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Common Ground holds its annual symposium, ‘Reclaiming Spaces’

“Reclaiming Spaces will interrogate our relationship to and experience of different places, whether that be historical, institutional or natural space."

New online hub raises awareness of University’s colonial past

The online hub includes details on the University's efforts to address system racism in education, including outreach programmes which aim to provide support to Black applicants at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

The walls that stare – what college portraits tell us about Oxford

They say a picture paints a thousand words. So what do the thousands of portraits hanging around Oxford colleges tell us about the University, and the...

The Pitt Rivers must face its dark past

Museum director Dr. Van Broekhoven agrees that a future must be found for the Pitt Rivers' colonial history

All Souls plans plaque to mark donor’s slavery links

The college has applied for planning permission for a plaque commemorating the slaves whose labour funded its library.

Oxford academics condemn “polemical and simplistic” research

The professor described their actions as "collective online bullying"

Oxford defends don accused of “whitewashing” the British empire

Nigel Biggar had argued we should “moderate our post-imperial guilt”

All Souls starts new scholarship in attempt to tackle colonial legacy

College launches scholarship for student from Caribbean nations in recognition of slave-built wealth

Student activism countering Oxford’s “social apartheid”

Common Ground and ACS are amongst those taking a stand

“Make space for us as we are”

New campaign against institutional racism wins funding from seven JCRs—and a Vogue photoshoot

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