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Business meetings are the core of Oxford House. All decisions are made based upon a vote by all members of the house. A typical Oxford House has five positions, however each person still has only one vote. These positions are: The President calls the meeting to order, directs the meeting, moderates discussion, and closes the meeting.
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Arising out of the philanthropic and social movement of the mid-Victorian age which had found support at the University of Oxford and from the Tractarianism (or Oxford Movement) of the High Anglican Church, the settlement movement sprang up primarily from the work of the Barnetts (Samuel, rector of Whitechapel, and his wife Henrietta), whose pioneering view saw the first steps to establishing ...
The Oxford Parliament, also known as the Mad Parliament, assembled in 1258 during the reign of Henry III of England. It is best known for the Provisions of Oxford , a set of constitutional reforms that forced the English king to govern according to the advice of a council of barons .
Franklin Nathaniel Daniel Buchman (June 4, 1878 – August 7, 1961), best known as Frank Buchman, was an American Lutheran who founded the First Century Christian Fellowship in 1921, renamed as the Oxford Group in 1928, that was transformed under his leadership in 1938 into the Moral Re-Armament and became Initiatives of Change in 2001.
In 1953, James Morrell III sold Headington Hill Hall to Oxford City Council. It continued to be used as a rehabilitation centre until 1958. [5] Subsequently, the publisher Robert Maxwell (1923–1991), founder of Pergamon Press, took a lease of the building rented from the Council for 32 years as a residence and offices.
The Oxford History of Britain (1987, rev ed 2010) The Red Dragon and the Red Flag (1989) (ed.) The Oxford Mini History of Britain (1989, in 5 vols.) Britain and Europe (1995) The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 (1989, rev ed 2001) Modern Wales, Politics, Places and People (1995) (ed.) The Young Oxford History of Britain and Ireland (1996)
Convocation House is the lower floor of the 1634–1637 westward addition to the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library and Divinity School in Oxford, England. [1] It adjoins the Divinity School , which pre-dates it by just over two hundred years, and the Sheldonian Theatre , to its immediate north.