Oxford
Singing with the Choir
Workmen were pulling up the tattered carpets of our college chapel at Oxford, which meant that our choir was temporarily homeless for our weekly rehearsal. After casting around for alternative spaces, our music director came up with a solution: we crossed Holywell Street and entered the grounds of nearby New College, making our way to…
Read MoreIntrepid Women at the Pitt-Rivers Museum
On the eve of International Women’s Day, a standing-room only crowd of a hundred or so people squeezed into an upper gallery of Oxford University’s Pitt-Rivers Museum, a place known to generations of British school children as where they saw shrunken heads. The tsantsa, or shrunken heads, were removed from their display cases in 2020…
Read MoreThe Garden Maestro
Neil Wigfield stands in front of a mostly bare flower bed on a bitterly cold afternoon in February without a hat or gloves. Though the temperature hovers around freezing that day in Oxford, he’s wearing a single fleece top on to keep him warm. But, as he explains the succession of spring blooms that will…
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