used also a lay canon of the Anglican church in organisation, imparting to it something titles for each place. Smith to the Gaudy Seminar where her

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She retained a strong sense of family, and When she retired she continued to live number, led by the Provost of Yale, paid The Principal and Fellows acknowledge with Hills (Earl), Audrey: 1954 Moreton (Stone), Jane: 1957 every vacation saw her travelling north near the school and maintained close their warm tributes. The school has deep gratitude all alumnae and friends for Hodgson (Giles), Dawn: 1952 Morgan (Roberts), Enid: 1958 their gifts. In 2016-17 and 2017-18, over 1,700 Jessiman (Smith), Maureen: 1953 Ockenden (Askwith), Ann: 1955 to maintain contact with elderly relatives, contact with it. With the approach of established a Ruth Whiting Bursary in her individuals gave to St Anne’s, some of whom Larkins (Rees), Fay: 1953 Ormond (Jasper), Leonee: 1959 cousins and succeeding generations. the anniversary of World War I, she memory to fund a sixth form place. have chosen not to be listed. We now need Makin (Winchurch), Margaret: 1952 Paton (Hodgkinson), Anne: 1955 Ruth lived life intensively and had an determined to put on public record the your permission to include you in this list. If Marlow (Evans), Iris: 1953 Paton Walsh (Bliss), Jill: 1955 Jennifer Bone (Lawrence 1959) you are not listed and would like to be, please Moughton (Parr), Elizabeth: 1951 Peirce (Hankinson), Margaret: 1955 eclectic range of interests. Whatever she lives of the Bedales ex-pupils who died. get in touch with us at development@st- Orsten, Elisabeth: 1953 Powell, Helen: 1956 undertook, her objective was to realise it to Drilling down to the detail brought her annes.ox.ac.uk to confirm your preferences. Penny (Gross), Jennifer: 1953 Redrum (Sturrock), June: 1959 best effect. She had a remarkable capacity contacts from all over the world. She had Piotrow (Tilson), Phyllis: 1954 Revill (Radford), Ann: 1955 Reynolds (Morton), Gillian: 1954 Robinson (Neal), Patricia: 1958 Pre-1949 for mastering detail, amply reflected in her not quite completed the task at the time of Sainsbury (Burrows), Gillian: 1950 Rogister (Jury), Margaret: 1957 Bailey, Margaret: 1948 Sherwood (Briggs), Shirley: 1952 Smith (Philpott), Christine: 1955 family history expertise. Here her tireless her death; the School undertook to do so. Chapman, Gwendolen: 1944 Taylor, Rosemary: 1951 Stoddart (Devereux), Frances: 1955 generosity towards others was only too Glynne, Dilys: 1948 Thomas (Fraser-Stephen), Sara: 1954 Sumner (Palmer), Gill: 1958 Bedales’ superb Celebration of her life Hedges (Young), Wendy: 1944 apparent, as she helped them thread their Tunstall (Mitchell), Olive: 1951 Taylor (Wanless), Ann: 1958 confirmed her lasting impact: a large Honoré (Duncan), Deborah: 1948 Unwin (Steven), Monica: 1951 Von Bibra (Johnston), Berta: 1955 way through their own ancestry. Humphreys (Smith), Carol: 1948 Wood (Gunning), Maureen: 1952 Wilson, Elizabeth: 1955 Hyde-Thomson (D'Erlanger), Zoë: 1949 Wood (Chatt), Sara: 1958 Jones, Madeline: 1949 1955-1959 Young (Clifford), Barbara: 1957 Martin (Sandle), Patricia: 1948 Andrew (Cunningham), Sheila: 1956 Matthews (Greenshields), Daphne: 1948 Athron (Ogborn), Ruth: 1957 1960-1964 O'Flynn (Brewster), Hazel: 1946 Bacon (Mason), Ann: 1957 Archer (Weeden), Mary: 1962 Osborne, Marian: 1949 