Given Oxford’s overarching image as a city of stability and privilege, it gets a more rounded perspective, including some uncomfortable truths, with  Oxford Unwrapped organised by the University of Oxford (TORCH – The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities).  

Travellers generally don’t get a good press. Which adds to the importance of Scottish Traveller, storyteller, singer and piper Stanley Robertson, an immensely cultured man who had a huge repertoire of stories and northeast ballads. 

The School of Advanced Study launches the University of London Press The University of London Press will build on a century of publishing tradition by disseminating distinctive scholarship at the forefront of the humanities. Based at the School of Advanced Study (SAS), the press will seek to facilitate collaborative, inclusive, open access, scholar-led interchange, within and beyond the academy.

Humans need the humanities. But which humans? Because the evidence shows that some groups are effectively excluded from this field of study, particularly those from BAME communities (black, Asian and minority ethnic).