St Edmund Hall Magazine 2021-2022

St Edmund Hall Magazine

Editor

James Howarth (Librarian)

With many thanks to all the contributors to this year’s edition: massive thanks to the Hall’s Communication Manager Claire Parfitt, to Elaine Evers and especially Sharon Critchley and Liam Challenger for stepping in to assist the final stages of the process, and to the indefatigable Emma Carter and Heather Barr in the Library for their enormous help (and considerable patience) with the production. magazine.editor@seh.ox.ac.uk

Front cover: Medicine Tutorial. Photo: Stuart Bebb

Final Image: St Edmund Hall Front Door

All the photographs in this Magazine are from Hall records unless otherwise stated. Portrait of Karma Nabulsi. Photo: Balliol College Images of Lucy Mission. Photo: NASA Farewell She Goes Poster: Kusini Productions Matriculation Pictures: Photographs by Gillman & Soame

Vol. XIX No. 4 St Edmund Hall Magazine October 2022

Section 1: The College List: 2021–2022

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The College List 1 Staff List ................................................................................................................................ 11

Section 2: Reports on the Year

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From the Principal 15 News from the Senior Common Room 17 Arrivals in the Senior Common Room 25 From the Bursary ................................................................................................................. 29 From the Finance Bursar .................................................................................................... 32

From the Library................................................................................................................... 33 Donations 2021-2022 36

From the Chaplain 40 From the Director of Music 42 From the Student Recruitment and Progression Manager ............................................... 44

From the President of the Middle Common Room ........................................................... 45

From the President of the Junior Common Room ............................................................ 47

From Student Clubs and Societies 49

Section 3:

The Year Gone By................................................................ 63

Choir Residential at Douai Abbey ....................................................................................... 64 Hall Publishes Biodiversity Audit ........................................................................................ 64 Besse Building Refurbishment Complete .......................................................................... 65 David Picksley Walks the London Marathon 67 Hall Fellow Involved in NASA Launch of Lucy Spacecraft 68 The Zodiac at Modern Art Oxford 68 Funding Success for the Nun’s Network ............................................................................ 69

Andrew Kahn Appointed Academic Editor of Electronic Enlightenment ........................ 69 Hall Alumna Cat White Named One of Forbes ‘30 Under 30 Europe’ ............................ 70

Head Chef John McGeever Retires ..................................................................................... 71

In Conversation With… 72 Geddes Trust 2022 Journalism Prizes, Lecture and Masterclass 73

Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays 2022 by Alison Ray 75 St Edmund Hall Launches £50m HALLmarks Campaign.................................................. 77 Portrait of Professor Karma Nabulsi Unveiled at Balliol ................................................... 78

Writing at the Hall 2021/22 by Professor Erica McAlpine ............................................... 78 Fellowship Lunchtime Lectures 78 Centre for the Creative Brain 79 Sustainability at St Edmund Hall 81 Honours, Awards and Prizes ............................................................................................... 82

And Finally: New Teddy Hall Wine Label ............................................................................ 89

Section 4: From the College Office ..................................................... 91

The Senior Tutor’s Year by Professor Robert Wilkins ....................................................... 92 Student Numbers ................................................................................................................ 94 New Students 2021-2022 94 Visiting Students 2021-2022 101 Student Admissions Exercises 103 Awards, Prizes and Grants ............................................................................................... 104 Degree Results .................................................................................................................. 108 Degree Day Dates 2022-2023 ......................................................................................... 112

Section 5: From the Development & Alumni Relations Office ...... 113

From the Director of Development 114 From the St Edmund Hall Association President ............................................................ 117 Donors to the Hall ............................................................................................................. 118 The Floreat Aula Legacy Society ...................................................................................... 130

Section 6: On Teaching And Learning ............................................. 135 Pedagogy from the Pulpit: John Mill’s Chapel Lectures and their Historical Setting by Natasha Bailey ................................................................................................................... 136 The White Rose Window by Alex Lloyd 141 On the history of the Oxford History Syllabus by Nicholas Davidson ............................ 143

On the Joys of Being a Development Economist by John Knight 147 Time Flies When You’re Having Fun by Tom Crawford ................................................... 148

Teaching Medieval History with History Teachers by Emily Winkler 151

Section 7: Gardens, Travel, Arts & Reviews ..................................... 154

The Renovation of the Forum Garden by Amy Zavatsky ................................................. 155 Persephone by Emma Hawkins ........................................................................................ 157 Le Tour de St Edmund by Raghul Ravinchandran 161 Diasporan Wilderness by Gold Maria Akanbi 164 Travels in South Slavonic Lands by Martin Alldrick 167 Aularian Poetry .................................................................................................................. 170 Book Reviews ..................................................................................................................... 172

Section 8: Aularian News ................................................................... 175

Aularian Updates .............................................................................................................. 176 Deaths 187 Obituaries 190

The Last Hurrah of the St Edmund Hall 1960 Year: A Toast by Guy Warner 206

Photograph: Lodge Door .................................................................... 208 JCR & MCR Freshers’ Photographs ................................................... 209

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The College List 2021-2022

Visitor

GB denotes member of the Governing Body

The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC, MA, DCL (Hon DJur Massachusetts, Birmingham, Bath; Hon DCL Newcastle; Hon DLitt Sydney, Exeter, Ulster; DUniv Keele, Stettin; Hon DBA Kingston; Hon DSc S E Europe, Rep of Macedonia), Hon FRCPE Chancellor of the University Principal

Willis, Katherine Jane, Baroness Willis of Summertown, CBE, MA (BSc S’ton; PhD Camb; Hon DSc Bergen), FGS

Professor of Biodiversity Fellows

Priestland, David Rutherford, MA, DPhil

Professor of Modern History, Tutor in Modern History, Secretary to Governing Body GB Whittaker, Robert James, MA (BSc Hull; MSc, PhD Wales)

Professor of Biogeography, Tutor in Geography, Vice-Principal GB

Kahn, Andrew Steven, MA, DPhil (BA Amherst; MA Harvard), FBA Professor of Russian Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Modern Languages (Russian)

Manolopoulos, David Eusthatios, MA (BA, PhD Camb), FRS

Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Tutor in Chemistry GB

Zavatsky, Amy Beth, MA, DPhil (BSc Pennsylvania)

Associate Professor and University Reader in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science, Garden Fellow, Tutor for Undergraduates GB

Matthews, Paul McMahan, OBE, MA, DPhil (MD Stanford), FRCPC, FRCP, FMedSci

Professor of Neurology, Fellow by Special Election

Mountford, Philip, MA, DPhil (BSc CNAA), CChem, FRSC

Professor of Organometallic Chemistry & Catalysis, Tutor in Inorganic Chemistry GB

Barclay, Joseph Gurney, MA

Fellow by Special Election

Johnson, Paul Robert Vellacott, MA (MB CHB Edin; MD Leic), FRCS, FRCS Ed, FRCS (Paed Surg), FAAP

Professor of Paediatric Surgery, Fellow by Special Election GB

Tsomocos, Dimitrios P, MA (MA, MPhil, PhD Yale)

Professor of Financial Economics, Fellow by Special Election GB

Johansen-Berg, Heidi, BA, MSc, DPhil, FAMS

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Research Centre Principal Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow GB

Tseng, Jeffrey, MA (BS CalTech; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins)

Associate Professor in Experimental Particle Physics, Tutor in Physics, Chapel Overseeing Fellow GB

Wilkins, Robert James, MA, DPhil

Associate Professor of Epithelial Physiology, American Fellow and Tutor in Physiology, Senior Tutor, Tutor for Admissions GB

Nabulsi, Karma, MA, DPhil

Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Jarvis Doctorow Tutor in Politics, Library Fellow, Senior Harassment Officer GB

Williams, Christopher Wesley Charles, MA, DPhil

Professor of French Literature, Director of TORCH, Tutor in Modern Languages (French) GB

Riordan, Oliver Maxim, MA (BA, PhD Camb)

Professor of Discrete Mathematics, Tutor in Mathematics GB

Yueh, Linda Yi-Chuang, MA, DPhil (BA Yale; MPP Harvard; JD NYU)

Research Lecturer in Economics, Fellow by Special Election GB

Yates, Jonathan Robert, MA, DPhil (MSci Camb)

Associate Professor of Materials Modelling and Royal Society Research Fellow, Tutor in Materials Science, Dean, Pictures & Chattels Fellow GB

Dupret, David, (MSc, PhD Bordeaux)

Professor in Neuroscience and MRC Investigator, Fellow by Special Election GB

Edwards, Claire Margaret, (BSc, PhD Sheff)

Associate Professor of Bone Oncology, Fellow by Special Election

Gaiger, Jason Matthew, (MA St And; MA, PhD Essex)

Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory, Fellow by Special Election GB

Thompson, Ian Patrick, (BSc, PhD Essex)

NERC CEH Fellow and Professor of Engineering Science, Fellow by Special Election Stagg, Charlotte Jane, DPhil (BSc, MB ChB Brist)

Professor of Human Neurophysiology & Senior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Fellow by Special Election

McCartney, David, BM BCh

Director of Graduate Entry Medicine Medical Sciences Division, Fellow by Special Election

Willden, Richard Henry James, (MEng, PhD Imp)

Professor of Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science, Tutor for Graduates GB

Wild, Lorraine, MA, DPhil

College Lecturer in Geography, Fellow by Special Election

Aarnio, Outi Marketta, DPhil (Lic Abo Akademi)

College Lecturer in Economics, Fellow by Special Election, Tutor for Visiting Students, Tutor for Year Abroad Students GB

Benson, Roger Bernard James, (MA, PhD Camb; MSc Imp)

Professor of Palaeobiology, Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences, Tutor for Admissions GB

Lozano-Perez, Sergio, DPhil, PGDipLaTHE, (BSc, MSc, PGCE Seville), AMInstP, FRMS

Professor of Materials Science, George Kelley Senior Research Fellow in Materials

Taylor, Jenny Cameron, BA, DPhil

Associate Professor of Translational Genomics, Fellow by Special Election Nguyen, Luc Le, (BSc Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; PhD Rutgers)

Associate Professor of Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Tutor in Applied Mathematics, Senior Treasurer of Amalgamated Clubs GB

Rothwell, Peter Malcolm, MA (MB ChB, MD, PhD Edin), FMedSci

Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology, Professorial Fellow

Goldberg, Leslie Ann, MA (BA Rice; PhD Edin)

Professor of Computer Science, Senior Research Fellow GB Pavord, Ian Douglas, (MB BS Lond; DM Nott), FRCP, FMedSci

Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Professorial Fellow GB

Bruce, Sir Peter George, Kt, MA, DPhil, FRS, FRSE

Wolfson Professor of Materials, Professorial Fellow GB

Karastergiou, Aris, (PhD Bonn)

Associate Professor in Astrophysics, Senior Research Fellow in Astrophysics Goulart, Paul James, (MSc MIT; PhD Camb)

Associate Professor in Engineering Science, Tutor in Engineering Science GB

Lähnemann, Henrike, MA (MA, PhD Bamberg)

Professor of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, Professorial Fellow GB Chankseliani, Maia, (BA, MA Tbilisi State University; MA Warw; EdM Harvard; PhD Camb)

Associate Professor of Comparative & International Education, Fellow by Special Election Winkler, Emily Anne, MSt, DPhil (AB Dartmouth, USA)

Principal Investigator (AHRC Project) History Faculty, Fellow by Special Election

Pasta, Mauro, (BSc, MSc, PhD Milan)

Associate Professor of Materials, Tutor in Materials Science GB Zondervan, Krina, DPhil (BA, MSc Leiden; MSc Erasmus)

Professor of Reproductive & Genomic Epidemiology, Co-Director of Oxford Endometriosis CaRe Centre, Fellow by Special Election

Al-Mossawi, Hussein, MA, BM BCh, DPhil, MRCP (UK)

Honorary Research Associate Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Rheumatology, College Lecturer in Medical Sciences, Fellow by Special Election

Huang, Wei, (BA Qingdao; MSc Tsinghua; PhD Sheff)

Professor of Biological Engineering, Fellow by Special Election McAlpine, Erica Levy, (BA Harvard; MPhil Camb; PhD Yale)

Associate Professor of English Language & Literature, A C Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English Language & Literature, Archives Fellow GB

Gill, Michael, DPhil (BSc Bath; MA Warw)

Associate Professor of Organisational Studies, Tutorial Fellow in Management GB

Skokowski, Paul Gregory, MA (PhD Stanford)

Professor, Symbolic Systems and Director, Center for the Explanation of Consciousness, Stanford University, Fellow by Special Election

Bannerman, David MacKenzie, (BSc Brist; PhD Edin)

Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology GB

Izadi, Mandy Mondona, DPhil (BA New York; MA Maryland)

Broadbent Junior Research Fellow in American History [until 31.05.22]

Lamb, Edward Raymond, BA (MA Camb; PhD UCL)

Career Development Fellow in Philosophy

Perez-De La Fuente, Ricardo, (BSc, MSc, PhD Barcelona)

Museum Research Fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Junior Research Fellow in Palaeobiology

Stride, Eleanor Phoebe Jane, OBE, MA (BEng, PhD UCL), FREng, HonFEIT

Professor of Engineering Science, Professorial Fellow

Hepburn, Cameron, MPhil, DPhil (BEng, LLB Melbourne)

Professor of Environmental Economics & Director of the Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment, Professorial Fellow GB

Williams, Mark Andrew, BA, MPhil, DPhil

Associate Professor of Global Medieval Literature, Fellow and Tutor in English Language & Literature GB

Vukovich, Alexandra, (MA EHESS; MPhil, PhD Camb)

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian, Junior Research Fellow in Byzantine and Slavonic History & Literature [until 21 January 2022]

Sweeney, Charlotte Anne, (BSc Sus; MBA, PhD Open; PGCE Bath)

Domestic Bursar and Official Fellow GB

Kasy, Maximilian, MA (Mag.rer.nat, Mag.rer.soc.oec Vienna; MA, PhD Berk; Habilitation Vienna)

Associate Professor in Economics, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Economics GB [until 31 December 2021]

Bell, Joanna, BA, BCL, DPhil

Associate Professor in Law, Jeffrey Hackney Fellow and Tutor in Law GB

Lloyd, Alexandra, BA, PGCE, MSt, DPhil, FHEA

College Lecturer in German, Fellow by Special Election

Ogembo, Daisy, DPhil (LLM Nairobi; LLB Lond)

Junior Research Fellow in Law, British Academy Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Burnett, Eleanor, (LLB Leeds), FCA

Finance Bursar and Official Fellow GB

MacFaul, Thomas, DPhil (BA Camb)

Mitchell Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in English

Parry, Luke, MSc (PhD Brist)

Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Earth Sciences Prentice, Joseph, MPhys (PhD Camb)

Cooksey Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Physics

Schumacher, Jacob, (BA University of the Pacific; MA, MSc, PhD SOAS)

Junior Research Fellow in Economics and Management

Jansen, Lars, (PhD Leiden)

Professor of Molecular Genetics and Wellcome Senior Research Fellow, Biochemistry, William R Miller Fellow and Tutor in Biochemistry GB

Tan, Jack, DPhil (BSc USM)

EPA Cephalosporin Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow

Slezkine, Yuri, (MA Mosc; PhD Texas)

Jane K. Sather Professor of History, University of California, Berkley, Senior Research Fellow

Howett, Carly, DPhil (BSc Essex; MSc UCL)

Associate Professor of Space Instrumentation, Tutorial Fellow in Physics GB

Crawford, Thomas, BA (PhD Camb)

Early Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics, Fellow by Special Election Guiliano, Zachary, (BA Evangel; MDiv Harvard; PhD Camb) Career Development and Research Fellow, Chaplain

Sciuto, Ruggero, MPhil, DPhil (BA Pisa)

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages Whitbourn, James, MA, (DMus LCM)

Director of Music and Fellow by Special Election Llewellyn Thomas, Rhys, (BSc, MSc, PhD S’ton)

Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Economics de Vivo, Filippo, (BA, PhD Camb; DEA Paris)

Professor of Early Modern History, Tutorial Fellow in History GB Rowan, Solène, (LLB Lond; LLM Paris I, Université Panthéon; LLM, PhD Camb)

Professor of Law, Tutorial Fellow in Law GB

Lazar-Gillard, Orlando, DPhil (BA, MPhil Camb)

Early Career Research and Teaching Fellow in Politics

Nicholas, Claire, (MSci, PhD Camb)

Associate Professor of the Geology of Planetary Processes, Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences GB

Munday, Callum , BA, DPhil

Fellow by Special Election in Geography

Howarth, James , MA (MA York; MA Lond)

Librarian and Fellow by Special Election

Vivian, Andrew, (BA Bourne; PGCE Birkbeck; PGDip UCL)

Director of Development and Fellow by Special Election GB Charles, Katherine (AB Princeton; MA Camb; PhD UCLA)

Visiting Fellow in English

Honorary Fellows

Oxburgh, Ernest Ronald, The Lord Oxburgh, KBE, MA (PhD Princeton; Hon DSc Paris, Leic, Lough, Edin, Birm, Liv, S’ton, Liv J Moores, Lingnan Hong Kong, Newc, Leeds, Wyoming, St And), FRS, FIC, Hon FIMechE, Hon FCGI, Hon FREng; Officier, Ordre des Palmes académiques (France)

Tindle, David, MA, RA, Hon RSBA

Daniel, Sir John Sagar, Kt, OC, MA (DSc Paris; Hon DLitt Deakin Australia, Lincolnshire, Humberside, Athabasca Canada, Indira Gandhi Nat Open University India, McGill Canada; Hon DHumLitt Thomas Edison State Coll USA, Richmond Coll London; Hon DSc Royal Military Coll St Jean Canada, Open Univ, Sri Lanka, Paris VI, Univ of Education Winneba Ghana; Hon DEd CNAA, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open Univ Thailand, Open Univ Malaysia; Hon LLD Univ of Waterloo Canada, Wales, Laurentian Canada, Canada West, Ghana; DUni Aberta Portugal, Anadolu Turkey, Quebec, Derby, New Bulgarian, Open Univ, Hong Kong, Stirling, Montreal; Hon DLitt & DPhil South Africa; Hon LittD State Univ NY), CCMI, Hon FCP; Officier, Ordre des Palmes académiques (France)

Smethurst, Richard Good, MA

Cox, John, MA

Kolve, Verdel Amos, MA, DPhil (BA Wisconsin)

Cooksey, Sir David James Scott, Kt, GBE, MA, Hon FMedSci (Hon DSc S’ton, UCL; Hon DBA Kingston)

Rose, General Sir (Hugh) Michael, KCB, CBE, DSO, QGM, MA; Comdr, Ordre national de la Legion d’honneur (France)

Gosling, Justin Cyril Bertrand, BPhil, MA

Nazir-Ali, Revd Monsignor Michael James, MLitt (BA Karachi; PGCTh, MLitt Camb; ThD Aust Coll of Theol, NSW; DHLitt Westminster Coll, Penn; DD Lambeth; Hon DLitt Bath, Greenwich; Hon DD Kent & Nashotah)

Roberts, Gareth, MA

Crossley-Holland, Kevin John William, MA (Hon DLitt Ang Rus, Worc), FRSL

Graham, Andrew Winston Mawdsley, MA, Hon DCL

Edwards, Steven Lloyd, OBE, BA

Morris, Sir Derek James, Kt, MA, DPhil (Hon DCL UC Dublin & UEA; Hon DSc Cranfield)

Bowen, David Keith, MA, DPhil (Dip Music; MA Open Univ; PhD RCM), FRS, FIMMM, FlnstP, FREng

Byatt, Sir Ian Charles Rayner, Kt, MA, DPhil (DUniv Brun, Central England; Hon DSc Aston, Birm), FCIWEM, FCIPS, CCMI

Burnton, The Rt Hon Sir Stanley Jeffrey, Kt, PC, MA

Mingos, David Michael Patrick, MA (BSc Manc; DPhil Sus), CChem, FRS, FRSC

Josipovici, Gabriel David, BA, FRSL, FBA

Macdonald, Kenneth Donald John, Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, Kt, BA, QC 1

Starmer, The Rt Hon Sir Keir Rodney, PC, KCB, MP, BCL, (LLB, Hon LLD Leeds; DU Essex; LLD East Lond; Hon LLD LSE, Reading), QC2

Shortridge, Sir Jon Deacon, KCB, MA (MSc Edin; Hon DUniv Glam)

Lee, Stewart Graham, BA

Khurshid, Salman, BCL (BA St Stephen’s College, Delhi)

Banks, Samuel Andrew, MA (BA Florida)

Hawkesworth, Christopher John, DPhil (BA Trin Coll Dublin; Hon DSc Copenhagen), FRS, FRSE

Wainwright, Faith Helen, MBE, BA (Hon DEng Bath), FlStructE, FREng, FICE, FRSA

Hollingworth, The Hon Justice Jane Elizabeth, BCL (BJuris, LLB Univ of Western Australia)

Fletcher, Amelia, CBE, BA, MPhil, DPhil

Ahmed, Samira, BA (MA City, Lond)

Asplin, Sarah Jane, DBE, BCL (MA Camb)

Dhillon, Sundeep, MBE, BM BCh, MA

Gauke, The Rt Hon David Michael, PC, BA

Haworth, Mark Derek, MA

Morris, Mervyn Eustace, OM (Jamaica) (BA London-UCWI)

Gull, Keith, CBE (BSc, PhD, DSc Lond; Hon DSc Kent), FRS, FMedSci, FRSB

Krull, Wilhelm, (PhD Philipps University of Marburg; Hon Dr of Ilia State University, Tbilisi)

Venables, Robert, MA (LLM Lond), QC3

Sedwill, Mark, the Lord Sedwill, MPhil (BSc St And), KCMG, FRGS

St Edmund Fellows

Laing, Ian Michael, MA

Smith, Sir Martin Gregory, Kt, MA (MBA, AM Econ Stanford), Hon FRAM, FRGS

1 KC from 08.09.22

2 KC from 08.09.22 3 KC from 08.09.22

Cansdale, Michael John, MA

Pocock, Francis John, MA, DPhil

Armitage, Christopher Mead, MA (MA Western Ontario; PhD Duke)

Best, Anthony John, BA

Xie, Heping, (BEng, PhD China University of Mining & Technology; Hon DEng Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hon DSc Nottingham Ningbo University, China)

Broadley, Philip Arthur John, MA (MSc LSE)

Busby, Ian Christopher, BA

Ruvigny, Rupert Francis James Henry, BA

Hwang, Frank

Chairman of the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP)

Emeritus

Fellows

Hackney, Jeffrey, BCL, MA

Donaldson, Iain Malcolm Lane, MA (BSc, MB ChB Edin), MRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin)

Hirsch, Sir Peter Bernhard, Kt, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FRS

Segar, Kenneth Henry, MA, DPhil

Child, Mark Sheard, MA (MA, PhD Camb), FRS

Worden, Alastair Blair, MA, DPhil (MA, PhD Camb), FBA

Scargill, David Ian, MA, DPhil, JP

Farthing, Stephen, MA (MA Royal College of Art), RA

Phelps, Christopher Edwin, MA, DPhil

Dunbabin, John Paul Delacour, MA

Stone, Nicholas James, MA, DPhil

Reed, George Michael, MA, DPhil (BSc, MS, PhD Auburn)

Crampton, Richard John, MA (BA Dub; PhD Lond; Dr Hon Causa Sofia)

Knight, John Beverley, MA (BA Natal; MA Camb)

Wells, Christopher Jon, MA

Wyatt, Derrick Arthur, MA (LLB, MA Camb; JD Chicago), QC 4

Borthwick, Alistair George Liam, MA, DSc (BEng, PhD Liv; Hon Dr Budapest University of Technology & Economics), FREng, CEng, FICE, FRSE

Collins, Peter Jack, MA, DPhil

Phillips, David George, MA, DPhil, FAcSS, FRHistS

Slater, Martin Daniel Edward, MA, MPhil

Jenkyns, Hugh Crawford, MA (BSc S’ton; MA Camb; PhD Leic)

Kouvaritakis, Basil, MA (BSc, MSc, PhD Manc)

Roberts, Steven George, MA (BA, PhD Camb)

Newlyn, Lucy Ann, MA, DPhil

Blamey, Stephen Richard, BPhil, MA, DPhil, Dean of Degrees

Martin, Rose Mary Anne, MA, DPhil (BSc Newc)

Ferguson, Stuart, MA, DPhil

Cronk, Nicholas, MA, DPhil

Podsiadlowski, Philipp, MA (PhD MIT)

Briggs, Adrian, BCL, MA, QC 5 (Hon)

Davidson, Nicholas Sinclair, MA (MA Camb) Lecturers

Ahmed, Farid, (BSc Lahore; MSc Read; MPhil, PhD Camb) Economics Alexeeva, Iana, MSc (BA Calgary) Psychology

Ashbourn, Joanna Maria Antonia, MA (MA Camb; PhD Lond SB) Physics Badin, Severine, French Lectrice

Baines, Jennifer Christine Ann, MA, DPhil Russian

Black, John Joseph Merrington, QHP(C), (MBBS Lond), DCH, FRCSEd, FIMCRCSEd, FCEM Medicine (Anatomy)

Bogacz, Rafal, (MSc Wroclaw Univ of Technology; PhD Brist) Clinical Medicine

Brain, Susannah, BM BCh (BA, MPhil Camb), MRCP Clinical Medicine

Buckland, Catherine, MA, DPhil (MSc Lond) French Conde, Juan-Carlos, MA (BA, PhD Madrid) Spanish

Grigorieff, Alexis, MPhil, DPhil (BA Durham) Economics

Gundle, Roger, MA, BM BCh, DPhil (MA Camb), FRCS (Eng), FRCS Orth Medicine

Hermann-Sinai, Susanne, PhD Leipzig German Lektorin

Jenkins, Ben, MEng Materials Science

Kennedy, Anthony, BA, DPhil Law

Laird, Karl, BCL (LLB Lond) Law

Leger, Marie Andrea, (Lic, MA Stendhal Grenoble) French

Littleton, Suellen Marie, (BSc California; MBA Lond) Management

MacDonald, Andrew, MA, BM BCh Neuroanatomy

McIntosh, Jonathan, MA (MA, MPhil Lond) Philosophy

Mellon, Stephen, (BSc Ulster; PhD Lond) Biomedical Engineering

Morris, Maria, (BA Complutense Madrid; PhD UC Berkeley) Spanish

Nicholls, Rebecca, DPhil (MSci Camb) Earth Sciences and Materials Science

Nishino, Takafumi, (BA, MSc Kyoto; PhD S’ton) Engineering

Noe, Debrah Pozsony, (BS, PhD Ohio State) Finance

Ostacchini, Luisa MSt DPhil (BA Warw) English

Pavord, Sue, (MB ChB Leic), FRCP, FRCPath Clinical Medicine

Pilley, Steven Edward, MBiochem, MPhil (PhD Imp) Biochemistry

Popescu, Anca, (BSc Politehnica Univ Bucharest; PhD Camb) Engineering

Roberts, Paul, MChem, DPhil Chemistry

Shine, Brian, (MB ChB, MD Birm; MSc Lond), MRCPath, FRCPath Medical Sciences

Sytsema, Johanneke, (PhD Free Univ, Amsterdam) Linguistics

Wadham, Alastair Jake, DPhil (BA, MPhil Camb) French

Wilk, James, MA, MSc (PhD Brun), FCybS Philosophy

Wright, Katherine Elizabeth, MBiochem Biochemistry

Chaplain

Guiliano, Zachary, (BA Evangel; MDiv Harvard; PhD Camb) Librarian

Howarth, James, MA (MA York; MA Lond) Archivist

Petre, Robert Douglas, (BA York; MArAd Liv)

Academic Registrar

Njoki, Melody, (BSc Card)

Director Of Music

Whitbourn, James, MA (DMus LCM)

Head Chef Vacant

Head Porter Knight, Lionel

Decanal Staff

Yates, Jonathan, MA, DPhil (MSci Camb) Dean

Arni, Abhimanyu, BA (MA Lond) Junior Dean

Buys, Elinor, BCL (LLB QUT), AMusA NSE Sub Dean

Lucien, Pierre, (BA St John’s University; MA Ohio State; MA Brown) Assistant Junior Dean

Mellor, Katie, (BSc Lond; MSc Sheff), AFHEA Assistant Junior Dean

Staff List 2021-2022

Archives

Robert Petre, Archivist Bar

Hayley Goodgame, Bar Manager

Chloe Knight, Scout (Bar) Bursary

Charlotte Sweeney, Domestic Bursar

Belinda Huse, Accommodation Manager

Susan McCarthy, Conference Manager

Clare Woolcott, Nurse

Jane Armstrong, Senior Welfare Officer

Lynne Morley-Johnson (until 31.12.2021), Bursary Administrator

Sunny Pagani (from 03.07.2022), Bursary Administrator

Andrea Cockburn, Bursary Assistant (Wine)

College Office

Robert Wilkins, Senior Tutor

Melody Njoki, Academic Registrar

Alena Nemeckova, Senior Academic Officer

Melanie Brickell, Academic Records Manager

Penelope Alden, Academic Assistant

Luke Maw, Student Recruitment and Progression Manager

Scarlett Short, Admissions Officer

Eve McMullen, Access & Outreach Coordinator

Communications

Claire Parfitt, Communications Manager

Development

Andrew Vivian, Director of Development

Emily Brooks, Alumni Relations and Events Manager

Catherine Payne (until 17.06.2022), Alumni Relations Manager

Sarah Bridge (until 23.06.2022), Regular Giving Manager

Thomas Sprent, Campaign Development Manager

Laura Zampini, Development Officer

Estates

Stephen Lloyd, Estates Manager

Alex Grant, Deputy Estates Manager

Simon Hogarth, Warden (Tamesis/William R. Miller)

Grzegorz Zbylut, Warden (Norham St Edmund’s)

Stephen Breakspear (until 11.09.2022), Estates and Compliance Administrator

James Ronaldson, Boatman

Elion Angjelo (until 03.01.2022), Carpenter

Thomas Gallagher (from 14.03.2022), Carpenter

Phillip Didcock, Plumber

Jose Hernandez Morales, General Maintenance Assistant

Vahid Kordbacheh, General Maintenance Assistant

Gerald McGrath, General Maintenance Assistant

Fabio Joao Goncalves Simoes, General Maintenance Assistant

Cleris Piovezzam (until 22.10.2021), General Maintenance Assistant Finance

Eleanor Burnett, Finance Bursar

Stephanie Hanks, Accountant

Sophia McMinn, Deputy Accountant

Sumathy Melville (until 08.02.2022), Accounts Assistant

Toby Cherrill (from 08.02.2022), Accounts Assistant

Sharon Stansfield, Purchase Ledger Assistant

Diogo Mendes Campos, Payroll & Finance Officer

Garden

Susan Kasper, Gardener

Jennifer Cockram, Norham St Edmund’s Gardener

Governance and Projects

Casey Charlesworth (until 03.03.22), Governance and Projects Manager

Laura Butler (from 15.08.22), Governance Officer

Housekeeping

Michelle O’Keefe, Housekeeper

Elaine Kavanagh, Housekeeping Supervisor

Lisa Thomas, Housekeeping Supervisor

Beata Bartnik, Scout

Susana Berrocal Pereo, Scout

Gil Da Costa, Scout

Mateus Dos Reis Corbafo, Scout

Anchan Drewett, Scout

Minerva Evio, Scout

Barry Fiddes, General Assistant/Scout

Dorota Gawronska, Scout

Erica Hanlon, Scout

Joan Kavanagh (until 06.05.22), Scout

Chloe Knight, Scout

Patricia Marquez, Scout

Aneta Palar, Scout

Sitarani Rai Jabegu, Scout

Dragana Rnic, Scout

Soraj Sahota, Scout

Marija Sarac, Scout

Hardeep Singh, Scout

Fiona Smith, Scout

Paul Solesbury, Scout

Pruang Stephenson, Scout

Michele Stroudley, Scout

Bosiljka Tetek, Scout

Zaulino Varela Guterres, Scout

Human Resources

Mandy Estall, HR Manager

Eleanor West, HR Assistant

IT Office

Andrew Breakspear, IT Manager

Ryan Trehearne, IT Officer

Kitchens

John McGeever (until 26.01.2022), Head Chef

Clifford Dandridge (until 15.03.2022), Sous Chef

Daniel Field, Junior Sous Chef ; Acting Head Chef (from 05.05.2022)

Steven Mills, Senior Chef de Partie

John Claxton, Chef De Partie

Peter Malone, Chef De Partie

Dylan Rampton, Chef De Partie

Barry Wixey, Chef De Partie

Bonifacio Pinto, Prep Chef

Filomeno Da Costa Napoleao, Kitchen Porter

Ventura Da Conceicao, Kitchen Porter

Rodolfo Fernandes, Kitchen Porter

Floriano Pereira, Kitchen Porter

Gonsalo Pereira, Kitchen Assistant

Library

James Howarth, Librarian

Emma Carter, Assistant Librarian

Heather Barr, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant

Lodge

Lionel Knight, Head Porter

Mohammad Ali, Lodge Porter

Ian Coles, Lodge Porter

Carol Drake, Lodge Porter

Peter Hack, Lodge Porter

Principal’s Office

Elaine Evers, Principal’s Executive Assistant

Servery

Samuel Green, Head Butler

Molly McCarthy, Deputy Head Butler

Nada Milkovic (until 31.05.2022), Deputy Hall Butler

Milka Parojcic, Deputy SCR Butler

Jovana Sarac, Catering Supervisor

Benigno Bonifacio Dos Santos, Servery Assistant

Nigel Buckle, Servery Assistant

Filemon Da Costa Ribeiro, Servery Assistant

Amelio Pinto, Servery Assistant

Reports on the Year 2

From the Principal

As I sit down to write my fifth contribution to the annual Hall Magazine, I reflect on the highs and lows of the past year with many more of the former thankfully. The first ‘high’ is the lack of lockdowns. Hallelujah! We have just completed a full academic year where I didn’t have to send yet another e-mail trying to explain to our wonderful, patient and yet weary student body that powers beyond us meant that they had to go home once again to work from their bedrooms with tutorials via Zoom. What has this lack of lockdown meant for this past year? Well, it would appear that everyone decided to make up for lost time – in formal dinners, partying, music, sport and even face-to-face tutorials and lectures. I only do a few lectures a year in biology – but the numbers turning up to lectures were more than I have ever seen in my past 23 years – and talking with colleagues it would appear they also found the same; we all missed face-to-face interactions – and to the student body this meant even attending early morning lectures to make up for lost time. As for the partying – all I can say is that we now have two porters on duty every evening. But please don’t get me wrong – this past year has been very good humoured and, quite honestly, it has been a total delight to see the College full of vibrant students

and alive again. As I hope you will glean from the pages of this magazine, the Hall is thriving in so many ways; academically, in music, fine art, writing, drama, sport of all kinds, and many other diverse activities. Long may it last. Another good reflection from the past year is the launch of our HALLmarks Campaign to raise funding for all the aspirations that we set out in our 2019 Strategic Plan –from fully-funded bursaries, to ensuring accommodation for all undergraduates and first year graduates. This strategy and campaign represent our roadmap to longterm financial resilience and will enable us to retain and build further this incredible place not only for current students but for many generations to come. The total goal is £50 million – which in our present financial climate might appear eyewateringly high and certainly something to which we need to be sensitive. But this amount is to be raised over ten years – so £5 million a year – and by not doing anything, we push the College and our students into potential longer term financial difficulties.

Sometimes I hear alumni say that they had a perfectly acceptable (and sometimes wonderful) time living out in their second years – usually with a motherly-type landlady – so why the push for developing more in-college accommodation? Is this a luxury we can’t afford? As I point out in reply, times have definitely moved on. Not least, in Oxford we now have 17,000 Oxford Brookes students all applying for the same small stock of poor-quality housing in the rental market. It also costs around £2000 year more to live out than live in (due to the need to take on a twelve-month license) so immediately this lack of in-college accommodation disadvantages the less well-off students.

All the colleges of Oxford University have recognised this challenge. Many have raised money to build new residential blocks in recent years, and we are one of only two colleges of the University which does not now, or will shortly, house all its undergraduates. This in turn affects our ability to make the best possible offer to prospective applicants, especially those from less wealthy backgrounds. I also fear the motherly-type landladies have long since retired…

Designing high quality, environmentally sustainable accommodation in Norham Gardens (the Norham St Edmund project) has therefore taken a large amount of our time over the past year. Many from across the Hall community have worked with the architects to ensure that we have a design that is not only environmentally sustainable but affordable and fit-forpurpose. For example, our student body has been closely involved in the design and layout of the rooms and social spaces. As well as an exemplar in environmental sustainability, it is critical that this new development is a space for our community to use and a wonderful environment in which to live and work. Plans have now been submitted to the Oxford City Council Planning Department, and by next summer I hope we will be in a position to start this incredibly important project; one which will finally enable us to accommodate all undergraduates and first year graduates in College accommodation. This will represent an important next step in the history of the Hall.

In terms of our staff and Fellows – we have certainly had some turnover in the past year (though not quite as much as our government, it has to be said). We have said goodbye to a number of long-standing College staff and Fellows including our Chef John McGeever, our Domestic Bursar Charlotte Sweeney, and a number

of notable other College staff and Fellows of whom you will read in the pages of this Magazine. It is always sad to see people go – and to me this often reflects a ‘low’ point because it is the people that make the Hall what it is – but it also reminds me that we are merely custodians, pushing this nearly 780-year-old Hall into the next millennia, and that turnover is part of this process.

The antiquity of the College was really brought home to me recently when I learnt a new historic fact, one of which you may all already be aware: our Library, the former parish church of St Peter-inthe-East has existed on this site since the late tenth century. St Peter’s is said to be named after the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome and is mentioned in the Domesday Book (c.1085). I still find it incredible to think that some of the Hall’s buildings which are still in use every day for studying, and accommodation, have been used for this purpose for more than 800 years. A key reason for this longevity is because of the many generations of past students, Fellows, and staff that have provided financial support over the years since its early foundations. And this is a legacy that we now have a responsibility to maintain – to allow the Hall to flourish into the future.

Professor Katherine J. Willis CBE, Baroness Willis of Summertown, Principal

As the Magazine was going to press I received the extremely sad news of the death of our former Principal Justin Gosling. Justin was a brilliant, dedicated, and sensitive leader of this College. Even after retiring, he continued to serve the College in many different ways from teaching to supporting alumni events and his former students. He brought extraordinary scholarship, wisdom, and enthusiasm to everything that he was involved with. Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor has kindly written a tribute on page 191 and we will celebrate Justin’s life and achievements more fully in the next issue.

News from the Senior Common Room

In addition to her teaching as College Lecturer in Physics at Teddy Hall, during this past year Dr Jo Ashbourn has continued as the Director of the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics, which aims to not just focus on chronicling the history of the discipline as a retrospective exercise, but to also critically engage with the philosophy and methodologies which inform how current research in Physics is undertaken.

The Centre has continued to go from strength to strength with its online events, which now regularly convene up to 1000 attendees from across the world. Online events have included a lecture on ‘Brilliant Blunders – Mistakes by Great Physicists That Changed Our Understanding of the Universe’ by Dr Mario Livio and a discussion panel on ‘Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Across a Century’ which featured the pioneers in this field from around the globe. The Centre held its first in-person event since the pandemic in Trinity term 2022, a oneday conference on ‘The Nature of Light’. The conference dinner was held amongst the dinosaurs in the University Museum of Natural History!

Details of these events with videos of all the talks plus forthcoming events for 20222023 can be seen at www.stx.ox.ac.uk/ the-happ-centre

During the past academic year, Emeritus Fellow

Alistair Borthwick worked part-time at the University of Plymouth, collaborating with fellow Aularians Deborah Greaves (1992, Engineering Science) and Alison Raby (2002, DPhil Engineering Science).

Alistair chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) and acted as an External Assessor of Civil Engineering Excellence for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He recently became a Member of the External Advisory Board to the President of University College Cork, Ireland. He gave invited lectures on extreme coastal wave events and on landslide-induced barrier lakes at St Andrews and Bath Universities. Alistair gave a keynote presentation on the sustainability of global golden inland waterways at a Congress on Rivers and Wetlands held in Colombia, a country with several rivers troubled by invasive hippos that originally escaped from Pablo Escobar’s abandoned ranch in 1993.

Alistair’s co-authored paper titled ‘Global trends in water and sediment variations of large rivers’ won the Science Bulletin 2021 Best Paper Award.

In late January, Alistair almost succumbed to bacterial meningitis, shrinking from hippo to human proportions while in hospital. He is now making a very good recovery.

One of our Honorary Fellows, Professor Keith Bowen has been awarded the degree of PhD from the Royal College of Music for his thesis The Bass Clarinet in Bassoon Form: its History, Repertoire and Acoustics. Keith has been working on this project, involving detailed studies of historical instruments in many European museums, and computer modelling of their acoustical resonances, for about ten years.

He has also continued with his scientific activities and is now Chief Scientist of Adaptix Ltd., an innovative young company on the Oxford University Science Park at Begbroke. Adaptix is producing advanced, portable X-ray tomosynthesis systems for human and veterinary diagnostics, and non-destructive evaluation equipment for aircraft and other components.

An update from Professor Adrian Briggs, now Emeritus Fellow, but still busy:

“Retirement is a funny thing: there are times when it feels as though one has retired from one’s salary but not from the work.

By way of confirmation that I had done the right thing, I volunteered to help out with a set of land law tutorials in Michaelmas term. However, being tutored by a former person with no room in College, and with the malevolent, shape-shifting virus as, er, virulent as ever, meant that the students had to endure classes in the bum-numbing discomfort of the Hearne Room: scarved, mittened and masked, with the windows and door wide open to the purifying November cold. Brave faces were, no doubt, put on, but even the dense warp and weft of the Land Registration Act 2002 fell short of serving as a comfort blanket. Never again.

On the writing front, the grim tearing out and patching up of Private International Law in English Court ground painfully on throughout the year. One should probably be grateful to have something to serve as a distraction while those occupying government office go about making our lives solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short: maybe that’s what a Brexit opportunity looks like. I really must tell a Minister.”

The first chapter of A Conflict Of Laws Companion: Essays in Honour of Adrian Briggs which describes Adrian’s contributions to the study of Law in Oxford as well as the authors’ recollections of time spent with him can be read in full on the Oxford University Press Website: bit.ly/3UvuLNM

St Edmund Fellow Philip Broadley continues as Senior Independent Director on the boards of Legal & General and AstraZeneca. He is proud of the success of the partnership between Oxford University and AstraZeneca that has seen over three billion doses of the Vaxzevria vaccine supplied in the global response to the Covid pandemic. The vaccine is estimated to have saved at least six million lives during 2021 alone.

The Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education, convened by Maia Chankseliani, Fellow by Special Election in Comparative and International Education, are now popular among students, academics, practitioners of education from different parts of the world, including Teddy Hall alumni.

This year Maia has obtained research funding from the US State Department

to form a research team to examine the links between student mobility and their home countries’ development. The project covers all six regions of the world: SubSaharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, the Middle East and Northern Africa, South and Central Asia, and the Western Hemisphere. The study offers macro-level modelling of the links between student flows and national development indicators since the 1960s.

At the same time, the study provides a nuanced analysis of how international higher education has impacted on the formation of leaders around the world and how leaders explain the connections between their educational experiences and their societal contributions. Thus, this project aims to advance the empirical and conceptual understanding of the potential of international higher education for transforming societies.

Maia’s new book What Happened to the Soviet University? is another space where she engages with the concept of transformation of societies. The book investigates how a major geopolitical change of the twentieth century — the dissolution of the Soviet Union — triggered and inspired the transformation of the Soviet university.

Watch the Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education: www.education.ox.ac.uk/events/globalpublic-seminars-in-comparative-andinternational-education

Emeritus Fellow Gordon L Clark has published a number of papers over the past academic year including ‘Agency, sentiment, and risk and uncertainty: fears of job loss in eight

European countries’ (ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography vol. 66, no. 1, 2022, pp.3-17) . This paper draws upon a research programme on precautionary behaviour with Zurich Insurance which used advanced statistical methods and bespoke surveys across eighteen countries designed to understand responses to risk and uncertainty notwithstanding differences in underlying employment conditions across the world.

Professor Clark has also given a number of major presentations, including a keynote address to the Global Economic Geography Conference in Dublin (June 2022). There, his presentation was devoted to the role of finance in giving effect to global economic and political objectives.

His advisory work continues, including chairing the IP Group’s ethics committee along with commitments to significant US FinTech start-ups. He is also a Universityappointed trustee on the Oxford Staff Pension Scheme.

This year saw revivals of two of Honorary Fellow John Cox’s most celebrated opera productions. John’s 1975 production of The Rake’s Progress, with stage designs by David Hockney, was revived for the Glyndebourne Tour in the autumn of 2021 and Mozart’s Così fan tutte ran at Garsington Opera in June and July 2022.

Kevin Crossley-Holland, Honorary Fellow, had a busy year.

Poem, Story and Scape, an exhibition from his literary archive in the Brotherton Collection with support materials and illustrations, was displayed in the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery at Leeds

University during spring and summer 2022.

His two publications during the past year have been Arthur, the Always King (US and foreign editions will follow next year) and a poetry chapbook of brief monologues about warfare, leadership and love, voiced by the young Harald Hardrada, Harald in Byzantium. They were both illustrated by the renowned political cartoonist and children’s book illustrator, Chris Riddell.

Kevin was commissioned to write a poem (An Alms-Basket) for the 75th anniversary of the Almshouse Association, and his and Cecilia McDowall’s cantata, The Girl from Aleppo, has been performed in Europe and the USA, while in their first post-pandemic concert, Vox Anima London brought together youth choirs from London and Texas in a spectacular performance at the Cadogan Hall.

Kevin also served as Guest Director for the Yorkshire Festival of Story, and helped to assemble a full and vibrant online programme for adults and children.

at Teddy Hall. Meanwhile, I have just returned from the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming in Paris and I am looking forward to spending the summer focusing more on research (and having a holiday!).”

Writing continued apace for the

Leslie Ann Goldberg, Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Computer Science, finished her first academic year as the University’s Head of Computer Science: “This year we hired faculty jointly with Exeter, Green Templeton, Kellogg, St Anne’s, and Trinity. We are going to be hiring many Tutorial Fellows in the coming years, and I hope that soon we will be taking undergraduates in Computer Science

College Chaplain. He has finished half of a new book on Bede’s Commentary on the Gospel of Luke and has begun submitting book proposals to various presses. Amid other projects, Zack has been invited to publish a popular-level book on the Church and slavery. He gave papers this academic year at conferences in London, Oxford, and Leeds, and was delighted to learn that his book on The Homiliary of Paul the Deacon, published last summer, has been shortlisted for the book prize of the Ecclesiastical History Society.

Zack was named one of the University’s ‘Select Preachers’ for celebration of the Latin Holy Communion required termly by statute. He also became a convenor of the Student Ministry Forum, an interfaith group of chaplaincies.

More broadly, Zack joined Oxford’s diocesan synod over the past year and the advisory board for Convivium, an effort at connecting local communities with heritage and sustainability. He has been a regular guest preacher in various churches, particularly outside term time. For St Giles and St Margaret’s, he delivered ten sermons over the course of Holy Week and Easter with the theme ‘“Surely, he has borne our griefs” — Christ and the pattern of salvation.’

Details on Chapel life may be found in the Chaplain’s Report on pp. 40-41.

Professor Keith Gull, Honorary Fellow, continued his research with ex-members of his laboratory to understand antigenic variation in the African trypanosome with the discovery of the master regulatory protein controlling the expression of the single active antigen gene. This was published in Nature Microbiology. Keith continued as a trustee of the Leverhulme Trust and also visited Ghana to teach and chair the Advisory Board of the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens in Accra. Keith visited Prague as a member of the International Advisory Panel of Charles University in addition to acting as a member of the small group advising the Provost of Trinity College, Dublin on promotion of Senior Faculty. He intensified his research into piscatorial opportunities around 660 North.

In July, the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) – organised by St Edmund Fellow Frank Hwang – successfully concluded its fifth annual two-week Academic Medicine Course, for a group of 26 senior medical academics, clinicians, and researchers from Taiwan. It will continue to train Taiwanese medics in

2023 and 2024. The Course was offered to senior medics from mainland China during the period of 2016-2019 and will resume such training in 2023 for five consecutive years. Japanese and Korean medics are expected to join the Course in 2024 and 2025 respectively. The intensive two-week summer course is designed for busy senior medics to update their muchneeded knowledge on the latest general advances and breakthroughs in medicine and related biomedical sciences.

