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A Traveller's History of Oxford
by Richard Tames
- HISTORY
- 2003
- PAPER
- 224 PAGES
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A compact history of Oxford from settlement to the present, including its importance in medieval England, founding of the different colleges and brief period as Royalist capital. Tames (who was educated at Cambridge) also discusses the architecture of the colleges and includes biographies of illustrious alumni. With suggested walking tours, day trips and chronology.
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