Tag: history

Gin and tonic’s history might leave you with a bitter taste

Colonialism, empire and disease: this tasty tipple has an interesting story

History theses will be examined by supervisors in new trial

The changes are to ensure thesis examiners are "most appropriately qualified"

Don’t know much about history

Who knew history could sound so good?

The fault in our Fawlty

The show is vulgar, insular, and heavy-handed

Changing the course of history

Our reimagination of classic works reflects our new priorities

Historians slam plans to replace display cases at University museum

The wooden display cases in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History are set to be replaced by glass cabinets

Patriotism and Chilean Poetry

Bridget McNulty discusses Hugh Ortega's debut collection and Chilean identity

Fighting art with art in Bolzano

In Oxford we argue over the future of the Rhodes statue, but in Italy they have found a new solution

Iraq is not a twentieth century Crusade

Oxford historian Christopher Tyerman delivers a polemic speech against rhetorical comparisons between the war on terror and the crusades

Brasenose grad’s attempt to sue Oxford dismissed

Siddiqui sought £1m in 'loss of earnings' after he received a 2.i instead of a first

Oxford pays tribute to professor killed in M40 crash

Colleagues and students have shared their grief at the death of incoming Oriel Provost Mark Whittow.

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.

The shameful truth about Churchill

Despite Winston Churchill's major role in one of the greatest famines in the history of mankind he is still unduly lauded by the British people

Oxford academics condemn “polemical and simplistic” research

The professor described their actions as "collective online bullying"

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