Catherine and Sophia were both active suffragettes and studied at Somerville College (shown here in the image in 1890), at the same time as the leading Indian lawyer Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954).Ĭlick here for the video of Prof Boehmer’s book discussion, ‘Indian Arrivals’ in which Cornelia Sorabji features. Cornelia Sorabji and Catherine and Bamba Duleep Singh (selected by Prof Elleke Boehmer – English Literature)Ĭatherine, Bamba and Sophia Duleep Singh were the daughters of the deposed Maharajah Duleep Singh of the Punjab. Later she became an active peace campaigner, chairman of CND and one of Oxford’s foremost local politicians, preventing most of Jericho from being demolished for slum clearance in the late 1960s.Ĥ. Olive Gibbs (née Cox, 1918-1995) was born in Christ Church Model Dwellings on Osney Lane and sent across the road to St Thomas’s school at 2½, her parents having persuaded the headmistress that she was ‘a nuisance at home and needed discipline’. Olive Gibbs (Selected by Liz Woolley - Historian) Murdoch’s work remains a provocation, where goodness is real, and love is seeing aright.ģ. This life is not illusory: a loving gaze can discern moral reality just as a good eye can appraise the length of a timber. Was Iris Murdoch a novelist who taught philosophy, or a philosopher who wrote novels? Her philosophy, like her fiction, is populated with the varied reality of moral life: mothers who find their daughters-in-law juvenile, concentration camp guards who are kindly fathers. Iris Murdoch (written by Dr Anil Gomes - Philosopher) Guttmann continued his spinal injury research at the Nuffield Department of Neurosurgery in the Radcliffe Infirmary.Ģ. He arrived with his wife Else Samuel Guttmann and two children, a son, Dennis and daughter, Eva aged 6 in Oxford, England, on 14 March 1939. The Jewish doctor, who had fled Nazi Germany just before the start of the Second World War, is considered to be one of the founding fathers of organized physical activities for people with a disability. Guttmann was a German-born British neurologist who established the Paralympic Games in England. Sir Ludwig Guttmann (included by Prof Jane Caplan and Dr Gayle Lonergan – Historians - in their App trail on Refuge and Expulsion in Oxford) Here, we learn more about the 18 people in The Gaps Between Installation.ġ.