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Architecture & History Exeter college, literary Oxford Sophie Duncan Architecture & History Exeter college, literary Oxford Sophie Duncan

Special Summer Access to Exeter College 2025

Officially accredited Oxford History Green Badge guides are offering exclusive guided visits to Exeter College, alma mater to some of Britain’s most celebrated writers: William Morris (1853) J. R. R. Tolkien (1911) Kingsley Amis (1953) Alan Bennett (1957) Philip Pullman (1963) Will Self (1973) Let Oxford History Tours arrange your visit,

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Calendar

Calandar of special days in Oxford

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What’s on

I've noticed a lot this summer that US visitors struggle to catch 'Shows' not available across the pond but rarely have found out about the great theatre that stops in Oxford’s theatres.

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Sister Stuarts

What happened to all the the ladies this leads us to the Bod Quad and special tours with accredited guides into the Bodleian's Duke Humphry's Library.

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Get a G G G Grotesque

Charles Cuttings drawing printed on useful and fun. gift items to take home a grotesque.

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