The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event was an interval of regional marine deoxygenation caused by a high-temperature climatic episode that occurred during the Early Jurassic Period (c. 183 million years ago). This palaeoceanographic phenomenon was associated with numerous collateral effects including enhanced continental weathering, sea-level rise, ocean acidification, a so-called carbonate crisis, lacustrine anoxia–dysoxia, and a second-order mass extinction. First recognized and documented in the 1980s by Professor Hugh Jenkyns, Emeritus Fellow, on the basis of the coeval worldwide distribution of organic-rich sediments (black shales), a collection of papers on the re-christened ‘Jenkyns Event’ has

recently (2021) been published by the Geological Society of London as a Special Publication. This event is an object lesson on what happens to planet Earth in terms of environmental deterioration when subjected to extreme global warming

More about the volume Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Response to the Jenkyns Event in the Early Toarcian (Jurassic): www.geolsoc.org.uk/ SP514

100 Days, a collection of essays from the pandemic written by Honorary Fellow Gabriel Josipovici, was published by Carcanet at the end of 2021.

Emeritus Fellow Professor John Knight lives quietly in Witney, tending his garden, painting in oils, and pursuing his research hobby – some of it on the economics of happiness and some on the economy of China. Last year he enjoyed an email correspondence with several former pupils, and would be equally welcoming this year.

Contact John Knight: john.knight@seh. ox.ac.uk

“Events at St Edmund Hall for me marked a staged return to teaching and researching in-person. Singing together started in Michaelmas, Hilary brought international researchers for a workshop with the world-premiere of a setting of the ninth-century Murbach Hymns by James Whitbourn, sung in Latin and Old High German in the Crypt (youtu.be/ p4zImJl8ppY ). And finally, Trinity was marked by the biggest bonanza of the medieval calendar: The Medieval Mystery Cycle, with 89 actors and a dog performing eleven plays in five languages, attended by some 350 spectators live and the same number following the livestream. It was a truly all-encompassing experience, starting at noon in front of the Chapel and ending five hours later behind St Peter-inthe-East. In-between: multiple versions of Lazarus raising from the churchyard and John the Baptist beheaded live on stage, punctuated by trumpet calls and laughter. Mark the date for the next iteration on Saturday, 22 April 2023!

More about the Mystery Cycle on the Hall Website: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/mysterycycle and in the Year Gone by on p.75.

in the Nuns’ Network project. It was gratifying doing it in the knowledge that our research group received funding from the Gerda Henkel Foundation to continue the work for another three years, so I hope to be back with updates on the progress of the next volume in 2023!”

This year Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Fellow by Special Election in German, has continued her research on the anti-Nazi resistance group ‘The White Rose’ (die Weiße Rose).

In February 2022 her book Defying Hitler – The White Rose Pamphlets appeared with Bodleian Library Publishing. She has given talks at the Oxford Literary Festival and the Chalke Valley History Festival and appeared on History Hit’s Warfare podcast. The White Rose Project has continued its work under Alex’s direction, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the White Rose circle’s first resistance pamphlets, written and circulated in June 1942.

This year’s highlights include a display and publication of undergraduates’ creative responses to the resistance pamphlets, and an interdisciplinary graduate conference on the theme of ‘Rethinking Resistance’.

At the beginning of the year, Alex became the new convenor of the TORCH Comics Network, hosting a series of talks by international comics scholars, and

practical workshops on ‘Thinking with Comics’. As always, Alex is grateful to the many students she has taught (and from whom she has learnt in return) for their hard work, insightful questions, and tireless enthusiasm for German literature, film, and translation.

Paul Matthews, Professor of Neurology and Fellow by Special Election, continues as Head of the Department of Brain Sciences at Imperial College London. He was delighted to see that his department scored overall highest in the recent Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 exercise – a significant step up from the earlier 2014 result! He remains busy with research concerning early glial mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and as Director of one of the seven Centres in the national UK Dementia Research Institute. He also has enjoyed working on secondment with the UKRI Medical Research Council as Chair of the Neurosciences and Mental Health Board working always to increase funding opportunities for researchers and trainees. For some years, his work has had an international element; Paul is a Visiting Professor in the LKC Medical School of Nanyang Technological University, at which a number of Hall students have been able to pursue summer research placements over the years. This summer he is hosting one of the Biomedical Science students in his lab – and looks forward to more in the future!

Honorary Fellow Michael Nazir-Ali was received into the full communion of the Catholic Church on 29 September

2021, the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. He was ordained to the Catholic priesthood for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham at Our Lady of the Assumption, Warwick Street on 30 October 2021 by His Eminence Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster.

In April 2022 Pope Francis conferred on Dr Nazir-Ali the title of Prelate of Honour to His Holiness and he is now entitled to be addressed as ‘Monsignor.’ On his appointment, Monsignor Nazir-Ali said: “It is very generous of the Holy Father to confer this honour on me which I hardly deserve. Please pray that I will be worthy of it”.

Dimitrios Tsomocos, Professor of Financial Economics and Fellow by Special Election has given presentations at several conferences this year, including the Delphi Economic Forum on ‘New Realities’, the European Economic Association-Econometric Society European Meeting in Milan and the Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.

He has also spoken at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and at events in Warsaw, Prague, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Warsaw.

Dimitrios has published three articles this year: ‘Default and Determinacy under Quantitative Easing’ with N. Romanidis in the journal Economic Theory; ‘An Assessment of the European’s Bank Bailout Policies since the Global Financial Crisis and the Proposal for Reforms: a Comparison with the US Experience’ with A. Hryckiewicz and Natalia Kryg in Future Europe; and ‘A Computable General Equilibrium Model as a Banking Sector Regulatory Tool in South Africa’ in

the South African Journal of Economics with C.Beyers, A. De Freitas, K. A. EsselMensah and R. Seymore.

Dr Linda Yueh, Fellow by Special Election in Economics, was honoured to be invited to deliver a keynote address at the United Nations on 5 July 2022. Her speech, ‘Building back better and advancing the SDGs’, was delivered at the 2022 Session of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development at their headquarters in New York City, United States. The HLPF is the apex UN platform reviewing progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) since those were adopted by all nations in 2015.

Robert Whittaker, Tutor in Geography and VicePrincipal, reports that he has appreciated being able to resume in person teaching this year and to see College life return to full swing.

He took part in the Biodiversity, Conservation and Management MSc field course to Tenerife in March, which ran for the first time in three years, and has recently returned from participation in an island biogeography and macroecology postgraduate summer school held in Terceira Island, Azores.

Robert’s plans for the summer focus on completing the revision of his book on island biogeography, which has been ongoing since well before the onset of the pandemic.

He was recently awarded the accolade of Distinguished Fellow of the International Biogeography Society, of which he is a founder member and past President.

Arrivals in the Senior Common Room

Thomas was elected an Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall in October 2021.

He teaches Microeconomics related subjects to undergraduate students at the Hall.

Rhys graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Southampton in 2016. Subsequently, he received an ESRC DTC 1+3 Research Studentship where he studied for an MSc followed by a PhD, in Economics, also at the University of Southampton.

Rhys’s research interest is in Health Economics. In particular, he uses econometric techniques to analyse healthrelated questions. More specifically, he is interested in applying econometric methods to answer public policy, inequality, and behavioural questions in health.

In October 2021 Filippo de Vivo joined the Hall as Professor of Early Modern History and Tutorial Fellow in History. Filippo studied at the University of Milan, took his BA and PhD in Cambridge, and a Master’s degree at École des hautes études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Before moving to Oxford he taught for eighteen years at Birkbeck, University of London.

Filippo is an historian of Renaissance and early modern Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean. He has written on power and communication in Venice (academic. oup.com/book/6202), ranging from

rhetoric and speeches in government councils to pamphlets, rumours and graffiti scribbled on walls. He has also written on the comparative history of archives across late-medieval and early modern Italy (bit.ly/3ff2ECr) – he studies archives not just as repositories of information but as tools of governance and information management. In Italy and across Europe in this period, states tried to cope with the shared problem of information overload, and so reformed archives and devised new techniques for retrieval and organisation.

Filippo also studies the cultural and social history of urban spaces and practices, from pharmacies to squares and the history of walking (www.journals. uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/685830).

He has just published an article in Past and Present, co-written with Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), on popular protest and archival suppression in sixteenthcentury Venice (see his recent post on the Hall website: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/blog/ papering-over-protest-in-sixteenthcentury-venice).

He is currently working hard to complete an edition of Thomas Hobbes’ translation of a large collection of newsletters written in Venice and spanning the first phase of the Thirty Years’ War for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Hobbes.

Also in October, Professor Solène Rowan was elected Tutorial Fellow in Law at St Edmund Hall. Solène is a Professor of Law specialising in contract, tort, commercial and comparative law. She is the author of the award-winning monograph, Remedies

for Breach of Contract: a Comparative Analysis of the Protection of Performance (OUP, 2012), which won the SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (First Prize) and the Inner Temple New Author’s Book Prize for Outstanding Authorship (Runner-Up), and is based on a PhD thesis that was awarded the Yorke Prize (for theses of distinction) by the University of Cambridge.

She read Law as an undergraduate at King’s College London and Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and undertook LLM and doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge.

Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Solène held a Futures Scheme Funding Award (for world-leading high-performing mid-career researchers to enhance their research) at The Australian National University (ANU) from 2019-2021. She was also an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2012-2018) and a Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge (2008-2012). She has held visiting lectureships at the Universities of Oxford, Paris II (PanthéonAssas) and Osaka Gakuin, and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at Keio University, Tokyo. Solène is a non-practising solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, having trained at Herbert Smith in London and Shanghai. Her work has recently been cited by the Scottish Law Commission, the Court of Appeal of Singapore, and the Court of Appeal of Ireland.

Dr Orlando Lazar was elected Early Career Research and Teaching Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall in October.

Orlando is a political theorist researching domination and the workplace, with a particular interest in new and emerging forms of work. His DPhil was in Political Theory at Oxford, and his BA and MPhil were in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. At St Edmund Hall, Orlando teaches the Finals papers Theory of Politics, Marx & Marxism, and Feminist Theory, as well as the theory components of the Prelims paper Introduction to Theory & Practice of Politics.

His research focuses on domination, republicanism, and work, and his doctoral thesis concerned contemporary republican approaches to the workplace. His ongoing research takes this project forward, looking at structural accounts of domination, and at distinctively modern forms of precarious work. Most recent republican writing on work (including his own doctoral work) tends to imagine a traditional employment contract – a set number of hours worked, overseen by a manager, in return for a regular wage. Orlando proposes to reorient this approach towards an analysis of emerging forms of work – platform and gig economy work, automation, algorithmic management and surveillance, and remote and flexible working. These new labour practices risk handing significant and unfamiliar forms of power to employers, and challenge many of the traditional ways that republicans have approached the workplace.

From a normative analysis of distinctively modern forms of employment, and the new forms of domination they can involve, he is also interested in a practical set of questions: how should we re-organise work and the workplace to best promote freedom and non-domination?

Dr Claire Nichols joined the Department of Earth Sciences as the Associate Professor of the Geology of Planetary Processes in July 2020. She subsequently joined Teddy Hall as a Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences in October 2021.

Before moving to Oxford, Claire was a Simons Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied both Earth and the Moon’s ancient magnetic fields. Highlights included collaboration with Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt to uncover the shape of the ancient lunar magnetic field 3.7 billion years ago, and two field seasons to a remote part of southwest Greenland to study Earth’s magnetic field strength at a similar time period.

Claire completed all her studies at ‘the other place’, with an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from Newnham College, Cambridge (2010-2014) and a PhD from Jesus College, Cambridge (2014-2017). Her PhD on ‘Tiny Space Magnets’ with Professor Richard Harrison investigated the magnetic properties of iron and stony-iron meteorites in order to understand the internal dynamics of asteroids and other small planetary bodies.

Claire’s research has since become a little more down to Earth, with a focus on banded iron formations, a type of ancient iron-rich marine sedimentary deposit which has the potential to record variations in the strength and direction of Earth’s magnetic field between 1.5 and 4 billion years ago. Claire hopes to use these magnetic field records to understand how Earth’s magnetic field has influenced the composition and preservation of Earth’s atmosphere over time. This will help us to understand whether magnetic fields are

an essential criterion when considering which planets may be habitable, both in our own solar system and elsewhere in the Universe.

Dr Callum Munday became a Fellow by Special Election in Geography at St Edmund Hall in October 2021.

Callum is a climate scientist specialising in African climate and climate change. He is currently working on a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)- funded project in southern Africa and is a Visiting Scientist at the UK Met Office.

He completed his DPhil (2014-2019) at St Edmund Hall and was a college lecturer at Keble and Teddy Hall from 2017-2021, teaching broadly across the Physical Geography course. Alongside college teaching, he has lectured on African climate in the School of Geography.

Callum is interested in the mechanisms leading to droughts and floods in Africa, and their alteration under climate change. His research combines modelling with observational field campaigns for data sparse regions in Africa. The aim underlying much of his research is to improve our confidence in future projections of climate change in Africa –the continent likely to endure the some of the worst effects of rapidly rising global temperatures.

James Howarth became Librarian at St Edmund Hall in May 2018 and was elected Fellow by Special Election in November 2021.

James came to St Edmund Hall from Balliol College where he was Assistant

Librarian from December 2015. Previously he has worked at the International Institute of Strategic Studies and at Lambeth Palace Library in London, as well as the Taylorian Library in Oxford. He holds MAs in Library and Information Studies from UCL and Medieval Studies from the University of York, and as an undergraduate he read English at Exeter College, Oxford.

As Librarian, James strives to make the Library the intellectual hub of Hall life and a welcoming place to study. He is responsible for maintaining and developing the Library’s collections and particularly welcomes book requests (on almost any topic) from students.

He is also responsible for the Hall’s historic and special collections that live in the seventeenth-century Old Library and is keen to promote their use in research, study and outreach.

Also in November, Dr Frank Hwang was elected a St Edmund Fellow.

Frank is the Chairman of the Oxford Chinese Economy Programme (OXCEP) at St Edmund Hall. St Edmund Hall has been working in partnership with OXCEP since May 2013, with the aim of promoting the study of the Chinese economy at the College.

Dr Hwang believes in academic collaboration between the Global East and West, as well as lifelong learning experience for all. After his early days as a medic and on subsequent diplomatic tours of duty in Hong Kong and at UNESCO in Paris, he helped spearhead several China development projects at the Hall, including the training of senior academics, clinicians, researchers and professionals in various fields of study from mainland

China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Chinese communities elsewhere around the world.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Hwang embarked on a mission to help secure vaccine equity for people in AsiaPacific countries. He is committed to building a better world post pandemic, through better education, innovation, transformation and collaboration across the globe.

Andrew Vivian, Fellow by Special Election, is the new Director of Development at St Edmund Hall and responsible for fundraising and alumni relations.

Andrew joined the Hall in March 2022 and was previously the Associate Director of Development for Student Support at the University of Oxford, raising funds for a range of University priorities. Andrew’s experience prior to this has been in educational programme management for a number of organisations, including the British Council and Education Development Trust, supporting young people in the UK and internationally to gain access into Higher Education and employment.

Katie Charles was a Visiting Fellow in English for the duration of Trinity term 2022.

Katie teaches eighteenthand nineteenth-century literatures in English at Washington College; her areas of special interest include the early novel, the long history of form, and media studies. Her book project, Inside Stories: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Novel, explores how

early novels develop fictions of orality as a tool for both representing and unsettling social differences. She is also interested in the ways that modernist writers read the eighteenth century and remediate it as creative content. Her work has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction;

From the Bursary

The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; and the Dickens Studies Annual; and is forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly SCR obituaries can be in found in Section 10.

After very nearly four years with the College, I am heading off to pastures new in preparation for my retirement next year. It has been a pleasure to act as Domestic Bursar for the Hall and I have thoroughly enjoyed my time getting to know the team, the Fellowship and the estate. The team, as ever, has worked extremely hard this year in providing an excellent service to the College.

Projects

49–56 High Street (Besse Building) was re-opened following refurbishment in October 2021. The students have been delighted with the much improved and more sustainable building. The new Ecosync heating system, improved insulation, double glazing and heat recovery from wastewater system are delivering a 28% saving in heating costs.

We have submitted the full planning application for our new builds at Norham

Gardens. This project will deliver an additional 72 student bedrooms, five of which will be fully accessible. The three new buildings will be Passivhauscertified and the work on 17 Norham Gardens original villa will be a low energy refurbishment. We will be working with the University Parks team to create a wildlife corridor between our residences and the Parks and sharing our biodiversity scheme so that the space in the parks can be enhanced along our boundary.

We have had a Decarbonisation Plan written for the College to help us reach our goal of net zero energy. We will be using this plan to inform all works carried out at College. The first material project to benefit from the plan is the Front Quad refurbishment which is still in its infancy. Along with improving insulation, and adding double glazing, we have submitted a pre-application for re-wiring the Front Quad.

The Forum Garden outside the Wolfson Hall underwent a major renovation in 2021 and is flourishing well. The new lighting scheme for the area is very sympathetic to the surroundings.

We are awaiting pre-application advice for the building of approximately 30 student bedrooms at the Tamesis Guest House site on the Iffley Road.

Events

When most of us breathe a sigh of relief that term is finally over and the feeding and housing of our considerable student body is over, the conference, catering accommodation, housekeeping, IT and maintenance staff all gear up for conference season. This is the first season post-Covid and while it might not be quite as busy as usual, the challenge of running all the conferences on reduced staff is a testament to the dedication of our staff to the College. This activity brings in vital additional funding to maintain the College and the Hall is grateful for all the hard work that goes into this activity.

Our People

During the course of the year, a number of long serving staff have left us:

• Cliff Dandridge (32 years)

• Nada Milkovic (27 years)

• Joan Kavanagh (18 years)

• Filemon Da Costa Ribeiro (15 years)

• Lynne Morley-Johnson (11 years)

• John McGeever (11 years)

• Sally Brooks (10 years)

Shorter serving staff who have left include:

• Elion Angelo

• Luke Bradshaw

• Sarah Bridge

• David Cavalier

• Casey Charlesworth

• Timothy Delport

• Stephen Fenemore

• Clea Da Cruz Flausino

• John Morrison

• Kate Payne

• Cleris Piovezzam

• Sophie Quantrell

• Andrew Ramos

• Shannon Russell

• Gareth Simpson

• Anna Tyler

The College is grateful for their contribution.

We welcome a number of new staff:

• Mohammad Ali

• Jane Armstrong

• Heather Barr

• Stephen Breakspear

• Emily Bruce

• Nigel Buckle

• Laura Butler

• Diogo Campos

• Emma Carter

• Francisco Castro

• Toby Cherrill

• Daniele Cotton

• Carol Drake

• Tom Gallagher

• Zaulino Guterres

• Erica Hanlon

• Simon Hogarth

• Sitarani Rai Jabegu

• Pierre Lucien

• Eve McMullen

• Steven Mills

• Jose Hernandez Morales

• Alena Nemeckova

• Sunny Pagani

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• Fiona Smith

• Michele Stroudley

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• Andrew Vivian

• Eleanor West

• Bart Wieczorkiewicz

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We hope they will all find the College a happy, exciting and inclusive environment in which to work.

A special mention has to go to Dan Field this year. Dan joined the College as an apprentice chef ten years ago. On John McGeever’s retirement as Head Chef, Dan became Senior Sous Chef having worked as Chef de Partie after his apprenticeship. We recruited a new Executive Head Chef, but, sadly, it did not work out and Dan stepped into the breach and has been acting Executive Head Chef since Easter. This has been a huge amount of work for Dan, who has not let standards slip

despite being short of three full chefs. At the time of writing, we had managed to appoint two Sous Chefs and one Senior Chef de Partie, all with starting dates over the summer and a new Executive Head Chef, Sam White, will join us at the end of October.

Congratulations go to Sue McCarthy on her promotion to Conference and Catering Manager, Melody Njoki who was promoted to College Registrar and Tom Sprent who was promoted to Campaign Operations Manager. Congratulations also to Dylan Rampton who has successfully completed his apprenticeship and has been promoted to Chef de Partie.

A final set of congratulations to Joanna Bell on the birth of her son, Eric, and to Alex Grant on the birth of his daughter, Eliza.

I would like to thank all our staff for their hard work and dedication without whom the College would not be such a happy and supportive place to work for both staff and students.

From the Finance Bursar

The finances of the Hall for the 20212022 financial year continue to be impacted by the Covid pandemic, but not to the same extent as in the previous financial year. The timing of the Magazine’s publication means that the 2021-2022 accounts are still three months away from being completed, however, I anticipate that they will show a small deficit on normal operations.

The new 2021-2022 academic year commenced with the return of the students to the Hall, including visiting students, with all Covid restrictions lifted. The conference season in summer 2021 was non-existent, but happily the conferences in summer 2022 finally returned and it was lovely to see delegates in the Hall and enjoying the facilities. Looking ahead, as the financial impact of the Covid pandemic starts to reduce, the College now must deal with the challenges that are arising from the cost-of-living crisis, which is putting pressure on wages, food costs and particularly energy prices. Cost control will be key over the coming months.

Each year the Hall makes an application to the University’s College Contributions Committee (CCC), which distributes income grants to the less wealthy colleges, financed by wealthier colleges. This year, we made another successful bid, being awarded £113,000: £15,000 to be matched by the College for the purchase and implementation of an RFID library book self-issue system, as the current system is well beyond its useful life, and £98,000 for assistance with a maintenance rewiring project. This award brings our total income from CCC over the past ten years to £2.4m.

The Hall’s endowment funds increased to

£74.9m at 31 July 2021, from £62.8m at 31 July 2020. The final valuation of the endowment funds at 31 July 2022 are not yet finalised, but this has been a difficult and volatile year and initial indications suggest a final valuation of around £72m after taking into account the transfer to income of £2.4m under the Hall’s agreed spend rule. The 2021-2022 accounts will be published towards the end of the calendar year, when a more detailed analysis will be shown.

The Investment Sub-Committee has, again, been particularly active and I am grateful to the members of the Committee, especially the external members, for their support. Rathbone Greenbank continue to manage 40% of the Hall’s investment portfolio, with the balance being held within the Oxford Endowment Fund (OEF). The Hall’s investment policy can be found on the College website (www.seh. ox.ac.uk/policies-accounts-and-legaldocuments), with the key aim to manage and invest the entire portfolio in holdings that meet strict environmental, social and governance criteria.

I am pleased to report that, notwithstanding the volatility in the financial markets, the loan facility remains above the initial £20m investment and the

surplus was used to support the Besse refurbishment. The refurbishment was completed in time for student arrivals in Michaelmas term 2021, with fabulous newly refurbished rooms, most of which are ensuite, that can also be used for conferences.

The College launched its £50m HALLmarks Campaign in Hilary term, which is focused on raising funds to meet the aims prioritised within the College’s ten-year strategy. This includes the aim to fully endow our Tutorial Fellowships, increase our endowment for student support and to raise funds for the new student accommodation at Norham Gardens, built to Passivhaus standards. Housing all our undergraduate students

From the Library

Unlocking the Library

September 2021 found the Librarians with hopeful hearts, restoring the Library to its pre-Covid state: tape was removed from desks – bringing the reading spaces back to our full complement of 93 seats, masks were made non-compulsory and (perhaps slightly to the dismay of housekeeping) we no longer asked students to clean their desks before and after use. And, despite

remains a priority, and the project at 17 Norham Gardens is now underway. Funding for this project will be from a combination of College Funds and donor support. Support from our alumni in the form of gifts and legacies are extremely important to the success of this project.

Finally, my thanks go to Stephanie Hanks, our College Accountant, who continues to improve the financial processes and procedures within the Finance Department and across the College. We have welcomed two new staff members during the year, Toby Cherrill and Diogo Campos, who have settled in very well.

Eleanor

a rather traumatic brief period of mask wearing in January, things have returned to normal; we are as busy as ever it was, with nearly 150 readers using the Library on an average day in term time. We have kept several of the new services adopted during the pandemic. These include click and collect (where students can request a book via the online catalogue and have it delivered to their

pigeon hole); postal deliveries of books; and keeping the Library open every day except Christmas Day, even when the rest of the Hall is closed.

We’ve also continued our ‘Blind Date with a Book’ scheme – readers (including Fellows and staff as well as students) can contact us and request either a fiction or a non-fiction book from the collection, along with a brief outline of their tastes, and we supply them with a book for recreational reading. This year we ran several themed offerings including Black History Month, Valentine’s Day/LGBTQ+ History Month and Christmas.

Activities in the Old Library

The lifting of Covid restrictions has also meant that we have been able to resume our programme of opening up the Old Library and its treasures to a wider audience. We marked this at the opening of the year by staging an exhibition of works relating to St Peter-in-the-East for the Oxford Open Doors event. This was a belated celebration of the 50th anniversary of the church’s conversion into the College Library. We welcomed more than 1400 visitors on a very busy Sunday.

Further exhibitions and openings followed throughout the year. Notably, to mark the launch of the HALLmarks fundraising campaign an exhibition of Books and Silver donated by Aularians between the 1680s and 1710s was put on in the Old Dining Hall during the Campaign launch event in May.

We’ve also led six school outreach sessions across the year, using the Old Library’s collections to bring a ‘hands-on’ experience to visiting schools on subjects including Shakespeare and the history of maps.

Donations to the Library

As ever, we are hugely grateful to everyone who has donated their own works as well as other books to the Hall Libraries.

We received two very substantial donations this year. The first is the collection of John Hayes, partner of Honorary Fellow John Cox (1955, English). It comprises some 3000 books with particular strengths in art history and theory, medieval studies (history, literature, philosophy and theology), critical theory (especially Derrida) and philosophy. It also includes a very large number of exhibition catalogues and similar works. Our working collections in all of these subjects will be immensely strengthened by this generous bequest. Around 50 volumes will be added to the Old Library collection, including signed and annotated works by Angela Carter and a number of seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury works of art history. The Librarians are currently assessing and documenting the collection, and we are grateful to John Cox for his continued engagement with the Librarian in this substantive, if wondrous, task.

Second, on his retirement as Tutorial Fellow in History in September 2021, Nicholas Davidson offered the Library and the History Faculty Library a donation of around 1000 volumes from his working collection. The Library has added 380 of these to the shelves, the History Faculty Library accepted 48, and 223 were taken by other Bodleian and College Libraries.

Other donations to the Old Library were made by Dr Bill Cogar (1976, DPhil Modern History), who donated two seventeenth-century works on the Civil War, and by David Aukin (1961, English) who has donated a 1940-1959 run (incomplete) of Cyril Connolly’s Horizon magazine – this will be the largest collection of the title in Oxford outside of the Bodleian.

We have received several items of Aularian interest, including, from Jeffrey Hackney (Emeritus Fellow), a copy of Palgrave’s Golden Treasury which formerly belonged to the Hall’s former Dean Graham Midgley when he was a schoolboy. Dr Midgely subsequently gave the book to the Hackney children. Jeffrey also gave us a copy of Poets in their Lives by Robert Emden (the ABE’s brother) which was given to him by the author.

Richard Gretton (1973, Geography and quondam President of the JCR)

has presented material related to the restoration of St Edmund’s Chapel in Dover as well as a copy of The British Isles, a photograph book including on page 199 a picture of the front quad – including the young Richard Gretton sitting on the well.

The Library has also received welcome gifts to the working collection from Jim Denning (1958, Modern Languages), Elaine Evers (Principal’s EA), Ian Scargill (Emeritus Fellow), Robert Whitaker (Vice Principal), and David Cruz Walma (2019, DPhil Biomedical Sciences) amongst many others.

Library Staff

In October, Emma Carter joined as the new Assistant Librarian. She has extensive library experience having previously worked at the Garrick Club, the Flyfishers’ Club, the Bodleian and the British Library. Emma holds an MA in Library and Information Studies from UCL and was a Graduate Trainee at Trinity College, Cambridge. Across the year, she has made amazing contributions to the Library including bringing a superb eye and flair to our exhibitions, and the establishment of a much-needed conservation programme in the Old Library.

Our Graduate Library Trainee this year was Heather Barr. She recently completed the MSt in Medieval English Literature at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and worked as an invigilator in their College Library. She previously worked for a specialist education agency in London. Amongst many other projects, Heather has been very active in working on the ‘greening’ of our Library. We are delighted to say that she will be staying with us for the next two years while she completes an MA in Library and Information Studies at UCL.

James Howarth, Librarian Karma Nabulsi, Library Fellow

Donations 2021-2022

Over the year the Library was the beneficiary of many gifts for the Aularian Collection, which are listed below:

AKANBI, Gold Maria (2021, MFA Fine Art) Poem 7 Gold Maria Akanbi, 2021 Cascade of 100 Sins Gold Maria Akanbi, 2022

ARMITAGE, Christopher Mead (Honorary Fellow)

Unlocking my Word Hoard Grateful Stops Foundation, 2021

AUKIN, David (1961, English) Issues of Horizon Magazine 1940-1959

BRATBY, Richard (1991, History)

Forward: 100 Years of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Elliot & Thompson, 2019

CHANKSELIANI, Maia (Fellow by Special Election in Comparative and International Education) What Happened to the Soviet University? OUP, 2022

CHARTERS, Steve (1979, History) Charters, Steve et al. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture Routledge, 2022

Charters, Steve, Gallo Jérôme (eds.) Économie et management du vin Pearson, 2014

Charters, Steve, Michaux, Valéry (eds.) Stratégies de territoires vitivinicoles: Clusters, governance et marque territorial EMS, 2014

Charters, Steve (ed.) The Business of Champagne Routledge, 2012

Charters, Steve, Thach, Liz (eds.) Best Practices in Global Wine Tourism: 15 Case Studies from Around the World Miranda Press, 1987

CLIPSON, Paul (1975, Human Sciences) Wake Up, We Humans! Reading the Writing on the Wall We Humans Press, 2021

COGAR, Bill (1976, DPhil Modern History) [Donor] Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow Esq; Lieutenant General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the forces in Ireland, one of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began on November 3, 1640 [Vevay] Switzerland, [i.e. London]: Printed at Vivay in the canton of Bern. [i.e. John Darby of Bartholomew Close, London] MDCXCVIII.

The Speeches and Prayers of Some of the Late King’s Judges [London]: Printed [by Simon Dover and Thomas Creeke], anno Dom. 1660.

CROSSLEY-HOLLAND, Kevin (Honorary Fellow)

Collaborations with Artists Walker Books, 2022

With Riddell, Chris (illustrator) Harald in Byzantium Arc Publications, 2022

Arthur the Always King Walker Books, 2021

DIEPPE, Tim (1989, Mathematics)

Scriven, John, Dieppe, Tim Beyond the Odds: Providence in Britain’s Wars of the 20th Century Wilberforce Publications, 2021

GOMEZ, David (1987, History)

Gomez, David et al. The Regulation of Healthcare Professionals: Law, Principle and Process (2nd edition)

Sweet & Maxwell, 2019

Gomez, David, Glynn QC, Joanna The Regulation of Healthcare Professionals: Law, Principle and Process Sweet & Maxwell, 2012

Fitness to Practise: Health Care Regulatory Law, Principle and Process Sweet & Maxwell, 2005

GORDON, Keith (1988, Mathematics)

Residence: The Definition in Practice (4th edition) Claritax, 2021

Discovery Assessments: How to Challenge Them (3rd edition) Claritax, 2021

GRETTON, Richard (1973, Geography) [Donor]

St Edmund’s Chapel Dover: Reconsecration by his Grace the Archbishop 27th May 1968

Tanner, Terence Edmund Saint Edmund’s Chapel Dover and its Restoration Catholic Records Press, 1968

Commemoration of the 700th Anniversary of the Dedication of the Chapel of St. Edmund by St. Richard of Chichester… Monday 30th of March, 1953…

The British Isles Colour Library Books, 1987

HACKNEY, Jeffrey (Emeritus Fellow) [Donor]

Palgrave, Francis Turner Palgrave’s Golden Treasury (Copy formerly belonging to Graham Midgely) OUP, 1930

Emden, Cecil S Poets in their letters (Given by the author) OUP, 1959

HAWKINS, John (1970, Physics) The Royal Family and Freemasonry: The Prestonian Lecture for 2022 Henry Ling, 2022

The Corporation Estate Norbitton M. Litt. Dissertation, 2020

Hawkins, John, Sleigh Godding J.W. Westminster and Keystone Lodge No. 10 1722-2021: The History of a London Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Westminster and Keystone Lodge of Ancient Accepted and Free Masons No. 10. 2021

HIBBINS MBE, Joy (1981, Modern Languages)

The Suicide Prevention Pocket Guidebook Welbeck Balance, 2021 HURN, Stan (1983, DPhil Economics) Hurn, Stan et al. Financial Econometric Modelling OUP, 2021

Hurn, Stan, Baum, Christopher F. Environmental Econometrics Using Stata Stata Press, 2021

KISSICK, Lucy (2016, Environmental Research (NERC, DTP) Plutoshine Gollancz, 2022

KNIGHT, John (Emeritus Fellow) Knight, John, Gunatilaka, Ramani ‘Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter in China’

in China Economic Review Vol 72 Elsevier, 2022

Knight, John, Ma, Bianjing, Gunatilaka, Ramani

‘The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses’ in Economic Development and Cultural Change Vol 70/3 University of Chicago Press, 2022

Knight, John, Shi, Li, Haiyuan, Wan ‘Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty-First Century?’

in Review of Income and Wealth Vol 68/1 International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, 2022

LLOYD, Alexandra Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets Bodleian Publishing, 2022

Childhood, Memory, and the Nation: Young Lives under Nazism in Contemporary German Culture Legenda, 2020

OGURA, Michiko (Former Research Fellow)

Christian and Related Terms Used in Interlinear Glosses in the Old English Period

Peter Lang, 2022 The publishers in memory of HOEY, Augustine (1935, History) Pinchin, Anthony, Jolly, Graeme Trembling on the Edge of Eternity: Father Augustine Hoey, a Biographical Memoir St Michael’s Press, 2015

PITT, James (1964, Psychology and Philosophy)

Pitt, James, Webster, Ken Education Unbound: How to Create Educational Opportunity in Abundance TerraPress, 2021

POSTLES, Dave Fogg (1967, History) Some Medieval Taxation Returns: Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, 1327 and 1341-2 Dave Fogg Postles, 2020

RICHARDSON CB, Michael (1965, Classics & Theology) Henderson, Richard, Richardson, Michael Beside the Lotus Lake: A Tibetan Adventure in India

Alba Publishing, 2021

Ridler, Colin, son of RIDLER, Vivian (Emeritus Fellow) [Donor]

Ridler, Vivian Diary of a Master Printer Perpetua Press, 2022

SHAFRAN, Roz (1988, Experimental Psychology), SAUNDERS, Ursula (1988, English), Welham, Alice

How to Cope When your Child Can’t: Comfort Help & Hope for Parents Robinson, 2022

TROTMAN, John (1975, English) Cuttings: Prose and Poems Moat Sole Publishing, 2022

TYTLER, Graeme (1954, Modern Languages)

‘The Presentation of Hindley Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights’ in Bronte Studies Vol 47/1 Routledge, 2022

‘Violence in Wuthering Heights’ in Bronte Studies Vol 46/3 Routledge, 2021

‘Comedy in Wuthering Heights’ in Bronte Studies Vol 46/1 Routledge, 2021

‘The Workings of Memory in Wuthering Heights’ in Bronte Studies Vol 37/1 Routledge, 2012

WARNER, Guy (1960, Mathematics)

A Voyage Down the Years Mereo, 2020

WHITE, Stephen (1961, Jurisprudence)

What Queen Victoria Saw: Roderick Maclean and the Trial of Lunatics Act, 1883

Barry Rose Law Publishers, 2021

The Churchyards of the Church in Wales: A Legal History The Welsh Legal History Society, 2018

White, Stephen, Jupp, Peter, Davies, Douglas, Grainger, Hilary, Raeburn, Gordon Cremation in Modern Scotland: History, Architecture and the Law Birlinn, 2017

WIJAYADASA, K.H.J (1971, Dip Economics)

Insights into Buddhism in Practice P&P Associates, 2022

WINKLER, Emily (Fellow by Special Election)

Winkler, Emily, Lewis, C.P. (eds.) Rewriting history in the central Middle Ages, 900-1300 Brepols, 2022

Young, John (1958, PPE) [Donor] Stanley, Henry M. In Darkest Africa (2 volumes) Sampson, Lowe, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890

Prescott, Willam H. History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 1904

History of the Conquest of Mexico Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 1906

History of the Conquest of Mexico Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 1907

There were also many gifts of texts for the working collection from Fellows, alumni, student members and others. This year particular mention must be made of the donations received from: Elaine Evers (Principal’s EA), Jim Denning (1958, Modern Languages), Stephen Barlow (Lecturer in Statistics) and Kalli Dockerill (2019, History and Politics).

Gifts were also received from: the Catmur family, Kristiana Dahl, Martin Ridal and Jake Arthur amongst many others.

Thanks to everyone who has remembered the Library. We are grateful for the continued support we receive in this way.

From the Chaplain

Last year, we noted the difficulty of maintaining Chapel life in the middle of a pandemic, when we could hardly meet in person. We had different problems this year, like managing a full round of events while sickness and absences abounded. We had to cancel the planned night of Ghost Stories in December, due to the Omicron wave. Even I was absent at times, due to flu on one Sunday, Covid on two others, and Storm Eunice on the day we’d planned a special Evensong for Freshers’ parents.

But, mostly, this year’s delights and challenges were different. Throughout the year, we had so many people attending Chapel services that seats were scarce or had to be added, or we quickly ran out of post-service refreshments. Chapel registers reveal that attendance hasn’t been this consistently high for nearly 40 years, when Graham Midgley was in post. This is true of Sunday’s Choral Evensong and twice-termly services of Compline in the Crypt, but especially so for the big services of the year: St Edmund Day, the Carol service, and Leavers’ Evensong. We have resorted to ticketing the big events, and hope to add an additional Carol service. The Choir’s excellence is no small part of this.

A particularly remarkable occasion came on 27 February, three days after the invasion of Ukraine. We had originally planned an ‘ordinary’ Choral Evensong, with a guest speaker discussing the Parable of the Good Samaritan. The beginning of the service was delayed as more and more people came, and we kept adding chairs. Once things started, the Choir sang the Clucas responses, Stanford in G, and Arvo Pärt’s Littlemore Tractus. Our guest, Canon Prof Anderson Jeremiah, beautifully related the parable to the

unfolding War in Ukraine. Intercessions were offered, and the service closed with ‘Dear Lord and Father of mankind’ — there was a mixture of emotions, and what felt like true prayer. ‘Drop thy still dews of quietness / Till all our strivings cease’.

Ordinary routines were maintained, like preparations for baptism or confirmation or marriage. We continued with the renewed pattern of daily prayer in Chapel, both with Evening Prayer at a set time and with the building open throughout the day. I feel it has lent a greater sense of space to Front Quad, as well as renewed use and appreciation of the Chapel for its stillness, welcome, and calm. I have been grateful to be joined daily in prayer by Sam Cherry, our Chapel Clerk, who has been a steadfast companion. Chapel collections this year raised several hundred pounds for the Oxford Winter Night Shelter and the Ukraine fund of the Disasters Emergency Committee.

Trinity term seemed packed with celebratory events, some of which may be detailed elsewhere. On May Morning, Prof Henrike Lähnemann and I climbed the tower of St Peter-in-the-East with students Edward Taylor and Fred Tyrell to form a brass quartet, accompanied

REPORTS ON THE YEAR

by Samuel Patterson and others on percussion. Aularians and friends turned out to listen and dance (and enjoy coffee and donuts after). We had a special service for Corpus Christi this term as well, beginning in the Crypt with early music sung by an incredible new consort in Oxford, Antiquum Documentum. We ended with a procession to the Chapel –silently to avoid disturbing exams – before finishing with Benediction hymns and prayers.

On the practical side, we received the Quinquennial Report of our surveyor Mark Hammond, which revealed many needed repairs to the interior and exterior of the Chapel and Old Library. Specialist surveying must come first, including for the historic joinery and our beautiful stained glass. Some long-term planning is needed, too, for the proper maintenance of the roof. In the meantime, one initial investigation took place this summer: I was fairly sure the carpet on the east end of Chapel covered several memorials to past Principals (and at least one Principal’s wife). We confirmed that it does, and will make plans to remove the carpet and

restore the stone. We have also removed an aging Communion table and covering, with the hope of commissioning a new altar, along with choir fronts. Watch this space.

We can close with the prospect of something more immediate. Due to the generosity of a donor, we have commissioned a work of art to add to the beauty of services in Chapel. It’s ‘wearable’ rather than fixed or hung. Our present Chapel vestments are old, and many are now unusable. With some input from the Chaplain, Watts & Co. are designing a new cope in ‘Stag’ cloth of gold damask, bearing a version of St Edmund’s coat of arms on the back hood, with choughs worked in silk shading of black, gold, and red around a cross of gold. Plans are for a proper unveiling and dedication on St Edmund Day (16 November), alongside an exhibition of Chapel vestments and treasures. It’ll be worth dropping in.

From the Director of Music

Music in St Edmund Hall

2021-2022

Music is part of the energy that drives forward the life of this academic community, and it brings depth to those moments of significance which punctuate its natural rhythm. The choral programme run by the Director of Music is an important part of the educational offering available to students at the Hall. Tuition in music reading skills, formation of choral sound, and concepts of performance practice are all given within the curriculum, and weekly Sunday Evensong provides the principal performance opportunity for its members. Some 26 of the Hall’s students faithfully perform to a high standard in Chapel each Sunday and have covered repertoire by many notable composers in the European and Western traditions.

The Choir comprises students from a wide range of disciplines, and the award holders among them are fortunate to receive instruction from our two singing tutors – Jeremy Kenyon and Julie Cooper, a current member of The Sixteen – who offer expert, healthy vocal development to our undergraduates.

In February 2022 the St Edmund Hall Choir joined the Choir of Magdalen College

in our neighbours’ beautiful Chapel for a service in which the two choirs together sang music by Stanford and Brahms. The psalm chant that evening was by John Stainer – an undergraduate at St Edmund Hall and organist of Magdalen College.

In September 2022 the Choir finally resumed their summer residency in Pontigny. This had been rendered impossible during the pandemic, although in September 2021 they had instead enjoyed the rich acoustic and French associations of nearby Douai Abbey during a short residency there. Pontigny, where St Edmund died in 1240, and where his relics remain in a golden casket above the High Altar, is a place of deep association for the College and the chance to study and

ON THE YEAR

reside there for a week – and marvel in one of the world’s finest acoustics – is an experience to be cherished.

This academic year has seen the establishment of the Thursday dinner recital series, a platform for some of the outstanding talent within the student body (and occasionally SCR too) to be showcased to a student audience of around 150 people.

These short ‘micro-concerts’ have proved a popular addition to college life. Performances have included music by Clara Schumann, played by violinist Gabriele Brasaite and music by the vocalist and composer Flora Hartz Weihang Deng and I-Ting Chou played a beautiful work by Ren Gwang for violin and piano and Benjamin Thornley performed Roland Dyens’ arrangement of Round Midnight. Ekaterina Rahr-Bohr has performed this year as violinist, violist and singer whilst Elinor Buys and Earth Sciences Fellow Claire Nichols formed a flute duet which combined the talents of the Middle and Senior Common Rooms.

Memorial Day to which the Choir and Organ Scholars contributed.

The two Organ Scholars, Michelle Ng and Alyssa Chan, have felt the benefit of new glazing in the organ room, which, together with efficient heating, have kept in line with the College’s sustainability strategy and may be expected to lengthen the life of our two-manual instrument by Wood of Huddersfield. Improvements to the space also included some newly made shelving for the music library, beautifully and playfully constructed by the college carpenter at the time, Elion Angjelo, with its coronet of organ pipes. The Organ Scholars are instructed by Benjamin Sheen, Sub-Organist of Christ Church Cathedral and make a significant contribution to the musical life of the College.

The Music Society has organised a number of opera and ballet nights, taking advantage of the big screen available in the Doctorow Hall. The Music Room is very well used and provides a refuge for students and their friends who wish to make music together in any genre. It offers a place of informality which many students value as they seek to develop musical skills at a pace that fits with their academic work.

The St Edmund Consort, the SCR-based choir, has sung on a number of occasions throughout the year, often exploring repertoire derived from the academic interests of its members, especially those of Professor Henrike Lähnemann.

There have also been special dinnertime music events to mark Chinese New Year, Burns Night and the visit to the Hall of the Slovakian Ambassador, who was surprised and touched to hear the College Choir singing grace in his own language as he took his place at dinner. There was a short reflective event to mark Holocaust

The Hall has engaged the services of a number of professionals who bring good order and regular maintenance to the Hall’s musical instruments and equipment, from which the students benefit and for which we are all grateful.

Dr James Whitbourn, Fellow by Special Election and Director of Music

From the Student Recruitment and Progression Manager

It has been an exceptionally busy year in the Admissions Office, where we have seen a welcome return to in-person outreach. In total, 54 schools have visited the College this academic year. Combined with visits out to schools across the College’s link regions, we have worked with over 3500 students across 68 schools. This is the largest number of students that we have ever engaged with – a testament to our Access & Outreach Coordinator Eve McMullen’s hard work.

We have continued the rollout of the Oxford NextGen programme in collaboration with Lincoln and Magdalen Colleges as part of the Oxford for East Midlands consortium. This sustainedcontact programme works with disadvantaged students across eight inner-city schools in the region. Early insights into the programme’s impact have been very positive, with feedback showing a marked increase in understanding of higher education amongst the programme participants.

Eve and I have used the successes of the NextGen programme to devise an analogous programme for the Hall, Unlock Oxford, which will be launched later this year in target schools across our link regions. Split into two tailored streams, Unlock Oxford will work with students facing barriers to entering higher education within both rural and urban areas across our link regions.

The urban stream revolves around two residential visits to St Edmund Hall: first in Year 10 and again in Year 12. Participants on the programme will gain first-hand experience of life at a top university, learn how to make informed A-level choices, and receive guidance on making as

competitive an application as possible to a university like Oxford in the future.

The rural stream aims to address the fact that, especially within the further reaches of our link regions, students have limited access to (and therefore awareness of) universities. By working with students both in-school and on a visit to Oxford, we hope to portray higher education as a viable next step for those who may have not considered it despite having the academic potential.

Participants will not be arbitrarily selected from the brightest students in a school. Contextual data will be employed alongside measures of academic achievement to ensure that we work with the students who are most likely to benefit from the programme’s aspiration raising, guidance and support.

The third annual Teddy Rocks Maths essay competition, run by our Early Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow, Dr Tom Crawford, once again saw over 100 applications from students across the country and the world. Alongside this, Eve has devised and launched an additional competition to encourage super-curricular exploration amongst prospective

applicants. The Big Think Competition asked students to answer one of a range of big questions devised by tutors at the Hall. Answers were submitted in the form of a three-minute video on questions such as ‘Is translating creating?’ and ‘What can Earth’s past tell us about the future’. The entries proved hugely entertaining, with mock trials, time travel, giant mind maps and intricate whiteboard drawings being just some of the innovative approaches taken by entrants. Winning entrants will attend a Prize Winners’ Day at the College later this summer where they will be able to discuss their entry with tutors and other commended entrants.

In the 2021 admissions exercise, we saw the number of applications made directly to the College increase once again, despite a reduction on number of applications to the University overall. Furthermore, the proportion of our direct applications made by state-educated students saw

a significant increase. 69% of UK offers made were to state-educated students, only one percentage point away from the Oxford University average. Conducting interviews remotely has continued to be successful, helping to alleviate barriers associated with travelling to Oxford for in-person interviews, and allowing interviews to take place in the arguably less intimidating circumstances of a student’s school or home, rather than a tutor’s office!

I look forward to the 2022-2023 academic year with much anticipation, as we put the Unlock Oxford programme into action. With a view to working with up to 1800 targeted students in schools and colleges across the region, I am confident that both the reach and the impact of our outreach work will be hugely increased going forwards.

From the President of the MCR

If the key theme of the past academic year and a half was social distancing, the aim of this year was socially reconnecting. Considering that some of the most senior members of the MCR were Freshers during the arrival of the pandemic, this felt like a considerable challenge at the start of the year.

Freshers’ Week

Raghul (Raggy) is a third year DPhil student in Engineering Science, working in the Hypersonics Group. This is his second year on the MCR Committee, after working as Welfare Officer during an academic year dominated by the pandemic.

The incoming MCR Freshers made it no secret that they were keen to get out and about once more. Our annual Welcome BBQ at Norham Gardens was well attended by both new and old faces. The week reignited the MCR’s Oxford-wide reputation as a welcoming and socially vibrant collective. Many thanks to Philippa Warman and Ben White for helping out throughout the week.

A ‘Fresh’ MCR Committee

We started out this year with a small MCR Committee and ran a fresh set of elections near the start of Michaelmas term; the incoming Freshers were so keen to get involved this year that they dominated the election nominations. The enthusiasm that the (all-Fresher) Steward, Welfare Officers and ancillary positions gave to their roles can only be described as impressive: learning on the job was the name of the game over Michaelmas and Hilary terms. The MCR can consider itself lucky that they will be continuing their roles for next year as well, and I’ve sincerely loved working with every one of them.

