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Visit Oxford England
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford University |
My small B&B room |
Radcliffe Camera
Bodleian Library Oxford University |
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University |
Eagle and Child Pub Oxford |
St Mary the Virgin church is beautiful inside and out. The staff also serve a nice lunch. The church was at the centre of the medieval university since at least the 1100s. The tower dates to the 1270s and is the oldest part of the current building. There is a significant history of the church in the life of the university and the city.
St Mary the Virgin, Oxford |
If you are interested in archeology and anthropology, check out the Pitt Rivers Museum founded in 1884. There are over 500,000 objects in the collection. See prm.ox.ac.uk for more.
Pitt Museum, Oxford University |
The Kings Arms, Oxford |
Clarendon Building, Oxford |
For some shopping and eateries, explore the Covered Market
Covered Market, Oxford |
Queen Street, Oxford, 2018 |
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford |
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Pie n Mash in the Covered Market |
An afternoon tea |
Fish n Chips at the Eagle and Child |
Natural History Museum Oxford England UK
OXFORD UNIVERSITY MUSEUM of NATURAL HISTORY
The Oxford Dodo is world famous. The museum has soft tissue of this extinct flightless bird from Mauritius. The Oxford Dodo was listed in a collection in 1656. The last Dodo was seen in 1662.
Oxford Dodo |
Great Debate marker |
Charles Darwin |
British Chemist, Joseph Priestly |
George Stephenson, British engineer & "Father of Railways" |
Sir Isaac Newton British mathematician, physicist, astronomer |
British inventor, engineer, chemist James Watt |
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Ashmolean Museum Oxford England UK
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Photo 29 Oct 2018, Geoffrey W. Sutton |
Elias Ashmole donated his collection to Oxford University in 1682. The next year, the Ashmolean Museum opened to the public in the building, which is currently the History of Science Museum.
Elias Ashmole |
Divine Gilgamesh |
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
- The Golden Compass (2007)
- X-Men: First Class (2011)
- Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
12 August 2023
Bodleian Library Oxford England UK
The Bodleian
Library at the University of Oxford
The
Bodleian Library (aka The Bod) is the main library in the Bodleian Library
group. Collectively, their collection of documents is above 13 million and
ranks as the second largest in the UK.
William
Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, stands before the Bodleian’s main entrance. He
was a former chancellor of Oxford university and donated to the Bodleian
collection.
The first library opened in the 1400s with a collection of books from Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, brother to King Henry V. The current building opened in 1602.
Given the age of the collection, you might expect, there are some incredibly old books. Pictured below is a book, which eleven year-old Princess Elizabeth gave to her stepmother, Katherine Parr, on 31 December 1544. The princess (later Queen Elizabeth I) translated a French poem into English. Scholars believe Princess Elizabeth created the book's binding.
The name,
Bodleian, honours Sir Thomas Bodley who supported a renovated library, an
expanded collection, and other buildings.
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