John Wilson

…a former Fellow called John Wilson. Wilson invested in the transatlantic slave trade in enslaved African persons and benefitted financially from it. He bequeathed his wealth to the College in…

Dawn Wilson

Prof Andrew Kahn FBA

Introduction I was born and raised in New York. The Cold War mentality of the 1970s gave Russian civilization a great mystique. I made my first trip to Russia at…

Dr Andrew Timms

I was educated at local state schools as a child and then at Selwyn College, Cambridge, as an undergraduate and the University of Bristol as a postgraduate. I joined Queen’s…

Shakespeare's Books

Andrew Strader, New York, 2000. Queen’s PR2807.A2.KL Edward Whitchurch, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administracion of the Sacramentes, London, 1549. Queen’s Sel.d.41 George Chapman, The Whole Works of…

Prof Anthony Gardner

…in 2009 at the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Before moving to Oxford in 2012, I was an Andrew Mellon…

AI in the Library

…and my friend Andrew typed ‘I want you to write a Space Invaders game’. Not much happened. Not long after, our own Spectrum arrived, and I made my way through…

Anthea Bell Prize 2022: Winners and Commendees

…4: Tomos Davies (Year 13), Nottingham High School Midlands: Commendees French Maja Laskowska (Year 7), Alcester Grammar School Lara Wilson (Year 7), Countesthorpe Academy Myah & Evie (Year 9), Belper…

Classics and Joint Schools

…History of Religions, and Linguistics, at universities including Cambridge, Chicago, Edinburgh, Harvard, Leiden, London, Oxford, Shanghai (Fudan University), St Andrews, and York. Nothing could better illustrate the breadth of the Classics…

'His name [...] had become an empty sound': Henry Markheim, "Markheim", and Robert Louis Stevenson

…Stevenson in Bournemouth, see www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n10/andrew-o-hagan/bournemouth and edrls.wordpress.com/2020/06/18/stevensons-bournemouth. [4] For photographs of the 1906 production at The Lyric with Harry B. Irving, see The Sketch, 25 April 1906, pp. 37, 46….

Freshers

…and email college.office@queens.ox.ac.uk The Bursar The Bursar, Dr Andrew Timms, deals with all financial matters in College. The Bursary is located on the first floor of Front Quad, Staircase 1…

Anthea Bell Prize 2023: Winners and Commendees

…School James Steuart Fothringham (year 12), Glenalmond College Oliver Hak (S1), The Glasgow Academy Alexander Maclean-Bristol (year 9), Merchiston Castle School Anonymous (S3), St Andrew’s and St Bride’s High School…

Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE

Hayaatun is CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. She chairs the government’s Business Innovation Forum and St Andrews Prize for the Environment, and…

A cancelled Booke of Common Prayer...for the use of the Church of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1637)

…page is printed in red and black ink, and decorated capital letters throughout emphasise the book’s Scottishness: a ship flies St Andrew’s Flag of Scotland, and thistles decorate other corners….

Translation and its Failures: W.G. Sebald's 'Austerlitz' and Anthea Bell at UNIQ

…research project on transnational memory landscapes in contemporary French and German literature. She can be found on Twitter @HannahScheitha1. The photograph is of St. Andrew’s Church, Covehithe, by Isabella Cullen….

Films that Generate Discussion

…Odd-week Wednesdays at 19:00 in the Shulman Auditorium. Here is our term card: Theme: Films that make you cry Week Film Title Director Week 1  Wall-E Andrew Stanton Week 3 Anomalisa  Charlie Kaufmann…