As a result, when the first volumes of Froude's history were published in 1856 they drew the ire of liberals ( who felt that Froude's depiction of Henry VIII celebrated despotism ) and Oxford High Churchmen ( who opposed his position on the Church ); this hostility was expressed in reviews from the Christian Remembrancer and the Edinburgh Review.

A similar sentiment is expressed by the editors ( Percy Dearmer, Martin Shaw and Ralph Vaughan Williams ) in the 1928 Oxford Book of Carols, which is even more critical of Neale's carol.

" Lyte also grew discouraged when numbers of his congregation ( including in 1846, nearly his entire choir ) left him for Dissenter congregations, especially the Plymouth Brethren, after Lyte expressed High Church sympathies and leaned toward the Oxford Movement.

Lord Aston was a staunch Royalist during the English Civil War: he was present at the Siege of Lichfield in 1643 and the surrender of Oxford ; King Charles I expressed his regret at not being able to reward him as he deserved. After the failure of the Royalist cause he was required to compound for his estates and live in private.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

And, after all, he has lived comfortably at both Oxford, Mississippi, and Charlottesville, Virginia.

The compilation work was undertaken by a number of interested crystallographers in the Department of Mineralogy of the University Museum at Oxford.

And Lawrence Chase, son of the Ransom Chases, is listed at his new address in Oxford, Eng..

One of the more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Now, not only are there considerably more laity as students and professors at Oxford, but there are also numerous houses of religious orders existing in respectable and friendly relations with the non-Catholic members of the University.

Once his eyesight recovered sufficiently, he was able to study English literature at Balliol College, Oxford.

* The British Empire of The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling features a massive water powered engine at Oxford, used by two of the main characters.

Bowra's ability to single out important information is legendary and it is demonstrated in an anecdote about his days at Oxford.

Asked about this afterwards, the scholar observed: " I don't know about you, Gentlemen, but in Oxford I at least am known by my face.

Fleming finally abandoned penicillin, and not long after he did, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up researching and mass-producing it, with funds from the U. S. and British governments.

There were many more people involved in the Oxford team, and at one point the entire Dunn School was involved in its production.

Sir Andrew John Wiles, KBE, FRS ( born 11 April 1953 ) is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory.

Wiles is the son of Maurice Frank Wiles ( 1923 – 2005 ), the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Patricia Wiles ( née Mowll ).

Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius ( Berkeley / Oxford )

She then read Latin at Birmingham University and later attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics ( PPE ).

Of this collection, called Minḥat Ḳenaot, there are several manuscript copies extant ; namely, at Oxford ( Neubauer, Cat.

This came to a head at a meeting sponsored by the IAU in Oxford in 1981.

Nevertheless the conference was considered a success in bringing researchers together and Oxford conferences have continued every four or five years at locations around the world.

Angela Vincent ( born 1942 ) is a professor at Somerville College of Oxford University.

Various refinements were made to the instrument, including the use of a so-called position-sensitive ( PoS ) detector by Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George D. W. Smith at Oxford University in 1988.

He developed an interest in rugby union, playing at Oxford and later for the Little Rock Rugby club in Arkansas.

While at Oxford he also participated in Vietnam War protests and organized an October 1969 Moratorium event.

In July 2012, Clinton gave the keynote address at the Re | Source Conference, a collaboration between Oxford University, the Stordalen Foundation and the Rothschild Foundation.

Editors for Volumes 1, and 2, were M. W. Porter and the late R. C. Spiller, both of Oxford University.

In his essay " Chicanismo " in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures ( 2002 ), Jose Cuellar dates the transition from derisive to positive to the late 1950s, with a usage by young Mexican-American high school students.

Although his daughter, Elizabeth, was born at the beginning of July, for unexplained reasons Oxford did not learn of her birth until late September.

In 1995, using Optical Luminescence Dating, David Miles and Simon Palmer of the Oxford Archaeological Unit assigned the Uffington White Horse to the late Bronze Age.

" Hitherto Monk had continued to make solemn protestations of his affection and fidelity to the Commonwealth interest, against a King and House of Lords ; but the new militia being settled, and a Convention, calling themselves a Parliament and fit for his purpose, being met at Westminster, he sent to such lords as had sat with the Parliament till 1648, to return to the place where they used to sit, which they did, upon assurance from him, that no others should be permitted to sit with them ; which promise he also broke, and let in not only such as had deserted to Oxford, but the late created lords.

In the late 1950s, while writing Titus Alone, Peake's health subsequently declined into physical and mental incapacitation, and he died on 17 November 1968 at a care home run by his brother in law, at Burcot, near Oxford.

< http :// www. oxfordreference. com > 27 October 2011 </ ref > Clement Greenberg sees modernism ending in the 1930s, with the exception of the visual and performing arts, but with regard to music, Paul Griffiths notes that, while modernism " seemed to be a spent force " by the late 1920s, after World War II, " a new generation of composers-Boulez, Barraqué, Babbitt, Nono, Stockhausen, Xenakis " revived modernism .< ref > Paul Griffiths " modernism " The Oxford Companion to Music.

Looney declared that the late play The Tempest was not written by Oxford, and that others performed or published after Oxford's death were most probably left incomplete and finished by other writers, thus explaining the apparent idiosyncrasies of style found in the late Shakespeare plays.

The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop's " earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience ... since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, ABBA, etc.

The duo's deteriorating personal relationship continued into their late 1969 tour, which featured performances at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, on November 11 and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, on November 8.

The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.

It became fashionable in Britain during the Regency period, though the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary shows that it was considered " riotous and indecent " as late as 1825.

The word was originally a late medieval Scots word ( circa 1500 ) meaning a gathering of any kind, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

In late 1760 he was enrolled as a gentleman-commoner at Oxford University.

Its Press took on the project that became the Oxford English Dictionary in the late 19th century, and expanded to meet the ever-rising costs of the work.

E. V. Rieu could not longer delay his callup and was drafted in 1917, the management then being under his wife Nellie Rieu, a former editor for the Athenaeum ‘ with the assistance of her two British babies .’ It was too late to have important electrotype and stereotype plates shipped to India from Oxford, and the Oxford printing house itself was overburdened with government printing orders as the empire ’ s propaganda machine got to work.

The University Boat Race is rowed between Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club in late March or early April, on the Championship Course from Putney to Mortlake in the west of London.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, proud comes from late Old English prut, probably from Old French prud " brave, valiant " ( 11th century ) ( which became preux in French ), from Late Latin term prodis " useful ", which is compared with the Latin prodesse " be of use ".

In the late 1800s into the early 1900s author John Woodroffe, an Oxford graduate, translated some twenty original Sanskrit texts under the pseudonym Arthur Avalon.

As the Bolebec estates passed into Vere hands through two marriages of Bolebec heiresses to Vere males in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, the two manors were combined and held by the Vere Earls of Oxford for several centuries.

In the late 20th century, transportation changes resulted in Oxford being located off the main roads.

A bypass was constructed for U. S. Route 1 in the late 1960s, but the major change was the 1963 opening of Interstate 95, which shifted the bulk of the Philadelphia-Baltimore traffic away from Oxford.