Gallop through the years

Gallop through the years

3:32pm Friday 9th November 2012

Five years ago Oxfordshire celebrated its 1,000th birthday, but I remember thinking at the time —and I hate to carp — that surely counties, like languages, came into existence gradually, rather than with a single event.

The dashing Duke’s Oxford connections

3:31pm Friday 9th November 2012

Daring, dashing, grand, clever, humorous; yes. But academic, intellectual. . . ?

How Norman was Edward the Confessor?

How Norman was Edward the Confessor?

2:02pm Wednesday 29th August 2012

How Norman was the saint and king, Edward the Confessor, born in Islip in about 1005, and now regarded as one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings? Answer: very. He left England for Normandy when he was only eight years old, and did not return for 28 years — apart from a short visit in 1036, following the death of his step-father King Canute of Denmark and England. Then he reappeared here in 1041, the year before he became King of England.

Early advocate of a federal Europe

Family business - a Salters boat

2:59pm Wednesday 22nd August 2012

I suppose many of us cannot cross Folly Bridge without a nod and a smile towards the sign proclaiming the Salters company.

Lambert Simnel, a counterfeit king

nMINSTER LOVELL HALL: The skeleton of a man and a dog were found in a wall cavity here in the 18th

1:00pm Wednesday 15th August 2012

Once upon a time a good-looking Oxford youth, the son of a carpenter, was taken away from his home city and crowned King of England by an archbishop.

Momentous days of Robert Grosseteste

MEDIEVAL OXFORD: A conjectured study by H.W. Brewer in 1891 of Osney Abbey as it would have looked three centuries before. Oxford University Chancellor Robert Grosseteste protected students there during a riot in the mid-13th century

10:29am Thursday 9th August 2012

Everyone knows that Oxford has a split personality, but the ‘Gown’ part of it is strange indeed.

When the spoilsports turned on morris dancing

Oxcford City Morris men at the Gardeners' Arms, Plantation Road Picture: Neil Braggins

1:44pm Wednesday 1st August 2012

It is tempting to peer back at life in pre-industrial Oxfordshire and think of it as a sort of golden age.

How Birinus spread the word of Christ

Dorchester Abbey

11:02am Thursday 26th July 2012

One of the earliest seeds of Christianity in England, from which the faith was destined to spread throughout the realm, was planted in what is now Oxfordshire soil.

Enjoying our green and pleasant land

Rousham House

11:25am Thursday 19th July 2012

‘England is like one big park.” So said a young nephew from Ireland, as we drove from Woodstock to Burford.

Oxford University: From a fragile beginning to robust power

The University Church of St Mary the Virgin was the focus of the university in its early days

3:55pm Wednesday 11th July 2012

Like a fragile flower struggling to survive in less than fertile soil, Oxford University came into existence some time in the middle of the 12th century. But ironically, it was the riots between Town and Gown of the 13th century — which nearly destroyed it for ever — that were ultimately the making of it.

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