The laboratory with leaves, part 11: The father of ecology

The laboratory with leaves, part 11: The father of ecology

The laboratory with leaves, part 11: The father of ecology
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are happy: Oxford job for Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are happy: Oxford job for Tom Stoppard

The playwright and screenwriter is Oxford’s next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre.

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One last effort to save the stories of the Great War
Oxford’s first women’s college completed 138 years after it began
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Crossword — June 2017

Crossword — June 2017

Crack June’s crossword competition to win How English Became English: A Short History of a Global Language, by Simon Horobin.

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Crossword — April 2017
Crossword — February 2017
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Ray Guillery
Interrogating the brain: The life of Ray Guillery

Finding the right answers is important, said the neuroanatomist, but finding the right questions first is vital.

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Birds of a feather: The zoologist who beds down with the flock
A new leaf: The Botanic Garden’s new director shares his grand vision
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From Oxford to Lahore — the anti-imperialist Briton who became a Tibetan Buddhist nun

From Oxford to Lahore — the anti-imperialist Briton who became a Tibetan Buddhist nun

Historian Andrew Whitehead on the Oxford alumna who was one of the first Westerners ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun.

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Catch a virus, kill a cancer: The new world of virotherapy
Lucy Kellaway: Compared with the girls I met at Oxford, I felt like Johnny Rotten
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What not to miss in Oxford this summer

What not to miss in Oxford this summer

From Raphael to Austen, from fish and chips to the Perch – vital sustenance for the lively mind.

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Pride of place: Oxford puts a ‘great unrecorded history’ on the map
‘So unfair’ — that’s the key to entertaining children, says playwright David Wood
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A walk on the wild side with an Oxonian zoologist and wildlife vet

A walk on the wild side with an Oxonian zoologist and wildlife vet

Nigel Dougherty (St Anne’s, 1985) writes passionately on his work with animals in Africa and beyond.

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Gibraltar, my father’s lost Eden, is still shackled to a dream of empire
Rasputin dispute: Did Oxford alumnus really kill him?
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