Looking Forward to Past Traditions

The MCR Committee worked incredibly hard to learn about all the pre-pandemic events and traditions. A series of successful exchange formals (including a trip to our Cambridge sister-college) throughout the year proved that the best formal at Oxford is still Teddy Hall. End of term dinners and inter-college bops were run by Antonin Charret, Giovanni Rolandino, Jasper Singh and Zubin Deyal. We bade farewell to Chef John McGeever at the MCR Christmas Dinner and thanked him for Teddy Hall’s reputation as having the best food in Oxford.

Welfare Officers Nancy Liang and Siddhant Dhingra injected their own takes on MCR welfare traditions. High teas, movie nights at Norham Gardens, and the immediately popular inter-college salsa classes are here to stay for next year as well.

Sally Blumenthal, as Treasurer, reconsolidated the MCR finances with the bank to ensure MCR ventures and funds could be run more sustainably over the

long term. The Committee also saw their chance to make change for the better, writing two extensive papers to help improve College welfare provisions for mental health and harassment. Women’s Reps Ambra Speciale and Katerina Konstantinidou worked tirelessly to make this happen.

Will Moppett overhauled the MCR’s academic grant to make funds much more accessible; the MCR has funded impressive academic ventures, from immersive language schools to international conferences. Will and David Priestland restarted the in-person MCR academic seminar, showcasing the MCR’s part in world-leading academic research at Oxford.

Sport

Sports Rep Muyi Yang took the initiative to help with the NSE gym maintenance and set the wheels rolling for new MCR self-defence classes. As usual, Teddy Hall had a strong year of sports, with especially strong performances at Rugby and Football Cuppers and great representation at Varsity. The Boat Club Committee was headed by MCR members and had an almost MCR-exclusive men’s boat during Torpids.

Trinity term

Trinity term was packed with summer croquet, poolside BBQs and trips outside of Oxford. The Committee as a whole had a fantastic time at the Teddy Hall Ball: the first in four years! A brainchild of Antonin Charret and Jasper Singh this year was Trinity Week: a social week with Teddy Hall’s first-ever joint MCR and JCR Leavers’ Ball, nights out, and the fanfareinitiated MCR Trinity Dinner. There was a great turnout for the MCR’s first Trinity photograph for three years.

HALLmarks Campaign

It was a pleasure to be included in the launch of the HALLmarks Campaign. The MCR was (and still is) heavily involved in discussions of the best ways to invest in graduate life at the Hall, particularly on fostering Norham Gardens as a social focal point of the MCR community. It’s difficult to put into words how incredibly grateful I am to the MCR Committee for getting stuck in so willingly, to the College staff and Fellows for helping to support our efforts post-pandemic, and to the rest of the MCR for supporting each other. The MCR itself rediscovered its own welcoming atmosphere. It is incredibly easy to walk into the dining hall or common room on any day of the week and bump into a group of friendly faces. This is something that is grown out of a

love of the community and is treasured by many. Fellow MCR members are so incredibly supportive in challenging times: supporting fellow students affected by the war in Ukraine, raising money for very personal fundraisers, and turning out en-mass to support our sports teams. I’m confident that when I say many of my fellow MCR members are friends for life, I genuinely mean it.

From the President of the JCR

distancing now something, hopefully, more than two metres behind us. From sit-down clubs, to trying to make your 9am (in-person) lecture after a 3am bedtime. From YouTube home workouts, to sweating alongside your team at Football Cuppers. From watching virtual slides in bed, to running into the lecture theatre, coffee in hand, with two minutes to spare.

October 2022. We’re back. Vaccinated, boosted, and hoping for the most normal year since Harry was a royal and the UK was in the EU.

Bubbles? Popped. Rule of six? Overruled. And who would have thought that the sight of a packed Teddy Hall Library could look so good, with the tape finally removed from every other seat and social

I can’t say I’m envious of my predecessor, Julien Kress, who was faced with a lockdown-ridden year. Yet, he took it in his stride and made what he could of an unpredictable time, to say the least. But, as Michaelmas progressed, it seemed that, finally, things were looking up. Adjustment was difficult, of course, but perhaps not as difficult as you’d expect. Students’ ability to adapt never fails to astonish me, bouncing back from what was, for many of us, the hardest couple years of our lives, doing so with more grace than is

warranted and often even with a smile on their faces. Though, on reflection, is there really any other option?

Aside from anything else, I’m embarrassed to say that it took me until this year to believe that my tutors existed from the shoulders down. It’ll be another couple of months, at least, for the novelty of face-to-face tutorials to wear off. Whilst the correct answer to our tutors’ question is no longer a sneaky google away, the genuine stimulation of being in-person with the rest of your group, attempting to tackle the next problem that is thrown at you, is irreplaceable.

I can mark the exact moment that the absurdity of the new normalcy really kicked in, to 29 November 2021: Oxmas Dinner. And if you’ve been to a Teddy Hall Christmas Dinner, you’ll know that it is truly like no other. It was walking into the Wolfson, tackled with the unfamiliar, but welcome, decision of where to sit; the days of having to sit with your designated bubble, a (socially)-distant memory. It was filing all the Freshers into the perimeter of the room, shoulder to shoulder, for the speeches. It was standing on the tables, unstable with Christmas Spirit (and a little wine), belting out Christmas Carols, surrounded by the beauty that is the Hall. Hilary term was bittersweet, as we said goodbye to many of the Old Committee, but hello to a new one, with new social secretaries, Sophie Richardson and Emily Falconer, facing a very different entertainment scene than the previous year, focusing on inclusivity. Inclusivity in mind, we also had our first Diwali formal, as well as return of the Eid and Chinese New Year formals. And with Hilary being famously the bleakest of terms, the new Committee and I went tunnel-vision on welfare, introducing homemade brownies, fresh cinnamon buns and even a chocolate

fountain to JCRT, because nothing puts a smile on students’ faces like free food.

As always, Teddy Hall showed nothing but enthusiasm in sport, entering the semifinals for Women’s and Men’s Football and Rugby, the finals for Hockey and Water Polo, and seizing impressive wins in Gymnastics, Mixed Touch Rugby and even Swimming, where, in true Teddy fashion, we entered more competitors than any other college, with over 35 ‘swimmers’ – a term used incredibly loosely, as some did not actually know how to swim. The halfway mark snuck up on many second years at Halfway Hall, the good food and good wine doing little to mask how quickly time was passing. And just like that, as always happens with Oxford terms, it was over before we knew it.

Which brings us here. Trinity term. We started the term with a bang. The 2022 Teddy Ball. With Alex Sarshar and myself as Ball Co-Presidents, as well as a stunning Committee, we organised the biggest Ball St Edmund Hall has ever had, with a guest list of 900 and spanning not just the Front Quad, but the entire College: a rodeo bull in the Graveyard and a ball pit in the Chough Room; silent discos and firebreathers; fairground stalls and exquisite food. It didn’t come without bumps or difficulties, but it was undoubtedly worth it. It was, to say the least, phenomenal. It goes without saying that the Ball would not have been possible without Robert Wilkins and Sue McCarthy, who helped us more than I could explain in the page space I have been given. I can only thank them for their time and efforts.

The Ball over, the distant idea of Finals and Prelims finally started materialising into reality. Trinity was a term full of days too beautiful to spend inside. That said, if this was the case, what better place to spend it than the Teddy Hall Library, occasional

JCRTs in the graveyard, fuelling revision sessions with ice cream and smoothies and our incredible new Welfare Officers, Verity Black and Jake Elliott, ensuring that ‘Fifth Week Blues’ were conquered with increased support access and even a welfare dog to make the exam prep as bearable as it could be. It’s worth noting that for me and my cohort, at least, these were the first in-person exams we had sat since our GCSEs in 2018. Yet you would never be able to tell, with the way

that each student walked into the Exam Schools, donning their sub-fusc as if they didn’t know any different, going through the phases of carnation colour like it was second nature.

On lighter matters, our new Sports Officers, Teddy Thomson and Poppy Buckley, alongside our Social Secs, organised a fantastic Sports Day, where we watched Blues-Level Rugby players fail embarrassingly at the sack race, and Varsity Hockey Players topple and fall at Duck, Duck, Goose. Football Cuppers is one thing, but tug of war? – a completely different story.

To severely understate 2022 – it’s been quite the year. It has been an honour to be the JCR President at the time when the college felt like it was waking up. The past year has taught us that the future is unpredictable, and certainty is a fool’s game. What is certain though? Whatever next year throws at us, the Hall will take head-on, as we always do. And as the ancient saying goes:

“Teddy Teddy Teddy Hall Hall Hall”

Brittany Perera (2020, Engineering Science)

From Student Clubs and Societies

Professor

“Many of us will remember 2019-2020 when most clubs and societies activities were banned or had to exist entirely in cyberspace. As we exited lockdown restrictions, clubs and societies activities at St Edmund Hall slowly picked up its pace. By Hilary term, most activities have resumed as if no pandemic has taken

place. Our community is as thriving as it has always been, if not stronger. As Senior Treasurer of the Amalgamated Clubs, it is my pleasure and privilege to facilitate the Hall’s commitment to help our students achieve their ambitions, be it in academics, sports or culture. We look forward to a new year with more successes and new initiatives. Floreat Aula”

Sports Clubs

Men’s Association Football

1st XI Captain: Sam Boulger

SEHAFC were looking to maintain the history of sporting triumph within the College by striving for success in Cuppers. Due to the team reaching the semi-final of the last Cuppers competition, we received a bye in the first round before drawing Wadham in the next stage. After an excellent performance in which we beat Wadham 4-0, we progressed into the quarter final where we defeated rivals Queen’s 1-0. The semi-final brought a memorable match which saw hundreds of Teddy Hall students pile into Balliol sports ground to watch an intense game of football. After leading by 2 goals at half time, we conceded 2 devastating late goals to take the game to extra time. An early extra time goal put SEHAFC ahead, only for another last-minute goal to take the game to penalties. Despite unmatched efforts from the team, we suffered a crushing loss, and therefore didn’t proceed to the final.

The resilience of the team paid off when we beat our sister college and 5-time consecutive Cuppers winners, Fitzwilliam College, on penalties after a 5-5 draw in our annual game whilst on tour in Cambridge.

It has been a huge privilege to be the 1st XI Captain of such a great club and an amazing group of individuals. This year, an enormous proportion of the Teddy Hall community has been involved in College Football, either by playing in one of our four teams, or by attending the games to show support. Players of all abilities are welcomed and strongly encouraged to play at Teddy Hall, with three 11-a-side men’s teams and one women’s team competing. The club is in very capable hands for the 2022-2023 season with 1st XI Captain Caspar Soyoye and Vice Jonathan Munro, who I’m certain will strive to Cuppers success.

Sam Boulger (2020, Biomedical Sciences)

Women’s Association Football

Badminton Captain: Davidson Sabu

Making a comeback from Covid, this season has shown some amazing balling from Teddy Hall. Making it to the Cuppers semi-finals was an achievement on its own and, despite our loss to Wolfson, the team really came together throughout the cup!

Michaelmas saw plenty of league games, and it was easy to see players developing their skills in time for a Cuppers-heavy Hilary. We’re really proud of the girls’ display of Hall spirit, through health, sickness and essay crisis (famously).

With plenty of socials and training alongside the matches we played, team spirit has finally recovered from the pandemic and we’re looking forward to seeing where next year takes us under our new Captains Lalou and Eve.

Yasmin Ratcliffe (2020, Medicine) & Gemma Smith-Bingham (2020, English)

After losing a couple of years of regular College Badminton due to the pandemic, the SEH badders were back to full strength this year as we entered men’s, women’s and mixed teams for the league competition. With several members of the Hall trying badminton out for the first time, there were some casual sessions arranged in a local leisure centre, in preparation for the league competitions which took place across Michaelmas and Hilary term. It was wonderful to see enthusiastic members of the Hall always showing up to get a team together, even when people had to drop out last minute. Members who had never played even gave it a go and enjoyed it, truly showing it is a sport anyone can try while at the College.

The more serious Cuppers competition began at the end of Hilary, carrying through into Trinity term. The previous Cuppers tournament was mixed teams due to Covid regulations and we were going into this year as defending Cuppers champions. We only entered a men’s team this year, but hopefully next year we can also enter a women’s team. This year’s team consisted of myself, Naga, Will and John. The opening set of games were tough, and we just made it past the Jesus/Magdalen team on point difference. Then we beat New College comfortably to reach the semi-finals. It was a real battle in the semis and the boys should be very proud for the fight they put in, but sadly we lost to a very strong Wadham team. We will regroup and recoup for next year and I wish Co-Captains John Duale and Tehillah Campbell all the best for a successful upcoming year of badminton at the Hall.

Cricket Captain: Robbie Hardwick

The long awaited 2022 season for SEHCC begun with promise and sky-high aspirations. After plenty of winter training in the JCR and Buttery, we hit the ground running with a dominant performance against Lincoln. Freshers Caspar Soyoye and Atticus Evans-Lombe proved their worth with willow in hand, with Jake Elliot also bringing up his first half century for the Hall, before the seasoned pros Joe Minichiello and Lauren Irwin terrorised the Lincoln batters! Despite succumbing to an excellent hundred from a Lincoln ringer, the league season continued to flourish with wins against Keble, Queen’s and Oriel – not to forget a famous bowl-off triumph versus Somerville!

Despite qualifying for the league finals, it was decided that Cuppers was the focus, as masterful displays against St John’s and Kellogg had placed us in the quarter final with a genuine chance of glory. Unfortunately, a star-studded side unexpectedly underperformed against Merton/Mansfield.

Special mentions must go to Freshers Kunal Barman and Alex Swallow for their peerless offspin and testing opening bowling respectively, limiting the opposition to just 140 on a decent pitch. Alex Post, our anchor at no. 4 who batted all season with extreme responsibility, controlled our run chase to within striking distance of a Cuppers semi-final. With seventeen needed off the last over, Musa Ali swept us to needing just three off two balls but wasn’t quite able to drag the Hall over the line.

Cuppers glory wasn’t to be, but it was fantastic to see so many involved in cricket this year, many of whom had never played before. Much of this is down to Saul Manasse, Hilarians Captain, who reported the following from the Second XI:

“It was a classically Hilarians season for the Hilarians this year, with Teddy Hall’s esteemed Second XI narrowly missing out on the second round of Cuppers following an agonising loss to Christ Church. Highlights for Oxford’s only reserve side include a single wicket all season and a rejected appeal for a clear LBW, both courtesy of Sanjeev Malholtra, as well as First XI Captain Robbie Hardwick arriving purely to bowl the twentieth over and allowing the opposition to add 28 runs in just those six balls! Missed chances were the talk of the season, with at least four drops off the bowling of each of our two angry Scotsmen; I’m confident the team will rue these in the face of such marginal 120+ run defeats and return fighting in 2023!”

Robbie Hardwick (2020, Medicine)

Gymnastics

Captain: James Odwell

This year was another successful one for the Teddy Hall Gymnastics Club. After a year off due to Covid, Gymnastics Cuppers returned and SEHGC were ready to defend their 2019 title.

After seeing the success of the previous team, there was plenty of Hall talent hungry for Cuppers glory, and so a team of eight made its way to Abingdon Gymnastics Club, alongside a handful of enthusiastic supporters.

Much of the talent of the team was concentrated in the Men’s Beginners, inspired by Teddy’s domination of the category back in 2019. But with fierce competition from rival colleges, this year even neater routines and more graceful (Teddy) bear rolls were needed. Thankfully the team were up to the challenge, putting in some heroic performances to secure plentiful points towards the title. A special mention goes to Robbie Hardwick whose performances on the floor and vault

apparatuses secured him a silver medal amongst a challenging field.

The only other entry was James Odwell (me) in the Men’s Advanced Category. Two clean routines on the Floor and Vault were enough to earn the gold medal but more importantly, it meant more points for Teddy Hall.

Hockey

SEHHC has had a hugely successful season. After the disrupted 2020-2021 season, it was great to have some league games to hone our skills and grow as a team in Michaelmas term before Cuppers was in full swing. The huge intake of talent this season, across all years, meant it took no time to blow off the cobwebs and allowed SEHHC to continue to grow from strength to strength. In usual (keen) Teddy fashion, we managed to field teams for Men’s, Women’s, and Mixed Cuppers. Myself and my Vice-Captain, Harry Mehta, were incredibly lucky to find teams that gave their all for the Hall, despite the pouring rain / biting cold / burning sun that we faced each week.

On and off the field, dedication to the game, the team and the port has been fantastic on all parts. Sunday morning games ensured sore heads and churning stomachs post Saturday night but not once did our merry band fail to turn up and show that Aularians are made of sterner stuff than most. The slap-up Sunday

At the close of the competition, we all waited nervously for the results to be added up by the judges. But there was never any doubt, Teddy Hall were champions of Oxford Gymnastics again.

suppers in those gentle evenings helped replenish our spent strength and look forwards to the week ahead. Our scorching Mixed Cupper run started with an emphatic 4-0 victory over Corpus/ Oriel, allowing us to find our feet and grow in confidence. We then breezed past John’s/Anne’s to put us in the semi-finals against a highly experienced Queen’s/ Benet’s side. The team left everything on the pitch and secured an impressive 2-1 victory. On to the final. Boosted by the huge Teddy support from the side-lines and strengthened by the expertise we had gained over the year, the team rose to the challenge and put on a thrilling performance. Unfortunately, it was not quite enough on the day, and we finished with a very respectable second place. This has only made us more determined to come out on top next year, a feat of which I’m sure our new Captain, Leo Brake, is more than capable. I wish him the best of luck and I’m excited to see what the 2022-2023 season has in store.

Netball

This year has been both really successful and promising for the netball team! Although off to a rocky start in Michaelmas due to being unable to secure training space, it all turned around in Hilary. During this term we really came together as a team, placing third in our league! You could see the team grow stronger with every game and this was due to the hard work and consistent participation from everyone in the team.

In Trinity, we took part in the Cuppers Tournament which was an amazing day for everyone involved. It was the best I had seen us play together and I was super proud of the team. We were in a tough group with some amazing teams from other colleges. It was so close that it came down to goal difference and we ended up just missing out on qualification by two goals. Even so, this gives me great promise and hope for next year.

Throughout Hilary and until the Cuppers tournament in Trinity we also had regular training sessions at Magdalen College School which were always fun, and the court space was incredibly useful for practising drills and set plays. We were also extremely lucky to have another college training at the same time which allowed us to put these drills into practice with some friendly matches at the end of each session. The team really developed and improved from these sessions, and it was amazing to see what we practised come together in our games.

We will definitely miss the Finalists leaving this year who have been such an integral part of the team, both playing wise and in making it such an amazing group of people of which to be a part, but we are looking forward to welcoming all new faces that will hopefully join us next year! Training sessions and matches will continue to be regular and hopefully our team can go from strength to strength!

Rowing

Men’s Captain: William Loosley Men’s Vice Captains: Adam Pattenden, Thomas Harray

Women’s Captain: Jenyth Harper Evans Women’s Vice Captain: Madeline Prottey Captain of Coxes: Toby Whitehead Treasurer: Julien Kress Secretary: Emily Falconer

IT Officer: Aleksei Malyshev Men’s Social Sec: Adam Pattenden

Women’s Social Sec: Marie-Claire Jalaguier

Water Safety Advisor: Sophie Richardson

This year was the first full year of racing for SEHBC, after two years of disrupted rowing from both the weather and then from Covid. At the start of Michaelmas term, we moved our M1 and W1 boats over to Abingdon Rowing Club, where we train in Michaelmas and Hilary terms. This involved rowing through the locks down to Abingdon and was great fun for everybody! In October, the club put our efforts

into recruiting Freshers to learn how to row. This included having learn-to-row sessions and a Fresher’s BBQ to get to know everybody. We had a successful recruitment period and trained up our novices to compete in the Christ Church novice regatta. We entered two women’s crews and one men’s crew into the regatta. Our women’s B crew won their first race and were knocked out in the second round, and our women’s A crew had a tough first race and were just beaten by a boat length! Our men’s crew had a fantastic first race against St Benet’s which they won by a boat length and then went on to win their second race against St Hilda’s! They just missed out on winning their third race.

Our senior rowers had the opportunity in Michaelmas to enter the Isis Winter League (IWL) races. Our Men’s First Eight (M1) finished highest of all men’s crews in IWL A with a time of 4:27.0 and finished third in IWL B with a time of 4:42.5! Our Women’s First Eight (W1) finished with a time of 5:39.0 in IWL A, and our W1 entered a 4+ into IWL B, finishing second of the women’s 4+ boats with a time of 6:37.0!

Hilary term

As Hilary term started, we started training in crews to prepare for Torpids. W1 and M1 trained primarily in Abingdon, moving the boats back to Oxford two weeks before Torpids. The rest of our crews trained in Oxford all term, and eventually we entered six crews into Torpids: two women’s crews, three men’s crews, and a mixed beer boat.

Torpids

Our mixed beer boat, M4, started the week holding the coveted position of foot of the river. They bumped up and then back down during the week and finished back at the foot of the river! Our M3 had a tough week, starting their racing surrounded by very fast second eight boats from other colleges, meaning that they were bumped every day of the competition and won spoons. W2 had a strong start to the week, bumping up and then back down again, and then back up! They held onto the position they started in, standing them in good stead for next year. M2 were very high up in the charts for a second boat, meaning they were chased by some very good M1 crews. They fell seven places this Torpids and gained spoons, but showed fantastic sportsmanship and excellent rowing.

Our W1 raced in Women’s Division 2. They had a fantastic week and bumped up +5, meaning they won blades for a second year running! This is the fourth time W1 have ever won blades in Torpids, and they have now risen eleven places over two years, back to the position they finished in 2018. M1 started at fifth on the river but were chased by some incredibly fast crews. They finished the week at 8th on the river in Men’s Division 1, having bumped down -3.

Torpids results:

M1 -3

W1 +5 BLADES

M2 -7 W2 0 M3 -9 M4 0

Easter Vacation

Over the Easter vacation, rowing did not slow down. To remain competitive for Summer VIII, we continued training and entering external races. In March, our women entered the Women’s Head of the River Race, and our men entered the Head of the River Race. These are head races that take place on the Tideway in London and are excellent opportunities for rowers and coxes to experience different conditions from the Isis in Oxford. Both crews handled the conditions well and finished with modest times of 24:48.2 for our women and 21:07.1 for our men. This year we had two rowers racing in the OUWLRC blue boat: Katie Wellstead and Hazel Wake

At the start of April, we held a training camp for all crews on the Isis in Oxford. All of the rowers and coxes who took part improved immensely, and the crews came together really nicely ahead of a busy Trinity term of race preparation. Each evening of the training camp consisted of some sort of social activity, such as

mini golf or dinner, and allowed for lots of friendships to blossom!

Before term started, W1 entered a 4+ into Oxford City Bumps. Our women’s crew rowed fantastically at the top of Division 2 in their first race and bumped Jesus College in their second race, moving into Division 1. They then bumped Bristol University in the next race and held their position for the final two races, finishing +2 overall.

Trinity term

At the start of Trinity term, we held a women’s alumni dinner to celebrate over 40 years of women’s side rowing at SEHBC and the naming of our W1 boat after Aularian Helen Taylor (2004, Chemistry). We worked with the Friends of SEHBC to invite the women’s side alumni to the event, and thanks to the work of Sue McCarthy and the Servery, we were able to hold the event in Wolfson Hall! The event had women’s captains throughout SEHBC’s history giving speeches about their time at the Hall and allowed for the women’s side to have a space to exchange stories and to make new friendships - it was a great success!

Leading up to Summer VIIIs, Alex Grant and the rest of the maintenance team helped us continue to refurbish the boathouse by removing the bar in our upper boathouse to make room for a new weights section that we are hoping to install next year!

SEHBC entered six crews into Summer VIIIs this year: three men’s crews and three women’s crews. Unfortunately, a very competitive qualification race meant that our M3 did not qualify. Women’s Division 1 was the last race of each day for the first time ever in Summer VIIIs!

Summer VIIIs

W3 had a fun week of racing and were bumped three times. W2 had a hectic week full of klaxons and penalty bumps but held their nerve throughout and won well-deserved blades! M2 were very high up in the men’s charts, in Division 3, and were surrounded by first boats. They rowed incredibly well, however were bumped every day and therefore gained spoons.

M1 started the week with an incredibly strong row over at fifth on the river, however some fast crews behind them meant they matched their Torpids results and went -3, finishing eighth on the river in men’s Division 1. W1 started the week at sixth on the river in Women’s Division 1, and had some fantastic row-overs, as well as a bump on Pembroke in the gut on day two meaning they went +1 and are now fifth on the river – their highest position in seven years!

On the Saturday of Summer VIIIs, we held a charity BBQ, raising money for Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT), in memory of Matt Greenwood, an alumnus of the Hall who sadly passed away from bone cancer in 2016. Our vice president, Raggy Ravichandran, put in a huge amount of effort organising the BBQ with the help of our treasurer Julien Kress. With thanks also to alumni and current members who ran the BBQ on the day, we managed to raise over £1200 for BCRT!

In the eighth week of Trinity, SEHBC competed in Oriel Regatta, which is a mixed VIIIs regatta. The format splits into two categories; mixed college VIIIs, and crewdVIIIs where colleges are randomly matched to other colleges. We entered crews into both categories, and all crews performed fantastically! Our crewdVIII

composite with Brasenose finished third of crewdVIII crews, and our mixed college crew also came third of the mixed college crews!

SEHBC has had a fantastic season, and the boat club has grown in both talent and size throughout the year. We are ready to go into next year with our same determination to perform, as well as to create a vibrant atmosphere for all rowers and coxes! It has been a privilege to work alongside such incredible members, as well as the Committee, and our senior member Charlotte Sweeney. I’d like to thank them for their work in progressing the boat club to the inclusive, accessible, and successful club it is.

After a frustrating season last year due to Covid it was great to see the traditions of SEHRFC back up and running – starting with the Old Boys Game at the beginning of the season. The blistering heat and a clear lack of fitness made it a very tough match to start off the season however the old boys just came through with the victory.

After that we got straight into training and our much-anticipated morning fitness

sessions as our first Cuppers game was in less than two weeks. This paid off as we won our first Cuppers game against Hertford 48-7. After dropouts from both Balliol and Magdalen, we found ourselves in the semi-final of Cuppers against New. It was a hard-fought game, but we just came up short 8-9. We still had plenty of the season left and we didn’t want that game alone to define our season. Next up we had the Mixed Touch Cuppers in which we lost the final last year. Having

three University touch players really helped teach us union players that touch is a very different game with different tactics all round. We had an excellent day storming through the rest of the colleges and winning the trophy. Throughout the whole day we scored 26 tries while only conceding 4.

We ended the season with the Cuppers Sevens hoping to defend our title from last year. After a disappointing first game we found ourselves in the Plate, but we still

Swimming

2022 saw the long¬-awaited return of Swimming Cuppers to the hallowed pools of Iffley Road. Teddy Hall entered the contest as defending champions after a dominant performance in 2018. But, as many moons have passed since that fateful day, responsibility rested on the shoulders of the senior members of the club to pass down the secrets to success that have filtered down through many generations of Hall swimmers.

Armed with the memories of silverware glinting off the waters of history, Captains Lauren Irwin and Adam Hawkins set about building their squad for the big day. It is often said that quality takes precedent over quantity; but why have one when you can have both? By tapping into the ample appetite for success possessed by the

wanted to walk away with silverware. We went on to beat New in the Plate semifinals which was a very sweet victory after our Cuppers loss to them and then we beat Balliol, winning the Plate. It was great to be back in the bar singing our songs and playing Cuppers rugby again. We can only build from here on and we look forward to playing the Old Boys again come October.

students of the Hall (and by messaging every group chat and Facebook page in the College relentlessly for weeks), SEHSC amassed an enormous squad of buoyant brilliance, arriving at the Rosenblatt Pool with some 52 of the fiercest floaters, most serious scullers, and best breast strokers that Oxford has ever seen.

Other colleges had aimed to match our numbers in a quest to compete with our dynamic diving dominance. However, murmurings of a significant Christ Church presence belly-flopped spectacularly short of any challenge as Teddy Hall alone dominated an entire side of the pool. The Hall quickly raced their way to an early lead in the Individual Medley, tumble turning with a tenacity that confounded the competition. Whilst points may be given for participation, this did not feature in the thinking of the Hall who produced

podium finishes a plenty; such was the dominance of SEHSC that several races saw Teddy Hall place 1–6, as though no other college were even in the race!

Unhappy at being so far behind after only one event, other athletes were forced to push their bodies to the extreme in the hopes of catching the maroon and gold blurs streaking ahead of them. This unfortunately led to a series of injuries, with three swimmers forced to seek serious medical attention and proceedings halted whilst more lifeguards were sought. Keen to continue chasing what would have surely been an all-time points record, Captains Irwin and Hawkins offered up the qualified lifeguards present on our team to allow proceedings to continue. Their offer was rejected.

With the powers that be at Iffley Road breathing down his neck and with frenzied whisperings of invalidated insurance circulating should a single further splish be splashed, OUSC President Felix Gallagher Esq. rose to his feet and bravely declared the competition to be over, and the current leaders St Edmund Hall to have successfully defended their title: cue an eruption of rapturous applause from the maroon and gold masses. Within minutes, ‘We Are The Champions’ blared from a speaker and every other college left with their heads hung and “Teddy Teddy

Teddy… Hall Hall Hall” ringing in their ears. The triumphant team descended on the Buttery to celebrate. There the captaincy was handed to Mauricio Alencar and Poppy Buckley, who will look to extend our dominance for many more years to come. Will anyone beat us? Can anyone beat us? Only time will tell…

Adam Hawkins (2018, Chemistry)

Ultimate Frisbee Captain: Davidson Sabu

This year we were combined with Balliol, LMH and Jesus Colleges for league and Cuppers tournaments. In Cuppers, we sadly didn’t make it as far as the semis, but it was wonderful to have people show up, especially considering it was the day after the Teddy Hall Ball. We had JCR and MCR representatives in Hui Wen Teh and Cyril Schroeder playing on our behalf this year, with the Hall spirit on display throughput. The baton will be carried over by Cyril Schroeder next year who will seek to rejuvenate the College Frisbee team and I wish him good luck for next year. The SEH Ultimate Frisbee team looks forward to welcoming new faces and keen athletes of any sporting ability for a bit of disc fun.

Davidson

Sabu (2018, Materials Science)

Other sports clubs playing in 2021-2022 included Basketball, Lacrosse, MCR Football, Rugby League and Rounders.

Cultural, Social & Volunteering

Drama

Drama Cuppers this year was a bit of a shot in the dark – the second years had only ever done theirs online but we struck out into the thespian side of Oxford with vigour. A call to arms on the Freshers’ group chat was met by Ethan Bareham, Matilda Piovella, Aminah Dixon, Felix Clayton McClure and Q Sun. After a couple of nights of brainstorming, we came up with the seed that would flower into ‘Laradise Post’. Following the triedand-true Cuppers tradition of doing a sketch, something totally absurd, or a classic reworked, we decided to recreate Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, but with lashings of bad puns and toilet humour. It might not have been Arnold Bennett, but it was certainly a lot of fun. Once a script was assembled and a haphazard rehearsal schedule was planned out, we learnt our lines (barely), cobbled together our props (scarcely) and headed out onto the Burton Taylor Studio stage (scaredly). Felix played our leather-clad, bare-chested bad boy Satan; Ethan and Elsa played Adam and Eve respectively, their modesty protected by censor bars rather than fig leaves; and Kt, Aminah and Matilda admirably hopped between the roles of demon, angel and (memorably from Kt) a nappyclad, dummy sucking cherub, while I quite literally played God.

With a baby gate entrance to Heaven, a squeeze stress toy banana, plus a fake potted plant representing the Tree of Knowledge and a confetti of condoms raining down from offstage to show Adam and Eve’s lapse, we certainly weren’t highbrow, but we were effective. A few weeks later we were awarded not only Best Props (a category created this year) but also

Spirit of Cuppers, the most coveted prize of all. I cannot thank our cast enough for their willingness to carry out my harebrained ideas, and the generous Freshers of Teddy for the miscellaneous items they lent. Finally, a special mention to Felix, who let me outline his eyes in biro in the darkness before we went on stage because I had forgotten my eyeliner.

Music

This year, the Teddy Hall Music Society had a strong communal function. It helped musicians of the Hall reach out to each other by grouping those with the same musical interests (for example forming a band or a chamber group) in a mailing list, thus allowing them to communicate more easily with each other and to know who is around. The music room in the rear quad was also much used for practising, both by individuals and various ensembles: bands, violin/piano, vocal ensembles and more.

A great range of the Hall’s musicians then brought their beautiful music to the rest of the College at the recitals during Formal Dinner on Thursdays. The recitals were much enjoyed by the students and even posted about on social media to share the lovely atmosphere of the Teddy Hall community.

The Music Society also organised events for those members of the Hall who like to appreciate music rather than making it themselves. During the Michaelmas and Hilary terms, the Society screened ballet and opera performances in the Doctorow Hall on every Saturday night. The screened shows included The Nutcracker, La Traviata, Giselle, La Boheme, Mayerling, and Lady Macbeth, as well as less famous

works. The free screenings created a great alternative to regular concerts because of their more relaxed setting, and there were always free snacks and soft drinks!

The Music Society will be very happy to continue the screenings in the next academic year if people show interest.

Students who would like to get involved with the Music Society are encouraged to make themselves known at Freshers Fair at the start of Michaelmas. Alternatively, they can write an email to the Director of Music or to Jasmin Kreutzer, the society’s Secretary. They should especially get in touch if they want to become part of the Committee, wish to perform next year, or to suggest a music project.

Jasmin

Writer’s Workshop

Creativity in the Hall has continued to flourish over the past year, with the Teddy Hall Creative Writing group going from strength to strength. In returning to its rightful home – the warmth of the College bar – post Covid-marquees and Zoom calls, the society has built an everchanging, diverse and (most importantly) friendly community of budding writers.

In Michaelmas, the influx of Freshers and Visiting Students brought great numbers to our weekly workshops, establishing a melting pot of genres and styles. Amy Deng presented poetry, playful and meticulously crafted, in ‘Apophthegm to a fly (to my dearest roommate)’, while Aili Channer profoundly explored a world of snorkelling, coconut milk and acquired elephant tusks through short story ‘Skin and Bone’. Our collaboration reached so far as readings of a new TV pilot script, ‘Flockings’ (by William Heath), scene by scene, week by week.

Whereas poetry writing appeared most popular in many of last year’s meetings, the short story seemed to be the ‘going thing’ for 2022. Jasmin Kreutzer first presented a painstakingly attentive look at ‘fashionable colours’, art, black patent shoes and what it means to be a muse in work now out in the published world, taking talk as far as the specific shade of turquoise in Barbra Streisand’s armchairs.

Hilary also saw a resurgence of group staples: Aili Channer began work towards the revival of Teddy Hall’s arts magazine, A Gallery, while the group’s talent pool expanded beyond college, welcoming talented newcomers from outside the Hall. This was a lovely turn after Covid’s hamperings last year.

Further creative collaboration outside the Hall came in Trinity, expanding our reach through new writing experiences. Teamed up with Merton’s Poetry Society (and now writing in the room), five-minute writing challenges such as headline-based prompts and speed-written limericks led us across new ground.

In a broader sense, I have most enjoyed exploring such new ground in leading the St Edmund Hall writing group this year, alongside my co-presidents. I am proud of the group’s continued resurgence across the year and look forward to continued collaboration on Alex Abrahams’ return to leadership for 2022-2023.

William Heath (2020, English)

The Year Gone By 3

Choir Residential At Douai Abbey

The year began with 20 members of the Choir travelling to Douai Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, near Thatcham, as part of the summer Choir residential, to sing in the Abbey’s luxurious acoustics and to enjoy the hospitality and warmth of the community there.

Originally the Choir was destined for Pontigny, France, but the switch to a local residency meant the chance to inhabit

the Abbey at a period of relative serenity and to enjoy the spaces and beauty in a concentration rarely available during term. The road trip to Douai Abbey enabled the Choir to record one of the pieces they had prepared for Advent Carols last year –‘Serenity’ by Ola Gjeilo.

Watch the Choir sing ‘Serenity’: youtu.be/8LKh0mvfvnc

Hall Publishes Biodiversity Audit

The Hall took part in a baseline audit of its biodiversity on the Queen’s Lane and Norham St Edmund sites during summer 2021. Students, staff and Fellows participated in the audit which involved measuring the different landcover types, trees, birds, insects and earthworms.

Headline features include:

i) vegetation in the College grounds currently stores ~25 tonnes of carbon (which equates to around 92.4 tonnes CO2e);

ii) the sites support 58 trees (30 different species);

iii) the College grounds provide a habitat for 18 different species of bird, of which 15 are classified as of conservation concern;

iv) over 500 insects were recorded during a three-day interval, including 126 bees and other insects known to be important for pollination and pest control; v) sadly we appear to have only one earthworm in the College grounds!

In total, 18 colleges took part in this biodiversity audit exercise and there are plans to repeat this on an annual basis to enable us to record trends in biodiversity, and the success of any actions that we implement to increase overall biodiversity on College sites.

Full results from the audit: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/ St-Edmund-Hall-BioDiversity-Audit_ webcopy.pdf

Besse Building Renovation Complete

The refurbishment of 49–56 High Street (Besse Building) was completed for the start of Michaelmas term 2021. With the generous support of Aularians, the Hall has transformed the Grade II building into six self-contained student apartments as well as offices and teaching spaces. The design of these rooms was created by the architects Original Field.

We have made significant efforts to improve the sustainable credentials of

the building by installing double-glazing to the rear and substantially increasing the amounts of insulation in the building. New technology has also been installed that recovers heat from the wastewater produced by the en-suite showers and reduces the hot water demand by approximately 25%.

We look forward to welcoming future generations of students to stay at the Besse Building for many years to come.

David Picksley Walks the London Marathon!

Having walked a good deal during lockdown, Aularian David Picksley (1953, Modern Languages) decided to challenge himself to walk 26.2 miles on Sunday 3 October as part of the Virtual London Marathon.

In his 50s and 60s, David ran marathons, and while this was beyond him at 88, David was determined to walk the distance locally, with his stick, within the 24-hour time limit. David began training in February and since then has completed over 1500 miles.

David successfully finished the marathon in 9202nd place (out of 11206 participants) and second place in the 80+ category, in a time of seven hours and 28 minutes.

His efforts raised more than a £100 for the Teddy Hall Bursary fund, which supports students who are financially disadvantaged.

An important area of priority within the St Edmund Hall Ten-Year Strategic Plan is to create a diverse and equal community where there are no barriers to entry or to students fulfilling their potential. The Hall is busy increasing awareness about the benefits of university study and Oxford in particular, myth-busting to challenge any negative pre-conceptions, raising aspirations and enabling pupils to make stronger applications, so the Hall attracts the best applicants, regardless of their background.

David said: “Having had the chance to enjoy all the benefits that the Hall can give, I want to help make those possible for less represented potential students from low socio-economic backgrounds. During my career in foreign trade, and in doing some teaching, post retirement, I have met so many people, who given such an opportunity, would clearly have benefitted.”

Hall Fellow Involved in NASA Launch of Lucy Spacecraft

Dr Carly Howett, Tutorial Fellow in Physics, supported the launch of NASA’s Lucy spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in October 2021.

Lucy is going to visit an unusual class of asteroids known as the Trojans, which orbit the Sun at the same distance as Jupiter. These asteroids are thought to be primordial objects, untouched since the start of our solar system, and so by understanding them better Lucy will shed light on how our solar system was formed. Lucy will visit eight asteroids over its 12year mission.

More information about the mission can be found by watching the NASA Science Live Show co-hosted by Carly: youtu.be/C0qcstDJErk

The Zodiac at Modern Art Oxford

Beth Simcock’s

(2018, Fine Art) work

The Zodiac was exhibited at Modern Art Oxford from 21-31 October 2021.

The Zodiac is a painting installation that spans twelve canvases: one for each sign in the astrological calendar. Each painting holds its own internal logic while also referencing the larger connection to its network of neighbours.

The canvases span the space in a configuration that might just be accidental,

evoking the almost-infinite squares of the Instagram grid. Together, these uneasy constellations suggest the brooding possibility of change.

The exhibition was part of Platform Graduate Award 2021, which celebrates new artistic talent from across the South East, in a series of three solo exhibitions by selected BFA graduates from University of Reading, Oxford Brookes University and The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Funding Success for the Nuns’ Network

letter-book with 427 of the 1800 letters fully accessible online, including English and German summaries of all the letters, a full commentary of the historic context, a substantial introduction and the option to read the letters in a diplomatic or normalised version – and all open access! The money will fund two post-doctoral positions in Oxford and in Düsseldorf.

Congratulations to Henrike Lähnemann (Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies and Professorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall) and Eva Schlotheuber for securing funding for another 36 months (until May 2025) for the Nuns’ Network project from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. This has made it possible to edit the full extent of the impressive letter collections from the Benedictine convent of Lüne.

The project started in 2016 and in 2020 reached the milestone of making the first

In 2020, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung also sponsored a film series: ‘The Nuns’ Network’, consisting of six episodes featuring the history of the convent, the editing process, key findings from the letters and an interview with the two project directors, Eva Schlotheuber and Henrike Lähnemann.

More information about the Nuns’ project can be found on the Medingen Manuscripts website: medingen.seh. ox.ac.uk/index.php/2021/11/22/ funding-success-for-the-nuns-network

Listen to Henrike Lähnemann’s St Edmund Hall Fellowship Lecture on Letter Writing and Lobbying in Late Medieval Germany (May 2021): youtu.be/RjgjYtuIJ1s

Andrew Kahn Appointed Academic Editor of Electronic Enlightenment

Professor Andrew Kahn, Tutorial Fellow of Russian Literature and Modern Languages, has been appointed Academic Editor of Electronic Enlightenment (EE). EE is a digital resource that has been transformational in 18th century studies worldwide.

The 18th century was a great age of letter writing. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment is often now referred to as the ‘Republic of Letters’, since the writing and circulation of letters created networks

globally for new ideas. Letter writing was an essential tool in the way academies, universities, societies, individuals and rulers managed their work, lives, friendships, and even empires. The great innovation of EE is to collect and make available in digital and cross-searchable form the best available critical editions of 18th-century letters. These include the seminal correspondences of figures like Locke, Hume, Voltaire, and Rousseau, among many others. Conceived by St Edmund Hall’s former French Tutorial Fellow, Professor Nicholas Cronk, Director of the Voltaire Foundation, and

Robert Darnton, the distinguished Harvard historian, and funded originally by the Mellon Foundation, EE is now distributed by Oxford University Press and located in the Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDS) in the Bodleian Library.

Andrew will work together with an excellent team of four expert colleagues at the CDS. He is thrilled as an Enlightenment scholar with an interest in Digital Humanities to have been selected for this role in keeping EE at the forefront of new scholarship.

More about the Electronic Enlightenment Project: www.e-enlightenment.com

Hall Alumna Cat White Named one of Forbes ‘30 Under 30 Europe’ and her Film Shown in Berlin as an Official Selection for British Shorts

Inspired by the painting of Dido Belle and Elizabeth Murray, Farewell She Goes is a period drama exploring female friendship, race and women’s rights created by and starring Aularian Cat White (2016, MSt Women’s Studies). The short film was screened in Berlin as an official selection for the 15th British Shorts Film Festival from 20-26 January 2022 at Sputnik Kino, Acudkino, City Kino Wedding, Kino im Zeiss-Großplanetarium and Kino Zukunft.

Cat was named one of Forbes Magazine’s ‘30 Under 30 Europe 2022: Entertainment’. Cat’s award-winning company Kusini Productions aims to create opportunities, change the narrative and champion voices of Black women and girls. Since Kusini’s launch two years ago, White has made seven films covering

topics like women’s right to choose, homelessness, young motherhood and more. As an actor, White starred in the Swedish series ‘Threesome’ and will play the character Laura in the upcoming Amazon UK remake of ‘Call My Agent’.

More about Farewell She Goes: https:// kusiniproductions.com/farewell-she-goes Profile of Cat White at Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/ pictures/626aac3e28bbdf93d2deb21f/ cat-white/?sh=480290cf6158

Head Chef John Mcgeever Retires

John has masterfully balanced the daily challenges of College life combined with high-end cuisine and has created a kitchen team of hard-working and talented individuals. Colleagues who will dearly miss him offered some reflections about John’s time and impact at Teddy Hall.

We wish a fond farewell and a wonderful retirement to Head Chef John McGeever who has reinvigorated the College’s menus since his arrival in 2011. He has brought a wealth of experience from cooking at the highest levels in hotels and restaurants that have been starred in international guides. John was a founding member, previous Chairman and now an Honorary Vice-President of The Master Chefs of Great Britain, established in 1980 with the aim of providing a forum for the exchange of culinary ideas and to further the profession through training and guidance to young chefs.

Starting at the age of 14, John undertook classical training in five-star hotels and restaurants which gave him the grounding to understand the science of food. He was a founding member of the Scottish team that competed successfully in the Culinary Olympics in the mid-1980s. Since then, he has opened four luxury hotels for various international companies and is recognised as a judge for many of the UK’s culinary competitions. He is involved in Skills for Chefs, has presented at their annual conference, and currently sits on the judging panel for their Young Restaurant Team of the Year competition.

Domestic Bursar Charlotte Sweeney paid tribute: “John has led the kitchen brigade through a transformative process during his tenure here and kept catering going through pandemic times with very demanding and changing priorities with a smile. John has been a real pleasure to work with. His imagination with food has ruined dining out for me as formal dining at the College has been so good. John is also dedicated to passing on his craft to young entrants into the chef profession and we have two talented young chefs in the kitchen who have served their apprenticeships under John.”

Professor Wes Williams, Professor of French Literature and Tutor in Modern Languages said:“John’s arrival in College was properly transformational. There are very few positions in a community such as ours which have an impact on the quality of daily life for each and every one of its members. John seems to have instinctively recognised that the Head Chef is one such. Right from the outset, he has delighted, educated, and inspired College with his own work, and with that of the team around him. He made a properly significant difference to the quality of the collective commensality that is at the heart of College life, and I for one am enormously grateful.”

Conference Manager Sue McCarthy recalled: “John’s first dinner at the Hall was a bit of a baptism of fire as it was the St Edmund Feast, but with that dinner

he set the standard for the rest of his time at the Hall. John quickly set about improving everything about the service and operation, from the cutlery and glasswear to the quality and presentation of the food. Since that first Feast we have worked on many functions together both in and out of term. The requests have sometimes been challenging but whatever they were I have always had the confidence that what we promised will be produced and more.”

In Conservation With…

The Hall’s inaugural ‘In Conversation’ event took place on Tuesday 25 January.

Professor Wes Williams (Professor of French Literature and Tutor in Modern Languages) talked to Professor Barbara Savage, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, about Professor Merze Tate and Black Women’s Intellectual History.

Professor Merze Tate was the first African American woman to attend the University of Oxford. She was a professor, scholar and expert on United States diplomacy.

Professor Williams asked Professor Savage about the life and times of Tate as well as drawing interesting comparisons between Tate’s life and Professor Savage’s. The conversation reflected on the different spaces in Oxford and how Tate moved into the physical and intellectual space traditionally occupied by white males, as well as Tate’s time in India and how that impacted her political views.

Professor Savage is a scholar of twentiethcentury African American history with a focus on political and intellectual history,

The Hall wishes John a brilliant retirement and thanks him for his dedication, hard work and skill that he brought to his role.

He leaves Teddy Hall’s fine dining in a stronger position and with a bright future ahead.

Read the Hall’s 2014 interview with John McGeever and discover the recipe for ‘Teddy Brownies’: issuu.com/ stedmundhall/docs/aularian_2014/26

religious history, and women’s history. She is currently writing a biography of Merze Tate and was the visiting Harmsworth Professor at the University of Oxford in 2018.

Watch the conversation: youtu. be/1ABnLVYtqKE

The Hall’s second ‘In conversation’ event took place on Tuesday 1 February. Dan Glass, Gay Liberation Front activist and author, spoke to award-winning Russian journalist and writer Sergey KhazovCassia about the past 50 years of British Pride history. This event was hosted by the Principal of St Edmund Hall, Professor Katherine Willis, with an in-person and online student audience joining us for a thought-provoking talk about how far LGBTQ+ rights have progressed in the last 50 years as well as comparing and contrasting the experience of the British and Russian LGBTQ+ communities.

Watch the conversation: youtu.be/RqathK-Ic4

Geddes Trust 2021 Journalism Prizes, Lecture and Masterclass

Geddes Student Journalism Prizes

The Geddes Trust and the Hall award three annual Geddes Student Journalism Prizes to both recognise and support emerging journalistic talent. The prizes cover expenses on either a media project or internship, with previous prize winners going on to work for eminent newspapers, such as The Economist, The Times and The Guardian.

