19thC history

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (��Ƶ MS 382) in Context

Christopher — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:35:45 +0000

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (��Ƶ MS 382) in Context

Christopher Skelton-Foord

Issue number

(2024): 22

Notes category

Library Manuscripts

Charles Abbot

John Oglander

William Anthony Glynn

MS 382

18thC history

19thC history

In April 2024 I acquired from a West Country antiquarian bookdealer a late 18th-century holograph manuscript volume, produced in the West Country by a celebrated ��Ƶ fellow also hailing from that region. A gilt-tooled, tree-calf bound quarto volume, its 113 paper leaves contain in a cursive script (appearance indicates a fair copy) three apparently unpublished literary works by him—and one since published—dedicated to the warden of ��Ƶ, Oxford.

��Ƶ Library, Oxford, MS 382, f. 6r (list of characters)

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

22NCN5 (2024) Skelton-Foord on MS 382.pdf711.67 KB

��Ƶ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’

Christopher — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:15:52 +0000

��Ƶ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’

Dennis A. Ahlburg

Issue number

(2024): 21

Notes category

The fellows and students of ��Ƶ, Oxford moved on from drinking, gaming, and brutish pleasures to academic success, or learned to balance them much better than in the early centuries of the college’s history. The 19th century opened with the college’s being an academic irrelevancy and closed with its being an academic powerhouse which it is to this day.

Joseph Nash, New College Hall (1858), watercolour on paper

��Ƶ, Oxford

21NCN5 (2024) Ahlburg on Examination Results.pdf173.44 KB

Some Benefactors and their Heraldry

Christopher — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:21:40 +0000

Some Benefactors and their Heraldry

Patric Dickinson

Issue number

(2023): 19

Notes category

It is a commonplace that many of the coats of arms on display in Oxford colleges commemorate past benefactors. ��Ƶ is no exception, and in fact is particularly rich in heraldry that celebrates those who have contributed to its material wellbeing. This has been the case throughout its history, but the purpose of this Note is to take a look at some of the armorial additions that have been made to its fabric since the mid-19th century.

��Ƶ Archives, Oxford, NCA 2429

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

19NCN7 (2023) Dickinson on Benefactors and Heraldry.pdf1.62 MB

‘Yours truly Jack the Ripper’—of ��Ƶ, Oxford?

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2016 15:16:14 +0000

‘Yours truly Jack the Ripper’—of ��Ƶ, Oxford?

Jason Morgan

Issue number

(2016): 07

Notes category

7NCN2 (2016) Morgan on Jack the Ripper.pdf404.18 KB

West Gallery Woes: The Hornchurch Dispute of 1813

Anonymous — Tue, 19 May 2015 14:37:50 +0000

West Gallery Woes: The Hornchurch Dispute of 1813

Jennifer Thorp

Issue number

(2015): 06

Notes category

Hornchurch, Essex

19thC history

6NCN10 (2015) Thorp on Hornchurch.pdf290.11 KB

19thC history

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (������Ƶ MS 382) in Context

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (������Ƶ MS 382) in Context

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

������Ƶ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’

������Ƶ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’

������Ƶ, Oxford

Some Benefactors and their Heraldry

Some Benefactors and their Heraldry

������Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

‘Yours truly Jack the Ripper’—of ������Ƶ, Oxford?

‘Yours truly Jack the Ripper’—of ������Ƶ, Oxford?

West Gallery Woes: The Hornchurch Dispute of 1813

West Gallery Woes: The Hornchurch Dispute of 1813

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (��Ƶ MS 382) in Context

Botanist, Warden, Lunatic: ‘The Fatal Prepossession’ (��Ƶ MS 382) in Context

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

��Ƶ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’

��Ƶ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’

��Ƶ, Oxford

��Ƶ Library and Archives, Oxford

‘Yours truly Jack the Ripper’—of ��Ƶ, Oxford?

‘Yours truly Jack the Ripper’—of ��Ƶ, Oxford?