The Nairne Seminar 2013: Lord Mandelson and Evan Davis
This year's seminar will be given by Lord Mandelson (1973, PPE) in conversation with Evan Davis. A former Labour Cabinet minister, and Chairman of Glo...
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Podcasts from St Catherine's - Oxford's youngest mixed (undergraduate and graduate) college and also one of its largest and most diverse communities. St Catherine's celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2012.
On Stage and Screen: Defining Moments in Entertainment Since 1962
As St Catherine's was being built, in July 1962, the Telstar satellite was making history as the first to relay television pictures through space. A y...
Renewable Energies in a Green Economy: Defining Developments
It was with the chance of making 'a special contribution to the urgent national need for more scientists' that St Catherine's College was first contem...
After the Crash: Restoring Economic Growth
Founding St Catherine's College in the 1960s required extensive appeals to industry to secure adequate funding to build and endow the new College. Our...
Sir Humphry Davy: Natural Philosopher, Discoverer, Inventor, Poet, Man of Action
When St Catherine's College was first being envisaged, creating an undergraduate body with an equal number of science and arts students was at the for...
Defining Moments in International Relations Since 1962
The world of our Founders was one in which the space race heated up, and the Cold War froze over. In October 1962, as the College's first cohort of un...