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Posted today at the Tides of Time blog - Russell T Davies and the Rejoining of the Ways. which Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society members - students, alumni, and friends - comment on the return of Russell T Davies to Doctor Who. I'm pleased with how it all came together.

I'm no longer the editor of The Tides of Time, magazine of the Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society, having left it to younger hands in the shape of recent graduate jamesashworth98, but have contributed to this latest issue, 104 pages on everything from Revolution of the Daleks to Gangsters via Time Lord Victorious. Details of the issue's contents can be found here. The society is collecting orders through this form - please complete if you are interested.

The latest issue of Oxford University's Doctor Who fanzine is a double issue of 172 pages. More details ( behind this cut ).

Russell T Davies's talk to Worcester College, Oxford and (by invitation of the provost) the Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society was enjoyable. I wasn't in the target audience, of course - there was a lot of talk about how to get into television and how Russell failed to get into the BBC training course three times, ending up by going in as a 'worker' through an ordinary job application and not as management. There was a definite sense of how glad he was to leave Doctor Who and that he spent a long time picking up the threads of his life that he'd dropped to make the series. Nevertheless, despite the attempted interventions of Jonathan Bate, the provost of Worcester - who four years ago encouraged him to persevere with A Midsummer Night's Dream for BBC One when the budget and logistics were collapsing - to take him away, Russell talked to people and posed for photographs for three quarters of an hour. The talk - excluding the Q&A - should appear at the Worcester College website soon if it hasn't already.

Copied directly from website of said zine, published by the Oxford (University) Doctor Who Society:

The Tides of Time #43 for Trinity Term 2019 is now available in print to discerning readers everywhere! The issue is 80 pages of full A5 colour, and print copies of this issue are available through this link

Features include:

Reviews of Series 11

• ‘Perhaps I’ve thought everything I’ll ever think’ – Ian Bayley discusses the Society’s predictions for Series 11


• The Victoria Line – Society President Victoria Walker reviews each episode of Series 11


• ‘If I was still a bloke, I could just get on with the job and not have to waste time defending myself’ – Georgia Harper discusses the response to the Thirteenth Doctor’s debut


• Team, gang, fam? –  Francis Stojsavljevic summarises the collective views of the Society on the episodes, characters and features of Series 11


• ‘I’ve lost track of what’s actually happening’ – Georgia Harper relays the reactions of Time and Relative Dimensions in Shitposting


• Say you want a Resolution – Matthew Kilburn reviews the New Year’s Special

Poetry

• Haiku for The Woman Who Fell To Earth by William Shaw


• Haiku for The Witchfinders by William Shaw


• Haiku for Resolution by William Shaw

Books

• Timewyrm Tales – James Ashworth reviews the first four novels of the Virgin New Adventures


• Bookwyrm Reviewed – Stephen Brennan reviews Bookwyrm, the new novel exploring the New Adventures in their entirety, from Robert Smith? and society alumnus Anthony Wilson


• You all right, Hun? – Georgia Harper reviews the new Thirteenth Doctor novel, Combat Magicks

Features

• Wise Men Say – Andrew O’Day discusses the allegories of Kinda andSnakedance


• As Time Goes By – Oli Jones defends The Time of the Doctor


• Top or Flop: The Capaldi Conundrum –  James Ashworth and Ian Bayley debate the relative merits of the Capaldi-era titles


• Hail to the Chief – Rory Salt shines light on the work of Big Chief Studios


• Hmm? – Ian Bayley discusses David Bradley’s work on Doctor Who, after his visit to the Oxford Union


• Equilibrium by Philip Holdridge, featuring the new TARDIS crew on a mission to another universe

Again, here's the link to buy through!

Some blatant fanzine plugging:

The latest issue of The Tides of Time, number 41, was published by The Oxford Doctor Who Society in June 2018. It's printed in colour throughout its 80 pages and is edited by James Ashworth, who is studying biology at Worcester College, and society veteran, its historian Matthew Kilburn.

Copies of the print edition can be ordered within the UK for £3.50 via PayPal. Contact us for information about overseas orders.

A PDF of the issue (compact, just over 5Mb in size) can be downloaded from this link.

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Thoughts from the Oxford Doctor Who Society on the most recent series, condensed from several weeks of discussion on Facebook Messenger, are now available in one document downloadable from The Tides of Time blog.

"As the antients had their Capitoline and their Olympian Jupiter, so we had our virgin of Winchester and our virgin of Walsingham: and as there were temples to the Capitoline Jupiter in other places, as well as on the Capitoline hill, and one at Athens in particular; so we had places dedicated to the virgin of Winchester, in other places as well as Winchester; and one at Oxford in particular. The society at Oxford (to which I am obliged more than I could easily express, for passing the best part of my life, in a most agreeable manner) was established before the light of the Reformation had begun to dawn on England; by one of the noblest patrons of learning, that ever was. As he was, in those times, bishop of Winchester, he founded a seminary there; and a college to be supplied with students from it, at Oxford. This college, at Oxford, was dedicated Sanctae Mariae Wintoniensi; and both of them are called, the two St. Mary-Winton colleges, on some occasions, to this day."

---Joseph Spence Polymetis (1747), p 48 note 7

For those interested in oldish Doctor Who stuff, issue 26 of Oxford's Tides of Time fanzine, published in 2000, is now online as a pdf. More information here.

The official 2012 video, it seems (corrected from my earlier impression that it was this year's):