All Souls

Were Britain’s postwar dons just having too much fun?

2 May 2026 9:00 am

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

Hawksmoor’s plan for a baptistery at St Paul’s Cathedral

Rescuing old Nick

13 February 2016 9:00 am

In the conclusion to his very substantial study of England’s least known and most misunderstood Baroque architect, Owen Hopkins discusses…