The Ancient World Fund
Reflecting his status as one of the UK’s pre-eminent Ancient Historians and after 32 years at St John’s, Mr Nicholas Purcell has been elected to the Camden Chair; held at Brasenose College. In order to secure the fellowship in Ancient History (and Classics) at St John’s we have, working with alumni, established the Ancient World Fund. Humanities are greatly threatened at Oxford by the Government’s ‘impact agenda’. In response the Oxford Teaching Fund (OTF) has been set up to support new endowments for posts – at the moment a donation to the Ancient World Fund at St John’s will be matched on a 60:40 basis by the OTF.
We have secured gifts and pledges to the value of £807k, well over halfway to our target of £1.2 million. At that point a further £800k will be transferred from the OTF to provide a permanent endowment of £2 million for the Clarendon Fellowship in Ancient History.
More widely, the Ancient World Fund is designated to enable teaching and research in Classical Languages and Literature and to support students reading for degrees associated with the ancient world.
Make a Gift online to the Ancient World Fund
Download the Ancient World Fund donation form below (for postal donations only).
