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The Oxford Union debating chamber. The King and Country Debate was a debate on 9 February 1933 at the Oxford Union Society. The motion presented, "That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country", passed with 275 votes for the motion and 153 against it. [1] The motion would later be named the Oxford Oath or the Oxford ...
The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in the city of Oxford, England, whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford. Founded in 1823, it is one of Britain's oldest university unions and considered [ by whom? ] one of the world's most prestigious private students' societies ...
The library in 1566, drawn by John Bereblock and given to Queen Elizabeth I as part of a book when she first visited Oxford [8] Doorway to the Schola Moralis Philosophiae (School of Moral Philosophy) at the Bodleian Library (now the staff entrance in the Schools Quadrangle) The Tower of the Five Orders, as viewed from the entrance to the ...
Kathleen Stock, the controversial gender-critical feminist, is at the centre of a heated dispute at Oxford University over her planned appearance to address the Oxford Union on Tuesday evening ...
On the same day as the Oxford Union speech, Channel 4 broadcast Gender Wars, a documentary featuring Stock as the main representative of the gender-critical side of "the trans issue". [74] The documentary centred around an earlier speech Stock made during a debate at the Cambridge Union [ 75 ] on the "right to offend," which attracted protests ...
A Question of Europe was a televised debate of the Oxford Union held on 3 June 1975. The debate was held two days before the 1975 referendum, in which the electorate were asked if Britain should remain a member of the European Economic Community (EEC) which it had joined in 1973.
Gladstone served as President of the Oxford Union, where he developed a reputation as an orator, which followed him into the House of Commons. At university, Gladstone was a Tory and denounced Whig proposals for parliamentary reform in a famous debate at the Oxford Union in May 1831. On the second day of the three-day debate on the Whig Reform ...
The Oxford Union debating chamber. During a debate at the Oxford Union on 28 May 2015, the Indian Member of Parliament, diplomat and writer Shashi Tharoor delivered a speech supporting the motion "Britain owes reparations to her former colonies". Tharoor was the seventh speaker in the debate, the final speaker from the proposition, and spoke ...