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From Gill Sans, to Sans Gill: The Controversy over the Work of Eric Gill

Paula Larsson

Content warning: Rape, sexual abuse On January 12, 2022, an activist used a ladder to …

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The Haida Totem Pole: A First Nations Treasure in Oxford

Dan P

The second article in our short series delving into the background of items in the …

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From Cowley Road to the Classroom: The Power of Local History

Zaiba Patel

As a fairly recent arrival to Oxford, if I had been asked what made the …

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Breaking the Prime Directive: The Pitt Rivers Phantoms

Dan P

Introduction Within the Star Trek universe, humans are bound by the “Prime Directive” which forbids …

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Teaching Silence

Uncomfortable Oxford

What if time ground down the people of the past to such fine dust that …

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Passing Reality Checkpoint: Welcome to Uncomfortable Cambridge

Naoise Murphy

For the last three years, Uncomfortable Oxford has been bringing the neglected and contentious histories …

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Irish Nationalist, British Imperialist: The Uncomfortable Identities of Sir Michael O’Dwyer

Séamus Nevin

“No man in the whole history of British rule in India has done such great …

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Remembering Ann Crotchley, a Victim of Oxford’s Unsafe Streets

Anne Peile

Content warning: sexual assault, violence against women On the night of Thursday 6 December 1827, …

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Rebels with a Deer Park? Magdalen vs the Monarchy

Louis Morris

On 8 June 2021, conservative news website Guido Fawkes broke the story that a student …

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What’s in a Street Name? Questioning Florence Park’s Colonialist Legacy

Juliet Henderson

This is a guest post by the Decolonising Florence Park project. Some street names are …

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Abraham Lazarus: The Champion of Oxford’s Working Class

Dan P

Who was Abraham Lazarus? Of the thousands of activists and leaders in the past century …

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Stop the Squeal: Oxfordshire’s Dirty Election

Louis Morris

In the year since rioters failed to nullify the 2020 US presidential election, commentators have …

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