This year’s Geddes Trust prizes have been awarded to three very talented Oxford student journalists.

Adam Possener (St Anne’s College), who is in his second year studying Music, won the main Philip Geddes Prize for the most promising student journalist at the University of Oxford.

Adam currently writes for Hey Alma, an American Jewish online magazine. He has written about Punk Judaism, the NeoHasidic soul band Zusha and Holocaust testimony in Steve Reich’s ‘Different

Trains’. Adam, who has recently expanded his knowledge of both Hebrew and Yiddish, plans to visit New York to explore the thriving Jewish Punk scene. The portfolio of work he submitted was comprised of two articles, the first on ‘How to Be a Punk Jew: what does it mean to be on the fringe of a group that’s already on the fringe?’ and the second ‘Zusha Resists the ‘Jewish Music’ Label: the neoHasidic funk-soul band makes music that encapsulates what it means to be human.’

Maggie Wang (Pembroke College) who is in her third (and final) year studying History and Economics, won the Ronnie Payne Prize for Foreign Reporting.

Maggie’s background is primarily in features, having written for both Cherwell and The Isis. With support from the Geddes Trust, Maggie intends to visit Brazil to examine the Trans-Amazonian Highway’s (BR-230) effects on the communities in its path and on the wider Amazon region. Maggie’s report, focusing

on questions concerning the infrastructure for this complex highway will include personal narrative as well as interviews with environmental activists; Indigenous leaders; civil servants; and the farmers, ranchers and loggers who form the bedrock of Amazonian agro-industry.

And last, but very definitely not least, Teddy Hall’s own Mauricio Alencar (2020, English) won the Clive Taylor Prize for sports journalism.

Mauricio’s role as Deputy Editor/ Investigations Editor for Cherwell, and previously as News and Sports Editor, confirmed his deep interest in journalism. He has written a range of articles, including sports team features, full-time match reports, interviews, opinion pieces, and unique news reports. Mauricio plans to use the prize money to report on two main projects. The first will research the Brazilian Football Confederation’s (CBF) marketing campaigns; the second will look at traditional World-Cup-themed street art in Brazil and how it might reflect political tensions. Both ideas will then be pitched to popular football magazines, such as When Saturday Comes and The Blizzard, as well as other mainstream media companies.

Lecture

Journalist and Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy gave the Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture online and at the Examinations School on Friday 4 March.

The lecture commenced with two introductory speeches: the first from St Edmund Hall’s Principal, Professor Katherine Willis and the second from the Chairman of the Geddes Trust, and previous Geddes Trust prize winner, Peter Cardwell.

Krishnan spoke on ‘In whom do we trust? Presenting the facts in an age of discrimination’. In his talk, he assessed different definitions of broadcaster impartiality, its importance in the modern age, and the enduring need for a robust and self-critical broadcast media. Krishnan took questions from our online and in-person audiences.

Watch the lecture: youtu.be/VG_ DKgeMaB8

Geddes Masterclass 2022

The 2022 Geddes Masterclass was held on Friday 28 January over Zoom and included a breaking news workshop hosted by The Telegraph’s Tony Diver and a Q&A on getting into journalism with a panel of journalists with experience across the media.

With acknowledgement to the Philip Geddes Memorial Fund website.

Geddes

2022: ‘In whom do we trust? Presenting the facts in an age of discrimination’

Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays 2022 by Alison Ray

Following a two-year pandemic break, it was a joyous occasion for all to be able to attend in-person the second annual performance of the Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays hosted by St Edmund Hall on 23 April. The production was led by Professor Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies and Professorial Fellow at St Edmund Hall, and Professor Lesley Smith, Fellow and Tutor in Politics and Senior Tutor at Harris Manchester College, and expertly managed by Dr Eleanor Baker, Project Support Officer for the Post-GCSE Inspire Programme at St John’s College and medieval literature specialist.

The Mystery Plays presented Biblical stories from Creation to the Resurrection and were brought to life by an incredible cast of actors, academics and students with links to Oxford Medieval Studies. The Faculty of English kicked things off in the Old Dining Hall with the stories of Creation and the Fall, accompanied by a digital video featuring manuscript illustrations by Professor Dan Wakelin. We were then led into the front quad to witness the Holloway Mystery Players perform the killing of Abel, followed by the story of Noah’s Ark by Medieval Studies students, which receives an honorary mention here for the best props of the event, including fabric waves and an inflatable parrot standing in for the dove. The morning concluded with the sung Magnificat in a play of the Visitation by Jasmine and the Kilnsians.

Following a short tea break, the play cycle continued in the atmospheric churchyard of St Peter-in-the-East (now the College Library). The Pastoral Players provided comic relief as grumpy shepherds and a thief in the Shepherd’s Play, with the Principal’s dog Timmy stealing the show as a reluctant ‘sheep’ and kindly supported by Professor Kathy Willis and

her daughter Alice. The entertainment continued with the story of the Wise Men performed by the Wise Women in Spanish, and the Massacre of the Innocents with College Librarian James Howarth playing a ranting Herod the Great alongside the 5th Week Blues.

The best special effects of the cycle featured in the playgroup Les Soeurs de Sainte-Hilde, with their version in French of St John the Baptist’s arrest and grisly beheading. This was followed by the English MSt students performing the story of Lazarus, with six different actors playing Lazarus rising from the churchyard to great effect.

Undergraduate students then performed a Middle English depiction of the Crucifixion from the York Mystery Cycle dating from the fourteenth century. The Mystery Plays concluded with a delightful performance in Middle High German, Latin and English by the Mercantile Minstrels, with mischievous merchants, a fight scene, and a chorus of angels merrily announcing the miracle of Christ’s Resurrection.

This year’s Mystery Play Cycle was incredibly fun and a fantastic opportunity to engage with medieval culture through the wide-ranging skills of staff and students of Oxford Medieval Studies. The day ended with an exhibition display of works relating to the Easter story in the Old Library. A filming crew worked hard throughout the day to provide a livestream of events for online viewers, that can now watched back on St Edmund’s Hall YouTube Channel. We’re excited to see the continuation of what surely now has become an Oxford tradition!

Alison Ray, Archivist, St Peter’s College

Watch the 2022 Mystery Cycle: youtube.com/playlist? list=PLNXj40GwnmWUaCE0 vX5x9xWUtSGytqfWx

St Edmund Hall Launches £50m Campaign HALLmarks: Forged by the Hall

The ‘Forged by the Hall’ campaign comprises a menu of interlocking projects, programmes, and needs. It will deliver vital and visionary investment in the physical, intellectual, pastoral and cultural aspects of the 800-year-old College. The Hall has raised 20% of its total to date. Now, we are reaching out to our alumni and friends to help us achieve our £50m goal over the next five years.

On 27 April 2022, ‘HALLmarks: Forged by the Hall’ was launched by the Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Visitor of the College. The £50m campaign marks the next strategic step for the Hall, building on the launch of its ten-year strategy and vision to become greener, more diverse and more accessible, announced in October 2019.

The event was accompanied by an exhibition of books and silver donated by Aularians between the 1680s and 1710s in the Old Dining Hall. Read more about ‘HALLmarks’: hallmarkscampaign.seh.ox.ac.uk/ Watch the Campaign video: youtu.be/ wHR8qH1alRI

Portrait of Karma Nabulsi Unveiled at Balliol

A new portrait of Professor Karma Nabulsi, Jarvis Doctorow Fellow and Tutor in Politics, by Nina Mae Fowler has been unveiled at Balliol College.

Professor Nabulsi read for her DPhil and Master’s at Balliol, matriculating in 1989. Her research is on 18th and 19th century political thought, the laws of war, and the contemporary history and politics of Palestinian refugees and representation.

The portrait was unveiled at a gathering of some of Karma’s friends, colleagues, and present and former students on 9 May 2022. The chair of Balliol’s Arts and Chattels Committee, Revd Canon Bruce

Writing at the Hall 2021/22

Creative writing continues to be a strength here at Teddy, and we are looking forward to reinstating our writer in residence program this year (after a brief Covid hiatus). The Hall Writers Forum is still active on social media and many old members continue their publishing success both within and outside of that vibrant community. Emeritus Fellow Lucy Newlyn published a new collection of poems, Quicksilver, this spring and treated a large audience in the Old Dining Hall to a reading from that new book at the end

Kinsey, spoke of the College’s good fortune in being able to commission this artist, thanks to a generous donation; and he praised the artist for the way she had captured Karma Nabulsi’s “grace, power and warmth”.

The portrait will be hung in the Master’s Dining Room at Balliol.

of May. Meanwhile our student-run writing group continues to meet every Wednesday evening during term time. Several Teddy students have written, directed, and produced plays to great acclaim among the student body. We look forward to many more in-person readings, performances, and live workshops this academic year now that we are back with one another again!

Fellowship Lunchtime Lectures

This year, St Edmund Hall continued the online lunchtime lecture series, launched in 2020-2021, which aims to highlight the incredible depth and breadth of research across the Teddy Hall Fellowship. These talks have been very popular as students, Fellows, lecturers, staff and Aularians have tuned in each week. Topics covered have included

neoliberalism, rewiring the brain, the impacts of new health information on health behaviours of spouses and popular protest and archival suppression in early modern Venice.

Most of these lectures are available to watch on the Hall’s YouTube Channel: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNXj40Gwn mWVk8gXWjq8j-mJuY2s1TXjD

Centre for the Creative Brain

St Edmund Hall’s Centre for the Creative Brain (CCB) held its first workshop of the academic year on ‘The Human Mind: Insights from brain surgery on the conscious patient’ on Thursday 14 October 2021. The talk was led by guest speaker Dr Rahul Jandial, renowned neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and humanitarian who presented a unique evening exploring the human mind with insights from brain surgery on conscious patients.

Dr Jandial is a brain cancer surgeon and took the audience through his career and work. He started his career dealing with trauma to the brain and operating on patients who had arrived at hospital for emergency treatment. On the path to caring for patients with brain tumours, he also cared for patients needing deep brain stimulation with electrical pulses. In particular, Dr Jandial talked through his experiences of neurosurgery where the patient must be awake to most safely perform the needed surgery. When awake, patients can experience visions, profound emotions, and smell and hear things which are not actually there. This fascinating talk ended with some deep questions about how patients are transformed by brain cancer surgery and how they find meaning and purpose from life’s most challenging trials. The talk was a glimpse into the content of his memoir Life on a Knife’s Edge – an international bestseller, translated into five languages.

The Centre’s Hilary term event on ‘Exploring Epilepsy Through Art’ took place on Friday 11 March 2022. It welcomed Ms Sarah LPCC, ATR, Dr Tammy Shella (Art Therapy Program Manager, Cleveland Clinic) and Professor Arjune Sen (Consultant Neurologist, John Radcliffe Hospital) for a fascinating evening looking

at the role of art therapy in recovering from neurosurgery for epilepsy.

The evening explored Sarah’s story of having neurosurgery to prevent epileptic seizures and how she processed the difficult experiences around that through art therapy. She gave a very poignant and unique insight into the ‘Burden of Normality’ and the psychological after effects of ‘becoming normal’ after living with epilepsy for many years. The audience were taken through a presentation of Sarah’s art which conveyed decorated model heads to reflect the different emotions and frustrations she experienced pre- and post-surgery. Accompanying this was a discussion between Sarah, Tammy and Arjune who all offered different perspectives on the benefits of art therapy in patient recovery after surgery.

The final part of the evening was an audience Q&A followed by an exhibition of Sarah’s artwork.

‘Drawing the Human Brain’ on Saturday 28 May 2022 was the Centre’s final event for

2021-2022. The Hall welcomed Professor Oliver Turnbull, a neuropsychologist from Bangor University, to lead an interactive workshop that explored the anatomy of the human brain through art.

The workshop began with a presentation on basic neuroanatomy, during which Professor Turnbull likened parts of the brain to fruits, tubes, and yo-yos! This was then followed by an interactive art workshop in which attendees learned neuroanatomy through drawing and painting. First, attendees were taught how to draw a sagittal view of the brain (as if the brain were cut down the middle from front to back). Next, we were guided through the functions of the thalamus and surrounding structures, and how to draw, paint, and shade each of them. The workshop gave us a glimpse into

the content of Professor Turnbull’s ever popular ’Illustrating the Brain‘ sessions at the annual Visceral Mind Summer School at Bangor University.

Finally, after the workshop attendees were treated to an exhibition of original 17thcentury neuroanatomy drawings, kindly put together by the St Edmund Hall Library team.

The Centre for the Creative Brain is generously endorsed by St Edmund Hall and the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford. The Centre is led by Professor Charlie Stagg, Fellow by Special Election in Neuroscience at St Edmund Hall.

More about the Centre for the Creative Brain: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/discover/ research/centre-for-the-creative-brain-2

Sustainability at St Edmund Hall

Hall Commissions

Decarbonisation Plan to Reach Zero Net Energy by 2030

In 2021, St Edmund Hall commissioned a decarbonisation plan, produced by Max Fordham and funded by the UK Government’s Salix Grant, to set out a road map of decarbonising its historic estate to become as close as possible to zero net energy by 2030. In collaboration with Max Fordham, Original Field Architect (OFA) carried out a detailed study of the Hall’s buildings and set out a proposed project for the medieval buildings in the Front Quad on Queen’s Lane. This is an important milestone in the Hall’s strategic aim to reduce its energy consumption, and the plan will be used to inform future estate projects.

The key elements of the decarbonisation plan are to reduce energy demand through the Hall’s gas boiler heating system and the fabric of the buildings. It is proposed that all gas boilers are replaced with air source heat pumps which use electricity supplied from renewable low carbon sources. Currently, the Hall’s electricity comes from renewable resources, and we pay for the Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO). Therefore, the focus is on replacing our boilers as it will have the most substantial impact upon reducing our energy usage.

Overall, St Edmund Hall is excited to start decarbonising this historic 800-yearold College and looks forward to a more sustainable future for future generations of Aularians and the local Oxford community.

Low Carbon Monday Introduced and New Food Waste Recycling System

From February 2022, St Edmund Hall started a ‘Low Carbon Monday’ as a new initiative to reduce the Hall’s food carbon footprint.

We now offer two vegetarian and one meat option every Monday for lunch and dinner. The vegetarian options are also listed first on the weekly menu and displayed first at the servery counter to encourage take-up of a low carbon meal.

We are using the Our World Data website to guide which ingredients we use to ensure that we are offering low carbon meals.

The Hall also now sends our food waste to be recycled at a local facility in Cassington. This facility has a long-term contract with Oxfordshire County Council and processes over 50,000 tonnes of solid and liquid wastes a year collected across Oxfordshire, generating 2.1MW of electricity and producing an excellent bio-fertiliser.

EcoSync: Improving the Hall’s Energy Usage

The Besse building has a new interactive heating control system in every room called EcoSync. Students and guests can scan a QR code to alter the temperature on their smart radiator valve. This feeds back to the EcoSync’s cloud-based management platform.

Residents can see how much energy is being saved in a real-time ‘leader board’ for each cluster of the Besse building on their smart phone.

The system is also being linked to the Hall’s accommodation booking systems which will enable the proactive ‘switchingoff’ of heating to empty rooms, greatly improving the Hall’s energy efficiency.

The Hall has published a new webpage dedicated to showing our work in reducing our impact upon the environment. We outline the work we have undertaken to

create a baseline of data against which we can now track our progress, set meaningful sustainability targets and record activities and successes that we have achieved to date. Thank you to everyone who helps every day to bring us one step closer to being one of the greenest and most environmentally sustainable colleges in Oxford: www.seh.ox.ac.uk/discover/ sustainability

Honours, Awards and Prizes

As ever there have been many admirable achievements of SCR members, current students and worldwide alumni during 2020-2021. These are chronicled in Sections 2, 4 and 8 of this magazine. Here, special mention is made of some of these awards and prizes, and of other successes deserving to be placed on record.

Professor Katherine J. Willis CBE, Principal of St Edmund Hall, appointed to the House of Lords

On 17 May 2022, the House of Lords Appointment Commission announced that Professor Katherine J. Willis CBE, Principal of St Edmund Hall and Professor of Biodiversity in the Department of Biology, had been appointed to the House of Lords as a Crossbench Life Peer.

The appointment recognises Professor Willis’ contribution to biodiversity science and to policy formulation in roles such as her membership of the government’s Natural Capital Committee and in scrutiny of the scientific evidence base underpinning the Government’s 25-year environment plan. Professor Willis will be taking up this role alongside continuing her duties as Principal of St Edmund Hall.

Professor Robert Whittaker, VicePrincipal, wrote: “This is a deserved and exciting appointment, boosting the scientific expertise available in the House of Lords on issues of biodiversity, natural capital and environmental sustainability.

I am delighted to offer congratulations to Professor Willis on behalf of the governing body of St Edmund Hall.”

The Principal will sit as Baroness Willis of Summertown.

Andrew Graham, Honorary Fellow, was awarded a Gold Medal by the Rector of Charles University, Prague for his contribution to re-invigorating the Europaeum. Leiden University has also awarded the Scaliger Medal to the Europaeum in recognition of its special contribution to upholding academic values. The Europaeum is a network of Europe’s leading universities founded by Oxford in 1992.

The Association of American Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL), the largest professional association in the USA, has awarded Andrew Kahn (Professor and Tutorial Fellow of Russian Literature and Modern Languages) and Irina Reyfman (Columbia University) its 2021

AATSEEL Book Prize in the category of Literary Translation for their translation of Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow by Alexander Radishchev. The book was selected from an original long-list of over 30 works.

The judges said: “This translation comes at a time when its message seems fresh and necessary again... [It is] the first to take Radishchev’s language seriously, as part of his artistry ... The Journey deserves to be much more widely read in English. This is the translation to introduce new readers to this historically important, timely plea to let the blinders fall from our eyes, transform our world and live up to our ideals.”

Congratulations to Dr Michael Gill, Tutorial Fellow in Management, whose paper ‘Negotiating Imitation: Examining the Interactions of Consultants and Clients to Understand Institutionalization as Translation’ has won in the client relationships category of the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence (CMCE) research awards. Read the paper: onlinelibrary. wiley.com/share/ DBQMWHGTWWHVXX5YQ4MZ?target= 10.1111/1467-8551.12372

Maia Chankseliani, Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education and Fellow, has commenced a major new research project ($1.7 million). This is a multi-year, multi-method, global study employing numeric and narrative methods to explore the links between international student mobility and world development. This was a joint bid of the District Communications Group (USA) and the University of Oxford to the U.S.

State Department’s Bureau of Education & Cultural Affairs (ECA).

Emeritus Fellow Professor Nigel Palmer was awarded the Meister Eckhart Research Prize of the German Meister Eckhart Society on 25 March 2022. He is the first holder of what will be an annual prize, funded by a donation for ‘exceptional contributions to research on the Medieval German Philosopher and Preacher Master Eckhart and/or Medieval German religious literature’. Nigel felt doubly honoured in that they have chosen a non-German as the first recipient.

Sadly Professor Palmer died on 8 May 2022, an obituary can be found on p.193.

Professor Sir Peter Bruce FRS, Wolfson Professor of Materials, won the 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Prize for pioneering research on the chemistry of materials with applications in renewable energy, leading to fundamental changes in our understanding of solid state electrochemistry.

Read more about the award and a Q&A with Sir Peter at the RSC website: www. rsc.org/prizes-funding/prizes/2022winners/professor-peter-bruce

Senior Research Fellow Professor Aris Karastergiou and his group at Oxford Astrophysics have been awarded funding to construct an instrument on the Square Kilometre Array, a new and extremely sensitive radio telescope constructed in South Africa and Western Australia.

The instrument will allow the telescope to find a large number of new radio

pulsars and fast radio bursts. The former are neutron stars with extreme physical properties that allow experiments in fundamental physics, ranging from nuclear and plasma physics to general relativity. The latter are thought to be extremely luminous bursts originating from distant galaxies, with the potential to give us new insights into the composition and evolution of the Universe. The team have designed a high-performance cluster of computers and the software to perform these searches on an unprecedented scale. One of the objects they are aiming to detect is the first system of a pulsar orbiting a black hole in our galaxy.

Dr Jack Tan, EPA Cephalosporin Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow, the Rosalind Franklin Institute team and its collaborators from Liverpool and Oxford Universities, Diamond Light Source and Public Health England who have been awarded the Royal Society 2022 Chemistry Biology Interface Division Horizon Prize - the Rita and John Cornforth Award.

This is in recognition of developing tools for the fight against Covid-19.

The team’s research has shown that nanobodies – a smaller, simple form of antibody generated by llamas and camels – can effectively target the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19. They found that short chains of the molecules, which can be produced in large quantities in the laboratory, significantly reduced signs of the Covid-19 disease when administered to infected animal models.

Professor Erica McAlpine, A C Cooper Fellow and Tutor in English, has been awarded the 2022 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy for her book The Poet’s Mistake (Princeton University Press, 2020). This prize is awarded for historical or critical work on any subject connected with literature, written by a woman.

Professor McAlpine said: “I am absolutely delighted that my study of mistakes in poems has been given the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize — an honour that has previously gone to many women whose books I have read and admired. I began writing The Poet’s Mistake with the conviction that scholarship about poetry should be as honest as possible about the triumphs and mishaps encompassing a poet’s work. As a writer very capable of making errors of my own, I found it fascinating to think about how readers, across several centuries, have handled and mishandled mistakes committed by the poets they most admire.

I hoped my book could serve not only as a catalogue of mistakes in the history of poetry but also as a call for critics to descry error wherever it appears — not in order to take poets down a notch but rather to celebrate the difficulty of their craft. My aim was to write a book that could be as comic in its subject matter as it was serious about its claims for our discipline. I am so grateful that it struck a chord with the jury of the British Academy and that it has been recognised in this way.”

Read more about the award: www. thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/ rose-mary-crawshay-prize

Aularians honoured by Queen

Professor Sir Peter Bruce FRS, Wolfson Professor of Materials, was recommended to Her Majesty The Queen for the honour of Knight Bachelor (Kt) in the Birthday 2022 Honours List. This is in recognition for his visionary work and leadership in battery technology and sustainable energy.

He said: “I’m delighted yet also humbled to receive this honour in recognition of my research and leadership nationally and internationally.

No one stands alone: I want to acknowledge the excellent students, postdocs and collaborators I have had the privilege to work with over the years. The fundamental science underpinning energy conversion and storage, to which I have dedicated my efforts, has a vital role to play in the energy transition to a low carbon society. I hope along the way I have inspired others to embrace science and its place in society.”

Ruth McQuillan (1984, PPE) received an MBE for services to science during Covid-19.

Ruth writes: “I am a reader in global public health education at the Usher Institute, Medical School, University of Edinburgh. At the start of the pandemic (March 2020), I co-founded UNCOVER, with my colleague, Professor Harry Campbell. UNCOVER stands for Usher Network for Covid-19 Evidence Reviews.

At this time, politicians and decision-

makers were having to take very momentous decisions that affected all of our lives, but with very little evidence or information to go on.

One of the core skillsets of public health academics and professionals is evidence synthesis: the ability to find, evaluate and synthesise research evidence to answer public health questions.

UNCOVER quickly mobilised a volunteer army of staff and postgraduate students to respond to requests for information from policy makers. We worked to very tight deadlines – typically three to four days in the early phase of the pandemic, and once, two hours. We supplied evidence summaries to the Scottish and UK governments, JCVI, Public Health Scotland, WHO, City of Edinburgh Council, Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry. We’ve been an active partner in global networks responding to the need for Covid-19 evidence.

We’ve built a strong, international online community – we operate entirely online, as many of our former students, now graduate associates, have returned to their home countries in Africa, Asia and North America.

We have a strong capacity building ethos, and do a lot of training with postgraduate students, both in terms of technical evidence synthesis skills and broader transferable skills.

We are still doing Covid-19 work in response to the needs of policy-makers, but now focused on Covid recovery and on the potential impact of Covid-19 on influenza. We are also developing a new strand of evidence synthesis work, focusing on climate change and health.”

Charles Ogilvie (2011, DPhil Fine Art) was awarded an OBE in this year’s Queen’s Birthday 2022 Honours List for public service. This is in recognition for Charles’ work as the Strategy Director of COP26 (UN Climate Change Conference) in 2021.

Charles comments: “COP26 was a product of the collaboration and hard work of a remarkable breadth of talent and expertise across government, civil society, academia and business; it was a privilege to work with such an extraordinary community. I’m delighted so many were recognised in the Jubilee honours and very proud to be one of them.”

Charles’ Graduate Advisor during his Fine Art degree, Professor Jason Gaiger, said: “I was thrilled to hear the news that Charlie has been awarded an OBE in the Jubilee Honours List. Alongside his extraordinary achievements as Strategy Director of COP26, he has continued with his sculptural practice – for which he gained a DPhil in Fine Art at St Edmund Hall and the Ruskin School of Art in 2016 – as well as doing stage design and writing the libretti for operas. He is a beacon for others and shows how much can be accomplished!”

Congratulations to all three for their welldeserved recognition.

Student Awards and Achievements

Sport

Intra-collegiate sport returned in force this year as pandemic restrictions lifted and the Hall’s sports men and women recorded some notable successes. In Cuppers competitions, Hall teams reached the semi-finals for Women’s and Men’s Football and Rugby, as well as Men’s Badminton. We were triumphant in Gymnastics, Mixed Touch Rugby and Swimming, and runners up in Hockey and Water Polo.

Warm congratulations also go to the following students who were recognised this year for their participation at University level:

Sam Cherry (2020, PPL) Rifle

Logan Clew-Bachrach (2020, PPE) Ski and Snowboard, Full Blue

Emily Currie (2019, Experimental Pyschology) Lacrosse, Full Blue

Harriet Eyles (2020, Geography) Hockey, Full Blue

Felix Gallagher (2019, Economics and Managment) Swimming, Half Blue

Isobel Hardwick (2018, Materials) Canoe and Kayak, Half Blue

Robbie Hardwick (2020, Medicine) Cricket, Full Blue

Lauren Irwin (2018, Earth Sciences) Cricket, Full Blue

Xuewei Li (2018, DPhil Materials) Table Tennis, Half Blue

Sama Malik (2021, Engineering Science) Lawn Tennis, Full Blue

Artem Naumenko (2017, Chemistry) Rugby Fives, Half Blue

James Odwell (2018, Engineering Science) Gymnastics, Full Blue

Katherine Polkinghorne (2021, MSc

Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment) Water Polo, Half Blue

Madeline Prottey (2018, Mathematics) TaeKwon-Do, Full Blue

Barbora Schonfeldova (2019, DPhil Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine) Lawn Tennis, Full Blue

Gemma Smith-Bingham (2020, English) Eton Fives, Half Blue

Anna Stankova (2021, Engineering Science) Golf, Full Blue

Piers Von Dadelszen (2019, Engineering Science) Rugby Football, Full Blue Hazel Wake (2019, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry) Lightweight Rowing (Women’s), Full Blue

Archie Watt (2019, Medicine) Fencing, Half Blue

Katie Wellstead (2020, Materials) Lightweight Rowing (Women’s), Full Blue David Wilkinson (2018, English) Rugby Football, Full Blue Andrew Wilson (2021, MSc Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing) Swimming, Full Blue

The Hall’s Amalgamated Clubs started giving awards to Hall members for obtaining the distinction of a Blue (£200) or Half Blue (£100). Thanks to the continuing generosity of Richard Luddington (1978, Modern History), Luddington Prizes were awarded to Felix Gallagher (2019, Economics and Management) and Benjamin Penny (2018, Earth Science) for having achieved both a First in Finals and a Blue during their undergraduate careers.

Simonian Prizes for Excellence in Leadership

Thanks to the continuing generosity

Aularian Professor Simon J Simonian (1962, Animal Physiology) and his family, the Simonian Prizes for Excellence in Leadership went to: Abeer Alharbi (2018, DPhil Pharmacology)

Antonin Charret (2019, MSc Education (Comparative and International Education))

Felix Gallagher (2019, Economics and Management)

Miroslav Gasparek (2019, DPhil Engineering Science)

Rory Naylor (2017, Medicine)

Alexander Nowak (2021, MSc Major Programme Management)

Ex Aula Prize

David A. Cruz Walma (2019, DPhil Biomedical Sciences) and Celeste van Gent (2021, MSt Medieval History) were joint winners of the annual Ex Aula Prize.

The Ex Aula Journal is the Hall’s postgraduate research journal. This year the 2022 Ex Aula Prize competition brief was ‘to submit articles that present their research to a non-specialist audience’.

Six articles were shortlisted for the Prize by Ex Aula’s editor Thijs van der Plas (2019, Interdisciplinary Biosciences). The judging panel was composed of four Senior Common Room members: Dr Emily Winkler, Dr Tom Crawford, Dr Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente and Professor Karma Nabulsi

The judges awarded the Prize jointly to David’s ‘Enzyme Hijacking 101’ and Celeste’s ‘The Experience of Travel in Late Medieval England’. The judges agreed that both pieces are written using an accessible vocabulary “that wonderfully evokes either day-to-day experiences or those that the road would have imposed in the past”, as one judge wrote.

Read all six shortlisted articles on the Ex Aula website: mcr.seh.ox.ac.uk/ex-aularesearch-journal/

Masterclass Fund Awards

The aim of these awards of up to £1000 is to facilitate further development and achievement, for individual students. This year nine awards were given to the following students to help them to pursue advanced training in the extra-curricular activities — creative or sporting — in which they excelled:

Oliver Bater (2019, Philosophy, Politics and Economics)

Gabriele Brasaite (2019, Chemistry)

Rachel Davies (2013, Clinical Medicine)

Yufei Liu (Visiting Student)

Michelle Ng (2021, Mathematics)

Aimee Paterson (2020, DPhil Medical Sciences)

Tom Schwantje (2014, DPhil Economics)

Archie Watt (2019, Clinical Medicine) Jia Yang (2021, Master of Public Policy)

The Hall remains extremely grateful for the sponsorship which supports this successful Masterclass Fund Awards scheme.

Keith Gull Fund

Gabriele Brasaite (2019, Chemistry), Anubhab Ghosal (2020, Mathematics), Srija Ghosh (2020, Chemistry), Emma Hawkins (2018, Experimental Psychology), Wilsona Jalloh (2021, Master of Public Policy) and Jia Yang (2021, Master of Public Policy) have all received an award from the Keith Gull Fund. The fund is used at the discretion of the Principal to provide direct support to current Hall students who wish to undertake special projects such as charitable work, choral and drama tours, travel for unusual academic opportunities and to assist others. Keith Gull initiated this fund during his tenure as Principal at the Hall, reflecting his commitment to both ‘Hall Spirit’ and supporting student ambition.

Hall Student Wins Thomas Willis Day Prize

On Wednesday 11 May the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences held its annual Thomas Willis Day, to celebrate the work achieved in the Department. There was a three-minute thesis competition for DPhil students, a guest lecture, and a departmental prize-giving. Congratulations to Camille Lasbareilles (2021, DPhil Clinical Neurosciences) who was the winner for the first-year DPhil category, winning a cash prize of £150!

More about Thomas Willis Day: www. ndcn.ox.ac.uk/news/thomas-willis-dayprizes

Hall Student Awarded QEST Scholarship

Congratulations to Gold Akanbi (2021, MFA) who was awarded a full course scholarship by the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust for their work as a Fine Artist, working specifically with painting, sculpture, bookmaking, photography, and dressmaking.

The scholarship is very competitive and highly regarded and Gold is extremely proud to have been chosen as a QEST Scholar.

Read more about Gold’s work on p.164.

Hall Student Wins Bob Hunter Prize

Annika Voigt (2018, DPhil Earth Sciences)has won the Bob Hunter prize for the best student presentation at this year’s Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group Conference (VMSG 2022) for her presentation: ‘Experimental investigation of trachydacite magma storage prior to the 1257 eruption of Mt Samalas’.

Watch the presentation: youtu.be/ rSQ1a4mbJ-k

More about the Conference: vmsg.org.uk/ events/past-events/virtual-conference2022-manchester

And Finally: New Teddy Hall Wine Label

St Edmund Hall student Britany Kulka (2021, DPhil Earth Sciences) has designed the latest Teddy Hall wine label in a recent competition between students, staff and Fellows. Britany’s design is of the archway entrance to the Hall looking through to a vineyard with a Teddy Bear sat on the floor. The label will appear on all white, red and ruby port bottles.

We hope Britany enjoys her winning prize of six wines from the Hall’s cellar.

The Hall gives a huge thank you to everyone who entered the competition.

Winning entry by Britany Kulka

From the College Office

The Senior Tutor’s Year

After four terms of severe pandemic disruption, the 2021-2022 academic year started with a cautious return to something approaching normal service. Although Covid still cast a shadow on our activities, by Trinity term the academic life of the College was restored to prepandemic times.

As the year progressed, we were able to resume normal Freshers’ Dinners, matriculate our students at the Sheldonian Theatre, teach without distancing and masks, and conduct meetings and Collections (both the formative assessments at the start of each term and student meetings with the Principal) in person.

Examinations also largely reverted to inperson assessments and, notwithstanding the earlier disruption to their studies, our students again produced a strong set of results at Finals. So, by the time the year was drawing to a close, the challenging days of Trinity term 2020 seemed rather distant.

In October 2021, we welcomed over 239 new students, comprising 115 undergraduate Freshers and 124 postgraduate Freshers, and were delighted that Visiting Students from far and wide could once again join us in Oxford. Undergraduate selection in December 2021 was again conducted using online interviews, and the same arrangement will apply in 2022. The mode of interview in future years remains up in the air, with arguments in favour of online and in-person interviews being hotly debated within the University.

As trailed in my report last year, at the start of Michaelmas term, Professor Filippo de Vivo took up his post as

Tutorial Fellow in History and Professor Solene Rowan joined us as Tutorial Fellow in Law Dr Edmund Wareham (Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow in History) departed to take up a position as a Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of History. Although we were sad to see Edmund leave, it was pleasing to see the Early Career Fellowship working as intended, providing young researchers with a stepping-stone towards a career in academia. The Fellowship vacated by Edmund has now been filled by Dr Tania Shew, and we hope that it will similarly serve as a springboard for her.

After four years as a fixed-term Career Development Fellow and organising tutor in Philosophy, Dr Edward Lamb also departed the Hall in September 2021. Ed provided excellent continuity in provision of Philosophy teaching after the retirement of Stephen Blamey. We are hugely appreciative of Ed’s commitment to the College and wish him success in his future academic career.

During the course of the year, the University finally – after a hiatus of 28 years – allocated an Associate Professor joint appointment in Philosophy to the College. Recruitment for this position in Ethics in Artificial Intelligence will take

place early in 2023 and should provide stability for the subject in the years ahead. In view of the subject field of this post, the College has taken the decision to reinstate Computer Science as an undergraduate subject in the near future.

In January 2022, Professor Max Kasy (Tutorial Fellow in Economics) transferred to a research-only appointment within the University and stepped away from his College association. The vacant Fellowship was re-filled during Hilary term, and we are delighted that Dr Alex Khohlhas joined the Hall in October 2022.

As the academic year drew to a close, two colleagues stood down from their roles as Tutorial Fellows. Professor Karma Nabulsi relinquished her role as Tutorial Fellow in Politics and was elected to a Senior Research Fellowship. Over the

last twenty years, Karma has been a dynamic member of the Fellowship and we are looking forward to her continued association with the College in her new role. In addition, Professor Mauro Pasta (Tutorial Fellow in Earth Sciences) relinquished his College duties to focus on research activities. Refilling both of these Fellowships will take place during the current academic year.

Dr Outi Aarnio (Fellow by Special Election in Economics) elected to take welldeserved retirement after many years of sterling service as organising tutor (and latterly Tutor for Visiting Students). I am highly appreciative of Outi’s fierce commitment over the years to the College and its students and wish her a long and productive retirement.

Professor Robert Wilkins, Senior Tutor

Student Numbers

On the College register at the start of Trinity term 2022 were 333 undergraduates, 295 postgraduates, and 34 Visiting Students.

NEW STUDENTS 2021-2022

Undergraduates

In the 2021-2022 academic year, 115 students joined the College as undergraduates from the following schools, colleges, and universities:

Ali Tahmeed The Latymer School

Allen Olivia Dubai College

Ambrose Isabel Winstanley College

Ashraf Mikail

King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford

Atife Michael The Judd School, Tonbridge

Babbar

Aryaman

Ryan International School

Bareham Ethan Dean Close School

Barman

Kunal The Judd School, Tonbridge

Beard Sarah Ryan International School

Booth Katie Wath Academy

Brake Leo Lord Williams's School

Brown Sophie Cheltenham Ladies' College

Buckley Poppy Oundle School

Bulaong Reanna Newham Collegiate Sixth Form

Canwell Ashley Cathedral Schools Trust

Carr Joss St Bede's Catholic College

Challener Max The Bicester School

Chan Alyssa The Godolphin and Latymer School

Chan Isaac Hwa Chong Institution, Singapore Chou I-Ting Hong Kong International School

Clayton McClure Felix York College

Connell Samantha Paulet High School and Sixth Form College Costello Daniel Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington

Craggs James Tonbridge School

Cumberpatch Sophie Woodbridge High School, Woodford Green Deng Weihang Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy

Dockery Seth King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys Doe Emma Cheadle Hulme High School

Evans-Lombe Atticus Eton College

Farnsworth Thomas Watford Grammar School for Boys

Fernandez-Victorio Isabel Dartford Grammar School for Boys Gao Weijia St Paul's Girls School

Giles Elsa St Marylebone Church of England School Gleeson Hester Peter Symonds College

Goodfellow Maisie Newcastle College University Centre Gower Catherine Altrincham Grammar School for Girls

Griffith Sophie Newport Girls' High School

Gross William Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood Gueterbock Eve Alleyn's School, Dulwich Hall Ellis Bede Academy (North)

Harrison-Scott Erica Winstanley College

Herold Anna Taunusgymnasium Konigstein

Hesketh-Bream Mya Sharnbrook Academy

Huang Qizheng Ulink College of Shanghai Iman Dixon Aminah Alleyn's School, Dulwich Ind Alistair St Paul's School, London Kaur Harkiran Holy Cross Sixth Form College and University Centre

Keates Benedict Gosford Hill School

Kelly Ailish Upton Hall School

Klingsheim Maria Nesbru V G S, Norway

Kyne Reuben Marling School

Lacey Joseph Hills Road Sixth Form College

Lambern William Abbeywood Community School

Laredo Lalou Ashcroft Technology Academy

Leaver Hermione Bath College

Lee Taerim Colegio Buckingham, Bogotá Liu Kuo The High School Affiliated to Renmin University

Losiakowska Klaudia Greenhead College, Huddersfield

Mahamoud Samira Chestnut Grove Academy

Malik Sama The Perse School

Marsh Cherry St Mary's Catholic High School, Chesterfield Mathieu Emilie Haileybury & Imperial Service College, Hertford

McLaren Annabel The Castle School, Thornbury McQuail Chaia King Edward VI College, Stourbridge McWilliam Harry Sir Christopher Hatton Academy

Moe Conrad EF International Academy, Oxford Morley Rose St Mary's School, Calne Mowafy Ebrahim Egyptian Language School, Cairo Munro Jonathan Porthcawl Comprehensive School

Nadeem Usmaan King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys

Najjar Zakaria Berkhamsted School

Ng Michelle St Swithun's School

Ng Joshua Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore

Nozdrina Maria St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School

Orton Tyla Shrewsbury Sixth Form College

Paxton Isobel St George's School for Girls

Pendergast Daisy Beaulieu Convent School

Piovella Matilda British School of Milan

Price Iona St Peters High School, Gloucester

Prior George Orleans Park School

Rahr-Bohr Ekaterina The Perse School

Rajesh Sakshi

Podar International School

Ren Yuchen Vision Academy

Rich-Jones Charlotte City and Guilds of London Art School

Rodriguez Madeleine Newstead Wood School Saeed Imaan Withington Girls' School

Sallaba Tara Westminster School

Sansour Maia Goldsmiths University of London

Shaw Amy Wyke Sixth Form College

Simmons Mark The Charter School North Dulwich Sinha Yasmin Peter Symonds College

Soyoye Caspar Eton College

Stankova Anna PORG International School

Sun Jack Choate Rosemary Hall

Sun Qianyi Harrow School

Tamblin Luke Kirkbie Kendal School

Thomson Teddy Merchiston Castle School

Treharne Lucy William Brookes School

Tulloch Freyja All Saints Roman Catholic School, York

Wang Eric Wellington College International Tianjin Westhead Catherine St Mary's Catholic Comprehensive School

Weymouth Brodie Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Penrith Whomsley Ioan Peter Symonds College

Wiseman Oliver University of the Arts London Wright James Magdalen College School Yared Yasmine Ecole Jeannine Manuel UK

You Jincheng Ulink College of Shanghai

Zhu Fengzhuoyang Shanghai Pinghe School

Zhu Lin The Experimental School Affiliated with Zhuhai No.1 High School

Zou Huanzhou Fudan International School

Postgraduates

In the 2021-2022 academic year, 124 students joined the College as postgraduates from the following schools, colleges, and universities:

Abdelatif Radwa Cairo University

Ahmed Sophia Columbia University

Akanbi Gold Liverpool John Moores University

Akbulut Canfer Columbia University

Alldrick Martin University of Sheffield

Allison Kristen University College London

Altunkaya James London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Anderson Gregory University of Oxford

Bai Yifei Brown University

Balawanth Ryleen University of KwaZulu-Natal

Barraza Castillo Naomi Columbia University

Beaven Oliver University of Durham

Bergin Laura University of Oxford

Bischoff Dustin Duale Hochschule Baden-Wuerttemberg

Bonnington Craig London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Burgar Alexandra University of Oxford

Buttenschoen Martin Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETHZ)

Chadwick James University of Liverpool

Chankova Rositsa London School of Economics and Political Science

Chen Jingyan McGill University

Cheng Yin Chun Chinese University of Hong Kong

Codsi Julien Université de Montréal

Connolly John University of Nottingham

Croker John University of Melbourne

Cuffe Niamh University of Bristol

Dahl Marcus University of Oxford

Demoss Branton University of Colorado at Boulder

Deshpande Atharva Sujeet University of Toronto

Deyal Zubin University of Oxford

Dhingra Siddhant University of Delhi

Dufrene Luisa University College London

Fagan Jack University of Oxford

Feng Yingshi University of Melbourne

Fontana Niccolo University of Warwick

Gallagher Christopher University of Cambridge

Hoepper Carmen University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg

Hu Han Beijing Foreign Studies University

Jackson Yasmin University of Oxford Jagger Ben University of Oxford Jalaguier Marie-Claire King's College London

Johnson Theana Universite Paris Descartes (Paris V)

Jones Jasmine University of Oxford Jones-Little Poppy University of Leeds

Kantor Jonathan University of Oxford Kekic Tatyana University of Warwick

Komatsu Momo University of Oxford

Kulka Britany Arizona State University Kulkarni Shubham Vilas Delft University of Technology Netherlands

Lasbareilles Camille University College London

Lechki Stephanie Tufts University

Leppard Jamie Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine

Lerch Aiden University of Oxford Li Yinghan The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Liang Shuo-Fang Boston University

Liang Xiao Fei University College London

Liang Xuefei University College London

Liang Zilu Beijing (Peking) Normal University China

Liberatore Vaselli Francesca London School of Economics and Political Science

Liu Meichen New York University

Lomax Christopher University of Oxford

Lomele Martina Royal Institute of Technology and Université de Liège

Marcus Milan University of Edinburgh

Martínez Brunner Fernando University of Chile

Mee Bradley Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine

Miller Caroline University of Pennsylvania

Minichiello Joe University of Oxford

Mintah-Ghansah Nana Abban University of Ghana

Miranda Garcia Guillermo Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico

Moppett William University of Oxford

Mulcare Benedict University of Cambridge

Nguyen Cam Tu Umea Universitet

Nikitopoulou Efterpi University of Nottingham

Nowak Alexander Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Montreal

Nunn Thomas Loughborough University

Oram Sophia University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Overton Christie University of Birmingham

Paterson Emilie University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Patterson Samuel University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Pedersen Martin The School of Oriental and African Studies

Perri Monica Universita degli Studi Pisa

Polkinghorne Katherine University of Cape Town

Quinn Caitlin University of Pennsylvania

Rausch Maja Albert Ludwigs Universitat Freiburg Germany

Reeves Chloë University of York

Reichl Pia Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETHZ)

Rice James University College London

Rigby James University of Queensland

Roch-Perks Clara University College Dublin

Rolandino Giovanni Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine

Sanders Amy University of Exeter

Savash Munuse University of Oxford

Schroeder Cyril

Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETHZ)

Seedat Faheem University of Witwatersrand

Sen Dyuti University of Calcutta

Shaikh Kai University of California, Berkeley

Sharif Shohan Mohammad Umer University of Dhaka Bangladesh

Shteiman Natalie Dartmouth College

Singh Jasper University of Warwick

Smailes Joshua University of Oxford Soysal Zeynep Irem Columbia University

Speciale Alfina Ambra Universita di Catania Italy

Spicer Keith Birkbeck College

Srivastava Sonakshi Hong Kong University

Stark Oliver University of Bath

Staton Claire Concordia University

Stoica Maria Harvard University

Stuhl Brandon CUNY - Bernard M. Baruch College

Sunil Valliyil Deepta Indian Institute of Technology

Taylor Edward University of Birmingham

Taylor Jamilyn Sarah Lawrence College

Tronconi Giulia University of Warwick

Valsson Ísak University of Iceland

Van Gent Celeste University of Sydney

Watson Max Columbia University

Wilson Andrew Emory University

Visiting Students 2020

Abu-Halawa

Ammar

Anali Inci

Andersen Olivia

Ascoli Alice Bedi Aman

Carmody Hope

Chang Yerin

Chen Tiffany Edwards Jr. Patrick

Feng Alina

Ferree Nicolas

Giaquinta Isabella

Guo Katherine

Harris Tomoro Haughey Connor

Herold Adam Ihara Akimasa

Jang Kyungseo (Esther)

Jin Xuan Kalim Muhammad Hamza

Kondrashin Anastasia

Kraft Emily Lange Jenna

Li Jiaze (Jack)

Li Ziqi Liu Yufei

Luo Chendan

Moon Seo Ho (David)

Mrini Luke

Odden Julia

Ogiuchi Mai

Pandey Swati

Pandey Nandini

Pena Ashley

Ramaswamy Nithya

Roybal Melissa

Shuster Shaan

Smith James

Su Zhengtao (Andy)

Tang Jiarui (Jerry)

Xu Shijie (Jason)

Yang Bennett

Zhu Yicheng

Student Admissions Exercises

In the Undergraduate Admissions exercise 2020, St Edmund Hall received 719 applications for entry in 2021 and beyond (compared with 652 the previous year). Nearly 300 of these applicants were invited to interview. Due to the Covid pandemic, all applicants were interviewed online via Microsoft Teams. Following the conclusion of December’s interview period, the Hall made a total of 126 offers of undergraduate places for entry in 2021 (compared to 129 offers the previous year). Eight of these were open offers. In addition, two deferred offers of places were made, for entry in Michaelmas term 2022. The Hall also ‘exported’ a small number of applicants for offers of places at other colleges.

Roughly in line with the University average of overall offers made (using rounded figures), 47% of offers for undergraduate places were made to male applicants and

53% to female. The applicants receiving offers comprised 72% UK nationals and 28% of students from overseas including from EU countries. In respect of previous education, of the 87 offers made to UK applicants, 67% were to state-educated applicants and 33% to students attending an independent school (2019: 63% state, 36% independent).

Graduate offer-holders for entry in 20212022 represent over 25 nationalities: they will be undertaking a range of taught and research programmes in disciplines from across all four of the University’s academic divisions. The expected eventual intake of new graduate students in Michaelmas term 2022 is approximately 115.

At the time of the Magazine going to print, this year’s Graduate Admissions exercise had so far seen the Hall consider around 300 applications.

