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Brasenose College, University of Oxford.
Once a member of Brasenose, always a member of Brasenose!
Once a member of Brasenose, always a member of Brasenose!
The Treasury houses the College chest, which contained money and important documents (the beginnings of the Archives). Over time they outgrew the chest and eventually moved to the Muniment Room below - now the Library and Archives office! #EYAYourArchives #ExploreYourArchive
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Treasury houses the College chest, which contained money and important documents (the beginnings of the Archives). Over time they outgrew the chest and eventually moved to the Muniment Room below - now the Library and Archives office! #EYAYourArchives #ExploreYourArchive
#ExploreYourArchive 2025 marked 80 years since the end of WWII. College was taken over by the military, and most BNC students moved to Christ Church. This is an image of sandbagging in 1939 from Principal Stallybrass’s photo collection. brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com
#EYAAnniversaries
#EYAAnniversaries
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#ExploreYourArchive 2025 marked 80 years since the end of WWII. College was taken over by the military, and most BNC students moved to Christ Church. This is an image of sandbagging in 1939 from Principal Stallybrass’s photo collection. brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com
#EYAAnniversaries
#EYAAnniversaries
In 1974 Brasenose was one of the first 5 Colleges to admit women, and in fact we believe that we may have been the first College to vote for the change in 1967. This may have surprised the author of this poem in the Archives dated 1884 #EYAInclusion #ExploreYourArchive
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
In 1974 Brasenose was one of the first 5 Colleges to admit women, and in fact we believe that we may have been the first College to vote for the change in 1967. This may have surprised the author of this poem in the Archives dated 1884 #EYAInclusion #ExploreYourArchive
For our 2009 Quincentenary the Chapel Choir made recordings of sheet music held in the Archives, now preserved in the digital archive. One of these was The Song of the Torpid by George Cunningham and Philip Morgan Watkins, members of the Boat Club. #EYADigital #ExploreYourArchive
December 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
For our 2009 Quincentenary the Chapel Choir made recordings of sheet music held in the Archives, now preserved in the digital archive. One of these was The Song of the Torpid by George Cunningham and Philip Morgan Watkins, members of the Boat Club. #EYADigital #ExploreYourArchive
We are delighted that our Frewin Garden Building (the recently completed new student block) has been selected as a Regional Finalist for the 2026 Civic Trust Awards. Great work by Lee Fitzgerald architects, and everyone else involved in the project! 👏🤩
www.civictrustawards.org.uk
www.civictrustawards.org.uk
Civic Trust Awards - Architectural Awards Scheme
The Civic Trust Awards is the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe.
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December 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We are delighted that our Frewin Garden Building (the recently completed new student block) has been selected as a Regional Finalist for the 2026 Civic Trust Awards. Great work by Lee Fitzgerald architects, and everyone else involved in the project! 👏🤩
www.civictrustawards.org.uk
www.civictrustawards.org.uk
Despite a ban on pets recorded in the Vice-Principal’s Register of 1851, we have quite a few photos of pets in the Archives. One of these was the College tortoise. Here you can see it with the Brasenose Rugby XV in 1912 and 2nd Eight in 1913. #EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive #EYA
December 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Despite a ban on pets recorded in the Vice-Principal’s Register of 1851, we have quite a few photos of pets in the Archives. One of these was the College tortoise. Here you can see it with the Brasenose Rugby XV in 1912 and 2nd Eight in 1913. #EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive #EYA
College Statutes outline governance proceedings and rules for conduct of members. Here you can see a copy of the statutes from 1681. Statute 20 urges College members to maintain silence during the reading of the Bible or other appointed book. #EYASilence #ExploreYourArchive #EYA
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
College Statutes outline governance proceedings and rules for conduct of members. Here you can see a copy of the statutes from 1681. Statute 20 urges College members to maintain silence during the reading of the Bible or other appointed book. #EYASilence #ExploreYourArchive #EYA
Registrum A records meetings of BNC Seniority from 1539-1594, and contains fragments of a C13th manuscript from a commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics by scholar Averroes, translated into Latin c.1220-1224 by Michael Scot. Find out more here brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com #EYAMedieval #EYA
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Registrum A records meetings of BNC Seniority from 1539-1594, and contains fragments of a C13th manuscript from a commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics by scholar Averroes, translated into Latin c.1220-1224 by Michael Scot. Find out more here brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com #EYAMedieval #EYA
Cushions made for the consecration of the ‘new’ Chapel in 1666, bearing the arms of College founders Bishop William Smyth and Sir Richard Sutton, and the bill for making them. Read more here brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com #EYABeauty #ExploreYourArchive #ExploreYourArchives
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Cushions made for the consecration of the ‘new’ Chapel in 1666, bearing the arms of College founders Bishop William Smyth and Sir Richard Sutton, and the bill for making them. Read more here brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com #EYABeauty #ExploreYourArchive #ExploreYourArchives
To kick off #ExploreYourArchive week, here is an 1889 drawing by the New Quad architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson for gargoyles on the parapet, being cleaned by the National Conservation Service prior to repair #EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchives
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November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
To kick off #ExploreYourArchive week, here is an 1889 drawing by the New Quad architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson for gargoyles on the parapet, being cleaned by the National Conservation Service prior to repair #EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchives
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brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com
Tomorrow is the start of Explore Your Archives Focus Week! Over the next 7 days we’ll be posting a series of highlights from our collections based on the given themes. #ExploreYourArchive
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November 28, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Tomorrow is the start of Explore Your Archives Focus Week! Over the next 7 days we’ll be posting a series of highlights from our collections based on the given themes. #ExploreYourArchive
brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com
brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com
This Giving Day Meagan, MBA 2023, shares her favourite things about Brasenose and you can too! #bncgivingday
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November 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This Giving Day Meagan, MBA 2023, shares her favourite things about Brasenose and you can too! #bncgivingday
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November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Will you accept the challenge? If 25 new donors sign up today you will unlock £2,500 of funding for students #BNCgivingday brasenose.givingday.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Will you accept the challenge? If 25 new donors sign up today you will unlock £2,500 of funding for students #BNCgivingday brasenose.givingday.co.uk
Support students, transform the future. Join in the Brasenose giving day today! #BNCgivingday
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The Brasenose Giving Day is here!
