Linora Lawrence

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Formula for success

As the Oxfordshire-based Williams F1 team marks its 600th Grand Prix Linora Lawrence looks back over the life of founder and driving force Sir Frank Williams

The map man

Linora Lawrence meets Nick Millea, head of the Bodleian Map Library

Winter wonderland

It is not often these days Oxford has snow worth talking about, but when it does the cameras come out, not least in Trinity College, one of the UniversityÂ’s older colleges, writes Linora Lawrence

Chocolate box hid 100-year-old secret

Oxford writer Rosalind Bleach was sorting through a bureau after her mother's death when she found a bundle of letters from the US writer Henry James. Now she has published them in a book called Henry James's Waistcoat

Voices from history

Linora Lawrence talks to Helen Rappaport, an Oxford author on a mission to champion black figures forgotten by history

A true scholar

The inner sanctum of Bodley's Librarian is a room on the second floor of the Clarendon Building on Broad Street, behind which lies the quadrangle that forms the Old Bodleian Library. In the large room leading to the Librarian's inner office sits his P.A., who has one of those best kept secret' views in Oxford - a vision of the length of Broad Street. I suspect she can even see if there is a sale on at Debenhams on a clear day.

A generous Puritan

Penicillin, antibiotics - we take them for granted, don't we? We swallow those brightly coloured capsules and expect our sore throats and other infections to be cured within days.

Farewell to Trinity

At the end of July, the Honourable Michael Jacob Beloff QC completes ten years as President of Trinity College, Oxford, and will be leaving to return to his home territory the world of law and arbitration.