Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary General of the United Nations and joint winner with the UN of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, photographed in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, 17 September 2011. The previous day...
View ArticleThe Harrisons of Oxfordshire
A photograph of three generations of Harrisons taken in 1914 prompts a look at my father’s family who may have lived in Oxfordshire for a very long time. Let’s start with the gentleman with the beard,...
View ArticleIt’s only pictures and pictures are all I have
In 2004 the British Press Photographers’ Association published Five Thousand Days. This monument of a book contained some of the most dramatic and moving work produced by British press photographers in...
View ArticleBlackwell’s Photo Point
The wonderful Blackwell’s in Oxford has a sign telling visitors where to stand to photograph the bookshop’s cavernous Norrington Room. Graham Harrison wonders why. You can understand that for the...
View ArticleHugh Trevor-Roper at Oxford
“We have invented language, refined it so that it can express even the subtlest thought, even the obscurest sensations; why then should we not use it, and dissolve difficulties by articulating them?”...
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