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Teaching Tolkien in Nevada: Former OT digital editor John Garth on his move to Las Vegas
Tolkien expert John Garth on leaving Oxford for the bright lights of 'Sin City' -
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The tenth Alumni Weekend in Oxford
Nearly 2000 alumni and guests took part in an action-packed three days of talks, tours and tastings at Oxford's largest Alumni Weekend. -
Catching up with the students who voted for Brexit
Voters in Oxfordshire and young British people backed membership of the EU, but what of the undergraduates who bucked the trend to vote for Brexit? -
From Afghanistan dispatches to Oxford essays: On being a mature student
Journalist Michel Petrou reminisces about trading Afghanistan for St Antony's, Oxford. -
How Oxford alumni are excavating the truth behind the legends of Alderley Edge
Inspired by novelist Alan Garner (Magdalen, 1953) archaeologists have recently begun to unravel the truth behind the legends of Alderley Edge in Cheshire. -
Can great writing be taught?
Novelist Anna Hope (English, Wadham) speaks out on behalf of creative writing teaching. -
How to be good? The possibility of moral enhancement
John Harris is the author of 'How to be Good' (Oxford University Press, 2016) and professor emeritus in science ethics at the University of Manchester -
Will Clinton be trumped? Election fever in Washington DC
Academics shared their views on Trump versus Clinton at the Alumni Weekend in Washington DC -
Oxford: An unlikely place for one of the world's greatest universities?
Professor Brockliss explores Oxford's improbable rise from provincial backwater in the eleventh century to one of the world's leading universities. -
The loot from China's old Summer Palace in Beijing that still rankles
Tiffany Jenkins, author of Keeping Their Marbles, explores the history of looting through an incident in China in the Second Opium Wars
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