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Image description: the monument of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul The place of monuments, especially commemorative statutes, has become a highly charged debate recently. Their uses and place in our understanding of ourselves and history has come under scrutiny and rightly so. Monuments traditionally offer an idea of stability by providing an immortalised snapshot of history. This […]
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Image Credit: University College, Oxford University College has built a new war memorial in commemoration of Rolf Wilhelm Baron von Seldeneck, the college’s only German casualty in either World War. Rolf joined University College in 1911, where he studied for a year, before joining the army in 1914. He was then killed on 24 January […]
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Image Credit: Des Blenkinsopp (cc-by-sa/2.0) The nephew of Lieutenant Geoffrey Ellwood, a soldier who died in the Battle of the Somme, is urging Magdalen College to restore a memorial cross (pictured) which once stood in its quad. Geoffrey Ellwood was a student of Magdalen college and was killed in action on July 14th, aged 25 in Bazentin […]
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The Hillsborough disaster is seen by many as one of the darkest days in the history of British sport. It is an event seeped in tragedy and deception, and the emotive power that goes alongside discussion of the disaster. Indeed, Eamonn Holmes had to apologise on social media after he insinuated that the Hillsborough disaster […]
Continue ReadingThe fiftieth anniversary of the death of C.S Lewis, the late novelist and Magdalen mediaevalist, has been commemorated with a memorial stone in Westminster Abbey. C.S Lewis is most famous for writing the Chronicles of Narnia, which has sold over a million copies worldwide, and has been adapted for movie screening and theatre performances. Although […]
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