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ArticleInside Oxford: Secrets, Stor­ies, and Strange Tra­di­tions, by Oliver Carter

Inside Oxford: Secrets, Stor­ies, and Strange Tra­di­tions By Oliver Carter Sphere £20 Oxford Uni­versity, in addi­tion to being the old­est aca­demic insti­tu­tion in the Eng­lish-speak­ing world and prob­ably the most fam­ous edu­ca­tional...

ArticleThe Amer­ican Way of Killing: The Inven­tion of an Epi­demic, by Mal­colm Glad­well

Carter is clearly a writer of the socially-aware left. We learn that J K Rowl­ing is a hate fig­ure to most of his con­tem­por­ar­ies and that it is con­sidered an unequi­vocal good that the num­ber of private stu­dents being admit­ted to Oxford is...

ArticleNapo­leon and His Mar­shals: Vic­tory, Rivalry, Betrayal, by Andrew Roberts

ArticleAris­totle: The First Teacher, by Philip Free­man

His sole con­sol­a­tion was to read Oscar Wilde’s De Pro­fundis. As the days turned into weeks and months, a mix­ture of bore­dom and fear pre­dom­in­ated among the inmates. When they were not tak­ing bets on the end of the war, or dis­cuss­ing...

ArticleThe Steps: A Mem­oir, by Sylvester Stal­lone

Chan­nel – goes with ambi­tion, and the mar­shal­ate were cer­tainly an ambi­tious and frac­tious lot. Two had to be pre­ven­ted from duelling, sev­eral were not on speak­ing terms, oth­ers refused co-oper­a­tion in battle if their rival was likely to...

ArticleOlden Life: What were post­men’s huts?

Above: the Meaux post­men’s hut in the East Rid­ing, York­shire, 1940. a sur­vivor in Cwmys­twyth, Wales could rest between their out­ward and return rounds – post­men’s huts. The huts were never going to win any archi­tec­tural prizes, being...