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In February 2020, WOW Space members created two collaborative art pieces, inspired by their objects and stories of food.

The art workshop was led by local artist Dionne Freeman

Wooden dumb-bells from the Museum of Oxford's object handling collection.Click here to return to the image gallery

In the early 1980’s the Oxford Women's Centre opened on 35-36 Cowley Road. The Centre provided support services for women in the community. These included: a workers’ support group; the new student lesbian group; a lesbian mothers’ group; the women's…

A group photograph of women swimmers at The Rhea bathing place.

Closed in 1998 and demolished a few years later, Wolvercote Mill was just one of several sources of paper for Oxford University Press. With its global reach, OUP had an insatiable desire for the stuff – and especially for what became known as Oxford…

Articles and objects connected to Windrush stories

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…

Joseph Angus (1816-1902) was secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, formed to send missionaries across the world to spread their beliefs. Among its earliest members were the ‘Serampore Trio’ – Dr Joshua Marshman (1768–1837), William Carey…