The Oxford Union Society
Victorian student debating society hall where visiting leaders face motions and member votes.
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This guide to the Oxford Union Society in Oxford starts on a February night in nineteen thirty-three, when the student debating society passed a motion about King and country that made headlines far beyond the city. It follows the rituals of shame and erasure that came after, from an anonymous parcel in the post to a son of Winston Churchill arriving with a motion of his own. Best heard in Frewin Court, outside the debating hall.
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