Brasenose Alumni

Dame Antonia Romeo appointed as first female Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service to drive change and implement the government’s agenda The appointment marks the first time a woman has held the role in its over 100 year history.

Huge congratulations to Dame Antonia Romeo (PPE, 1993) on her appointment as the first female Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service!
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Coming soon... The Varsity Match on
Saturday 28th February, with the Oxford line-up including Brasenose's very own Otis Walker (Geography, 2023) & Sophie Goodman (Physics, 2023) - wishing them the very best of luck! 🤩#ComeOnYouDarkBlues More details here
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Sanger scientist awarded Kovalenko Medal by National Academy of Sciences Professor Sir Mike Stratton receives the Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal for his outstanding research in the medical sciences

Huge congratulations to BNC Honorary Fellow and alumnus Sir Mike Stratton (Physiological Sciences, 1976) on winning the 2026 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal for his outstanding research in medical sciences! www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/sa...

The Treasury houses the College chest, which contained money and important documents (the beginnings of the Archives). Over time they outgrew the chest and eventually moved to the Muniment Room below - now the Library and Archives office! #EYAYourArchives #ExploreYourArchive

#ExploreYourArchive 2025 marked 80 years since the end of WWII. College was taken over by the military, and most BNC students moved to Christ Church. This is an image of sandbagging in 1939 from Principal Stallybrass’s photo collection. brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com
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In 1974 Brasenose was one of the first 5 Colleges to admit women, and in fact we believe that we may have been the first College to vote for the change in 1967. This may have surprised the author of this poem in the Archives dated 1884 #EYAInclusion #ExploreYourArchive

For our 2009 Quincentenary the Chapel Choir made recordings of sheet music held in the Archives, now preserved in the digital archive. One of these was The Song of the Torpid by George Cunningham and Philip Morgan Watkins, members of the Boat Club. #EYADigital #ExploreYourArchive

Civic Trust Awards - Architectural Awards Scheme The Civic Trust Awards is the longest standing built environment awards scheme in Europe.

We are delighted that our Frewin Garden Building (the recently completed new student block) has been selected as a Regional Finalist for the 2026 Civic Trust Awards. Great work by Lee Fitzgerald architects, and everyone else involved in the project! 👏🤩

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Despite a ban on pets recorded in the Vice-Principal’s Register of 1851, we have quite a few photos of pets in the Archives. One of these was the College tortoise. Here you can see it with the Brasenose Rugby XV in 1912 and 2nd Eight in 1913. #EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive #EYA

College Statutes outline governance proceedings and rules for conduct of members. Here you can see a copy of the statutes from 1681. Statute 20 urges College members to maintain silence during the reading of the Bible or other appointed book. #EYASilence #ExploreYourArchive #EYA

Registrum A records meetings of BNC Seniority from 1539-1594, and contains fragments of a C13th manuscript from a commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics by scholar Averroes, translated into Latin c.1220-1224 by Michael Scot. Find out more here brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com #EYAMedieval #EYA

Cushions made for the consecration of the ‘new’ Chapel in 1666, bearing the arms of College founders Bishop William Smyth and Sir Richard Sutton, and the bill for making them. Read more here brasenosecollegelibrary.wordpress.com #EYABeauty #ExploreYourArchive #ExploreYourArchives

To kick off #ExploreYourArchive week, here is an 1889 drawing by the New Quad architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson for gargoyles on the parapet, being cleaned by the National Conservation Service prior to repair #EYAConservation #ExploreYourArchives

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Tomorrow is the start of Explore Your Archives Focus Week! Over the next 7 days we’ll be posting a series of highlights from our collections based on the given themes. #ExploreYourArchive

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This Giving Day Meagan, MBA 2023, shares her favourite things about Brasenose and you can too! #bncgivingday

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What makes Brasenose special to you? Let us know! #bncgivingday

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Will you accept the challenge? If 25 new donors sign up today you will unlock £2,500 of funding for students #BNCgivingday brasenose.givingday.co.uk

The Brasenose Giving Day is here! Welcome to the 2025 Brasenose Giving Day. On our fourth giving day, we are celebrating all things student support. Your gifts make a huge impact on life in Coll...

Support students, transform the future. Join in the Brasenose giving day today! #BNCgivingday

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The Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes David Szalay has won the Booker Prize 2025 for his sixth work of fiction, Flesh, becoming the first Hungarian-British author to win the award

Huge congratulations to Brasenose alumnus David Szalay (English, 1992) who has won the Booker Prize 2025 with his novel Flesh. More details about the book and the prize can be found here: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Join John Bowers KC for a Principal's Conversation with Emeritus Fellow Sir Vernon Bogdanor, to discuss his book ‘Making the Weather: Six politicians who changed modern Britain.’ Wed 22 October, 5:30pm in College and online - please register here: www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/events

Walter Pater – Brasenose aesthete Walter Horatio Pater is one of the most famous Brasenose personae. He was a writer and literary and art critic and his oeuvre had a great influence on the aesthetic movement. Jules Guggenheim, Walt…

BNC Library & Archives have published a fascinating new blog about the life of renowned Brasenose aesthete, writer and critic, Walter Pater.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

Huge congratulations to Brasenose alumnus Professor Richard Robson (Chemistry, 1955) on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025, along with Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi "for the development of metal-organic frameworks" www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

Brasenose SCR Event, Friday 24 October, 5.30pm in College: Join us for a talk on ‘Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov: Two Literary Rebels’ with contributions from Prof. Sos Eltis and Dr Rosamund Bartlett. The talk will be followed by drinks. Please register here forms.office.com/e/cq4S09WZj5

Flesh | The Booker Prizes A propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp

We are thrilled to share that Flesh, by David Szalay (English, 1992), has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025.
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A sunny day at Brasenose College, with pointed shadows cast onto the Old Quad lawn

What a wet and grey day it is! Let's go back to a much nicer August day back in 2021 instead...🌞

Thank goodness it's a bit cooler now - but getting hot again later! 🤯

Join us this Sunday (3 Aug) for the Brasenose Alumni Garden Party! Enjoy an afternoon of tea & scones, Pimm's, a jazz quartet, face painting and a children's entertainer. No judgement if any parents want their faces painted too!☺️ To register, please visit www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/alumni/event...

For your Friday afternoon entertainment, here are some highlights from a recent BNC Library exhibition on the theme of music, including: the oldest musical record in College, a volume of Mozart, Smoking Concerts, and a Brasenose Glee Club! Zoom in to read the descriptions. #Music #HistoricBooks

A print showing four different variations on the theme of the 'brass nose' associated with Brasenose College

BrasenoseS College?! Here we see one of the many treasures from our College Archive, a print showing 'The four Noses of Brasenose College' - which is your favourite?👃👃👃👃

We do sometimes see an adult jackdaw around the quads, and like to think that it is indeed the same one... 🐦