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 Focus on medicine |
Woodstock Road Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6HG United Kingdom +44 1865 27 4770 |
This college was founded in 1977 by Cecil Green (the founder of Texas Instruments) and his wife Ida. Medicine had always been one of the major subjects at Oxford University but from the 16th century, Edinburgh and London universities became the pre-eminent seats of learning for future British medical practitioners. In the 1940s, more and more undergraduates chose to study medicine at Oxford and soon the need to create a graduate college specializing in clinical medicine became overwhelming. Cecil Green (who had actually been born in Manchester before emigrating with his family to Canada) was persuaded to finance the new college which achieved full status in 1979. Visits possible at most times on application. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Multicoloured brickwork and mosaics |
Parks Road Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PG United Kingdom +44 1865 27 2727 http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/ |
Founded in 1868, Keble was the first Oxford college to be built of brick rather than stone; the first to be built by public subscription rather than by a wealthy benefactor; and the first to be built with corridors instead of rooms leading off staircases. Keble's red, yellow and blue brickwork provokes a variety of reactions, and certainly makes this college stand out from the others. Inside, the chapel walls are decorated with Venetian mosaics, and to assure their authenticity, craftsmen and an oven were imported from Venice so that the work could be carried out on site. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Formerly women-only |
North Oxford Campus Next to the University Parks Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6QA United Kingdom +44 1865 27 4300 |
Although women were first allowed to attend lectures in 1873 and to sit certain examinations in 1875, there was no provision for residence or collegiate life for them until Lady Margaret Hall was founded in 1878 as a hall of residence for women from outside Oxford. LMH is named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII, who took religious vows in later life and became a benefactor to both Oxford and Cambridge universities. It was incorporated as a college in 1926 and became co-educational when men were admitted for the first time in 1979. Visits are possible at most times on application. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Charming and Bohemian |
Little Clarendon Street Oxford United Kingdom |
Running from east to west in Central Oxford, Little Clarendon Street offers a wide variety of shops and cafes. The area is trendy and bohemian, with such stores as Posh Frocks clothing, Uncle Sams' Vintage American Clothing, and Cafe Rouge. The stately Wellington Square is located at the western end, housing the Oxford University offices and a small park. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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New Bodleian Library |
Parks Road Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3BG United Kingdom +44 1865 27 7000 http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ |
Designed by Sir Giles Scott, the 11 floors in this building (three of which are underground) are cleverly arranged in a pyramid-like shape to ensure they avoid overshadowing nearby buildings. This is part of a central group of Bodleian Library buildings, linked by a system of underground tunnels and containing over six million books and 100 miles of shelving. A copy of every new publication is automatically sent to the library, so the collection is constantly increasing. Please note that this building is not open to the public. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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 Pitt Rivers Museum |
South Parks Road Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 3PP United Kingdom +44 1865 27 0927 http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ |
The Pitt Rivers is one of Oxford's hidden treasures. Named after Lieutenant-General Augustus Pitt Rivers whose collection of weapons, looms, costumes and all manner of religious and magical symbols was originally given to the South Kensington Museum in 1874. Ten years later, the collection was offered to Oxford University on condition that a special building was constructed to house it. The offer was accepted and the collection has now become one of the most important museums of ethnology and prehistory in the world. It forms part of the University Museum. Exhibits include a wonderful collection of musical instruments, a forty-foot-high totem pole, the largest collection of amulets and charms in existence, masks, fans, beadwork and belts as well as a collection of shrunken heads. Admission is free. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Offices for the Rhodes Trust |
South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3RG United Kingdom +44 1865 27 0908 http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dep... |
Opened in 1929 as a memorial to Cecil Rhodes, this building is now used as offices for the Rhodes Trust. On the copper-domed roof is the Zimbabwe bird - the national symbol of Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. Eighty five Rhodes scholarships are awarded each year on the basis of academic and all-round qualities to graduates from 18 countries. The first Rhodes scholars arrived in 1903 and former scholars include Bill Clinton, Norman Manley (former prime minister of Jamaica) and the actor Kriss Kristofferson. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Somerville College |
Woodstock Road Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6HD United Kingdom +44 1865 27 0600 www.some.ox.ac.uk |
In 1878, a committee was established to promote the admission of women to the university by founding a female hall of residence. Somerville Hall emerged, and the fact that it can boast Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher amongst its alumni is proof indeed of its success in furthering the cause of women's studies. Somerville was also the first of the four women's halls to employ its own tutors, the first to call itself a college (1894), and the first to become a full college (1951). Visits possible at most times on application. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Former women's college |
Woodstock Road Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6HS United Kingdom +44 1865 274800 |
When women were struggling to be accepted into the university during the last quarter of the 19th century, four women's halls of residence were founded, but there was still a group of women students living in private houses. They became organised as the Society of Oxford Home Students and by the mid 1950s, they had achieved full college status as St Anne's College. The college is built around the original Victorian houses, and more recent additions include the library, lecture rooms and the Founder's Gatehouse. Visits are possible at most times but on application. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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Founded by Frenchman |
Woodstock Road Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6JF United Kingdom +44 1865 28 4700 |
The only Oxford College to be founded by a foreigner, Antonin Besse chose Oxford when the French government rejected his plan to build a college in his native country. The college, which opened in 1950 with four students, is for graduates only, and specialises in international studies. Today, more than half of its nearly 300 members come from overseas. The entrance building was originally a convent built in 1868 by Marian Hughes, the first woman to become a nun in the Church of England. Visits possible at most times by appointment. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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College founded for women |
St Margaret's Road Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6LE United Kingdom +44 1865 27 4900 |
St Hugh's may be slightly off the beaten track in north Oxford, but it's a pleasant area to explore when you've seen all the city centre has to offer, and after all, this college has an interesting history. In 1886, the first principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Elizabeth Wordsworth, rented a house to enable four financially needy women to study for Oxford examinations. She named it St Hugh's Hall in honour of a medieval predecessor of her father, the Bishop of Lincoln. This initiative was not without initial trauma. In 1911, the principal and her deputy published an anonymous account of a psychic experience they had shared in Versailles when they had apparently seen Marie-Antoinette. Although opponents to the presence of women at Oxford seized this incident as proof of lack of feminine rationality and intellect, both St Hugh's and the women's cause continued to prosper. Visits possible at most times on application. Review © 2007, Wcities |
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All the natural history you could ask for |
Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PW United Kingdom +44 1865 27 2950 http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/ |
Completed in 1858, this museum of natural history contains a wonderful exhibition of dinosaur skeletons, plus numerous curiosities including the remains of a dodo. This is a traditionally styled museum, but nonetheless holds delights for all the family. Venture upstairs to find the vast zoology, mineralogy and geology displays. At the rear, is the Pitt Rivers Museum which houses one of the world's finest collections of anthropological and archaeological exhibits. There is also a souvenir shop. Admission:free Review © 2007, Wcities |
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