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A Seventeenth-Century Prophecy in the College Archives

Enduringly popular in England since the 12th century, political prophecies were verse or prose texts that commented obliquely on current affairs. They affected a spurious antiquity, posing as the admonitory…

Calleva-Airey Neave global security seminar series

…Lab and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Science), Joshua Stewart (Airey Neave Trust and University of Oxford), and Dr Brianna Rosen (Senior Research Associate, BSG)….

Professor Toby Garfitt

…Toby Garfitt (Rennes, La Part Commune, 2011) Jean Grenier, un écrivain et un maître. Contribution à l’histoire intellectuelle du vingtième siècle (Rennes, La Part Commune, 2010) Sylvie Germain, rose des…

Top Marks for Magdalen Students

…International Law and Armed Conflict for the Bachelor of Civil Law examinations. Lucy E A Rosen (History) – Gibbs Book Prize in History 2013. Dylan C Townley (Human Sciences) –…

We met at Magdalen

…how our President Dinah Rose KC met her husband Peter Kessler MBE. George Graf von Waldersee and Hannah Gräfin von Waldersee How did you meet, and what were your first…

Magdalen College Choir to Record with Opus Arte

…through their Rosenblatt Recital CD series. In April the Choir of Magdalen College will launch a new relationship with the label under Informator Choristarum Daniel Hyde. There are three discs…

An increasingly unstable world - why we need to be well informed - Fully Booked

An evening at Burlington House where President Dinah Rose KC was in conversation with Sir John Scarlett KCMG OBE (1967), former Chief of the British Intelligence Services (SIS or MI6)…

Magdalen Welcomes New Fellow Professor Jason Chin

…synthetic biology. President of Magdalen Dinah Rose KC said, “Magdalen is delighted to welcome Jason. The new Institute of Generative Biology is a truly exciting opportunity for Oxford, and we…

Grotesque Decoration and the Early Modern Printed Book

…Lurid illustrations of conjoined twins and twisted limbs might bring to mind the modern connotations of the word grotesque: distasteful, unsettling. These new meanings arose in the 1700s along with…

New York Reception - Fully booked

Join Dinah Rose, President of Magdalen and her husband Peter Kessler for an alumni reception in New York on Friday 8th September, kindly hosted by Ann and Steven Berzin (1972)…

Los Angeles Reception

Join Dinah Rose, President of Magdalen and her husband Peter Kessler for an alumni reception in Los Angeles on Wednesday 6th September kindly hosted by Cathy and Paul Tosetti (1977)….

San Francisco Reception

Join Dinah Rose, President of Magdalen and her husband Peter Kessler for an alumni reception in San Francisco on Tuesday 5th September, kindly hosted by Ellen and Bob Peck (1988)…

John Bloxam and the Reinvention of Christmas at Magdalen

…Germany, like the Christmas tree, to England, where they were eagerly copied by the public. Part of it also arose from the breakneck changes which English society had undergone in…

The Life and Library of Arthur Throckmorton

…then Devizes, and was responsible for bringing King Edward the news of the English victory against the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie. He soon rose in status, becoming a…

Magdalen begins major expansion of graduate student scholarships

…to find out how you can get involved, please visit our Supporting Magdalen page. Dinah Rose QC, President of Magdalen College, said, “We are delighted to be able to offer these…