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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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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12, 2020
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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11, 2020
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
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09, 2020
How to launch Not so Black and White – not like the crowded events of the past.
It’s taken these surreal times for me to appreciate the outstanding locations and crowded book launches I've enjoyed. The most special was the launch of Oxford Castaways in the Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean which Sir Roger Bannister wound up,