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There are two types of people down at Oxford’s stretch of the Thames on Saturday of Summer VIIIs; the 15,000 spectators who sit eating burgers and drinking Pimms, and the hundreds of Lycra clad rowers gearing up for the final day of Oxford’s largest annual regatta. 

Brasenose College is delighted to announce outstanding results for our undergraduate final examinations this summer.

I graduated from Brasenose in 2014, having done, and thoroughly enjoyed, a degree in Biological Sciences.

Every year, a duck (of Christ Church Meadow provenance) decides to make Brasenose its home, using our Middle Quad as a nursery to raise her ducklings before they return to their ancestral home.

The next undergraduate Open Days at Brasenose College will be this week - Wednesday and Thursday 29th and 30th June. The College will be open from 9am to 5pm, and there’s no need to book, just turn up if you are interested in applying to Oxford for undergraduate study.

I trialled for the University Hockey team on a spur of the moment decision at the end of fresher’s week, a decision that has shaped a significant portion of my time at university and experiences that now make up some of my fondest memories of the last three years.

The Big Issue. Divine Chocolate. The Eden Project. What on earth do a magazine, chocolate bar and an indoor rainforest all have in common?

The College is pleased to announce that John Simpson, the well-known broadcaster and journalist has joined Brasenose as an academic visitor.

Brasenose College again had a fantastic turn out for the Oxford Town and Gown 10K charity race, with a team of over 70 students, tutors and staff joining Team Brasenose for the run in support of Muscular Dystrophy UK.

Professor Simon Palfrey, a Brasenose College English tutor, has curated a new exhibition at the University central library (the Bodleian) exhibition space, with Professor Emma Smith.

Boxing. Not exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you imagine the academic grandeur of Oxford University, but it has nonetheless ended up becoming a huge part of my experience here.

Brasenose College was delighted to host acclaimed historian Simon Schama, writer of over eighteen books, on Thursday 12^th May for a tea followed by a Q and A session and drinks reception on Old Quad.

Former Classics and Arabic Brasenose student, Tim Ramsey, has set up a charity which sends recent LGBTQ+ school-leavers into schools to give talks and run workshops so pupils can hear personal accounts from people their own age about what it can be like growing up LGBTQ+.

The annual Brasenose Arts Festival began on Sunday 8^th May. This year the festival will feature...

On May 5th Brasenose College took part in a number of traditional festivities.

The Collect4Calais campaign was the first time I had really engaged with charity work in Oxford.  The proximity and inaction surrounding the situation in Calais grabbed my attention and, together with Sarita Shah, I formed Collect4Calais.

Once again Brasenose is learning about its past by improving for its future. Old Cloisters is back to being a reading room for the summer term, however in the last few months a number of exciting discoveries have been made during the renovation works in Old Cloisters and in Deer Park quad.

On the last day of the winter term, laughter could be heard coming from our lecture room as the Pater Society played host to the improvised comedy group Whiskey For Breakfast.

In a truly nail-biting match at Iffley Road (the Wembley of Football Cuppers), Brasenose College triumphed over Teddy Hall last Friday.

Ian Gibbs-Seymour has been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship.