Will copied down the address and phone number, and since it was safe to admit he didn’t know Oxford, asked where to find it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In my Oxford, they were the ones who knew about it. Stands to reason it’ll be the same in your Oxford. I’ll go to Jordan College first, because Jordan had the best ones.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And who reads the Oxford one now?” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don’t, and I’ll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The meeting was held in secret, and the parliamentarian, who spoke perfect English, having been educated at Oxford, asked for anonymity, which he believed would enable him to better work behind the scenes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So the citizens of Oxford read the weather forecasts in the newspaper, and enjoyed the pale sun on their faces, and began to put their sandbags away. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I think about the shoes of my childhood, the brown Oxfords scuffed at the toes, half-soled, new-heeled, the falling-apart grubby white running shoes, the brown sandals with two buckles that you wore with socks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jordan College was the grandest and richest of all the colleges in Oxford. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In 1630 Thomas Hobbes, who had received a conventional humanistic and scholastic education at Oxford, came across a copy of Euclid’s Elements ‘in a gentleman’s library’ in Geneva. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s not in Oxford. It just means—Well, it’s a sort of password. Did he say anything else? Let’s go in and keep the fire going. Bring your tea.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I went to a couple of the famous May balls at Oxford. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Piling twenty-two dimes in the Oxford Mart pay phone, I’d inquired about an editor position at the Harper & Row publishing house on 33rd Street in Manhattan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was a highly respectable member of a great Oxford college. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had seen a great deal of beauty in her short life, but it was Jordan College beauty, Oxford beauty—grand and stony and masculine. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was said that you could walk from Oxford to Bristol in one direction and London in the other, and never leave Jordan land. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Several days later, on the bus to Oxford, the notion came to me that each TMV particle should be thought of as a tiny crystal growing like other crystals through the possession of cozy corners. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They had been married for twenty years and had a grown-up son who was going to Oxford. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The focus of the activities of the invisible college shifted to Oxford, however, when several of its prominent members took up posts there in 1648, as the Civil War drew to a close. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

From there we were to go up to Oxford to spend the weekend. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“No, there isn’t. The other Oxford readers are honest scholars with sound academic reasons for using the instrument.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Oh, yes, I understand you went to Oxford." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

So the two sides set out in search of La Belle Sauvage and her crew and passengers, the Oakley Street boats from Oxford and the CCD from various points downriver. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You got it! You are a very smart little colored boy. And I am going to tell Oxford University about you.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was quiet except for the dull hum of traffic on Oxford Street. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Are you staying in Oxford, Lyra? Where are you staying?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She happily used to swim naked in the river Cherwell with all the other Oxford children, but it would be quite different with Will, and she blushed even to think of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If only she knew London as well as she knew Oxford! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They went toward the Oxford Road, then turned westward through Holborn, stopping a moment to pray at each wayside cross, just as if they had been on a pilgrimage. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“I hired a fast powerboat. I guess the owner’s still around; he said he’s going to try and pick up some work in Oxford.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’s scratched out her phone number and the addresses he’d written down for her at Oxford and in Maine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone’s father was a diplomat; another’s was an Oxford don. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

If Lakshmi, goddess of wealth, one day favours me bountifully, Oxford is fifth on the list of cities I would like to visit before I pass on, after Mecca, Varanasi, Jerusalem and Paris. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Oxford she shared a small flat with a friend. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad gets up before it's light on Wednesdays 'cause he's got to drive to Oxford for a midweek meeting at Greenland HQ. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The young, photogenic Yale-, Oxford-, and Harvard-educated lawyer had learned just how confounding the problems of urban America were. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"Well,--he told me once he was an Oxford man." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The meeting in Oxford did not do much to further serious discussion about science and religion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I am the butler of Darlington Hall, near Oxford.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1583 a strange little Italian gave a series of lectures in Oxford. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

An Oxford avatar of the old zamindar mentality—a landlord forcing his attentions on women who depended on him for their livelihood. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Hannah didn’t tell them was that her hands on the instrument felt instantly at home and at work in a way that they never had with the Oxford alethiometer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There he was selected to be one of the first Rhodes scholars at Oxford. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

His interest in science stirred, Oldenburg became a tutor in Oxford in 1656 and was very much a member of the circle from which the first Fellows of the Royal Society were drawn. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

University College London, which was known as the godless university, where great men were thinking great thoughts—but were not being trained, as at Cambridge and Oxford, for the church. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college had been founded in 1596 by Sir Thomas Gresham, a financial adviser to Queen Elizabeth, as the first seat of advanced learning in England outside Oxford and Cambridge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, almost when she’d lost interest in them, the Gobblers appeared in Oxford. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Firms only just back from the Christmas hols, that’s why. Still, Oxford’s hardly the ends of the earth, is it, Mrs. Rhydd? Be going up to see Dad soon, will we?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had hitchhiked, and ridden on two buses, and walked, and reached Oxford at six in the evening, too late to do what he needed to do. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he sat, he’d go to the cooler and help himself to a bottle of organic beer, Oxford Gold, and as he confronted his food, he’d open his latest reading matter. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And there she was, standing on the grass in his Oxford with Pan still as a wasp on her shoulder, and no one, as far as he could tell, had seen her appear. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francis wanted to talk to Dorothy Hodgkin, the best of the English crystallographers, while I welcomed the opportunity to see Oxford for the first time. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Nugent had arrived in Oxford the previous evening, an hour or two before the flood struck the city. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dad'd got to his office in Oxford at 8:55 A.M., and by 9:15 A.M. a security guard was escorting him off the premises. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment, which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In June i860 there was a weeklong conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford University. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra was about to tell her one of the bloodcurdling stories she’d made up to frighten the Oxford kids with, but the man was already speaking. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Very little is known about his early life, but some accounts say that he also studied at Oxford, although there is no formal record of this. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Black Oxfords followed Blue Pumps to the door. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My friend Roger the kitchen boy from Jordan College, and Billy Costa, and a girl out the covered market in Oxford. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and said, “Now, your mother wants you to come back to Oxford with her when she leaves next weekend.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“A man named Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy, on October 16, 1555.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came to a large traffic circle where the road going north crossed the Oxford ring road going east and west. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for me, after receiving the Rhodes Scholarship, I spent two and a half years completing my master’s in international relations at Oxford. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In fourteenth-century Oxford, mathematically inclined philosophers had hypothesized that falling bodies accelerate continuously; but they had made no effort to confirm this theoretical possibility through experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

You know, when you go to Oxford to get a degree in English literature, as I have, people always want to know who your favorite English author is. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The debacle was no surprise to several of us who had just been in Oxford for a Society of General Microbiology meeting on “The Nature of Viral Multiplication.” Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She padded out of a garden on the Oxford side of the road, where Will was standing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Different worlds. But in my world there’s an Oxford too. We’re both speaking English, en’t we? Stands to reason there’s other things the same. How did you get through? Is there a bridge, or what?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was standing in the middle of Oxford Street, half a block from my dorm room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was educated at the University of Oxford and became well known as a mathematician and surveyor. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The lecturer called on the student who had studied at Oxford. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We were standing at the corner of Jellicoe Avenue and Oxford Road, right in the heart of Johannesburg’s wealthy, white suburbia, and there were no minibuses. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But I lived in a “bed sit” in a house with some Oxford graduate students—and so I got to know many other students. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed back on her bicycle and peddled toward her small cottage in the nearby town of Oxford, where she was known as “Mrs. Brewer,” a refugee from Germany and mother of two. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Oxford Times was a weekly, so it could have been any day in the past five or six. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Nobody could deny that Grant had waited too long and had been surprised at Pittsburg Landing, and certainly he had been driven back at Oxford, Mississippi. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

La Belle Sauvage sped like a dart over the mad river, down towards Port Meadow, towards the wild waste of water that was sweeping through Oxford, towards whatever lay beyond. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

During my last year at Repton, my mother said to me, ‘Would you like to go to Oxford or Cambridge when you leave school?’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Lyra stayed with the wolves for a while, and then moved to Oxford to work in the kitchens of Jordan College. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And as soon as she was sure there was no one looking, she went straight across to the window and through into Will’s Oxford. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there an Oxford in your world, then? You never came from my world.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And your father’s going to be based in Oxford?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He could find food, and show her how to reach Oxford, and those were powers that were useful, but he might still have been untrustworthy or cowardly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But not hornbeam trees: these were tall palms, and they were growing, like the trees in Oxford, in a row along the grass. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad eats dinner in Oxford more often than he eats at home these days, mind. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He knows about Henry’s parentage, about his older siblings Philip and Beatrice, that he studied English literature at Oxford and plays classical piano. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

This year many of the scientists had gone to Oxford specifically to discuss Charles’s book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She performed well aca-demically; so well, in fact, that she was among just a few students from her grammar school fortunate enough to get admitted into Cambridge and Oxford. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were two or three commercial subscription libraries in Oxford, but no free public library, and Malcolm wouldn’t be the only young person whose hunger for books had to go unsatisfied. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In 2011, I’d taken a group of thirty-seven girls from the school to visit the University of Oxford, bringing not the high achievers but students whose teachers thought they weren’t yet reaching their potential. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Since we’re now Oakley Street,” said Hannah, “may I ask you this: Is there another Oakley Street agent among the Oxford readers?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Here's another thing I always carry. A souvenir of Oxford days. It was taken in Trinity Quad--the man on my left is now the Earl of Dorcaster." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Instead of coming back from Oxford after those twelve weeks, she’d stayed on to do a summer course, explaining that a professor she admired would be retiring after that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Will Mr. Frank Churchill pass through Bath as well as Oxford?”—was a question, however, which did not augur much. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Later that night, just as the porter was locking the lodge, she and Pantalaimon slipped out and made their way through the dark streets, hearing all the bells of Oxford chiming midnight. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Instead he talked to her, and listened to her memories of Oxford and of Mrs. Coulter, and watched as she read the alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I have an uncle lives just outside Oxford. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And that’s your world? That don’t look like any part of Oxford. You sure you was in Oxford?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that day, toward midnight in fact, Will was walking out of the city of Oxford, forty miles away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birdlike Uncle Cecil stepped up smartly, no doubt anxious to be done with his duty before hurrying back to the sanctuary of All Souls, Oxford. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Come and visit whenever you want, Jason. Trains go to Oxford from Cheltenham, direct.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One unfortunate maid lost her head and lost his place in Tuckwell’s Pre-Tractarian Oxford, and Dr. Finch shook a broom at her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In 1957, when she knew she was dying, I was in hospital in Oxford having a serious operation on my spine and I was unable to write to her. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t even give him a proper lodge to sit in, like a real Oxford college, just a big wooden counter, as if it was a shop. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is that in his years at Oxford, Chacko rarely thought of them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning the weather cleared, and by the end of the fourth day the spires of Oxford appeared. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He sent me an application for something called the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which, he explained, was a little like the Rhodes Scholarship, but for Cambridge instead of Oxford. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But after Dad left for Oxford, Mom told me they decided I could stay if I wanted to. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m a member of Dame Hannah’s college, but most of my work takes place outside Oxford. Tell me about yourself, Lyra. Have you always lived at Jordan College?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Oxford was Oxford. Jason, we need to have a little chat.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It can be debunked with a glance at any page of a historical reference book, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, which will show that very few words retain their original senses. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

So different from the amused Rumpled Porcupine she had met that long-ago Oxford morning at the cafe. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first announced the results of my calculations at a conference at the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, I was greeted with general incredulity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he saw how she looked away disdainfully, and he followed her example faithfully, as he’d done in a hundred Oxford battles and campaigns. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In 1869, Harvard met Britain’s most elite institution, Oxford, in a match on the Thames. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Will had last seen that face, contorted with hate, on the evening when he and Lyra stole the alethiometer back from Sir Charles Latrom in the house in Oxford. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was a visiting cardinal in the glorious tasselled hat which still adorns the notepaper of Wolsey’s College at Oxford. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the Cambridge band was communal while the one at Oxford was based on nuclear families. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The religious world also was represented at the conference, most notably by the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke with a crisp British accent, an upper-crust accent, the kind of voice you might hear at Oxford or Cambridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m safe from everyone here. Where I used to live, in Oxford, there was all kinds of dangerous things. There was gyptians—they take kids and sell ’em to the Turks for slaves. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He suspects that they are secredy glad when Ruth goes away to Oxford for a semester. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She might have run into him as she walked down Oxford Street. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her presents were a pair of brown Oxford shoes and a box of cherry candy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had soon slipped back into her Oxford voice, and now she was acquiring a gyptian one, complete with Fen-Dutch words. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not in this world. But I came here out of a place called Oxford. There’s plenty of scholars there, if that’s what you want.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent to look through and saw the road in Oxford, his own world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The expedition was sponsored by the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford University, and it was going to survey an area in which they hoped to find evidence of early human settlements. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the colleges of Oxford, after a brief and turbulent interlude, were settling back into the calm of scholarship and ritual. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a condition of nearly all Oxford and Cambridge fellowships that the holder was ordained, so nearly every academic in England was a clergyman. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After the Armistice he tried frantically to get home but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to Oxford instead. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was quite clear that the alethiometer was involved, and the identities of the alethiometer specialists in Oxford were no secret. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have cars and vans in your Oxford?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every helical staircase I saw that weekend in Oxford made me more confident that other biological structures would also have helical symmetry. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In 1962 he had sent U.S. marshals to Oxford, Mississippi, to enforce James Meredith’s enrollment into the University of Mississippi. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There, Bruce discovered three copies of the ancient text and returned to Europe with them, leading to their later translation into English by Oxford professor Dr. Richard Laurence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary is certainly wrong to suggest that the word was not used in this sense before 1665. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Will’s Oxford was here now, just a knife cut away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Something of a polymath, he was a Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford, physician to Edward VI and to Queen Mary, and sometime general surveyor of mines and money for the Crown. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

After working at the clinic for six months, I got a job in Oxford. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their figure of £ 1 million was forwarded to Henry Thomas Tizard, the Oxford University chemistry don spearheading his country’s scientific effort in the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There were cholera outbreaks all over England—from Liverpool in the north down to Oxford and even into East London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And you found he was an Oxford man," said Jordan helpfully. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

My own feeling is that one shouldn’t be too rigid about the Oxford comma. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

At the moment, however, they were a long way apart—as far as Lyra had had to travel from her Oxford to Cittàgazze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The student next to me said he’d studied Isaiah Berlin at Oxford; the other said he’d already heard this lecturer’s remarks on Berlin when he was an undergraduate at Cambridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He raced along Oxford Road, the lanes empty, no other cars out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The plaid suits with large collars, the bushy mustaches and overdue haircuts, and the thick knotted ties were all obviously stylish back when he went to Oxford but looked a little funny through contemporary eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Several meadows were flooded around Oxford and Abingdon, but that was nothing unusual; the trouble was that the water wasn’t draining away, and further down the river a number of villages were under threat. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“My mother and I were mostly in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Oxford, England, though. I think I told you in the gym I had to be interviewed at both those places. Mostly the University of Edinburgh.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“You got to find some other clothes first,” he said to Lyra, “before you go into my Oxford.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coleman is a classicist who studied at Oxford and a former consultant for McKinsey & Company who clearly enjoys his role as a provocateur. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a window like the one in Sunderland Avenue in Oxford. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“She might be slow when it comes to books, but have you noticed how she walks?” asked Black Oxfords, lowering her voice. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some indication of just what Oxford was missing out on can be seen if we pick just one piece of work from the many that Halley undertook about this time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But Rome was not built in a day. Keep it in mind, comrade, that this is not your Oxford college. For you what is a nonsense for Masses it is something different.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oxford, New Mexico," snorted Tom contemptuously, "or something like that." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Elliot Oxford and I started emailing and texting my last week in Texas, and...I think I like him.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The Master of Jordan College in Oxford gave it to me,” she said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And, well, I argued for that Oxford comma. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

