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An inspiring education. A community where you belong. 📚🎓 For our People. For our Place. For our Culture. For Mansfield. Forever. ♥️
Oxford, UK
Joined January 2011
Went from 🍂🍁 to ❄️🌨️ over night but we’re not complaining. 😍🤍
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This #LGBTQ+ History month, Mansfield College is delighted to announce a generous gift of £4.9m which enables the College, with the @FacultyofHistory, to create and endow in perpetuity, @UniofOxford's first Professorship in LGBTQ+ History. 🌈🏳️⚧️
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Mansfield College is thrilled to announce, in association with @OxfordHistory, the appointment of Professor Matt Cook as the Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexualities, the UK’s first Professorship in LGBTQ+ History at the @UniofOxford. 🎉🏳️🌈. A thread. 🧵
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Mansfield College is delighted to congratulate alumnus Chris Bryant (English, 1980) @RhonddaBryant on his knighthood. Chris is Chair of the Commons Committees on Standards & Privileges, & has been MP for Rhondda in Wales since 2001. 📸: Ander McIntyre, 2022
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The dangers of sharing an office with the Mansfield cats 🐱
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Mansfield College is delighted to reveal it has secured an environmentally-friendly method of keeping the grass freshly cut over the summer. Oxfordshire farmer David Sloof has offered to lend his prized goat April to the College every Sunday from May through to Sept. 🐐🌿😍
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Did you spot us in the @guardian this morning? We may be biased but we think our community is pretty special. Shout out to our wonderful students, Principal @HelenMountfield and incredible @MansfieldAccess colleagues:.
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The Jonathan Cooper Professor of the History of Sexualities will lead and expand the study and teaching of LGBTQ+ History at Oxford. It is the first fully endowed specialist post of this type in the UK.
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Congratulations to all our students graduating today! 🎉🎓. Share your graduation moments with us by tagging @MansfieldOxford or use the #MansfieldAlumni 😍👏🏼
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The Professorship is named in memory of the late Jonathan Cooper OBE, who was an inspiring human rights lawyer, tireless advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, and commentator on issues such as trans rights, conversion therapy and the rights of people living with HIV.
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We may be biased, but we have the most beautiful library! @MansfieldColle1 😍.
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Our Principal has made a statement about Mansfield’s admissions process in 2020, please read it here:
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The hard-knock life of a college cat.
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We would like to introduce you to our Head Porter Tom. Over the last couple of weeks, Tom and his team have been doing an absolutely sterling job of taking care of College, and the small group of students who are still not able to travel home. #ThankfulThursday #PandemicHeros
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Warmest congratulations to our Honorary Fellow and Former Principal, Baroness @HelenaKennedyKC on her appointment to the highest honour in Scotland, The Order of the Thistle, by His Majesty the King. 🎉. 🔗:
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Join us this Friday for our annual Hands lecture to hear @RhonddaBryant discuss how state corruption, ‘golden visas’, poor political analysis and UK law have enabled authoritarian regimes like Russia to play us for fools. Get your tickets here 👉
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OXFORD READS KAFKA! 📖🎉. As part of the university-wide celebration of the life & work of #FranzKafka at Oxford, all @UniofOxford students are gifted with a special limited edition of the #Metamorphosis by the @bodleianlibs. 📚. 🔗: . #OxfordReadsKafka
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This morning’s beautiful sunshine 😍☀️
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We're very proud to announce that Mansfield has come 5th in the @UniofOxford Norrington Table - our best ever result! 🎉🎉.
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🌹💖 Mansfield's no. 1 heart-throb is seeking a canine Valentine. 🐕 Mishmish enjoys ignoring 'keep off the grass' signs, standing on her hind legs, and being the most popular dog in College. ❔ Are there any other #OxfordLonelyHearts out there? RSVP.
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Wisteria in the spring sunshine 😍💜☀️
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“Courage is not the absence of fear. It’s the belief that something else is more important than fear.” ~ @ekaramurza . #mansfieldpublictalks
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We'd like to say a very warm welcome to Kate Clanchy MBE (@KateClanchy1)- Mansfield's new Writer in Residence! 📚📖🖋️. 👉 @HelenMountfield @MansfieldAccess @MansfieldColle1
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We were so proud to see our wonderful Principal .@HelenMountfield and the brilliant work of .@Mansfieldaccess featured by @SianGriffiths6. in the @SundayTimes this weekend.
