College News

Wednesday

22

NOV

2023

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"The building in which we are gathered tonight was once the bed of a sea. It’s constructed, like other parts of the college including the Queens Building, from a Middle Jurassic oolitic limestone called Ketton Stone".

So begins Professor Robert Macfarlane's sermon at our recent Commemoration of Benefactors. Read his full sermon below, on the radical perspective that is deep-time, and the legacies of being good ancestors like our forebears.