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Traces of the White Rose

Legacies

In this final episode, Tom Herring and Dr Alexandra Lloyd explore the enduring legacies of the White Rose, with contributions from students, academics, and authors working on this remarkable resistance group.
Modern Languages Inaugural lectures

Of all things broken and lost: Durs Grünbein’s Perspectives on Dresden and the problems of modern Elegy

Professor Karen Leeder delivers the inaugural Schwarz-Taylor Lecture
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: Porcelain - Poem on the Downfall of my City

TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grünbein, translated by Professor Karen Leeder.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: China’s Good War

A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism’ by Professor Rana Mitter.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Writing and Resistance – The White Rose Pamphlets: A Live Reading

At around 11am on Thursday 18 February 1943 two students in Munich were arrested for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. By Monday they had been interrogated, tried, and executed along with another member of the resistance circle.
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Oxford at War in 1944

In this 2nd episode, we collate rare colour Oxfordshire footage shot in 1944 by US airforce officers. Film clips concentrate on the social life in Oxford city centre, Wallingford, Dorchester, Abingdon and surrounding villages.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Trinity: A Real Life Spy Story

Frank Close tells the story of Klaus Fuchs and the Bodleian Library. Trinity was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

The Origins of Enigma Codebreaking at Bletchley Park

Sir Dermot Turing will talk about the origins of Enigma codebreaking at Bletchley Park, the Bombe machine and how it worked.
Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2014

Art, Design and World War

History of Art - Dr Claire O'Mahony
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Encountering and Appropriating Cityscapes: Lviv and Wroclaw after 1944/45

Sofia Dyak (Center for Urban History, Lviv) gives a talk for the Cantemir Institute.
Alumni Weekend

Havens across the Sea

Local historian Ann Spokes Symonds gives a talk on the Oxford children and mothers who were evacuated to Canada and the USA in July 1941.

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