They liked it in Arts and Features, but had to clear such a rude word with the paper’s founding editor, the donnish ex-schoolmaster Donald McLachlan. He pronounced it acceptable as a play on words.

Peter Higgs, an unworldly and donnish academic, was reading some new research papers on July 16, 1964, when he had his eureka moment. “I looked at one, realised what it meant, and then jumped up ...

How did this donnish Victorian bachelor, conservative by nature and a devout Anglican, come to create tales that continue to chill readers more than a century on? In the clip above, actor Robert ...

Sir Andrew Davis, the conductor, who has died aged 80, held the unusual honour of being concurrently chief conductor of the ...

In 2021, boutique hotel chain The Graduate opened its first non-US property here – neatly splicing donnish traditions with tasteful tourism. Former coaching inn, University Arms Cambridge ...

It pointed to the city's wide range of spectacular buildings and also described it as "a wonderland of dreamy gardens" ...

He jibes the crowd with winking nods to the classic bookish Oxford stereotype while fully aware that the audience could hardly be less donnish. “You’re clever and terrified,” he grins as he ...