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Every Magdalen member remembers their first encounter with the Waynflete Building. Sticking out a...

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In a year where many are talking about one Britpop band in particular –...

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Culture

‘Pour summer in a glass’: retracing Dandelion Wine

Reviving the symposium at the Ashmolean Krasis programme

‘This Room Their Lives’ in Magdalen College’s Waynflete building

In More, Pulp aren’t just trading on nostalgia – they’re fresh

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