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Equipped for life with a copy of Thucydides

Oxford’s reverence for the Classics over the centuries is brilliantly celebrated by L.W.B Brockliss — who also imagines a glorious virtual future for the university

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

The University of Oxford: A History L.W.B. Brockliss

OUP Oxford, pp.912, £35, ISBN: 9780199243563

‘What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford,’ wrote A.A. Milne in 1939,

is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it… [whereas] every Oxonian has at least one book about Oxford inside him… Oxford men will say that this shows what a much more inspiring place Oxford is, and Cambridge men will say that it shows how much less quickly Oxford men grow up.

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