The Black Death, the Peasants' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses... A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and ...

For more than 200 years, the Oxford Union has prided itself on being a bastion of free speech. Never afraid of making ...

WHETHER you are visiting Oxford with your family, heading there with friends or going for a couple’s weekend, there is plenty to do. The city is steeped in history and filled with lots of interesting ...

“Lyra’s Oxford has the same street-plan as ours,” says Steve Fisher, of Oxford Official Walking Tours. “So the influence of the urban landscape is obvious. But the university’s intellectual and ...

Oxford is one of England’s most beautiful cities with soaring spires, studious scholars and spectacular sights. Locals gather in Oxford's historic pubs, such as the King's Arms, Eagle and Child, and ...

A more than 230-year-old former vicarage has hit the market outside Oxford, England, asking £2.25 million (US$3 million). It’s a stone country house on a 1-acre plot and dates to 1793, in the village ...

As host to one of the world’s great universities as well as home to some of English literature’s most famous authors, such as J.R.R Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, it’s an understatement to say that Oxford is ...

Home to the U.K.'s oldest university, Oxford is eccentric, engaging and personable—epitomizing the spirit of Old England in many ways. The "city of dreaming spires" claims the world's densest ...

FROM the interior of a cavern it is possible in broad daylight, looking up through a fissure at the sky, to see the silvern shining of the stars. From that most enchanting of Gothic caverns, the ...