Pillars of society

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This is the Clarendon building, the home of Oxford University Press for a century from 1715. It often provides shelter for people with books or laptops or sketchpads.

Just opposite here is the Weston Library which, since it replaced its thick stone frontage with doors a couple of years ago, has put on lots of really good small exhibitions, usually free. 
 
I was going to drop in to see Medieval Graphic Design but the mood of the day swerved me elsewhere and instead I went to see Women Who Dared, marking the centenary of votes for (some) women in Britain. It’s one small room of manuscripts and books of women who beat the odds from Sappho onwards: some of Ada Lovelace's 19th century notes on maths, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein manuscript; a story written by Jane Austen aged 14, photographs by the Victorian photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron and a musical score by Fanny Mendelssohn. A couple of pirates who were spared hanging when they were found to be pregnant also got a look in.

I wonder how you would title such a small but diverse and eclectic exhibition of material that had been made by men.