This blog will explore the stories of objects and themes in the collection, give you behind-the-scenes insights into what staff and volunteers get up to, and delve into the lesser-known parts of the city’s history.
Lady Ann Fanshawe and the Royalist Court at Oxford
🕑 12 min read Royalists, Recipes and Real Hardship
Alewives In Oxford: A History Of Female Brewing
🕑 11 min read The Importance of Ale
The St Brice’s Day Massacre
🕑 12 min read Mass grave of murdered vikings sheds light on King Aethelred’s doomed reign
The influence of Oxford nightlife
🕑 7 min read Inclusivity, culture and power
Ghost signs
🕑 4 min read Tracing Oxford’s history in its buildings
Oxford asserts its civic identity in 1191
🕑 8 min read England’s oldest surviving municipal seal
Plant Oxford: from Bullnose to BMW
🕑 4 min read Morris' manufacturing legacy continues
Hewitt Huggard: WW1 solider and student
🕑 4 min read Connections to the past from volunteer Olivia
Dreaming spires
🕑 6 min read Oxford’s architectural styles through time
Is it worth the risk?
🕑 9 min read A brief overview of the history of vaccination in Oxford
A royal flush
🕑 3 min read The smellier side of the Stuarts in Oxford
Charlie Hutchison: Oxford’s anti-fascist hero & liberator of Belsen
🕑 14 min read The only known Black British man to have fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War