Awards, Prizes and Grants

College Scholars 2021-2022

Alexander Abrahams

Ayush Agrawal

James Arney Will Ashcroft

Gavin Bala

Miyabi Barth

Oliver Bater

Montgomery Beresford

Thomas Bricknell

Lue Campbell-Smith Eleanor Cassidy

Aili Channer

Yifan Chen Charlotte ChengWhitehead Samuel Cherry Thomas Coates George-Valentin Datcu

Anjali Depala

Jordan Dring April Dublin-Beeton Jake Elliott

Max Falk Charlotte Firkins James Frankel Alexander Fuss

Anubhab Ghosal

Srija Ghosh

Elena Gordillo-Fuertes Lewis Grey

Thomas Harray Adam Hawkins Emma Hawkins Matthew Hedges Oliver Hodges Adam Kmec Julien Kress

Jasmin Kreutzer Aleisha Lanceley Sian Langham Wei Wei Liu Ben Lloyd Lewis Lloyd Ben Luckraft Chun Hin Ma Saul Manasse Zoe Martial Mohamed Masum Rebecca McFie Henry Mehta Matthew Moffat James Morley

College Exhibitioners 2021-2022

Shariz Aslam

Gregory Ball

Emily-Lucie Bassole

Lila Blake

Fenella Blayney

Luca Boot

Gabriele Brasaite

Zhaoqiu Cheng Ella Coupland-Smith

Kalli Dockrill

Luke Drago

Emily Falconer

Cormac Farrell

Skye Fitzgerald McShane Felix Gallagher Edward Hayes

Amy Hemsworth

Qianwei Jia

Katherine Kirkpatrick

Aikaterini Konstantinidou Esmé McMillan

Oliver Ogden James Odwell Daisy Oliver Ishaan Parikh Adam Pattenden Joshua Ryman Hui Wen Teh Benjamin Thornley Jonathan Tsun Frederick Tyrell Hazel Wake

Lucia Mullings

James Newbery Kitty Newbold Lucy Nicholson Trinity Pate Dominic Peachey

Joseph Penn Benjamin Penny Joseph Pollard Joshua Priest Nailah Ranjan Yasmin Ratcliffe Kayla Rowden Holly Sanderson

Hiu Suet Shum Annabel Stock Ella Tan Archie Watt Emily Webb Kate Wellstead Carenza Williams Benjamin Wiltshire Frederick Wright-Morris Zhaorui Xu Xuan Yee Sangheon Yeom

Rebecca Whant David Wilkinson

Ernest Wong

Zhe Zhang

Gavin Bala Miyabi Barth Fenella Blayney

Catriona Campbell Samuel Cherry Thomas Coates

Anjali Depala Jordan Dring Erika Dutton Jake Elliott Daniel Espanhol Srija Ghosh

Alexandra Gunn

Thomas Harray Adam Hawkins Ian Hollander Kristoforus Jason Qianwei Jia Katherine Kirkpatrick Adam Kmec Peter McClure

Progress Prizes 2021-2022

Ayush Agrawal Aryaman Babbar Katie Baker Kunal Barman Lila Blake Isaac Chan Zhaoqiu Cheng

Samuel Cherry Felix Clayton McClure Thomas Coates Weihang Deng Cormac Farrell James Frankel Charlie Furniss Alexander Fuss

Choral Scholars

Thomas Bricknell Elsa Giles Flora Hartz Ekaterina Rahr-Bohr

Senior Choral Exhibitioners

Samuel Cherry Thomas King Katherine Kirkpatrick Jasmin Kreutzer Beth Scott Hiu Suet Shum

Choral Exhibitioners Ethan Bareham Daisy Pendergast Matilda Piovella

Rory McDowell Henry Mehta Samantha Miles India Triay Palazuelo Ishaan Parikh Joseph Penn Timothy Powell Joshua Priest Nailah Ranjan

Felix Gallagher Alessandro Gallo Anubhab Ghosal Srija Ghosh Elsa Giles Elena Gordillo Fuertes Sophie Griffith Thomas Harray Anna Christina Herold Alistair Ind I-Ting Chou Qianwei Jia William Lambern Florence McKechnie Esme McMillan

Instrumental Awards

I-Ting Chou Chaia McQuail Ishaan Parikh Ekaterina Rahr-Bohr Benjamin Thornley

Gareth Roberts Award Lewis Lloyd Frederick Wright-Morris

Cochrane Scholarship Hermione Leaver Rose Morley Tara Sallaba

Graham Hamilton Travel Award

Martin Alldrick Joris Bücker Isabel Creed

Timothy Robinson Joshua Ryman Toby Whitehead Carenza Williams Benjamin Wiltshire Zhaorui Xu Weikai Zhai Zhe Zhang

Henry Mehta Joel Morley Lucia Mullings Michelle Ng Joshua Priest George Prior Joseph Ritchie Gemma Smith-Bingham Jack Sun Qianyi Sun Teddy Thomson Eric Wang Thomas Williams Fengzhuoyang Zhu

Matt Greenwood Travel Scholarship Rebecca Jurdon Alexander Nowak Katherine Orrell Raghul Ravichandran

Michael Pike Award Lawrence Houldsworth Lauren Irwin Alexander Sarshar Richard Fargher Bursary Ben Lloyd Leah Oates

Tony Doyle Graduate Science Prize Alice Edney Yuqing Long

St Edmund Hall

Association Presidents’ Prize

Madeline Prottey

Bendhem Fine Art Bursary Gold Maria Imole-Ayo Akanbi

Lue Alexander CampbellSmith April Dublin-Beeton Yang Gao Jennifer Gill Emma Hawkins Poppy Jones-Little Jessamy Money-Kyrle Emily Webb

Bernard Bewlay Science and Engineering Bursary Ayush Agrawal Gabriele Brasaite Matthew Moffat Carenza Williams

Christopher Mead Armitage and Pauline Brooks Armitage Scholarship for Visiting Students Kyungseo Jang

David J. Cox Prize Katie Long

George Series Prize John Duale Michelle Ng Davidson Sabu

Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Tara Sallaba Proxime accessit Florence McKechnie Annabel Stock

Ogilvie-Thompson English Prize

Hester Gleeson Proxime accessit Gemma Smith-Bingham

Peel Awards for Mathematics & Philosophy Maximilian Fawcett Zhaorui Xu

Richard Luddington Prize for Outstanding Academic and Sporting Achievement Felix Gallagher Benjamin Penny Undergraduate English Award Gemma Smith-Bingham

College and University Bursaries

A total of thirty students received the income-related Oxford Bursary. The College components of these bursaries were supported by: a donor who wishes to remain anonymous; 1971 and 1972 Aularians; Aularians Mr Chris Ashton and Mrs Natasha Ashton; Aularian Chris Armitage in honour of his parents Charles and Edith Armitage; the generous bequest of Aularian Mr William Asbrey; Beaverbrooks the Jewellers; Aularian Mr Tony Best in honour of his parents Mr and Mrs Ron Best; Aularian David Harding and Mrs Gale Harding; Aularian Tony Laughton; Aularian Dan Levy; Aularian Mr Peter Johnson; Dr Francis Rossotti’s benefaction; Mrs Dorothy Pooley, Mrs Lucy Webber and Mrs Frances Georgel in memory of their father, Aularian Mr Philip Saul; Aularians Mr David and Mrs Judith Waring; Mr Lawrence Elliot’s benefaction and many Aularians in memory of Sir David Yardley and Carol McClure; Thomas Peel and the Charles Peel Charitable Trust, Bernard Bewlay in honour of Sir Peter Hirsch; Tony Doyle; Adrian Briggs Bursary, supported by a number of generous Aularians in honour of Professor Adrian Briggs; Ann Taylor Bursary, set up in memory of Dr Taylor.

A further 47 students received the University’s income-related Crankstart Scholarship, Reuben Bursary, and Santander Bursary.

University Awards and Prizes

John Farthing Anatomy Prize Maisie Goodfellow

John House Prize Joss Carr

Proxime accessit Rose Morley

Cyril Jones Memorial Prize Yasmin Sinha

Armourers and Brasiers’ Prize

Tehillah Campbell Department of Materials Annual Prize Isobel Hardwick

Porter Prize Isaac Chan

Law Faculty Prize in Business Taxation in a Global Economy Eliza Bond

College Graduate Awards and Prizes

Emden-Doctorow Maggie Neil

E.P.A Cephalosporin Scholarship David Cruz Walma Ying-Qui Zheng

Gao & Ning DPhil Chemistry Conference Award

Georgios Papadakis

Mitchell Scholarship Katherine Polkinghorne

Mrs Brown Bursary Chen Gong Christopher Lomax Zeynep Irem Soysal

Mrs Brown Graduate Scholarship Jia Yang

OxCEP Scholarship Sebastian Klindert

Postgraduate Writing-up Grants

Kiran Basava Jack Kelly Vitaly Osokin

Law Faculty Prize in Legal Concepts in Financial Law Eliza Bond

Prize for the Best Performances in Practical Chemistry I-Ting Chou

2021-22 Prize for Best Team Design Project Zhongyu Tang, Benjamin Thornley, Yuelin Xiong

Tony Doyle Graduate Prize Alice Edney Yuqing Long

William Asbrey BCL Scholarship James Rigby William R Miller Postgraduate Award Jenyth Evans Antonin Charret Krish Sanghvi

Partnership Graduate Awards and Prizes

Clarendon-Asbrey Scholarship

Aiden Lerch

Clarendon-Badman Scholarship

Monica Perri

Clarendon Fund and Brockhues Scholarship Ben Jagger

Clarendon-Bruce Mitchell Scholarship Jasmine Jones

Clarendon Fund and Justin Gosling Scholarship Yaowen Deng

Clarendon Fund and KerrMuir Scholarship Orion Tong

Clarendon Fund and St Edmund Hall Graduate Scholarship Iva Atanaskovic Sumali Bajaj Isabel Creed Yuliang Feng Rocco Zizzamia

Degree Results

Final Honour Schools 2022

These

Chemistry

Class I

Jordan Dring, Adam Hawkins, Sangheon Yeom

Class II i Tamara Gibbons

Class III Artem Naumenko

Julius Baer-WeidenfeldHoffman Deepta Sunil Valliyil

NERC DTP-St Edmund Hall RCUK Partnership Award Oliver Tooth

Oxford-Hoffmann–Julius Baer Scholarship Miranda Garcia Guillermo Lina Yassin

St Edmund Hall-HEC Scholarship Camille Lasbareilles

Earth Sciences

Charlotte Firkins, Benjamin Penny Class II i Max Davis, Lauren Irwin

Class I

Economics & Management

Class I Shariz Aslam, Felix Gallagher Class II i Matthew Bailey, Edward Hayes, Rohan Sharma

Engineering Science Class I Montgomery Beresford Class II i James Odwell, Joseph Steveni, Ernest Wong, Xinzhuo Zhao

English Class I Caitlin Conway Class II i Annabel Stock, Rebecca Whant

English Language & Modern Languages Class II i David Wilkinson

Fine Art Class I Lue Campbell-Smith, April Dublin-Beeton Class II i Yang Gao, Jennifer Gill, Emma Hawkins, Jessamy Money-Kyrle, Emily Webb

Geography Class I Eleanor Cassidy, Elena Gordillo Fuertes, Katie Long Class II i Katherine Orrell, Zeliha Turgut

History

History & Politics Class I Kalli Dockrill Class II i Skye Fitzgerald McShane, Nailah Ranjan, Ruchita Raghunath

Jurisprudence Class I James Arney Class II i Jeevika Bali, Renesha Hodgson, Faatimah Zamir

Jurisprudence (with Law in Europe) Class I Amy Hemsworth

Materials Science Class I Thomas Bricknell, Dominic Peachey Class II i Chloe Curtis-Smith, Isobel Hardwick, Davidson Sabu Class II ii Lewis Sutton

Mathematics MMath Distinction Joshua Ryman Merit Zhe Zhang

Mathematics BA Class II i Jason Kristoforus Class II ii Ryan D’Souza

Mathematics and Statistics BA Class II ii Madeline Prottey

Class I

Gregory Ball, Roxie McAllister Class II i Michael Jacobs, Julien Kress, Natasha Rix

Medical Sciences Class I Hanaa Asharaf Class II i Thomas Henning, Maximilian Hess, Hannah Riches, Archie Watt

Modern Languages Class I Alexander Fuss, Thomas King Class II i Morgan Severn, Lily Shanagher

Modern Languages & Linguistics

Class II i Katie Baker

Neuroscience

Class II i Trinity Pate

Philosophy, Politics & Economics

Class I Liberty Morrow

Class II i Alessandro Gallo, Rachel Trippier

Class II ii Agne Zvinys

Higher Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil)

2021 Clinical Neurosciences: Emma Mee Hayes

Comparative Philology and General Linguistics: Nicola Swinburne

Computer Science: Julia Camps Education: Faidra Faitaki, Laura Brace Rochford

Engineering Science: Emilio Escauriza

Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine: Hannah Sharpe

Interdisciplinary Biosciences (BBSRC DTP)

– Pathology: Michael Knight Medical Sciences: Rassin Lababidi Population Health: Mohd Anisul Karim Statistics: Frederik Soerensen

2022 Anthropology: Yishan Wang

Biomedical Imaging (EPSRC & MRC CDT) –Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics: Andrew Tyler

Biomedical Imaging (EPSRC & MRC CDT) –

Engineering: Andrea Chatrian

Cardiovascular Science (BHF): Snapper Magor-Elliott, Agata Rumianek

Clinical Medicine: Elizabeth Brown

Computer Science: Maciej Olejnik

Geography and the Environment: Pablo Astudillo Estevez, Blen Taye Gemeda, Nicola Kühn, Yangsiyu Lu, Marcel Metzner, Gregory Anderson Phipps, Jesper Svensson

Physics

Class I Miyabi Barth Class II ii Atte Piltonen, Yichen Zhou Experimental Psychology Class II i Emily Currie, Annie Wooler

Engineering Science: Mark Baker, Joseph Kennerley, Mohamad Hasif Bin Osman, Marc Ewenz Rocher

English: Jake Arthur Environmental Research (NERC DTP) –Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics: George Spill

Environmental Research (NERC DTP) –Earth Sciences: Benjamin Fernando Environmental Research (NERC DTP) –Zoology: Gioele Passoni

Infection, Immunology and Translational Medicine: Juliane Brun, Sarah Wideman Inorganic Chemistry: Shiny Joseph Srinivasan

Interdisciplinary Bioscience (BBSRC DTP)Experimental Psychology: Niels Leadholm Law: Katie Johnston

Mathematics: Alexis Chevalier Materials: Robin De Meyere, John Cully, Nikolaos Farmakidis, Naganand Saravanan, Jia Hao Eugene Soh

Molecular and Cellular Medicine: Yuliang Feng

Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease: Lilli Hahn

Musculoskeletal Sciences: Scott Small Oncology: Jack Mills

Organic Chemistry: Timothy Suits Particle Physics: Andrew Stevens, Jia Shian Wang

Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

2022 Development Studies: Elisabed Gedevanishvili (Distinction), Yaowen Deng

Geography and the Environment: Lena Fuldauer

Modern Chinese Studies: Courtney Stanage Modern Middle Eastern Studies: Yixin Pu (Distinction)

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

2021 Bundit Kertbundit (Distinction), Stephen Mickelson (Distinction)

Master of Fine Art (MFA) Poppy Jones-Little (Distinction)

Master of Science (MSc)

2021

Biodiversity, Conservation and Management: Melissa Penagos Gaviria

Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science: Shehryar Saroya

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies: Sophia Carpentier Statistical Science: Deivis Banys, Ryan Wood (Distinction)

Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology: Han Bi

2022

Advanced Computer Science: Maria Stoica

Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience: Yin Chun Cheng (Distinction)

Clinical Embryology: Nana Abban MintahGhansah, Christie Overton, Emilie Paterson

Economics for Development: Joe Minichiello (Distinction)

Education: Carmen Hoepper, Deepta Sunil Valliyil

Environmental Change and Management: Lina Yassin

International Health & Tropical Medicine: Dyuti Sen (Distinction)

Law and Finance: Guillermo Miranda Garcia, Clara Roch-Perks

Mathematical & Theoretical Physics: Niamh Cuffe

Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing: Andrew Wilson (Distinction)

Mathematical Sciences: Kai Shaikh (Distinction)

Social Science of the Internet: Hannah Andrews (Distinction)

Mathematics and Foundations of Computer Science: Julien Codsi (Distinction)

Psychological Research: Canfer Akbulut (Distinction)

Radiation Biology: Hannah Barnes-Powell, Katja Worth (Distinction)

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies: Kristen Allison (Distinction)

Social Science of the Internet: Hannah Andrews (Distinction)

Statistical Science: Isak Valsson (Distinction), Dongsheng Zeng Sustainability, Enterprise and the Environment: Sophia Ahmed, Ryleen Balawanth (Distinction), Christopher Lomax, Fernando Martínez Brunner Theoretical and Computational Chemistry: Atharva Sujeet Deshpande Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology: Han Bi, Luisa Dufrene (Distinction)

Master of Science (by Research) (MScRes)

2021

Inorganic Chemistry: Cheuk Yin 2022 Medical Sciences: Zhiyan Xu

Master of Studies (MSt)

2021

Diplomatic Studies: Andrés OrdoñezBuitrago (Distinction), Gianfranco Smith Chung

2022

English: Caitlin Quinn

Film Aesthetics: Giulia Tronconi (Distinction)

History: Celeste Van Gent

History of Art and Visual Culture: Caroline Miller

Slavonic Studies: Alexandra Burgar, Martin Pedersen (Distinction)

Modern Languages: Han Hu (Distinction), Maja Rausch

Degree Day Dates 2022-23

Information about the procedure for signing up to a degree ceremony can be found on the College website at www. seh.ox.ac.uk/students/graduationceremonies. Dates of degree ceremonies in 2022-2023 will be published on this site when they are confirmed.

Taught course students who are due to finish their degrees in the 2022-2023 academic year will be invited by the Degree Conferrals Office in Michaelmas term of their final year to attend the ceremony date relevant to their degree. Research students will be invited to book a ceremony date once they have been granted Leave to Supplicate.

Historic graduands (pre-October 2022)

Master of Public Policy (MPP)

Darin Hussein, Christopher Lomax

Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) Eliza Bond (Distinction), James Rigby (Distinction)

Bachelor of Medicine (BM BCh) Rebecca Jurdon, Lydia Koffman, Tomasz Szeligowski (Distinction)

Postgraduate Certificate in Education

James Rice, Amy Sanders, Oliver Stark, Jamilyn Taylor

or those wishing to have their MAs in person at a ceremony will need to request that their name be put on a ‘holding list’ (waiting list) for a ceremony date and will be contacted should a place become available. Further information detailing the booking process for historic graduands is also available from the College website.

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From the Development and Alumni Relations Office

From the Director of Development

The academic year 2021-2022 was a year in which the Hall and our alumni relations could return to more of a semblance of ‘normality’ following the challenges of the pandemic, with several in-person events, talks and opportunities for Aularians to come back to the Hall after only being able to connect virtually throughout most of 2020-2021.

At the same time, it has been a very different and exciting year for the Development and Alumni Relations Office (DARO); with the launch of the HALLmarks Campaign to support the Hall’s Ten Year Strategic Plan and changes to the team, including my appointment as Director of Development at the end of March 2022.

The year commenced with the annual Giving Day on 16-17 September 2021: ‘48 hours to make your mark’. Over the two days, generous Aularians raised over £100,000 from nearly 300 donors in seventeen different countries. The funds raised directly help current and future students, support the Hall’s outreach programme, increase the amount of affordable living at Teddy Hall and reduce the College’s environmental impact. Staff and students were set various virtual challenges to bring the community together and to celebrate the Hall. Over the course of the 36 hours, we tied nearly 300 biodegradable ribbons to our Giving Tree.

We were able to hold several anniversary dinners again since 2019, including a 40th Anniversary dinner on 17 September for matriculands of 1980 and 1981, a 50th Anniversary dinner on 23 September for matriculands of 1970, and a 60th Anniversary lunch on 13 September for the 1961 matriculation year.

In October and November, we held an Aularian Author lecture from Joy Hibbins (1981, Modern Languages) and Fellowship Lunchtime Lectures from Dr Tom MacFaul and Dr Edward Lamb.

The DARO team travelled to New York with the Principal for the 36th Annual Drinks Reception and Dinner on 12 November, which was a fantastic opportunity for alumni across North America to meet again. It also proved to be a successful fundraising trip: Aularians in North America have given or pledged $563,000 over the course of this year, much more than in any prior year. The donations made before 30 September 2022 will be generously matched on 2:1 basis by an Aularian donor. The Principal and I returned to the US in June 2022 to reconnect and establish new relationships with alumni on the West Coast, holding an enjoyable drinks reception at the California Club in Los Angeles, hosted by a generous Aularian.

Carols in the Quad took place on 1 December 2021, conducted by our Director of Music Dr James Whitbourn and the year wrapped up with a final Fellowship Lunchtime Lecture from Dr Jonathan Patterson on 3 December 2021.

The annual Afternoon of Music took place on 13 March and was swiftly followed by the 40th Anniversary lunch on 18 March and 50th Anniversary dinner on 25 March. Perhaps most significantly, in April we launched our HALLmarks Campaign. This will allow us to make vital and visionary investments in the physical, intellectual, cultural and pastoral aspects of the College, ensuring Teddy Hall continues to deliver a truly aspirational and inclusive experience for all. It is only with the help of our alumni and friends that we will be able to reach our £50m campaign goal. This total includes an exciting Norham St Edmund project that will at last allow us to accommodate all undergraduates across all years and be at the forefront of net zero building design and construction.

The launch of HALLmarks was followed closely by our annual telethon appeal which raised over £160,000 for our campaign priorities – a big thank you to all who donated as a result of receiving a call from one of the student callers during this time.

Bequests to the Hall continued to provide very significant support. Throughout the year we received gifts from fifteen generous Aularians. My thanks to many of you who have joined the Floreat Aula Society who have said they have remembered the Hall in their will.

In June, the Hall was thrilled to welcome over 100 alumni and guests for a new annual event, the Alumni Summer Dinner. This was a special moment as it was the first time since the start of the pandemic that such a large group of Aularians visited the College. It was fantastic to see so many generations of the community gathered to celebrate Teddy Hall. June was also the month that we bid farewell to Kate Payne after eight years of outstanding service to the Hall and to

Sarah Bridge who joined the Hall last year. I know from my short time here that they will be missed by many Aularians and I would like to take this opportunity to wish them both well in their exciting new chapters and respective careers.

I am delighted to report that this year we welcomed Laura Zampini as our Development Officer. In August we welcomed Emily Bruce from Merton College as our Alumni Relations and Events Manager. Tom Sprent has progressed into the role of Campaign Development Manager, focusing on working with major philanthropic projects.

I would like to sincerely thank the team and wider Teddy Hall community for the warm welcome I have received over the course of my first six months in post, and I look forward to meeting many more Aularians over the course of the year ahead.

Thank you all for your generous and continued support for the Hall.

Andrew Vivian, Director of Development

From the St Edmund Hall Association President

with the JCR and MCR Presidents and their Committees to hear how we can best support students which is our core purpose.

It has been a productive year for the Association and I am delighted that as Covid waned for parts of it, we were able to organise in person events alongside taking advantage of technology to engage with our wonderful 11,000 plus global community.

The highlights of the year included our first ever London Lunch hosted in February at the Army and Navy Club. The Lunch attracted a lively guest list and great feedback, resulting in us organising round two for this November. The New York Dinner was also able to go ahead with America opening its borders to international travellers just days before. Even though we were unable to hold our London Annual Dinner due to rising concerns over Omicron at the time of booking, we very much look forward to putting this on again in February 2023. We were pleased that throughout the year, we were able to return to the Hall and members of the Association engaged

As well as in person events, we held our AGM on Zoom in February for Aularians around the world; they were given the opportunity to hear from the Principal about plans for the College, the launch of the HALLmarks Campaign and College life as students and Fellows returned to ‘normal’. We also broadened our Committee to include more Aularians beyond the shores of the UK. Our annual Teddy Talk in November, ‘Thinking differently: the challenges and advantages of neurodiversity’, attracted positive feedback from attendees and we were grateful to have such an esteemed panel of Aularian speakers.

Nearly two years since the launch of Aularian Connect, we are delighted that 1,400 students, staff and alumni are now on the platform offering mentoring, careers advice and networking opportunities. To support this effort, we have continued building our Digital Careers Programme with ‘Career Conversations’, short clips of Aularians from different industries. We will post these onto Aularian Connect so that students can watch them at their convenience. Next year we plan to push forward with these initiatives so that the Hall’s students can continue to benefit from the fantastic body of alumni wanting and willing to give back.

Each year the Association awards a prize to a student who can demonstrate an exceptional enterprise or voluntary commitment in an activity which has a clear community benefit, raises the profile of the Hall and falls outside established

College or University pursuits. The high calibre of the applications this year made it hard to choose just one winner. We increased the prize money from £300 to £500 and awarded two prizes; one to Alexander Nowak (2021, MSc Major Programme Management) for his work with the Preparatory School of Dir in Pakistan and the other to Alice Edney (2020, Environmental Research (NERC DTP) for supporting the Central Oxford Ringing Group. We look forward to receiving their impact reports in due course.

We are encouraged by the number of Aularians who have participated in or listened to our Podcast Series, Spirit of the Hall. We are now nearing the end of Series Three. Each Series has ten episodes, which have attracted nearly 5,000 unique listens from all over the

Donors to the Hall

world. We started this latest series with immediate past Principal, Professor Keith Gull. Our Committee member Richard Luddington also participated, along with household names such as Mark Sedwill If there is anyone you think we should be interviewing in Series Four, please get in touch!

My thanks go to my Deputy President, Stuart Hopper, and all the Committee for their dedication to the Association and more importantly the Hall. I would also like to thank our whole Aularian community for your enthusiasm over our various initiatives; as I start to think about who will take over from me as President next year, I realise what an honour it has been to represent you all.

Olly Belcher (née Donnelly) (1999, Geography)

From 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2022

The Principal, Fellows and students are all extremely grateful for the support of the 1,356 alumni, parents of students and Friends of the Hall who have donated in the last year and whose names are recorded on the following pages.

Although the donor list only includes gifts received between 1 August 2021 and 31 July 2022, we are equally grateful to all supporters who have given to the Hall outside of this timeframe. If you donated after 31 July 2021, your gift will appear in next year’s Magazine.

We record by matriculation date the names of all who have made a donation during this period, including the participation rate (the percentage of people in each year who have given), and the total amount received per matriculation year. Where there are small numbers of donors in a particular year, we have not listed the amount given in order to preserve confidentiality.

*denotes deceased

DONOR LIST 2021-2022

1944 (8%)

Paul Glover*

1945 (10%)

David Bennett*

1947 (14%)

John Ayers*

1948 (30%, £355,463)

Jarvis Doctorow*

Roy Kings*

Roy Tracey*

1949 (31%, £244,009)

William Asbrey* Bob Breese

Alan Brimble Hilary Davidson* William R Miller CBE*

1950 (32%, £8,127)

Noel Harvey* Raymond Lee Jack Preger, in memory of Barry Penn Ralph Simmons Ray Waddington-Jones Jack Wheeler

1951 (44%, £25,477)

John Akroyd* Kenneth Lund Denys Moylan Brian Osgood* Dudley Wood Plus 2 anonymous donors

1952 (26%, £2,215)

Ian Byatt Tony Coulson Neil Hall Denis McCarthy Bruce Nixon Royston Taylor Neville Teller David Thompson David Wright 1953 (18%, £2,545)

Keith Harlow Ian Jackson David Picksley Dick Turner Brian Venner Brian Wakefield Eric Windsor 1954 (20%, £5,716) Mike Chadwick

Jeremy Cleverley Michael Duffy Keith Hounslow Tony Laughton Brian Shepherd Keith Suddaby Charles Taylor* Raymond Thornton John West 1955 (23%, £9,636)

John Billington Tony Cooper John Dellar David Frayne David Hare Michael Hilt Del Kolve Mike Neal Tony Pearson Irving Theaker Bill Weston Richard Williams Plus 1 anonymous donor 1956 (28%, £4,145) Martyn Bird Maresq Child Fred Farrell John French Basil Kingstone Chris Machen Martin Reynolds Jack Rowell David Short Paul Tempest Peter Whurr David Williams 1957 (25%, £6,040)

Michael Archer Ted Aves Robin Blackburn David Bolton Blake Bromley Martin Clifford

Duncan Dormor Tony Ford John Harrison* Dennis Jesson David Parfitt David Poole George Ruffhead Alastair Stewart

1958 (25%, £9,166)

Jim Amos David Clarke* Gordon Crosse* Peter Davies Jim Dening Andrew Garrod David Harrison OBE John Haydon John Hibberd* Ronnie Irving Michael Jarman Pete Kite Tony Nial Michael Pelham David Phillips Philip Rabbetts

1959 (31%, £26,364) Ian Alexander Ewan Anderson Hinton Bird Keith Bowen David Braund John Chapman John Collingwood Giles Conway Gordon Kevin Crossley-Holland John Curry Chris Harvey Ian Hepburn Matthew Joy Graham Kentfield Culain Morris Mike Oakley John Rayner Alan Rowland

Brian Saberton*

Mike Saltmarsh

John Spires

David Stedman

Mike Voisey Stewart Walduck Ian Walker

Roy Walmsley John Walters

1960 (44%, £9,280)

Nick Alldrit

Chris Atkinson David Baines

Terence Bell David Bolton Adam Butcher Robert Clark Terence Coghlin Jeremy Cook Robin Cox Keith Dillon Ian Evans

Brian Fyfield-Shayler

Jeff Goddard Peter Hayes Kenneth Heard

Ken Hinkley -Smith Robin Hogg

John Law

Malcolm Livesey Chris Long Yann Lovelock

David Mash

Melvyn Matthews

George Ritchie

Ted Rose

Michael Rose

Patric Sankey-Barker

John Sherman George Smith Roger Sparrow

John Thorogood

Andrew Tod

Alan Wilding

1961 (31%, £62,772)

Paul Allen Don Anderson

David Aukin

David Brown Martin Buckley Bob Chard David Cruden Sidney Donald Barrie England Richard Goddard Rex Harrison Ian Heggie

Michael Hornsby Malcolm Inglis Nick Lloyd John Long Ian Manners Jim Marsh Jonathan Martin Peter Newell

Hugh Redington Anthony Rentoul David Scharer

Roger Smith David Timms

Stephen White

1962 (26%, £20,708)

Michael Brookes* David Buckingham James Burnett-Hitchcock

Michael Buttler

Peter Collins

Chris Cowles

Jeff Creek

Jim de Rennes

Bill Gulland

Michael Hamilton Handley Hammond Ant Hawkes

David Hicks Arwyn Hughes Roger Miller

Tony Moore Sean Morris

Nigel Pegram

Richard Phillippo Richard Taylor

Jonny Taylor Hugh Thomas Roger Wardle John Williams

Plus 2 anonymous donors 1963 (26%, £11,753)

Darrell Barnes Steve Benson Peter Brennan Bob Brewer

Bob Broughton Nicholas Bulmer Bob Clarke

David Cox John Crawshaw Geoff Day John Dodgson Mike Foxon Edward Gould Michael Harrison Mike Metcalfe

Rod Offer

John Rosefield Michael Sherratt Clive Sneddon John Still John Taylor Nigel Thorp Plus 3 anonymous donors

1964 (22%, £9,032)

John Bunney Martin Butcher Michael Clarke Bob Clarke Steve Copley Peter Day

Alan Graham Bill Hartley Derek Hawkins Peter Hodson Chris Howe

John Hughes

Mike Kerford-Byrnes

Tony Lemon

Timothy Machin David Meredith Derek Morris James Pitt Michael Powis

David Rumbelow Stephen Sherbourne Hugh Simpson Peter Smerd David Tearle Plus 1 anonymous donor

1965 (31%, £33,220)

Christopher Allen Paul Badman

Joe Barclay Robert Beckham Tommy Bedford Rupert Deighton John Dennis Paul Fickling Simon Gatrell

Ian Gillings Derek Harrison Clive Hartshorn Colin Hewitt Ken Hobbs Ron McDonald

Andy Morgan Thomas Mulvey Humphrey Nicholls

Brian North Maurice Pannell Stephen Patrick Billett Potter

David Powell

John Rea David Reed Guy Richardson Ted Roskell John Sayer

Michael Sheil Philip Spray Chas Stansfield

Bill Walker Richard White Richard Wycherley

1966 (21%, £10,068)

David Alder* Cam Brown Roger Brown Nigel Clarke Peter Crystal Bob Darby Guy Fisher Roger Frankland David Garvie David Hansom

Linn Hobbs Ted Hodgson John Kilbee David Knight Jon Shortridge David Stewart Michael Stone Geoffrey Summers George Syrpis Michael Warren

1967 (27%, £25,838) Steve Allchin Robert Breckles Nigel Derrett Lawrence Downey Christopher Fay Colin Hawksworth Ying Kao Roger Kenworthy Mike Kerrigan Shepard Krech

Ethan Lipsig John Mabbett Simon Maxwell Peter Mitchell Jim Mosley John Orton Dave Postles Bruce Rashkow Philip Robinson Graham Salter

Mark Spencer Ellis David Tabraham-Palmer

Keith Walmsley Rob Weinberg Peter Wilson Malcolm Young Georges Zbyszewski Plus 1 anonymous donor

1968 (21%, £10,950)

Clive Bailey Andrew Barnes John Berryman David Blezard

Martin Brooks Martin Daniels Phil Emmott James Hunt Steven Hurst Laurence Jackson Alan Jones Tim Jones Stuart Kenner Geoff May Tony Moore John Penfield Mike Pike Chris Pote Ian Ridgwell Mike Spilberg Ian Stuart David Theobald

1969 (15%, £6,908)

Brian Battye Mick Birks David Boyd Ian Busby Roger Callan Paul Clemence Bryan Dawson Steve Dempsey Dick Ford Leonard Gibeon Peter Jones Clive Kerridge Roy Marsh

David Monkcom

Paul Parker

Michael Shipster Chris Stafford

1970 (20%, £10,875)

Andrew Craston

Julian Currall

Will David Kevin Fisher

Stephen Fordham Richard Gozney

Dorian Haskard Chris Hawkesworth

John Hearn

John Kendall Chris Lewis Ev Meynell

David Morgan Richard Ormerod Peter Raspin

Colin Richmond-Watson

Richard Robinson Paul Silk

Mike Skelding

Geoff Smith

Chris Sutton-Mattocks

Jack Welch, in honour of Justin Gosling Bob Wilson

Plus 1 anonymous donor

1971 (22%, £140,533)

David Audsley

Peter Balmer

George Bishop III

Mark Booker

David Brenner

Ian Brimecome

Roger Chaplin

Ian Cheffy

Lawrie Coupland

Lawrence Cummings

John Fazackerley

Peter Foot Malcolm Hawthorne Rick Henshaw

Craig Laird

Dave Leggett

Andrew McGilvray

Jonathan Ormond John Parr

Roger Pawson Tim Ream

Douglas Robertson Stephen Rosefield Steve Russell Greg Salter John Sloan Plus 1 anonymous donor

1972 (20%, £8,132)

John Catherall

Richard Catmur Steve Chandler Michael Constantine Anthony Deakin Tony Downes

Andy Hall

Andrew Lowenthal Howard Mason Stephen McCann Paul Mounsey

Peter Osborn Andrew Peacock Gareth Price Floyd Robichaux David Rosen

Constantine Sarantis Ian Smith Jack Smith

Robin Stephenson John Trotman Andy Wadley

Allan Walker Martin Winter Plus 1 anonymous donor

1973 (24%, £9,956)

Colin Ashby Chris Bamber David Beckett Colin Bullett Sean Butler

Robert Cawthorne

Geoff Chamberlain David Copeland

Robert Godden

Roger Golland Richard Gretton

David Grice

Richard Harandon Nick Jones Anthony Jordan Dave Knight Nigel Laing Colin Lizieri

Toby Lucas

Stephen McNulty

Ian Midgley Mark Patterson Nic Peeling Mark Perryman Stewart Petrie John Roberts Tom Schneider Barrie Thomas Mike Wood

1974 (24%, £16,477)

Keith Albans Phil Budden Graham Clark Peter Desmond Steve Edrich Robert Eggar Andrew Gosling Mark Handsley Andrew Hargreaves Charles Hind Michael Hooton Stephen Hutchinson Doug Imeson Bob Jeavons Paul Matthews David Neuhaus John Ormiston Andy Patterson Clive Penwarden Phil Phillips Gary Pollitt

John Ramsey

Tim Robinson

Gerard Rocks

John Rose Trevor Ryder Dick Sands Kim Swain Graham Wareing John Wisdom Plus 1 anonymous donor

1975 (15%, £185,535)

Andrew Baldwin Jeremy Charles Ken Davies Bob Gaffey Martin Garrett Brian Gasser Graeme Gibbs Louis Greig Gordon Hurst Andrew Johnston Graham Ketley Alan Lomas Robin Osterley Justin Samuel Ces Shaw Nigel Smith Alan Stansfield Anthony Stopyra Peter Watson David Way

1976 (20%, £6,594)

Bill Baker Jr

Robin Beckley Robert Birch Bill Cogar

John Collingwood

Stephen Corsham Hora den Dulk

Brian Denton Chris Elston Richard Finch

Anson Jack Trevor Payne Mike Power

Jonathan Reynolds Jamie Robertson Martin Saunders Simon Staite Paul Sutton Ian Taylor Stephen Tetley Peter Trowles Andrew Wathey Neil Worthington

1977 (16%, £28,225) Philippe Beaufour David Blakey

Charles Blount Andrew Brown Steve Clark Ian Doherty Neil Edwards Oliver Grundy Nick Hamilton Marcel Haniff David Harding Adrian Haxby Chris Horner Roger Keeley Byron Light David McKenna Peter Rogers Chris Samuel Mark Schneider Paul Thompson Jeremy Tullett Steve Vivian

1978 (17%, £6,710) Doug Ansley John Armitstead Chris Brown-Humes Hamish Cameron Ian Coleman Richard Collins George Gilbert Paul Goulding Mark Harrison Simon Heilbron Ian Hutchinson

Lloyd Illingworth Stephen Leonard Brian Livesey Adrian Marsh Jeremy Mead Mark Morrison Gideon Nissen Peter Richardson Nicholas Rowe David Wright

1979 (20%, £7,701)

Kit Cooke Stephen Coulson David Cox Gail Davies Davina Dwyer Mark Earls John Hodgson Alan Holbrook Andrew Hunter Andrew Jones Paul Littlechild Ian Lupson Phil Martin Rob McCreath Ian McEwen Caroline Morgan Justus O’Brien Rob Quain Michael Robinson Simon Roxborough Tim Sands

Ingrid Sharp Mark Silinsky Paul Skokowski Duncan Talbert Robert Vollum David West

1980 (26%, £38,021)

Judith Acreman John Ayton Bernard Bewlay Philip Broadley Nick Caddick Iain Cooke

Jonathan Davies

Timothy Edmonds

Anthony Farrand

Jon French

Alistair Graham

Graeme Hall

Jonathan Hofstetter

Simon Kelly

Steve King Gary Lawrence John Madgwick

Peter McLean-Buechel

Zahid Nawaz James Newman

Lynne O’Reilly

David Preston Simon Ramage Celia Russell Jonathan Scott Nick Senechal Paula Skokowski

Joanna Smith Richard Smyth Neil Stevenson Frank Strang Christina Tracey Rebecca Willis Diana Wright

Plus 1 anonymous donor

1981 (16%, £9,904)

Andrew Burns Mark Campbell

David Dees

Gary Evans

Sandy Findlay

Heather Gray Julian Hammond

Phil Knight

Richard Lambert Jim McAleer

Paul McCarthy Tim Miles Andrew Miller

Sallie Nicholas Tim Parkinson

Duncan Penny Nigel Purdy Maria Queenan David Stokes Paul Stowers Mark Walters

1982 (17%, £15,093)

Maggie Carver Tom Christopherson Catherine Dale Linda Davies Simon ffitch Guy Franks Nick Gretton David Heaps Dan Johnson Richard Kent Peter Murray Divya Nicholls Gareth Penny Nigel Purse Marco Rimini David Robb Kevin Sealy Shona Tatchell Simon White Junior Williamson Stuart Worthington Plus 1 anonymous donor

1983 (19%, £8,229)

Roy Bishop

Stephanie Clifford Steve Coates

Kate Coleman Chris Coleman

William Connolley Tim Fallowfield Simon Freethy Marion Geddes

Richard Glynn Tarquin Grossman Edward Hayes Siân Henderson Mike Iddon

Max Irwin

Jo Kent

Peter Magyar Phil Moody Christine Muskett Denis Mustafa Kevan Rees Helen Saunders Andrew Sumnall Andrew Till Mark Triggs Max Welby

1984 (10%, £7,718)

Dan Abnett

John Bloomer Will Coleman

Steve Crummett Julian Day Alison Fallowfield Chris Giles Rob Macaire Tesula Mohindra John Risman Anthony Rossiter Andrew Shortland Harvey Wheaton Plus 1 anonymous donor

1985 (11%, £22,936)

Stephen Bartlett

Deborah Booth Andy Brown Clare Coleman Neil Crabb

Amelia Fletcher Ian Grant

Jon Gulley

Michael Hill Fiona Houston Nick Laird Julia Little Mark Little Doug McCallum

Nicholas Peacock Susan Peacock

Andrew Rolfe Will Shaw Catharine Snow

Julia Weiner

1986 (20%, £24,248)

Mary Betley

Paul Billyard Anna Botting Jim Charles Geoffrey Chatas Philip Clifford QC David Denholm Gavin Flook Walter Fraser David Gillett Andrew Harrison Brian Hepworth Simon Hodgson Claire Horacek Neil Jacob Patrick Jennings Emma Kennedy Rachel Kiddey Stewart Lee Iain Mackie Sally McKone John Myhill Phil Richards Robert Robinson David Southall Mike Stanislawski Jacqui Thornton Sharon von Simson Alex Welby Catherine Ysrael-Gomez Plus 1 anonymous donor

1987 (10%, £5,892)

Dan Bayley

Justin Collins

Helen Fox David Gomez Jeremy Harrison Kevin Holder

James Hulse Kevin Johnson Roger Nixon

Peter O’Connell Clare Rhodes James Mark Sedwill Richard Smalman-Smith Sarah Smith Philip Waldner David Waring Tim Wingfield 1988 (16%, £18,360) James Brace Marcus Browning Abi Draper Leon Ferera James Ferguson

Stuart Ford Christopher Garrison David Halliwell Nick Harley Duncan Holden Andrew Hunter Richard Luckraft Susanna Mann Peter Matthews Peter Othen Paul Powell James Rudd Giles Sanders Ursula Saunders Lucy Shaw Ingrid Southorn David Stewart Plus 2 anonymous donors

1989 (24%, £15,780)

Tom Argles Grania Bryceson Jonathan Cotton Rob de Rennes Jennifer Doran Bruce Gilley Marco Janezic Luke Jones Andrew La Trobe Mark Lauder Tom Leman Alex McLean Ben Miller

Richard Rednall Ruth Roberts Edward Rose Mohini Sarda Lynch Chris Sawyer Fiona Sawyer Peter Schulze Richard Sennitt Matt Spencer Natalie Tydeman Darren Walker Plus 1 anonymous donor

1990 (16%, £8,533)

Marcus Bailey Emma Barnett Stephen Barnett Paul Brady Hew Bruce-Gardyne Carolyn Drury Vanessa Fieve Willett David Gauke Andrew Green Victoria Griffiths-Fisher Graham Hinton Adrian Jones Dave Jordan Kevin Knibbs Gill La Valette Peter Lee

Richard Lingard Akaash Maharaj Chris Manby John Milloy

Stephen Noone Kirsteen Rowlands Rob Salter Ed Shelton Natasha Walker Claire White Andrew Williams Julie Williams Mike Woodfine 1991 (14%, £6,628) Andrew Armstrong Balakumar Arumugam Carol Atherton

Duncan Barker

Peter Benbow

Julian Cater

John Cole

Tessa Evans

Samantha Harries Tim Houghton

Anneli Howard QC

Nicholas Lane David Liversidge David McGill Steven Melford Simon Pickard Luke Powell Georgia Redpath Dan Smith

Plus 1 anonymous donor

1992 (9%, £3,945)

Thomas Dennis Matt Elliott Lucy Heaven Jane Mann Mike Milner Sarah Morrison Sarah O’Neill

Jules Plumstead Claire Pugh Matt Purcell Gareth Scholey Wayne Smith Rachel Stafford Matthew Weaver

1993 (10%, £39,167)

Matt Webb

Richard Tufft

James Parkin

James Owens

Lucy Newlove

Geoff Mortimer

Al Mordaunt

Tom McClelland Rob Mansley

Kieren Johnson

Tim Jackson Gavin Henderson

Nick Gradel

Liz Gibbons

Howard Cazin

1994 (9%, £8,361) David Hambler Luke Haynes Ed Knight

Gareth McKeever Caroline Mitchelson James Mushin Lucy Oddy Harry Oliver Thomas Peel via the Charles Peel Charitable Trust

Simon Preston Piers Prichard Jones Mark Roberts Jeremy Robst Ian Valvona David Wilkes Plus 1 anonymous donor

1995 (7%, £5,545)

Robert Dryburgh Karim Ghaly QC Louisa Koe Chet Lad Richard Martin Hugh Miller Chris Ruse Martin Thorneycroft Vladka Thwaites

Giacomo Tortora Justin Waine Dominic Walley Alison Waterfall

1996 (13%, £6,684)

Paul Boon Claire Burton Martyn Chu James Cookson Tommy Doyle Phil Duffield Benjamin Grout

John Houghton

Tom Long Min Min Henry Mullin Tim Needham Richard O’Donoghue Roland Partridge

Maya Portolan Zachary Segal Zoe Stopford

Roman Streitberger George Tsikouras

Chris Valvona Duncan Wallace Alistair White

1997 (12%, £7,287)

Marko Bacic Glen Bowman Holly Bristow Sadiya Choudhury Nat Copsey Saurabh Das Hong Dong Chris Eden

Natalie Gey van Pittius Nicholas Hamilton PJ Howard Rhys James Heidi Johansen-Berg Ali Mack Michelle Maddaus Dean O’Connell Lucy Reynolds Anthony Shackleton Chris Tinson Ana Unruh Cohen Guofang Xiao Plus 2 anonymous donors

1998 (6%, £2,824) Michael Bird Nick Hirst

Jason Lotay Marcin Marchewka James Matthews Clare Murray

Ann-Marie Myhill

Alina Sarantis Carl Wells Ben Wilkinson Lucy Wilson

1999 (12%, £3,964)

Jo Alexander Olly Belcher Bjorn Benckert Mark Bolton-Maggs

Caroline Court Jonathan Crawshaw Charlotte Davies

Oliver Deacon András Lengyel Zoe Noonan James Pattinson Alex Prideaux Hanna Richardson Kim Stychinsky Sean Sullivan Rosalind Wall Andrew Westbrook David Williams Plus 1 anonymous donor

2000 (6%, £6,366)

Rahul Chopra Miles Clapham Kieron Galliard

Harriet Hungerford Malcolm Lee Akira Mitsumasu Sahel Mughal Erica Newman Richard Povey Charlie Ramsay Ben Weston

2001 (7%, £5,495)

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On Teaching & Learning

Pedagogy

from the Pulpit: John Mill’s Chapel Lectures and their Historical Setting by Natasha Bailey

I. Introduction

The textual scholar and longstanding Principal of St Edmund Hall John Mill (1645-1707) is renowned for his edition of the New Testament (1707), which the historian Eric Carlsson recently described as “Far and away the single most decisive contribution to eighteenth-century textual criticism”.1 But surprisingly little has been written on the scholarship or ideas of this Oxford luminary. Perhaps a reason for this is that Mill left very few examples of discursive work from which we could easily extract ideological information, with even the extended Prolegomena to his edition being notoriously cautious and historical. A little more has been said about Mill’s role as Principal of St Edmund Hall (1685-1707), where he embarked upon a disciplinary reformation, for which he was celebrated in some quarters and resented in others. One of his aims was to encourage students to improve their Greek, and he achieved this in part through delivering sermons and lectures on the Septuagint and New Testament in the recently consecrated chapel.

Helpfully for us, a fascinating but overlooked set of notes on Mill’s pulpit lectures is preserved in a manuscript in the British Library (BL Harley 6941); this allows us to dig into his teaching

methods and the ideas that he imparted to students. As we’ll see, Mill taught a subtly contextualist mode of scriptural hermeneutics, not only to help students interpret the Bible accurately (a prerequisite for becoming a theologian!), but also to foreground his own views on church hierarchy and spiritual authority. While the historian Adam Fox noted that Mill’s lectures were “orthodox without effort”, I hope to show that some contentious views lurked behind his neutral façade, adding polemical colour to learning in the Hall.2

II. Pulpit Pedagogy

A brief comment on the notes is first in order. Although Fox has pointed out that they appear to be in the hand of the notorious diarist Thomas Hearne, who matriculated at the Hall in 1696, the bulk of the notes were copied from the dictations of an obscure student named James Hammond, who matriculated in 1693 and took his MA in 1700.

While the notes are undated, they were therefore certainly produced after 1693, and probably after 1696, when Hearne entered the Hall and Hammond stepped up his divinity studies.

The notes consist of words, phrases, and occasionally verses from scripture in Greek, which are followed by Mill’s explanations of their meaning in English. The lectures were given “in chapel after morning and evening prayers”. The fact that the notes fill up sixteen large folio pages suggests that, most likely, they were the product of several sessions and perhaps a term.

