British Council Film: Oxford (1941)
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2017
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From British Council Film:
For more than seven hundred years Oxford has existed as a centre of learning and culture. But it is not only a city of the past, loving and caring for its great traditions; it is also a city of the present and the future. its streets are thronged with the young men and women who one day will provide Britain's scholars, scientists, and statesmen. In the University, students from far off parts of the Empire, rich men's sons, and scholarship winners from Britain's industrial areas share alike the knowledge and culture offered by the University. - Розваги
Oh glory days. I remember them like they were yesterday.
I’m bemused by your character name. I agree I remember Oxford when I was young. I now live in Cornwall my family and grandchildren will remember Cornwall in the same way
My uncle John Grattan Geary won a scholarship to study the classics at Balliol. Early 1930s. In the war he was a captain and fought in Burma. By circa 1950 he was to teach Latin at Queens College Taunton. John born about 1911 died 1985. I still miss him.
My mother spent the war years in Oxford as a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment). She was billeted first in the home of Major Rise, owner if Elliston and Cavells Department Store (later Debenhams). Later billeted in Lincoln College, a mens college, but they had all gone to war. She loved Oxford all her life and would visit regularly. Favourite pub The Trout at Wolvercote.
Odd that, in 1941, there was absolutely no mention of the war!
Excellent video. Watching this you wonder how many of those boys made it until 1946? Yep you could learn from a couple of guys named Lewis and Tolkien apparently,? Wouldn't that have been a wonder?
It's really cool seeing this because I've actually been in some of those scenes
how old are you?
Well if a Manitoban can make it to Oxford then perhaps a Saskatchewanian can too. I would love to study there. It’s been my dream since I was little.
How did they edit those name.
What names?
'Empire lands...'
'Women too have the same opportunities as men'. How the world is changing.
5:10 so me hahah
Wow. Really? You have my respect. It's really nice knowing some of the figures in this footage are still with us.
I was born 1954 in Oxford. I can remember the culture. Memories. Today you would struggle to find a traditional white British citizen. How times have changed
Harwood. Any relation to Basil?
@@missasinenomineThankyou for your comment. My grandfather was Alfred Edward Harwood born London but relocated to Oxford. My father took my grandfather’s name. I have never tried doing my family history but I did notice Basils father had the name Edward. 🤔
Not true. I live in Oxford.
@@countfosco8535 maybe 🤔 you don’t walk Cowley Road. Blackbird Leys. Headington. Covered market. Tell me do you get out with the name Count maybe you are like 🧛♂️ only at night
@@davidharwood9552 Isidor Ottavio Baldassare Fosco. Once eccentric, bombastic, urbane, intelligent, menacing, and mysterious. Last person to traverse Cornmarket Street in an automobile and escape the clutches of the law. Now retired and lying doggo, main features are decency and propriety.
It's so sad to know that nearly every single person in this film are no longer with us.
WTF! Why weren’t they fighting? Surely by 1941 they were calling up under 21s?!
that one kid cooking meth in his room
Two words: Kim Philby :)
Two words: Other Place :)
The clue was in the name they where given, the cambridge 5.
ship them off to war
Mostly a complete waste of time... Study a lot of old nonsense that had no application in the real world.
The real British men were fighting nazis at this time, not lollygagging around old books.
Your ignorance is risible.
You need to take a visit to Oxford. Every college has a war memorial listing the students who gave their lives in both wars. Oxford men did their part.