It was excavated by Oxford archaeologists at the partially buried city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt in the late nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Beyond Oxford the country began to be more rolling. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And ‘How is it possible this happens before glamour when glamour is an ancient concept? See “glamer” in the Oxford English Dictionary.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Lyra wants to come a little way into my Oxford,” Mary said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was the summer of his final year at Oxford. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet there’s one in Bodley’s Library in Oxford,” she said. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

So even up at Oxford, other than playing her gramophone a little louder than she was permitted at home, she continued to lead the same small, tight life that she imagined she had escaped. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her the whole story, from the moment Asta had spotted the man under the oak tree to the story Mrs. Carpenter in the chandlery had shown him in the Oxford Times. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At Assembly the next morning she was made to look up depravity in the Oxford Dictionary and read aloud its meaning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the papyrology collection of the Sackler Library at the University of Oxford is the world’s oldest surviving Christian hymn, featuring a form of now undecipherable notation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Rowing before an immense crowd, Oxford defeated Harvard, but the event was so widely publicized in the United States that it produced an explosion of interest in rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With the change she bought an apple from the Covered Market, which was much more like the proper Oxford, and walked up toward the park. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where is Oakley Street? I don’t know a street called that in Oxford.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

For young black South Africans like myself, it was Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, all rolled into one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anne’s sheik was wearing a black-and-orange-striped blazer, gray Oxford bags, a bow tie on an elastic band, and a brown triangular porkpie hat, pinched into a bowsprit at the front. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried the phrase "educated at Oxford," or swallowed it or choked on it as though it had bothered him before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, as it happens,” said Malcolm, fumbling with trembling hands in the rucksack, “we’ve got these orders from the king’s ambassador in Oxford, kind of a passport, so’s we can have safe passage. Look.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He remembered that he had to change shoes and retreated to a comer of the lobby, out of sight of receptionists and guards, to sit on the floor and pull on Eric’s brown Oxfords. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad grinned vacantly, and walked so that his pants cuffs swished like Oxford bags. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t see how we could come down here, not now, anyway. I’m in the middle of a semester, and Mom’s got that job at Oxford Elementary.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sprat went on to acknowledge that there were some hardliners who were so hostile to all aspects of ancient learning that they wanted to abolish Oxford and Cambridge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So it must have simply astonished the dons of Oxford to hear this peculiar Italian, as he dipped and dodged, chucked and chirred, defending Copernicanism as the literal truth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I was traveling north to Bolvangar with the gyptians, the child Lyra told me about something that happened in the college she used to live in, back in Oxford. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since the beginning of time, the Oxford English Dictionary has defined ‘still life’ as a painting of some stuff, fruit or what have you. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just as he’d found the night before, on the Oxford side of it, you could only see it at all from one side: when you moved behind it, it was invisible. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1576, a few years before Bruno’s Oxford lecture, Digges had published a sixth edition of his father Leonard’s perpetual almanac, A Prognostication Everlasting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when the African American’s father was not allowed to vote because he was black, the Ugandan’s father was running for parliament or studying at Oxford,” Ifemelu said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I frown at the scuffed Oxfords on my feet. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My father found it. I saw it when he showed it to the Scholars at Jordan College in Oxford. They’d scalped it, and all.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The force of the flood might prevent them from going back anyway; they might find themselves swept all the way through Oxford and on to...where? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

By the time Chacko finished his BA and left for Oxford to do another one, Kerala was on the brink of civil war. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary adds the gender-neutral prefix Mx. to its lexicon as an alternative to Mr., Ms., Mrs., and Miss. It also adds the word cisgender. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Chacko had been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was permitted excesses and eccentricities nobody else was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a year at Oxford, I went back to London and an absolutely fascinating job. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Compared with Oxford it was a backwater and, unlike Oxford, had not benefited from any intimate contact with the Greshamites. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And because they were high in the tower, they were high above north Oxford. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet she just went up to Oxford to see Dad and Mom. We can eat breakfast at the River Café, and then you can take me to school. We’ll be okay.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

One of his contemporaries at Oxford, a man with a keen interest in science, was Christopher Wren, three years older than Hooke and another product of Westminster School. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, he’s in Oxford. He’s been to Malcolm’s father’s pub. Malcolm mentioned him the other day. One more thing: How will we contact one another? In the same way as before?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When school was out in Oxford, Mom came down to live with me and Grampa, and Dad announced that he was almost done with graduate school. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Carpenter brought the latest Oxford Times out from under the counter and folded it back to an inside page before holding it out for Malcolm to see. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had had to find it on a map of Oxford; she didn’t know this part of town. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were boarding a train for Oxford to meet Dorothy Hodgkin, the grande dame of crystallography. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then she told them all about the great battle between the Oxford townies and the clayburners. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The opera company, founded in 1989 at Garsington Manor near Oxford, moved to its current location about five years ago and built a dramatic glass pavilion to house productions. For Opera Fans, a Grand Day Out 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

But the largest dictionary of the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, is always adding new words. Language evolves, and that’s okay (O.K.?) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Oxford University, Kennedy worked most recently as a creative consultant for fashion and lifestyle brands and was known for her lively tweets. Writer Erica Kennedy found dead in home 2012-06-18T19:55:07Z

In a droll Oxford mix of science and fashion, the high heels worn by the women are said to aerate the lawns, making them more beautiful. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

He went on to become an Oxford don and author of an acclaimed book, The Redstart. Birds in a Cage: Warburg, Germany, 1941 by Derek Niemann - review 2012-12-20T08:00:01Z

He was a generous and inspiring tutor at several art colleges, including the Ruskin School in Oxford and Wimbledon School of Art. Charles Mason obituary 2013-06-02T15:10:39Z

Oscar was from the get-go almost insufferably brilliant, winning all the most important university prizes and honors, first at Trinity College, Dublin and then at Oxford. ‘Wilde’s Women’: the surprising force behind Oscar’s fame and success 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Faulkner was known for sitting on the square to observe Oxford's small-town comings and goings. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

Cell phones look strange in Oxford, Mississippi, but decay doesn’t. A Young Black Boy Looks at a Photograph of a Young Black Boy 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

The Big Weekend footage also includes performances from 18 undiscovered acts on the BBC Introducing stage, of which Oxford trio Ute are a particular treat. Click to download: weekend warriors 2010-05-27T22:15:00Z

A 2021 report on how young people consume news commissioned by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Oxford University contains some promising signals. Long ago, younger viewers wanted their MTV News. Can we learn from what it did right in its prime? 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

Now on the cusp of adulthood and an Oxford student, Lyra must flee the university after her constant companion Pantalaimon witnesses a murder. Review | Philip Pullman returns to the world of ‘His Dark Materials’ with ‘The Secret Commonwealth’ 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

In general, travel by Americans is on an upswing, compared to the past few years, particularly for those traveling overseas, according to Tourism Economics, part of the economic research firm Oxford Economics. Where the Crowds Are Headed This Fall 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Set in 1974, the film stars “Mad Men” veteran Jared Harris as Joseph Coupland, an Oxford University psychology professor with highly unorthodox methods. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z

I’m now working on a book on the constitutional objections to the Affordable Care Act, which will be published in the spring of 2013 by Oxford, and I’ve been researching this very question. Our great healthcare denial 2012-06-17T12:00:00Z

Perhaps, if god wills it, the Oxford Dictionary will call it the 2020 word of the year. The Perfect Phrase for This Relentless Year 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

He insists, though, that he is no oracle — and he consults the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines such a being as infallible. Review: Being Brainwashed Into Joy in Derren Brown’s ‘Secret’ 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

As a doctoral student at Oxford, then the center of the philosophical universe, he studied with the eminent natural-language philosopher Gilbert Ryle but increasingly found himself drawn to a more scientific view of the mind. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z

On "Antidotes," Foals' 2008 Sub Pop debut, the Oxford, England, quintet banked on obscure influences to invent a clanging post-punk dance machine. Foals second Sub Pop album a brilliant enigma 2010-06-14T22:48:00Z

Promises to use poetry as a "weapon, bloodsoaked and glinting" and plans for a poetry slam contest suggest the competition for the role of Oxford poetry professor is heating up. Race hots up 2010-05-18T12:23:00Z

But that doesn’t mean that Oxford is stodgy. Oxford vs. Cambridge: Which one should you visit? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

He later donated manuscripts of The Castle and Amerika to Oxford University, but kept the original of The Trial for himself. Lawyers open cache of unpublished Kafka manuscripts 2010-07-19T10:53:00Z

He helped them with their homework, told them to buy books on his account at Blackwell's and paid the Oxford tuition of one young woman, "on the condition that the gift remain a secret." J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and 'The Fellowship' of fantasy writers 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

On every back-to-school shopping trip, I would force Mum to stop by at the Perfume Shop on Oxford Street. I’m blind – but it can be a blessing in disguise 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Oxford authors' calls to exempt libraries from cuts is a call to heap more cuts on care of the elderly, learning disabled and those with mental health problems. Letters: Can philanthropy again come to the help of public libraries? 2011-01-31T00:05:06Z

That evening, back in Oxford, we enjoyed a classic Hereford rib of beef at the terrific Magdalen Arms gastropub. Designer Brian Sawyer Visits England's Stately Homes 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

After her senior year, she spent a summer at Oxford University as part of a student-exchange program. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

“Finding it right now is almost crazy,” said Emma Smith, a Shakespeare expert at the University of Oxford who authenticated the Folio during a visit to the house in September. Shakespeare First Folio Discovered, in Time for an Anniversary 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Horovitz also took a shot at Oxford University Press for cutting “some 45 internationally esteemed contemporary poets” from its publication list in 1998. Candidates for Oxford's Poetry Professor Attack Each Other With (What Else?) Poetry 2010-06-17T13:28:00Z

Founded in the 11th century, the University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and is known for its academic achievements and stellar alumni. Oxford vs. Cambridge: Which one should you visit? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

He and Paul Watson, 34, set their sights on shirtmaking when Lehman Brothers collapsed the day after their graduation from the University of Oxford’s business school and their potential jobs in finance evaporated. New Wave of Male Entrepreneurs Changing Fashion Scene 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Oxford English professor and literary critic Hermione Lee was made a dame, the female equivalent of a knight. Adele honored by Queen Elizabeth II 2013-06-14T21:56:14Z

Brought up in a provincial nonconformist household by her Methodist father, life at school, Oxford University, parliament, and in government was a serious matter to be lived conscientiously. The Real Iron Lady: Working with Margaret Thatcher – review 2013-03-15T19:40:01Z

Mr. Thompson thanks the publisher of the journal Oxford American in his acknowledgments. Books of The Times: ‘Better Off Without ’Em,’ by Chuck Thompson 2012-08-21T22:05:37Z

With her two Oxford blues for rowing, it would be easy to see the loyalist MP as part of the old school tie club that unites so many of the cabinet. Claire Perry: a new breed of iron lady 2012-05-27T20:53:51Z

Hill was educated at Hendon county school and Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied modern languages for two years, taking a "wartime" degree. Lucienne Hill obituary 2013-01-17T18:30:51Z

In the words of our reviewer, Alida Becker, this novel is a “captivating and slyly subversive fictional paean” to the real women who worked thanklessly on the first Oxford English Dictionary. New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

His life now resumed, Ahmed — an Oxford grad whose résumé includes “Rogue One,” “Jason Bourne” and “Venom,” as well as a lead actor Emmy for HBO’s “The Night Of” — spent lockdown in London this spring. Riz Ahmed Finds the Beat Between Qawwali and House Music 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

“It was a hard book to write because Assad’s point of view about South Africa was so dark,” he said in a telephone interview from Oxford. Searching for a Promised Land in South Africa 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Thus was born our first Christmas tradition – the annual festive visit to see the lights on Oxford Street and gasp at Selfridges’ windows. How we embraced Christmas 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

"We even made some plans about the future," he said in fluent English perfected during studies at Britain's Oxford University. Russian church the absent player at pope-patriarch summit 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Alamy Further west, away from Oxford Circus's relentlessness, reposes Holland Park, the best preserved station on the line. London Underground at 150 - a birthday journey 2013-01-09T05:21:53Z

It was she who asked for the story that was first told in Oxford, in a rowing boat on the Isis, en route to a picnic. Ben Whishaw: 'I feel I'm always in the dark' – interview 2013-03-17T00:15:00Z

After graduating, he joined the Oxford Mail, but left within months when he was hired as a subeditor in the features department of the Guardian's Cross Street office in Manchester in 1967. Robin Thornber obituary 2010-12-12T18:08:00Z

It also reminded me of some strange, rather beautiful people I'd met at Oxford who belonged to a secretive evangelical movement. Alex Preston on The Revelations – paperback Q&A 2012-08-14T16:21:37Z

The serial comma, also known as the Oxford comma, is the one before “and” in a series of three or more: Herman Melville wrote “Moby-Dick,” “Billy Budd,” and “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” Comma Queen: The Strippers, J.F.K. and Stalin—or, the Importance of Serial Commas 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

“There’s a world of kindness and tenderness that surrounds me and my friends in this little town of Oxford,” Mr. Hannah told Bomb, “and I would be a liar if I left it out.” Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 2010-03-03T16:39:00Z

As Oxford explains, it’s “an ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud.” Neckbeard, mansplain, now in Oxford Dictionary online: Amazeballs 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Then Oxford, for study and a bit of student politics and not much else, followed by New Labour of course, David with Tony, Ed with Gordon. TV review: Miliband of Brothers 2010-09-24T21:00:00Z

Many great meals, at Oxford and elsewhere, are recounted — great because of the mental wattage assembled, not necessarily the food. Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Speaking at the Oxford Media Convention on Wednesday, however, Lord Hall said the "flexible" nature of the licence fee allowed it to adapt over the years to encompass changing patterns of viewers' behaviour. BBC: Tony Hall proposes fee extension 2014-02-26T15:00:06Z

From the proper use of "affect" and "effect" to his thoughts on the Oxford comma, Grammer is giving more than 26,000 followers solid lessons on the English language.  Kelsey Grammer joins Twitter to clean up everyone's poor grammar 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

Oxford University had awarded him an honorary doctorate. Books of The Times: ‘P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ 2013-01-30T21:01:45Z

At Oxford he had registered as a conscientious objector and his education authority funding had been withdrawn. Family life: Dad at 21, a bully-boy uncle and fried cornflakes 2013-02-02T07:15:19Z

The ballet begins wonderfully, with a picnic on the lawn outside the deanery at Christ Church, Oxford. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ? review 2011-03-06T00:10:18Z

She read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford – at 17, one of the youngest undergraduates the college had ever taken, and the first from a Scottish state school. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

As Jon Stallworthy observes in his introduction to “The New Oxford Book of War Poetry,” despite poetry’s martial heritage, “much — and most recent — war poetry has been implicitly, if not explicitly, antiwar.” What Does a Poet Know About War? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

The party also marked her engagement to David Bradby, a student at Oxford who became a pioneer of theatre studies. Clive Allison obituary 2011-08-03T18:57:01Z