1 Eric Carlsson, ‘Johann Salomo Semler, the German Enlightenment, and Protestant Theology’s Historical Turn’ (2006) unpublished PhD thesis, p. 307.

2 Adam Fox, John Mill and Richard Bentley: A Study of the Textual Criticism of the New Testament, 1675-1729 (Oxford, 1954), p. 24.

Unlike Heads of Colleges, the incomes of Principals of Halls such as Mill depended on room rents, and thus on attracting students. Mill was committed to this task, and his success is evident from the fact that his dues rose from £54 to £90 per annum between 1685 and 1690, remaining at that level until 1700. Reflecting on Mill’s achievement, Hearne remarked in 1706 that he had turned the Hall into a “Fanatick Seminary” – for better or worse.3 Either way, when Hammond and Hearne were students, St Edmund Hall was a vibrant theological hub, and so we can presume that many attended Mill’s morning and evening lectures.

III. Teaching the Bible

The period from c. 1670-1710 witnessed a striking shift in English theological teaching away from the foregrounding of doctrinal principles via ‘systems’ or ‘bodies’ of divinity (i.e. guides to the beliefs that had been extracted from scripture) and towards an emphasis on establishing such principles through the study of scripture itself. The notes on Mill’s lectures – which embody the transition towards this form of studying scripture –are among the earliest and most revealing instances that I have come across of how contextualist and philological approaches to the Bible were implemented in pedagogic sessions.

Mill, we can glimpse from the notes, encouraged his pupils to determine the sense of Biblical terms with reference to the broader historical context. He dwelt, for example, on aspects of Jewish and near-eastern culture, explicating the meaning of terms that relate to rituals, feasts, geographic regions, and monuments. On occasion, he then used such information to propose revisionist readings of the text. For instance, he taught students to interpret Ezra 6.11 as

referring not, as in the King James Bible, to a man being hanged from timber, but to his being impaled on a stake. As Mill pointed out, such a punishment “was (& is) a custom much used by the Eastern nations, & likewise by the Romans, & is remembered by Juvenal &c” (f. 194r). The last comment is also a helpful reminder that it was often via reading classical poetry that early modern scholars such as Mill gleaned insights into sacred history. Not only did Mill guide students towards embracing contextualist re-readings, but he also promoted a linguistically oriented approach that led him to make other subtle alterations to received readings of the Bible, at times for polemical ends. Given that the majority of students at Oxford and Cambridge were destined to enter the Church of England, teaching them how to come to its aid (i.e. to shore up its fundamental doctrines) in theological controversies was a key concern for any tutor. An interesting but subtle instance of how Mill’s apologetic goals shaped his interpretations can be seen in his exposition of several passages relating to the Trinity, the nature of which was an especially contested issue during the 1690s. The King James Bible had translated 1 Peter 3.18 as “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit”. Mill took this to imply that the Holy Spirit and Christ were one (f. 195v). He also concluded that in Romans 6.4, a statement on Christ’s Resurrection, “διὰ τῆς δόξης τοῦ πατρός”, meant that Christ rose “by the Power of ye Father”, instead of the more common translation of “δόξης” as “glory”(in the King James Bible: “by the glory of ye Father”).

Thomas Hearne, Remarks and Collections, vol. i (Oxford, 1885), p. 254.

The implications of such manoeuvres might seem opaque, but from Mill’s lecture the student was led to conclude that in the New Testament “the Resurrection of our Lord is ascribed to each of ye 3 persons of ye Trinity”: in 1 Peter 3.18 to the Holy Ghost, in Romans 6.4 to God, and in John 10.18 to Christ. Suggesting that he had some success, the manuscript contains a marginal addition stating that all “ye Apostles believed the trinity & so ’twas all one” (f. 195v). Mill had done his job for now, in a tangible instance of how textual criticism was harnessed to prop up doctrinal orthodoxy.

IV: Power to the Bishops

While the Trinity debate was high stakes, it was dwarfed in the 1690s, when Mill’s lectures were delivered, by discussions about the nature of episcopacy (a church governed by bishops), church-state relations, and the non-juring controversy. The Non-Jurors were a group of Church of England clergy and laity who, considering themselves bound by their oath of loyalty to King James II, refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to William III and Mary II after they came to the throne in 1688. Aside from an unwillingness to swear the Oath of Allegiance to William and Mary, a major problem with Non-Jurors was their desire to claim special powers for the Church, grounded in scripture and the Church Fathers. Mill was circumspect on such divisive matters – and was known for his shifting allegiances – but the notes in Harley 6941 reveal that he was not an entirely neutral actor in post-Revolutionary England. This may help to explain why he shielded in the Hall several theologians who were sympathetic to the Non-Jurors, including the Königsberg-born Biblical scholar John Ernest Grabe.

arguments about episcopal power is found in his comments on John 20.21: “Then said Jesus to them [the apostles] again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you”. From this statement, Mill was convinced that the Saviour bestowed a divine power upon the Apostles and that “our Lord intended it for their successors & so from Generation to Generation while the World endures”. This language resounds strikingly with the theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet’s mid-1680s celebration of the institution of episcopacy. Stillingfleet believed the episcopacy was based on the “Apostolical Succession” and set to endure until “the World’s End”.4

Elsewhere, Mill cited the early Christian author Tertullian’s view that the “successors of the apostles” (i.e. bishops) possessed an “inherent” authority thanks to the “vicarious power of the spirit”. He also seems to have embraced Tertullian’s belief that the episcopate was responsible for providing a historically verifiable genealogy or pedigree of doctrine. As recorded in the notes, Mill held that since bishops were to “that Office ordained by the Apostles themselves, & these were to ordain others, & so on”, “it comes to pass that Episcopacy is absolutely necessary & inherent to Christianity”, with only bishops, whose authority stemmed from the Apostles, having the authority to divulge the true meaning of scripture.

By presenting his students with this view, Mill guided them to the conclusion that only ordained members of the Church of England could shape and guard the true interpretation of scripture; given that the universities were the training grounds for the Church, they too played an essential role in that truth-defining mission. Mill feared that without episcopacy – and, by extension, without universities –4 Edward Stillingfleet, A Sermon Preached at a Publick Ordination (London,1685), pp. 38-9.

In the notes, the first evidence of Mill’s

“the Christian Religion cannot subsist” (f. 198r). Although this was not an uncommon view in late-seventeenthcentury Oxford, the non-juring threat made such pronouncements more contentious than they might otherwise have been.

One of Mill’s conclusions that could have proven especially controversial was that contemporary bishops possessed a power “wholly distinct from & independent of any civil or secular Power or Authority whatever, & this is a Power of Preaching the Word of God, a Power of Administering the Sacraments, a Power of Ordaining fit persons to the Ministry” (f. 198r). Mill’s use of the word “authority” in relation to clerical power is particularly striking, as becomes clear when we turn to the final pages of the notes, which are on the topic of absolution.

Although the Book of Common Prayer extended the right to absolve sins to Church of England bishops, absolution was counted among the Church’s five rites; it was not, as it was by Roman Catholics, deemed a sacrament. Mill does not discuss this point specifically, but he does deploy a crucial distinction between ‘authoritative’ and ‘declarative’ power in the context of absolutions. In Mill’s day, it was generally held in the Church of England that bishops absolved declaratively: they pronounced (or declared) someone free from sin. However, it was believed that God alone knew whether the sinner was truly repentant and thus God alone had the power to truly absolve. In this sense, the Bishop’s authority was sometimes described as ‘indicative’ or ‘conditional’.

By contrast, authoritative absolution referred to the belief that bishops could absolve sins directly; bishops who made authoritative absolutions were, in other words, making a judgment about whether someone was truly repentant. Accordingly, these absolutions were sometimes described as being ‘judicial’, ‘unconditional’, or ‘imperative’ in nature. There had been considerable debate within the Catholic Church about whether bishops possessed declarative or authoritative power to absolve, with Pope Gregory I, the sixth-century Bishop of Rome, famously concluding, contra the opinion of St Jerome, that “all Priests were made God’s Vicegerents here on earth, in his name to retain and forgive sins, not declaratively only, but judicially” (to quote the seventeenth-century divine Anthony Sparrow).5

Given its proximity to Roman Catholicism, the idea that priestly absolution could rest on imperative or judicial power was becoming swiftly associated with the Non-Jurors in Mill’s day, as the historian Brent Sirota has shown.6 Indeed, in 1696 – right around the time that Mill delivered his lectures – a national scandal erupted when three ‘discharged’ (non-juring) clergymen absolved two Jacobites (i.e. supporters of the deposed James II) for conspiring to foment an insurrection in the Midlands with the aim of paving the way for the assassination of William III.

This act sparked a controversy about whether priests did indeed have special jurisdiction when it came to absolutions performed outside of communion and confession. Several decades later, the Erastian7 theologian and Bishop of Bangor

5 Anthony Sparrow, A Sermon Concerning Confession of Sins, and the Power of Absolution (London, 1637), pp. 15-16.

6 Brent Sirota, The Christian Monitors: The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680–1730 (New Haven, 2014), pp. 161-4.

7 One who favours the authority of the state over the church, from the Swiss theologian Thomas Erastus (15241583).

Benjamin Hoadly unambiguously linked the notion of ‘Authoritative Absolution’ with the Non-Jurors in his Preservative Against the Principles and Practices of the Non-Jurors (1717), writing that an “infallible Absolution cannot belong to Fallible Men”8

Yet while, according to the Harley 6941 notes, Mill made the standard assertion that bishops had ‘declarative’ or ‘hypothetical’ power to absolve sins at communion and confession, he provocatively added that they had “Authoritative” power of “a higher strain” that allowed them to absolve sins at visitations (f. 199v). No doubt aware of the implications of his claim, Mill quickly nuanced it, clarifying that a bishop’s power at visitations “in effect is declarative too”, since even they “cannot divine the thoughts of mens hearts”. By suggesting that bishops may possess an unconditional power to absolve at visitations but that this power hinged on the sinner being truly repentant (a knowledge reserved for God alone), Mill perhaps hoped to appeal to both non-juring divines and more tolerant churchmen, for whom the very language of priestly ‘authority’ had become suspect.

V. Insider Learning

Mill’s Trinitarianism and caution about imputing authoritative power to bishops might serve to reinforce the prevailing picture of him among historians as a ‘Whiggish’ individual who willingly lent a hand to the prevailing orthodoxy and swam with the current, being thus

deserving of his nickname ‘Johnny Wind-Mill’. But, despite Mill’s political neutrality, the notes that I have discussed here reveal that he had strongly-held ecclesiastical views, which would themselves have been interpreted as political. It’s notable, in this regard, that Mill brought one lecture to a close with the pronouncement that the only legitimate clerics were those who had “come into a constant succession from the Apostles on whom the Saviour of ye world & founder of our Religion breathed the Holy Ghost”, and, echoing John 10.1, lambasted non-ordained preachers as “thieves & Robbers”, “exceedingly different from us” (f. 199v). It is also telling that Hammond, in 1715, vacated his rectory in East Sussex for refusing to swear the oaths of allegiance, thus becoming himself a Non-Juror. While we can only speculate, it is not unlikely that several other youthful attendees of Mill’s chapel lectures may have met similar fates.

Borne out by Hammond’s dictations, Mill’s contribution to philological scholarship (as the culmination of an extensive liberal arts education) was, to a significant extent, designed to help defend his version of ‘ancient’ ecclesiastical government and the episcopalian church of his day, which, with its emphasis on a learned clergy, remained one of the chief patrons of academic research. Protecting this system was one of the surest means by which Mill could safeguard his favoured, humanistic approach to learning, and, in a rather practical sense, his job.

Natasha Bailey (New College) 8 Benjamin Hoadly, A preservative against the principles and practices of the non jurors both in church and state (London, 1717), p.58

The White Rose Window by Alex Lloyd

The White Rose Project is a research and engagement initiative led by Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Fellow by Special Election in German. It was founded in 2018 and works to bring the story of the anti-Nazi student resistance group the ‘White Rose’ (‘Die Weiße Rose’) to English-speaking audiences. Each year, as part of our work, we run a translation project with a group of undergraduates. In previous years, students translated the White Rose resistance pamphlets and excerpts from their private letters and diaries. These have been published in Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022). This year, instead of translating between German and English, we explored ‘creative translation’, adapting the pamphlets into new works, including poetry, prose, drama, and artwork.

The students’ work was displayed in a window on the High Street in Oxford, thanks to the generosity of St Edmund Hall. The White Rose Window showcased the students’ translations and provided information about the resistance. It was launched in June 2022, exactly 80 years since the first White Rose pamphlets were written, printed, and disseminated. The Oxford students’ translations are imaginative responses to, and interpretations of, real events and people as encountered in interviews and primary sources. They explore the courage and conviction of students who, 80 years ago in Germany, stood up to fascism and used the written word to resist.

‘Wortwahl’ by Anna Cooper (Jesus, 2020, Modern Languages)

Es scheint so, aber es ist nicht so: first there was the word, and the word was –geschändet, or geblendet, in einem Nebel leerer Phrasen zu ersticken, quickened, in an attempt to be fixed, under the ink-stained fingers at the typewriter. They are fickle things, these deutschen Worte, all too easily ausgequetscht, abgedroschen, verdreht. They must wring them out, mop up the blood of this Ausgeburt der Hölle, and put them to better use. Wo soll das hinaus? Der Tag der Abrechnung snaps at their heels, waits an der Tür – there is no greater urgency than that of guilt. Mitleid turned to Mitschuld, and noch mehr Schuld an sich laden –schuldig, schuldig, schuldig! Someone must count the dead – it has fallen on them to deliver (mit dieser Wortwahl) das Volk, to plead –wir bitten Sie, dieses Blatt mit möglichst vielene Durchschlägen abzuschreiben und weiterzuverteilen! To take back the language, untwist it from its corrupted distortions, purify it, and yourself.

Jetzt stehen wir vor dem Ende, in an atrium, a sharpened blade, in ein geistiges Gefängnis gesteckt. Der Schnitter steht, waits, for it is die Zeit der Ernte, indeed: he cuts people for wheat, and their words from the space

between thought and air, between hand and mouth, or the lining of a jacket pocket.

Wo soll das hinaus? You cannot eat your words, not once they have slipped from your tongue – they sit silent and heavy, with Hybris, or Räche, or Menschheit (take your pick). They cannot follow you to the axe, they stay behind, hover, live on, neither burned nor torn to ribbons, diese Wortwahl: deadly, and yet never dead, condemning, instead of condemned.

On the History of the Oxford History Syllabus by Nicholas Davidson

I have taught in three English universities during my career, and was involved in extensive debates about syllabus reform in two of them, including Oxford. From that perspective, I can empathize with the comment of Felix Markham, a Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College from 1931 to 1973: “the recasting of syllabuses is a painful and laborious process”.9 Yet the history of the History syllabus at Oxford, before and during my years at the Hall, reveals a lot about the thinking of both students and tutors, and perhaps also something about the evolution of the University’s educational priorities more generally. For, as John Burrow, Professor of European Thought at Oxford in the later 1990s, suggested, “one of the ways in which a society reveals itself, and its assumptions and beliefs about its own character and destiny, is by its attitudes to and uses of its past”.10

opposite number at Cambridge, had been thinking along similar lines ten years earlier when he declared that history was “the school of statesmanship”.12 By the later-nineteenth century, then, History was viewed as an especially suitable training for politicians, or, as the Victorians phrased it, ‘for men of affairs’. Even in the 1920s and 30s, it was often assumed that most Oxford graduates in History would proceed to a career in public life.

Little wonder, then, that the History syllabus at Oxford after 1872 was dominated by papers in English history, and after an initial introductory term, by the study of English political and constitutional history: a story that was usually presented as characterized by the gradual advance of political liberty. The emphasis was on the history of the institutions (especially Parliament) that were seen as embodying that liberty, and on the continuity of English history from the Anglo-Saxons to the nineteenth century. And those priorities continued to dominate the syllabus until the 1960s, when Finalists were still required to study English history in three compulsory papers ‘from the beginnings’ to 1914, alongside one paper in European history, a compulsory paper on the political thought of a select few writers (especially Aristotle, Hobbes, and Rousseau), two documentbased Special Subjects, and a General Paper, described by Alan Macfarlane, who studied History at Worcester College in 1960-1963 (one of his tutors was the Hall’s George Ramsay) as “a theory paper, 9

A combined School of Law and Modern History had been established by Congregation in April 1850; the two subjects were separated institutionally only in 1872, when William Stubbs was Regius Professor of History at the University. It was his successor, Edward Augustus Freeman, who confidently claimed that it “is surely a practical truth that history is simply past politics and that politics is simply present history”11 – a formulation he first used in a lecture at Birmingham in 1880, and one he liked so much that he repeated it routinely thereafter. Sir John Seeley, Freeman’s

F.M.H. Markham, ‘Arts and Sciences in the University’, The Oxford Magazine, 78 (1959-60), p. 309. 10 J.W. Burrow, A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past (Cambridge, 1981), pp. 1-2. 11 E.A. Freeman, ‘On the Study of History’, The Fortnightly Review, 35 (1881), p. 320. 12 J.R. Seeley, ‘The Teaching of Politics’, in his Lectures and Essays (London, 1881), pp. 296, 317.

and … a chance to reflect on more general issues”.13

In truth, the History syllabus at most British universities founded before 1960 was very similar: the Oxford model had been very influential. By the beginning of that decade, however, some academics in the Faculty were beginning to express doubts. In 1963, Michael (now Lord) Beloff, who graduated in History at Magdalen that summer, suggested that the local debate had been “sparked off”14 by Richard (later Sir Richard) Southern, who in his Inaugural Lecture as Chichele Professor of Modern History two years earlier had questioned whether the syllabus inherited from the Victorians could serve any longer as a subject suitable even for “practical men”.15 But Southern was not alone. Lawrence Stone, who taught in Oxford from 1947 until his move to Princeton in 1963, had discussed the need for reform the year before. And in 1961, John Cooper, a Fellow in History at Trinity since the 1930s, also expressed misgivings about the curriculum’s emphasis on the “history of liberty”, and argued that students should spend more time studying cultures other than their own, as “unique” and “non-comparable” examples of human experience.16

In part, no doubt, such reservations arose from the tutors’ own research, from their widening intellectual interests, and from their familiarity with the historical literature published after 1945. Southern argued in 1961 that “Historical facts, for many of us at least, simply do not arrange themselves in the way which

Stubbs and his contemporaries found so illuminating”.17 Constitutional history, he said, while still necessary, now served mainly as a way into the more valuable study of “the thoughts and visions, moods and emotions and devotions” of the past.18 Calls for change in Oxford may also have been prompted by wider shifts in the understanding of Britain’s role in the world as it disengaged from its colonies, and by competition from the first wave of new universities, such as Sussex and York, that were now offering more flexible and interdisciplinary courses of historical study. And while some tutors did continue to defend the established History syllabus in Oxford, appeals for reform were soon also received from students.

Many published studies of student activism in the 60s and 70s focus on events outside the UK: in the US or France, for example, or in Italy, where questions about syllabus reform and the purpose of a university education were especially prominent. But the UK had its student unrest too; unrest that reflected significant changes in the size and character of the British student population.

Student numbers at UK universities increased by almost five times between 1938 and 1970. Oxford’s student population alone had more than doubled in that period, and continued to rise thereafter, leading to evident pressures on accommodation and facilities in the city. Student funding arrangements were also transformed, following the report of the Anderson Committee in 1960, so that British residents admitted to first-degree

13 A. Macfarlane, Oxford Undergraduate, 1960-3, p. 463, available online at www.alanmacfarlane.com/ autobiography/OXFORD%20UNDERGRADUATE.pdf.

14 M. Beloff, ‘Looking-Glass Logic: The History Syllabus re-examined’, Isis, 30 (October 1963), p. 22.

15 R.W. Southern, ‘The Shape and Substance of Academic History’, in R.J. Bartlett (ed.), History and Historians: Selected Papers of R.W. Southern (Oxford, 2004), p. 100.

16 J.P. Cooper, review of G.R. Elton, The Tudor Constitution, in The Oxford Magazine, 8 June 1961, pp. 405–6.

17 Southern, p. 98.

18 Southern, p. 100.

university courses from 1962 received partially means-tested grants from public funds to cover maintenance costs and tuition fees. This measure in turn helped to transform the social makeup of the student population in universities, and many undergraduates from the early 60s were the first in their family to go to university. Following the Family Law Reform Act of 1969, the legal age of majority in England was lowered to 18 in January 1970; students were now legally adults, and universities no longer stood in loco parentis. By the end of the 60s, therefore, students, now both legally and to an extent financially independent, and perhaps conscious too of their greater strength in numbers, had an interest in securing a larger role for themselves in their institutions.

In Oxford, the more public student protests focused on demands for a central Students’ Union, and for greater representation on University committees and boards. Hilaire Belloc had proposed the latter as early as 1893 in a motion at the Oxford Union when he was studying History at Balliol (the motion passed, by 114 votes to 70). It was supported nationally in 1968 by the UK Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, and in the following year by Oxford’s own Committee on Relations with Junior Members (the medievalist Barbara Harvey, now an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville, was on that committee), which recommended that new joint bodies of students and academics should be established in each subject to allow for regular discussion of curricula, teaching arrangements, and assessment.

But while pressure in Oxford from tutors and students for change in several academic subjects can be traced from at least the early 60s, it was for the most

part a more decorous and co-operative process than in Italy. In Michaelmas term 1961, a petition signed by over 500 History students was presented to the Faculty calling for an extensive reform of the syllabus. Later that term, the Oxford University History Society held a joint meeting with the Stubbs Society, at which Asa (later Lord) Briggs, formerly a Fellow of Worcester and by then a professor at Sussex, led a discussion on “what a history syllabus ought to cover”.19 Several tutors were present, including Felix Markham, Lawrence Stone, and Keith (later, Sir Keith) Thomas, a Fellow of St John’s, as well as graduate students Tim Mason, later a Fellow of St Peter’s, and Peter Burke, later a Professor of History at Cambridge. A report of the discussion was subsequently sent to the Faculty Board, and a second student petition, again urging major changes, was submitted in 1962. By then, the Faculty had appointed a committee to examine the matter, and discussions in person and in print continued, among both tutors and students. The committee issued two reports, in 1963 and 1965, each enriched by evidence drawn from questionnaires sent to a random sample of students.

The changes suggested by tutors and students in the early and mid-60s can be grouped fairly broadly under three headings. First, that the syllabus should become less Anglo-centric, and that the opportunity to study papers on European and extra-European history should be increased. There was also pressure to reduce the number of compulsory ‘outline’ papers, which covered the history of a designated geographical area over several centuries, in order to make room for more thematic papers, especially papers focused on social, economic, or cultural history. Themes suggested included the

history of science or art, of the slave trade, of gender, and of belief; such courses could furthermore take advantage of insights that other academic disciplines were now able to add to the historians’ understanding. There were demands too for some variation in the methods of assessment used by the Faculty in Finals, and in particular for the introduction of a thesis based on each student’s own selfdirected research, for which more targeted training in historical methods might also be made available.

The practical outcome of what Keith Thomas characterized at the time as “the unending discussion of syllabus reform”20 was initially, however, fairly modest. By the end of the 60s, Finalists could replace one paper on English history with an additional paper in European history; and the end date of the modern outline paper in English history was extended to 1939. But the list of more focused Special and Further Subjects had started to grow, allowing over time for an increase in the geographic range and the number of non-political history options available. From 1968, it was possible for students to submit an optional thesis for their degree assessment.

Further such incremental changes were introduced in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The end-date of the most modern outline papers was extended to 1964, and by 1989, Finalists had a choice of seventeen non-British history outline papers (including two on US history and one on ‘Europe and the Wider World, 18151914’). The number, and the thematic and geographical variety, of both Special and Further Subjects also increased; and in 1989, the old paper on Political Thought was split into three chronological periods, which were added to the Further Subjects.

In the same year, the compulsory ‘General Paper’ was refocused more explicitly on methodological questions, and retitled ‘Comparative History and Historiography’; from 1999, it was assessed by a submitted essay. By the early 90s, the ‘English’ history outlines had also been relabelled as papers in British history, and students were required to take one British or non-British outline from each of the three broad post-ancient history periods: medieval, early modern, and modern.

By the start of the new century, therefore, many of the reforms first proposed in the 60s had been implemented. Three further significant decisions were taken by the Faculty in 2004: that the Comparative History and Historiography paper was renamed ‘Disciplines of History’; that Finalists should be required to submit a thesis (rather than simply having the option to do so); and that the number of papers on non-European history should as an explicit ambition continue to expand. The full realization of the third objective would obviously be practicable only when we were able to hire the necessary additional specialists to teach a full range of new papers. But in 2015, after two special Faculty meetings and a ballot of all our established teaching staff, it became clear that there was now clear support for a further major review of the syllabus and of our assessment methods.

Finalists since 2020 have therefore been required, in addition to the Disciplines paper and their thesis, to study two remodelled outline papers or ‘Theme’ papers – one each from a choice (in 2022) of nine in British history and eighteen in European or World history. The ‘Theme’ papers are designed, as one Faculty document explains, to encourage the study of “an issue or problem in depth

across chronological and geographic boundaries”.21 The options to date have included, for example, papers on the history of war, religion, technology, and notions of identity, in each case across at least two of the medieval, early modern, or modern periods. My own contribution to this set of papers – initially developed with the help of some of my doctoral and post-doctoral students – explored Catholicism as a global religion, from the sixteenth to the end of the twentieth centuries. Students are still required to study two document-based subjects: a “Further Subject”, selected now from a list of thirty-six options, of which ten are primarily British or Irish in focus, and a “Special Subject”, selected from thirty-three options, of which eleven are primarily British or Irish. There is also now a slightly different balance of assessment between the second and third years, as the assessment of the second-year British history papers is by submitted essays rather than by a final exam. And across the three years of the full degree, students must now take two British, two European, and one World history papers, and study at least one of their four British, European, and World History papers from each of three main chronological groups, medieval, early modern, and modern.

In retrospect, it is remarkable how prescient the syllabus reforms proposed in the 1960s were. That it took so long for the regulations to catch up with those aspirations can be explained in part, at

least, because appointment decisions (especially for college and joint college and Faculty appointments) must usually reflect immediate teaching needs. The notable decision in the early 2000s to “go global”, for instance, was made at a time when – although many tutors were happy to shift some of their teaching energy into that new geographical dimension – the Faculty needed more specialists to design the new thematic papers. And the process of reform continues: the latest reforms were reviewed by surveys of both staff and student opinion in 2021-2022; the responses, alongside a careful analysis of the relevant statistical information, will be discussed further in the coming year. Whether the nineteenth-century founders of the Faculty would have approved of our most recent reforms is hard to say. But Lord Acton – a Fellow of All Souls from 1890, and Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge from 1895 to 1902 – would, I think, have understood our intentions: for History, he once wrote, “must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own … it promotes the faculty of resistance to contemporary surroundings by familiarity with other ages and other orbits of thought”.22 My own experience of university teaching leads me to suspect that the current Oxford syllabus meets his dictum as thoroughly and as effectively as Acton could have wished.

On the Joys of Being a Development Economist by John Knight

Coming from South Africa at a time when many African countries were achieving independence, I decided to become a

development economist. I still am. My research in vacations has taken me to many countries in Africa and elsewhere,

The Handbook for the Final Honour School of History, 2021-23, p. 18. 22 J.E.E.D. Acton, ‘Beginning of the Modern State’, in his Lectures on Modern History (London, 1906), p. 29.

and increasingly to China, which may well have the most interesting economy in the world. It is an ill-wind that blows nobody any good. In 1989, when I was supervising some bright Chinese students wanting to learn modern research methods, the event of that year meant that some did not want to return to China then. Opportunities for research opened, and I was able to join the China Household Income Project (CHIP), then jointly directed by the President of Magdalen College. This has given, and still gives, me access to excellent national surveys which I could develop with research hypotheses in mind. My most recent book posed the biggest research question: why has China grown so fast?23 However, I did not abandon Africa, choosing research topics that were central for each economy I studied: education in East Africa, macroeconomic mismanagement in Zimbabwe, and unemployment in South Africa.

Whenever I have conducted fieldwork, I have grabbed opportunities to visit wonderful places, like the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, the Murchison Falls on

the Nile, and some of China’s amazing scenery. Sometimes I landed in situations more humorous afterwards than at the time. For instance, on the approaches to the Himalayas I misunderstood Google advice about blood pressure at high altitude, fainted on a mountain trail, and ended up in a remote local hospital. And up Ever White Mountain, right on the Chinese border, I wandered into North Korea by mistake to get a better photo of the deep blue caldera lake surrounded by a rim of snowy peaks and was only rescued by people yelling for me to run back. In fieldwork for an ambitious and innovative project on the economic benefits of secondary education in Kenya and Tanzania, funded by the World Bank, I drove my team of student interviewers to visit yet another employer. We arrived at the gate and were promptly arrested by the heavily armed guards. The factory had been robbed the week before, and the newly appointed guardians decided that we were coming back for a second helping.

Time Flies when you’re Having Fun by Tom Crawford

Whilst it has been fantastic to be back doing in-person events over the past twelve months, I certainly don’t appreciate how fast the time has gone! Following almost two years of pent-up demand for outreach events, to say I’ve been busy recently would be an understatement…

What was perhaps the biggest success of the year, however, was in fact an online video: a recording of me taking a GCSE Maths Exam. The idea follows on from the success of my A-level Maths Exam video last year, with both videos now having over one million views apiece. If you feel like

reminiscing about school maths, or just simply laughing at my attempts to rack my brain to remember my circle theorems, then do check out the video here: www. youtube.com/watch?v=hQVcv-T7IiY

Following talks at the British Science Festival in Chelmsford and Maths Week Ireland, October saw the first ever performance of a maths-based variety show as part of the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival. Most performers were former or current students of mine at Teddy Hall, and the idea was to present maths in never-before-seen contexts.

Joshua Ryman’s stand-up comedy and Siddiq Islam’s maths love song were particular highlights – you can watch recordings of both at the links below:

Stand-up comedy: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Bx9C44dZgrE

Maths love song: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=RFxqCnefqG0

Events at pace continued aplenty into November with a school visit to Bullers Wood in Bromley living long in the memory. Never before have I seen a group of students more excited to be doing maths – although I’m pretty sure it may have had something to do with watching one of their teachers attempt to run the 100m in under seventeen seconds.

Exactly why we were doing this I’ll leave up to your imagination, but the feeling of immense joy at the success of the event reminded me just why in-person events are so important.

I was also able to attend to attend the Football Social Summit at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome as an invited speaker to present my mathematical algorithm for determining the greatest footballer of all time. In fact, as a result of this appearance I’ve since been working with Serie A and the English Football League on various projects that aim to bring maths to the beautiful game. Any opportunity to increase engagement with the subject is invaluable, but being able to do it through the world’s most popular – and my favourite – sport, really is the jackpot. Look

out for the results of these collaborations over the coming year. Following the usual busy admissions period, filming for one of my favourite projects of the year began in January, culminating in the release of the video ‘How hard is the Oxford Interview?’ with YouTuber Mike Boyd in March 2022. You may recall the first video we made together in November 2020 where Mike sat the Oxford Maths Admissions Test – now at almost three million views – and the second instalment in the series, which sees Mike take part in an admissions interview with Teddy Maths Fellow Olivier Riordan. The video is designed as a resource for candidates, demonstrating what we are looking for in potential students, and helping to demystify the interview process. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=qxM7Dr5iPWA

Inspired by working on this video with Mike, I also recorded two videos for my own YouTube channel which break down past admissions interview questions. The first asks how many times the digit ‘1’ appears when writing out the numbers 1 through to 999, whilst the second talks about the optimal size for a tin of cat food. You can watch both videos – and have a go at the problems for yourself – using the links below:

Number of 1’s: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=TPJALVOkvzQ

Cat food tin: www.youtube.com/ watch?v=5VaoZ2oKYcs

Two of the biggest live events of the year also took place in March, beginning with my talk on the ‘Million-dollar Equations’ at New Scientist Live in Manchester. I also took part in a Q&A session at the event discussing my outreach work, which saw some fantastic questions from students as young as six! However, the real highlight

in terms of live performances came later in the month where I took to the stage at London’s Soho Theatre for back-toback sell-out performances at Maths Inspiration. Discussing my research into the spread of ocean pollution to a 1000-strong theatre audience is not something I ever thought possible, and I can only hope that the students enjoyed it as much as I did!

Another personal milestone was reached in May as I passed 100,000 subscribers to the ‘Tom Rocks Maths’ YouTube channel. This is deemed large enough for YouTube to send me a congratulatory letter and an award called the ‘silver play button’ to commemorate the achievement. Next up is a ‘gold play button’ and the small matter of one million subscribers –wish me luck!

As things began to wind down in June and July ahead of the summer vacation, I was asked by The House (Parliament’s in-house publication) to set some maths puzzles to accompany an article by Baroness Garden on the importance of maths education. This was a decidedly difficult task, given the range of mathematical ability and interest amongst the audience, and so I settled on three questions, listed with difficulty ratings of easy, medium and hard. You can try the puzzles for yourself and read Baroness Garden’s excellent article here: www. politicshome.com/thehouse/article/ maths-challenge

Across the year I have also been fortunate enough to continue to work with the

Numberphile YouTube channel – the largest maths platform on the internet with over four million subscribers. The video ‘A Problem with Rectangles’ is a personal favourite as we break down an admissions interview question I used in the 2020 and 2021 cycles. Try it for yourself here: www. youtube.com/watch?v=VZ25tZ9z6uI

Finally, I want to leave you all with a closing video of a great personal triumph. As an avid runner, and former student of both Oxford and Cambridge, I decided to undertake the task of running between the two cities. Accompanied by my brother and my dad on the support bike, we began at Queens’ College Cambridge at 9am, and finished at St Edmund Hall Oxford around 6pm the following day. In total we were moving for around thirteen hours and covered 127km. I hope that watching me limp through the final metres as I cross over Magdalen bridge with the final destination in sight will fill you with the same sense of homecoming that only the Hall can generate. Floreat Aula! www. youtube.com/watch?v=5m38mlYlL3U

Teaching Medieval History with History Teachers by Emily Winkler

A Diary of Collaboration and Co-Creation at Teddy Hall

In 2019 I started work at the History Faculty as Principal Investigator of a research project in medieval history, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The project, entitled ‘The Search for Parity: Rulers, Relationships, and the Remote Past in Britain’s Chronicles, c.1100–1300’, explores historical thinking in medieval Britain. My Co-Investigator Nia Jones and I are working on unpublished and littleknown medieval texts in Welsh, Latin, and French.

The medieval authors of these texts, working mainly in England and Wales, had quite a lot to say about Britain’s history, much of which challenged the solidity of national boundaries — as well as the solidarity of political feeling on either side of a colonial encounter. Nia and I are writing a book about these writers’ thinking, using the ancient Roman past as a case study for their ideas about history. These works deserve a larger audience, in part because they force us to rethink many common myths about the Middle Ages.

As part of our project, Nia and I led a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme at St Edmund Hall for schoolteachers, entitled ‘Conquest Histories and Remembrance’. We teamed up with the Historical Association (HA) to advertise the two-day seminar nationwide for teachers interested in the medieval period, conquest, colonial worlds, and the history of warfare. Our hope was to reach school students across the UK by working with their teachers. We wanted to introduce educators to a rich range

of primary sources, offering new ways of teaching the human side of medieval history through writing and imagination.

Nia and I designed a programme that introduced our project research, especially around themes of concord, commemoration, and compassion in medieval works, in order to help teachers develop resources for wider use in schools.

Eight teachers from around the UK, seven of whom hail from state schools, were selected for the programme after a competitive application process. Lockdown began shortly after the selection, but all eight teachers remained keen to attend virtually. The CPD took place 17–18 July 2020, and as the picture shows, all of us enjoyed going back to school for history without leaving our living rooms!

Nia and I arranged the day to include short lectures about our work, followed by a rotation of twenty-minute primary source tutorials with one of us per two or three teachers. Meanwhile, Helen Snelson, an experienced teacher educator from the HA, tuned in and offered mentoring, feedback, and discussion on teaching methods and lesson design in the ‘bye’

sessions. Luke Maw, Student Recruitment and Progression Manager, offered a talk and Q&A session on Teddy Hall’s schools outreach and Oxford admissions for History. Several of the teachers had explained that one of their main goals is to inspire students to study History at university, or to help them aspire to go to university. We even had a virtual drinks reception with history-themed icebreaker questions, including: ‘Which medieval person would you most like to invite to join us at happy hour tonight, and why?’.

We designed the CPD to offer teachers the materials, stimulus, and discussion so they could go on and design new lesson plans for medieval history, based on primary sources. Over the next few weeks, we arranged regular virtual chats to discuss ideas while teachers drafted new lessons. Over the following academic year, teachers ran trials of their resources in the classroom, and made revisions based on how the students responded. The pandemic made teaching the lessons challenging: some lessons were postponed a year, some ran virtually, and some took place masked in classrooms. But the student response was lively and varied, as we learned from the teachers. For example, the Mercian earl Morcar may have lost much to the Normans in the eleventh century, but he captured students’ imaginations in today’s classrooms. By following his career, students found their way into thinking about what England was like after 1066. Other Key Stage 3 students were amazed to learn that the real heir to the throne in 1066, Edgar the Ætheling, was probably about their age when he stood against his competitors to hold on to his dynastic birthright. That got them thinking about what it meant to be twelve or thirteen years old in medieval England. Still more

students hadn’t realized how important women were in the political culture of medieval Britain, or were amazed to learn about the varied reactions to the conquest in Wales, France, and beyond. And some students connected with the medieval past when they learned that medieval writers also knew the Greek myths—the same Greek myths they learned about in school, or read about in fiction and histories outside of school. These students were fascinated by Jupiter and Theseus, and so was William of Poitiers, when he connected William the Conqueror to these ancient figures. The medieval world had many cultures, all different from our own. But in the stories they turned to in order to tell their own tales, perhaps they weren’t so different after all.

Once the teachers complete trials and revisions, their lessons will be published on the HA website for use by teachers countrywide. One resource by local Oxford teacher Holly Hiscox was published in May, and three more will go live this year. Thanks to policy changes and a receding pandemic, Nia and I were able to host the teachers in Oxford from 28–29 March 2022 for a two-day follow-up colloquium. Six of the eight teachers were able to join us at St Edmund Hall, and to meet their colleagues in person. We discussed history, teaching, and creating classroom resources. Nia and I shared our latest research and some new primary sources, and we all discussed how these might relate to teaching. Each teacher presented the resources they have worked on over the past couple of years (completed, in-progress, and planned) to their peers. They shared their experiences of writing resources and trialling them. Over tea, coffee, and lunch, we all got to know each other in 3D — a refreshing change from the

2D virtual world in which we had all met two years before.

After the Monday afternoon sessions, we brought the teachers on a torch-lit tour of Teddy Hall’s twelfth-century crypt. In climbing down to see those elegant Romanesque arches with their whimsical carvings, we were entering into the same past whose words we had just been reading moments before. We peeked inside the Library above, with its lofty ceilings making quiet space for thought. We admired the Library’s inner door: the Norman arch, grasped firmly in those quirky carven beaks these last nine hundred years. After a reception of drinks, crisps, and convivial conversation, we retired to the Old Library for a candlelit dinner. Surrounded by books, we discussed everything from demystifying Oxbridge admissions to what history we would teach if we could choose any subject — as long as it wasn’t one we already knew well. One teacher treated us to a dramatic reading from an old book, declaimed from the balcony. It was a book by someone who had explored new lands

a few centuries ago. In listening, we were exploring, too.

The teachers stayed overnight in the newly renovated Besse Building, and we picked up with more morning sessions. We concluded by discussing plans for future collaborations, and how to bring more medieval primary sources to students and teachers around the country. Making the past accessible to teachers and students, in its own words, is an ongoing interest of mine. Over the next few years I look forward to finding ways of doing so by continuing to work with teachers. It has been a privilege to embark on these team projects for history at Teddy Hall these last few years. Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have an interest in history or education at all levels and would like to learn more!

Contact Emily at: emily.winkler@history. ox.ac.uk

Emily Winkler, Fellow by Special Election (2019–2022) and John Cowdrey Junior Research Fellow in History (2015–2018)

Gardens, Travels, Arts & Reviews

The Renovation of the Forum Garden by Amy Zavatsky

The ‘Forum Garden’ is the rectangular area running approximately north-south which is bounded by the Wolfson Dining Hall (Kelly Building) on the east, by the White Hall building on the west, by White Hall and Staircase VIII on the south, and by an open area to the north. The project to renovate this part of the College was conceived in 2019. The goal was to make the area, which had become overgrown and little more than a thoroughfare, a more attractive and better used part of the Queen’s Lane site.

The refreshed planting scheme was prepared by Walter Sawyer, former Head Gardener at Wolfson College and former Superintendent of the University Parks, with the aim of having year-round interest in terms of colour and structure. The lighting scheme was designed by lighting consultant Francesco Miniati to highlight the new planting arrangement and to make the area more appealing. This was to be achieved with a carefully balanced distribution of light on the ground and on the walls surrounding the area.

Funds for the initial design phase of the project came from a legacy from alumnus Peter Brown (1952, Geography). A generous donation from alumnus and Honorary Fellow John Cox (1955, English) helped to cover the main costs.

The start of the project, planned for spring 2020, was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown restrictions. The work began in earnest in spring 2021, with clearance of all vegetation and removal and replacement of over 40m3 of soil. This had to be done by hand (with spade and wheelbarrow) due to the difficulty of accessing the site and the avoidance of unnecessary noise. The work was carried

out swiftly and energetically by the College maintenance team and overseen by the Deputy Estates Manager, Alex Grant

Sourcing of plants was exceptionally difficult due to supply problems, and Walter Sawyer and the College Gardeners (Susan Kasper and Jennifer Cockram) spent weeks searching for suppliers, only to find that, in too many cases, plants advertised on websites were not available. Some plants had to be bought in sizes smaller than specified, and a few are still unavailable.

The installation of the new lighting was also delayed by supply problems and finally took place in the spring of 2022. The design scheme included luminaries along the pathway at ground-level, spotlights in two of the raised beds directed at the green wall and the new birch tree, and high-level lights on the side of the Kelly Building. More attractive low-energy light fittings replaced the basic functional lights on the east elevation of White Hall and in the doorways to White Hall, Staircase VIII, and the Wolfson Dining Hall. The timing and brightness of the lights can be controlled remotely. In addition to the planting and the lighting,

the external walls of Staircase VIII were repainted and an etched transom window installed above its entrance. That this elevation is the back of a Grade II listed Georgian property (48 High Street) can now be better appreciated, especially when looking south from near the Chapel.

To complete the upgrade of the area, a new table with seats was installed where

the old birch tree stood, and new matching planters were purchased to set off the garden seat near the Chapel and the entrance to Staircase VIII.

The Garden Fellow would like to thank all who were involved in bringing this project to a successful completion.

Persephone by Emma Hawkins

my research I found many more stories around the character that began to weave into a rich narrative. Persephone would be my main focus for the show.

This summer I had the incredible opportunity of directing my new musical, Persephone, as it toured to four cities in the UK. We’d been planning the tour since the show finished its debut run at the Oxford Playhouse the previous November, yet despite the eight months of prep I couldn’t escape the feeling of ‘how did we end up here?’

This feeling was perhaps to be expected, given the long road taken to get there. I was fifteen when I started work on Persephone (then titled Olympus), and I spent the best part of five years working on the show alone in my room at home. I’d never written anything longer than a poem before and was very shy about sharing my work, so rarely mentioned it to anyone. I just loved musicals and wanted to have a go at writing my own.

I was drawn to the dramatics and relatable characteristics of the Greek Gods and so decided to write a big ensemble piece around them. However, I soon encountered the problem that every time I sat down to write I went straight to Persephone and couldn’t convince myself to write any of the other plotlines. There was something about this naïve country girl that resonated with me and felt very comfortable to write. I was familiar with the most famous Persephone myth, in which she is abducted by the God of the Underworld, Hades, but through

It was a long time before I found the courage to share my work with anyone, but it was probably the biggest milestone I hit both personally and creatively as it led to me taking the project seriously enough to find a composer. I worked with several different composers for short periods of time before finding Carrie Penn, a Music student from St Anne’s whom I met through drama friends. Carrie’s music was a godsend in helping bring the show to life, and shortly after she joined the project in 2019 we started planning the next steps for our show.

We decided that, before we hit the stage, we’d hold a workshop for a few months to test out the script and score with a group of actors. Whilst this ended up happening over Zoom due to Covid, it was still extremely helpful in the development of the show, leading to some major changes that have had a lasting impact.

We then began wondering how to get the show on stage. I was already directing work through my student production company, Jazz Hands Productions, alongside producer Ana Pagu and choreographer Max Penrose. With them on board, it wasn’t long before we decided to put in a bid for a slot at the Oxford Playhouse (OP) for Michaelmas 2021. This would be a bit of a gamble as the OP had never previously programmed an original student musical, but we knew that was the best place for our show. So we went for it. One very long and painful bidding process later, we’d secured a fiveshow slot in the Playhouse in November.

The subsequent process of staging Persephone at the OP was long, intense and yet surprisingly smooth sailing. We auditioned and cast at the end of Trinity term, bringing eleven talented individuals into the company. Over the summer Carrie and I fine-tuned and completed the script and score (bar one song that was finished in the first week of rehearsals!). The first few weeks of Michaelmas 2021 were a familiar balance of rehearsals, degree work, production meetings and more. I think a particular highlight for me was the first Sitzprobe (run-through) where we got the band and the cast playing through the show for the first time. None of us had heard the orchestrations before, so it was the first time we got to hear the full sound of the music come together!

The OP run went down a success with the cast of 11, 8-person band and 82 crew members pulling together five shows for the around 1700 in-house and online audience members. The question now was “what next?”.

I was always keen to take the show on tour, wanting to reach wider audiences and to also develop it further. A similar feeling rippled through the company as no-one seemed ready to let it go; the after party felt less of a ‘farewell’ and more of an ‘until next time’. So, the day after Persephone finished at the OP, I messaged our Producer Ana about taking the show on tour.

She told me not to talk to her for at least a week.

I waited and, once the aftermath of the run had begun to settle, we began to think seriously about the logistics: there’s a reason why student OP shows don’t go on tour. For starters, the show was too long for the typical Edinburgh Fringe show, so we’d have to cut it down or stick to regional theatres. Eleven cast members plus band and crew would be too big so we’d have to find as many places as possible to double up or cut people. Not to mention the set from the OP (flying trees and steel deck) would never be tour-able, so we’d have to re-think the design from scratch. Yet all of these things felt very doable and with a dedicated team behind it we reckoned we could just about make it work.

After a lot of spreadsheets and emails we managed to get programmed into venues in Cambridge (The Junction), Doncaster (Little Theatre), Liverpool (Valley Theatre) and London (The Courtyard). Ana worked tirelessly to secure funding, our company stage manager, Mina Moniri, set about booking accommodation and working out the logistics of touring eighteen people around the UK, and I started adapting the script, building off changes I’d planned to make from the OP run.

It was around then that Finals intervened, and I had to take a step back. Exams

done, I jumped straight into rehearsals. We chose to take a week at the end of Trinity term to start working in some of the new actors (having lost some of the original cast) as well as to re-workshop new bits of script. We also managed to record an album which we later released on streaming platforms to help promote the show.

In late July we reunited in the Student Union for our official rehearsal period. I’ve had some rushed rehearsals in my time, but even I wasn’t entirely sure how ten days to rehearse a show that originally took five weeks would pan out!

I remember sitting in the first run-through, nervously eyeing Max on my left and thinking through all the bits I thought would be under-rehearsed. But I wasn’t giving the actors enough credit and by part-way through I was reassured that we were not only on track, but that we might actually have something worth touring. And lucky for us because, before we knew it, we were packing up into cars and heading off to our first venue: Cambridge.

Writing this a few days after returning from tour it’s hard to summarise what tour was like, especially when compared to the distance I have to the OP staging or the writing process. It was a melting

pot of bonding, stress, triumphs, failures, set-backs and discoveries. There was a familiar rhythm to each location with getin, tech and shows all unfurling similarly to the last place, and yet each city and each venue also had its own personality.

I think one of my favourite aspects of tour was being allowed to live completely in what was going on, not having to fit it in around the edge of degree life or work. I could spend three hours trekking around Cambridge looking for a certain kind of green paint and not feel like I’ve somehow wasted time. The length of the tour was also an interesting new dynamic to play with. Whilst each venue brought new problems to be solved in terms of blocking or the like, having more shows to perform gave a certain amount of freedom to the performances. I noticed the actors really sinking into their roles and becoming more

creative with their choices as the tour moved on. By the last few shows Max and I put down our notebooks and sat back to enjoy the show, fully handing it over to the cast.

