Great kick-off meeting of our #BlackHolistic project to make color movies of blackholes, funded by a Synergy grant of the #European Research Council #ERC. Partners from @Radboud_uni, University of #Amsterdam, #Oxford, #Turku, and #Namibia will work together, build a new submm-wave telescope in Namibia, and develop a holistic model of black holes. Also talked about societal impact with the Namibian ambassador, who was present. #astrodon#astrophysics#blackhole#astronomy
'Chaucer Here and Now' continues at the Bodleian until 28 April - an exhibition examining how his "works have been reworked and reinterpreted over time and around the world. Each generation reinvents Chaucer, taking inspiration from his work, and finding new meanings."
26 Jan 1546: The new diocese of #Oxford is established #otd - one of several created under the Supremacy powers - its cathedral the former Priory of St Frideswide, part of Christ Church College (BM)
23 Jan 1644: Charles I makes Sir Richard Lane, Earl of Strafford, Lord Lieutenant of #Ireland’s defence counsel, a serjeant-at-law in #Oxford#otd (Inverness Museum).
Would you hire a brief whose previous client was decapitated?
22 Jan 1621: William Prynne, future opponent of Archbishop William Laud, pamphleteer, keeper of records at the Tower of #London graduates BA at Oriel College #Oxford#otd (BM)
21 Jan 1573: Gregory Martin future translator of the #Bible into English & Edmund Campion future #Jesuit martyr, close friends from #Oxford days, receive their bachelor of theology degrees at Douai #otd (SJO/CampionHall)
21 Jan 1644: Edward Sackville, 4th Earl of #Dorset made Lord Chamberlain of the King's Household #otd on the eve of the opening of the #Oxford parliament in which he sat (V&A Museum, London)
18 Jan 1553: Thomas Stapleton elected a Fellow of New College #Oxford#otd - he would become a superstar #Catholic exile theologian and a translator of #Bede (BM/EEBO)
14 Jan 1552: b. Alberico Gentili in Castello di San Ginesio #Macerata future jurist, Regius Professor of Law at #Oxford & a father of international law #otd (eebo/googlebooks)
12 Jan 1505: Hugh Oldham consecrated as Bishop of #Exeter#otd
Founder of the free #Manchester Grammar School in 1515 and a major benefactor to Corpus Christi #Oxford
Again, no mention of the #Board. #AlicePerkins, then #TimParker chaired the #PostOffice Board and should have been asking hard questions as soon as the first wisp of scandal appeared.
But unlike #PaulaVennells they both went to #Oxford.
Jonathan Evans and Alan Cook - the latter CEO of the Financial Ombudsman Service at the same time as being non-exec at the PO - why aren't they being mentioned? #PostOfficeScandal
In the old days, the Guardian would've been onto this.
8 Jan 1620: Henry Briggs appointed to Savilian Professorship of geometry at #Oxford at £150 p.a. #otd - he collaborated with Napier on the development of log tables and about the #English colonies in North America (eebo)