Christ Church
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Sep 13, 2026
David RuncimanHOST
Like them, she went to Oxford, but again, a decade later, at the end of the 1930s into the start of the Second World War, she was still an undergraduate when they'd gone off to do their intelligence work.
David RuncimanHOST
Unlike them, she couldn't go to the grand colleges they went to, Christchurch or the smart ones like Balliol.
David RuncimanHOST
She had to go to one of the colleges reserved for women, St. Hugh's.
David RuncimanHOST
It was still segregated, an education at a university back then.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
It was probably in the year 1646 that through the interest of Colonel Popham, a friend and client of his father, Locke was admitted at Westminster School, where probably in the following year he was elected on the foundation.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Here he must have remained about six years till his election to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford in 1652.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Of the manner in which Locke spent three years we have no definite information.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The stern disciplinarian Dr. Busby had been headmaster for about eight years when he entered the school, and among his schoolfellows senior to him by about a year were Dryden and South.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Of the studies which then constituted the ordinary school curriculum, his matured opinions are to be found in the Thoughts Concerning Education, which will be described in a subsequent chapter.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
To judge from this book, the impressions left on Locke's mind by our English public school education were not of a pleasant or favorable kind.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Locke appears to have commenced his residence at Christ Church in the Michaelmas term of sixteen fifty-two, soon after he had turned twenty years of age.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
His matriculation before the Vice-Chancellor bears the date November twenty-seventh.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Few things gave him more grief than the threatened check of this memorial of his greatness and owing to his earnest entreaties his college at Oxford was spared and was refounded.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Its name however was changed from Cardinal College to Christ Church and it was not entirely identified with Wolsey's glory.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The college at Ipswich fell into abeyance.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Wolsey's design for Cardinal College was on a magnificent scale.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The king was not yet prepared to seize the lands of the dissolved monastery of St. Frideswide or of the old Canterbury Hall which had been absorbed, and it could be shown that he would lose as much as he would gain by attempting an accurate division of the property of the college.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
He agreed to have an honourable college there, but not so great and of such magnificence as my Lord Cardinal intended to have, for it is not thought meet for the common weal of our realm.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The site of the college and a portion of its revenues were saved from the commissioners who were realizing Wolsey's forfeiture, but the name of Christ Church obliterated that of Cardinal College and Henry VIII endeavoured as far as he could to associate the foundation with himself and dissociate it from Wolsey.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
This persistent disregard of the ideas which Wolsey had striven to put forward weighed heavily on his spirits.
Phil BensonVOICE_ACTOR
I've not had it a month.
Phil BensonVOICE_ACTOR
It was built for a Christchurch man, a friend of mine, a very good sort of fellow.
Phil BensonVOICE_ACTOR
He ran it a few weeks till, I believe, it was convenient to have done with it.
Phil BensonVOICE_ACTOR
I happened just then to be looking out for some light thing of the kind, though I had pretty well determined on a curricle too.
Patty CunninghamNARRATOR
Some people, who had been trying for years to get Mr. Danby to their houses, compared him to that star whose inhabitants may now be contemplating the Crimean War of 1854.
Patty CunninghamNARRATOR
Sir John Penlyon and Mr. Danby had been schoolfellows at Eaton and chums at Christchurch, and whomsoever else he disappointed, Mr. Danby never omitted his annual visits to Penlyon Place.
Patty CunninghamNARRATOR
He Christmassed there, and he Eastered there, and he knew the owner of the fine old Tudor house inside and out, his vices and his virtues, his weaknesses and his prejudices.
Patty CunninghamNARRATOR
"'That there Danby,' said Sir John's valet, "'can turn the old chap round his finger.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
As it was, however, Samuel had enough to do to give his sons an education worthy of their abilities.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The eldest son, Samuel, was a scholar of Westminster and a student of Christ Church, a friend of Bishop Adderbury, and a sound scholar.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Owing to his Toryism, he was never more than an usher, under master at Westminster, and master of Tiverton School, and he continued to hold the principles of a high churchman to the last.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
He was an excellent and affectionate brother, ready to help John and Charles in their education, but from the first he recognized the tendencies of Methodism to be schismatical, and in a letter to his mother just before his death, he pointed out the danger of his brothers' teaching.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
As I told Jack, he writes, I am not afraid that the church should excommunicate him.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Discipline is at too low an ebb, but that he should excommunicate the church.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
John went to school at the Charterhouse, thence to Christ Church, Oxford, and to a fellowship at Lincoln College.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Charles followed in the footsteps of Samuel and became a student of Christ Church.
Michael CurranNARRATOR
And more than once, as he stood behind his master's chair or poured the wine for some distinguished guest, the Cardinal would murmur to his neighbor confidentially, That child here waiting at the table, whoever shall live to see it, will prove a marvelous man.
Michael CurranNARRATOR
At the age of fourteen, through Cardinal Morton's interest, Thomas More was placed at Canterbury College, Oxford, the future Christ Church or Cardinal's College.
Michael CurranNARRATOR
His father had a large family and no money to spare, so the life of the young foundation scholar was not too easy.
Michael CurranNARRATOR
In after life he spoke gratefully of his training in this respect.
Elizabeth KlettNARRATOR
I have not had it a month.
Elizabeth KlettNARRATOR
It was built for a Christchurch man, a friend of mine, a very good sort of fellow.
Elizabeth KlettNARRATOR
He ran it a few weeks till, I believe, it was convenient to have done with it.
Elizabeth KlettNARRATOR
I happened just then to be looking out for some light thing of the kind, though I had pretty well determined on a curricle too, but I chanced to meet him on Moreland Bridge as he was driving into Oxford last term.
Victor Davis HansonHOST
And then he wanted to build this cathedral.
Victor Davis HansonHOST
I don't know if you've seen it, but it, it's Christ Church of Oxford.
Victor Davis HansonHOST
And it's-
Sabin HowardGUEST
Yeah
Bailey FreebergHOST
And that church... for the listeners might like this but i might totally botch this um it's right across the street from the harry potter filming it is saint all day's church and
Michelle TepperGUEST
oxford is directly across the street from christ church college of oxford and it's one of the oldest colleges of oxford but it's famous for everyone else in the world for where they filmed harry potter yeah yeah yeah
Nate GilmoreHOST
among other things right michelle
Bailey FreebergHOST
you might know that wesley also studied there yeah
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