Chronicle Spring 2022

10 ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE

Steven Kaack Keble College

The Oxford Movement and Education An Academic Conference By Huw Thomas, Head of History and Conference Coordinator 1870-1873 were very important years in the history of St Edward’s School. Algernon Simeon, the young headmaster of Thomas Chamberlain’s school in New Inn Hall Street, purchased the business, secured land in the village of Summertown and by 1873 pupils were arriving at the new and ambitiously spacious new buildings. Chris Nathan, our indefatigable archivist, urged that we commemorate these important events and so the School is planning a major event on Friday 23rd September 2022. It will take the form of an academic conference to be held at the School on the subject of ‘The Oxford Movement and Education’, reflecting in a wide context the School’s role in that very important 19th-century development. A distinguished team of scholars of national reputation will convene to explore the distinctive role of the Movement in the context of schools, universities and the nation. It is hoped to attract not only academics with an interest and expertise as participants but also school pupils and clergy. The School will thus identify itself again with its historic ties with the Oxford Movement and its continuing commitment to scholarship. Details of the day and registration will be circulated nationally in due course and it may be that OSE and friends of the School would like to attend. Invitations to the Conference will be extended to Teddies pupils and to all local schools, including our Beyond Teddies partnership schools. Contact Huw Thomas at thomash@stedwardsoxford.org to find out more.

The ornate Gothic Revival interior of Keble College chapel. This style of furnishing was the aesthetic response to the high church values of the Oxford Movement.

Liddon Quad in Keble College. The college was founded in 1870 in memory of John Keble, a key member of the Oxford Movement.