Browsing the archives for the oxford literary festival tag
Browsing the archives for the oxford literary festival tag
It seems very fitting, given that I’m (still) reading Wolf Hall, that I spent most of yesterday wandering around here:
That’s the main quad – Tom Quad – of Christ Church, Oxford. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey founded the college (originally called Cardinal College) although he died before it was completed. Henry VIII then re-founded it in 1532 [...]
Do pop over to OUPblog, where I’ve currently got a post up about the Oxford Literary Festival, and a series of talks that I organize over there every year for work.
Every year we hold a series of “soap box” talks for the Very Short Introductions at the Oxford Literary Festival. It’s like Speakers’ Corner; authors [...]