{"id":1504,"date":"2021-11-11T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T16:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2021-11-19T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T16:49:56","slug":"letters-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/11\/11\/letters-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear subtext,<\/p>\n<p>In response to the letter at the end of the recent subtext, I googled the Lancaster list. Many of the more recent names I had never heard of. It would be helpful if they put &#8216;Dead&#8217; by the name of those who had died. Who has currently held an Honorary Degree the longest? Who has been the most influential Degree Holder? Just Curious.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Frankland<br \/>\nOne time member of the University Court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear subtext, In response to the letter at the end of the recent subtext, I googled the Lancaster list. Many of the more recent names I had never heard of. It would be helpful if they put &#8216;Dead&#8217; by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/11\/11\/letters-32\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[613,612,62],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-honorary-degrees","tag-issue-197","tag-university-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-og","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1468,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/02\/19\/letters-31\/","url_meta":{"origin":1504,"position":0},"title":"Letters","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 19 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, Inspired by your piece on David Starkey's prompt removal from Lancaster's Honorary Degree list, I had a look at some of the other members. While I only used Google and Wikipedia, there seem to be at least two figures of note. One faces historical child sex abuse allegations\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;letters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1521,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/11\/11\/1521\/","url_meta":{"origin":1504,"position":1},"title":"Roll of (Dis)honour &#8211; Update","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"November 11 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"In subtext 196's letters page, referring to the previous issue's article on Lancaster's honorary graduates, our correspondent Sam Dillane wrote that, as well as Sir Cyril Smith (LLD, honoris causa, 1993), there were two other recipients of honorary degrees that the University might, on reflection, regret awarding. Who could they\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1416,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/10\/28\/roll-of-dishonour\/","url_meta":{"origin":1504,"position":2},"title":"Roll of (Dis)Honour","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"October 28 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"So, vale Dr David Starkey. Barely a week after subtext 194 hit virtual newsstands, the not-so-good doctor was expounding his take on the history of slavery - a topic on which, as a monarchical historian with an emphasis on the Tudor period, he was no doubt the most pre-eminent expert\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1424,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/10\/28\/editorial-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1504,"position":3},"title":"subtext 195 &#8211; remain indoors!","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"October 28 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Frequency determined by contributions received. 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