Curated playlist
Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
- Joseph StiglitzJoseph Stiglitz explained why wages stay high in recessions even when workers are desperate for jobs.
- John HicksEconomist John Hicks called his own famous diagram a classroom gadget. He made the IS-LM model in 1937.
- Emma Smith (scholar)In 2016, Oxford scholar Emma Smith authenticated a newly found copy of Shakespeare's First Folio.
- Peter Brown (historian)Peter Brown argued that the late Roman world was a time of invention, not decline.
- Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount ChelmsfordA lifelong Conservative, Lord Chelmsford ran the navy under Labour's first government. He never joined the party.
- Christopher WrenDays after the Great Fire of 1666, Christopher Wren drew a plan to rebuild all of London.
- Amartya SenAmartya Sen carries a name that was chosen for him by a Nobel laureate. Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize, gave the newborn the name অমর্ত্য. The boy was born on the 3rd of November 1933 in Santiniketan, Bengal,…
- Alexis SandersonAlexis Sanderson left Oxford for Kashmir and studied with a Shaiva guru for six years. He later held an Oxford chair.
- T. E. LawrenceT. E. Lawrence wrote that he once crossed the Sinai Peninsula, from Aqaba to the Suez Canal, in just 49 hours without any sleep. His own notebooks say otherwise. The famous camel ride took more than 70 hours and included two long breaks…
- Max MüllerMax Müller persuaded the East India Company to fund his edition of the Rig-Veda. He worked on it from 1849 to 1874.
- A. L. RowseA china clay worker's son from Cornwall claimed to name Shakespeare's Dark Lady.
- Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanSarvepalli Radhakrishnan had just become President of India when some of his students and friends asked a simple favor. They wanted to celebrate his birthday, the 5th of September. He turned down the party and proposed something else. In…