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		<title>Michael Wright: The Last Officer in the British Indian Army</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Wright: the last officer in the British Indian Army
The village of Kennington, where I live, is the only village in the country to have chosen to fundraise for an overseas project every year, since 1969. In the process, we have come to know some very remarkable people who have set up charities. They have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Dexter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                                                Colin Dexter: October 2009 Castaway 
 
When reviewing ‘My Ashmolean /My Museum‘, for the Oxford Times, I was struck by Theo Chalmers’ stern portrait of Colin Dexter. I mentioned it to Colin and he assured me that he did, indeed, know how to smile but that his instructions were to look grim ‘as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bettany Hughes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[              December 2009 Castaway: Bettany Hughes
              Historian Writer, Broadcaster and opener of The New Ashmolean 
 
The five year old Bettany Hughes was one of 1,694,117 people, who saw the golden mask, from the head of the mummy of King Tutankhamen, on display at the landmark British Museum exhibition, in 1972. It inspired a career researching the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shami Chakrabarti</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May Castaway 2009 : Shami Chakrabarti  
Last year Oxford Brookes University appointed a new Vice Chancellor. Oxford Brookes is a young university so it is rather fitting that they chose the thirty nine year old Shami Chakrabarti. Shami is better known nationally for her role as director of ‘Liberty’, formerly known as ‘The National Council [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real People, Real Lives - Writer Helen Rappaport</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer Helen Rappaport reveals her love of Russia, all things Victorian and the landscape of the Medway marshes in conversation with Sylvia Vetta.
See the full published article here
Historian Helen Rappaport has two great passions,Russia and the Victorians. Her interest in Russia led her in many directions, viaa career in TV and films, translating Chekhov and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Emperor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 18:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This show was breaking records before it opened with 140,000 pre-booked tickets. It remains at the British Museum until April 2008 so you can still join them.
China is probably named after, Qin Shi Huangdi, who created it out of warring states and abolished feudalism. (Qin is pronounced ‘chin’.) His legacy has similarities with another great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A portrait of Weimin He and the builders of the New Ashmolean portrayed with his ‘Brush and Pen’.</title>
		<link>http://sylviavetta.co.uk/?p=334</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 18:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The architects, designers and construction engineers are mostly sat behind computers but the men who did the physical work are painted in uninhibited natural poses, working and relaxing. Climb the stairs they built, to the temporary exhibition rooms of the Ashmolean and see them, not as photographs catching a moment, but discover their personalities, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Printing It Red</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 18:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review by Sylvia Vetta of Chinese prints 1950-2006 at the Ashmolean
This exhibition may be small in size but not in ambition. The Ashmolean has an exquisite collection of Chinese artefacts but the Assistant Keeper of Eastern Art,  Shelagh Vainker had the vision to build on an important modern collection. The Ashmolean was farsighted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Three Cities – China Design Now at the V&#038;A</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 18:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To understand the design revolution that this exhibition portrays, it helps to picture a popular cartoon that appeared soon after the Cultural Revolution in China. (1965-1976) When, after the death of Mao, it was possible to poke fun at the past a cartoonist drew six members of a family from the baby to the grandfather. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garden of the Year Photographic Competition and Exhibition: Blenheim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Wild Shotover Ramble on Boxing Day, I found myself musing in front of the oldest oak on the walk, thinking that it was probably just 25 when King Charles held his parliament in Oxford, during the Civil War.
Simon Norfolk’s dramatic photograph, on the front cover of this section, of a Blenheim oak, captures [...]]]></description>
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