The transcript below is of a talk was given by Professor Adrian Gregory, the guest speaker at the COSA Annual Luncheon of 2017. It is a comprehensive review of the participation of Old Boys and Staff in the First World War.
‘Since 2014 I have been director of a research network at the university dedicated to ‘Globalizing and Localizing’ the Great War which is based in the Oxford University History Faculty housed in the Old Boys School building on George Street.
At some point in 2015 I noticed properly for the first time that the School Roll of Service was still hanging on the wall by the main staircase in the building and I started thinking about its significance. In early 2017. I teamed up with the brilliant local historian Liz Woolley (who unfortunately can’t be here today- and who lives literally just down the road in Grandpont) to begin exploring and analysing the Roll.
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