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Today, on the day that marks 100 years since women were granted the right to matriculate at the University of Oxford, we are thrilled to be able to unveil our brand new #WomenAtMansfield exhibition! ♀️. @HelenMountfield @UniofOxford #WomenAtOxford
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Today is the day! Our Senior Tutor Lucinda Rumsey is receiving her MBE for services to social mobility in Higher Education @UniofOxford.
Today Lucinda is going with access staff past and present Helen Brooks, Helen Etty and Jenny Medland to get an MBE for services to social mobility in Higher Education! @MansfieldOxford #OxOutreach /1
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It's graduation season! 🎓. Here is soon-to-be English graduate Brennig Davies' poem, Passing Through, which perfectly captures the bittersweet feeling of moving on. "you can't grip water forever. Be glad your hands are cleaner, .though colder, for having once held it at all."⬇️
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We're saddened by the passing of our Honorary Fellow, Dame Maggie Smith. The photographs below are from Dame Maggie Smith's public talk & Honorary Fellowship bestowment ceremony at Mansfield in October 2017. @BallasterRos @HelenaKennedyKC @UniofOxford . 📷: Keiko Ikeuchi
Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
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Happy #internationalcatday🐱🐾❤️ . Cheers to our College furriends, Baz, Bea and Ziggy😻. College wouldn’t be the same without you - live long and pawspurr 🐾 . @UniofOxford @catsofoxford
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Introducing Ziggy- the newest & cutest member of our community! 🐱. Ziggy has arrived at the Principal's Lodgings just in time to help @HelenMountfield prepare for her Principal's Giving Day Poetry Challenge. #WeAreMansfield #MightNeedACatNapFirst
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"Our latest admission statistics show that 93 per cent of Mansfield’s UK undergraduates come from state schools; one in four come from the most disadvantaged areas of the UK; and 25 per cent are the first in their family to go into higher education." .👇👇👇.
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'The Holocaust ended in the camps but it started with language.' - Joan Salter MBE. Mansfield College was honoured to have welcomed @T21Joan child survivor of the holocaust and a tireless & dedicated educator, sharing her powerful testimony in our public talk yesterday evening.🧡
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In conversation with Dame Maggie Smith - watch the podcast! @UniofOxford #interestingtalks @OxfordTalks
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There's no feeling like finishing your exams. 🎉🎉 . Our final year students have found creative ways to mark to end of their finals at home (with some getting their entire neighbourhood involved). 🎈🎈🎈
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We are so proud to announce that @MansfieldOxford has been recognised by @CityofSanctuary as one of the UK's first University Colleges of Sanctuary, along with our partner @SomervilleOx. @HelenMountfield
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Warm Hanukkah wishes from Mansfield College to all celebrating! 🕎✨. Here’s some photos from our end of term #Hanukkah dinner! . Huge thanks to Hasnain, @MulcoNathan and Asima for organising! 🙏💜
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Mansfield Professorial Fellow in Physics - Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will donate her Breakthrough prize money $3m (£2.3m) to help students underrepresented in physics. To read more:
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A peaceful moment in the Old Hall.
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Introducing Basil & Beatrice, the new Mansfield cats 🐱🐱 It'll be a little while until they are allowed to play outside, so for now they are exploring the college cattery.
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We are deeply grateful to philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, whose extraordinary generosity has enabled Oxford University to fully fund the new Professorship in perpetuity.
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At @UniofOxford, we count Sunday as the first day of the week. which means that it's officially freshers' week!! 🎉🎉. Safe travels to all our students who are moving in tomorrow 🚗 College cats Basil & Beatrice are eagerly awaiting your arrival. #WelcomeToOxford
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Mansfield College is thrilled to announce a generous gift of £1.65m from the McBain Family Foundation in support of our efforts to widen access to @UniofOxford & to endow graduate scholarships in Human Rights Law at the College. @MansfieldAccess. More at👉
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Some splendid photos of our #Magnolia in full #bloom for your feed today 🌸☀️. #oxfordphotography #oxforduniversity #photography #spring #blossom #mansfieldcollege
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This Friday at 5.30pm we're delighted to welcome back @sagarikaghose to Mansfield Lecture Series to speak on 'Civil Rights and State Power: why individual freedoms are vital for India'. Admission is free & open to all. Reserve a seat here:
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We're thrilled to announce we've closed our gender pay gap. 🎉.Principal @HelenMountfield: “Mansfield takes great pride in treating everyone with equal dignity & respect, so I'm delighted that this is reflected in the latest monitoring figures.”.More at👉
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Have you got 2 minutes for the coolest application of Maths you’ll see all year? 🤩. Our fantastic Maths Professor, John Chapman @jon_ox has created this quirky & mathematically inspired photo of College in the style of Escher. In the video below, he explains how! 🤯 . 🧵
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The Chair will act as a catalyst for developing scholarship in LGBTQ+ History at Oxford. In line with our particular emphasis on inclusion and diversity, we are so proud that the Professorship will be associated with Mansfield College.
