Talk:Rhodes House

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Hello! I can't edit this page as I am an employee of the Rhodes Trust, but I wanted to flag there have been several new portraits added to Milner Hall recently - Menaka Guruswamy (India & University 1998), lawyer in the Supreme Court of India and B.R Ambedkar Research Scholar at Columbia Law School, Susan Rice (Maryland/DC & New College 1986), former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama (2013-17), Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and U.S Amabassador to the United Nations and Sylvia Mathews Burwell (West Virginia & Worcester 1987). They join Lucy Banda-Sichone (Zambia & Somerville 1978), human rights activist and educator whose portrait was put up a year ago. Babettet (talk) 14:57, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

I would also add that under the Rhodes Trust section of this page - that there have been some interesting recent partnerships between the Rhodes Trust: Partnering with The Atlantic Philanthropies to create the Atlantic Institute which is hosted at Rhodes House

Creating the Schmidt Science Fellows - this will be administered from Rhodes House

Babettet (talk) 15:03, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I've added a short summary for each of the two initiatives. Thanks for requesting the update and providing sources. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:44, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Copy edit and suggested revisions
I performed a small copy edit after spotting a tense errror. I noticed though the page has a lot of useless facts, verging on trivia and not many useful fact that might help someone research the building properly. I propose editing the history page, if anyone has any ideas or anything they would like me to include please get in touch with me on here or my talk page.Pug of the day (talk) 12:41, 19 July 2018 (UTC)


 * In my opinion, everything above the section entitled "The Rhodes Trust", is not useless facts and should not be removed -- although I'd be open for opinions as to specific questionable items. MPS1992 (talk) 22:33, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi MPS1992. At the moment I am specifically interested in removing the small paragraph about Tony Blair and his band. I just don't see how it's relevant and does anyone really care about Tony Blair and his band? Surely if they were that good they would have reformed by now, perhaps they could open for Sylvio Berlusconi? Pug of the day (talk) 11:54, 30 July 2018 (UTC)


 * I love to include all sorts of trivia. But in this instance, please go ahead and remove both bands from the article. It's unsourced and it's not even claiming that these were the first venues played by either band (which might have made an argument for inclusion). MPS1992 (talk) 16:29, 30 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks @User:MPS1992 Consider it done. Pug of the day (talk) 09:52, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Expansion of portrait list
I am going to be expanding upon the list of portraits housed in Rhodes House in the coming hours. If anyone has any objections or suggestions on how to improve the list please let me know either here or on my talk page. Pug of the day (talk) 16:38, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Expansion of history
I want to add a little more to the history page regarding the construction of the site. Would anyone object to this? Pug of the day (talk) 11:04, 1 August 2018 (UTC)


 * I don't object at all, please be WP:BOLD. Thank you for improving the article. MPS1992 (talk) 18:32, 1 August 2018 (UTC)