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Author Archives: Jacob Grech

Jacob is Events Director for Michaelmas 2021. He is a second-year History & Politics student at Hertford College, and when not in Oxford, lives in Siġġiewi, Malta.

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by Jacob Grech, Duarte Amaro, Clara Stromsted, Dan Hubbard and Elliott Cocker June 12, 2021July 18, 2021
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Biden’s First Hundred Days

by Duarte Amaro, Dan Hubbard, Jacob Grech and Guy Ward-Jackson April 25, 2021July 18, 2021
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by Jacob Grech April 2, 2021April 5, 2021

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