Betts (Morgan), Valerie: 1956 Atkinson (Pearson), Helen: 1963 Price, Maureen: 1948 Boyde, Susan: 1957 Baines (Smith), Jennifer: 1963 Strawson, Ann: 1946 Charlton (Nichols), Anne: 1955 Brunt (Coates), Ivy: 1961 Sword (Boyle), Beatrice: 1949 Clarke (Gamblen), Alice: 1957 Butcher (Macarthur), Mary: 1963 Thompson, Jean: 1942 Collins, Norma: 1958 Cairncross, Frances: 1962 Tuckwell (Bacon), Margaret: 1949 Davison (Le Brun), Pauline: 1956 Clark (Balfour), Judy: 1964 Whitby (Field), Joy: 1949 Donations to College, 2016 – 2017 and 2017 – 2018 de Freitas, Frankie: 1959 Cook (Gisborne), Janet: 1962 Wolffe (Bailey), Mary: 1945 Dixon (Gawadi), Aida: 1957 Cutler (Mccoll), Veronica: 1960 Wolstencroft (Browne), Valerie: 1949 A total of £2.5m was gifted by St Anne’s alumnae and friends between 1 August 2017 and 31 July 2018 to the Draper (Fox), Heather: 1957 Darnton (Baker), Jane: 1962 Findlay (Boast), Judith: 1959 Davey (Macdonald), Elizabeth: 1960 following areas. 1950-1954 Finnemore, Judith: 1959 Deech (Fraenkel), Ruth: 1962 Allen (Franklin), Jennifer: 1951 Fleming (Newman), Joan: 1957 Dusinberre (Stainer), Juliet: 1960 Bursaries £98,662.02 Amherst (Davies), Ann: 1951 Fuecks (Ford-Smith), Rachel: 1957 Ellis (Barber), Susanne: 1964 Beer (Thomas), Gillian: 1954 Graham (Portal), Mary: 1957 Evans (Moss), Isabel: 1964 Capital (buildings) £621,907.03 Bergson (Levinson), Deirdre: 1951 Grey (Hughes), Mary: 1959 Fenton (Campling), Heather: 1961 Birch, Margaret: 1953 Outreach and access £37,488.81 Grove (Hughes), Jenny: 1959 Forbes, Eda: 1961 Brooking-Bryant (Walton), Audrey: 1953 Hardy (Speller), Janet: 1958 Graves, Lucia: 1962 Bull (Fife), Anne: 1952 Scholarships and prizes £77,018.85 Hayman (Croly), Janet: 1958 Grundy (Rich), Jill: 1962 Clover, Shirley: 1953 Hensman (Hawley), Barbara: 1956 Harris (Telfer), Judy: 1964 Student support £727,889.64 Crockford (Brocklesby), Freda: 1952 Hewitt (Rogerson), Paula: 1955 Howard (Warren), Liz: 1962 Dunkley (Eastman), Shirley: 1953 Hogg (Cathie), Anne: 1957 Hunt (Siddell), Ann: 1963 Summer Schools £81,536.75 Ettinger (Instone-Gallop), Susan: 1953 Home, Anna: 1956 Julian (Whitworth), Celia: 1964 Everest-Phillips (Everest), Anne: 1950 Teaching and research £857,003.24 Kenwrick, Patricia: 1958 Killick (Mason), Rachel: 1961 Fairn, Alison: 1952 Lecomte du Nouy (Welsh), Patricia: 1956 Kuenssberg (Robertson), Sally: 1961 Welfare £20,274.69 Gazdzik, Barbara: 1951 Lewis (Hughes), Pauline: 1956 Larkinson (Newton), Rachel: 1964 Harman (Bridgeman), Erica: 1952 Maclennan (Cutter), Helen: 1957 Littlewood, Barbara: 1960 Headley (Pinder), Mary: 1954 McMaster (Fazan), Juliet: 1956 Mace, Anne: 1962 Heath, Mary: 1950 Moore (Slocombe), Anne: 1955 Moore, Susan: 1964

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Moss (Flowerdew), Barbara: 1963 Hanes (Foster), Katharine: 1965 Garman (Jackson), Francesca: 1971 Barnard (Langford), Caroline: 1979 Pearson (Harger), Judith: 1976 Leckie (O'Donnell), Liz: 1981 Murdin (Milburn), Lesley: 1961 Harvey, Judith: 1965 Gibson, Anna: 1972 Barnes (Gould), Amanda: 1979 Peters (Bigg), Suzanne: 1979 Liu, Eva: 1983 Neville (Clark), Susan: 1960 Helm (Wales), Sue: 1965 Golodetz, Patricia: 1970 Barzycki (Polti), Sarah: 1976 Philips (Palmer), Wendy: 1977 Lonie, Craig: 1984 Newlands (Raworth), Elizabeth: 1960 Holland (Tracy), Philippa: 1968 Grout (Berkeley), Anne: 1971 Baxandall (Dwyer), Cathy: 1977 Phillips, Susie: 1978 Mackay (Firth), Helen: 