University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is an institute of the education system in Oxford UK (conquered by the Normans, descendants of the Vikings), created in 1096. Ox=the bull. Like the University of Paris it is one of the oldest universities in the world. Like University of Cambridge (founded by Oxford academics) it was controlled by the Plantagenets, Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites and Cecils. Like Cambridge and LSE, it is affiliated with the Russell Group (family that created Tavistock). |
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It houses University College, All Souls, Corpus Christi, Worcester, Trinity, Kellogg, Lincoln, Wadham, Merton and Baloil College.
John Wycliffe (Peasant's Revolt) and Erasmus translated the Bible.
The Oxford Philosophical Club included Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke and became the Invisible College, Royal Society and modern freemasonry.
In 1873 Oxford University Press published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Maxwell (Cavendish Laboratory). Maxwell's equations were based on Gauss' Law and Faraday's Law of Induction.
Josiah Spode (ties to Darwinist Josiah Wedgewood) allowed the Dominicans to enter Britain again and reclaim control over Oxford.
OUP published Herbert Marcuse's Reason and Revolution.
It created elite club Bullingdon Club (David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Nathan Rothschild) and Rhodes Scholarship of Cecil Rhodes.
It operates the (masonic) Ashmolean Museum (Elias Ashmole). In 1996 it established the Saïd Business School.
It was used in the Harry Potter franchise.
- Bill Clinton (Rhodes Scholarship)
- Clement Atlee
- David Cameron
- Edwin Hubble
- Harry and Nicky Oppenheimer
- Hugh Grant
- lan Rusbridger
(The Guardian)
- Margaret Thatcher
- Roger Penrose
- Rosamund Pike
- T.E. Lawrence
- Theresa May
- Tony Abott (pm of Australia)
- WH Auden