MAY 2002: AKME OPENS SHOP IN OXFORD AT 12 BROAD STREET.
"The strangest bookshop and exhibition ever seen in Oxford" - Oxford Times, 21/6/02
Leased on a short-term tenancy from Oxford City Council, AKME EXPRESSION was located in the very heart of the City, opposite Balliol College and Trinity gates, a taper's throw from the Martyrs' memorial, nearby The Bodleian Library and Blackwell's Bookshops, and a few doors down from 'The Oxford Story' tourist attraction.
The Scream Window Display
The Oxford University Freedom of Expression (OUFOE) Appeal: all proceeds from the shop go towards paying Oxford University's £12,500 legal costs. (explanation)
The Gallery of Shame
The Empty Chair
During the negotiation over Oxford's £12,500 costs, Malcolm offered to raise the money in full and up front provided the university use it to endow a lectureship in publishing law (Click for letter). The university was "not interested in the proposal".
MID-MAY: AKME launches AKME UNIVERSITY
installation in lower ground floor and basement
Table of Charges
| Presidency of Trickery College | £12,500 |
| Mastership of Broke College | £500 |
| Degree 1st Class (any subject) | £200 |
| Degree 2.1 (any subject) | £100 |
| Degree 2.2 (any subject) | £50 |
| A Level (any subject) | Free with
every purchase |
AKME presents
ANOTHER OXFORD STORY
from the piety of Frideswide to the avarice of the modern don
featuring:
the Saint's grotto
the Descent
the University Council
blood below stairs
Plus: THE SEVEN CENTURIES OF MYSTERY TOUR through ALL SOULLESS COLLEGE to the Martyrs' Ditch, the ancient, futile search for the University's conscience; HARVEY McGREGOR ON ROYALTIES (the court recording of the damages hearing in Malcolm v. Oxford, 11th July 1991; THE TOLLING BELL, THE SAFE BETS, THE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, THE DIM COMPLEX and much, much more...
King Gnome takes flight, ranting
(The Warden's sabbatical, 30th May - Click)
Plus AKME UNIVERSITY T-SHIRTS
(Table of Charges, Free A Level, Another Oxford Story)
Only £9.95 each, large or medium non-shrink. Order by mail from Akme Publications, 7 Southover Street, Brighton BN2 2UA (cheques payable to AKME Publications).
See The Guardian 25/6/02.
22nd JUNE: THE SHOP CLOSES
Making Names and The Remedy stocked by Thornton's and Borders.
Click for newspaper reports:
ANDREW'S LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - full-page finale article by Reg Little in The Oxford Times, 21st June 2002.
The Times Higher Education Supplement 26/4/02,
The Oxford Times 26/4/02,
The Guardian 30/4/02,
The Oxford Star 2/5/02,
The Oxford Student 2/5/02,
Cherwell 3/5/02,
Publishing News 10/5/02,
South China Morning Post 11/5/02,
Private Eye 17/5/02,
Change (US higher ed. journal) Autumn 2002,
Malcolm in the Middle major article in The Philosophers' Magazine Autumn 2002.
The Oxford Student, 30/5/02, rave review of Making Names: "Electra remains one of the most powerful statements of the human condition written in the past century."
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 31/5/02, shock news that Ryan is leaving Oxford and going to Stanford, USA. Ryan launches extraordinary attack on the UK higher education system, photo, plus letters 7/6. Cherwell, 7/6/02 reports Malcolm's link with Ryan's departure. The things people say. More extraordinary fallout quotes, including Ryan's departure puff in The Independent 13/6/02, "Sell off OUP" suggestion made by New College Bursar David Palfreyman in The Oxford Magazine 14/6/02 and a delicious Beloff boast from a profile in The Guardian 18/6/02.
THE HISTORY OF AKME AND OF THIS WEBSITE,
THE AKME OXFORD CUTTINGS LIBRARY,
THE AKME LITERARY LAW LIBRARY,
ABOUT MAKING NAMES,
ABOUT THE REMEDY,
THE SITE INDEX.
e-mail: akme@btinternet.com