A traveller's history of Oxford

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A traveller's history of Oxford

Richard Tames ; line drawings, Peter Geissler

(Traveller's history)

Interlink Books, 2003

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Note

Bibliography: p. 347-351

Includes index

Contents of Works

  • Beginnings
  • Renaissance and Reformation
  • Classicism and crisis
  • Republic, reaction and revolution
  • Complacency and corruption
  • Railways, religion and reform
  • Opening up, reaching out
  • War and Waugh
  • Pillar of the establishment
  • Museums
  • Walking tours of Oxford
  • Trips from Oxford
  • Sport
  • Chronology

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A Traveller's History of Oxford gives the reader a clear account of Oxford's earliest beginnings from Roman times, its Anglo-Saxon past, its importance in medieval England, the founding of the different colleges, its status as Royalist capital during the Civil War and its recovery and continuing growth right up to the 21st century.

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