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This course will examine five Oxfordshire market towns, all of which were developed as new towns in the Middle Ages - Thame, Chipping Norton, Witney, Woodstock, and Burford. There will be alternating class sessions and field trips to the study towns.
Britain in the Twenties and Thirties looked back to the lost world before 1914, but also forward to a future of progress in international relations, democratic freedoms, greater equality and personal fulfillment, in years haunted also by fears of war.
This course will look in particular at the Great Fire in 1666, its rebuilding by Wren, and the Blitz between 1940 and 1944, resulting in the making of the Modern London. The course will be illustrated with paintings, engravings, maps and photographs.
This study day will investigate Oxford’s experience during and after the Civil Wars. Andrew Hopper will chair proceedings and lead a walkabout tour of sites connected to civil-war Oxford, including a visit to the Ashmolean Museum.
From the oldest to the brand new, join us for this walking tour to examine Oxford's remarkable buildings.
This lecture will will explore the pioneering artists of the 1920s and '30s French Riviera.
Oxford University may be a bastion of tradition, but how much do you know about the city’s radical past and present? Explore the fascinating stories of those who pushed back against power, privilege and inequality on this walking tour and lecture.
This course examines the rise and fall of the British Empire and its manifold legacies in Britain and beyond.
The recent discovery of Richard III's remains in Leicester highlights the dynamic new research being conducted into the period known as the Wars of the Roses. This course asks students to engage with the latest work on this exciting and tumultuous period.
This course is the ideal introduction to English garden history. It provides an overview of five centuries of development, from baroque formalism through the naturalistic landscape style, right up to contemporary cutting-edge planting style.
The reign of Henry VIII transformed British history. This ten-week online course charts the political, religious and cultural changes of the period.
This course aims to give students an introduction and overview of that architectural tradition enabling students to 'read' the architecture of the contemporary built environment in a critically informed way.
