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Walsh, Jill Paton

Jill Paton Walsh has written many books, including novels, detective fiction and children’s books. She has won literary prizes for her work, including the Book World Festival Award and the Whitbread Prize. In 1996 she received the CBE for services to literature, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in Cambridge.

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A Matter of Trust

Jill Paton Walsh on Jessica Douglas-Home, Once Upon Another Time

Once Upon Another Time is Jessica Douglas-Home’s account of the part she herself played in an extraordinary private enterprise which came to be known as ‘the Oxford visitors’. The story began with Julius Tomin, a philosophy teacher who had been ejected from his university position in Czechoslovakia. He continued openly, but unofficially, to teach courses for students expelled from Charles University on political grounds. He and his students were subjected to violence and harassment, and the strict control of access to books imposed by the authorities led to their losing touch entirely with the course of learning in the West. In 1979 Tomin wrote a letter to many Western universities, inviting lecturers to visit and speak at his seminars. Oxford was the only university to respond.

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