‘Mint Julep Day’: Oxford’s South Carolinian Tradition
Content warning: slavery Every year, on the 1st of June, Mint Julep Day rolls around …
‘Anti-Vacers’: Vaccine Resistance in nineteenth-century Oxfordshire
The COVID-19 pandemic brought vaccine tensions to the forefront of public discourse. Oxford centred vividly …
Charlie Hutchison: Oxfordshire’s Forgotten Black Anti-Fascist
Born in Oxfordshire, Charlie Hutchison (1918-1993) led an extraordinary life as both a champion of …
Money, Matchdays, and the Maxwells: How Oxford Nearly Lost Its Football Club
For anyone who’s not a fan of the so-called ‘beautiful game’, the passions evoked by …
Proctors and Prostitutes: Policing Women at the University of Oxford
Until the late 1870s, the University of Oxford was an all-male institution, frequented by young …
Marmalade and the Revolution: The Gently Subversive History of Oxford’s Most Famous Foodstuff
Oxford is known for many things, but neither culinary delicacies nor revolutionary politics generally feature …
Collective punishment and colonial terror: The lessons of Britain’s war in Malaya
Britain’s military policies during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) not only inflicted untold suffering upon the …
One Woman Against the Crown: Elizabeth Lilburne Rides to the Rescue
One of the most famous and seemingly unique episodes in Oxford’s history is Queen Matilda’s …
Review: ‘Between making and knowing something’ by Mariana Castillo Deball
This is a review of Mariana Castillo Deball’s 2020 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. The …
Alexander the Great in Skopje: an “up yours” to Greece?
Since Macedonian independence in 1991, following the breakup of Yugoslavia, Greece has contested the country’s …
Diego de Landa: From Monasteries to Roundabouts
In the North of the peninsula of Yucatán, in modern Mexico, next to the yellow …
A Day for All Souls? Remembering the Middle Ages Today
Surrounded by the patriotic paraphernalia of wreaths and poppies, the blazing memorials to Guy Fawkes, …
