Were Britain’s postwar dons just having too much fun?
Hugh Trevor-Roper, for whom the university was a place of pleasure as well as learning, identifiedas early as 1951 a ‘party of darkness’ focusing on administrative efficiency and dullness
Malice and intrigue in the shadow of Tom Tower
The eight Christ Church historians portrayed by Richard Davenport-Hines were supremely gifted as writers and talkers – but the unpleasantness of Oxford dons is not downplayed
A sentimental journey
Publishers lately seem to have got the idea that otherwise uncommercial subjects might be rendered sexy if presented with a…
Friction and fieldwork
To be an anthropologist today is to understand, as few in the secular modern university can, what it is to…
