A photograph of three generations of Harrisons taken in 1914 prompts a look at my father’s family who may have lived in Oxfordshire for a very long time. Let’s start with the gentleman with the beard, that’s Nathaniel Harrison my great grandfather, an Oxford man. Town not gown. I can see my father in...
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Inspired by the life of Sir Richard Burton, The Collector of Worlds has an offering with a single flame on its cover, and it is the burning of a notebook in a fire which begins a story about the Victorian explorer who believed that truth is only found by being true to oneself. Iliya...
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Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations and joint winner with the UN of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, photographed in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 17 September 2011. The previous day Annan has spoken at the Oxford Analytics Conference on Restoring Global Trust and Confidence. The grandson of tribal chiefs from Kumasi, Ghana,...
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