1984 Packer (Sellick), Sally: 1964 Jefferson (Glees), Ann: 1967 Hasler (Abbott), Judith: 1974 Benham (Jenkins), Glynda: 1975 Pickford (Atkin), Gillian: 1979 Mayo, Timothy: 1980 Palmer (Allum), Marilyn: 1962 Kaier, Anne: 1967 Hatfield (Bratton), Penny: 1971 Berkman (Winston), McKey: 1977 Pomfret (Pearson), Carole: 1979 Mill, Cherry: 1981 Paton (Parfitt), Sara: 1960 Kavanagh (Harries), Shirley: 1968 Hill (Davies), Valerie: 1971 Bernstein (Bernie), Judith: 1975 Rawle, Frances: 1976 Montgomery, Bill: 1980 Peagram (Jackson), Christine: 1962 Kenna (Hamilton), Stephanie: 1968 Hughes (Marshall), Susan: 1970 Bibby, Jonathan: 1979 Reed, Jane: 1977 Munro, Rob: 1982 Porrer (Dunkerley), Sheila: 1963 Kitson, Clare: 1965 Hughes-Stanton, Penelope: 1973 Blandford, Sally: 1978 Reeve, Jane: 1978 Orr, Frank: 1984 Reid (Massey), Su: 1961 Lambley (Booth), Janet: 1966 Hutchison (Keegan), Ruth: 1972 Bowman (Ward), Christine: 1976 Richards (Machin), Gillian: 1976 Osborne (Billen), Stephanie: 1981 Rogers (Shaw), Felicity: 1961 Laycock, Deborah: 1968 Jack, Susan: 1970 Bridges (Berry), Linda: 1975 Riley (Vince), Pippa: 1977 Phillips (Gray), Emma: 1981 Salinsky (Fasnacht), Mary: 1962 Lee, Judy: 1966 King, Rosanna: 1970 Carney, Bernadette: 1978 Robinson, Crispin: 1979 Pollinger, Edmund: 1983 Sheather (Hall), Judith: 1962 Lumley, Margaret: 1965 Lambert, Anne: 1974 Cassidy (Rhind), Kate: 1975 Robinson, Justin: 1979 Rabinowitz (Benster), Suzi: 1982 Shenton, Joan: 1961 Marett, Karen: 1967 Lawless (Freeston), Sally: 1971 Charman (Rees), Stella: 1975 Russell (Gear), Moya: 1979 Read, Justin: 1980 Shipp (Nightingale), Phillida: 1961 Morgan (Draper), Sylvia: 1969 Leighton, Monica: 1970 Christie (Elliott), Claire: 1979 Slater (Knight), Beverley: 1976 Roberts (Stiff), Nicholas: 1980 South (Hallett), Vivien: 1964 Ogilvie (Milne), Moira: 1965 Littler Manners (Littler), Judy: 1972 Clout, Imogen: 1975 Szczepanik (Murray), Lynette: 1975 Scott, Alastair: 1983 Stancliffe (Smith), Sarah: 1961 O'Sullivan, Helen: 1969 Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen: 1970 Cochrane (Sutcliffe), Jennifer: 1979 Tayeb, Monir: 1976 Shakoor, Sameena: 1980 Tate (Hardy), Valerie: 1960 Owen (Lytton), Stephanie: 1969 Lowy, Anne: 1972 Colling, Mike: 1979 Valente Lopes Dias, Isabel: 1975 Stacey, Martin: 1980 Tindall-Shepherd (Dunn), Wendy: 1963 Pendry (Gard), Pat: 1966 Maude, Gilly: 1972 Constantine, Anne: 1977 Vernon (Mcardle), Sarah: 1979 Sutherland, Hugh: 1983 Turner (Chang), Mei Lin: 1963 Perry (Hudson), Penny: 1965 Monroe (Jones), Barbara: 1970 Cooper (Vavasour), Tilly: 1979 Walker, Mark: 1979 Taylor, Jeffrey: 1981 Venner (Malet), Zenobia: 1961 Price (Fox), Meg: 1967 Montefiore (Griffiths), Anne: 1972 Crane, Mary: 1979 Weller, Isobel: 1977 Taylor, Christopher: 1982 Walton (Turner), Gillian: 1964 Reeve, Antonia: 1969 Moore, Gina: 1972 Crisp, Roger: 1979 Wheare, Julia: 1977 Titcomb, Lesley: 1980 White (Pippin), Ailsa: 1962 Sheppard (Raphael), Anne: 1969 Moran, Susan: 1974 Cross (Close), Pippa: 1977 Wightwick (Lombard), Helen: 1979 Wager (Cooper), Liz: 1980 Williams (Ferguson), Fiona: 1962 Skelton, Judy: 1965 Morris (Cope), Susan: 1973 Dey, Jennifer: 1975 Winter, Liz: 1975 Wilcox (Williams), Joanne: 1981 Wilson (Ridler), Kate: 1961 Smith (Taylor), Shirley: 1969 Nasmyth (Mieszkis), Lalik: 1971 English, Kirsten: 1979 Williams, Anne: 1980 Young (Cowin), Pat: 1961 Sondheimer (Hughes), Philippa: 1969 Northover (Granshaw), Lindsay: 1973 Fisher, Elizabeth: 1978 1980-1984 Williams, Edmund: 1981 Stubbs (Barton), Heather: 1968 Norton (Pirkis), Anne: 1974 Fresko (Marcus), Adrienne: 1975 Arah (Griffin), Jessica: 1983 Wilson (Latham), Kate: 1984 1965-1969 Tjoa (Chinn), Carole: 1965 Onslow (Owen), Jane: 1972 Furbacher (Jones), Lucy: 1976 Benson, Chris: 1983 Wingfield, Caroline: 1982 Alexander (Holland), Marguerite: 1965 Vaughan (Kerslake), Hilary: 1967 Ormerod (Tudor Hart), Penny: 1972 Gent, Lizzie: 1976 Bramley, Paul: 1980 Winters, Simon: 1983 Anderson, Jane: 1968 Von Nolcken, Christina: 1968 Ovey, Elizabeth: 1974 Goodbody (Ward), Magdalen: 1977 Brodie, Pete: 1981 Belden, Hilary: 1966 Willert, Sarah: 1968 Padfield (Helme), Nicky: 1973 Groom (Withington), Carola: 1977 Broyden, Chris: 1981 1985-1989 Boehm (Lees-Spalding), Jenny: 1965 Wilson (Szczepanik), Barbara: 1965 Pennington (Durham), Jane: 1974 Hampton, Kate: 1977 Cotton, Andrew: 1980 Adebiyi, John: 1986 Breeze (Horsey), Fiona: 1965 Wilson (Hay), Lindsay: 1969 Rae-Smith (Perkins), Melanie: 1974 Harrison, Carol: 1975 Cubbon, Alan: 1980 Ali, Ramona: 1988 Brown (Lichfield Butler), Jane: 1965 Wolfarth (Scott), Lesley: 1969 Richards (Wardle), Alison: 1973 Hazlewood (Hazelwood), Judith: 1978 Cubbon (Lakin), Sue: 1981 Alvares, Fleur: 1988 Cadwallader (Eckworth), Debby: 1968 Yates, Joanna: 1967 Rowlands, Helen: 1971 Hobbs (Galani), Efrosyni: 1977 Danson, Mike: 1982 Bray, Heather: 1985 Constable, Jeanne: 1969 Yates (Crawshaw), Sue: 1967 Simon (Holmes), Jane: 1973 Hurry (Williams), Olwen: 1977 Delahunty, Jo: 1982 Brooksbank (Spencer), Catherine: 1986 Conway (Nicholson), Sheila: 1969 Taplin (Canning), Angela: 1974 Ingram, Jackie: 1976 Filer (Bernstein), Wendy: 1982 Brown (Cullen), Jennifer: 1987 Cook (Clark), Cornelia: 1966 1970-1974 Thomas (Struthers), Doreen: 1972 Isard (Mccloghry), Nicky: 1978 Foggo, Andrew: 1984 Burney, Matthew: 1989 Coote, Hilary: 1967 Archer (George), Andrea: 1972 Thorpe, Patty: 1973 Jagger (Capel), Judith: 1978 Foster, Tony: 1980 Burrows, Peter: 1987 Cowell (Smith), Janice: 1966 Ashley, Jackie: 1974 Tovey (Williams), Maureen: 1973 Lambert (Astles), Rosemary: 1975 Gallant, Julian: 1984 Butchart (Byrne), Kate: 1988 Derkow-Disselbeck (Derkow), Barbara: 1965 Barrett, Jane: 1973 Turner (Davison), Kathryn: 1972 Larke (Wall), Janet: 1975 Gaul, Pat: 1980 Chilman, John: 1986 Dowling, Jude: 1968 Barringer, Terry: 1974 Viebahn (Hackforth-Jones), Victoria: 1973 Lee (Kok), Swee-Kheng: 1978 Glasgow, Faith: 1980 Collins, Susanna: 1989 Drew, Philippa: 1965 Bayliss (Dakin), Sue: 1974 Walker (Burrows), Susanne: 1972 Lloyd (Chanter), Catherine: 1977 Graham, Fiona: 1981 Crosby (Stephens), Sarah: 1989 Edgeley (Richards), Wendy: 1966 Bolton-Maggs (Blundell Jones), Paula: 1971 Whitby (Lodge), Mary: 1970 McGuinness, Catherine: 1978 Halim, Liza: 1981 Donald, St John: 1986 Ely (Masters), Hilary: 1969 Burge (Adams), Sue: 1972 Wilkinson (Spatchurst), Susan: 1970 McKinnon, Christine: 1976 Hodgson (Chan), Caroline: 1984 Eades, Cynda: 1985 Fairweather (Everard), Pat: 1965 Clayman, Michelle: 1972 Willetts (Ferreras), Maria: 1974 Micklem, Ros: 1975 Hopkinson, Christopher: 1984 Eaton (Cockerill), Sara: 1986 Feldman (Wallace), Teresa: 1968 Cockey (Ward), Katherine: 1970 Williams, Mary: 1972 Mottershead (Roberts), Ann: 1977 Hughes (Goldsmith), Katy: 1980 Elmendorff, Justine: 1986 Forbes, Anne: 1968 Davies (Baxendale), Jane: 1970 Williams (Revell), Shirley: 