Welcome to the 2025 Brasenose Giving Day. On our fourth giving day, we are celebrating all things student support. Your gifts make a huge impact on life in Coll...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Support students, transform the future. Join in the Brasenose giving day today! #BNCgivingday
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brasenose.givingday.co.uk
Huge congratulations to Brasenose alumnus David Szalay (English, 1992) who has won the Booker Prize 2025 with his novel Flesh. More details about the book and the prize can be found here: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
The Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes
David Szalay has won the Booker Prize 2025 for his sixth work of fiction, Flesh, becoming the first Hungarian-British author to win the award
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November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Huge congratulations to Brasenose alumnus David Szalay (English, 1992) who has won the Booker Prize 2025 with his novel Flesh. More details about the book and the prize can be found here: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Join John Bowers KC for a Principal's Conversation with Emeritus Fellow Sir Vernon Bogdanor, to discuss his book ‘Making the Weather: Six politicians who changed modern Britain.’ Wed 22 October, 5:30pm in College and online - please register here: www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/events
Events Diary - Brasenose College, Oxford
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October 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Join John Bowers KC for a Principal's Conversation with Emeritus Fellow Sir Vernon Bogdanor, to discuss his book ‘Making the Weather: Six politicians who changed modern Britain.’ Wed 22 October, 5:30pm in College and online - please register here: www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/events
BNC Library & Archives have published a fascinating new blog about the life of renowned Brasenose aesthete, writer and critic, Walter Pater.
brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/w...
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Walter Pater – Brasenose aesthete
Walter Horatio Pater is one of the most famous Brasenose personae. He was a writer and literary and art critic and his oeuvre had a great influence on the aesthetic movement. Jules Guggenheim, Walt…
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October 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
BNC Library & Archives have published a fascinating new blog about the life of renowned Brasenose aesthete, writer and critic, Walter Pater.
brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/w...
brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/w...
Huge congratulations to Brasenose alumnus Professor Richard Robson (Chemistry, 1955) on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025, along with Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi "for the development of metal-organic frameworks" www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"
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October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Huge congratulations to Brasenose alumnus Professor Richard Robson (Chemistry, 1955) on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025, along with Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi "for the development of metal-organic frameworks" www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
Brasenose SCR Event, Friday 24 October, 5.30pm in College: Join us for a talk on ‘Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov: Two Literary Rebels’ with contributions from Prof. Sos Eltis and Dr Rosamund Bartlett. The talk will be followed by drinks. Please register here forms.office.com/e/cq4S09WZj5
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October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Brasenose SCR Event, Friday 24 October, 5.30pm in College: Join us for a talk on ‘Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov: Two Literary Rebels’ with contributions from Prof. Sos Eltis and Dr Rosamund Bartlett. The talk will be followed by drinks. Please register here forms.office.com/e/cq4S09WZj5
We are thrilled to share that Flesh, by David Szalay (English, 1992), has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Flesh | The Booker Prizes
A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp
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October 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We are thrilled to share that Flesh, by David Szalay (English, 1992), has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
What a wet and grey day it is! Let's go back to a much nicer August day back in 2021 instead...🌞
August 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
What a wet and grey day it is! Let's go back to a much nicer August day back in 2021 instead...🌞
Thank goodness it's a bit cooler now - but getting hot again later! 🤯
August 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Thank goodness it's a bit cooler now - but getting hot again later! 🤯
Join us this Sunday (3 Aug) for the Brasenose Alumni Garden Party! Enjoy an afternoon of tea & scones, Pimm's, a jazz quartet, face painting and a children's entertainer. No judgement if any parents want their faces painted too!☺️ To register, please visit www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/event...
July 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Join us this Sunday (3 Aug) for the Brasenose Alumni Garden Party! Enjoy an afternoon of tea & scones, Pimm's, a jazz quartet, face painting and a children's entertainer. No judgement if any parents want their faces painted too!☺️ To register, please visit www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/event...
For your Friday afternoon entertainment, here are some highlights from a recent BNC Library exhibition on the theme of music, including: the oldest musical record in College, a volume of Mozart, Smoking Concerts, and a Brasenose Glee Club! Zoom in to read the descriptions. #Music #HistoricBooks
July 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For your Friday afternoon entertainment, here are some highlights from a recent BNC Library exhibition on the theme of music, including: the oldest musical record in College, a volume of Mozart, Smoking Concerts, and a Brasenose Glee Club! Zoom in to read the descriptions. #Music #HistoricBooks