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John Mason was a notable figure in the Oxford academic world and Librarian at Christ Church for a quarter of a century. Mason did not publish as much as might have been expected of a scholar of his calibre. But among several high-class articles on the Norman Conquest, at least one, on Roger of Montgomery and his sons (1963), has remained indispensable for understanding how the Norman Conquest worked...
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Donald Black won an immediate Military Cross as a 20-year-old National Service 2nd lieutenant in what became known as the Second Battle of the Hook in Korea in November 1952. Although armistice negotiations were already taking place at Panmunjon and the defensive lines had stabilised along the 38th Parallel, the Chinese and North Koreans sought any opportunity to improve their own positions at the...
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Vitaly Ginzburg was an outstanding Russian (formerly Soviet) scientist. A theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, he was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and head of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Academy’s P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow.
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Nigel Davison was one of Europe’s most distinguished musical scholars and editors of Renaissance polyphony.
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After a career as an educational administrator, Mary Anne Schwalbe immersed herself in the cause of refugees, playing a pivotal role in the International Rescue Committee.
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Born: 2 August, 1947, in Victoria, British Columbia. Died: 5 October, 2009, in Edinburgh, aged 62.
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Born: 29 September, 1933, in London. Died: 24 October, 2009, in London, aged 76.
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Born: Kane, Pennsylvania, 25 February, 1938. Died: 22 October, 2009 in Kingston, New York
Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Baroness Elles Peter Mitchell writes: In August 1992 I picked up the phone in my office to hear Baroness Elles () say: “I am at my holiday home in Lucca. I see from this morning’s Times you have just sold Daddy’s medals.” A few days earlier a collection of campaign medals, for which we were selling agents, had been sold by auction in London. Included in the sale was a Gallipoli...
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Tom Blumenau campaigned for tolerance and social justice, bringing his skills in business management to support and develop influential organisations in the field of individual rights.
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Oddly, perhaps, those who are by nature conservative often end up by presiding over change. So it was for Angus Hornby, Professor of Law at the University of Bristol from 1961 until 1985 and, on three separate occasions, Dean of the Bristol Faculty of Law.
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Soldiering is a dangerous profession, invariably underpaid but generously rewarded by the courage and constancy of one’s comrades. Despite the political rhetoric, soldiers do not fight for some high-flown cause, however flamboyantly expressed, or for someone to gain a seat at a political top table; they fight for their friends of “Bravo” Company.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
: SEÁN EGAN was the quiet man of Irish journalism under whose tutelage many leading journalists were trained in their craft.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
FRITZ DARGES, who has died aged 96, was the last surviving member of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle. An Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen SS during the second World War, he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, the second-highest military award of the Third Reich, given in recognition of battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
THE FAME of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has died aged 100, extended well beyond his own subject of anthropology. He was without doubt the anthropologist best known to non-specialists. This is mainly because he is usually considered to be the founder of the intellectual movement known as structuralism, which was to have such influence, especially in the 1970s.
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