“No matter what country you’re learning about, you’ll probably bump into Britain.” Nathan Land argues against compulsory British history papers.
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Tag: Oxford
The Oxford Bulldogs: Bark Worse than their Bite?
Did Oxford University’s bowler hatted police force have any real power? And what does its existence say about the wider university?
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“Et in Arcadia Ego”: Brideshead Revisited and Oxford’s 1920s Gay Scene
Brideshead Revisited: Set in Oxford during the 1920s, it is Waugh’s personal reflection on the aristocratic gay scene of the era. But how accurate is it?
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Charting Oxford’s History Through its Pubs
Joe Hyland Deeson charts Oxford’s history through its pubs, examining the riots, rules and revelry that are imbibed in the city’s watering holes.
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A Town vs Gown Showdown
When this argument occurred, it was not just about wine but rather symbolised a broader conundrum: the town vs gown tension in Oxford.
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The British Isles in Oxford – comforting in its familiarity, or repetitive and limiting?
Lucy Fletcher discusses Oxford’s “frankly old fashioned” approach to the history of the British Isles and its inherent inequalities.
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10 Libraries you should visit at least once while in Oxford
“…a totally subjective and opinionated review of the 10 Oxford libraries and reading spaces which made the most significant impression.”
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History and Women
Elizabeth Down discusses the representation of women in the EWH1 module, and why historians still aren’t getting it right on gender.
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Oxford: the Museum, the City, the University
As a child, I had a recurring fantasy of London’s Natural History Museum at night. Their work complete and the sun now down, I saw the curators gathering beneath the museum’s vaulted roof to lay …
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