Instead he kept writing for “Skins,” and in 2008 got a part in a play, “Oxford Street,” at the Royal Court. Daniel Kaluuya Isn’t Waiting for Your Approval 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Speaking to a gathering at Oxford University, Gatiss acknowledged the show’s fantasy setting and also its tradition of diverse casting, but said he’d still had his doubts. The Handmaid's Tale's race problem 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

It was only really when I got to Oxford that I just started pulling faces in front of the mirror. Before and after 'Bean': A talk with Rowan Atkinson, continued 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Or Thatcher’s England where a working-class girl from Accrington could go to Oxford and receive not just a free education but a generous maintenance as well? Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

The book explores six crucial years in Price's life, from leaving home in 1955 to attend Oxford University to his return to North Carolina and the start of his career as a university teacher. Reynolds Price, author and Duke professor, dies 2011-01-21T11:53:09Z

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a lie as “a false statement made with intent to deceive.” How Should 21st-Century Readers Approach the Bible? 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

“It holds everything,” says Paldan, a web designer from Oxford, England. Backpacks are making a comeback with travelers — here are some of the best 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

He is the only president to have been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England. Celebrate Presidents’ Day with this trivia quiz 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Part of the genius of William Faulkner is that most of his stories are set in the same fictionalized version of Oxford, Mississippi. 8 Travel Itineraries for English Literature Lovers 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Among his award-winning buildings include the Garden Quadrangle at Oxford, the Ruskin Library at the University of Lancaster and the Burrell's Fields at Trinity College, Cambridge. Architect Sir Richard MacCormac dies 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Another goes full metal Oxford, tying a series of murders to alchemy and the theories of the minor British novelist and theologian Charles Williams. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The programme is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and the NHS, with the majority of funding coming from donations. 'It gives you hope': the fight to save the fertility of children with cancer 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Then turn to the Oxford English Dictionary which has included the words among more than 1,000 revisions and updates for its latest update. Oxford English Dictionary gains splendiferous moobs 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

He saw himself as “the Harvard and Oxford classics scholar, the polyglot, polymath culture maven, a journalist and man of letters.” Books of The Times: ‘Steal the Menu,’ by Raymond Sokolov 2013-05-09T21:24:23Z

That, however, might also be said of the carryings on of the two Oxford students in The Miller's Tale. How Tom Sharpe earned his seat at high table of campus fiction 2013-06-06T18:05:57Z

She graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, and received a master’s degree in classical archaeology at the University of Oxford. Melissa Loder, Bethany Gostanian 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z

She studied Latin from the age of 6, and was among the first wave of women to be educated at the vaunted Oxford University, graduating with honors in modern languages. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z

He sang, acted, contributed to the university magazine, played polo against Oxford, took an evening pottery course and went on an archaeological dig with other students to the island of Jersey. In the Footsteps of Charles III 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

After a rootless, itinerant urban life, Jukes starts a new job in Oxford. Dripping Slow and Sweet, Four New Books About Honey and Bees 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Then there was the Phoenix in Oxford in the late 50s and the films of Ingmar Bergman, Andrzej Wajda and the first splash of the French New Wave. 'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford before he found fame as an author, with the publication of The Hobbit in 1937, and the first of the Rings trilogy in 1954. Is this the Hobbit's magic ring? 2013-04-01T23:01:00Z

In fact the Oxford English Dictionary, by its own tally, credits The Times with 730 “quotations providing first evidence of a word.” Politics and Fiction and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

The beautiful extended coda of A Slight Discomfort is almost orchestral; We Can Get Together is an unlikely but unusually moving tribute to suicide victim Matthew Fletcher, from Oxford band Heavenly. The Hold Steady: Heaven Is Whenever 2010-04-29T22:30:00Z

When he was a boy, he says, there was a consensus that Britain was moving towards a better, fairer future – one in which a lad like him could end up at Oxford. Alan Bennett: 'I've often wanted to be bolder' 2010-11-23T08:00:00Z

He was finishing his debut thriller, "The Tower," while psychoanalyzing Iago for his master's degree at Oxford. Gregg Hurwitz is full of thrilling, erudite contradictions 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

But in fact, this is a thoughtful and enlightened walk through centuries of German art and culture from the Oxford history graduate who really couldn't be more different from his Pub Landlord creation. Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention 2010-12-08T08:00:00Z

In a keynote speech at the Oxford Media Convention, Rona Fairhead said reform of the current model was the "minimum" required. Trust boss moots external regulator 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The 900-room hotel, operated by GLH Hotels Management, is situated in a stately building once occupied by the Cumberland Hotel, on a corner of busy Oxford Street. Hotel Review: Hard Rock Hotel, London 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

He is too often mistaken, even while wearing Oxford cloth shirts and a smile, for a threat. Review: ‘The Fire This Time,’ Stoked by Baldwin’s Legacy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Which is to say, a group of organisms in a particular environment “interacting with it and with each other,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Fashioning a New Kind of Luxury Ecosystem 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

He earned a bachelor’s degree in modern history from Oxford in 1960 and began graduate work in history there. Martin Gilbert, Churchill Biographer With a Populist Bent, Is Dead at 78 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

However, the new £26m books repository, which will eventually hold 8.4m of the least frequently requested books and periodicals, is the key to unlocking a transformation of the Bodleian's famous buildings in Oxford. Bodleian Library sets up in Swindon 2010-10-07T09:38:00Z

However, I did ask Christopher Pelling, the very distinguished regius professor of Greek at Oxford, what he thought of the Pentagon's name for the Libya no-fly zone. Why 'Odyssey Dawn'? 2011-03-25T12:30:01Z

Meanwhile, after traveling in Europe and living in Tennessee and Oxford, Mississippi, she returned to Carrollton in 1956 and found that no one was interested in her books. Elizabeth Spencer, ‘Light In the Piazza’ author, dies at 98 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

His band, Vampire Weekend, is an indie favorite, and one of its hits, “Oxford Comma,” contains the word in its lyrics. At Home With Emma Koenig: Emma Koenig’s So-Called Redacted Life 2012-07-25T23:06:08Z

All the shortlisted words have made a splash in 2012, but editors say there is no guarantee any of them will endure long enough to enter the hallowed pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford chooses 'omnishambles' as word of the year 2012-11-13T00:08:07Z

In this alternate history set in 1840s Oxford, orphan Robin Swift is taken from his home in China and raised by Professor Lowell, who gives his ward a foundation in various foreign and classical languages. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

He received a master’s degree in economic and social history from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. Shaina Watrous, Joseph Barrett 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z

Hers is a very British story: Born in 1934 to rigid, lower-middle class parents, Smith shaped her future through determination and “stealth,” beginning at Oxford High School for girls, then at the Oxford Playhouse . ‘Maggie Smith’ review: The person behind the ‘Downton Abbey’ star 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary may do its best to include new words and concepts. Dr Johnson's pop culture almanack 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

For my Jewish atheist parents, forging a secular path in 1970s Oxford, things were more complicated. How we embraced Christmas 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Thomas studied English at New College, Oxford, where he published his first story in the student magazine Isis. D.M. Thomas, 88, Dies; His ‘White Hotel’ Was a Surprise Best Seller 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

He would go on to have other children, and more rocky relationships, all ending badly, as he shuffled from Oxford to Lancashire to the island of Jersey, and his fortunes waxed and waned. Character Mortdecai has much in common with creator Kyril Bonfiglioli 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

“Atwood deserves recognition as a tireless and unselfish cultural ambassador,” says Russell Brown, co-editor of the Oxford University Press’ anthology of Canadian literature. Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

I was particularly impressed with how they showed Lyra’s delivery to Oxford, Asriel’s explorations and other short, informative and well written scenes. 'Eleven-year-old me was very, very happy!' You review His Dark Materials 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

At 16 he gained a place at Trinity College, Oxford, to read English. Clive Allison obituary 2011-08-03T18:57:01Z

In 1998, the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford organized the first British retrospective of his work, which politically minded younger artists began rediscovering. Gustav Metzger, ‘Auto-Destructive Art’ Provocateur, Dies at 90 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

He had been travelling and studying in Germany prior to entering Oxford, when war was declared. Poem of the week: To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley 2012-11-14T10:20:03Z

The season, now in its third year, takes place in the cellar bar of Joshua Brooks pub, round the back of the BBC's Oxford Road studios. Ten-minute plays: the most fun you can have in a theatre? | Alfred Hickling 2010-03-19T14:10:00Z

At 26 he signed up with the Navy, turning down offers to stay on at Oxford and a lucrative consulting job. Books of The Times: Muscle Memory: The Training of Navy Seals Commandos 2011-05-08T20:08:05Z

As the kerfuffle about Brittain applying to Oxford underlines, women's lives were unimaginably constrained only 100 years ago. 'Testament of Youth' traces WWI's grave effect on woman's life 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

She’d met Conrad before she left for Oxford, where she went to study and write. ‘The Power of Adrienne Rich’ Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

The dictionary will contain words and phrases that are were originally, predominantly or exclusively used by African Americans, said Danica Salazar, the executive editor for World Englishes for Oxford Languages. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

An Oxford fellowship enabled him to direct six seasons of excavation at the site of the ancient port city of Siraf in Iran. David Whitehouse obituary 2013-03-24T17:49:40Z

A fellowship to Oxford acquainted me with the depths of English cooking. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Her legacy lives on in Oxford through the Middle East Centre @StAntsCollege. Architects, Artists & Admirers Respond to Zaha Hadid's Death 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

The next Aunts takeover happens on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at South Oxford Street, between Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue, in Brooklyn. Aunts Is Back, Turning City Blocks Into Dance Floors 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Then he went on to Oxford University to study philosophy, politics and economics, and felt even more strongly that he didn't belong, though again he made his mark. Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter 2013-04-27T08:00:00Z

The first definition of “design” in the Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1548, as a verb meaning to “indicate” or “designate.” Design: Can Anybody Be a Designer? 2011-10-02T12:45:08Z

They want to be "eight albums down the line and still be making awesome and innovative records, just like those Oxford boys." Patterns: New Band Up North #30 2013-06-10T16:00:01Z

The voting was open to Oxford alumni and academics. Geoffrey Hill Is Oxford's Next Professor of Poetry 2010-06-18T15:55:00Z

The film posits that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was responsible for the remarkable collection of plays and poems that have made William Shakespeare the most revered name in English-language literature. Roland Emmerich wins over critics with new film 2011-09-12T19:14:56Z

Oxford’s delinquency is particularly annoying because Zubrzycki, an expert on South Asian history, clearly worked hard to produce what is, despite its textual irritations, a valuable and entertaining book. Review | The story behind some of the world’s most awe-inspiring magic tricks 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

A child of privilege who had been educated at Swiss boarding schools and studied architecture at Oxford, Ms. Bousbia used her own money to help finance the project. Algerian Chaabi Musicians Reunite in the Band El Gusto 2012-10-12T18:21:46Z

Of course, the Oxford research doesn't answer the really interesting question: who set up the Twitterbot operation? Fake Twitter accounts and the danger for politicians 2012-11-18T00:06:11Z

We stopped at a farm between Oxford and London to pick up the chicken. John Cale: 'I don't want to end up in Pseud's Corner' 2012-09-26T08:50:35Z

But it’s not every day that a woman better known for chart-decimating hits and her additions to the Oxford English Dictionary than her essay writing takes on institutionalized sexism. Beyoncé takes a stand against sexism 2014-01-13T19:47:00Z

And I didn't quite see the point of messing with a work that is included as one of the 1,000 most significant plays in the history of theatre in the Oxford Dictionary of Plays. Just add tunes 2010-04-15T13:07:00Z

At the flagship HMV store on Oxford Street, in central London, music aficionados buying vinyl records said they appreciated its sound quality. Music fans mark 70 years since first LP as vinyl enjoys revival 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

Those guys made art out of their grudges, resentments and prejudices, none better than Larkin, Kingsley’s difficult pal from their undergraduate days at Oxford. Good Night, Sweet Prince 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

After Harvard, he spent a year at Oxford; by the end of that year he was writing for the prestigious Times Literary Supplement. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z

He studied law at Oxford University, graduating with a First, the highest honors. Nicholas Evans, Author of ‘The Horse Whisperer,’ Dies at 72 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

Owing more to Kingsley Amis than to Evelyn Waugh, A Middle Class Education proclaimed that Oxford undergraduates drank beer and chased girls as enthusiastically as their redbrick counterparts. Wilfrid Sheed obituary 2011-02-21T19:01:03Z

The Oxford vaccine is the mainstay of the UK’s immunisation programme and vitally important around the world because of its low cost and ease of use. Vaccine strategy needs rethink after resistant variants emerge, say scientists 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

Oxford emigrated to Australia where he became vice-president of the Melbourne Self-Improvement Society. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-19T19:00:02Z

Meanwhile, Oxford, Alabama passed what many believe is the “most terrifying” law targeting transgender individuals. The “real” war on women?: Wisconsin lawmaker pushing awful anti-trans bathroom bill supposedly to “protect our women and girls” 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

"I was very much encouraged to go to Oxford – it was expected of me and I was told I needed to have a fallback if the acting didn't work out," she says. The rise of Andrea Riseborough 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Jesse Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, delivers a piercing essay about his insecure need to give lavish dinner parties, as seen though the prism of his failing marriage. Books of The Times: The Manly Art of Cooking Has Its Bards 2011-05-31T23:55:18Z

June 15, 2010, 11:19 am When Titans Clash: Poets Edition A  moment of quiet at Oxford University, unspoiled by feuding poets. When Titans Clash: Poets Edition 2010-06-15T15:38:00Z

After his father died in 1956, Christopher saw his mother just once in the remaining 15 years of her life, according to the Oxford Biography Index and Country Living magazine. The True Story Behind Winnie the Pooh and 'Goodbye Christopher Robin' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Oxford University Press lexicographer Susie Dent said the word was chosen for its popularity as well as its "linguistic productivity." Oxford chooses 'omnishambles' as word of the year 2012-11-13T00:08:07Z

Yale Missouri Harvard Oxford Which of these novels was written first? Quiz: Mark Twain 2010-04-21T09:14:00Z

Idle Motion's lovely little Edinburgh Fringe hit, The Vanishing Horizon, is at the newly re-opened Pegasus in Oxford next Friday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-09-17T16:05:00Z

Our new era of anxiety Topics: Neuroscience, Psychology, Science This article was adapted from the new book "All We Have to Fear", from Oxford University Press. Our new era of anxiety 2012-06-02T22:00:00Z

Early last year, David Cameron, an Oxford alumnus who was the prime minister at the time, criticized the university for not doing enough to attract diverse talent from around Britain. Oxford to Honor Jan Morris, Jeanette Winterson and Others With Portraits 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Heracles to Alexander the Great is at the Ashmolean museum, Oxford, from 7 April to 29 August. Alexander the Great exhibition to give insight into man who conquered world 2011-02-02T20:10:53Z

While the choices are often politically inflected, Katherine Connor Martin, an editor at Oxford Dictionaries, said the unusual decision to focus on climate-related terms reflected a “demonstrable escalation” in the language around climate. Oxford Names ‘Climate Emergency’ Its 2019 Word of the Year 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was instrumental in re-introducing his previously agnostic friend to Christianity while the pair were academics at Oxford prior to the second world war. Theological JRR Tolkein biopic secures Expendables 2 director 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

So it felt a bit strange, the rock star Corey Taylor admitted, to be addressing the hyper-educated students at the Oxford Union here on Wednesday night. Heady Advice From a Hard-Living Heavy Metal Frontman 2011-06-09T15:15:25Z

