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Iconographia Oxoniae una cum propugnaculis et munimentis quibus cingebatur anno 1648. From Anthony Wood and Robert White, Historia et antiquitates Universitatis Oxoniensis: duobus voluminibus comprehensae (Oxford 1674)Return to exhibition

A nun stands in a garden, holding a prayer book (or Missal), and contemplating a flower – a passion flower, which symbolizes Christ’s death and resurrection. It was an ancient idea made modern by the artist Charles Allston Collins (1828-1873). He was…

A passionate Puritan, Henry Langley was made Master of Pembroke College by Parliament in 1647. He was expelled in 1660 on the Restoration of Charles II. Both these events had a wider significance. Langley was just one of many imposed on the colleges…

Set in front of a prize-winning modern building, this plaque records a time of turmoil when Oxford became the royalist capital during the Civil Wars of the 1640s. Fleeing disloyal London, king Charles I moved to the City, living in Christ Church. His…

In the kitchen of my parents house in Cardiff, there’s a set of china cups, saucers and plates on a large dresser. The blue is a shiny dark cobalt blue and the orange on the flowers a deep earthy colour. The pattern is quite simple with a distinctive…

A photograph of Charles Claude Cox sitting in front of the attendant's office at Parson's Pleasure.

A photograph of a monument at Sandford Lasher bathing place, a notoriously dangerous swimming spot. The monument was erected to commemorate the deaths of two men who drowned at the spot.

Front door of 35-37 Cowley Road, 2017. Click here to go back

This stained-glass window at Hertford College, Oxford, commemorates William Tyndale, a martyr who had studied at Oxford.It was installed in 1994 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of his birth, thought to be 1494. The image at the bottom of the…