Perfect Days is a luminous reflection on the beauty found in everyday life. Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Koji Yakusho stars as Hirayama, a contemplative middle-aged man who lives a life of modesty and serenity, spending his days balancing his job as a dutiful caretaker of Tokyo's numerous […]
Marie-Louise Kerr will tell us about The woman who would be Queen: the life of Empress Matilda and her connections with Oxfordshire. Empress Matilda (1102 – 1167) was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter and heir of King Henry I of England, she […]
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