1973 Neale (Lunghi), Xanthe: 1978 Ireland, Bill: 1984 Flannery, Mark: 1988 Foster, Shirley: 1969 Dorner, Irene: 1973 Nelson, Cathy: 1978 Kam, Anthony: 1980 Freeman, Jonathan: 1987 Gallant (Cox), Rosamond: 1965 Ferguson (Marston), Catherine: 1970 O'Brien, Sue: 1977 Latto, Andrew: 1980 Garth, John: 1985 Haile (Tovey), Helen: 1965 Fillingham (Dewhurst), Janet: 1974 1975-1979 Ough (Payne), Alison: 1979 Lawrence, John: 1984 Gratton (Stephenson), Dawn: 1989 Hall (Wills), Caroline: 1966 Forwood (Pearce), Sally: 1974 Aaron, Jane: 1978 Halls (Pett), Judy: 1967 Galley, Katie: 1974 Aitken (Paterson), Jane: 1978

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Gregory, Vanessa: 1989 Nentwich, Hilke: 1991 Stratford, Owen: 1998 Miller, Sydney: 2011 Leong, Sin-Hong Orr (Stones), Joy: 1944 Gurney (Hopkins), Karen: 1989 O'Mahony, Andrew: 1992 Suterwalla, Azeem: 1996 Nanji, Sabrina: 2004 McCall, Marsh Pountney, Rosemary: 1969 Hart, Rachel: 1987 Perthen, Joanna: 1994 Thong, Ju: 1995 O'Toole (Seaton), Emma: 2005 McCall, Susan Richardson, Ann: 1952 Howard, Andrew: 1987 Peter, Kai: 1994 Waites, Daniel: 1998 O'Toole, Thomas: 2005 Meridew, Jim Smart, Ann: 1953* Hunt (Sanz), Eva: 1987 Pritchard (Breaks), Amanda: 1994 Williams, Charlotte: 1997 Papasilekas, Themistoklis: 2013 Nelson, Graham Thurlow (Yarker), Molly: 1949 Isaac, Daniel: 1987 Rainey, Peter: 1991 Williams, Mark: 1997 Patel, Sheena: 2005 Nodding, Robert Walter (Chipperfield), Christina: 1954 Johnson (Davies), Rhiannon: 1987 Scroop, Daniel: 1992 Williams, Steve: 1997 Pitel, Laura: 2005 O'Brien, Frances Laughton, Stephen: 1989 Shapiro, Leonid: 1991 2000 onwards Powell (Lim), Chloe: 2007 Parkin-Morse, Jules * Legacy received from the estate of her late Mankabady, Martin: 1987 Slater, Shane: 1990 Akehurst, Hazel: 2003 Powell, Matthew: 2007 Patel, Raj husband, Ian Smart. McBain, Niall: 1986 Smith (Parker), Helen: 1993 Alexopoulou, Zoi: 2006 Rahim, Fardous: 2006 Pointing, Steve Morgan, Rob: 1989 Truesdale (Upton), Alexandra: 1990 Batcheler, Richard: 2007 Scott, Angharad: 2009 Pomfret, Andy Plumer Society Nosworthy, Tim: 1988 Vassiliou, Evelthon: 1991 Bonham, Sarah: 2006 Shalom, Nathaniel: 2008 Pyle, David Perrin, Julie: 1986 Viala (Lewis), Katharine: 1990 Castlo, Paul: 2000 Shelley, Felicity: 2006 Rossotti, Hazel The Plumer Society has been founded to Pollitt, Graham: 1986 Warwick, James: 1991 Cheng, Sophie: 2013 Shipman, Shirley: 2001 Serlin, Marilyn acknowledge and thank those who inform the Redman, Mark: 1986 White (Muddyman), Clare: 1990 Chin, Henry: 2009 Smith, Barry: 2005 Shepherd, Rachel College of their decision to include a gift to St Richards, Nicholas: 1985 Wiesener, Sebastian: 1994 Chong, Yu-Foong: 2001 Smith, Richard: 2010 Speirs, Sally Anne’s in their will. Some members have asked Robertshaw, Mark: 1986 Wyatt-Tilby (Tilby), James: 1992 Chowla, Shiv: 2007 Sykes, Hugo: 2010 Stanojevic, Ana not to be listed. Rudolph, Dana: 1988 Coleman, Georgina: 2011 Taylor, Eleanor: 2008 Steele, David Scott, Andrew: 1986 1995-1999 Cukier, Martyn: 2009 Tian, Mingyong: 2011 Talmon, Stefan Nina Alphey (2005) Scott, Liz: 1986 Allen-Pennebaker (Pennebaker), Betsy: 1995 Davis (Tabberer), Jenny: 2005 Tobin Cohen (Tobin), Hannah: 2004 Willetts, David Michel Austin Street, Michael: 1986 Beer, James: 1999 Devenport, Richard: 2002 Uttley, Mark: 2010 Yadin, Jonathan Ruth Baker (Gibbon 1955) Swann, Simon: 1989 Bourne, Jon: 1996 Edwards, Sheldon: 