"I didn't look like anyone in the family." Spire is among the post-war children from the French-occupied part of Germany who had German mothers and French soldiers as fathers. About 1,500 of them ...

A proposal to add five new names - including three German soldiers - follows a similar move by the city's New College in 1930, Merton and Magdalen Colleges in 1994 and University College in 2018.