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Titanic exhibition

A poignant reminder of the Titanic tragedy - this silver pocket watch stopped as it entered the frigid water of  the Atlantic

11:00am Friday 12th December 2008

Julie Webb visits a new touring exhibition on the sinking of the Titanic and discovers the stories of one Oxfordshire survivor and two who lost their lives in the tragedy

Two waifs and strays wandering the county

All Saints Church in Churchill, near Chipping Norton. The village was destroyed by fire in the time of Charles II

11:34am Thursday 16th October 2008

An accident at home forces CHRIS KOENIG to tour some of Oxfordshire's more intriguing sights

A Knights tale

Sir Hans Krebs

11:26am Thursday 9th October 2008

Biochemist Sir Hans Krebs, knighted 50 years ago, was recently honoured with a blue plaque in Iffley. Nicola Lisle tells his story

A barber to the king and a gentleman

The King's barber, Edmund Harman, had a monument put up to himself in Burford church displaying carvings of native Brazilians

11:22am Thursday 9th October 2008

In Burford there is a monument to Edmund Harman, a landowner and member of Henry VIII's court, writes CHRIS KOENIG

Lifting the Vale

Frederick Ault

11:18am Thursday 9th October 2008

Malcolm Graham reflects on the work of ‘forgotten’ photographer Frederick Ault

Unearthed: the fishy tale of college dining

Evidence unearthed at Queens College showed how much fish was eaten in medieval times

10:44am Thursday 25th September 2008

Fish was the food of the day for the dons of medieval Queens College, writes CHRIS KOENIG

Story of a market town

4:13pm Friday 19th September 2008

Julie Webb visits Chipping Norton Museum and discovers a treasure trove of artefacts and tales of people who helped create this Oxfordshire town

Telling the true tale of Tom, Dick and Harry

The Tolsey, a 16th-century former court house now a museum

10:31am Thursday 18th September 2008

CHRIS KOENIG falls under the historic spell of a former court house and lock-up in Burford

When time began in the county

Sir Christopher Wren designed the great sundial at Alls Souls in 1653

12:19pm Thursday 11th September 2008

CHRIS KOENIG looks at the some of the more interesting sundials and clocks dotted around Oxfordshire

Palace rights of way and public money

10:19am Thursday 4th September 2008

A complaint about having to pay to walk through Blenheim highlights an old issue, writes CHRIS KOENIG Red faces have been caused at Blenheim over rights and prices of public admission ever since the former royal park was granted to the first Duke of Marlborough as a "gift from a grateful nation" in 1705.



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