Rio initially planned on the Games costing about $3 billion, but the actual cost will be at least $4.6 billion, according to a study by the University of Oxford. With the Olympics Over, Six Former Host Cities Worth Visiting 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

While the American Dialect Society’s annual vote is the longest-running vote, other language publications, from Merriam-Webster to Oxford English Dictionary, also announce words of the year. For linguists, it was the decade of the pronoun 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z

"The thing about resistance to anything – drugs, antibacterials – is that it rises exponentially," said Nick White, a professor with the Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme who works with Nosten on this issue. New wave of drug-resistant malaria threatens millions 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Three years ago, the Oxford English Dictionary began tracking, without incorporating, the toast-style meaning of “epic.” An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

The first English mention of the dish came in 1747, according to the "Oxford Companion to Food," and used thin slices of French roll rather than meringue. Make floating islands like on "The Great British Baking Show" 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, according to Butler, many cities in Britain such as Bath, Oxford, Glasgow and York are best explored on foot. How to save money on a trip to Britain 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

He was educated at Eton and Oxford and served in the Grenadier Guards during World War II, winding up in postwar Germany. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Earlier this year, the school opened a new set of studios on Oxford Street in central London, becoming its fifth campus in the capital. Royal Drawing School is established 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

It certainly isn’t in my classic Oxford English Dictionary. Letters to the Editor 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Lewis, a youthful Oxford professor and an atheist-turned-Christian, stops by the London home of the elderly and ailing world-renowned psychoanalyst Freud. Hirsch and Cavanagh team up for `Freud' 2013-01-03T13:03:09Z

"Post-truth" was proclaimed international word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries on Wednesday after beating off "alt-right" and "Brexiteer", a choice the publisher said reflected a year defined by emotive political discourse. 'Post-truth' beats 'Brexiteer' to title of word of the year 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Iyer was born in the same Oxford hospital as Greene's daughter, and in his early years lived on a street a short walk from Greene's Woodstock Road home. The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z

Mr. Molesley demonstrates a level of general knowledge that surpasses even Oxford and Cambridge graduates, and his reward is not a game show but a gig at the village school. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 7: Crash and Burn 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

Sunshine, Oxford colleges, undergraduates who seemed to have walked straight out of Made in Chelsea, and murders that have all the shock value of a slight graze. TV review: Hitler's Children; Lewis 2012-05-23T21:00:02Z

Next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary may be online only. Crib Sheet: The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend 2010-09-01T19:30:00Z

There are hundreds of them and, just like the Oxford English Dictionary, it has a body of supporting citations. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z

After that, at the suggestion of film producers, she went on to write a novel, “My Oxford Year,” about a Midwestern student on a Rhodes Scholarship. That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

As befits an Oxford professor, Emre’s commentary on all this is both learned and lucidly expressed. Review | Virginia Woolf’s novels once left me cold. A new book about ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ changed my mind. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Colleagues who’ve gone to Oxford or Cambridge are “much more articulate, educated, confident,” he said. Eddie Marsan Has a Busy Acting Career 2010-08-06T04:13:00Z

Photograph: Brooks Kraft/Corbis Thanks, it must be assumed, to Sarah Palin, the term "hockey mom" has made its way into the latest edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary. Hockey moms and bromance pimp dictionary's definitions 2010-09-20T14:40:00Z

But this medieval city is also a vibrant cultural center and home to the Oxford International Women's Festival, oxfordwomen.co.uk, which runs from Mar. 1 — 13. A Perfect Day... in Oxford 2012-03-05T03:35:00Z

But research by the Oxford management theorist Jerker Denrell suggests that these are just as likely to be the characteristics of extremely unsuccessful people, too. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z

Supergrass split in April 2010 citing "musical differences" Indie band Supergrass have unveiled a blue plaque at the Oxford music venue where they were first signed. Blue plaque honour for Supergrass 2012-10-03T13:28:29Z

Assange told the Oxford Union that Condon's film began with scenes inside a military complex in Iran, where nuclear symbols could clearly be seen. Julian Assange attacks new WikiLeaks movie 2013-01-24T11:20:29Z

Based in London, the Polonsky Foundation supports projects in the arts and humanities, with support going to ventures at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and Townsend Harris High School, among others. ArtsBeat: With $10 Million Gift, Theater for a New Audience Home Gets a Name 2013-09-05T19:20:34Z

What is it about Oxford that keeps bringing you back? Philip Pullman on His New Trilogy and the upcoming 'His Dark Materials' TV Show 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is currently closed to allow restoration of its famous vaulted roof. Dead as a dodo? There's life in this old bird yet 2013-06-28T10:50:35Z

The prosecution was the first of a series of high-profile cases in the past four years that have revealed the exploitation of young girls in towns and cities including Rochdale, Derby and Oxford. About 1,400 Rotherham children 'sexually exploited over 16-year period' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Its flagship Oxford Street store in London re-opened last month after a refit. HMV re-launches its digital service 2013-10-17T08:26:33Z

Launched in 2006 in New York, it has now enjoyed 97 outings in 23 cities, spreading from Los Angeles, Denver, San Francisco and Dallas to London, Oxford and Paris, where Zuniga now lives. What a performance 2010-07-30T23:05:00Z

A stone's throw from the Oxford Road rail link and joined at the hip with popular local-flavour coffee house Java. Cine-files: Cornerhouse, Manchester 2012-07-09T16:16:06Z

After studying history at Oxford, she went on to do an art history MA at the Courtauld Institute in London, and then a PhD, "mostly in Paris". Interview: Penelope Curtis 2010-11-30T21:30:00Z

Given the examples of Oxford and Francis, Bean had a good idea about the possible consequences of his act. Killing Queen Victoria 2012-07-22T18:00:00Z

We then cut to a pub scene in 1960s Oxford, where a group of old friends — much like the Inklings — meets every Saturday to discuss their work. ‘Arcadia’ by Iain Pears: A plot built for an app. In fact there is one. 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

His aesthetic life began in earnest with a trip through Italy during a summer break from college, at Oxford, in 1925. The Seductive Enthusiasm of Kenneth Clark’s “Civilisation” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

He did turn up to collect The Oxford American’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in Southern Literature and was known to answer the occasional letter from a reader. ‘True Grit’ novelist Charles Portis dies at age 86 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

After graduating from Oxford in 1970, he spent a year traveling across the United States. Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z

“He was intended to reflect a particular kind of privileged, self-seeking, self-interested, ambitious, untrustworthy, unprincipled politician,” said Herron, who attended Oxford University’s Balliol College at the same time as the current prime minister. Writer Mick Herron’s ‘Slow Horses’ are spies for our times 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

For 150 years people have been claiming that he was a front or a fraud and that really his plays were written by others such as Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe or the Earl of Oxford. VIDEO: Peter Brook tackles Shakespeare conspiracy 2013-05-02T16:26:51Z

Pugh grew up in Oxford in a loud, creative family, one of three children. Florence Pugh: ‘Me, the next Kate Winslet? That’s ridiculous’ 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

The New Oxford attributes this scene to Marlowe, and Taylor thinks it raises a timely question about the relationship between books and history, about whether a society should value imaginative reading. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

"If Jane was his younger cousin, the parallels to Ophelia -- who picked flowers and drowned when she fell into a river in 'Hamlet' -- are intriguing," said a statement from Oxford University. Oxford academic finds "tantalizing" clue to Ophelia 2011-06-08T14:25:47Z

A week later, our very tough London promoter went down to Oxford with a bunch of guys, found them, and divine retribution was delivered. The worst gig we ever played: musicians on their on-stage lows 2011-08-04T22:00:01Z

Ms. Price, who was awarded the Turner Prize in 2012, spent two years in residence at the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers museums at Oxford University. Remaking Ancient Greece, With Paints or Pixels 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

"I am pleased and mightily relieved that this contaminant slime has been exposed to the light and begun to be scrubbed clean," said Service, who is professor of Russian history at St Antony's College Oxford. Historian Orlando Figes admits posting Amazon reviews that trashed rivals 2010-04-23T21:26:00Z

The first thing she noticed when she moved to Oxford, Mississippi, was that she could order a glass of wine at lunch in a restaurant and nobody thought anything of it. “It was like an overdose of porn”: Chris Offutt reflects on writing about his family’s big secret, after his father’s death 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

When Taylor went off to study philosophy and international relations at Oxford years later, his father bought him a pair of clippers so he could save money by cutting his own hair. Miles Taylor spoke out against Trump as ‘Anonymous.’ Now he’s gone public and is hiding out. 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

William Robin’s book “Industry: Bang on a Can and New Music in the Marketplace” will be published on Feb. 22 by Oxford University Press. How a Scrappy Arts Group Survived the ’90s 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Oxford’s Florence Pugh has certainly crammed a lot into her short career. From Alden Ehrenreich to Zazie Beetz: the 40 rising film stars of 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

She’s had a paper accepted for publication and a monograph under serious consideration at Oxford University Press. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

We recorded the track at Air Studios in Oxford Street, London. and knew it was a winner. Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton on Town Called Malice 2012-11-12T17:33:06Z

Some of these are long-established and substantial awards such as the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award. Need theatre funding ideas? Don't sell yourself short 2012-05-22T16:32:29Z

The son of a Greek artist father and Jewish South African academic mother, he was brought up mostly in Oxford. Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself' 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z

Further investigation showed that the drawing was then owned by the Oxford collector Henry Wellesly, an illegitimate son of the Duke of Wellington. Rubens drawing emerges from Reading University store cupboard 2013-05-28T16:19:23Z

They are young men, one British and one German, who became friends as students at Oxford and now serve as aides to the real-life senior diplomats. Review | The anti-Hitler resistance has one chance to avoid war in Robert Harris’s ‘Munich’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

In it, the director of Oxford’s Bodleian Library emphasizes that attacks on books, archives and recorded information are the usual practice of authoritarian regimes. Review | My nightstand runneth over: A proud nerd recommends new intellectual and cultural histories 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Combine erudition acquired at Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford with, of all things, minstrelsy. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

He studied classics and philosophy at Oxford and spent 14 years as a diplomat for the British Foreign Office and the United Nations, mainly in the Middle East. Not just the faiths of Abraham 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Are some of the dissonances — “piquant,” said Robert Quinney of the Choir of New College, Oxford — that make it sound so modern actually errors? From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Oxford University fellow Charles Foster, was honored for his book "Being a Beast," chronicling his experiments in living as a badger, including digging a den to sleep in and eating worms. Work on sex life of rats, life as a badger honored at Ig Nobel Prizes 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

He and his friends carry out a successful assault on the Pakistanis, shooting and killing soldiers from the back window of a black Morris Oxford and then giving the pursuers the slip. Of Blood and Fire by Jahanara Imam, translated by Mustafizur Rahman – review 2013-03-01T18:19:01Z

Like the Tory party, the Riot Club, founded at Oxford in the 18th century, had been in the wilderness, disbanded because of one member’s indiscretions. Critic’s Notebook: On British Stage, Baby Boomers Fare Poorly 2012-06-22T23:54:12Z

It is a labour of love for Nathaniel Mann, a folk musician who is also composer in residence at the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. Pigeons make music with whistles 2013-06-26T05:22:59Z

But his life’s passion, discovered while doing a year of National Service before going up to Oxford, was film. Alan Stanbrook, 1938-2014 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary principally concerns itself with explaining glitter as an intangible type of sparkly light. What Is Glitter? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

In this memoir, Jukes, rootless and itinerant, tries to settle down by keeping bees in her backyard in Oxford. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Before he turned to fiction, he himself was the stuff of Oxford legend. Character Mortdecai has much in common with creator Kyril Bonfiglioli 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Driven out of Oxford by angry neighbors and nervous university authorities, Coupland and his team relocate to a crumbling country house straight out of the horror-cliché handbook. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z

Oxford said the subjects were chosen "for the strength of the collections" and "their importance for scholarship in their respective fields." Oxford, Vatican team up to digitize ancient texts 2012-04-12T16:08:08Z

The Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from Oxford’s continually updated corpus of more than 14.5 billion words, gathered from news sources across the English-speaking world. Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year Is a Shot in the Arm 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

In 1997, to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth in nearby New Albany, Oxford dedicated a Faulkner statue in front of its own City Hall. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

Coming to the Oxford Union Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, will address Oxford's august debating society in October. This House Has No Confidence in Her Majesty's Jujitsu Skills: U.F.C. Coming to the Oxford Union 2010-08-31T15:31:00Z

Oxford is also a stone’s throw from several other charming English destinations: the Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and Blenheim Palace. Oxford vs. Cambridge: Which one should you visit? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

The Oxford scholars David Constantine and Tom Kuhn have undertaken the translation of Brecht’s entire oeuvre, beginning with this volume of seventy-eight love poems, written between 1918 and 1955. Books to Watch Out For: November 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

The Hospital Wing at Hogwarts, whose design was inspired by the Oxford School of Divinity, began life as the fountain end of the girls' bathroom in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." Forty kittens later, 'Harry Potter' movie franchise calls it a wrap 2011-07-07T23:36:10Z

After studying philosophy at Oxford, he turned to journalism, writing about the convergence of video games and computing, before moving to the publishing side, where he tried pushing print into the future. Chris Anderson, Curator of TED Talks, Builds his Brand 2014-03-07T21:53:45Z

The Oxford art dictionary hedges its bets, defining kitsch as "art, objects or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way ..." Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z

Abandoning Oxford after her Vaux scoop, she becomes a junior reporter at The Chronicle, only to leave when a male subordinate gets a pay raise and she doesn’t. ‘I Am the Kind of Woman I Would Run From’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Prof Andrew Przybylski, director of research at the Oxford Internet Institute, said the study found less than 1% of children’s variation in developmental scores was down to screen time. Study links high levels of screen time to slower child development 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

The local newspaper, The Oxford Eagle, is publishing essays this year from people who remember Faulkner. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

Continuing this vogue for non-rogues are Trophy Wife, a trio from Oxford who have come out of the traps with a complete lack of delinquent mythos. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z

One of her early boyfriends — an Oxford roommate of the young Bill Clinton — would kill himself; an ex-husband died in a mysterious plane crash when he was U.S. ambassador to Pakistan. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

"The fragmentation of the license fee risks de-stabilizing a broadcasting model that works," Hall will tell the Oxford Media Convention according to notes released by the BBC. BBC head defends license fee as critical for quality 2014-02-24T11:40:37Z

Nor are the Oxford band the only surprise big names unable to resist joining the festival's birthday celebration. Glastonbury 2010: Kylie and Radiohead get festival's 40th birthday party started 2010-06-25T20:53:00Z

The county seat of Lafayette County, Oxford was founded in 1835. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

Tolkien and Dorothy Sayers who met at an Oxford pub for lively conversations, Staub, 63, launched The Kindlings Muse in 2006. Northwest Christians explore faith, art and culture 2011-04-22T23:34:36Z

Rhys Ifans, who plays the Earl of Oxford, is a touching picture of aristocratic melancholy, his long face and hooded eyes suggesting the weariness of a decent, disappointed soul. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z

After grammar school, he went to Oxford University where he read law. Q&A: Ken Loach 2012-06-01T21:09:01Z

The research, which drew on detailed surveys completed by 26 English theatres, was undertaken by playwright Fin Kennedy and Helen Campbell Pickford, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford. Arts cuts prompt 'shrivelling' theatre industry, report says 2013-02-22T12:21:17Z

I told him I had gone to Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, where the three men — along with other civil rights volunteers — had trained before taking off for Mississippi. Perspective | One day with Dick Gregory made me know he was truly one of a kind 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

