#oxford journals

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

Oxford Journals: Science In The Time Of War

"Discover the new blog from @drtarasoleksyk discussing his @GigaScience article "Scientists without borders: lessons from Ukraine." " - @OxfordJournals

[essayisms]

The Duke Humfrey’s Library - the oldest reading room in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford.

[beatrizjournal]

Decided to actually have a separate small notebook for common-placing. This spread is an example of what I might look like, and here are some quotes from my favourite book from last year: Babel by R.F. Kuang. ☕️

[magicaloxford]

A hot chocolate across from Christ Church College, after walking through some of Oxford’s storybook streets. ☕🌻

[fidjiefidjie]

🗞 "Oxford Street" 📰

Peinture sur toile 🎨 © Darren Thompson

👋 Bel après-midi

[molarcupcake]

its just that i think henry winter wouldn't be your friend. henry winter wouldn't look at you if you were on the train together. henry winter wouldn't use tumblr or the internet and he is also racist

[moonfeatherquill]

In April, after a long break from bookbinding, I made these soft-spine books using an Oxford hollow, canvas I had lying around, and some new paper.

I didn't end up loving the paper (for pen, anyway), but I did like how the soft spine lets the books lay open, and I did have good luck using heat-transfer vinyl (HTV) for the first time! And it was cool to finally use short-grain, letter-sized paper in a book.

The tree graphic is courtesy of Ahmad Ishaq and The Noun Project!

[reuna]

What wikipedia has to offer of the concept of Commonplace books

Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century. Such books are similar to scrapbooks filled with items of many kinds: sententiae (often with the compiler's responses), notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, prayers, legal formulas, and recipes.

Entries are most often organized under systematic subject headings and differ functionally from journals or diaries, which are chronological and introspective.

...

As a genre, commonplace books were generally private collections of information, but as the amount of information grew following the invention of movable type and printing became less expensive, some were published for the general public.

In 1685 the English Enlightenment philosopher John Locke wrote a treatise in French on commonplace books, translated into English in 1706 as A New Method of Making Common-Place-Books, "in which techniques for entering proverbs, quotations, ideas, speeches were formulated. Locke gave specific advice on how to arrange material by subject and category, using such key topics as love, politics, or religion.

... By the seventeenth century, commonplacing had become a recognized practice that was formally taught to college students in such institutions as Oxford. ... "[C]ommonplacing" persisted as a popular study technique until the early twentieth century.

[learningsanctum]

I already picked one out of 6/7 IGCSE subjects I promised to myself I’d commit to. Now I gotta pick the others.

I’m a mature student & already have graduated high school in my country but I want to apply to UK colleges, so here am I doing IGCSE’s. I’m applying to the Law with European Studies - so the one subject I have started is French! - so I’d love if you people helped me to chose which IGCSE subjects I should choose!

Also, if anyone know good tutors or resources that would be great because it’s not like I can afford the UK professors or preparatory courses with Brazilian currency. So anything that’s on budget (or other currencies) would help me greatly!

[agirlnamedbone]

Jason Kyle Howard, "If God Had a Name," (on Joan Osborne's "One of Us") in Oxford American (2020)

[partangel]

Hi! Did you end up buying a planner?

hello!!! i decided to acquire a travelers notebook and print my own montly inserts so they are not dated. it hasnt arrived yet ): !

since its already october i ended up feeling like buying a 14/18 month planner would be wasteful and i couldnt wait until january! besides ive always wanted to try the tn... it bothers me to throw away my past planners/notebooks but its getting to a point acquiring more would just be silly. i have so many of them lying around and occupying space for nothing!

i hope this change helps me being less wasteful.. im also planning on adding a commonplace insert too so i only have a notebook for everything! hopefully i can store the inserts more easily after i finish writing and it occupies less space.

[dahliaduvide]

"His name is lost to history, but perhaps he wouldn’t mind. His motivation was a speedy payday, not posterity. A ballad that stirred the passions could sell for a penny. Sometimes he sold his work directly to the printshops, but he often took to the streets himself. He borrowed tunes from familiar songs, and had a talent for singing his work that helped him draw a crowd and sell his broadsides."

"Our modern notion of a songwriter would have been nonsensical to him, of course. His trade was partly creative, but his task was also to record and remember the familiar songs already sung, and re-shape them for new events and local happenings. He was a kind of tabloid journalist in his time. Today, we might think of him as a historian of oral traditions, a cataloger of folkways. But that’s not quite right. He was no mere archivist, no passive documentarian. He shaped and reshaped these traditions. Writing was an astonishing technology, and the reach of the printing press gave it newfound power. Oral traditions were chaotic, unfixed, unwieldy—stories forever in revision, never complete. Versions would branch without end, and older branches would be lost with time. How did the lyrics go? Well, that would depend. You could say a song existed in superposition, until someone sang it in their particular way."

"Though he would have been dismissed as a scabrous hack at the time, the ballad writer has such a knack for poetic and efficient depictions of monstrous violence that it can start to feel like he is an artist, or a proto-artist, who is governed by a bloodthirsty aesthetic. But the truth is, he may not be a single man—he may be a composite, his single authorship an anachronism. Or he may be merely a transcriber. The song’s structure and rhythm are so clean that it suggests a writer’s hand, but it could be that the story and its language were born entirely in song, from the community. Later, scholars would bicker over what counts as folk tradition, but a song’s evolutions in oral tradition and popular writing surely would have crossed back and forth countless times. The past is so foreign and strange that we should be left humble when we write our histories. Whether he is one writer, or several writers, or the people as a whole, the shape of his thoughts—his entire manner of thinking—is unreachable."

Excerpts.

Thoughts.

Truly a beautifully written article, and you should totally take the time to read the entire thing. He interweaves perspectives from performers, listeners, and even what the creators of these broadside murder ballads might have been like. Artful writing, hard thoughts, and self-examination.

This article really put into words a vital part of my vision for this project, creating modern murder ballads to draw attention to cases, raise awareness and hopefully get some justice for the Knoxville girls of today.

[essayisms]

This is one part of The Duke Humfrey's Library which was added by Sir Thomas Bodley (who the Bodleian is now named after) who offered to restore it in 1598. When he was attending Oxford University, the library did not even have a ceiling as it had been stripped and abandoned during the Reformation.

[beatrizjournal]

Another one of my journals, this is one is specific for books. And currently I’m reading Babel, which really fits in the dark academia and autumn mood, love the descriptions of Oxford.

[jallyysstuff]

Connaught Place - the Commercial Hub of Delhi

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[anything-but-predictable]

Went to my GP appointment. Took a quick walk but had to head home shortly as it has been rainy for the past couple of days. Then cooked my craving for today just perfect for the cold weather. How I love slow days na okay lang ako maging tamad without any guilt 😌🥱