buildings and landmarks
Group photographs of Oxford college football teams and torpid crews from 1893, with every man identifiable through Joseph Foster’s published register.
William of Wykeham New College Oxford: how a self-made bishop designed a college in 1379 whose layout, statutes, and feeder school shaped English education for six centuries.
In the winter of 1741, work on Oxford’s most ambitious building stopped entirely. The dome (already partly erected in stone) was judged unsafe. Over the following months, the stone was removed piece by piece and the structure rebuilt in timber, then sheathed in lead. The process took more than a year. When the scaffolding finally
