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Adam Smith – The Morality of Nations and the Making of America
Tom Elliott introduces the first edition of Smith's magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations. Before Adam Smith was the father of economics, he was known in the 18th century as the author of a...
Elizabeth Anscombe – More Than Wittgenstein’s “Old Man”
Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher. Ludwig Wittgenstein was an...
The Hobbit – A play for children and adults
By Madeleine Joelson One spring morning in 1967, twenty-one-year old Humphrey Carpenter—a native resident of Oxford as well as a recent graduate of the university—made use of his local and family...
Behind the Books
An interview with bookbinder Young Kim
Peter Harrington’s in-house bindery, The Chelsea Bindery, is one of only a handful of traditional binderies left in London. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the bindery’s founding, we’ve put...
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – the best of all possible computers
To mark the launch of our new Philosophy digital catalogue, Tomas Elliott looks into the early history of computing through the work of philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. In 1948, the American...
Dover Street – A fashionable history
43 Dover Street, Peter Harrington’s Mayfair shop, has a fashionable history. In the mid-20th Century it was owned by sisters Diana and Betty Pacquin; run as a chic boutique where bespoke...
Enter The World of Jazz
A little over a hundred years ago they asked “What is jazz”? To which Louis Armstrong made the timeless reply, “If you have to ask, you’ll never know”. But a perhaps more troubling question
still is how do you collect jazz? Our experts have put togeher a remarkable gathering of 50 items which evoke the ephemeral moment and improvisatory spirit of jazz.
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