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Innovative wooden sunglasses from Brightwood Buckingham
First they were modelled by celebrities and now a group of enterprising University of Buckingham students has set up a business importing and selling wooden sunglasses. Pippa Middleton and Jenson…
In the news: 30 September 2014
Professor Glees was interviewed in The Daily Mail regarding new information on Isis. A similar article appeared in the The Hornet. Professor Glees’ article on the Snowden Effect was published…
Publication of the week: Professor Stefan Hawlin
Hawlin, S., “Wales and the Spirit: Reading Geoffrey Hill’s Oraclau | Oracles“, Literature and Theology (August 2014). doi: 10.1093/litthe/fru053 Complaints of the ‘difficulty’ of Hill’s late poetry have been doing…
Ignoring life from space evidence could threaten our survival
At a UN-sponsored Symposium on the “Space Science and the United Nations” held in Graz, Austria, from 22-24 September 2014, Chandra Wickramasinghe presented a paper entitled “The transition from Earth-centred…
Recent Conference: Art Dealing in the Gilded Age – A Window on the Art Market: Colnaghi and their Associates c. 1880-c.1940
A conference to celebrate the installation of the Colnaghi archive at Waddesdon Manor, nr. Aylesbury, Friday 26 September 2014.
In the news: 23 September 2014
Professor Glees was visited by Professors Motohiro Tsuchiya, head of the Graduate School of Governance at Keio University, and Izumi Harada of the Information Society Research Department and the Institute…
Publication of the week: Dr Stuart Hall
Hall, S., “Perelman’s entropy for some families of canonical metrics”, Experimental Mathematics 23.3 (2014), 277-284. DOI:10.1080/10586458.2014.898220. In the early 1980s a mathematician called Richard Hamilton showed that one could treat the…
Shanghai Austrian Economic Summit 2014 organised by TFT Events
As he mobilised China with the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao did not want to create just a new political or economic system. He wanted to create a new mindset entirely.…
In the news: 16 September 2014
Professor Glees was interviewed on the LBC’s Big Conversation breakfast news and BBC Oxford on the beheading of David Haines He was also interviewed on BBC Three Counties and on…
University of Buckingham Students’ exclusive preview of Magna Carta
A group of politics students from The University of Buckingham were the first to see the restored Magna Carta in The Guildhall. The 17 undergraduates were accompanied by Mallory Factor,…