Felicia Skene, left, with her niece Zoe Thomson, wife of the Archbishop of York, and her brother William Forbes Skene, Historiographer Ro...

The tower of Magdalen College was built in 1492 beside the River Cherwell Copyright Janie Hampton, 2019. The River Cherwell (pronounced...

I had laid my bet on a shiny, black bitch called Millicent Magic. She had previously been beaten by Jet Stream Smurf and Boherduff Sola...

To win a copy of Jake Lynch's Blood on the Stone (see yesterday's guest post) just answer the following question in Comments: “Wha...

Our guest for March is one of our rare "History Boys," Jake Lynch. Photo credit: The University of Sydney This is what Jake ...

'Bringing in branches at Maytime', from  A Book of Hours by Jean Poyer, 1500 The first of May has been important in our f...

Eglantyne Jebb  (1876-1928) This year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of Save the Children, one of Britain’s most notable cha...

Trainee agents on the rope bridge across the muddy River Cam  at Audley End, Essex. ©Polish Underground Movement  Oxford writer Julie S...

Who doesn't love a good ghost story? And ghost stories abound in the city of dreaming spires. Now, I've never seen a ghost, but I kn...