In other news, Daz is winning the battle of who cares less against ex-girlfriend, Oxford University clever clogs Libby, by replacing her with a pretty idiot for sunbathing sessions in the park. Grace Dent's world of lather 2010-06-25T23:10:00Z

I watched a young, gangly comic called Chris Turner position himself as a nerd, boast he went to Oxford University, and tell jokes about Roman numerals. Have you heard the one about rape? It's funny now 2012-08-17T18:15:01Z

Oxford is also doubling down on campus safety by expanding the ‘Good Lad’ workshops, which teach men from Oxford sports teams and social clubs about consent, peer pressure, and responsibility. Twitter, Vodafone, and Georgetown University All Commit to Gender Equality 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

I would play “Oxford Town” which is Dylan’s, and “Grip of Mountain Folk,” the Stanley Brothers song. Gillian Welch returns to “Revival”: “We felt like Martians” 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

"Oxford is an important hub for British music and live music venues like The Jericho Tavern need to be celebrated." Blue plaque honour for Supergrass 2012-10-03T13:28:29Z

The Oxford don’s own prose is, moreover, a delight to read: fact-filled, nicely balanced between exposition and quotation, confiding and witty. The secret history of Wonderland in ‘The Story of Alice’ 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

The founders of Uncomfortable Oxford say the emphasis on discussion sets their tours apart — participants are asked to voice their opinions and listen to the opinions of strangers from around the world. In Britain, these Oxford walking tours focus on often-glossed-over parts of the city’s history 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Matthew, who’s not just a fatally handsome 1,500-year-old French nobleman but an Oxford biochemist, is researching why magical creatures seem to be losing their powers. ‘A Discovery of Witches’: When a Vamp Loves a Wiccan 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

An Oxford University scholar refocuses four centuries of American history on the Native perspective, including the fallacy of referring to the continent as the “New World”: New to whom? 15 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Sales of the brand were strong in the earnings period that ended Feb. 2, according to parent company Oxford Industries' report. It's hard to resist the sunny Lilly lifestyle 2013-04-08T18:48:12Z

The band started out on July 12, 1962 at the Marquee Club in London's Oxford Street. Rolling Stones to play four 50th anniversary gigs 2012-10-15T12:01:27Z

At first glance, a Finnish scholar who teaches at Oxford might seem like an unlikely candidate. A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

On Monday, the Oxford Guild posted to YouTube footage of West’s address. Kanye West's Entire Lecture at Oxford University Is Now Online 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

But unhappy at Oxford, facing financial pressures and plagued by nightmares, tears and constant twitching caused by what was then known as neurasthenia, or shell shock, he decided to leave England for good. Robert Graves Found ‘Perfect Tranquillity’ in Majorca 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

"Anatomy of a Scandal" is her third novel, one where she utilized her experiences reporting on politics and her own background as a student at Oxford. The false triumph of that nonsensical "Anatomy of a Scandal" ending 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Scull is a very old word in the English language—the Oxford English Dictionary attests it as early as 1345—but its origin is obscure. The etymology of 15 weird and wonderful Olympic words 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

He studied experimental psychology at Oxford but did not graduate because he spent most of his time with the university’s dramatic society, eventually as president. Mel Smith, TV Actor, Director and Producer, Dies at 60 2013-07-25T02:38:20Z

The grammarians at the Oxford Dictionaries website agree, noting that using "they" as a singular pronoun is "increasingly common in current English and is now widely accepted both in speech and in writing." Taylor Swift hits back at Princeton Review's 'bad grammar' claim 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

For a while rumours flew that the initials E.R. reportedly engraved on Oxford's pistols stood for Ernestus Rex though it soon transpired that Young England was the creation of a lonely fantasist. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-19T19:00:02Z

He strikes an avuncular, professorial figure at home in his low-ceilinged cottage just outside of Oxford. Philip Pullman Has Made a Career Building New Worlds. He’s Not Done Yet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Lewis Carroll, who was an Oxford University mathematics lecturer, might have delighted in calculating the speeds that cascade through Synetic Theater’s darkly hallucinatory “Alice in Wonderland.” Synetic’s sweeping, sinister ‘Alice’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Grace Carrow, a physics student at Oxford, is trying to obtain a fellowship from her college to avoid getting married, as her parents would prefer. 'Watchmaker of Filigree Street' is a magical tale of Victorian London 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

He then received a Rhodes Scholarship to study abroad at Oxford University. Ronan Farrow overcame spies and intimidation to break some of the biggest stories of the #MeToo era 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Oxford University English professor Kathryn Sutherland studied 1,100 handwritten pages of unpublished work from the author of incisive social comedies such as "Pride and Prejudice." Academic: Jane Austen had helping hand from editor 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z

He had eased his way through Harrow and Oxford, and he knew the people he needed to know and how to climb the ladder. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-14T09:00:01Z

Two side-by-side billboards on Oxford Street for a casino show African men surrounded by and having fun with white and light-skinned women. What Is the Color of Beauty? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

After Oxford, he worked in public policy and communications at Google’s London office before deciding to “give myself a shot as a writer.” 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

Week 1251, things to be thankful for: I’m thankful for my favorite things to eat, puppies, and Oxford commas. Style Invitational Week 1262: Clue us in 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

I did a talk with him once at Oxford University. How I got Malcolm McLaren to stand for mayor of London 2010-04-09T09:13:00Z

All his social reform projects, which included getting Oxford students to build a road as an exercise in honest toil, can be understood through The Stones of Venice. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z

She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Oxford, followed by a doctorate in medieval literature from University College London. Christine Brooke-Rose, Experimental Writer, Dies at 89 2012-04-10T05:10:22Z

To his “60 Minutes” interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday, Harry wore a dark crew-neck sweater over a white Oxford shirt. Analysis | Prince Harry’s rejection of fashion is a fashion statement of its own 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z

Lou’s death has disrupted not only Ms. Oxford’s life, but also her daily routine. Kelly Oxford Is Looking for Peace of Mind 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Mr., Killen was studying carpentry at Catholic Workers’ College in Oxford when he attended his first folk concert. Louisa Jo Killen, Folk Singer With a Booming Tenor, Dies at 79 2013-08-26T02:29:11Z

"Normally people associate Oxford with Radiohead, so this adds another dimension to the city's musical heritage." Blue plaque honour for Supergrass 2012-10-03T13:28:29Z

When Jack pointed out that the Oxford Book of Quotations had nothing in it by Tagore, I wondered what the poet's own view on quotation was. Rereading Rabindranath Tagore 2011-07-08T21:55:11Z

The Conservative party was changing and a key beneficiary was a Grantham schoolgirl and Oxford graduate turned ice-cream chemist turned barrister. As The Crown returns, watch out for these milestones 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Its earliest mention is in the 1827 edition of Oxford Nightcaps, the first British book devoted to drink recipes. 5 historical hot cocktails that are perfect for cold weather 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Tom Buchanan doesn't believe that Gatsby went to Oxford because he wears a lurid pink suit. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z

“Anxiety,” Ms. Oxford said when it was her turn. Kelly Oxford Is Looking for Peace of Mind 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

She’d become ill with laryngitis after attending a performance of “Agamemnon,” performed in Greek by a company of actors from Oxford University; the infection had spread to her heart. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Book through Oxford Playhouse for the Globe's The Taming of the Shrew in the Old Schools Quadrangle, or head to Brighton to see the Globe's all-female Taming of the Shrew. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-07-12T16:03:25Z

It’s not surprising that consumers scale back their travel during election years, said Zachary Sears, a senior economist at Tourism Economics, part of the research firm Oxford Economics. For Summer, Five Hot Destinations 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The letters will be displayed alongside a selection of Tolkien collections, inspirations and artifacts from the UK and U.S. at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, from June 1 to Oct. Tolkien Christmas letters to his children to go on show 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

You and Rattigan both left Oxford before graduating to pursue careers in theatre. Q&A Thea Sharrock, director 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

As we chat in Pullman’s publisher’s offices in Oxford, we compare the first few pages of The Mystery of the Ghost Ship with classic British comic strips like Billy Bunter and Lord Snooty. Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

He also graduated from Oxford University and the Central School for Speech and Drama. Riz Ahmed’s Double Identity: Actor and Rapper 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary defines petrichor as: “A pleasant, distinctive smell frequently accompanying the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather in certain regions.” I was incredibly pleased to alight on the word ‘petrichor’ | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

He told the Oxford Literary Festival printed books would remain popular for decades, the Daily Telegraph reported. Waterstone 'predicts e-book decline' 2014-03-31T10:55:16Z

I've chosen this one because it features crucially one of my favourite Oxford streets, Park Town. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

Ms. Bentz was wearing a costume in tribute to the Oxford comma, which had just been struck from the University of Oxford Style Manual. They Learned Early On That Words Matter, and Also Location 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Hole looked even more lackluster after an opening set by Little Fish, a three-piece band from Oxford, England, that is about to release an album on Ms. Perry’s label, Custard. Music Review: Courtney Love and New Hole Lineup at Terminal 5 2010-04-28T22:45:00Z

The young man not long out of Eton and Oxford found the idea wearisome, but the outbreak of the second world war piqued his interest. Per ardua ad Astor 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Hughes studied drawing and costume design at the Liverpool School of Art, and fine art at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art. Children’s author, illustrator Shirley Hughes dies at 94 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

In addition to its online reference site, Oxford Dictionaries also publishes the Oxford English Dictionary and other works. Oxford Dictionary Recognizes: YOLO, Amazeballs and Hot Mess 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

I lived in Oxford for 10 years, as an undergraduate, graduate student and, once I finished my doctorate, a lecturer. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Tailgating at the University of Mississippi in Oxford is another must. What Reese Witherspoon Likes About the South 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Sunday at 5:30 p.m. at South Oxford Street, between Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue, in Brooklyn; check Instagram for weather updates. Aunts Is Back, Turning City Blocks Into Dance Floors 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

For a similarly grand experience, visit Blenheim Palace, 30 minutes from Oxford — my pick for the number-one stately home in Britain. England’s castles and manors have a story to tell 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Originally founded in 1209 by some rebellious Oxford students, Cambridge now hosts 12,000 undergrads across 31 colleges, all with the same layout: green, monastic-type courtyards surrounded by chapels, libraries and housing. Oxford vs. Cambridge: Which one should you visit? 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

At one point, Mike stops two women on Oxford Street and pretends to ask for directions. 50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The experience inspired her fourth novel, “Babel,” a historical fantasy set in mid-1800s Oxford, about a powerful group of translators who can wield language like a magic spell. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

There was something quintessentially French about this speech, argues Sudhir Hazareesingh, a professor of politics at Oxford University, who opens his impressive new book with the scene. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Maddow earned a doctorate in politics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes scholar. Rachel Maddow and Doris Kearns Goodwin on a Presidential Race for the History Books 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

I grew up in Oxford and rarely gave a thought to my health. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Add to the constant traffic of brilliant writers the long shadow cast by William Faulkner, the writer who drew Ms. Howorth to Oxford in the first place, and you have a recipe for writerly paralysis. A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Bakewell also confesses “a soft spot” for the early 20th-century Oxford philosopher and activist Bertrand Russell and for the Victorian literary critic Matthew Arnold, hardly fashionable figures these days. For Sarah Bakewell, Nothing Human is Alien 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

While he was alive, Faulkner wasn’t beloved in Oxford. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

“If I actually found a document that suggested that the Earl of Oxford wrote ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at the age of 9, as the movie would have it, my career would be made.” Roland Emmerich?s ?Anonymous? Seeks to Unmask Shakespeare 2011-10-22T03:03:02Z

Each central term is walked over the Oxford English Dictionary and provided multiple definitions. Books of The Times: ‘Artful,’ by Ali Smith, a Novel With a Ghost 2013-01-22T20:49:36Z

In literature and aesthetics the worldliness of Oxford's Wilde, Ruskin and Pater seems a universe away from Cambridge's Milton and Wordsworth. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z

"Last year the whole Oxford poetry professorship was brought down to the level of feeble gossip and intrigue which was all rather sad, and reflected badly on really everyone concerned," he said. Oxford poetry 2010-04-29T14:09:00Z

There will be conferences in London, New York, Mexico, Gibraltar and Malaysia; museum exhibitions in Wales, Oxford, the Netherlands, Singapore and Australia; several books; and at least one TV documentary. Statue for 19th Century pioneer 2012-09-21T06:39:11Z

Despite the enormity of Ole Miss, these three stores are the backbone of Oxford. Ann Patchett’s Guide for Bookstore Pilgrims 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

As a known advocate of the Earl of Oxford's case, Rylance received numerous calls from arts journalists asking him to comment. Mark Rylance: 'It's all about the attitude' 2010-06-15T20:30:00Z

Just the same, even the Oxford English Dictionary admits that nobody quite knows where the word came from. Review | Outhouses are gone, but ‘The Old Farmer’s Almanac’ is still here. Why? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

But it was only a stranger in the crowd on Oxford Street. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z

He is pursuing a doctorate in international relations focusing on the use of private accounting standards in the public sector at Oxford. A Four-Ring Ceremony (2 Wooden, 2 Golden) 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

"I started writing a bunch of songs when I was over at Oxford." Kris Kristofferson ? a Nashville rebel reminisces 2010-05-06T22:00:00Z

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm A mad fantasy, subtitled "An Oxford love story", this is a satire on the sheltered world of Oxford colleges a century ago. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

In a delightful short piece for the New Yorker, Lauren Collins pays a visit to the proprietors of the Oxford University Marginalia Facebook group. Marginalia’s moment: Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and the joys of writing in books 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

The earliest known freestyle reference, according to the Oxford English Dictionary made its first splash, actually, in reference to discus-throwing. The etymology of 15 weird and wonderful Olympic words 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z

Born and raised in northwest London, in a family of Pakistani origin, Mr. Ahmed was educated at Oxford and has spoken openly of the alienation he experienced there. Statement Dressing in a Red Carpet Kurta 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

I started my search on Crashpadder, following the advice of a friend who rents out rooms in his home in Oxford. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Richmond, a London Day Trip That Fits the Frugal Bill 2011-12-20T17:17:37Z

“Trans Bodies, Trans Selves,” Oxford University Press, May: Encyclopedic but conversational book that harkens back to the feminist health resource “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Books for parents, kids, teens on LGBTQ experience 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Prime ministers and lawmakers, too, have been shown wearing top hats and tails at Oxford or Cambridge. Hats off! Britain's royal wedding stirs hat fever 2011-04-18T10:11:11Z

Background: Equal parts pianist and organist, Filsell grew up in England and was an organ scholar at Oxford University’s Keble College. From players, pipes and pedals, a celestial song 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Delahaye, 37, graduated with distinction and first-class honors from Merton College in Oxford, England, and received a law degree from Harvard. Julia von Türk, Bernd Delahaye 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

Those unforgettable words are inscribed on the wall at the beginning of the Discovering Tutankhamun exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. How 'Tut-mania' gripped the world 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Born in 1905 into a free-spirited, intellectual family, Withers was educated at in Oxford and worked in a bookshop and, briefly, at a publishing house, before taking a post at Vogue. Fashion Magazine Editors, Take a Page From Audrey Withers 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Traditionalists lament the decline of the English language, but historical quotations in the Oxford English Dictionary show that many infamous terms of today are older than expected. O.E.D.’s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future 2014-01-21T21:45:05Z

As the story opens, we find ourselves back in the curious Oxford of “The Golden Compass,” one that is real but not real, an off-kilter iteration set in some sort of Einsteinian alternate universe. With ‘La Belle Sauvage,’ Philip Pullman Begins a New Trilogy 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

