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Queen’s now
Queen’s calling: the 2025 telethon
Perception: an exhibition
If trees could talk
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FEB
The Provost’s Lecture 2025
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QWN in London 2025
Fellow in Finance receives film award
Waterstones Book of the Year prize for former translator in residence’s work
Jolly Jólabókaflóðið
Libraries and the Academic Book: a new book from the Librarian
Queen’s Lodge awarded Building Conservation Certificate
That Sweet City: new Choir CD
Photography competition 2024 now open for entries
Books and bindings
Even Bananas
What’s for lunch?
- No Lunch Today
✏️ New blogpost ⛵
Staying true to the dreams of your youth: Old Member Nicholas Coghlan (Modern Languages, 1973) tells us about his voyages as student, diplomat, and explorer, and taking a path less travelled.
Read more: www.queens.ox.ac.uk/blog/staying-true-to-the-dreams-of-your-youth/
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✏️New blogpost 🍍
A recipe from the College kitchen that pays a nostalgic nod to childhood: Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Head Chef Sean Ducie shares a recipe for a cake he remembers from his childhood, proudly presented here by Chef de Partie Bobby Mihai.
Round off January with a bit of warming comfort food: ow.ly/nCXm50UOC0j.
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What is perception? 👀 🧠 🫀
The English word ‘Perception’—as the ‘process of becoming aware or conscious of a thing’ (OED) —is first recorded in John Trevisa’s (1342–1402) translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus’s (b. 1272) influential 13th-century encyclopaedia.
Explore this definition, and others, in the Library's new online exhibition and related blogpost: ow.ly/PfZt50UGc51, curated as part of the College's academic theme for 2024-25.
Ten items, ranging over five centuries, are on display with visual pleasure provided by a recent edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Opticks with its holographic cover.
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Delve into the remarkable life of Professor Sir Peter Russell, former Laming Resident Fellow at Queen's.
Old Member Colin Wight (Modern Languages, 1973) reflects on his experiences attending Sir Peter's lectures and seminars in his book review of Bruce Taylor’s new biography Scholar-Spy. Read more: ow.ly/pAeR50UG7gH. ... See MoreSee Less