11 Ergebnisse.

Oxford Town and Gown came together in 1771 as Paving Commissioners, the city's principal local government body. Within thirty years this collaboration transformed Oxford from a medieval to a modern city.

Keine Beschreibung.

This study by Malcolm Graham, a leading Oxford local historian for many years, provides a fascinating insight into post-war housing needs in Oxford, and how the modern city evolved away from the university buildings and college quadrangles for which the city is internationally renowned.

Excerpt from Cup and Saucer Land: Being a Simple Descriptive Account of the Present Day Methods of Earthenware Productions, With 60 Illustrations From Photographs Taken by the Author When Vicar of a "Pottery" Parish in North StaffordshireThe simplest form of Earthenware manufacture, when the industry was in its infancy, is represented by the Travelling Potter, who, making his way through the country with his Potter's wheel and simple acces scr...

Excerpt from Cup and Saucer Land: Being a Simple Descriptive Account of the Present Day Methods of Earthenware Productions, With 60 Illustrations From Photographs Taken by the Author When Vicar of a "Pottery" Parish in North StaffordshireThe simplest form of Earthenware manufacture, when the industry was in its infancy, is represented by the Travelling Potter, who, making his way through the country with his Potter's wheel and simple acces scr...

Oxford then and now

A history of Oxford

This addition to the "Britain in Old Photographs" series brings together a collection of black-and-white pictures spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawn from family albums, local collections and professional photographers, they show the way things were and how they have changed.

Keine Beschreibung.

A history of Oxford

The first full account of Oxford City and University during the Great War.