Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Once described by Elizabeth Longford as “Voltaire and the Sun King all rolled into one”, Maurice Bowra dominated Oxford University, ...
One unintended benefit of this biography is that it gives those of us who were not around then a sense of what the campus agitators of the 1960s were reacting against. The cloistered stuffiness and ...
As warden of Wadham College in Oxford, president of the British Academy, the author of well-known books on ancient Greek literature, and a conversationalist of legendary brilliance, Maurice Bowra ...
Gordon Bowra, who has died aged 77, climbed all but one of the peaks of the Tottanfjella mountain range in East Antarctica while serving as a medical officer with the British Antarctic Survey in 1963.
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Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Once described by Elizabeth Longford as “Voltaire and the Sun King all rolled into one”, Maurice Bowra dominated Oxford University, ...
Melvyn Bragg finds in 'Maurice Bowra: A Life' by Leslie Mitchell an enthralling and enjoyable account of a witty and wine-loving Oxford don Maurice Bowra saw himself as a commander of culture. His ...
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