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Image description: Inside the Codrington library. All Souls College has refused to take down the statue of slave owner Christopher Codrington. Despite not removing the statue, the college has confirmed that the library in which it sits will no longer be called ‘the Codrington Library’. Christopher Codrington was a Barbados-born colonial governor who attended Christ […]
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The Oxford Student can reveal that the total value of the Bodleian Libraries’ collected late book fines totalled £76,961.59 over the course of the 2017-18 academic year. Commenting on this, the Bodleian Libraries told The Oxford Student that the money raised from the fines would be used for ‘purchasing additional copies (of texts) in order […]
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Queen’s probably wouldn’t be your first stop on a spooky ghost tour of Oxford. Its 18th century facade looks relatively baby-faced in contrast to the gothic walls which line the High Street. The exterior you see today, however, belies a rich medieval heritage which can still be explored beneath the surface. Drawn to one of […]
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Image credit: neiljs (Flickr) In the last two years, over 100 public libraries across the UK have been forced to close down. A further 500 are now being run by all-volunteer workforces, often made up of retirees working for nothing to keep their local communities alive. Even in the best-case scenario, volunteer-run libraries lack oversight […]
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When starting out at Oxford the library system is more than a little intimidating. With over 100 different libraries affiliated with the University, it can be a bit overwhelming knowing where the best place to study is, so I thought I’d help out. Not all the university libraries are accessible to every student, particularly the college, […]
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Dear Reader, In my previous column, I wrote about meeting strangers: how to do it, why you should do it, where you should do it. This week, I took my own advice. Where could I meet strangers in the intellectual village that is Oxford? For all you post-grads out there: where could I meet strangers […]
Continue ReadingThe Bodleian Libraries will be home to a major new exhibition on the life and works of J. R. R. Tolkien in 2018. The exhibition, entitled “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth”, will explore not only Tolkien’s work in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, but also his achievements as an artist, poet, medievalist and […]
Continue ReadingFrom this Friday students and fellows at Magdalen College will not be allowed into the college’s New Library while it undergoes an 18-month redevelopment. The college has put up a makeshift marquee in St Swithun’s Quad, which will serve as the acting library until the redevelopment is finished. The redevelopment of the New Library has […]
Continue ReadingGoing to the library; the priority is to work. Right? Well no, not at the Radcliffe Camera. Put aside thoughts of chemical equations or academic commentators: making a fashion splash in the most notable of Oxford libraries is going to be at the forefront of your mind. I confess that I like to look good […]
Continue ReadingLate night essay crises have been more unpleasant than usual for Lincoln students this term due to a broken heating system in their college library. The situation has caused confusion amongst college staff, with the Domestic Bursary denying all knowledge of the issue when contacted by The Oxford Student. According to library staff, however, the […]
Continue ReadingCampaigners have responded with frustration to comments made by All Souls’ College representatives about the future of the Kensal Rise Library Building. Margaret Bailey, a member of the Friends of Kensal Rise Library (FKRL) commented this week on behalf of the group that they were “bemused” by the “contradictory” attitude taken by All Souls, who […]
Continue ReadingPub crawls are as nauseatingly laddish as they are prohibitively pricy and staggeringly dull. The only institutions in this fine city worth traversing are its libraries. Here are my finest bookworm burrowing holes: BEST TO HIBERNATE IN Ah, the Gladstone Link: the tunnel of lost hours, where dreams go to die, and where zombie apocalypse […]
Continue ReadingA country house in winter is something which brings to mind a rather romantic picture. But the glittering frosts always come later than expected, and are always accompanied with such an unanticipated, biting bitterness from the cold that the crystals fade half-forgotten on the dull brown leaves. The cold inside the house staunches […]
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