ISBN: 9780199544868

Brasenose College, Oxford was founded in 1509 by a Bishop (William Smith) and a lawyer (Richard Sutton). Both came from the North West of England, and the College has always been proud of… More...

Brasenose College, Oxford was founded in 1509 by a Bishop (William Smith) and a lawyer (Richard Sutton). Both came from the North West of England, and the College has always been proud of its links with Lancashire and Cheshire. But over the centuries Brasenose - or ''B. N.C.'' as it is usuallyknown - has expanded its reputation world-wide: in sport, law, politics, literature. This is the first general history of Brasenose for more than a hundred years. Using college archives, letters, and diaries, it aims to re-create something of the variety and texture of academic life over a period offive centuries: the learning, the conversation, the sport; the intellectual milieu, and physical setting; the architecture inside and out; the food and drink, the quirks of personality, the little dramas, and absurdities that make up the small change of corporate living. Brasenose was the first Oxford college to admit undergraduates on a statutory basis; and the first of the men''s colleges to decide to admit women. From Walter Pater to William Golding; from Earl Haig to Archbishop Runcie; from Prince Obolenski to Colin Cowdrey; from Elias Ashmole and John Buchan toMichael Palin and David Cameron: Brasenose has never been short of personalities. The originator of rugby football (William Webb Ellis), the inventor of bottled beer (Alexander Nowell), the lyricist of Danny Boy (Fred Weatherley) the father of political economy (Sir William Petty), the physicist whodiscovered the fuel cell (Sir William Grove): all these were Brasenose men. Here Vincent''s Club was founded. Here Brideshead Revisited was born: Sebastian was a Brasenose man. Here C. S. Lewis looked into a chapel wardrobe and emerged in the kingdom of Narnia. For the first time, this original and entertaining narrative places all these people, and hundreds more, in the context of college life and in the wider world of university politics. Brasenose is very far from being a dull, institutional history. It bubbles with anecdote and incident. This iscollective biography on an epic scale | Brasenose by J. Mordaunt Crook Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History P10103, J. Mordaunt Crook<

2008, ISBN: 0199544867

[EAN: 9780199544868], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford], Hardcover. Brasenose College was founded in 1509 by a Bishop (William Smith) and a lawyer (Richard Sutton). Both came… More...

[EAN: 9780199544868], Neubuch, [PU: Oxford University Press, Oxford], Hardcover. Brasenose College was founded in 1509 by a Bishop (William Smith) and a lawyer (Richard Sutton). Both came from the North West of England, and the college has always been proud of its links with Lancashire and Cheshire. But over the centuries Brasenose or 'B.N.C.' as it is usually known has expanded its reputation worldwide. This is the first full-scale history of Brasenose, timed to coincide with its Quincentenary. The setting is broad: it relates the college tothe university, and the university to the wider world of politics. Using archives, letters and diaries, it aims to recreate something of the variety and texture of academic life over a period of fivecenturies: the learning, the conversation, the sport; the intellectual milieu and financial context; the architecture inside and out; the food and drink, the quirks of personality, the little dramas, and absurdities that make up the small change of corporate living. An entertaining history of a famous Oxford college, celebrating its 500th Anniversary: a cast of thousands, from Earl Haig to David Cameron, from John Buchan to Jeffery Archer, from Prince Obolenski to Colin Cowdrey. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability., Books<

2008, ISBN: 9780199544868

The Biography of an Oxford College, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2008