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of our Honorary Fellow, Dame Maggie Smith, CH DBE.
Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89
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To find out more information about The Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexualities, visit and @HelenMountfield @UniofOxford @OxfordHistory @KevinChilds101.
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To read more about Jonathan’s life, click here: .
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A blooming gorgeous corner 😍🌹🌸. Can you guess where in College? 👀
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Today, on the International Day of Women & Girls in Science, we are delighted to announce the launch of Mansfield's new annual Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture in Science. 👩🔬🔭. 👉 #WomenInScienceDay #WomenInSTEM .@PhysicsNews @WomenScienceDay @OxfordSparks
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Alumnus Chris Foster (Mathematics, 1997) has kick-started our #ForMansfieldForever campaign with a £25m gift – the largest in our history! 🎉♥️. Chris graduated with a first-class degree in 2000, after attending a #stateschool in the Northwest of England. 🎓
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Applications open for funded doctoral study programme: Growing up Queer: 1780-1918. The AHRC - CDP award is a collaborative doctoral studentship between Mansfield College & @MuseumoftheHome. Deadline: midday on 03/05/2024. Find out more⤵️
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Mansfield College sprinkled in snow ❄️ . Brrrrrring on more ❄️☃️
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What a gorgeous day for a degree day!🌞. Congratulations and well done to all Mansfielders who have graduated this week. 🎉🎓🙌🏽. Tag us @MansfieldOxford @UniofOxford in your grad pics! 📸
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With #ValentinesDay just around the corner, it’s time to celebrate love! 🥰 Calling all Mansfield alumni who found their forever at Mansfield – share your love story with us & let’s spread the #MansfieldLove together! 💘. DM or email us at communications@mansfield.ox.ac.uk. 💌💝
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The Mansfield cats wanted to join in with this, so:
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Definitely not biased. but we think our library ceiling is one of the best in Oxford! 📚.
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Jonathan also had a great love of history, in his words:. “When we acknowledge our identity, we join a rich and extraordinary history, we reinvent ourselves… and we can give visibility to all those who came before us. We can commemorate and celebrate. And we can say sorry.”.
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This week, we're flying our #TogetherWithRefugees flag. 🧡 . We are Mansfield, we are a College of Sanctuary, and we stand #TogetherWithRefugees. @AsylumWelcome @SomervilleOx @HelenMountfield
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We'd like to say 'good bye and good luck' to the brilliant @ADMHenley and his canine sidekick Mishmish as they leave us to join the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Here is Mishmish finishing as she started: breaking College grass rules with blissful abandon.
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Our second annual Iftar dinner in collaboration with the @dialogue society! 🍽️🕯️. Huge thanks to all speakers including Principal, @helenmountfield, Vice-chancellor of @UniofOxford Irene Tracy, Deputy Lord-lieutenant of Oxfordshire Moira Darlington, councillor Liz Leffman.
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Beatrice makes her nightly patrol of the grounds.
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Basil would like to take a moment out of his busy schedule to wish you all a happy advent. 🐈
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Spoiled Cat No. 1 has been told that it’s too early to open his advent calendar. Spoiled Cat No. 1 is now sulking in a hedge.
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Congratulations to all who will hear today that they've received an offer from @UniofOxford. We can't wait to meet you in the Autumn!🎉. For those who didn't get the outcome they wanted: very well done for getting this far in such a competitive process- we wish you every success.
