Roy Jenkins, Daily Telegraph
`The eighth volume of the rather glorious History of the University
of Oxford is a large and impressive achievement ... as an account
of the objective framework of the life of the University of Oxford,
this volume of its history could hardly be bettered.'
Times Literary Supplement
'This is a splendid book, vastly readable and often entertaining.
Odd bits of information will stick in one's mind.'
Lord Beloff, Times Higher Education Supplement
'The scholarship is impeccable, the range of activities covered by
the 33 contributors mind-boggling.'
Raymond Carr, The Spectator
'I am an interested party. But reading this excellent book - itself
a monument to all that is good about Oxford scholarship - I have
become all the more convinced that such a second dissolution would
be a calamity not only for Oxford, but for us all.'
Niall Ferguson, Daily Mail
'the 24 contributors to this eighth volume all write with a wealth
of information, and most of them with a critical insight which
makes this monumental work far from being a complacent brochure of
self-praise'
Roy Jenkins, Daily Telegraph
'It covers, with massive scholarship, all aspects of university
life ... will bean invaluable work of reference for the history of
ideas'
John A.F. Thomson, University of Glasgow, History, No. 256, June
1994
'this is an excellent book - absolutely first class - an
intellectual triumph ... In short this book is worthy of its
subject. Why did we ever expect anything more?'
A.D. Harvey, London Magazine, August/September 1994
'histories like this serve as reference books, or rather,
collections of "reference essays"... the qualtity of writing and
research is high and there has been a considerable amount of
cross-referencing... the very amount of work involved in bringing
this volume together is awe-inspiring... one is bound to be
impressed with a volume that covers so much ground so well.
James Munson, Literary Supplement, September 1994
'This must be the most detailed and comprehensive history of any
university produced in our time. Dr Harrison and his team have been
triumphantly successful in providing, in a form both scholarly and
readable, the historical background to these unresolved issues.
Whatever its other failings, this is an academic community which
can produce recent and contemporary history of outstanding quality
and substance.'
G.E. Aylmer, St Peter's College, Oxford, Journal of Educational
Administration and History, Volume 27, Number 1, January 1995
`The editor, Brian Harrison, who has contributed three of the best
chapters to this volume, deserves to be praised.'
Book reviews
`The volume constantly displays the skill and learning of its
editor. Elsewhere, Keith Thomas provides a fascinating view of
college life as experienced by him, and J M Winter introduces the
process of change in Oxford by an important account of the impact
of the First World War. Fine chapters are many. The heft of the
volume and its riches mean that it will provide materials and ideas
for a long time to come.'
Albion
`formidably scholarly and informative'
R.D. Anderson, University of Edinburgh, History, Vol. 81
`it will be consulted with confidence by generations of historians
and other curious people for as long as a social, intellectual,
cultural or political history survive as serious activities ... a
massive and well-signposted quarry ... the richest store of
anecdote and oral history that has been assembled about this
curious place, or perhaps about anywhere else. This is a volume
about the paradoxes of radical change and obstinate
continuities.'
H.G. Judge, Brasenose College, Oxford, Oxford Review of Education,
Vol. 23, No. 2, 1997
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