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From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
Date: 19980910
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EVER wondered why Lewis Carroll's White Rabbit was always hareing about mumbling: "Oh, dear me! I"m going to be late again!"

The answer is that he was on "Oxford time".

Only those closely associated with the university and particularly Christ Church - the largest and grandest college in Oxford with associations with Henry VIII - will be aware of this fact.

The connections with "Alice in Wonderland" and its creator Charles Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll and who was a mathematics tutor at the college, are being revealed as part of a special ...

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