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Degrees of influence: the politics of honorary degrees in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1900-2000

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posted on 2010-02-11, 08:53 authored by Michael Heffernan, Heike JonsHeike Jons
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge had developed different attitudes towards the award of honorary degrees through the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. Recently, both have adopted a similar cautious and apolitical stance. This essay describes the role of honorary degrees in the production and reproduction of their cultural and intellectual authority of these two ancient universities.

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  • Geography and Environment

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HEFFERNAN, M. and JONS, H., 2007. Degrees of influence: the politics of honorary degrees in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1900-2000. Minerva: a Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 45 (4), pp. 389–416.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 International (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

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2007

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This article was published in the journal, Minerva [© Springer] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-007-9065-8

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0026-4695;1573-1871

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