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| Sir Ivor Crewe (L) with Univ Old Member The Rt Hon Sir Alan Moses Law. |
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 14, 2019–Last month, Sir Ivor Crewe, the Master since 2008 of University College, Oxford visited Washington and spoke to the Oxford University Society branch about Brexit.
He heads one of the three oldest colleges at Oxford, the one attended by President Bill Clinton when he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Sir Ivor is also the President of the Academy of Social Sciences.
He pioneered in polling in Britain since the 1970s and predicted that the Labour Party was losing its base.
He was certainly proven right this week with the (well-deserved) rejection of Jeremy Corbyn. However, the result means a continuation of Brexit, an outcome that is not favorable for academic institutions in Britain because it inhibits exchanges of students and faculty.
Sir Ivor is also the President of the Academy of Social Sciences.
He pioneered in polling in Britain since the 1970s and predicted that the Labour Party was losing its base.
He was certainly proven right this week with the (well-deserved) rejection of Jeremy Corbyn. However, the result means a continuation of Brexit, an outcome that is not favorable for academic institutions in Britain because it inhibits exchanges of students and faculty.
After Sir Ivor's talk, I gave him a copy of my book on Oxford arms. He wrote back (I include this comment by his permission):
Thank you for your gift of Oxford College Arms, which I enjoyed reading on my return flight today from San Francisco. I can confirm that there isn’t even the tiniest of errors in your account of Univ, which gives me complete confidence that your entries for all the other colleges are reliably informative. I imagine it was a labour of love to produce this fine book.
Since I have been in Washington working for the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress in 2019, I haven't had much opportunity to travel to Oxford branches to talk about the book, but I did give one slide show presentation in 2019 to the Oxford University Society of Washington, D.C., following the talks I gave in London, Oxford, and New York City the previous year.
If you want to keep bookstores thriving by giving them your business, they can order the book for you through Ingram. All you need is the ISBN Number, which is 978-0-9845232-3-8 (the ISBN number is also on the Amazon site). As of today, Amazon says they will deliver books by Christmas, but that window is closing.
More about the book here: https://boissevainbooksllc.blogspot.com/2018/11/boissevain-books-gift-ideas.html.
More about the book here: https://boissevainbooksllc.blogspot.com/2018/11/boissevain-books-gift-ideas.html.
