I have just been to a lecture by Neil MacGregor at Wolfson College, Oxford to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Wolfson Foundation.   It managed to weave together poverty in Hogarth’s England with the development of obstetrics in the Gorbals, the importance of William Hunter as a collector and the role of Sir Hans Sloane in the foundation of the British Museum, ending with the importance of museums in the development of global citizenship and the ways in which the Wolfson Foundation has supported health in the body and in the mind.

I had never actually been to Wolfson College which must have been under construction when I lived outside Oxford.   It was designed by Powell and Moya in the late 1960s, when they were also doing Blue Boar Quad for Christ Church after the success of their design for Christ Church Picture Gallery.   I was told to admire the view of the Cherwell which I did:-