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About AShipley

Name

Andrew Shipley

Where I study

Haberdashers

Orientation

Straight

Star Sign

Aries

About me

I'm 17 at the moment, highly pretentious, and far too pedantic for my own good. I enjoy history, politics, and english(which i foolishly dropped) most as subjects, and wish to study History at Oxford come 2010. I enjoy reading literature as well. Recent tomes include: Pulp, Les Misérables, A collection of Chekov, A Diamond as big as the Ritz (Fitzgerald - i love all his works), Homage to Catalunya and Down and out....

Over the next year or two i intend to read:
Citizens – Schama
Decline and Fall – Gibbon
European Politics – Schroeder
A People’s Tragedy – Ornando Figes
Man on His Past – Herbert Butterfield
Virtual History – Niall Ferguson
In Defence of History – Richard J. Evans
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar – Simon Sebag Montefiore
The End of History – Francis Fukuyama
What is History?– EH Carr
Metahistory – H. White
as well as:
King Lear, Hamlet, the Tempest and Othello
The Divine Comedy
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Madame Bovary
The Plague
The Fountainhead
Thérese Raquin


any additions, please tell me
also, as a warning, i read LotR 25 times by the age of 13. sorry

I play rugby enthusiastically, but with little ability - mainly due to lack of bulk.i support Saracens
i cycle, and follow european cycling
i have supported Chelsea ALL MY LIFE

I am a registered member of the Liberal Democrats

Academic Info

Year 11 - GCSE - 9 A*s - Maths, English, English Lit, Drama, History, French, Latin, Physics, Chemistry
1 A - Biology
Year 12 - AS: History 193, Politics 183, Maths352/400, Chemistry 266
Year 13 - AS: Further Maths
Year 13 - A2: History, Maths, Politics

Interests

see above

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