Over summer 2019 we had our ICONS Exhibition displayed in the Welcome Desk area on Level 1 of the Library at Headington and across our other sites at Harcourt, Wheatley and Swindon. Inspiration for this exhibition was sparked by the BBC ICONS series shown at the beginning of the year.
Along with posters and a Spotify playlist we asked visitors to choose one of the ICONS in our exhibition or name somebody else they would nominate.
As expected the results were varied…
Harcourt Hill results
| Icon | Votes |
|---|---|
| Pablo Picasso | 7 |
| Andy Warhol | 1 |
| Virginia Woolf | 0 |
| Alfred Hitchcock | 1 |
| Alan Turing | 4 |
| Ernest Shackleton | 1 |
| Jane Goodall | 6 |
| Margaret Thatcher | 0 |
| Nelson Mandela | 5 |
| Martin Luther King | 9 |
| Helen Keller | 3 |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | 4 |
| Charlie Chaplin | 3 |
| Billie Jean King | 0 |
| Muhammad Ali | 2 |
| David Bowie | 1 |
| Marilyn Monroe | 2 |
| Billie Holiday | 3 |
| Albert Einstein | 5 |
| Tu Youyou | 1 |
| Somebody else you would nominate |
|---|
| David Attenborough |
| Greta Thunberg |
| Beatrix Potter |
| George Eliot |
| Cicely Saunders |
| Elvis Presley |
| Eric Clapton |
| Dorothy Heathcote |
| Piet Mondrian |
| Rosalind Franklin |
| Marsha P. Johnson |
| Emily Davies |
| Maya Angelou |
| Billy Joel |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg |
| William Blake |
Headington results
| Icon | Votes |
|---|---|
| Artists/writers | |
| Pablo Picasso | 5 |
| Andy Warhol | 7 |
| Virginia Woolf | 7 |
| Alfred Hitchcock | 9 |
| Scientists | |
| Tu Youyou | 9 |
| Alan Turing | 10 |
| Albert Einstein | 13 |
| Explorers | |
| Ernest Shackleton | 3 |
| Jane Goodall | 7 |
| Leaders | |
| Margaret Thatcher | 8 |
| Nelson Mandela | 12 |
| Activists | |
| Helen Keller | 7 |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | 12 |
| Mohandas Gandhi | 7 |
| Martin Luther King Jr | 12 |
| Sport | |
| Billie Jean King | 1 |
| Muhammad Ali | 28 |
| Entertainers | |
| Charlie Chaplin | 9 |
| David Bowie | 11 |
| Marilyn Monroe | 5 |
| Billie Holiday | 4 |
| Somebody else you would nominate | |
|---|---|
| Cary Grant (actor) | 1 |
| IOG | 1 |
| Kofi Annan (Sec General UN) | 1 |
| Ferenc Puskás (Hungarian Footballer) | 1 |
| Prophet Muhammed (Founder of Islam) | 6 |
| Aimé Césaire (poet and politician) | 1 |
| Léopold Sédar Senghor (poet and politician) | 1 |
| Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao – communist revolutionary) | 1 |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah (lawyer, politician, founder of Pakistan) | 4 |
| Franz Kafka (novelist) | 1 |
| Dalai Lama (spiritual leader of Tibet) | 1 |
| Enheduanna (Earliest known poet 2285 BC) | 1 |
| Van Gogh (artist) | 1 |
| Karl Marx (philosopher and economist) | 1 |
| Angela Davis (political activist, civil rights) | 1 |
| Barack Obama (44th president of USA) | 1 |
| Desmond Tutu (Bishop) | 1 |
| Nish Parameswaran | 1 |
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