He said the UK needed to bring art and science back together, as it had in the "glory days of the Victorian era" when Lewis Carroll wrote one of the classic fairy tales, Alice in Wonderland, and was also a mathematics tutor at Oxford.

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Last year, Lewis Carroll's classic children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was translated into Jersey's native language.

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