Apparently Balliol is... the coolest.

[prof_pangaea]

Doing various google type things when I find a page for the portraits collection of Balliol College at Oxford -- at the actual, official Balliol website. Please make a note of that important fact. And of the man in the third portrait from the bottom. Yes, the one right above John Wycliffe.

It even says "after John Singer Sargent". SO AWESOME. Though I must say, doesn't look a bit like him to me.

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Re: Balliol

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

What a generous offer! I would certainly like to accept it some time, but who knows the next time I shall be in England, let alone Oxford.

Although, you may be able to help me with something less concrete (but more interesting) than a drink. I need to do some research on Oxford (and more specifically, Magdalen College) around 1869-1871 for a Holmes fic (of DOOM) that I am writing. I cannot find books that are histories of the university, and not simply histories published by the university. I have read quite a lot online, but that only gives on so much information, without any feel for what university life would have been like, and as I am not British myself it is even harder. So, if you know of any books, histories, websities, gossip, etc. that would be useful, I would be unendingly grateful. In return, I would offer you my undying gratitude, credit, and of course advance snippets for your reading pleasure.

And of course, OMG Wimsey yay! I've never seen Edward Petherbridge as Wimsey, though I can only imagine that he MUST be better than that other chappie, Ian Carmichael, but I have heard him play Holmes on NPR (that's National Public Radio, which is an American radio institution). It was years ago, but I remember liking him, though I think he may have been a bit nasally. He played an amazing Culverton Smith for the BBC a few years ago.