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Look up! Statues and gargoyles in Oxford

Walking around Oxford you often feel like you’re part of the city’s tourist attraction. The long walk up to the Radcliffe Camera entrance, pushing the heavy door to enter...

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Plaques and Peripheries: The Search for Oxford’s Women Writers

Every morning on my way to college, I pass through the cobblestoned, crowded St...

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‘Extremely funny and emotionally intense’: ‘Your Funeral’ at the Burton Taylor Studio

Your Funeral is Pharaoh Productions’ debut play written by Nick Samuel, about the last...

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Review: Hill and Harmer’s A Life in Song – the strange world of Lieder

"poetry told across language through performance and music"

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As we sailed on enthralled in the pursuit of some ardent glory

Punctuate As The State Sees Fit

Before we were mad We could dance as we wanted

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Shoulder

She leant back and let the blade of his shoulder frame the picture, for that’s how she would replay it in her head.

Oxford By Night

Immortality comes not in cobweb, but in gold tinged stone.

Day to live, day to love

Today is a Sunday, and today is a beautiful day to be alive

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Culture

Look up! Statues and gargoyles in Oxford

Plaques and Peripheries: The Search for Oxford’s Women Writers

‘Extremely funny and emotionally intense’: ‘Your Funeral’ at the Burton Taylor Studio

Review: Hill and Harmer’s A Life in Song – the strange world of Lieder

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