I rarely get emotional when watching my own shows – perhaps it’s the overfamiliarity, the sleep deprivation or the critical objectiveness with which I tend to watch performances as the director. Yet on the last night of the tour I sat at the back of the theatre and let myself be absorbed into the story.

I’ve held off writing too much about the show itself as once I start, I can’t stop. There’s a number Persephone sings that leads into the finale called ‘Last Days of Spring’. It’s always been a bit of a tear-jerker for the company, acting as a cathartic release to all the emotional trauma in the show (it was often the reason why actors appeared tear-stained for their final moments on stage).

There are points in the music where Persephone’s solo is supported by a group of five voices (the Narrators) singing harmonies offstage. However, on this particular performance there wasn’t the light touch of harmonies, but rather a wall of sound pushing through from behind the backcloth as the harmony section

was hit with every cast and crew member backstage joining in. There was something about feeling the warmth of the whole company in that moment of that song that made the whole process condense into a singular moment.

I thought of all the milestones we’d gone through, all the people who put time and trust into this project. My favourite parts of directing are those moments where you realise that little idea you had has spiralled into a sprawling patchwork of collaboration and creativity – and in that moment I managed to let go just enough to see that this had become quite some patchwork.

It’s uncertain where Persephone will be going next. With many company members, including myself, recently graduating we’re all set to scatter into new lives with new interests and projects. We of course all hope that Persephone may one day be brought back, taken on to new things, but for now I think we’re ready to let go.

There are new stories out there to tell and with all the lessons this show has taught us I think we’re ready to move on to new things. But who knows, maybe Persephone will come back one day. In her words, “maybe tomorrow”.

Emma Hawkins (2018, Fine Art)

Le Tour de St Edmund by Raghul Ravichandran

The Matt Greenwood Travel Scholarships were established in 2017 by the students, staff, alumni and friends of the Hall in memory of Matt Greenwood (2013, Engineering Science), who loved to travel and sadly passed away while a student at St Edmund Hall. Each year, a prize of up to £1000 per year is awarded for travel in the UK or anywhere in the world for good purposes, with a particular emphasis on projects which embody Matt’s gifts of courage, adventure and concern for others.

This year, Raghul Ravichandran (Raggy) (2019, DPhil Engineering Science) received an award to support his travel by bicycle along the landmarks of the life of the College’s founder, St Edmund of Abingdon. Raggy cycled 800km from St Edmund’s tomb in Pontigny, France to his birthplace in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He raised around £4,200 for the Bone Cancer Research Trust and Kidneys for Life charities.

The cycle along the route of the life of St Edmund of Abingdon was initially an offthe-cuff suggestion to a group of friends at the Teddy Hall bar at the start of the year. This pretty quickly snowballed into a realistic route based on cycling range and cities of interest:

• Pontigny – home to the Abbey containing St Edmund’s tomb;

• Paris – where he studied and taught, as well as the location of the famous Cistercian Collège des Bernardins, where his students were particularly influential;

• Canterbury – where he served as Archbishop during Henry III’s reign;

• Abingdon – his site of birth and education;

• Oxford – where he founded a small academic hall, of which some of you may have heard.

Extra historical context was given by Professor Henrike Lähnemann, who was particularly keen for me to keep an eye out for the distinctive architecture of the Cistercian Order. One ferry ticket and a Channel crossing later and we were ready to go: I was on my bike, while my partner Philippa Warman (Lincoln College, DPhil Materials, 2020) was in the official Tour de St Edmund Support Car.

Days 1-2: Pontigny to Paris via Fontainebleau

We drove out to Pontigny Abbey, tucked away in the outskirts of Auxerre: the ‘Gateway to Burgundy’. The Abbey itself was quiet and beautiful with the old, cobbled paths outside, and the tall, whitewalled interior stretching far above us. St Edmund’s tomb was placed in an ornate shrine above the main altar, with a small descriptive plaque.

The start of the trip was exciting and difficult, simply due to the unfamiliar roads and area. I explored every small town I passed through, sampling the delicious pastries of the traditional boulangeries and adhering to the golden rule of endurance sport: food is fuel. Yes, that includes chocolate eclairs for lunch. No, not if you’re in the support car.

Perhaps the best pit stop of the trip was the Basilica of Saint Mathurin: a gothic church in part-ruin, dwarfing the tiny village that surrounds it. I stumbled upon the church accidentally, but stopped for a couple of pictures under the nesting pigeons and collapsed roof.

The route from Pontigny started as deep

woodland, with a healthy number of friendly pelotons whizzing past during the French bank holiday weekend. This slowly transitioned to highly cobbled side streets, as I avoided the main traffic arteries into Paris. Cycling in central Paris was absolute chaos (though a lot of fun), where clearly traffic laws were optional for some people. We were able to stay in central Paris thanks to the kind generosity of Fr Mark Osborne and Fr Jeffrey John of Saint George’s Anglican Church, and by chance met Aularian and Honorary Fellow Sir John Daniel (1961, Metallurgy and Science of Materials) after the Sunday service.

Days 3-6: Paris to Canterbury via Beauvais, Amiens, and Montreuil-sur-Mer

The route from Paris to Calais involved small roads through stereotypical small villages in the French countryside. It was here that I gained a huge appreciation for cycling in France compared to the UK: the small country roads were very wellmaintained (take note Oxfordshire County Council), and drivers were generally patient and friendly.

The Normandy region of France was mostly agricultural, quite flat, and adorned with wind farms scattered across the landscape. Watching the turbines rise and fall over the horizon was fantastic, but only when they were pointing the right way (i.e. when the wind was helping me along)! This section of the route had the hardest days of the cycling trip where I battled constant headwinds with no cover. The best views were along the final stretch to Calais, where it became increasingly hilly but boasted blue skies and excellent tarmac.

Since the route was quite rural, navigation was a bit more tricky. A huge thanks to my GPS system for thinking that paved roads and agricultural access tracks are the same thing; I’m genuinely impressed that my road bike held together for miles of rocky dirt paths and fields.

During the evenings, we managed to do a small amount of exploration: Beauvais Cathedral and market (more pastries!); preserved WW1 trenches and war graves in the Somme valley; the cold beach at Berck; being yelled at by old ladies for cycling on top of the walls of an 800-yearold citadel at Montreuil, which incidentally was part of our youth hostel.

not before catching one in my helmet: the last of the journey’s snacks. I later learned the bun throwing is carried out on every occasion of a royal event.

Pulling back into Oxford was a bit of dream: reaching Teddy Hall at around 6pm, and then going for a curry down Cowley Road straight after. It was good to be back.

Days 7-8: Canterbury to Oxford via London and Abingdon

We dropped back onto the shores of the UK with a Spitfire flypast at Dover for the late Queen’s jubilee weekend. Every road from Dover to Canterbury was the name of a hill (to the detriment of my quads), and every hill had a village decorated with Union Jack bunting.

Another thanks to Fr Max Kramer at Canterbury Cathedral, now Chaplain at Keble College, for his generosity and company in letting us stay with him inside the walls of the Cathedral grounds.

Cycling in and out of London was busy. Due to the jubilee road closures, we avoided the most direct route through central London and detoured south of the Thames instead. There, I had my first and only mechanical breakdown: a rear hydraulic brake failure, locking the brake onto the wheel. I encountered yet another moment of kindness in the form of a bike store owner who graciously donated a late evening brake service and bike-check, getting me back on the road again. Thank you to Jono at Kemsing Bikes in Sevenoaks for your generosity and expertise.

After spending the last of my legs crossing the Chiltern Hills, it was time to take the story full circle, to the site of St Edmund’s birth at St Edmund’s Lane in Abingdon. In the town centre, there was a huge throng of people trying to intercept currant buns launched from the top of the County Hall. A bit perplexed, I detoured around, but

Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank everyone else who supported the journey: St Edmund Hall, and Michaela and Peter Greenwood for enabling the journey through the Travel Scholarship in Matt’s name. Thanks to Philippa for her official support car services in the form of endless patience, snacks and photos; and for her meticulous organisation. Thank you to Mum and Dad for their encouragement and advice before, during and after the trip.

Thank you also to the College Chaplain, Revd Dr Zachary Guiliano, for reaching out to help us organise accommodation in Paris and Canterbury; and to Subha Aunty and Dhileep Uncle for hosting us in London. Lastly, a massive thanks to everyone that supported the fundraiser; I read through all the messages of kindness and encouragement, and kept them with me through the endless hill climbs, headwinds and questionable terrain.

Raghul Ravichandran (2019, DPhil Engineering Science)

Diasporan Wilderness by Gold Maria Akanbi

Hall student Gold Maria Akanbi (2021, Master of Fine Art) is BritishNigerian and a multidisciplinary artist and craftsman, specialising in painting, performance, assemblage, garment creation, writing/ book-making and perennial research.

Gold’s exhibition ‘Diasporan Wilderness’, which ran at the Dolphin Gallery (St John’s Gallery) in June 2022, looked at the ways in which a disruption in one’s internal equilibrium is experienced, as often being a second-generation immigrant from the Global South means that there is no simple concept of ‘Home’. Here, they describe their inspirations and experiences in putting the exhibition together.

The materiality of Fine Art is often called into question in this present day and age. ‘Why should we take this banana on the wall seriously’, ‘this painter only does abstraction because they can’t REALLY paint’ or even, ‘why would you create something that has no function?’

But to be honest, art has long ago ceased to just be about craftsmanship and is now about the ability to move or even transcend one’s audience.

As I lay there, half awake, I rummaged around my bed a little and found my new favourite red pen and Byzantine-decorated notebook and went to work. This was another one of those dreams that I was going to interpret and turn into an artwork.

My dreams are masterpieces of personal agony, academic research, popular news and culture, psychology, colour theory, mythos, and allegory.

The day that I can truly recreate my dreams to my expectations, is the day that I would have officially become a ‘Master’ of sorts. So it may never happen – because mastery to me seems extremely boring. Experimentation is far more interesting. That said, I’m a bit obsessive so…

I get to work on understanding my dream and how others could relate to the installation that I am planning.

1)

The Personal: Blue + Red = Purple

In my dream my mother was beside herself about how ‘different’ I was to the rest of the family. I’m on the spectrum (and loud about it), I’m bisexual, I’m not conventional, I practice the traditional Yoruba religion of Ifá and not Christianity (she and all her siblings and parents are literally pastors), I’m somewhat passably attractive and yet not dating or even very social and my British accent gets stronger and ‘posher’ every time I see her, I am also extremely sex and body positive. Also, I am WAY too nice in comparison to her other kids, almost constantly being in the servitude of others – this was also VERY weird to her.

So in my dream, when the whole family wore traditional blue attire and I wore purple, my Mum needed an answer and a friend and ‘elder’ came to her and said that I am borne from a similar cloth as her and the rest of the family, but that the red inside of me could not be denied or ignored. That it was part of who I am, and it was something that strengthens me.

2) The Mythological: Yemọja + Ṣàngó = Something Unheard Of

In Yorùbá mythology Yemọja is the mother of all Òrìṣà (Yorùbá Gods & Goddesses), as she suddenly birthed them all from a large body of water after undergoing distress. Ṣàngó is an offspring of Yemọja, but is the embodiment of lighting + thunder and Yemọja is the embodiment of water – a fairly chaotic mix when they come together. And this was apparently the reflection of my own internal self.

3) The Research: Environmental Instability

An aspect of my dream that reflected not only mythology but existential dread about the environment, was the submergence of the man-made Lagos Island into a tumultuous and ravishing flood. And I was being asked to enter it. Now, a significant part of Yorùbá mythos is Òrìṣà becoming overwhelmed with emotion and turning into a body of water as a result – this is what was happening in my dream.

In my dream, the violence experienced by the land and the violence experienced by the bodies of women and girls in Nigeria was creating a reaction within nature. And the waters had decided to begin to swallow up humanity.

It is true that, in reality, the floods in Nigeria have become so problematic that they are killing whole families with one rush of water.

Similarly, one of the main health issues that West African women of this particular region experience is water retention, creating high-blood pressure in otherwise healthy people.

I guess my mind saw a connection with this.

The body retaining water – the land becoming overwhelmed with water

All because of trauma.

But I wonder about inspecting the waters, finding out what causes this instability. But I am just an artist, not a scientist. I can only critique and bring attention to – and so I try to.

4) Personal Agony: It’s just being different generally

So I’ve always been different. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a way that makes a lot of people around me frustrated. Or uncomfortable.

I’ve been popular (by accident) and I’ve always shied away from it, but this often means loneliness in order to have peace of mind.

From having fairly painful invisible disabilities to dressing completely out of place in most environments, to simply refusing to conform in order to be my most honest self.

I’ll admit that the level of vulnerability I feel calls for a constant protection, but also a level of confidence and self-esteem that I do not like to compromise on. Which is where the solitary aspect of my individuality comes into play.

Someone else wanted my space for this exhibition, and if it was by popularity rather than a first-come-first-serve basis, it wouldn’t have happened.

And this was in my dream.

Solitary Gold, who was not popular, but who made everything look great because I refuse to fall into the pitfalls of self-pity and insecurity. Is it shallow to always try and create beauty? Well to be very honest

I don’t care, because the beauty of fashion and garment construction has always been a form of expression, and also the aspect

of me that is the most heavily critiqued. And with all of this I create ‘Diasporan Wilderness’: an intense over-analysis of self, how the world interacts with myself and of the world I reside in general.

As I wade through the intense emotion needed to survive life, I wonder what would have happened if I kept dreaming and journeyed into the flood.

Does my ‘difference’ mean I’ll survive, or does it just mean I’ll experience it differently?

Through this exhibition I wanted to immerse the audience into strong feeling, via the sound of a story, through murals painted on Yorùbá adire fabric (the traditional fabric of the Yorùbá people of West Africa), by installing instruments

of worship collected at Osun’s sacred grove in Nigeria and through my use of cowrie shells scattered on the ground and adorning the bodice of the one singular garment. A garment that represents the individual born of two very different worlds.

And individual that wishes to survive and tell their tale of life.

I’m not too sure how the audience felt, walking through the antiquated quad of St John’s College and entering my own personal wilderness.

There is no one way to feel. I just hope that they felt.

Gold Maria Akanbi (2021, Master of Fine Art)

Travels in South Slavonic Lands by Martin Alldrick

The Graham Hamilton Travel Award was established to provide up to £1000 to support students of the college who need financial assistance to enable travel abroad requiring initiative, enterprise or endurance.

In Trinity 2019, Hall student Martin Alldrick (2021, MPhil Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics) was awarded the Graham Hamilton Travel Award to enable his travels in the Balkans and support his studies. Here, he provides an account of his travels:

For as long as I can remember I have always been fascinated by the Slavonic world. Throughout my academic formation I have studied and travelled through both East and West Slavonic countries, but never have I had the chance to experience South Slavonic culture. Thanks to the Graham Hamilton Travel Award, this trip gave me the opportunity to answer three key questions I had been asking myself for some time: How similar are the South Slavonic languages to the rest? How

true are the Balkan stereotypes? What is the relevance of national identity in the twenty-first century? My journey through Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Montenegro, and Albania, intended to answer all three.

1. Croatia

Walking out of the air-conditioned Zagreb Airport into the 40°C heat, it became apparent that my original plan of walking through the Dalmatian hinterland to see the ‘real’ Croatia was not going to happen. A discussion with the mountaineering association seemed to confirm this as they uttered the phrase: “Do you want to become a statistic?”; a line I would hear many a time whenever I was about to do something stupid. I instead decided to focus on visiting some of the more historic cities on the Dalmatian coast like Zadar, Šibenik, and Trogir.

Croatia is a fascinating country in many respects, chief among them being that it is the only current EU country that had to

fight a full-scale, years-long war of independence (Domovinski rat or Homeland War as they call it) within living memory. With tourists (and their money) once more pouring into the country, the physical scars of the conflict have been patched up. There is no real indication that a war was fought thirty years ago on Croatian soil. In this respect, the experience of the contemporary visitor is a world away from the stories told by those who visited in the early 2000s.

Croatia is also home to some beautiful areas of absolute wilderness; two of my favourites being the national parks Plitvice and Krka. There is an indescribable quality to feeling so detached from civilisation –even the simple clarity of the water there appeals to a higher aesthetic. Although it is impossible to describe the feeling of standing face to face with raw nature adequately, this was undoubtedly the highlight of my trip.

In many respects Croatia is indistinguishable from any other Central European country. However, there were two Balkan traits that were immediately apparent. One, which I had no problem with, was the obsession with meat dishes. The miješano meso (or mixed grill) which is available seemingly everywhere, became a firm favourite of mine. The other was what the locals called ‘Balkan time’. Buses would systematically run one to two hours late. Although by the end of my travels I knew deep down that the bus would turn up eventually, I was still always apprehensive that a no-show from a critical connection would leave me stranded.

2. Bosnia and Herzegovina

In spite of the admirable reconstruction work that has happened over the past two decades, there are still certain signs that point towards the rawness of feeling. Graffiti (along the lines of ‘Never forget Vukovar’) is in abundance and every major city has a museum dedicated to the war, always displaying a long list of the fallen. Seeing that most of the men who died for their country were in their twenties was particularly sobering. In the south, which was particularly badly hit by the conflict, there are plenty of posters advertising concerts by turbo-folk singers performing the same war songs they have been singing since the 1990s.

I only had the chance to visit the Croat part of BiH, and it seemed a nice enough place. The people I spoke to were not particularly enamoured with the current political arrangement. In the city of Neum, there is a strange monetary situation where Convertible Marks, Kuna, and Euros are all in circulation, reflecting the ambiguity of the national identity question. Although BiH is ostensibly a multilingual country with Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian being official languages, the Cyrillic text on road signs in the region has been painted over, so that only the Croatian text remains. This too serves as a reminder that many of the issues

concerning inter-communal relations have not been settled – only frozen for an indeterminate period of time.

3. Montenegro

I did not notice any substantive difference travelling from Croatia into Montenegro (aside from an increased usage of the Cyrillic script). Montenegro is often feted as the next EU accession state and had EU flags been hanging from every government building, as they do in Croatia and Slovenia, I would have easily believed that it had already joined. The Balkan obsession with meat is strong here too. Tucking into yet another miješano meso at the Montenegrin approximation of Wetherspoons, I noticed that the family at the next table had ordered an entire sheep’s head for lunch. Judging by the skull that was grimacing back at me half an hour later, it seemed that they very much enjoyed their meal.

4. Albania

Going into Albania, I abandoned the crutch of intelligible language. Up until this point I had been able to combine enough Czech and Russian to understand roughly what was being said in Serbo-Croat. Given that Albanian is a linguistic enigma to me and English is spoken by almost nobody, I

had to surrender myself to the idea of not knowing what was going on and become very good at miming very fast.

The legacy of Hoxha’s isolationist policy casts a long shadow over the country to this day. There is a seeming disconnect with what is going on in the rest of Europe. The communist era buildings are in a state of severe disrepair. I had – unfortunately – only left myself enough time to see some of the key communist-era sights in Tirana. There was a shocking contrast in observing the extent of isolation and the constant purges on the one hand, and how ordinary people just got on with their lives on the other during that time. It served as a potent reminder to me of just how lucky I feel to live in a country like the United Kingdom which has not had to endure such a period of repression.

My travels through the Balkans showed me a new side to Europe. It seems to me from my experiences that, although in some respects the countries may not be as economically developed as those in the West, the resilience and hospitality of the people who live there stands to be admired and emulated.

Aularian Poetry

To Constantine

Constantinople was not built upon these shores, There are but creeks and passageways, where a boat may store, To muddy sites, fringed by rocks, we trail a hopeful oar, And unswept floors belie the oaks, whose velvets promised more, Whose lichened boughs enquire their hours in soundless semaphore. We rise in hopes, past rounded slopes, to glance a distant tour, From pagan rites, Trengilly’s sights, we’ll walk up to The Fore, Which starts a Christian settlement, in gentle windy showers, And waxing heights, to chance all rights, to make from idle, awe Some will revere the great tree, in a quiet granite tower.

Stuart Barrie (1989, Jurisprudence)

The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize for Poetry Winner

Treason of an artist

Constellation Consolation

There are people who create their own reflections in bronze and marble. Their shadows slick with gold, with prayers composed for them on mellow Sunday mornings by strangers who taste their name on their lips and smile. I am not one of them. There will be no children folding my name into the cavity of their brains one late Tuesday night, trying to fork me out of a history text book and into their memory. It would be fun to have my name twisted into a curse, something to be written about with ice breaths in dense journals, with a niche cult following evolving so that would get its own hushed documentary. But where would I find the power to command such evil in the first place. It would burn my hands, then be snatched away by someone else who would relish the welts it would bring. The welts and the light. Giant red tongues scoring the confessional of my mind at night as I wonder how many people fall asleep on an island of pavement with a throat-full of worries whilst I just- nothing. So I branded constellations into my retinas. I worshipped the spit-soak of coffee cups and the cross-stitched, half-rung jamming conversations, trying to distil it all. And I said hello to the worms as I passed. Always.

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The Graham Midgley Memorial Prize Proxime Acessit

A Letter

Dear hand...to my hand, hand.

How do I address you? You can’t read and yet you can write.

Tiny shakes and jolts, out of which Grows, funnel-like, a moment, Alive in time.

Transport me, Let me enter this theatre that you build. The walls are breathing, bending.

Pockets of time which bunch and Release as though pulled through a draw string. Walls of water that surge and crash Bursting droplets of liquid silver thought. Or maybe just a puddle-- or tea ring left by that jolt.

Florence McKechnie (2020, English )

Monument to Balzac I lingered too long on your face. Hasty departure and carelessness that morning so... unspectacled; blind as a bat – again! Disgrace! Your face, so miniature, was encased in swathes of material cocooning your bald head and swept over your diminutive body embraced by some enormous rug stretched over a queer old pram, the wheels peaking out underneath and all I could see was that snug little face and I laughed to see such brooding eyes in a face so young, so babyish. How quaint to see such crabbiness in teeny-tiny infantile features protruding. Cooing as I closed on you, my little Balzac, something configuredclicked. I felt some shudder, some ghastly bizarrerie to find you transfigured Those lines of contemplation, now thickly engrained, wrinkled That toothless mouth, now no prospect of pearl Those doe eyes now gummy, watery, lurking under deep hoods sitting above bags bulging, divulging your smooth hairlessness. Soon I saw the proportions were all wrong. Your body was bigger underneath the swaddle but crunched into a foetal cramp.

Annabel Stock (2019, English)

Book Reviews

Sophie Jai: Wild Fires (HarperCollins, 2022)

Sophie Jai joined the Hall in Hilary 2020 as a Visiting Fellow and Writer in Residence. Wild Fires is her debut novel.

Wild Fires opens with Cassandra ‘Cass’ being called home to Toronto, following the death of her cousin Patrick ‘Chevy’ Rapersad. As Cass gathers with her mother, sisters, and aunts to mourn Chevy, the bitter cold of the Canadian winter is far from the only thing with which she has to contend. The icy, inhospitable outside makes a fitting backdrop to the tensions inside the family home, where feelings and relationships seem frozen into unhappy stasis.

As the narrative moves between presentday Canada and the older generation’s Trinidadian past, we come to realise that the strained relationships between all the women in the house – in particular between Cass’s mother and aunts – are deeply rooted in a family history of which Cass has had only glimpses. Glimpses are precisely what Jai offers her reader, too, through flashbacks to Trinidad and to Cass’s childhood, which interrupt the present-day narrative.

As readers, we join Cass in trying to piece together snippets of conversation and flashes of memory into answers to questions which lie at the heart of the novel: why, for instance, did Chevy (almost) never speak?

Silence, in fact, plays such a crucial role in Wild Fires that it becomes nearly a character in its own right. Its presence is felt constantly as we and Cass attempt to fill in the gaps in her family’s history. There are closely guarded family secrets, and decades of feelings left unspoken, stories left untold.

Yet at the same time, it is precisely through stories of the family’s past that Jai draws in-depth, complex portraits of her characters. Indeed, Wild Fires is filled with storytelling – by a range of narrators whose voices weave and merge with Cass’s. What will stay with me about this book is how carefully Jai presents these stories as at once emphatically shared –each family member has, it seems, a stake in what is said, a version of the tale – and as intensely personal, even private.

The uneasiness between silence and storytelling, sharing and secrets, is exceptionally compelling. Jai uses it to draw in her reader so that we, quite all of a sudden, realise just how much we too want answers to Cass’s questions. But we have also learnt to be wary of what will be revealed. As Cass herself admits: ‘I keep secrets about my family from my family, too’ (p.193).

Wild Fires, is a deeply moving exploration of one family’s attempts to handle their history, their grief, and – perhaps most importantly – their relationships with each other.

Vivian Ridler: Diary of a Master Printer A Year in the Life of the Printer to the University, Oxford (Perpetua Press, 2022)

Vivian Ridler was the last great Master Printer to the University, serving from 1958 to 1978. Readers may remember him as an enthusiastic member of the Senior Common Room (Professorial Fellow 1965-1978, then Emeritus Fellow until his death in 2009). He donated hundreds of books to the Library, not just during his time at Oxford University Press but also from Perpetua Press, the private fine press he operated. For the College, he printed the declaration sworn by Fellows, the College Grace and the bookplate that marks books bequeathed to the Hall by A.B. Emden. After his retirement, he and his wife Anne were regular participants in the Hall’s art weeks in the 1980s and 90s. A glass bowl he donated decorated with the College arms and Floreat Aula graces the SCR.

Vivian Ridler’s son Colin has edited this volume of his Father’s diaries. The centre piece of the book focuses on the pivotal year of 1970-1971 when the University Press faced radical reform following the ‘Waldock Report’ on its operations.

In the Diary we see Ridler struggling with the pressures and contradictions of OUP’s byzantine structure, with tensions between the printing press (which he ran), the London office of the main publishing business, the scholarly Clarendon Press and the struggling paper mill at Wolvercote.

Much of the world evoked seems, perhaps surprisingly, topical again. The Press faces the head winds of global recession and troubled industrial relations; its old

practises and craft traditions struggle to adapt to economic realities and new technologies – a computer newly installed at Neasden and its possibilities loom large at several points.

At other times though, what we see is a lost world where Ridler, as Master Printer, judges the printworks’ open-air swimming competition or, touchingly, visits current and retired members of staff in hospital.

The Diary is peopled with a vivid range of characters including the Machiavellian officers of OUP, academics such Maurice Bowra and Helen Gardner as well as various members of the great and good. The Prime Minister Ted Heath, for example, has a cameo holding forth with uncharacteristic bonhomie at the bar during the annual British Federation of Master Printers dinner. A particularly enjoyable strand of the book concerns the wait for TS Elliot’s widow Valerie to deliver the introduction for a facsimile edition of The Waste Land.

Through all of this, a portrait emerges of Ridler as a tough but caring manager determined to preserve the expertise and role of the Press in difficult circumstances. The Diary also shows his deep love and knowledge of printing as well as a frankly astonishing cultural breadth – barely a week goes past without his attending at least one of a concert, a play or a film. We also see the close and loving bond between Ridler, his wife and their children and friends

The Hall features mostly in the background of events, with a dozen or so fleeting appearances. The new Senior Common Room provides a sanctuary which is “pleasant and possible to read [in] without interruptions.” A dinner is “rather

dull” but he is pleased to be sat next to then Law Fellow and Librarian Jeffrey Hackney as “I always enjoy arguing with him.” In an extended comic set-piece, Ridler and his wife arrive in evening dress for the Fellows’ Christmas Dinner only to find themselves not on the seating plan: “Consternation! Panic! Chagrin! What to do? Risk embarrassment by going up, or slink off? We slunk off…”

As befits Vivian Rider’s legacy this a beautifully produced book, lavishly illustrated, accompanied by appendices and essays, and set in an attractive Adobe Caslon type.

Aularian News

Aularian Updates: De Fortunis Aularium

1950s

1953 In his retirement Jim Grindle has had a second career leading mountain walks for several companies in the UK and across Europe. He has published walking guides to the Lake District, North West England and North East Wales and recently topped 600 walks for walingworld.com. Things are slowing down as he approaches his 90th birthday.

1953 David Picksley and Anna celebrated their sapphire wedding anniversary on 15 September 2021. David marked the occasion by walking the Virtual London Marathon in seven hours and twenty-eight minutes to support the Hall Bursary Fund. Read more about David’s exploits on p.67.

1957 Jeremy Bell has lived in Melbourne Australia since 1984, and retired in 1999. He recently celebrated his 85th birthday.

1958 Peter Davies has started his ninth year as Chairman of Bath Shakespeare Society, and, in collaboration with Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, is planning a celebration in 2023 of the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare’s plays.

1959 Giles Conway-Gordon has published a book - Shamanomics: a Short Guide to the Failure, Fallacies and Future of Macroeconomics. The book is a chronicle and caustic criticism of the disastrous track-record of neo-classical economics over the last 60 years, culminating in the global Crisis of 2008. The book was published in the USA where Giles now lives. The review by Kirkus Reviews, the respected American company, included the comments “impressively accessible” and “as sober as it is provocative”. See the book’s website, www.shamanomics. info, for a summary.

1959 In 2021 the book Healthy Soils for Healthy Vines, co-authored by Robert White and Mark Krstic, was awarded the OIV prize for Sustainable Viticulture and Viniculture by the International Organization for Viniculture and Viticulture in France. The award ceremony originally scheduled for December 2021 was postponed until September 2022.

1960s

1960 Jeremy Cook became a grandfather for the first time at age 80, thanks to daughter Elinor and her husband Tom. Lorcan Arthur Doyle was born 14 June 2022, and he and his parents are doing well.

Further reflected glory from Jeremy: his daughter was part of the writing team on the recent Apple TV series, Essex Serpent, and is working with Theatr Clywd on a musical to be launched this autumn, based on the Famous Five, now grown up.

1960 Malcolm Livesey has been living in Paris for the past half century. He has worked as a translator and editor for the OECD and subsequently as a Guide/Conférencier giving tours and lectures in and around the city on cultural, historical and musical themes. He is also a clarinettist and singer.

1962 Rex Chapman writes: “I am 84 years old so I reflect more past news than present. After school before university, I spent two years National Service in the RAF learning as much Mandarin as I could in the first year before being sent to Hong Kong to listen with others (including Hinton Bird,1959) to radio transmissions in three 8-hour periods. I am very sad of the situation there now.

I returned from Hong Kong to read Classics at UCL before being invited by Principal JND Kelly to read Theology. Undergraduates coming up straight from school have a different experience from mine, as I know from my son’s experience at Queen’s. However I respect equally both universities as well as my experience with the RAF.

Then came ordination for me in the Church of England, a period with the Scottish Episcopal Church and the experience and honour of being a Chaplain to The Queen. Oxford was a part of all that.”

1962 Simon J. Simonian celebrated his 90th birthday and 57th wedding anniversary. He described characteristics of achieving both at his Friends-Quaker Meetings in Los Angeles.

He spoke about achieving World Peace and World Union at the Interreligious Council of Southern California.

23 Simonian Prizes were awarded in 2021-2022: at the Hall and Harvard, Georgetown and Tufts Universities, USA.

Trent Simonian, his grandson, creator of Side-Talk, has five million followers on social media, including President Joe Biden.

1963 Michael Scannell published a novel A Disturbance of Memory as a Kindle e-book available on Amazon. Much of the action takes place in Oxford, including the final chapter. The ideal reader will be someone who is alive to nuances in words, who enjoys following the ins and outs of complex feelings—and who is prepared to be shocked.

1967 Having sold his Glasgow practice and retired as an architect, Hugh Anderson is reinventing himself as a painter with an exhibition of recent work coming up in October. Otherwise, family and continuing commitments to a rural school in South Africa keep him happily busy.

1967 John Orton has published his fourth book in the series Tales of Auld Shields. He Wears a Blue Bonnet tells the story of five Scottish highlanders who are taken prisoner by Oliver Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar, 1650, who survive the infamous Dunbar death march, and who are sold as indentured servants to work in the salt pans of South Shields.

1967 Dave (Fogg) Postles has had an article accepted for The Journal of Ecclesiastical History

1968 In June 2022 David Christian’s latest book came out: Future Stories: What’s Next? (Penguin/Random House). It is a companion to Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (Penguin, 2018) which surveyed the whole of the past from the Big Bang to the present day. The new book is a user’s guide to the future. It

discusses the philosophy and science of time, how living things prepare for uncertain futures, and what is different about human future thinking. It begins by discussing several scenarios for the future over the next century or so as well as at much larger scales.

1969 Roger Callan, a priest of Roman Catholic persuasion, was not enchanted by the standard of exposition of Holy Scripture as proclaimed on Sundays and typically found online. So, he created SundayMassReadings.com to give a novel angle for those interested in what the readings mean each Sunday.

For example, take a look at this from the archive: sundaymassreadings. com/2022/02/02/6-february-2022-the-fifth-sunday-in-ordinary-time and see if you believe it to be an improvement. Oh - there’s nothing for sale or any requests for donations on this website, just (hopefully) clarity. Next Sunday’s exposé comes out on Wednesday.

1969 On 20 June 2022, David Monkcom’s daughter Emily Charlotte Monkcom was awarded a PhD from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is a Chemist: her doctoral research was in the field of non-noble metal catalysis, specifically focusing on bioinspired model complexes of non-heme iron enzymes. For those interested, her thesis can be consulted online or ordered in print: ISBN 978-946458-342-7.

1970s

1970 Michael Arnold was priested in 1998 in the Anglican Church and was successively Chaplain at Clayesmore School, Dorset and St John’s College, Johannesburg. In retirement in Cape Town, he has published two books, The Forgotten Feast and Evidence for the Christian Faith and is writing a third.

1970 Christopher Merrett continues his post-retirement work as editor and indexer for various South African publishers. He has also been responsible for the publication programme of the Natal Society Foundation (NSF), which is now drawing to a close. In 2000 the NSF published Born out of Sorrow: Essays on Pietermaritzburg and the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands during the Apartheid Era, 1948–1994, which he compiled and edited.

1970 After his Oxford years, Hitoshi Tanaka spent 36 years in the Japanese Foreign Service retiring as Deputy Foreign Minister. Since his retirement in 2005 he taught at the University of Tokyo and is currently Chairman of the Japan Research Institute Limited.

1970 Malcolm Thick’s latest book was published on 1 July 2022 by Hertfordshire Publications. Entitled William Ellis: Eighteenth-century farmer, journalist and entrepreneur, the book examines the life of Ellis, his farming, sales of agricultural machinery and his many publications. Ellis wrote a book about country living which is a mine of information on diet and medicine in mid-eighteenth century Hertfordshire. He encouraged new agricultural practices and reported on their success or failure.

1971 Half a century after matriculating and still putting off retirement, Nick Staite continues to work full time in the law, particularly in the field of criminal

prosecution and the pursuit of the proceeds of crime. Following a five-year engagement in Malawi, supporting law enforcement efforts to combat corruption (and a two-year break prompted by the Covid pandemic) he is now in Nairobi and working once more with the International Centre for Asset Recovery (Basel Institute on Governance) on another anti-corruption programme funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

During the two-year hiatus at home, Nick’s son added a first grandson to the spear side, heavily outnumbered by the distaff side of four daughters and five granddaughters.

1972 After a career in taxes spanning almost 38 years, on 31 March 2022 George Bull retired from accounting firm RSM where he had been senior tax partner. Although he failed in his career-long advocacy for the notion that the UK should have a tax system which looks as though it was designed to be that way, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Taxation Awards in May 2022.

1972 In October 2021 Paul Croke retired as Chair of Governors, Bridgend College. In May 2022 he won All Wales Non-Executive Director of the year (Institute of Directors) 2020-2021. He has also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by Bridgend College.

1972 Kevin Fisher is happily retired, and now playing football with grandchildren (sadly his Hall football shirt no longer fits!). Kate and Kevin have been married for 50 years in August. When the Principal found out about the engagement in Trinity term 1972 he told Kevin that he should have asked his permission.

1972 Jeremy Lazenby continues to work in the Western Balkans and will be based in Belgrade until 2026 managing infrastructure projects across the region funded by blend of EU grants and European Banks. After twenty years spent supporting countries that were delighted to join the EU, he was in shock to find the UK leaving!

1972 Douglas Robertson is exploring coming out of retirement to become a part-time stipendiary Priest in Charge of the Howardian Hills Benefice.

1974 James Ede has been elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

1975 Completely inexperienced, but with two acres available in North Shropshire, currently grassland, and having been inspired by visits to Martin Crawford’s Devon sites, Alan Lomas would be pleased to hear from you if you have any interest in or experience of forest gardening.

1976 Steve Charters was the co-ordinating editor of the Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture, published in March 2022 - a book covering the relationship of wine to its cultural contexts across a complete range of disciplines.

1977 Stephen Clingman is the author of the catalogue (also available as a book) for a major exhibition of the renowned South African artist William Kentridge at the Royal Academy of Arts, September – December 2022. Among Stephen’s other publications (on South African literature, transnational fiction), his biography of Bram Fischer, the lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial, was cowinner of the 1999 Alan Paton Award, South Africa’s premier prize for nonfiction.

1977 After a long career at different universities, Ronald Shusterman has become Professor Emeritus at the University of Lyon (Saint-Étienne). He is also the proud father of a baby girl, Tess, born on May 4th, 2022. He will be continuing his activities as a researcher and an expert for the Research Evaluation Council (HCERES).

1977 Steve Vivian is delighted to announce the 15 July 2022 arrival of a grandson, Alex Edmund Vivian.

1980s

1981 Paul Gale has written two papers on predicting the infectivity of Covid-19 virus from biochemical properties:

• Gale, P. (2022) ‘Using thermodynamic equilibrium models to predict the effect of antiviral agents on infectivity: Theoretical application to SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses’. Microbial Risk Analysis 21, Article 100198.

• Gale, P. (2020b) ‘Thermodynamic equilibrium dose-response models for MERSCoV infection reveal a potential protective role of human lung mucus but not for SARS CoV-2’. Microbial Risk Analysis 16, Article 100140.

These draw heavily from his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Teddy Hall. He had previously developed the approach for arboviruses and HIV in two earlier papers applying thermodynamic principles to understanding viruses.

1981 Seymour Segnit has launched MAGFAST® which designs and markets a range of premium charging devices for all our smartphones – and other devices that forever run out of power. After a development process that lasted several years longer than expected MAGFAST.com now features a range of unique designs which have attracted tens of thousands of pre-orders. Customers who waited patiently are delighted. The Internet’s many doubters less so.

1982 Tim Hayward continues to live out his mid-life crisis at Astley Vineyard, where he has suckered the rest of his family to join him in the rural idyll of Worcestershire. Recently awarded UK Food and Drink Producer of the Year, and Worcestershire’s Visitor Experience of the year, it’s clearly going ok. A third generation has joined the workforce, with the arrival of grandson Arlo.

1982 Robert Schofield’s most recent novel, The Treasury of Tales, was short-listed in 2021 for the Prix Servais, the key annual literary award of Luxembourg where Robert lives. Robert was also a prize-winner for short stories written during the Luxembourg lockdown.

1983 After 25 years running treasury operations for two major film studios, Simon Baker retired from his position as Treasurer of Fox Entertainment Group and he and his wife, Maryann, moved from Los Angeles to Reno, NV.

1984 John Bloomer will be ordained Deacon in the Church of England at Chelmsford Cathedral on Sunday 11 September 2022, having completed his ministry training at Westcott House and an MPhil in Theology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He will serve his curacy in the parishes of Writtle with Highwood and Roxwell, Chelmsford Diocese, alongside his ongoing professional work as an independent adviser and Non-Executive Director in the agri-tech industry.

1985 Nicolas Kelepeniotis the junior, grandson of Nicolas Kelepeniotis was born on 1 October 2021. Nicolas Kelepeniotis wishes his grandson a prosperous and healthy life without overlooking his wish for his grandson to study in the University of Oxford and join the St Edmund Hall community.

1987 Kate Ward Ralph’s work as a Chair of Governors to support local education and promote equality of opportunity, educational excellence, and social mobility in the state sector was recognised in 2022 by admission to the Freedom of the City of London in the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. Kate currently sits on the Governing Board of the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools, which serves nearly three thousand children and young people in Lewisham.

1988 Lucia Bly Gillham lives in Devon with her husband and four children. The eldest of the brood is now at university studying medicine when not sailing, the second is teaching skiing on his gap year in Canada, the third is into politics and American sport, and the fourth is a 12-year-old beekeeper and bass player.

Serial house renovators Lucia and Dan run a holiday accommodation business at their farmhouse called Swallows’ Flight, offering stunning places to stay in glorious South Devon.

Lucia is also Marketing & Design Director at Salcombe Dairy, who make ice cream, sorbets and bean-to-bar chocolate in sunny Salcombe. Never a dull moment...

1988 As Chairman and CEO of AGC Studios, one of Hollywood’s leading global film and television content studios, Stuart Ford was in 2022 inducted into the Variety 500, consisting of the 500 most important individuals in the global entertainment industry.

1988 From Emma McCartney Field: “James’ Jar of Gifts was established in memory of my son James who died in 2016 aged just 7 after a battle with a rare immune disorder. We raise funds to support projects in the UK and Kenya and are currently supporting Ukrainian refugee youngsters recently arrived in the UK. Our vision is that no child should ever get left behind. Please visit our website and support us www.jamesjarofgifts.co.uk.”

1990s

1990 Akaash Maharaj was elected a Supporter Category Member of the Canadian Olympic Committee. His focus is on combatting corruption and human rights abuses in international sport. In previous years, he was a triple gold medallist at the International Championships of Equestrian Skill-at-Arms, and he led the national equestrian team as Chief Executive through its most successful Olympics and Paralympics of all time.

1992 Marc Biver writes: “I matriculated in 1992 and Dr Francis Rossotti was my Inorganic Chemistry tutor, his field of expertise was the determination of stability constants of complexes in aqueous solution. Together with his wife Hazel, who was the inorganic tutor at St Anne’s, he wrote an authoritative textbook on the subject, in 1961, which continues to be cited.

When I heard that he had passed away, I happened to be in the process of writing an article on stability constants of some group 15 tartrates, which I then

published in the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry and I dedicated the paper to Dr Rossotti’s memory. Francis published his last paper (in 1997, I believe) in that same journal.”

1992 Xen Gladstone moved back to the UK after 25 years in Hong Kong and switched career from finance/investment banking towards directorships and consultancy in the finance industry with a nascent interest in a local brewery.

1992 Simon Kelly published the book, Theodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in 19th-Century France (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).

1992 Jointly with two of his colleagues in Canada, Radek Pelc has published a book, Neurohistology and Imaging Techniques (Springer, New York 2020). Sadly, he forgot to inform the Hall about it in the 2021 edition of the Hall Magazine. He also started teaching microscopy techniques and bits of histology to medical students at Charles University in Prague where he works at the Czech Academy of Sciences.

1993 Ian Hunter has been elected to the Council of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

1994 Geoffrey Payne was appointed a Circuit Judge on 20 September 2022 and sits in the criminal jurisdiction at Aylesbury Crown Court. He was appointed a Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in July 2022.

1996 Deograsias P. Mushi is now an associate Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is also a Principal Researcher and Consultant at EcomResearch Group Ltd - also in Tanzania.

1997 Lucy Reynolds and Jenna Herman (1999) are an Aularian author/illustrator duo who create beautiful books for little explorers.

Their third book, We Are Family, hit the shelves in February 2022 and has been widely celebrated for its empathy, beauty and inclusivity. Based on its successes, two foreign language translations will be published next year.

Lucy and Jenna are very active through schools, bookshops and festivals so please do get in touch at www.doodlesandscribbles.co.uk if you’d like to discuss an event - or just say hello!

Praise for We Are Family: “Delightful, original book about diversity” – Sara Keating, The Irish Times “A heartwarming and inclusive celebration of all types of families” – Little Library Owl

1998 In 2021 Nick Thomas-Symonds was sworn of Her Majesty’s Privy Council. In November 2021, he was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade. On 1 September 2022, he is publishing a biography of Harold Wilson.

1999 Catriona Ward has published a new novel, Sundial. Stephen King said of it, “Do not miss this book.” Her previous book The Last House on Needless Street was shortlisted for Pageturner of the Year at the 2022 British Book Awards. She is nominated for the Times Breakthrough Artist of the Year at this year’s South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

2000s

2000 Charlie Ramsay is living in Suffolk near Bury St Edmunds with a young family and is running the bookings platform SpeedyBooker (which started when he realised his Teddy Hall room was empty in the holidays) and Fortingall Ventures. Please get in touch via LinkedIn!

2001 Dr Catherine Blair was appointed Finance and Business Director for Transformation at HM Revenue and Customs in September 2021.

2001 Eugen Kogan has co-authored a new book Mediation. Negotiation by Other Moves (Wiley, 2021) with A. Salzer Lemepereur, J. Colson and A. Pekar.

2001 We are delighted to announce that Alexander Robert Young, first child of William Young and Kristýna was born on 21 June 2022, the summer solstice, at Queen Charlotte’s in West London.

2002 Anglo-India and the End of Empire, Uther Charlton-Stevens’ second book, was recently released by Hurst Publishers (UK) and Oxford University Press (USA). Drawing upon the author’s own family roots in Bangalore, it explores of the history of the Anglo-Indian community, including the experiences of famous mixed-race film stars such as Merle Oberon and Boris Karloff, during the dramatic death-throes of the British Raj. Benjamin Kingsbury described Anglo-India in a review as “Original, fascinating and gripping.”

2002 Ruth Evans, who is Head of Artistic Planning & Participation at the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Welsh Music Guild from July 2022.

2002 Pierre Stallforth was promoted to full Professor in a joint appointment between the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) and the University of Jena, Germany. He leads the Department of Paleobiotechnology and his research focuses on identifying novel natural products – such as antibiotics – within interacting microorganisms and, most recently, from ancient samples.

2003 Raymond Duddy married Kate Mary Crinion in Slane, Ireland, on 28 August 2021. Oliver Rees-Jones (also Teddy Hall, 2003) was his best man.

2003 Andy Smye was appointed to Associate Professor of Geosciences with tenure at Penn State, USA.

2004 Emily Coates has founded the business Visit Wild Wales. If any Aularians or their friends or family would like a guided experience of some of the remote spots in the stunning and fascinating country, please get in touch. The visits take participants on journeys through glaciated landscapes including their social setting allowing the history and geography of the region to be interrogated en route. The business aims to be both socially and environmentally sustainable with as low an impact and as long a timeline as possible. Contact: visitwildwales@ gmail.com.

2004 After stints in Southeast Asia and London, Xin Hui Chan is delighted to return to Oxford to join the Nuffield Department of Medicine and Pandemic Sciences

Institute as an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases. She looks forward to (re-)connecting with colleagues old and new.

2005 Will Frass was elected as the Liberal Democrat Councillor for Timperley in Trafford Metropolitan Borough Elections, unseating the Local Leader of the Conservatives.

2005 Dr Georgina Gosney married Dr Feng Rao (Trinity, 2006) at Chippenham Park on 16 October 2021 with Teddy Hall friends in attendance, including Natalie McManus (2005) who acted as Maid of Honour.

2005 Natalie McManus married RAF Squadron Leader Jonathan Barnett at Hampton Court House on 26 September 2021, in the company of many Teddy Hall friends and peers. Dr Gina Gosney (2005) and Tom Braithwaite (2004) were Maid and Man of Honour.

2005 Jane Lilly Lopez has a new book out about mixed-citizenship and transnational marriages and the ways immigration laws interfere with family development, stability, and success. Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State is published by Stanford University Press.

Read more: www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32919

2006 Katie Glencross and her partner Ainsley welcomed a daughter named Effy Sophia Scorah on 20 May 2022.

2008 Maire Gorman has been Appointed as a Lecturer (Education Research) within School of Physics at University of Bristol.

2008 From Jenny Lim: “Greetings! A couple of us rowed in the Regatta organised by the Oxford & Cambridge Society of Hong Kong on 26 June 2022. The Oxford crew won the mixed race by a significant margin (like more than eight boat lengths), and in the men’s race, Oxford was two seconds behind Cambridge (as we don’t have enough rowers in the men’s, I rowed in both races). Overall, Oxford won this year’s race by challenging Cambridge with a powerhouse of rowers pulling off the wind and waves in Deep Water Bay/Middle Island just before the first typhoon struck HK.

The race was immediately followed by a prize-giving, free-flow drinks, and champagne celebrations among the crews! Thereafter, a full-house family buffet event was well-attended by OxBridge alumni, and their families at the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (Middle Island Clubhouse).”

2009 For the past five years Nicolas Boem was based in Lisbon and worked for the Portuguese oil & gas company Galp. In his most recent role he worked as the Executive Assistant to Galp‘s Head of Upstream. Now Nicolas will embark on a new journey this August by moving to Saudi Arabia for a PhD in Geology & Geophysics at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

2010s

2010 Park Maneepairoj is now a father of two boys, Rio (four years) and Dan (four months). He spent the last three years working in Tokyo and is now back in his hometown, Bangkok. He is now currently working at a major e-commerce

platform company and often relishes his time at Oxford. He misses his MCR Footy mates and the memory of Julien screaming out the Teddy Hall anthem mid-match. “Oh Teddy Hall, Oh Teddy Hall, Oh Teddy Hall is won-der-full!” (to the tune of ‘When the Saints go Marching in’).