It was the first album I ever bought – on cassette, from the big HMV on London's Oxford Street, at the end of December 1980. Old music: AC/DC – Riff Raff 2012-06-14T08:00:00Z

A preview performance is taking place in before it goes to Oxford on 29 March, as part of the . Meat cleavers revive vigilante music 2014-03-21T05:01:01Z

Her husband wears a trilby and Oxford bags. Learning to love Agatha Christie 2010-10-01T07:16:00Z

The retired professor at the University of Oxford made up the word in 1976 for "The Selfish Gene," a book he published light years before the Internet and social media's capacity to take memes viral. Capitalism and socialism wed as words of the year 2012-12-05T14:42:08Z

When readers meet the title character, he’s an object of intense desire among a group of male friends at Oxford. New in Paperback: ‘The Strange Order of Things,’ ‘The Pisces’ 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

But, points out Long, despite her mention that she "got into Oxford", Cusk manages repeatedly to give the wrong name for Antigone's brother: he is Polynices, not Polylectes. Hatchet Job of the Year goes to assault on Rachel Cusk 2013-02-12T20:30:01Z

Graduate Hotels, the chain of affordable and stylish hotels located in towns with large universities, is opening its fifth property today, the Graduate Oxford in Oxford, Miss., home to the University of Mississippi. Hotel and Tour News: Musical Resort Packages in Florida and Cape Town 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

New editions of both these atlases were published this year; the Oxford version is the 17th in a series, the National Geographic the ninth of its kind. 27 beautiful books to grace your coffee table ? or someone else's 2010-12-18T01:33:05Z

Oliver calls her out on the Oxford thing. "Only Murders in the Building": Inside Oliver's deadly game night 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

“But that’s the way Oxford wanted to play it,” he said. Inside the 'Circus' of Oxford's Poetry Professor Election 2010-06-11T18:41:00Z

He has lived with Rachel, their mother, in Oxford since they met studying fine art at Exeter University. Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' 2013-02-23T19:00:00Z

Set at Oxford in the fictional women’s college of Shrewsbury, “Gaudy Night” investigates a string of acts of vandalism and threatening letters sent to students and faculty. An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

Its name is “Dear American Airlines,” after a comic novel by Jonathan Miles, a novelist who lived for many years in Oxford. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

At Oxford’s Corpus Christi College, he absorbed so much literary theory that he founded a campus discussion group called the Critical Society. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The youngest of Robert Maxwell’s nine children, and reportedly his favorite, Ghislaine attended Marlborough, a boarding school in England, and Oxford. The Gall of Ghislaine Maxwell 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Oxford University Press is known for bold interpretations of Shakespeare and authorship. New Oxford Shakespeare Edition Credits Christopher Marlowe as a Co-author 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

He then studied at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

Revelers in the English university city of Oxford took part in the annual May Morning festival on Monday - an event famous for its centuries-old cultural traditions, as well as some rowdier modern ones. Tradition, revelry mark May Day in Oxford 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

But every now and then the church imports a similarly constituted choir from England, and on Tuesday evening it presented one of the most venerable, the Choir of New College, Oxford. Music Review: Choir of New College, Oxford, at St. Thomas Church 2010-04-21T22:26:00Z

Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Our daughter, age seven, will be moving to a new school for year three when we move to Oxford, and she's worried about it. Can you suggest any moving house books for a worried seven-year-old? 2012-05-28T16:29:43Z

Harry Hill in full flow at the New theatre in Oxford at the start of his Sausage Time tour. Harry Hill – review 2013-02-10T12:43:00Z

Tatiana, 23, worked as a reporter at The Record in New Jersey and is now pursuing graduate studies at Oxford. Caroline Kennedy, Catching the Torch 2013-07-26T20:10:51Z

His formal innovations also owed much to his study of Greek and Latin verse, which may be why J. Alison Rosenblitt, a classics professor at Oxford, found an affinity with his work. An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

He even kept records to keep track of the voluminous records he left behind in his cluttered rooms at Christ Church College, Oxford. Looking at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

He argues that because the word “racism” did not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary until 1910, racism is a “modern concept, and that pre-eugenics studies of race were “reasonably scientific.” Nicholas Wade’s ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

A local authority area with twice the population of Oxford at least deserves a degree of arts provision. Arts funding dilemmas for local authorities 2011-01-13T13:45:01Z

A bizarre display of real tsantsas, or shrunken heads, from the upper Amazon region between Peru and Ecuador, is on display at this Oxford museum. 20 of the world’s creepiest museums 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, according to Ms. Butler, many cities in the Britain such as Bath, Oxford, Glasgow and York are best explored on foot. How to Save Money on a Trip to Britain 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

When I was at Oxford, I started a thing called the New Oxford Arts Society, which organised exhibitions of modern painters with the help of Roland Penrose, the surrealist painter. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z

Though some American dictionaries accept Obama’s mangling as a secondary pronunciation, the Oxford English makes it quite clear: “-ide” verbs, like divide, take the long “i” sound when made into adjectives. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Leading the fight against mispronunciations 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

For instance, long before the president promised to “build a wall,” Oxford American had published stories about transpeople who live along the Mexican border and about immigrants risking their lives to cross into Texas. Oxford American celebrates its hard-won 25th anniversary 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

It was still at Oxford, and the society later said that Obbink had acknowledged showing it to Carroll but insisted he had not offered it for sale. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Dr. Larson was dressed in dark green wool pants, a matching vest, a white shirt and Oxfords. After Broken Hearts and a Medical Emergency, the Timing Was Right 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

As Srinivasan, an Oxford professor, puts it, these selections are “about the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by a hope of a different world.” 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

She looks for but fails to locate William Faulkner’s grave in Oxford, Miss., and finds the Ole Miss bookstore pitifully lacking; she has a chat with the writer Walker Percy. Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ is a reminder of what the journalist could do 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

His death was announced on the Web site of Fat Possum Records, an independent label in Oxford, Miss., that produced several of his albums. T-Model Ford, Late-Blooming Bluesman, Is Dead 2013-07-19T00:45:07Z

Before then, most people in Oxford just thought he was somebody who was making Oxford look bad. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

The Oxford English Dictionary is updated every three months, and September's revamp marks the centenary of the birth of children's book author Roald Dahl. Oxford English Dictionary gains splendiferous moobs 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Oxford County, they learned, was a mining center famous for its tourmaline, quartz and beryl. A Museum Devoted to Geological Treasures Opens in Maine 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

At Oxford he studied law, but while there directed and starred in a student production of “Richard III” that was so well received it propelled him into acting. John Wood, Actor Known for Nimbleness, Dies at 81 2011-08-11T04:16:36Z

In “Elegy for Iris,” Mr. Bayley, who was six years younger than Murdoch, described their first meeting, when he saw her riding a bicycle in Oxford. John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Last week, the Oxford Union held a black-tie debate on the merits of entrepreneurship. Heady Advice From a Hard-Living Heavy Metal Frontman 2011-06-09T15:15:25Z

“She feels a great responsibility to follow through and act on things that matter to her,” said Jen Lee Koss, Chelsea’s Oxford University roommate. Chelsea Clinton steps into the spotlight — on her own terms 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

He attended a school in which some students were shuttled into a program “very much targeted to get children into Oxford and Cambridge.” Perspective | The unbreakable gaze of Steve McQueen: ‘I’m asking you, please, look’ 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

Once he left Oxford, we are told, Mr. Amis gave himself a year to write a novel. Books of The Times: ‘Martin Amis: The Biography,’ by Richard Bradford 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z

That experience, together with his study of modern history at Trinity College, Oxford, provided a fertile background when he began writing 12 years ago, at the age of 40. Book Talk: Diamonds inspire Tolkien grandson's novel 2011-03-10T11:33:30Z

But Dorothy Leigh Sayers, the daughter of an Oxford school headmaster, was also a scholarly woman intrigued by mystery. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z

And the word made it into the Oxford Companion to Wine only with the recently published fourth edition. What in Earth makes a wine taste ‘minerally’ 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Every year around this time, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary releases a list of words that will be added to its next edition. New words to live by 2011-09-06T15:45:04Z

She is an R.A. in Oxford Housing and has been charged with overseeing 26 mostly first-year students. On the Front Line of Campus Sexual Misconduct 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z

The young Alasdair was sent to school at Winchester college, and on to New College, Oxford. Alasdair Milne obituary 2013-01-09T19:13:47Z

Mr. Levy, of the Oxford Symposium, calls Ms. Roden a culinary anthropologist. Traveling the World for Recipes, but Always Looking for Home 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

The American poet Donald Hall, also at Oxford, was deeply impressed by Mr. Hill’s work and published him in the Fantasy Poets series. Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Recently, he turned down an opportunity to consider a new library for Magdalen College, Oxford that most architects would have welcomed like manna from heaven. Peter Zumthor unveils secret garden for Serpentine pavilion 2011-04-04T16:40:31Z

Michael Kendall, an American studying electrical engineering at Oxford, said he had gone to La Perle because he had heard it was “kind of a hipster hot spot.” At La Perle in Paris, a Clientele Shift After Galliano 2011-09-28T15:12:46Z

The first thing to know about Oxford today is how central books, and writers, are to its social and intellectual fabric. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

She and Rio moved into her mother’s basement, in Oxford. She Heard His Voice and Found Her Soul Mate 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

There are so many Oxfords and so many atmospheres. Philip Pullman on His New Trilogy and the upcoming 'His Dark Materials' TV Show 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

We’re wired to sing Topics: , This article is an adapted excerpt from the new book "Homo Mysterious," from Oxford University Press. We’re wired to sing 2012-07-07T19:00:00Z

As a result, The Paper Architect, supported by £37,000 from the prestigious Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award, which aims to support theatremakers working in unusual and innovative ways, combines live action with animation. Pulp fiction: bringing pop-up paper theatre to life 2013-07-03T14:45:45Z

Bill Wager watched the news from Oxford, where he had recently been made professor of geology. Mount Everest Defeated Them — And so, in the End, Did India 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Neither is a trained artist – Eshun studied English at Oxford University and Sagar read anthropology and Hindi at the University of London. Turner prize shortlist includes painter who imagines death of Dr David Kelly 2010-05-04T21:12:00Z

A 25-year-old Oxford graduate, the complicated Penworth is also lonely, missing England desperately and feeling a mixture of contempt and pity for most of his students. ‘The Young Desire It,’ by Kenneth Mackenzie

Modeled on drawings that fell out of an old book in the library at Worcester College, Oxford, in the 1960s, the new playhouse offers a wintertime option for Dromgoole and his team. Murder by candlelight at London's new Jacobean theatre 2014-01-14T18:43:00Z

This time around she's being treated by doctors at Kensington Palace, not at a hospital, Clarence House said, but she still won't be making it to an engagement in Oxford today with her husband. Royal baby No. 2 on the way: Catherine, William announce her pregnancy 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

In the late 19th-century, Feldman's was a music shop on London's New Oxford Street which published cheap popular music for the domestic market. This week's new live music 2011-03-05T00:07:31Z

A former journalist who attended Oxford University, she served as deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times and subsequently wrote for numerous other newspapers and magazines. Saatchi cautioned over assault on Nigella Lawson 2013-06-18T10:46:08Z

Sebastian Flyte is nostalgia personified: a scion of a storied family who strolls the lawns of Oxford carrying his teddy bear everywhere. Nostalgia? Yestalgia! Why reviving old shows is exactly what we need right now 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

But Collinson, whose work is published in Oxford University Press's prestigious Review of English Studies, does not abandon her detective work at the conventional explanation adopted by most Shakespearean enthusiasts. Was the great Dane Irish? That is the question 2011-03-03T00:01:02Z

The young Morse's return comes not a moment too soon, since a murder at the Oxford Concert Orchestra brings him to his old university stomping ground. As "Endeavour" enters its final run we bit a sober farewell to the detective who isn't yet bitter 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

Hailing from Oxford, England, Foals is a five-member, indie-rock band with a dissonant but danceable sound, chiming guitars and a minimalist, mathematical approach to music. Foals to play Neptune Theatre 2013-05-30T19:49:09Z

But Oxford, in its announcement, did allow that “youthquake” is the rare emerging political term that sounds a “hopeful note.” ‘Youthquake’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. Sorry, Broflake. 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Vampire Weekend’s “Oxford Comma,” about grammatical and other nitpicking, used the word almost nonchalantly. On the Pop Charts, Singing the Unspeakable 2011-03-15T16:00:06Z

After a hard day's work in the recording studio, singer-songwriter Yasmin was wandering down Oxford Street recently when she heard a familiar sound floating from one of the shops. Britain's cultural debutantes 2011-01-16T00:04:11Z

He returned to Oxford and became a popular lecturer. Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

They spent a hedonistic summer painting the Oxford Union debating chamber. Pre-Raphaelite love 2011-06-03T09:58:31Z

From his beginnings in the philosophical hothouses of early 1960s Harvard and Oxford, he had a feeling of being out of step joined by a precocious self-confidence. Daniel Dennett, Author of ‘Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking’ 2013-04-29T21:49:23Z

She is also working on a talk show, with Michael Sugar, who was a producer for the Oscar-winning film “Spotlight,” to leverage Ms. Oxford’s knack for igniting conversations among women. Kelly Oxford Is Looking for Peace of Mind 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Screenings in the opening month of the then North Oxford Kinema included The Three Musketeers, The Diary of a Duckling, and Brothers by D.W. In pictures: Cinema's centenary 2013-11-05T18:32:13Z

You won’t find “come from away” or “screech-in”—a mock ceremony depicted in the musical that confers Newfoundland “citizenship,” featuring extreme drunkenness and the osculation of a raw cod—in the Oxford English Dictionary. A Delightful Dictionary for Canadian English 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Sacks was then awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, which took him to Oxford. Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Vivid yet unexaggerated, just like in the Schumann concerto, the playing had the intimate warmth that the orchestra also brought to Haydn’s “Oxford” Symphony in the same space a few weeks ago. Review: Schumann at the Philharmonic. Robert, Too. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

He received a bachelor’s degree in 1960 and a master’s degree four years later, both from the University of Oxford, where his tutors included the noted historian A.J.P. Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

In 1996 Porter edited The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse, an anthology embracing several of the conflicting tendencies in post-second world war poetry. Peter Porter obituary 2010-04-23T16:54:00Z

Fantastic as it was, “Wonderland” was rooted in the place Dodgson lived and worked: the city and environs of Oxford with its ancient university, its “dreaming spires” and its surrounding countryside. Finding Alice’s ‘Wonderland’ in Oxford 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

Like most scholars today, I freely acknowledged that Shakespeare had co-authored plays, and Stevens wondered if I might be open-minded on the subject of his having collaborated with the Earl of Oxford. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Later, we strolled down Oxford Street where I was transfixed by a group of orange-clad, shaven-headed, wildly dancing people chanting Hare Krishna. Family life 2012-02-11T00:05:34Z

The Socrates Award, it turned out, is not bestowed by the University of Oxford, but by a private Oxford company whose website offers to "get your business moving". The minister, his mentor and the fight against a suspect system in Serbia 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

I pretty much wore preppy clothes while growing up–Oxford shirts and chinos. Going Bankrupt At Age 25 Changed Tommy Hilfiger's Life--For The Better 2013-09-05T13:00:00Z

“It was mentally therapeutic, because if I’m learning things, I feel positive,” said Tyler, whose business is called the Farm at Oxford. In a challenging, exhausting year, the garden has been a lifeline for many 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Graves's own illustrious ancestor Robert, born in 1895, was, for example, the son of an aristocrat and educated at Charterhouse school and Oxford. Poetically speaking at the Hay festival 2010-06-02T13:07:00Z

