The Spires of Oxford
Author: Winifred M. Letts
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 128
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Author: Winifred M. Letts
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton
Published: 1917
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Duncan Bowie
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Published: 2018-12-13
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1912656132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBooks about Oxford have generally focused on the University rather than the city. This original book on the local politics of Oxford City from 1830 to 1980 is based on a comprehensive analysis of primary sources and tells the story of the city’s progressive politics. The book traces this history from Chartism and electoral reform in the mid-nineteenth century, through the early years of socialism to the impact of communism in the interwar period, the struggle between nuclear disarmers and Gaitskellites in the 1960s and the impact of the new revolutionary left in the late 1970s. Throughout the narrative, the book contrasts the two approaches of those engaged in progressive politics, those who focused on the politics of reform and improved government and those who preferred the politics of revolt, protest and revolutionary rhetoric. The author argues that a central feature of this history has been the co-existence and interaction of working- and middle- class elements. It rediscovers a rich heritage, a fascinating story and offers a rare wide-ranging chronological narrative of local UK city politics. Through its extensive quotes from primary sources, the book presents a vivid picture of local politics over 150 years.
Author: Kate Clanchy
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781509886609
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Oxford Spires Academy is a small comprehensive school with 30 languages - and one special focus: poetry. In the last five years, its students have won every prize going. They have been celebrated in The Guardian ('The Very Quiet Foreign Girls Poetry Group'), and the subject of a Radio 3 documentary. In this unique anthology, their mentor and teacher prize-winning poet Kate Clanchy brings their poems together, and allowing readers to see why their work has caused such a stir. By turns raw and direct, funny and powerful, lyrical and heartbreaking, they document the pain of migration and the exhilaration of building a new land, an England of a thousand voices. This poetry is easy to read and hard to forget, as fresh, bright and present as the young migrants who produced it." [jaquette].
Author: Christopher A Snyder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1643131095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby—war hero and Oxford man—at the beginning of the Jazz Age, when the City of Dreaming Spires attracted an astounding array of intellectuals, including the Inklings, W.B. Yeats, and T.S. Eliot. A diverse group of Americans came to Oxford in the first quarter of the twentieth century—the Jazz Age—when the Rhodes Scholar program had just begun and the Great War had enveloped much of Europe. Scott Fitzgerald created his most memorable character—Jay Gatsby—shortly after his and Zelda’s visit to Oxford. Fitzgerald’s creation is a cultural reflection of the aspirations of many Americans who came to the University of Oxford. Beginning in 1904, when the first American Rhodes Scholars arrived in Oxford, this book chronicles the experiences of Americans in Oxford through the Great War to the beginning of the Great Depression. This period is interpreted through the pages of The Great Gatsby, producing a vivid cultural history. Archival material covering Scholars who came to Oxford during Trinity Term 1919—when Jay Gatsby claims he studied at Oxford—enables the narrative to illuminate a detailed portrait of what a “historical Gatsby” would have looked like, what he would have experienced at the postwar university, and who he would have encountered around Oxford—an impressive array of artists including W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis.
Author: Richard Le Gallienne
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 604
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Earle Emmons
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher Ball
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781908493781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK?This is a guidebook with a differenceone residents and visitors alike will want to treasure, reread and show their friends. That Sweet City offers a beguiling introduction to one of the fairest and most enthralling places in the world. Designed as seven walks across and around the citys centre, and radiating out from Oxford into the surrounding countryside, it provides pictures and poems describing each of the selected sights, together with a commentary and maps of the walks.
Author: John Harrie Beveridge
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Winifred M. Letts
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Horan
Publisher: Signal Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781902669052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing in the footsteps of historic figures and writers, Horan reveals the many dimensions, social and cultural, of a city where tradition and modernity interconnect. From the quadrangles and chapels of the university center to the multicultural bustle of the Cowley Road, he explores both the historic and contemporary faces of Oxford. Maps and illustrations.