2010 David Hewitt and Laura (nee nee Murphy, LMH 2008) are pleased to share news of the birth of their first child, Edward Arthur Hewitt, on 11 March 2022. He was delivered safely and continues to do well as of current age of four months (as of mid-July 2022).

2010 In 2019 Suriya Prabhakar achieved a Distinction in her Diploma in Carnatic Vocal (Classical Indian singing), both in theory and in practical, and recently attended the graduation ceremony to celebrate this huge achievement. She had been learning classical music since the age of thirteen and despite a four-year hiatus when attending Oxford University, she resumed her studies after her BA graduation. She is now qualified to teach Carnatic music to young students.

2011 Mohammad Firdaus Bin Abdul Aziz has recently been appointed as the Program Coordinator of Bachelor of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya. This is an external legal education, the first of its kind offered by a public university in Malaysia, which aims to enable working adults to obtain a degree in law and join the legal profession. He and colleagues have successfully secured a research grant from the UK Wellcome Trust to develop bioethics scholarships in Southeast Asia and establish a regional bioethics network between Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore.

2011 Kristina Murkett and Theo Silkstone Carter were married on 22 July at the University Church before hosting their reception at Teddy Hall and the Ashmolean Museum. Kristina’s father John (1981, Jurisprudence), Theo’s uncle Richard (1978, Mathematics) and grandfather Thomas (1948, History) are all Aularians too.

2013 Susana Hancock spent the spring on a self-supported trans-Arctic ski (The Jubilee Expedition 2022) that retraced one of the first North Pole expeditions. Throughout the ski, she collected climate data that she has shared with global leaders at international for a. Her work will be featured in an upcoming film, book and traveling exhibition.

2013 Zabrina Lo, the Associate Features Editor of Tatler Asia magazine, won gold in this year’s WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards for her cover story published in August 2021, which looks at how New York power players combat Asian hate, and why Hong Kong and the rest of the world should care.

Read the story: www.tatlerasia.com/power-purpose/philanthropy/stop-asianhate-racial-diversity

2014 Yasmina Abouzzohour has been appointed to a Fellowship at Princeton University. In 2021-22 she held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Harvard University. She was awarded a Research Award by the American Political Science Association in January 2022. Also in 2022, she contributed a chapter to The Gulf Cooperation Council at Forty: Risk and Opportunity in a Changing World (Brookings Institute Press, 2022).

2016 Ella Penny recently completed the gruelling Marathon des Sables race across the Sahara. This involved six back-to-back marathons in six days and a total of 250km. All equipment and food had to be carried. Temperatures reached 40 degrees Celsius with extreme winds at times. Ella, part of a team of four, raised £20,000 for a South African charity addressing domestic violence.

2017 Dr Yusuf Ikbal Oldac received the prestigious Prize for Newer Researchers from the Society for Research into Higher Education in the United Kingdom. With this new grant, Yusuf will investigate the Scientific collaborations between the United Kingdom and Middle Eastern and North African countries in the post-Brexit and post-pandemic world.

2017 Catherine Joy White made the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for her work as an actor, writer, filmmaker and founder of award-winning Kusini Productions. More about Cat’s work with on p.70.

2018 New research by Dr Lena Fuldauer demonstrates that adapting to the impacts of climate change is of paramount importance to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The study published in Nature Communications proposes a novel framework to better assess the cascading impacts of climate change on sustainable development and systematically align national adaptation plans across sectors with the global development agenda.

2018 Paul Shields has had many changes to his life since graduating with his MPhil in 2020. He joined the United States Marines Corps as an Officer, got married, and welcomed his son - George - in November of 2021. He was able to publish his MPhil thesis in Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Paul feels grateful to Teddy Hall - the memories and lessons learned have been a tremendous source of strength and joy.

2019 Haffendi Anuar is an artist originally from Kuala Lumpur and now based in London. His work spans sculpture, painting, installation, and drawing and explores notions of home and movement contextualised in relation to postcolonialism, architecture and identity construction. He recently presented his first institutional solo exhibition, Rumah Berkaki (Legged House) at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (www.ikon-gallery.org/exhibition/rumah-berkaki-legged-house) and exhibited textile sculptures and painted archival photographs in the Tower Room. It ran from 10 July to 29 August 2022.

More about Hafeendi’s work: www.haffendianuar.net

Deaths: Ave Atque Vale

We record with sadness the passing of fellow Aularians and salute them. Sincere condolences are offered to their families and friends.

1940s

Mr John Featherstone Dixon BCom, FCA, 9 July 2022, aged 97, Gloucestershire. 1943, Army Course

Mr Eric Charles Jones MA, DipEd, 1 October 2021, aged 96, Norfolk. 1943, Mathematics

Mr Alan John Pickett MA, 31 August 2021, aged 96, Kent. 1943, History

Mr Michael Gordon Anson Jack BA, 30 March 2022, Age 95, Devon. 1944, English

Mr Geoffrey Gordon Allen MA, 24 October 2021, aged 94, Western Australia. 1945, Chemistry

Mr John Gilbert Ayers MA, 29 June 2021, aged 98, London. 1947, History

The Revd Canon Charles Hilary Davidson MA, 24 January 2021, aged 91, Northampton. 1949, Theology

Mr David Anthony Singleton MA, 22 October 2021, aged 92, Cheshire. 1949, Modern Languages

1950s

Mr Timothy Patrick Denehy MA, 26 August 2020, aged 91, Hampshire. 1950, English

Mr Noel Harvey MA, 16 February 2022, aged 92, Norfolk. 1950, Modern Languages

Mr Derek Bloom MA, 15 September 2020, aged 90, London. 1951, Philosophy

Mr Brian Charles Osgood MA, 10 May 2022, aged 90, Kent. 1951, History

Mr John David Anthony MA, 31 March 2022, aged 88, South Glamorgan. 1952, Jurisprudence

Mr Christopher Brian Benjamin BA, 25 July 2021, aged 87, London. 1954, English

The Revd Anthony Murray Crowe MA, 27 January 2022, aged 87, Kent. 1954, Theology

Mr Brian Albert Saunders BA, 2020, Gloucestershire. 1954, Modern Languages

Mr Charles Francis Taylor MA, 3 February 2022, aged 88, Suffolk. 1954, French

Mr Philip Morgan Bevan-Thomas MA, 18 February 2022, aged 87, Suffolk. 1955, Jurisprudence

Mr John Maurice Daniels MA, 6 May 2022, aged 87, London. 1955, English

Mr John Edward Hancock BA, 24 June 2022, aged 87, Northumberland. 1955, Jurisprudence

Mr William John Scarlin Moorcroft BA, 30 January 2022, aged 83, Staffordshire. 1956, Geography

Mr George Enoch Wiley MA, September 2022, aged 87, South Yorkshire. 1956, English

Mr Gerald Guyse Williams MA, 1 March 2022, aged 85, Cheshire. 1956, Chemistry

Mr John Womack Harrison BA, 27 November 2021, aged 85, London. 1957, PPE

Mr Colin Campbell Nichols BA, Dip, 1 September 2021, aged 85, Warwickshire. 1957, Geography

Professor John Brian Walmsley MA, 8 March 2022, aged 84, Bielefeld, Germany. 1957, English

Mr Gordon Rathbone Crosse MA, 21 November 2021, aged 83, Suffolk. 1958, Music

Professor Thomas Gould Phillips BA, DPhil, 6 August 2022, aged 85, California, USA. 1958, Physics

Mr Brian Frederick Taylor MA, July 2021, Cornwall. 1958, English

Mr John Lionel Toole MA, 28 October 2021, aged 83, Cumbria. 1958, Modern Languages and Linguistics

Mr Denis Pritchard Evans DipEd, 8 July 2022, aged 86, East Sussex. 1959, Educational Studies

The Revd Canon Hugh Edwin Wilcox MA, 13 March 2022, aged 84, Hertfordshire. 1959, Theology

1960s

Mr Graham Robert John Morris BA, 16 February 2022, aged 80, Avon. 1961, English.

Professor Geoffrey Vernon Davis MA, PhD, 22 November 2018, aged 74, Aachen, Germany. 1962, Modern Languages

Mr Alan James McNamee BA, 17 January 2022, aged 77, County Durham. 1962, English

Mr Robert Duncan Clegg MA, 19 May 2022, aged 80, Gloucestershire. 1963, English

Mr Angus Farre Doulton BA, November 2021, aged 77, Devon. 1963, English

Mr Peter John Webb MA, DipEd, 5 July 2021, aged 77, Wiltshire. 1963, History

Mr David James Whyte DipEd, 25 November 2021, aged 81, Fife. 1963, Educational Studies

Mr Graham Alexander Dimitris Revill-Taylor BD, MA, CEng, MBCS, 31 July 2021, aged 77, Kent. 1964, Chemistry

Mr David William Alder BA, 8 April 2022, aged 75, Lancashire. 1966, History

Mr Maurice Leslie Bason BD, DipEd, MEd, 16 March 2020, aged 75, Ohio, USA. 1966, Educational Studies

Captain Peter Adrian Dylsmor Griffiths MA, 18 November 2021, aged 76, West Sussex. 1966, Geography

Mr Nicholas Benbow Evans BA, 9 August 2022, aged 72, Devon. 1969, Jurisprudence

Mr Peter William Mayne MA, PGCE, MEd, 9 June 2022, aged 72, Norfolk. 1969, History

1970s

Mr Alan Norman Smith MA, BPhil, December 2021, aged 68, Oxfordshire. 1972, History

Mr Keith Eric Jackson BA, March 2022, aged 66, Surrey. 1973, Mathematics

Dr Andrew Robert McCabe MA, DPhil, Oxfordshire. 1978, Metallurgy

1980s

Mr Ian James Harvey MA, 1 August 2022, aged 59, Middlesex. 1982, Geography

Dr John Saville Thurston MA, PhD, London. 1980, Psychology

Ms Beryl Louise Rands Silva MA, 26 December 2021, aged 57, Devon. 1984, English

Mr Andrew James Ashelford BA, ACA, 25 August 2021, aged 54, Avon. 1985, Mathematics

Mr Christopher Ian Vigars BA, 10 August 2021, aged 50, Avon. 1989, Engineering Science

2010s

Mr Matthew Kilford BA, 4 May 2022, aged 25, Hampshire. 2017, English

Obituaries

SCR Obituaries

JUSTIN GOSLING HONORARY FELLOW, PRINCIPAL 1982-1996

It was with great sadness we reported the recent death of Justin Gosling, who passed away on 31 October 2022 following a short illness. Justin served the Hall as Lecturer and later Tutor in Philosophy between 1960 and 1982, when he was appointed the Hall’s 60th Principal, in which capacity he served until retirement in 1996. Geoffrey Bourne-Taylor, former Bursar (19882007) writes this brief tribute to him:

Frozen in stone in the Front Quad and commissioned by me as possibly the last working gargoyle in Oxford, is a likeness of Justin Gosling. Justin had agreed that his image be installed opposite the Buttery on his retirement as a retort to similar performances he and his family had witnessed outside the Buttery, opposite the Lodgings. When he saw the potential blackmail photographs he had posed for, he wrote:

“He who sews mischief Is a born tailor But he who waters the summer flowers Is just in all things.”

It amused him even more to hear tour guides claiming to their innocent audiences that the carving represented Teddy Hall alumnus Robin Day – I think it was the horn-rimmed specs that were the link. And it is to his seemingly endless dry humour that I wish pay tribute in this short retrospect of over 30 years friendship with Justin. I have always been convinced that his wit was inspired by Maurice Bowra, the

Warden of Wadham when Justin was there.

At interview, I had responded to one of his questions: “Up to a point Lord Copper, up to a point.” I discovered later that he and his wife Margaret had been friends with Evelyn Waugh: I like to think that my reference to Waugh’s words was what clinched my appointment.

Justin’s intellect was the size of Europe and one could just see his satisfaction as he would halt recalcitrant Dons in their tracks at Governing Body meetings. I was not immune; his enigmatic, “Geoffrey, we just hide our ignorance better than you do!”. Or, his squib (to a colleague) in the margin of a philosophy student’s essay: “You have a duty to enjoy reading this”.

We are warmly reminded of Justin whenever we study David Tindall’s gentle portrait of him, in his study, mastering the complexity of the Psion handheld computer that tickled him; family dog in the doorway, equally puzzled.

In the days before fundraising, we sat with a potential donor, who, reaching for his wallet, asked, “Do you have a building fund?”. “No,” replied Justin, truthfully, before I could kick him under the table; but one couldn’t help loving him for it.

Those who passed through Justin’s care during probably 50 years of his Philosophy tuition at the Hall will remember him as probably one of the last of the old school Dons: laser sharp, logical to the point of exasperation, laconic. But above all, sensitive, open minded and completely without prejudice.

Justin Gosling went to school at Ampleforth College and later won an Exhibition in Classics at Wadham College where he got a first in Mods and a first in Greats (1953). He was awarded a BPhil in Philosophy in 1955 and was appointed to a Fereday Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College (1955-1958).

Justin was Lecturer in Philosophy at Wadham and Pembroke Colleges 1958-1960, and then became Tutor in Philosophy at St Edmund Hall until he was appointed Principal in 1982. Before becoming Principal, he had been Secretary of the Governing Body and Senior Tutor. Even after retiring, Justin continued to serve the College in many different ways from teaching to supporting alumni events and his former students.

Justin was elected Senior Proctor of the University for the year 1977-1978, he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1989-1995, Chairman of the Conference of Colleges 1987-1989, and served on various University committees.

He held a Visiting Professorship at Macalester College in 1964, a Visiting Fellowship at the Research Institute of Social Studies, Canberra, 1970, and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Minnesota and Macalester College in 1986.

Justin was a keen writer and in addition to a variety of articles, he published a number of books including Pleasure and Desire, Plato, Plato: Philebus (a translation and commentary), The Greeks on Pleasure (with C.C.W. Taylor), Weakness of the Will, and The Jackdaw in the Jacaranda (a collection of poems).

Justin is survived by his wife Margaret, whom he married in 1958, and four children.

In October 2021 Justin reflected on his career in an episode of the SEHA Podcast ‘Spirit of the Hall’: anchor.fm/ spiritofthehall/episodes/Justin-Goslinge18kidd

A full obituary and other reflections will appear in the 2023-2024 Hall Magazine.

PROFESSOR NIGEL PALMER FBA, EMERITUS FELLOW

Nigel F. Palmer, Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Emeritus Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, FBA, died on Sunday 8 May 2022.

Nigel was Professor of German at Teddy Hall from 1992 until his retirement in 2012, upon which he was elected as an Emeritus Fellow of the College. He served both as a Steward of the Senior Common Room and as Library Fellow; he was instrumental in securing the in-depth cataloguing of the collection in the Old Library.

Professor Henrike Lähnemann, his successor in the Hall, writes:

“Nigel Palmer was one of those scholars defining medieval studies, reaching out across the world to colleagues in Germany and far beyond. He was also one of the kindest and most generous friends and colleagues. Oxford without Nigel will never be the same.”

Professor Andrew Kahn, Professor of Russian Literature and Modern Languages, writes:

“Nigel was always one of the friendliest and kindest colleagues at St Edmund Hall and in the Faculty. He was also quite funny and observant.”

Dr Stephen Mossmann, now a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester, one of Nigel Palmer’s former students remembers the man and the scholar:

Nigel Palmer, who has died aged 75, shaped the experience of an entire generation of students of medieval German language and literature at Oxford. He first came up to Oxford as a student in 1965 to read German at Worcester College, and was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Durham after just one year of doctoral study in 1970. Having completed his thesis while in full-time academic post in 1975, he returned to Oxford in 1976 as Fellow in German at Oriel College. He moved to St Edmund Hall in 1992 upon his appointment to the University Professorship in German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, from which he retired in 2012. If anything, retirement enabled him to work even more intensively than he had done before, and he was a firm fixture in the academic life of his field, and in Medieval Studies at Oxford, until the very end of his life.

It is as a tutor and supervisor of graduate students that most alumni of the University will remember Nigel. He was immensely supportive, firmly engaged, and those to whom he offered his tremendous expertise and wise counsel, which he did freely and generously, far exceeded those for whom he was formally responsible. His medieval German graduate seminar was an institution, and much treasured. The standard was resolutely professional. Several doctoral theses had their roots in topics first encountered through that Wednesday morning seminar, and many journal articles started life as papers first given there. Participants had to tackle texts

and subjects well beyond the confines of their own particular research interests, opening their eyes to new fields of study and approaches in a shared endeavour of learning and discovery. The emphasis was very much on the ‘shared’: Nigel was as much a fellow participant as any of his students, and hated academic grandstanding. That was often in evidence at conferences, where he was a real friend to younger scholars and students, especially to those accustomed to the stricter hierarchies of institutions abroad. He was firmly resistant to the idea of the academic Festschrift. His was an active commitment to inclusivity long before the word had entered the realms of academic policy.

Nigel understood his academic position as a stewardship of his subject, and felt a deep responsibility to ensure that it should thrive. During his tenure, Oxford advanced to a position of international standing in the study and scholarship of the language and literature of medieval Germany. He considered himself responsible for the languages spoken and written in the medieval German lands – Latin, German and Dutch – in equal measure. These were to be encountered in the forms in which they had been transmitted from the Middle Ages, in manuscript and early printed book. Nigel was one of the foremost experts in the world not just in his primary field of medieval German studies, but also in medieval Latin literature, and (especially) in codicology, the study of the manuscript and early printed book. His methodological contribution was to bring

the accumulation of detailed evidence to bear upon intellectual questions of wider significance: to take disciplines like palaeography, codicology and philology beyond themselves, and so to extend the boundaries of human knowledge. He did that in a deliberate and conscious manner that sought to overcome the division in Germanophone scholarship between the ‘auxiliary’ disciplines (the so-called Hilfswissenschaften) and academic research proper. The latter should not exist as an abstract pursuit undertaken in ignorance of the former, but equally the former should not remain merely at the level of description.

The body of scholarship that Nigel published in the course of his academic career will long remain as the foundation on which all who work on those subjects henceforth must build. He wrote for specialists, often on recondite topics, but always in an accessible manner, whether in English or in German, such that to read his books and articles is a pleasure both aesthetic and intellectual, and always fundamentally instructive. His is a great loss to scholarship, but will be most keenly felt in his home, in Oxford, to the colleges and libraries of which he was so deeply committed.

This obituary originally appeared in the Oxford Polyglot newsletter of the Modern Languages Faculty

Aularian Obituaries

ROBERT DUNCAN CLEGG (1963)

This obituary has been provided by Duncan’s son Rob.

Robert ‘Duncan’ Clegg, born Richmond upon Thames on 12 April 1942, son of Alexander (Sandy) Clegg, who worked for London Transport (“as some sort of manager not on the trains”), and Hilda née Duncan.

Duncan attended Tiffin School, Richmond, from where he went after several attempts at Latin ‘O’ Level to St Edmund Hall, Oxford. There he studied English Literature with a particular interest in Anglo-Saxon and early English literature. He rowed for the University against Cambridge for Isis in 1964 and for the Blue Boat in 1965 and 1966 (both Oxford wins) and served as Oxford University Boat Club President in 1966. His son Robert followed him as OUBC President in 1996, exactly 30 years later.

Duncan was one of five St Edmund Hall rowers to win the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race in 1965 and one of two in 1966, competing as the team’s single former Blue, Boat Club President, and number two. Writing about the win of 1965, journalist Stanley Baker of the Guardian wrote that the Dark Blues were the

“strongest and toughest crew Oxford have sent to the Tideway since the war.”

Duncan met Jennie, his future wife, at the Boat Race Ball following a victory in 1966. After graduating in 1967 he followed Jennie back to Melbourne, Australia, where she had returned after a stint in London. Duncan and Jennie were married in Melbourne in 1968. While in Melbourne, Duncan did an MBA part time while working for Australian United Corporation. He then worked for Capel Court Corporation who sent him back to London in 1972 to work for Samuel Montague (shareholders in Capel Court). In 1976 Duncan moved to Lazard’s and worked in the corporate finance department. Amongst other things, he supervised the flotation of TSB and later specialised in the privatisations of water and electricity companies. He left Lazard’s in 1993 and became chairman of Cox Insurance and Low & Bonar PLC as well as Deputy Chairman of the London Port Authority. In 1984 Duncan became the London Representative of the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. This entailed organising everything that was needed to run the Boat Race including finding sponsorship, ensuring the race was run safely and securely, and managing and liaising with the police force, the Port of London Authority and the four London Boroughs that the race ran through. During his 21 year tenure, amongst other ‘highlights’, he had to contend with the Cambridge crew steering into a large river barge and destroying the bow of their racing shell shortly before the race start, and trying to ensure there was a race at all following the Oxford Mutiny. Duncan played a key role in managing the rules and legalities of how the Mutiny was ultimately resolved. Duncan was made a Steward of Henley

Royal Regatta at which he umpired races for twenty years and sat on the Finance Committee.

Duncan was Chairman of Dorney Lake Trust from 2004 to 2012, which was a period dominated by the run up to the London Olympics. Dorney Lake, Wimbledon and the sea at Weymouth were the only sports venues that did not have to be constructed for 2012. It took Duncan’s leadership and astute business sense to prise proper financial compensation from the shockingly tightfisted Olympic Oganising Committee for using the lake which had been built by Eton College. It was developed into the greatest venue ever for Olympic and Paralympic water sports with a lasting legacy for the benefit of UK rowing.

Following his City career, Duncan became the Master of the Watermen and Lightermen Livery Company in 20102011 and was appointed High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 2012-13.

Duncan and Jennie had four wonderful sons, who are now spread across the world pursuing a range of careers. All sons rowed competitively at Radley College with Robert, his eldest, rowing in three Boat Races and representing Great Britain at the under-23 World Championships winning gold in the VIIIs. This follows Duncan and also Jennie’s Australian uncle, Lewis Luxton, who stroked Cambridge in the Boat Race then went on to row for Great Britain at the Olympics. Duncan is survived by Jennie, his sons, and by eleven grandchildren.’

Rob Clegg (Keble, 1993, MPhil Management Studies)

Other tributes to Duncan Clegg appeared in the Times (www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ duncan-clegg-obituary-mjtrt0mtl) and the Daily Telegraph (www.telegraph. co.uk/obituaries/2022/06/09/duncanclegg-city-financier-ran-oxfordcambridge-boat-race-20/)

Bank. Though plagued by illness for much of his life his father was a talented amateur pianist, organist and cellist, as well as an ingenious amateur inventor and engineer.

GORDON CROSSE (1958)

Gordon Crosse died on 11 December 2021, this obituary has been provided by his friend John Turner.

Gordon Rathbone Crosse was born on 1 December 1937 in Bury, Lancashire, where his father worked for the Midland

The family moved to Cheadle Hulme when his father was transferred to the Bank’s Cheadle Branch, and Gordon attended Cheadle Hulme School, whose other musical alumni have included the composer Peter Hope and the announcer and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Katie Derham, as well as the broadcaster Nick Robinson – a distinguished roll call indeed! Crosse wrote A Cheshire Man for performance at the School for Peter Hope’s 90th birthday, but alas the pandemic forced cancellation of that concert, among many others.

Crosse gained a first-class degree in Music from St Edmund Hall in 1961, and he then went to Rome on an Italian Government Scholarship, where he attended Petrassi’s classes at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. On his return to the UK, he worked briefly for the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) and researched early-fifteenthcentury music. He was appointed Haywood Research Fellow at Birmingham University, a post he held from 1966 to 1969.

Gordon’s colleagues and friends at Birmingham included both Peter Dickinson and David Munrow, and in memory of the latter he was later to write a beautiful elegy, Verses in Memoriam David Munrow, and subsequently A Wake Again. Gordon was snapped up by the Oxford University Press as a house composer shortly after his Oxford degree, his first publication being Two Christmas Songs, to Latin texts, in two parts, for female voices, which were published by the Press in 1963. Other works from this early period included Three Inventions for flute and clarinet, a first (of two) violin concertos (Concerto da Camera), Villanelles for chamber ensemble, and Corpus Christi Carol for soprano, clarinet and string quartet.

His Opus 1 was actually a first Elegy for orchestra, performed by the Halle in April 1962 at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall under Maurice Handford in an SPNM open rehearsal concert. Within a very short time, Gordon’s works were being regularly commissioned and performed to great acclaim – works such as the oratorio Changes, Ariadne for oboe and small ensemble, and the orchestral song cycles For the Unfallen, and Memories of Night: Morning. A strong literary bent became quickly evident in his music, the words of these last two cycles being by the poet Geoffrey Hill and the novelist Jean Rhys respectively. Gordon’s fellow Mancunian and great friend Alan Garner (he of The

Weirdstone of Brisingamen) wrote the text for two works for children, the mini-operas Potter Thompson and Holly from the Bongs. This friendship was celebrated many years later by Gordon’s Chimney Piece, for recorder, clarinet and viola, performed in the enormous fireplace in part of Alan’s medieval home, the Medicine House (reerected by the author next to his original cottage, Toad Hall). It was written in fulfilment of a long-standing promise, for Alan’s 80th birthday.

Gordon’s other principal literary collaborator was the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, with whom he wrote the children’s cantatas Meet my Folks and The Demon of Adachigahara. Hughes also provided the translated libretto for his opera The Story of Vasco

One of the first operas performed at the newly formed Royal Northern College of Music was Gordon’s Purgatory, based on a short play by William B. Yeats, paired with William Walton’s The Bear. Later operas of Gordon’s were The Grace of Todd (for the English Opera group, Aldeburgh, 1969) and The Story of Vasco (Sadlers Wells, 1974), but the latter was not a success and some of the music was reworked for the orchestral Some Marches on a Ground (1970). Ballet also figures in Gordon’s output. Young Apollo, for The Royal Ballet, extended Benjamin Britten’s short fanfare for piano and strings into a full-length ballet. Playground (also for The Royal Ballet) was an arrangement of material from his children’s opera Potter Thompson, and Wildboy was arranged for orchestra for the American Ballet Theatre, with Mikhail Baryshnikov in the title role.

The Aldeburgh music scene very much appealed to Gordon, as he had always greatly admired the music of Benjamin Britten. Gordon in fact met his wife Elizabeth Bunch in the porch of Orford

Church during an Aldeburgh Festival. Her parents had retired to a cottage in nearby Walberswick, and Gordon and Elizabeth bought a rambling house in Wenhaston, near Blythburgh. He and Elizabeth had two sons, both of whom became distinguished in their respective businesses. Jo is a motorcycle engineer, specialising in BMS motorcycles. Gabriel is a highly respected events stager, for political conferences, music festivals and the like.

Britten’s many works for children were an inspiration for Gordon’s own pieces for children, among which was the late work

A Chethams Suite for String Orchestra (2019), composed for the Junior Orchestra of Chetham’s School in Manchester.

Along with his composing, Gordon had several academic posts, at Essex University, Kings College Cambridge (where he was a Visiting Fellow), The University of California Santa Barbara (where he joined on the staff his fellow Brit Peter Racine Fricker), and the Royal Academy of Music in London.

He had always found it difficult to write to deadlines, and a slew of bad reviews, mostly unwarranted, resulted in ‘the silence’. In particular, the poor reception of The Story of Vasco, his trumpet concerto, Array, written for and premiered at the Proms by Hakan Hardenberger, and a fiasco over Sea Psalms, with an uncompleted premiere and inaccurate parts, commissioned for Glasgow as City of Culture, were all setbacks, and eventually prompted a change of career. He became a computer programmer, writing programmes for Cadbury and others. He frequently told me that this work utilised the same brain cells as composition. But it certainly did not need the same imagination, and I regularly pestered him to get back to the music.

The silence was finally broken in 2008,

when Gordon had retired from computer programming. I persuaded him to write a work for the 80th birthday of his old friend Sir John Manduell. This was a cycle of songs to words by another favourite author, Rudyard Kipling. The cycle was premiered in Bowness (two of the songs) and London (with the addition of L’Envoi) in 2008. Then the flood gates opened. There followed in quick succession a Fantasia on ’Ca’ the Yowes’ for recorder, strings and harp; Brief Encounter for recorder, oboe d’amore and strings; and a trio (Rhyming with Everything) for oboe violin and cello. Gordon wrote: “The Summer and Autumn of 2009 was the most exciting and productive period I have ever experienced. I had returned to composing after a break of some eighteen years and I found I couldn’t stop working. The music was simpler than it was in 1990 but I think more communicative because more concentrated and focused”

After that, the flood became a torrent with a third Elegy: Ad Patrem, in memory of his adored father; The Barley Bird for a festival in nearby Beccles); three more symphonies; three piano sonatas; five new string quartets, including one for the 150th anniversary of the Quaker Meeting House in Leiston; a viola concerto, drawing material from the earlier trumpet concerto; and a host of shorter instrumental and choral pieces for friends and colleagues, mainly written just for pleasure. It is a treasure trove for future exploration. His stated aim was to strive for “a blend of elegance and passion that I always try to achieve in my own music, though I succeed but rarely.” Very frequently, others would say.

Elizabeth died of cancer in 2011. Gordon found solace in attending the Quaker Meeting House in Leiston. Through his connections there he met the poet Wendy

Mulford, who became his companion in his later years. Together they purchased a house on the shores of Papa Westray, the northern-most of the Orkney Islands, and this resulted in several works inspired by the local landscape and wildlife. For me, he wrote the last of his concertante works for solo wind instruments (a project inspired by Nielsen’s unfulfilled ambition to write a concerto for all the instruments in the woodwind family), On the Shoreline. The piece, written in just a few days, is based on the cries of fulmars and sanderlings outside their window. The others, following on from his early success with Ariadne (now a standard piece for

oboists) were Thel for flute, Wildboy for clarinet (later revised for Psappha as L’Enfant Sauvage), Gremlins for bassoon, and Ceili De for horn.

His last piece was Déploration, in tribute to his late friend Peter Maxwell Davies. He told me, with his wry sense of humour, how sorry that he had not managed to get round to writing one for himself!

I treasure the many pieces that Gordon wrote for me. His late Three Twitchings for recorder and piano were dedicated to “John Turner, who helped raise me from the dead”. I am proud of that!

of inclusivity remains embedded. His commitments to radical causes were sincere and principled, but Tony also enjoyed sticking his head above the parapet, and very visibly breaking the rules.

TONY CROWE (1954)

This obituary originally appeared in the Church Times

The Revd Anthony (Tony) Crowe was a progressive and sometimes controversial priest, who was committed to an inclusive Church. He came to national prominence for blessing gay partnerships in church as early as 1978, and he was a longstanding campaigner for the ordination of women, for the marriage of divorcees in church, and for Palestinian rights.

His main ministry was at St Luke’s, Charlton, in Southwark diocese, where he was Rector from 1973 to 1994. Under his leadership, St Luke’s became a very distinctive church community; his legacy

Tony was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and, after National Service with the Gloucestershire Regiment, he studied theology at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Tony first felt his calling as a schoolboy in Bristol, and his views about the nature of the priesthood were shaped by Mervyn Stockwood’s ministry there. Later, Stockwood - when Bishop of Southwark - appointed him to parishes in Clapham and Charlton. While Tony’s attitudes to homosexuality and Christian Socialism were influenced by him, he was more critical of Stockwood’s gender politics.

Tony trained for the priesthood at Westcott House, Cambridge, between 1957 and 1959, a time of heated theological debate. He was a direct contemporary of Don Cupitt, and Tony’s sermons were informed by Sea of Faith ideas, as well as a recurrent theme that explored relationships between the Bible, tradition, and reason.

One source of pride for Tony was that he

was the first deacon to be ordained in the crypt of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1959, three years before its consecration.

He served his title at St Paul’s, Stockingford, a mining village outside Nuneaton, where he met Ailsa Wood, a health visitor. They married in 1962, moving to Eltham, in south London.

Tony became Vicar of St John’s, Clapham, in 1966. He plunged into the politics of 1960s inner London, aligning the church with local groups campaigning for racial justice. For a time, the Black Panthers used the church hall.

It was at St Luke’s, Charlton, that Tony’s ministry had its fullest expression. Tony was forever grateful that the parish was willing to come with him, even at the cost of criticism and attacks from the wider Church, local community, and national press. Tony was physically assaulted, and his family were verbally abused, primarily because of his support for gay rights.

In November 1978, Tony was the celebrant for the blessing of the partnership of Rodney Madden and Saxon Lucas. The ‘gay wedding’ was widely covered, in the national tabloid press and elsewhere. It was indicative of Tony’s commitment to the cause (and eye for publicity) that these vows were reaffirmed in 1988 for a BBC Panorama programme about Church of England divisions.

Tony’s support for the ordination of women was also expressed through action. He mentored Liz Canham, who travelled to Newark, New Jersey, in 1981 and was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Stockwood and Bishop Jack Spong. Three weeks later, she celebrated the eucharist in the rectory at St Luke’s; the service was covered on BBC’s Newsnight that evening. In 1986, at the invitation of the PCC, she celebrated the eucharist in the church.

Tony’s ministry was marked by careful,

compassionate support for women who were training for ordination as deacons and then priests during the late 1980s and 1990s. His work was particularly important in quietly supporting those who were knocked back by selection processes that he saw as marked by ingrained sexism.

The third cause central to Tony’s ministry was the Palestinian struggle. He visited the Middle East in a Labour Party delegation in 1970, crystallising his sense of injustice about the Occupation. He later met Yasser Arafat, and regularly wore a keffiyeh (Palestinian scarf), sometimes over his vestments. He was a trustee for Bible Lands (now Embrace the Middle East) for 34 years.

What linked these issues for Tony was injustice. He was prepared not just to have opinions, but to act upon them even at personal cost.

Tony and Ailsa had six children, three of whom were adopted or fostered into what became a happy multi-racial family. In 1994, they retired to Whitstable, in Kent, and acquired a beach hut that they named St Luke’s. Tony became a part-time prison chaplain at Swaleside and Emley in the late 1990s, and worked as a counsellor for Cruse.

Ailsa strongly supported Tony’s values and provided emotional stability for the family. Although she disliked the term ‘vicar’s wife’, theirs was a shared social ministry. Ailsa died in 2020. They are fondly remembered in Charlton and beyond for their community work, radicalism, humour, and open house.

Tony died on 27 January, aged 87. He is survived by five children, thirteen grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.

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ERIC JONES (1943)

This obituary has been provided by Eric’s son, Martin.

Eric Jones passed away on 1 October 2021. He entered the Hall in 1943 on an army six-month short course having volunteered for the Royal Signals at eighteen years old. One of perhaps eight men dropped off the back of an army three-tonner late at night, having completed basic training at Catterick, he studied at Teddy Hall from April to September 1943. Living in Hall as an undergraduate, he had a schedule of academic lectures and additionally, one day a week, military training in Christ Church meadow under a Guards sergeant - part of the Officer selection procedure.

Later in life, Eric would often recall memories of ‘the Abe’ (A. B. Emden) then Principal, and the Rev John Kelly, known as ‘the VP’ and later, famously, Principal. “If the sirens went off in 1943, we were liable to be commanded by the VP to get out of bed and stand in the quad until the all-clear, listening to aircrafts searching for Cowley, and getting very cold. I am not

sure how that helped, but very British!”

Such was Eric’s academic performance, Principal Emden offered him the chance to return to the Hall once the war was over, whenever that should be, to study for a degree.

After serving in Italy and Greece, Eric was demobbed in 1947 and welcomed back at the Hall. Despite taking his Higher School Certificate, or ‘matric’, in Latin, Greek and Ancient History, Eric requested to take a degree in Mathematics. Although somewhat surprised with his choice, Dr Fletcher, the Senior Tutor, accepted him on a war degree in Mathematics.

Feeling there was no time to lose in resuming his formal education, securing a job and starting a family with his wife-tobe – his long-time girlfriend since his early war days – Eric completed his degree in two years, gaining his BA (subsequently MA), and then trained to teach on the DipEd course at Norham Gardens.

From 1950 to 1985 he taught Maths at Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Rochester, for much of that time as Head of Department, successfully guiding many students through their O and A Levels as well as a number onto Oxbridge.

Eric would often make visits back to the Hall, establishing contact with Dr Peter Collins, rejoicing in the familiarity and unique atmosphere of the Front Quad, and also in seeing the development of the small Hall he knew into a flourishing College under the steady guidance of JND Kelly.

As a KCS Wimbledon scholarship boy whose parents were a milliner and a gardener, Eric was always very grateful for the happy times at Teddy Hall and the significant opportunities it gave him.

Martin Jones (1975, Mathematics)

PETER MAYNE (1969)

Peter Mayne, who read Modern History at the Hall, died on 9 June 2022 at the age of 72, after living with cancer for eighteen months.

Peter’s professional life lay in education. His first post was teaching History at a boys’ grammar school in Leicester, the Headmaster of which was the father of the current Governor of the Bank of England. There followed a variety of jobs in teaching, including implementing and supervising various Government learning initiatives, before, in 1996, he became Principal of Paston College, a sixth form college in North Walsham, Norfolk. This was a position that he held until 2012. Peter’s philosophy was that the students’ interests always came first, and through the hard work of Peter and his team, the college grew and prospered under his stewardship. He was very proud of the success of his college and when Peter was presented to the Queen at the opening of the Millennium Library in Norwich, he took much delight in informing her Majesty that his eldest student was more than 90 years old. After retirement from Paston, Peter kept in touch with the world of education through consultancy work.

He was a campanologist, originally

learning to ring while at the Hall through the course organised by the Oxford University Society of Change Ringers. With his wife, Beverley – whom he first met as a fellow student of Latin at Beauchamp College, Leicestershire, the beginning of a relationship of more than 50 years – Peter rang at many towers in the Midlands and later mainly at Aylsham in Norfolk. Many ringing tours were also undertaken.

For many years, Peter was musician to Kemp’s Men of Norwich, who dance a wide mixture of Cotswold Morris and dances, composed by the Men, often based on the Norfolk long dance. Peter went on many tours with the Men in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. He also played melodeon, as a guest musician, for the Woodside Morrismen (based in Watford), again with tours in the UK and Germany. All matters railway related were an abiding passion. Model railway clubs, trainspotting expeditions, contact with the Reverend Teddy Boston, the original Fat Controller and the narrow gauge railway he built in the grounds of his Rectory at Cadeby, Leicestershire, made sure the railway bug had well and truly bitten. When Peter did eventually fully retire, he upgraded to fullsize train sets by volunteering on the North Norfolk “Poppy Line” heritage railway as a ticket inspector and then a guard, before becoming a director of the company that maintains and runs the line and becoming Chair of the Community Rail partnership for the Bitterne Line, the branch line that links Norwich to Sheringham.

A service of thanksgiving and celebration of his life was held on 5th July 2022 at St Nicholas Church, North Walsham. Appropriately, it was a clergyman in the regalia of Kemp’s Men who led the prayers at the celebration.

Graham Jenner (1969, History and Modern Languages)

LOUISE RANDS SILVA (1986)

This obituary originally appeared in The Guardian.

Louise Rands Silva, who has died of cancer aged 57, worked as my assistant for nearly 30 years, on cases, books and a myriad of other activities relating to matters of international law and justice. She also had a strong commitment to community engagement, working in parallel in education, for Sure Start, as a forest school leader, at a school working with children with behavioural difficulties, and as a teaching assistant at a primary school.

Born in Byfleet, Surrey, Louise was the daughter of Barbara Wright, a primary school teacher, and John Rands, a public health inspector. When the family moved to North Devon she went to school at South Molton Community College and Kelly College, then spent a year working on a kibbutz in Israel. In 1986 she went to St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, to study English literature. She moved to Brazil, to teach English as a foreign language, returning to London to work as a paralegal at a Brazilian law firm.

In 1992 I employed Louise at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development at SOAS University of London. There we worked together on projects about climate change, sustainable development, and international courts and tribunals. A highlight for her was being part of the

team in The Hague on the 1996 case on the legality of the use of nuclear weapons which ruled that environmental protection was now part of international law. While there, Louise took a part-time master’s degree at SOAS, in South American Development Studies.

In 1993 she married Maú de Jesus Silva, a guide and musician whom she had met in Brazil, and later they moved to Bideford, north Devon, to raise their children. There, Louise began her work in education, focusing on young families and in her work as a forest school leader, taking children into the outdoors to help them understand the wonders of the natural world. In later years she worked with refugee families in North Devon, teaching English.

Over this entire period, Louise and I never stopped working together. She transcribed every interview I conducted, for books and cases, and typed and corrected the manuscripts of 15 books, from a treatise on international environmental law to the more recent East West Street (2016) and The Ratline (2020). She shared thoughts about characters and themes, enriching every book.

She was a first sounding board, a trusted colleague and friend who offered significant input on the issues she cared about. A few weeks before her death she was still working, on my forthcoming book about Chagos, The Last Colony, and was immortalised by Martin Rowson in one of his illustrations for the book. Louise was a truly decent person, smart and warm, humorous and generous, understated and utterly reliable. Maú died in 2007.

She is survived by their sons, Gabriel and Rafael, by her siblings, Caroline and Edward, and by her mother, Barbara.

Philippe Sands Reproduced with permission

JOHN LIONEL TOOLE (1958)

Lionel passed away peacefully at his home in Cumbria on 28 October 2021.

Born in Chester in 1938, Lionel studied French and Russian at St Edmund Hall, as well as being a member of St Edmund Hall 1st VIII (1960), after completing his National Service.

After graduation, Lionel spent the majority of his professional life working abroad, in China, Nigeria, Morocco, Senegal, Sweden and Canada to name a few, before retiring to his beloved Lake District.

In his later years, he taught himself piano and developed a love and aptitude for genealogy.

Lionel is greatly missed by his wife, Diana, sons David and Andrew, and four grandsons.

REVD CANON HUGH WILCOX (1959)

This obituary has been provided by Hugh’s brother, Martin

Hugh was born in Barnsley and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Colchester. After National Service, he came to the Hall to read Theology in 1959. As a student he served as President of the University U.N. Association, and on committees of the Student Christian Movement. He was Chair of the University World Refugee Committee, and was President of the Freedom from Hunger Campaign. He treasured his time at the Hall, and his studies with the late Principal, Dr John Kelly

After his training at St Stephen’s House, Hugh was ordained Deacon in 1964, serving his curacy at St James the Great, Colchester, and becoming Priest in 1965. He married his first wife, Mary, and they had two sons. The following year he became a staff secretary for the SCM, and from 1968-1976 held secretarial posts with the British Council of Churches, and travelled widely representing the BCC International Affairs Department. He contributed to Violence in Southern Africa

published by SCM Press and to World Council of Churches work on international projects.

Hugh visited the United Nations for six weeks in 1974 as a representative of the Society of Friends. In his words this was “a considerable ecumenical honour for an Anglican priest to represent Quakers.”

In September 1976 Hugh became Vicar of St Mary’s Church, Ware, and served there until his retirement in August 2003. His work included governorship of two church schools, periods as Mayor’s Chaplain, and considerable work with the creation of an extension built at the church. His work involved much community involvement and he sought to attract worshippers to join the congregation.

In 1989 Hugh was elected to the General Synod of the Church of England to represent the clergy of St Albans diocese. There he served as a Church Commissioner first advising on redundant churches and then on the Assets Committee. Hugh also helped to draft the Common Worship services now in use. He became widely known as a Prolocutor in the Synod, contributing to and guiding

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many key debates.

Having learned the piano at an early age, Hugh was a talented musician who enjoyed singing tenor in the choir whenever possible, and continued as a chorister after his retirement. At the service of thanksgiving after his death the congregation sang a ‘Candlemas Hymn’ written by Hugh. He was a family man and is survived by his second wife Barbara, sons Dave and Andy, and three grandchildren.

In 1996 he became an Honorary Canon of St Albans Cathedral in recognition not only of his pastoral work as Vicar in Ware, but also his contribution to many influential committees both national and international. After retirement Hugh and Barbara lived in Royston where he enjoyed doing extensive research into his family history.

Hugh described himself as “a High Churchman” by upbringing, training, and inclination”, and considered it a privilege to serve God in the “often infuriating, but always challenging and rewarding process that has made up a very varied ministry”.

Martin Wilcox (1967, Theology)

Aularian News Erratum

P. 186 At the end of his obituary for his father, John Pike, we erroneously listed Michael Pike’s Oxford affiliation. Like his father, Michael is an Aularian (1968, English), we apologise deeply for the mistake.

The Last Hurrah of the St Edmund Hall 1960 Year by Guy Warner

To end the Magazine for another year, a toast proposed at the end of a 1960 reunion dinner held in the Old Dining Hall on 28 September 2022: Vintage Aularians, 1960 survivors; it falls to me to propose our Aularian toast. We are gathered here in this evocative Old Dining Hall – possibly for the last time. Fortunately, there are still just enough of us left to justify a reunion dinner but that may not continue. Indeed, sadly, we have lost, among others, Alex McCallum, Andrew MacLachlan, David Henderson, John Blackburn, John Heath, Mike Roberts, Mike Notley, Peter Bayliss, Roger Plumb, Roger Williamson, Roger Wilcock, Tim Cannon and Tim Richards May they rest in peace. Additionally, there are some of us who have vanished in cyberspace. They remain out of contact despite the best efforts of Francis and the Alumni staff. But we who are here can look back on our youth at the Hall – probably with affection and gratitude. So what do we remember about it? If indeed we can still remember anything!

It was almost exactly 62 years ago that 112 of us entered this great College for the first time. None of us knew each other – mostly we were among other youthful strangers each of us wondering what lay ahead. Feelings were of anticipation, excitement and perhaps trepidation. None of us knew what was in store for us. Some of us had expectations – most of us just hopes. What happened in our three or more years here? First, there was the obligatory year group photograph. If you still have it, you will probably not recognise others or indeed yourself. Then there was an enthusiastic welcome from our unforgettable Principal, Canon John

Kelly, whose magnificent portrait we see over there, gazing benevolently on us. We were helped in getting to know each other by our cosy and iconic Front Quad – unique among Oxford colleges. With its small size and intimate atmosphere, it was able to generate all manner of chatter and interaction throughout the day and sometimes nights – with song emanating from the Buttery. Not much intellectual discussion though – sporting talk was prevalent, reflecting the main activity then. That talk was enlivened by the presence of many distinguished sportsmen, most of whom had done National Service before coming up. We were the first year not to have had the advantage of two years military service – or was that fortunate? Rugby was the premier sport. Hard to believe, in that first Michaelmas term the Hall provided over half of the Oxford rugby team.

In fact, we ourselves were involved in many sporting activities – too numerous to talk about here –but I will just trigger some memories by mentioning the victorious Torpids crew of 1962. They bumped St Johns early on and then rowed over as Head of the River. Julian Rogers was stroke followed by John Sherman at 7, John Adey at 6, Jeff Goddard at 5, Robin Brackley at 4, Bob Chard at 3, Tim Richards at 2, Patrick Sankey-Barker as bow with David Henderson as Cox. Truly an illustrious team! In other sports, we eventually had seven Blues, and others who represented the University at various times. You may recall that in that Hilary term of 1962, as well as Torpids, we won nearly every inter-college competition: including rugby, soccer, hockey, drama and even ping pong. Although sport

was the main catalyst, we had an easy camaraderie among many different personalities and spanning many different activities – including chess, bridge, drama, music, religion, shoot pontoon and the Scope Club.

I suppose I should mention our academic prowess – I use that description loosely. It was not apparent that much attention was given to work. We had few eventual firsts. It is quite different nowadays – the number of firsts verges on 25 percent. That perhaps reflects the brilliant women who now make the Hall their first choice of Oxford colleges. They have contributed greatly to its current prominence. Of course, the Hall’s teams – men’s, women’s and mixed - still excel at sport and we continue to win Rugby Cuppers (alas not this year). You don’t need me to tell you that the College has gone from strength to strength – even without us – or perhaps due to the enduring springboard which we helped to create all those years ago, only

three years after the Hall was granted its full charter by the late Queen. Maybe we will come to rival Balliol in having a line of future prime ministers, starting with Sir Keir Starmer…

How did we all turn out? Well, all of us will have had our triumphs, some small and personal, others more widely consequential. However, as we look back, now is not the time to dwell on any of those. When the moving finger of life nears its end, it does not really matter what heights you reached or what achievements were yours. The paths of glory, or otherwise, fade away into insignificance. Anyway, some of us may have wasted our sweetness on the desert air. More cheerfully, during whatever time we have left, as our fading sun goes down, we can all be truly grateful that our rising dawn was here at this distinguished and unique College – indeed like no other. Please rise for the Floreat Aula toast. Guy Warner (1960, Mathematics)