Paul Shrimpton
Dr Paul Shrimpton is the author of A Catholic Eton? Newman’s Oratory School (2005) and The ‘Making of Men’: the Idea and Reality of Newman’s University in Oxford and Dublin (2015). He has also written about the influence of Newman on the students of the White Rose resistance in Nazi Germany in Conscience before Conformity (2018). Recently he brought out two volumes of Newman’s unpublished university papers, My Campaign in Ireland, Parts I & II, both of which are critical editions, as well as editing the festschrift for Ian Ker.
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The friendship of a saint (part 2)
(10 minutes) In this second part of Paul Shrimpton’s exploration of how John Henry Newman practised friendship, he shows that the saint was a true friend to very different people, also in adversity.
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The friendship of a saint (part 1)
(8 minutes) In this article, to be published in two parts over two weeks, Paul Shrimpton looks at the life of the English saint John Henry Newman who taught both by example and word what it means to be a true friend.
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Fighting totalitarianism: lessons from the White Rose resistance Part III
(8 minute read) Part three of this true story of student opposition to Nazism recounts the heroic efforts which ultimately cost the lives of the founders of the White Rose Movement.
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Fighting totalitarianism: lessons from the White Rose resistance Part II
At a time when many academics were bowing to the Nazi system, Paul Shrimpton describes how a small group of students courageously opposed it.
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Fighting totalitarianism: lessons from the White Rose resistance
On the morning of Thursday 18 February 1943 two German students entered the main building of the University of Munich carrying around a thousand anti-Nazi leaflets. Paul Shrimpton in the first of a series on the Scholl siblings.