Mara Tyler grows thousands of peonies, dahlias and bulbs at her cut-flower farm in Oxford, Pa., but when the pandemic arrived in March, there was one glaring gap in her 12-acre property: a veggie garden. In a challenging, exhausting year, the garden has been a lifeline for many 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

You have until tomorrow to catch Belarus Free Theatre's compelling Minsk 2011 at the Tobacco Factory before it moves onto the North Wall in Oxford. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-05-25T16:48:54Z

Watch: The serial comma, also known as the Oxford comma, is the one before “and” in a series of three or more. Copy-Editing Trump 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

His Oxford shirt and blazer are a concession to the television cameras; below the waist he has on a very ordinary pair of jeans and loafers. Jon Favreau: the swinger who struck gold 2010-04-29T21:00:00Z

I’ve teamed it with a flatbread recipe I made at the Oxford Food Symposium this year. Jack Monroe’s beetroot hummus with flatbread recipe 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

When I was eighteen, I was on a summer program at Oxford University and saw a flyer for an open-air production of “Macbeth” in one of the quads. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Lining up on the atheist side were the prolific Oxford philosopher A.C. ArtsBeat Blog: Have a Little Faith? At NYU, The Debate Rages On 2011-11-16T20:55:51Z

Lyra and Will share a bench, too, in Oxford, although they sit on it in different worlds. Building the Worlds of His Dark Materials 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Belle Sauvage chose the old sorting office on New Oxford Street as the venue for her show. In pictures 2011-02-25T16:33:22Z

At the time, Ms. Murdoch, who was six years his senior, was teaching philosophy at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

The pamphlet is on view in an exhibition at the Weston Library in Oxford through Dec. 23. Shelley Poem, 200 Years Later, Returns to Oxford 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

“I want to understand Luther himself,” Roper, a historian at Oxford, writes of her project. New in Paperback: ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,’ ‘Where the Water Goes’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

He went to university at Oxford, joined the Anglican Community of the Resurrection as a monk and in 1932 was assigned to their establishment in South Africa. My hero: Nicholas Mosley on Fr Raymond Raynes 2012-09-28T21:55:10Z

This may be why the vivid phrase “butt-dial” was added to the Oxford English Dictionary, and has eclipsed the more generic “pocket dial” to become the standard term, employed even when no butt is involved. Rudy Giuliani and the Butt-Dialler Within All of Us 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

He was a leading candidate for the position of professor of poetry at Britain’s University of Oxford in 2009 when the old charges of harassment resurfaced. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

In fact, the music was so unusual that, at first, musicians struggled to play it, says Laurence Dreyfus of Oxford University. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

He studied at Oxford and opened a Tibetan center in Scotland, where he gave up his monastic vows, married a 15-year-old British girl and was partially paralyzed in a car accident. | 'Crazy Wisdom': ?Crazy Wisdom? Profiles the Buddhist Chogyam Trungpa - Review 2011-11-24T19:59:29Z

In the Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names, I find I am called for a 15th century reformer of the Poor Clares, who helped to end the Great Schism of the West. Colette Bryce's poetry workshop 2010-09-20T12:43:00Z

Andrew Hamilton, vice chancellor of Oxford University, has already committed to achieving 30% female representation among professors, up from 19% today. Twitter, Vodafone, and Georgetown University All Commit to Gender Equality 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

One such jar is on view in “Last Supper in Pompeii,” a new exhibition that runs through Jan. 12, 2020, at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Stuffed Dormouse and Fish Gut Sauce: The Flavors of Pompeii 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Normally, they are kept on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Literary treasures from Corpus Christi College at Oxford arrive in Washington 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Kelly Kinzle, an Americana dealer in New Oxford, Pa., said in a phone interview that finding the best Stretch pieces required patience. Antiques: Clocks That Have Been Ticking Since Before the Revolution 2013-08-22T21:31:46Z

Her Canadian mother and French Algerian father met at Oxford. Review | Claire Messud has an antidote to our current polarized isolation 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

His next performance will be as a contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary in a film adaptation of Simon Winchester's “The Professor and the Madman.” Sean Penn will publish his first novel, 'Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff,' next year 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

If you find yourself embroiled in dinner-table debates about wine, the Oxford Companion is your final arbiter. A pair of wine guides to complement anyone who likes to raise a glass 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

When I left Oxford and wrote Oranges in my spare time, to be a writer was still the most hopeless and reckless of ambitions, as lofty as it was unlikely. Jeanette Winterson: teaching creative writing 2012-05-18T21:50:01Z

They had heard about the Oxford anti-war debate, so for them, he represented an example of the young, decadent, Englishmen, who would not fight for king and country. Q&A: Reflecting on a Writer’s Walk Through Europe 2014-03-21T16:44:21Z

Carols, according to the 1928 edition of The Oxford Book of Carols, are 'simple, hilarious, popular and modern'. Carols for Christmas 2010-12-18T00:07:31Z

Candlelit evensong at Christ Church is a magical way to end the day and shows off an Oxford college at its best. A Perfect Day... in Oxford 2012-03-05T03:35:00Z

Robert Allen of Oxford University credits Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father of America, with sowing the seeds of prosperity by supporting public investment in infrastructure. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

We know that he has full authorial approval, not least because – not unlike Amis – he is an etymology pedant and a usage bore, with a near-religious reverence for the Concise Oxford Dictionary. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z

"But now everyone, man or woman, old or young, fashionable or not, wants to try the Oxfords Psy wears." "Psy Style" scores as Gangnam rapper readies new song 2013-03-14T02:38:37Z

He graduated with distinction from Stanford and received a master’s degree from Oxford. Jill Filipovic, Ty McCormick 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

On my desk in front of me, as I type this, is my Jack Kerouac mug, bought a good 15 years ago from a shop in Oxford. Book merchandise gets weird 2010-03-17T08:00:00Z

Death — suicide by Queen — either at the gallows or at the hands of an angry crowd: that would be welcome, as would be confinement at the Queen’s pleasure, with Oxford, wine, and tutors. Killing Queen Victoria 2012-07-22T18:00:00Z

He plowed through the 10 he allotted for the cancer center quickly and the remainder will be spent in emergency medical technician training with a volunteer fire department in Oxford starting next month. Teen volunteers with guitar at cancer center 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Early scenes emphasize that to many of its black residents, Oxford, a tobacco-growing hamlet not far from Durham, seemed at the end of that decade to be frozen in a Jim Crow past. Movie Review | 'Blood Done Sign My Name': A Town Torn Asunder by Racial Killing in ?70 2010-02-19T04:53:00Z

Malick, at one time a Ph.D. candidate at Oxford, might respond to that question with questions of his own: Does the Bible tell a story? Pick of the week: Malick's gorgeous, crazy "Tree of Life" 2011-05-27T00:30:00Z

But while a student at Oxford, where he went after Bern, Mr. le Carré kept an eye out for possible Soviet sympathizers in left-wing groups. John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

We all remember that great night at the 100 Club on Oxford Street, her voice was good, her wit and timing were perfect. Amy Winehouse funeral: parents say goodbye to their 'angel' 2011-07-26T18:07:34Z

In the small world of Southern literary culture, the tumult at The Oxford American has shocked even the people who know Mr. Smirnoff. ‘Oxford American’ Editor Fired in Sex Harassment 2012-08-08T22:09:50Z

After growing up in Russia and Germany, and getting a degree at Oxford, he returned to his native St. Petersburg and quickly became an ambassador of Russian rap on the international stage. A Russian Rapper Brings His Banned Antiwar Message to Istanbul 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

He gave radio talks in Oxford, and published attractive books about local landscapes in Somerset, but television was the key to a really large audience. Mick Aston, archaeologist at the heart of Channel 4's Time Team 2013-06-25T16:35:38Z

Oxford University Press said the first edition of the O.E.D. was fully published in 1928 and its second edition in 1989. A Print-Free Oxford Dictionary? 2010-08-30T16:29:00Z

He developed a love of the stage and comedy while studying at New College, Oxford, and performed at the Edinburgh fringe with the university dramatic society. Mel Smith remembered: 'A gentleman and a scholar, a gambler and a wit' 2013-07-20T19:59:16Z

Currently, only 101 people are able to access ketamine, at a treatment centre in the UK at Warneford hospital in Oxford. Ketamine could help thousands with severe depression, doctors say 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

The Benton-touted a new study from The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford is more of a cautionary tale to journalists. PR & Media Spam 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Numbers are very high in the white, middle-class east coast population, says Ilina Singh, professor of neuroscience and society at Oxford University, while there is under-diagnosis in poor white populations and among ethnic minorities. Generation meds: the US children who grow up on prescription drugs 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

As Jonathan Beckman, a Literary Review editor, wrote at the time: “For future reference, the best way to reach the otherwise central zone is almost certainly by getting off the Victoria Line at Oxford Circus.” Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

“I remember that car. It was a dark red Morris Oxford.” Maurice and Helen Kaye: happily married for 80 years 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

The script reveals a fascination with the Oxford dictionary definition of the word "escritoire", as you might expect from two ambitious autodidacts. Where does all the best comedy come from? Death and war 2012-07-06T21:30:01Z

Researchers from Oxford and Cambridge Universities and Kings College London report that quitting helps to cut stress and anxiety. Smoking doesn’t actually relieve stress 2013-01-04T21:00:00Z

In , his spectral patch is the landscape around Keiller's own home in Oxford: its industrial heritage, its residual romanticism, the weird energies of Englishness at a time of global economic collapse. Robinson in Ruins 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

How a multinational Muslim empire was destroyed by the first world war, by a historian of the 20th century who is director of the Middle East Centre at Oxford University. Shelf life 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

You can invite yourself into William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak in Oxford, or sit on the porch of Alex Haley’s boyhood home in Henning, Tennessee. Things Every Southerner Must Do! 2010-07-14T22:49:00Z

The film’s premise is that the plays and poems commonly attributed to William Shakespeare are actually the work of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. Movie Review: ?Anonymous,? by Roland Emmerich - Review 2011-10-27T15:47:42Z

He ended his teaching career and moved to Oxford for a job as senior assistant secretary with the university’s Delegacy of Local Examinations. Colin Dexter, British author who created the Inspector Morse series, dies at 86 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

In 1942 he was born in Oxford, England, into an accomplished medical and academic family. Revisiting the Unusual Celebrity of Stephen Hawking 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z

This is the quintessential novel of Oxford gilded youth flying too close to the sun. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

I could've gone to Cambridge and done work there, but the application form was much longer and the Oxford one was really short; and my father had been there. Before and after 'Bean': A talk with Rowan Atkinson, continued 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Gatsby claims to be from old money, to have studied at Oxford and dabbled in painting, like the best class of America’s postwar emigres in Europe. Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby: From Jazz Age to Baz Age 2013-05-09T18:30:54Z

I’ll experience true festive spirit by walking down a freezing, crowded Oxford Street, then see the parents, eat too much and fall asleep during Doctor Who. Edgar Wright: ‘With Baby Driver, my oldest idea became my biggest hit’ 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

The job of the editors of the Oxford Junior Dictionary is no more to get children off of screens and into the woods than it is to reverse global warming or reform FIFA. Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops "Acorn" for "Broadband" 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Dr Fiona Watt, of the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, at the University of Oxford, said the study highlighted a possible mechanism by which cartilage repairs itself, and why some joints are more prone to osteoarthritis. Our 'inner salamander' could help treat arthritis, study finds 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Like "Bean," which began in work for the stage, it was co-created with his friend since Oxford, Richard Curtis, who with "Four Weddings and a Funeral" would later invent the modern British rom-com. Before and after 'Bean': A talk with Rowan Atkinson, continued 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

As that suggests, the Oxford Companion helps readers understand the basics of wine, from how to read labels to the deepest technical aspects of winemaking. A pair of wine guides to complement anyone who likes to raise a glass 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Open the book and you may learn that the original statutes of the Bodleian Library at Oxford required that the librarian be unmarried — because “marriage is too full of domestical impeachements.” Codices, Termites and Floral Notes: The Wondrous Life of ‘The Library’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

According to Oxford, several of the words — including amazeballs and neckbeard — increased in usage at similar rates in the U.S. and UK. ICYMI: Oxford Dictionaries adds “mansplain” and “douchebaggery” 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Against the reforming spirit of the age there were contrary forces, the neoreactionaries of “Young England” and the high church revival of the Oxford movement. A History of the British Empire at Its Peak 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Galen Hall, the 23-year-old Brown University researcher, was studying at Oxford when Deep Adaptation was published. The Darkest Timeline 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

I stumbled up the stairs at Oxford Circus, spotted his bad shoes and realised that I just wasn’t Samantha from Sex and the City. Love me Tinder – tales from the frontline of modern dating 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

More accurately, he recognised that what was happening to the mother tongue in the late 20th century was unprecedented, and he used his position at Oxford to publicise the fact. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

Titled “Dust and Shadows: Sixty-Four Extinctions,” it refers to a 19th-century British moth collector and Oxford University professor who kept his thousands of specimens in biscuit tins. Art Review: ?Swept Away,? at Museum of Arts and Design 2012-04-05T21:43:03Z

He was born in 1912 in Kimberley, South Africa, when it was a British Dominion, and attended the University of the Witwatersrand, and later Balliol College, Oxford. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z

She is pursuing a doctorate in Chinese area studies focusing on United States-China investment relations at Oxford, from which she also received a master’s degree in social science of the internet. A Four-Ring Ceremony (2 Wooden, 2 Golden) 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Marías, 63, taught translation theory at Oxford and speaks in an amusingly punctilious English that is dotted with fusty Britishisms. Javier Marias Finds Popularity on the Rise in Britain and the U.S. 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

In 1982 he became writer in residence, and later head of the writing programme, at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, where he remained for 28 years. Barry Hannah obituary 2010-05-20T17:43:00Z

Aris, an Oxford professor, never wavered in supporting Suu Kyi's decision to stay in Myanmar, raising their children and playing a key behind-the-scenes role in campaigning for her Nobel Peace Prize. For Michelle Yeoh, "The Lady" is role of lifetime 2011-09-13T17:24:54Z

Born in Bradford in 1966, Price received a Bachelors degree in Fine Art from Oxford University before attending the Royal College of Art where she obtained an MA in Fine Art in 1991. Elizabeth Price wins Turner Prize 2012-12-04T13:02:04Z

Footwear consisted of Oxford style flats and transparent shoes and models carried small round bags. Giorgio Armani pays tribute to nature at Milan Fashion Week show 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

Oxford, a small city in Alabama, this month repealed a new ordinance that threatened to send transgender people to jail for using public restrooms that do not correspond with the gender on their birth certificates. Texas is poised to be the next bathroom battleground in transgender fight 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Courtesy of Denis Healey Following the award of a double first at Oxford, Dad was offered a fellowship at Merton College. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z

I loved “Motel Life, Lower Reaches,” by Charles Portis, for the Oxford American, which was first published in 2003 but was recently made available online. Weekend Reading: A Family of Bank Robbers, Darwin's Interest in Photography, and More 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Jo Hale/Getty Images Last week saw music fans despairing at the news that London's historic 100 Club venue on Oxford Street was facing closure. Punks, what's your problem? The 100 Club was past its prime 2010-09-27T14:46:00Z

