The Duke of Wellington: The man with a cone on his head
Carlo Marochetti’s equestrian statue of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, which resides over Royal Exchange …
Francis Galton: Eugenics and Modern Medicine
Galton’s political beliefs evidently undermined the rigour of his qualitative claims. What is less discussed …
Toppling Statues: An Oxford Tradition
A mirror for the Rhodes Must Fall protests, four centuries ago and just across the street.
Rhodes is not a Colossus
Rhodes wanted to be a colossus, and was described as such; yet his legacy, and …
A Primer for Empire: Fletcher and Kipling’s School History of England
Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (1857-1934) and Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) published A School History of England …
Monarchs on the Margins? A Global History of Royalty at Oxford
Numerically speaking, Oxford’s role as a training ground for global monarchy eclipses its function of …
(De)colonizing the Pitt Rivers Museum?
Dark, quiet, and tucked away behind the dinosaur skeletons, taxidermy, and excited children of the …
The Whip: Revisiting Slavery and Capitalism through Shakespearean drama
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest production, The Whip, offers a thoughtful interpretation of the complex …
‘Of Oxford … chiefly North’: Women in Oxford
A brief history of women in Oxford and their experiences studying. Oxford is a place …
Literature after the British Empire: V.S. Naipaul’s story
V.S. Naipaul’s writings provide a unique insight into his attempt at constructing authentic identity. When …
A Brief History of Oxford Time
A brief history of time and temporality in Oxford, from tradition and fiction to science and modernity
MPs for MAs? The fall of Oxford University’s parliamentary constituency
This article looks back at the past voting habits of Oxford’s alumni, and at one …
