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DOWNING COLLEGE 2009–2010PhilosophyPolitics, Psychology, SociologyTheology and Religious StudiesVeterinary Medicine*External Director of StudiesDr M Tomalin*Dr H WydraRev’d K Eyeons*Mrs J PearsonC OLLEGE L ECTURERSEconomicsMathematicsModern & MedievalLanguages (Spanish)Modern & MedievalLanguages (German)Natural SciencePhysicsSocial & Political SciencesVeterinary SciencesC OLLEGE L EKTORGermanMr N F B AllingtonMr J NewtonDr K MaunderDr G L TaylorDr R C ClarkDr C WoodfordMs Marta CorreiaDr M ThangarajDr H WydraMrs J PearsonMr M KranertN EWS OF THE F ELLOWSHIPDavid Pratt received the 2009 ‘Best First Book’ award of the InternationalSociety of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS) for his book The Political Thought of King Alfredthe Great. This book was judged by the committee to ‘exemplify the very higheststandards of the profession, and to qualify as the “best first book about thelanguages, literatures, arts, history, or material culture of Anglo-Saxon England”which appeared in print between the ISAS conference in London in 2007 andthe ISAS conference in Newfoundland in 2009’. On February 7th 2010 heappeared with Ann Widdicombe MP in a TV Channel 4 programme The Bible:a History in which she examined the Ten Commandments as the basis of WesternEuropean laws and in which David spoke on the role of King Alfred the Great.Catherine Phillips’s monograph, Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian VisualWorld (Oxford University Press, Dec. 2008) describes the interest of thenineteenth-century Jesuit poet in fine art, the illustrated press, architecture and111