The Success of the Second Oxford Indie Book Fair &why it is needed.
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02, 2022
My friend Weimin He’s highly recommended online workshops
Weimin says ‘I spent an hour and a half in the print room to study Raphael’s original drawing. I tried to draw the same size as the original and I presume Raphael might have spent no more than 1.5 hours
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02, 2022
Expect the Unexpected at the Second Oxford Independent Book Fair
Thanks to the success of the first Oxford Indie Book Fair there will be a second one - even better - on Saturday April 2 from 10.30- 4.30 The 45 exhibitors will include independent publishers such as Claret Press,
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01, 2022
Make the Headington Shark a heritage site !
You have one day left to support the proposal to make the Headington Shark a heritage site. The Shark is mostly associated with the owner of the house Bill Heine seen in this pic. Bill was my friend but the
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Sir Roger Bannister a great Scientist, a great sportsman and a great human being
https://www.sylviavetta.co.uk/2018/03/23/some-of-my-memories-of-a-great-human-being-roger-bannister/ Today a plaque will be unveiled in Westminster Abbey to Sir Roger Bannister –not among the sportsmen but among the scientists. I believe that would please him. When I cast him away on Oxtopia in 2011, he most wanted
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04, 2021
Oxford the Hollywood of Stories and how hard it is to talk about me.
When she interviewed me for her podcast, Yang May and I discovered a common passion for libraries and storytelling. I hope my stories are global but they arise from the web of connections to all continents that you find in
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01, 2021
Proof copy arrived of a printed version of the free Oxford Indie Book Fair Magazine. Interested in Life-Writing?
I’ve just picked up the proof copy of the printed version of the Oxford Indie Book Fair Magazine from Andy Severn of OxfordeBooks. It is essentially an online magazine: you can read this third edition on the link. If you
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01, 2021
On the edge : let’s share good memories.
On Saturday Live this morning, the poet Simon Armitage was talking about his poem Event Horizon. In 2007, I had the privilege to review an Antony Gormley exhibition also called Event Horizon at the Hayward Gallery - one of the
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Mark Carney -the shark and an untold story
Did you listen and watch the first Reith lecture by Mark Carney? The topic was ‘From moral to market sentiments’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0900t1x/the-reith-lectures-2020-mark-carney-how-we-get-what-we-value-lecture-1-from-moral-to-market-sentiments? It came as a surprise when in answer to a question by Anita Anand, he said he had taken
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Roger Penrose and the precision and beauty of Mathematics. Listen to him explain it and be inspired .
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000p6dl Roger Penrose is one of the greatest minds in the world today. The Oxford Professor of Mathematics has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics . He was on Start the Week this morning talking about physics. After