Paula Larsson, Author at Uncomfortable Oxford https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com Join an uncomfortable walking tour of Oxford Thu, 16 May 2024 21:09:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/06/UnOx-logo-FINAL_Icon-Only_feb.svg Paula Larsson, Author at Uncomfortable Oxford https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com 32 32 Cecil Rhodes: Where we’re going, we don’t need Rhodes. https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com/cecil-rhodeswhere-were-going-we-dont-need-rhodes Mon, 08 Aug 2022 12:41:00 +0000 https://uncomfortableoxford.click/?p=3695 Thousands of protesters stood, knelt, and sat in solidarity at the Rhodes Must Fall protest ...

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]]> ‘Anti-Vacers’: Vaccine Resistance in nineteenth-century Oxfordshire https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com/anti-vaccers-vaccine-resistance-in-19th-c-oxfordshire Sun, 27 Jun 2021 10:08:00 +0000 https://uncomfortableoxford.click/?p=6880 The COVID-19 pandemic brought vaccine tensions to the forefront of public discourse. Oxford centred vividly ...

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]]> Why Brexit? Because Empire. https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com/why-brexit-because-empire Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:33:00 +0000 https://uncomfortableoxford.click/?p=3496 Imperial nostalgia is at the heart of the Brexit controversy.

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]]> What’s in a name? Oxford Guiding 101 https://www.uncomfortableoxford.com/whats-in-a-name-oxford-guiding-101 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:28:00 +0000 https://uncomfortableoxford.click/?p=3427 Certain ideas come to mind when the city of Oxford is mentioned – university, knowledge, ...

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