2012 Witter, Mark: 2000 Yeoh, Seok Jean Bannister (Taylor 1958) Tappin, David: 1985 Campbell-Colquhoun, Toby: 1996 Farmer, Sinead: 2005 Wood, Peter: 2005 Zannos, George Valerie Beeby (1952) Tsang, Heman: 1988 Carley, Adam: 1996 Firth, Natalie: 2008 Woolfson, Deborah: 2005 Hilary Belden (1966) Williams, Paul: 1987 Copestake, Phillip: 1999 Forrest, Benjamin: 2006 Wordsworth Yates, Alan: 2008 Organisations and Charitable Trusts Phyllis Bennett (Thompson 1974) Cottingham, Faye: 1995 Freeland, Henry: 2007 Worsnip, Alex: 2005 Eric Bennett 1990-1994 Crichton (Hunter), Ele: 1996 Gabor, Liana: 2002 Wynbourne, Sarah: 2006 Americans for Oxford Interest Account Lynn Biggs (Perrin 1972) Appleby (Anderson), Amber: 1990 Davies, Mike: 1996 Garbett, Briony: 2004 Dr Stanley Ho Medical Development Foundation Richard Blake (Condon 1980) Bates, Jonathan: 1991 Dineen, Brian: 1996 Graham (Waterton), Samantha: 2001 Friends SAS Cambridge Branch Margaret Boggis (1940) Beck, Sarah: 1992 Drake, Carmel: 1999 Grosvenor, Laurel: 2007 Adams, Colin SAS London Branch Christopher Breward (1991) Breward, Christopher: 1991 Dunbar, Polly: 1999 Harris, Joe: 2001 Allbutt, Wendy SAS Oxford Branch Audrey Brooking-Bryant (Walton 1953) Buckrell (Mason), Jo: 1990 Ewart, Isobel: 1998 Hassan, Mazen: 2007 Anderson, Jane SAS South of England Branch Frances Burton (Heveningham Pughe 1960) Carpenter (Barker), Nancy: 1993 Farhi (Venning), Tiffany: 1999 High (Martin), Lucy: 2004 Austin, Michel The Bryan Guiness Charitable Trust Audrey Burtt (Waite 1942) Carpiac (McGuinness), Katie: 1993 Gray, Anna: 1997 Hill, Dan: 2010 Ball, David Tsuzuki University Julia Bush (Hainton 1967) Colville, Johnny: 1993 Hallwood, Janie: 1999 Holland, Richard: 2008 Carey, Helen Geraldine Bynoe (Robinson 1969) Donovan, Paul: 1990 Hartley, Liane: 1996 Hui, Colin: 2010 Carter, Sue Legacy Gifts Elise Carter (Palmer 1942) Duncan, Garreth: 1993 Heller, Melanie: 1997 Huxley-Khng, Jane: 2008 Clarke, John Linda Chadd (1967) Eger, Helen: 1992 Houlding, Mark: 1996 Irving, Paul: 2000 Davy, Kate Aldworth, Elizabeth: 1940 Jane Chesterfield (1977) Endean, James: 1992 Ingram, Jonathan: 1996 Jacobs (Watson), Ruth: 2004 de Savary, Peter Barlow (Finn), Maureen: 1950 Mike Colling (1979) Friar, Sarah: 1992 Innes-Ker, Duncan: 1996 Jhally, Rakesh: 2003 Earl, Stuart Beatty (Cocker), Audrey: 1944 Kathryn Coo (Spink 1972) Galinsky (Glynne), William: 1991 James (Horne), Marian: 1999 Jones, Gareth: 2001 Foard, Christine Currey (Wilson), Clare: 1955 Mary Cosh (1946) Garbutt, Alison: 1991 Jensen, Kristin: 1997 Khaliq, Alishba: 2010 Ford, John Fowler (Burley), Elizabeth: 1957 Frances Cox (Ware 1968) Giaever-Enger, Thomas: 1994 Kent, Simon: 1996 Kuetterer-Lang, Hannah: 2006 Gardam, Tim Gordon (Landau), Sylvia: 1948 Elizabeth Cragoe (Elmer 1950) Giaever-Enger (Haggas), Tori: 1994 Man, Bernard: 1995 Langley, Clare: 2001 Hazbun, Geraldine Hardcastle, Margaret: 1954 Meg Crane (Begley 1965) Gillow (Harriman), Kathryn: 1993 Maxim, Jon: 1996 Leavitt (Karatzios), Joanna: 2008 Hopkinson, David Horsfall, Jean: 1942 Michèle Crawford Girardet (Schafer), Ruth: 1990 Myatt, Tim: 1999 Leavitt, Ruben: 2008 Huxley, Jayne Kaye, Elaine: 1948 Jane Darnton (Baker 1962) Huggard, Patrick: 1994 Phillips, Dan: 1997 Mansfield, Ben: 2005 Igoe, Carol Kennard (Walter), Therese: 1942 Jane Davies (Baxendale 1970) Jackson, Gregory: 1991 Roydon, Karen: 1995 Mao, Fei: 2002 Keymer, Tom King (Haines), Dorothea: 1933 Ruth Deech (Fraenkel 1962) Johnson, Robert: 1992 Sargeant, Tom: 1996 Marlow, Julia: 2001 Killick, Lisa Lunn (Krall), Ottilie: 1944 Margaret Donald (1950) Karow, Julia: 1993 Seaton, Katharine: 1997 Martindale (Berry), Rebekah: 2004 Lassman, Mark Magne (Lisicky), Vera: 1956 Deb Dowdall (1974) Killeen (Fenton), Louise: 1992 Stone, Chris: 1998 Mechanic, Marc: 2010 Leigh, Matthew McEwan (Ogilvy), Lindsay: 1940 Margaret Driver (Perfect 1951)

