University of Oxford Botanic Garden Middle-earth. In the Evelyn Waugh novel "Brideshead Revisited", Lord Sebastian Flyte takes Charles Ryder "to see the ivy" soon after they first meet. As he says, "Oh, Charles, what a lot you have to learn! There's a beautiful arch there and more different kinds of ivy than I knew existed. I don't know where I should be without the Botanical gardens" (Chapter One). In Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels "His Dark Materials", a bench in the back of the garden is one of the locations/objects that stand parallel in the two different worlds that the protagonists, Lyra Belacqua and Will
Drama UK Drama UK Drama UK functions was an advocate for vocational drama training in the UK, as well as providing accreditation for vocational drama courses. from 2012 to 2016. Drama UK was formed by the merger of the two main organizations in the United Kingdom responsible for Drama Training (Conference of Drama Schools) and accreditation (National Council for Drama Training) of officially recongnised courses on 31 July 2012. The accreditation body dissolved in 2016 after a period of instability in which several high-profile schools quit the organisation . In June 2017 Drama UK was replaced by the Federation of Drama Schools.