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The Muniment Room of Magdalen College and its contents

…would be instantly recognisable to any of our earliest Fellows. The cupboards contain over 130 wooden boxes, several of which retain their original medieval labels. Each box contains deeds relating…

Old Library Exhibition: In His Own Image

…Special Election We live in the age of iteration. Thanks to TikTok, Twitter and Instagram, nothings really matters anymore unless it has been copied — and viewed, liked and reposted…

Grotesque Decoration and the Early Modern Printed Book

…centuries of environmental instability and some of the original décor has faded, but what is left can be visited by the public. Thankfully, the tourist route is modern and accessible,…

Talk: In His Own Image

…Twitter and Instagram, nothing really matters anymore unless it has been copied — and viewed, liked and reposted — millions of times. Aesop plainly saw this coming when he observed…

Strategic Plan

…for students and staff, and to install the best modern facilities and equipment wherever possible. The College aims at the same time to enhance the intellectual and cultural life of…

Die teütsch Spraach: The first ‘true’ German dictionary from 1561

…today’s Google world, we perhaps take it for granted that we can instantly look up the translation of any word. This beautifully-bound early dictionary is an early step in the…

Alumni Formal Hall

…in the first instance. If you would like to attend another Alumni Formal Hall during the academic year, please get in touch, and if there are still places remaining nearer…

Professor Rahul Santhanam

…Science, pp 183–192, 2010. (2) “Infeasibility of Instance Compression and Succinct PCPs for NP” (with Lance Fortnow), in Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, pp…

Greek manuscripts 1, 3, 5

…the tail and in a few instances a long strip was used to repair all along the spinefold. In all cases, the outer bifolium of the quire had been repaired…

Piecing together Magdalen's financial fragments

…that year. In other instances, it seems that Macray had himself been through the fragments in an attempt to identify them, although not always successfully. In one case, careful comparison…

Alumni Formal Hall

…many alumni to attend as possible you are able to book for one Alumni Formal Hall per academic year in the first instance. If you would like to attend another…

Magdalen's Aldines

…care with which the aesthetics and accuracy of printing were dealt with, down to the smallest detail. Aldus, for instance, employed one of the most outstandingly talented punch-cutters of his…

Alumni Formal Hall

…book for one Alumni Formal Hall per academic year in the first instance. If you would like to attend another Alumni Formal Hall during the academic year, please get in…

Journeys to and from Magdalen: the Dick Pfaff letters

…could affect his mood. Pfaff writes with striking emotional transparency to his parents about his feelings. In one instance, he crosses out an entire paragraph before explaining: ‘There is a…

Kirsten's story

…art of home-made challah bread. Thirty years later, the smell of hyacinths instantly transports me back to the days when I filled the bay window of my room with pots…

Mini-mentorship programme

…complete this form and we’ll be in touch with any next steps. Not sure what to ask for in the first instance? Feel free to contact us anyway and we…