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Sonia Dyne (Heath 1953) Fay Larkins (Rees 1953) Wendy Tindall-Shepherd (Dunn 1963) Susanne Ellis (Barber 1964) Sally Lawless (Freeston 1971) Carole Tjoa (Chinn 1965) Elaine Evans (Trevithick 1953) Elizabeth Leckie (O'Donnell 1981) Marilyn Tricker (Poole 1964) Gaudy and Alumni Weekend 2019 Lesley Evans (Kruse 1962) Keri Lewis (1947) Kathryn Turner (Davison 1972) Anne Everest-Phillips (Everest 1950) Peter Lloyd (1983) Clare Turner (Griffiths 1986) Judith Finnemore (1959) Paul Mann (1988) Delia Twamley* 20 – 22 September 2019 3.30pm Meet the Principal and Family Afternoon Tea Sophia Fisher (Hibbard 1966) Winifred Marks (1944) Rosemary Wagner (1964) Joan Fleming (Newman 1957) Rosemary Mason (Childe 1958) Yvonne Wells (Lehmann 1944) All St Anne’s alumnae are warmly invited to the annual Gaudy on All St Anne’s alumnae and their families are invited to meet the Susan Foreman (Kremer 1957) Lili Massey (Glaser 1967) Heather Wheeler (1958) 20-22 September 2019 timed to coincide with the Oxford University College’s Principal, Helen King, while enjoying afternoon tea in the Helen Forster (1946) Gabrielle McCracken (Chavasse 1954) Joy Whitby (Field 1949) Tony Foster (1980) Marie-Louise McDonnell (Phillips 1971) Maria Willetts (Ferreras 1974) Alumni Weekend (https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni_home). Dining Hall. There will be family entertainment suitable for all ages. Clemency Fox (1956) Anne Moore (Slocombe 1955) Lynne Wright (1970) We hope you can join us at some of the St Anne’s events over the Tessa Frank (Hoar 1951) Ann Mottershead (Roberts 1977) Sue Yates (Crawshaw 1967) weekend and take the opportunity to meet old friends and fellow 5.00 – 6.00pm Annual General Meeting of the St Anne’s Society Tim Gardam Elizabeth Moughton (Parr 1951) Margaret Young (Tucker 1949) (formerly known as the Association of Senior Members) Dilys Glynne (1948) Rob Munro (1982) Barbara Young (Clifford 1957) alumnae. Accommodation is available in College for alumnae and Natasha Grange (Cross 1982) Lesley Murdin (Milburn 1961) their guests (due to limited ensuite availability there is only one Agenda Ann Greenway (Denerley 1959) Elizabeth Newlands (Raworth 1960) * Delia Twamley is leaving a legacy to St Anne’s guest per person in the first instance) on a first-come, first-served Anne Grocock (1965) Clare Newton (Little 1970) College from her late mother’s estate (Phyllis Welcome & apologies basis for the nights of Friday 20 and Saturday 21 September. Elizabeth Halcrow (1948) Gill Nixon Wray-Bliss, 1920). Minutes of the AGM 2018 Barbara Hale (1948) Claire O'Donnell (1977) Kathleen Hall (1941) Hazel O'Flynn (Brewster 1946) Matters arising Mary Hallaway (1950) Elisabeth Orsten (1953) Saturday 21 September Susan Hamilton (Pacey-Day 1965) Helen O'Sullivan (1969) Legacies From 10.00am Gaudy Registration and tea, coffee and pastries Report of the President of the SAS Committee Kate