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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's something enchanting about exploring college towns. Universities around the world are hubs for creativity and research. The inspiration and excitement that come with education are palpable ...

Kayakers on the Thames in London go with the flow near Parliament and Big Ben. Karim Kanoun / Travel-Photo-Souvenir.com Steve Brooker treads through a sea of slime, protected by rubber boots and ...

Oxfordshire cinemagoers have expressed their shock at a planning row involving one of the first ever independent cinemas. It has emerged that Baron Neil Mendoza worked to block the Ultimate Picture ...

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 ...