A traveller's history of Oxford
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A traveller's history of Oxford
(Traveller's history)
Interlink Books, 2003
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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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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