The Dead Sea Scrolls are of great religious and historical significance, as they include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents, generally dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE.

Hollinghurst, who was named Waterstone's Author of the Year 2011, discussed the complex relationships between biographer and subject; lived experience and the attempt to record it, a subject he explores in his latest novel, The Stranger's Child.

McWilliam overcame writer's block following a period of near-blindness brought on by the rare illness blepharospasm to write the Hawthornden Prize-winning memoir What to Look for in Winter. Wolfson College President and OCLW Director Hermione Lee, in her introduction to the lecture, described her voice as "subtle, original and sharp", and her memoir as remarkable for its candour and lack of sef-pity, "told with eloquence, truthfulness and comic brio".

The cluster marks a significant development in the partnership between the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society and Wolfson College, and strengthens the existing association with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, to constitute a major centre for the study of law, justice and society in Oxford.

Such was the provocative view put forward by Dr Nikita Sud, Wolfson Fellow and University lecturer in Development Studies at the Department of International Development, in her lecture entitled ‘God, Gold, and Government: Economic liberalism meets political illiberalism in western India', delivered before the Wolfson College Governing Body in the Haldane room on Wednesday 7^th March.

The President is now on research leave until the start of Michaelmas Term 2012; Professor Christina Redfield is the Acting President.

OxBump features live results during races, weather and safety information, and a history of bumps contests.

John and Susan are active rowers and coxes in the Wolfson College Boat Club and welcome any feedback or innovative ideas.

Anyone can download OxBump for free from the Apple App Store.

Their research, reported last week in Nature, describes how, using X-ray free-electron lasers, the group of physicists created hot dense plasmas which mimic the conditions found in the interior of the Sun.

On the 27^th October, the Fournier Piano Trio performed an introductory concert to celebrate their newly-established association with Wolfson College.

Florentin completed his MSc in ‘Water Science, Policy and Management', and wrote his dissertation on ‘Insights into public experiences in Argentinian water sector after the end of the PPP-era.  Examples from Buenos Aires and the province of Santa Fe'. He will be presenting his findings at the Annual Meeting of American Geographers in New York early next year, another indication of the strength of his work.