Hampton (1977) Sally Packer (Sellick 1964) SAS Committee Matters Vicky Harrison (Greggain 1961) Marilyn Palmer (Allum 1962) Leaving a gift in your will gives you 11.00am Founding Fellows’ Lecture: The resistible rise of Artificial Barbara Hensman (Hawley 1956) John Pattisson (1952) the opportunity to make a lasting Intelligence Financial report Lucy High (Martin 2004) Helen Paul (1994) impact and help to provide vital Catherine Hilton (1965) Wendy Perriam (Brech 1958) Speakers: Professor Peter Jeavons and Professor Alex Rogers Regional Branch updates Anna Home (1956) Jane Pickles (Wilson 1953) funding for the College. The Plumer Advances in computer science and technology are leading to AOB Deborah Honoré (Duncan 1948) Carole Pomfret (Pearson 1979) Society was founded to acknowledge Julie Hudson (1975) Barbara Preston (Haygarth 1957) those who inform us of their decision remarkable developments in AI. Is it time to start worrying? Date of next meeting Ann Hunt (Siddell 1963) Petra Regent (1975) to make a bequest to St Anne’s. Clem Huzzey Ann Revill (Radford 1955) Members will be invited to a Plumer 12.15pm Plumer Society Lunch (invitation only) 7.00 – 7.30pm Pre-dinner Drinks Reception Christine Huzzey Sian Reynolds (France 1958) Society event every two years which OR Buffet Lunch(12.00-1.30pm) Caroline Hyde (1988) Crispin Robinson (1979) 7.30 – 9.30pm Dinner allows us to thank our legators for Jackie Ingram (1976) Hazel Rossotti (Marsh 1948) 2.30pm Gaudy Seminar: How bad is the current crisis of American their commitment. If you would like Susan Jack (1970) Barbara Rowe (1942) democracy? Cherry James (Lucas 1977) Gillian Sainsbury (Burrows 1950) further information about legacies Sunday 16 September Richard Jarman (1989) Lorna Secker Walker (Lea 1952) please contact legacy@st-annes. Speaker: Professor Adam Smith 10.30 – 11.30am Gaudy Service Elisabeth Jay (Aldis 1966) Judith Sheather (Hall 1962) ox.ac.uk Maureen Jessiman (Smith 1953) Joan Shenton (1961) The current sense of crisis is driven by the anxiety about creeping Harry Johnstone (1957) Jane Simon (Holmes 1973) authoritarianism and corruption, a dis-informed electorate and Elizabeth Jones (Smith 1962) Judy Skelton (1965) unaccountable social media giants. But American democracy has Please book online at https://tinyurl.com/gaudyweekend2019 Celia Julian (Whitworth 1964) David Smith Library Donations always been ‘in crisis’ ever since the idea of the US as a ‘democracy’ Stephanie Kenna (Hamilton 1968) Ann Spokes Symonds (Spokes 1944) If you have any queries please contact the Development Office at Yasmin Khan (1991) Mandy Stanton (Beech 1981) The Library is grateful for the many generous emerged in the 1830s. How does the current sense of crisis compare Christina Kielich (1970) Frances Stoddart (Devereux 1955) [email protected] book and financial donations received from to those of the past, and does the US any longer have the resources to Fiona King (1980) Monir Tayeb (1976) alumnae, Fellows and friends. With over 100,000 Janet Kingdon (1976) Angela Thirlwell (Goldman 1966) titles we have one of the largest College libraries address the democratic challenges it faces? Ruth Kirk-Wilson (Matthews 1963) Stella-Maria Thomas (1977) in Oxford and your kind support greatly adds to Juliet Lacey (Aykroyd 1962) Jean Thompson (1942) the richness of our collection.

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