Brasenose College
Tudor-founded college on a cobbled square, its gateway facing the domed Radcliffe Camera.
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This guide to Brasenose College in Oxford follows William Robert Grove, a classics student here who graduated in eighteen thirty-two and went off to London to become a lawyer. It picks him up in October eighteen forty-two, writing a letter to Michael Faraday about a curious contraption of tubs, gas and platinum. Along the way you'll hear about a battery paper written on a honeymoon. Best heard standing in the gateway off Radcliffe Square.
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