“Surely some revelation is at hand.” ¤ A MEMOIR BY the journalist and sportswriter Simon Kuper appeared in the Financial Times in late July last year. It was about Kuper’s time at Oxford from the late 1980s onward, when he overlapped with Boris Johnson and Rory Stewart at Balliol College. Young Tory contemporaries at other […] The post Up at Oxford appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
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Should book publishing be all about profit? The success of OUP, despite its elitism, suggests notOUP is one of Britain's truly great institutions, up there, or nearly, with the NHS and the BBC. As in these other cases, its modern history has been largely dominated by the struggle to preserve its... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The OED bent the rules slightly by adding 'tweet' in under 10 years – a nod to the word's rapid and widespread rise into everyday usage. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Edinburgh University Press, the third largest university press in the U.K., has appointed Oxford University Press as its exclusive agent in North and South America and Canada beginning August 1, 2013. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Campaigners hoping to save Kensal Rise Library from being turned into flats are staging a protest... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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An 18-month study into the future of retail in the age of digital technologies has been launched... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Caroline Horn Publication Date: Fri, 16/09/2011 - 16:10 Barefoot Books is to open a new retail environment and lifestyle centre in Oxford alongside its publishing premises, following the companys move to the area earlier this year. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Fri, 22/07/2011 - 14:19 The university presses of Oxford and Cambridge are going head to head to compete in global digital platforms, which are being rolled out within one month of each other. read more Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Thu, 14/07/2011 - 09:00 Oxford Professor of Poetry Geoffrey Hill will compete against former winners David Harsent and Sean OBrien to win The Forward poetry prize for Best Collection on its 20th anniversary. Hill took the coveted Oxford poetry role... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 25/03/2011 - 12:35 Oxfordshire county council leader Keith Mitchell has said the council will look at "co-locating" libraries with existing local services, such as fire stations, as part of its four-month consultation on library cuts. read... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Sly Bailey, the chief executive of newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror, has issued cutting criticism of the culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's understanding of the full media issues regarding News Corporation's relationship to BSkyB. Continue reading at Media Week
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