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Celebrating a #MansfieldLove story that started in 1981 & continue to inspire! 👩❤️👨. From sherry parties to founding the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society, Suzanne (English, 1981) & Greg (English, 1980) met at Mansfield College & never looked back…💘🧵. @UniofOxford @engfac @oxfordalumni
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This #NationalTriviaDay, we are sharing some random and interesting facts about Mansfield College, @UniofOxford. 👀🤩 . A thread…🧵
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Beatrice isn't too pleased about this jack-o'-lantern taking her favourite spot. Happy Halloween! 🎃
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It's #WomenInScienceDay👩🔬and we're celebrating #WomenInScience - past and present!. Today we announced the launch of our new annual Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture in Science, named for the trailblazing astrophysicist Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
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6/ The Hands Lecture: What next for Afghan women and Afghan politics? . 🧕: Fawzia Koofi .🗒️: @Fawziakoofi77, former Vice President of the Afghan National Assembly, outspoken women’s rights advocate on women's rights in Afghanistan since Taliban's takeover. 🗓️: Fri 3 Mar, 5:30pm
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A beautiful shot of our Magnolia tree 😍🌸. 📸: Esther Johnson Photography (on Instagram) . #springbloom #magnolia #Oxforduniversity
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Congrats to 6 Mansfield alumni on their election as MPs in the #GeneralElection2024. @TorstenBell (PPE, 2002), @lukejcr (PPE, 2013), @JoeMorrisMP (History, 2011), @RhonddaBryant (English, 1980), @JohnGlenUK (History, 1993) & @jameswnaish (History, 2006).
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New Year congratulations to Senior Tutor Lucinda Rumsey, MBE, Prof Helen Margetts, OBE and Mansfield alum Sir Ian Blatchford. For widening access; technology, politics & policy; cultural education, respectively. @MansfieldAccess @HelenMargetts @UniofOxford @sciencemuseum.
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4/ The Adam von Trott Lecture: Why moral courage matters - especially in time of repression.👩: @ekaramurza .🗒️: Time & again, history has shown that moral courage outweighs military might, and a few brave dissidents can help bring down a dictatorship. 🗓️: Fri 8 Nov, 5:30pm
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Black Lives Matter. Diverse minds matter. @MansfieldOxford wants to be part of the solution in creating a fair world which affords everyone equal dignity, respect and capacity. You can't change what you haven't addressed.
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Huge congratulations to everyone who received an offer @UniofOxford yesterday! 🎉 We are so excited to welcome you in 2022. Even our College cat, Basil, is waiting patiently for you! 🐈. @MansfieldAccess #GoingtoOxford
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On this #InternationalDayofEducation, Mansfield College is delighted to introduce its inaugural Ukraine Scholarship recipient, Oksana Berezniuk (MSc Mathematical and Computational Science). 👩🏻🎓 . A thread…🧵
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It finally feels like it’s summer! ☀️😍
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Term is over, interviews are finished, and we're signing off for the Christmas break-but before we go, we'd like to wish all of our students, alumni, friends and colleagues, at Mansfield and beyond, a safe and restful holiday. 🎄🎄🎄
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#NationalCodingWeek. This week we're exploring Mansfield's coding connections. Our Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics @rcimpeanu has made a code for you to crack 🧐. Message us the answer by Friday 12pm! Good luck. 👨💻 . @bletchleypark
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Queer and Trans History Now 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Postgraduate Symposium taking place from Tuesday 18 - Friday 21 June at @MansfieldOxford. Programme of events that are open to the public - 🧵. 🔗:
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Mansfield Fellow Lucinda Rumsey MBE hails all those who act on their belief in the power of education to foster social mobility. @MansfieldAccess @AccessOxford #wideningparticipation #access.
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Mansfield College 🤝 @DialogueSociety Iftar Dinner! . Last night, a diverse range of individuals from students, staff, academics, to local councillors, community and faith leaders came together at our Chapel Hall to celebrate unity and togetherness. 🌙🥰💛
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#tbt The Mansfield site looked very different at the start of the 20th century! Anyone else find this view disorientating? 📷 . 🎾 This tennis court would become the south side of the quad.
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📢Announcing 7 new fully funded Kofi Annan Scholarships at Mansfield. We're thrilled to be partnering with @WeidenfeldSchol & @KofiAnnanFdn to offer 7 new Scholarships of the ‘Weidenfeld-Hoffmann’ graduate programme. More info: @OxfordGradStudy
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