Mabel's new and suspicious girlfriend Alice swears she played this game back at Oxford, though they called it "Jack the Ripper" then. "Only Murders in the Building": Inside Oliver's deadly game night 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Dictionaries don’t always keep up, but the Oxford English Dictionary adopted plenty of food slang this year, such as “cakehole” and “cheffy.” Hangry? Want a Slice of Piecaken? The Top New Food Words for 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Every morning for the next three weeks or so, Humphrey came to my house in Oxford and we went through his biography page by page. The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

Willcocks’s arrangement of “O Come, All Ye Faithful” appeared in Carols for Choirs 1, published by Oxford University Press in 1961. ‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Christopher Brown, one of the world's leading authorities on Van Dyck and director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, was then able to verify that the painting was genuine, the program said. British TV show uncovers lost Van Dyck masterpiece 2013-12-29T16:26:20Z

Ms. Oxford later said that she enjoyed the calming experience of the reiki circle but did not expect to feel less on edge in 2017. Kelly Oxford Is Looking for Peace of Mind 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Lee, who holds a master's degree in modern languages from Oxford University, spent more than a decade at the BBC as an executive, news documentary maker and entertainment producer. New ABC head says he won't change fall schedule 2010-08-01T21:31:00Z

We were in the back kitchen at Virgin's exceedingly posh and expensive recording studio almost within sight of Oxford's dreaming spires. XTC: 'Is there a place in rock'n'roll for a Princess Anne lookalike?' – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-01-23T13:09:00Z

Her latest novel, Trick of the Dark, is set in Oxford, and is published by Little, Brown. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

James lived in Kenya until he was five, and then his family moved to Oxford, where he spent the remainder of his childhood. Playground Pain and Pleasure 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Oxford included a range in its report, from “karen” to “QAnon.” Dictionary companies choose same word of the year: pandemic 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

For the Marlowe attributions in the New Oxford, Taylor told me that the editorial board was convinced by an article that appears in the current issue of Shakespeare Quarterly. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

His friend, the Oxford scientist and inventor Prof Teddy Hall, built a wheelchair with a battery-operated respirator, which meant he and Diana could resume, to some extent, their adventurous lives. Andy Serkis: ‘King Kong was the epiphany. It was like: you can now do anything’ 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The new novel returns to Lyra’s Oxford 10 years after the cataclysmic events of “His Dark Materials,” but Lyra and Oxford are both changed. Review | Philip Pullman returns to the world of ‘His Dark Materials’ with ‘The Secret Commonwealth’ 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

In 1970 he took a teaching appointment at Oxford in England, leaving behind Ms. Hardwick, his wife at the time, and their daughter. Saskia Hamilton, Poet Who Edited Another Poet’s Letters, Dies at 56 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday UK government sources insisted that only once the British facilities in Oxford and Staffordshire had produced 100m doses for the local population would those plants be free to supply other countries. Britain and EU clash over claims to UK-produced Covid vaccine 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

She went on to read English Literature at Oxford. "Land of Decoration" wins Desmond Elliott novel prize 2012-06-28T18:38:16Z

Home of the best preserved remains of the dodo, Oxford University's Museum of Natural History is about to gain a new lease of life. Oxford museum of natural history: remains of the dodo 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

The aura of improvisation applies at least doubly to the persona of Lewis Carroll adopted by Charles Lutwidge Dodson, venerable, finicky and socially maladroit Oxford don. Looking at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The egg-shaped cuddly toy is expected to fetch between £800 and £1,200 when he goes under the hammer at Bonhams in Oxford next week. TV's Humpty goes under hammer 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

In the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford, two dozen of her sketches and paintings are filed with Ruskin material. A Renewed Spotlight on Two Women Artists 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

“It turns out that ‘gangsta’ and ‘gangster’ are both listed separately in the Oxford English Dictionary, each with its own unique definition. ‘Jeopardy!’ Tells Contestant: A ‘Gangster’ Is Not a ‘Gangsta’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

The courtroom defeat was one reason he resigned his Oxford professorship, although he later returned to the post briefly. At the Sackler, a glorious show of Whistler’s London works, paired with Japanese prints

According to the Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature, it is “one of the most brilliant adventure stories of all times”— and that’s no exaggeration. Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

She has a proper American address, a house number in the thousands on a residential road the length of Oxford Street. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z

Christopher Kane Has a Gift for You Shortly before the Christopher Kane show, in a high-rise near Oxford Street, the casting director Russell Marsh was playing Burt Lancaster to a bunch of blank-faced girls. On the Runway Blog: Christopher Kane Has a Gift for You 2012-09-17T22:50:32Z

The show plays Oxford Playhouse and the Nuffield in Southampton before ending up at London's Barbican in April. This week's new theatre 2011-02-26T00:07:52Z

At the time of her death she was preparing an anthology of Russian sacred music for Oxford University Press. No?lle Mann obituary 2010-07-13T17:21:00Z

Although Hill, who currently holds the post of Oxford professor of poetry, has won a range of poetry prizes he has yet to take the Forward. Jorie Graham and Geoffrey Hill lead Forward prize shortlist 2012-07-17T15:25:00Z

“Three years later, Oxford dons snubbed her by refusing to award her the honorary doctorate that they traditionally bestowed upon prime ministers.” Hugh Thomas, Prodigious Author of Spanish History, Dies at 85 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

It is the scene of countless family dinners with her tight circle of friends, including Ms. Elkin, whom she met at Oxford. Katharine Weymouth Takes Charge at the Washington Post 2013-08-02T20:48:16Z

He would talk about his experience with perfumes when he was studying in Oxford and would go into London. When love and perfume lead to "a side hustle in murder for hire" 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

And here is Jen Lee Koss, a friend of Ms. Clinton’s since the two were roommates at Oxford: “She’s literally just tweeting like a normal person would tweet.” Now on Twitter: Chelsea Clinton, Unbound 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

But this discussion made me doubt myself, so I turned to the Great Big Book of Everything, also known as “The Oxford Companion to Wine.” What does it mean to say a wine has good ‘structure’? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

There are podcast walks of Kensington Gardens, the Thames and Oxford Circus, as well as ghostly haunts. From Their Mouth to Your Ears 2013-04-19T17:41:54Z

Born in Oxford in August 1920, James did not publish her first novel, Cover Her Face, until she was 42. Crime Novelist P.D. James Dies at 94 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

The Riot Club, a big screen adaptation of the hit play Posh, an Oxford University-set thriller will also debut at Toronto. Toronto to open with The Judge 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Oxford went with two words last year: climate emergency. Dictionary companies choose same word of the year: pandemic 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

Born to great wealth, she was raised mainly in England in an Italianate mansion and educated at Oxford University. Always Well Groomed 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Pitcher has recently moved back to live in the village with her own husband, whom she met when they were both students at Oxford. Annabel Pitcher: 'Nobody wants to write about a perfect family' 2011-08-19T10:56:01Z

These include Roman horseshoes, a medieval reservoir under Oxford Street, ice skates made of bones, Venetian glass, chamber pots, pickled onions and human bones—lots and lots of bones. More than just getting from A to B 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

In The Buddhas of Bamiyan, Llewelyn Morgan, a lecturer in classics at Oxford University, explores not so much the heartbreaking demise of the statues as their remarkably long lives. The Buddhas of Bamiyan by Llewelyn Morgan ? review 2012-05-18T21:55:08Z

The prince met Maxwell while she was a university student at Oxford and their subsequent, close-knit relationship led many to believe that they were dating. A closer look at Prince Andrew's friendship with Epstein and his scandal on Peacock's "Banished" doc 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

It was at Oxford that Dad first became deeply involved in politics, but his passion for art remained undimmed. Denis Healey: the artist within 2011-01-05T20:30:01Z

Marlantes, an Oregon boy, went to Yale and then Oxford before duty called. 'What It Is Like to Go to War': Karl Marlantes' unvarnished account of the highs, lows and tragedy of war 2011-09-07T20:06:04Z

But if the committee come along to Somertown in North Oxford we would have to take them and show them a library building with boarded-up windows. Save Our Libraries day 2011-02-06T00:05:00Z

At Oxford, I came under the influence of The Spectator, then edited by Charles Moore, one of the most gifted English journalists of his generation and now Margaret Thatcher’s biographer. Niall Ferguson: By the Book 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

One of Oxford's tweets: "I don't think vomiting is a side effect of pregnancy, I think it's a side effect of knowing there's a human growing in you." Do famous and tweet-happy care about following? 2010-03-19T16:34:00Z

Earlier this month, Oxford Dictionaries selected another word with political overtones, "post-truth," as its word of the year. 'Xenophobia' is the word of the year for 2016, says Dictionary.com 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

It’s hard to believe this virile river streams so gently up to Oxford by grassy banks where cows stand in its course. Ten years living on a boat: 'It's a fun life – I'm not a watery hobo' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

The London of Luther’s purview is a city in which the number of deranged evildoers per capita would seem to outrank the number of wool sports coats in Oxford and Cambridge. Television Review: The Killer Is Hot, The Hero Hotheaded 2010-10-15T22:36:00Z

The second world war interrupted his studies and he did not progress to the fourth year of research that was usual for Oxford chemists. Frank Greenaway obituary 2013-07-16T16:48:05Z

Opening with a quote from TS Eliot's Four Quartets, "History is now and England", Willis traces the stories of a group of time-travelling historians from Oxford. Connie Willis wins 11th Hugo award 2011-08-23T11:12:58Z

Sheela, a children’s writer, has driven from Oxford to the eastern edge of the North York Moors with her teenage daughters, September and July, our narrator for much of the book, in the back seat. ‘Sisters’ Builds a Gothic Plot to an Artful and Shocking Climax 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Brook’s prolific theatrical life began in the 1940s, when the Oxford grad and son of Jewish Latvian immigrants won praise for his direction for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z

Terry studied philosophy at Harvard and at Oxford� �and translated a book by Heidegger that Northwestern University Press published when he was 25. Brad Pitt on the Mystery of Terry Malick 2011-05-26T19:50:00Z

"The one novel that I've written which was explicitly set in Oxford was my last one, Blenheim Orchard," he says. Tim Pears's 'small acts of resistance' 2010-03-18T14:00:00Z

After reading literature at Oxford, he traveled on his own to China, India and Pakistan. Tim Hetherington: War Hero Who Shot With a Camera 2011-04-21T10:20:00Z

Think of it as the Oxford English Dictionary of wine grapes. From aglianico to zibibbo, he poured an alphabetical tour of wine grapes 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Jancis Robinson, the editor or co-author of essential works like “The Oxford Companion to Wine,” “The World Atlas of Wine” and “Wine Grapes,” finds refuge in port. Finding Comfort in a Bottle of Familiar Wine 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

He was nearly 28 when he was offered the chance to become keeper of fine art at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, 30 when he was appointed director of the National Gallery. Civilised and civilising 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Carmen studied at Michigan and Oxford Universities and became a poet. 'It felt like he sacrificed us' 2012-06-15T23:05:05Z

The former will kick off in a new topical comedy series with an "anthropologic look" at the Oxford v Cambridge boat race, available on the iPlayer from 5 April. Boyle to host election comedy show 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

Even the Oxford dictionary defines an old wife's fable, story or tale as "a foolish story, such as is told by garrulous old women". Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z

There is no dearth of Oxford city tours. In Britain, these Oxford walking tours focus on often-glossed-over parts of the city’s history 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

In a lovely bookend, the writers would reunite 18 years later when, in scarlet gowns and mortarboards, wilting through a slow-motion conferral of honorary degrees, they ducked out of an Oxford theater for a smoke. Taking Another Look at the Author of ‘The White Man’s Burden’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

I moved from a house in Oxford, to a cottage in the middle of nowhere, to an RV for six weeks, to an Old Firehall. ‘Kadian Journal’: A father tries to survive the loss of his son, 14 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Sayers probably had the goods to be an Oxford don herself. Taproot woos fans of Dorothy L. Sayers in upcoming 'Gaudy Night' 2012-09-12T23:05:04Z

"The Shakespeare First Folio is the most important secular book in the history of the western world," said Jonathan Bate, a Shakespeare scholar at Oxford. ArtsBeat: An Effort to Put First Edition of Shakespeare Online 2012-08-01T16:07:19Z

An early job as an assistant to the director of the Oxford Museum of Modern Art landed her in the office of a rising star, Nicholas Serota. Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The Rolling Stones played their first formal gig on 12 July 1962 at the Marquee in Oxford Street, London, which had opened four years previously. Rock music under threat as small venues go bust across Britain 2012-05-26T17:37:38Z

I recall, with affection, the former chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, Robert Burchfield, a distinguished lexicographer who was always a sparkling refutation of Dr Johnson's celebrated definition. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

She has known Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy since they both graduated from college — she from University of Oxford and he from Central Saint Martins — and were finding their way in London. Up Close: Kate Young, a Stylist in Her Busy Season – Up Close 2013-02-06T19:23:12Z

But Susskind, an economist at Oxford, makes a lucid case that it’s time to take them seriously, as advances in artificial intelligence may lead to devastating economic effects. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

An elite team of Nobel Prize-winning philosophers, Oxford scholars and criminologists worked round the clock for six years compiling the 7,000-plus images and 10 million words of text that you are about to read. Sex! Drugs! Violence! Great moments in exploitation cinema 2010-10-09T00:20:00Z

Leading mindfulness teaching organisations, including the universities of Oxford, Bangor and Exeter, are now considering establishing a register of course leaders who meet good practice guidelines. Mindfulness therapy comes at a high price for some, say experts 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Back in the early 1930s, when he was an Oxford don, JRR Tolkien was marking exam papers for the now defunct School Certificate when he came across a blank sheet. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – review 2012-12-16T00:05:40Z

Off Square Books, in Oxford, home to the University of Mississippi, and the Dawn Treader Bookshop, in Ann Arbor, home to the University of Michigan, are two examples. Studying up for a college-town vacation 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

It wasn't until I was a graduate student, in Oxford, in the late 1980s, that I began to discover Hindi cinema. Amit Chaudhuri: 'How I learned to love Bollywood' 2013-07-25T19:00:01Z

The Oxford team, led by Zondervan and consultant gynaecologist Prof Christian Becker, have been involved in putting together a global standardisation initiative, to ensure researchers around the world now collect compatible data. Endometriosis: hidden suffering of millions of women revealed 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

In late-Victorian England there was a vogue for recreational boating on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. Summer journeys: Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome 2013-07-16T15:52:40Z

Yasmin Khan, a historian at Oxford, offers a richly researched social history of wartime India that is peppered with fascinating detail. For king, then country 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

In the United States, the term "brunch" was first used in an 1896 edition of the New Oxford Item. A brief history of brunch, America’s most indulgent yet over-praised weekend meal 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

The bride’s mother is a florist in New Oxford. Mollie Van Lieu, Benjamin Kessler 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

Simon majored in medieval studies at Yale University, then did further studies at Oxford University. 'Horrid Henry' author drawn to impish behavior 2011-08-27T05:20:29Z

In political terms, Oxford exists in northern Mississippi as a fleck of blue in the state’s sea of conservative red. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

I'd spent months at a time in Oxford, Paris, New York, New Delhi, and always felt at home: for I experienced those cities, experienced myself, as a creator, not a creation. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

After a long and painful recovery, he married Nancy Nicholson, had four children and wrote a popular biography of his friend T. E. Lawrence, whom he met while teaching at Oxford. Robert Graves Found ‘Perfect Tranquillity’ in Majorca 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

He pitched his idea to Oxford Contemporary Music whose Audible Forces project centred around musical installations powered by the wind. Pigeons make music with whistles 2013-06-26T05:22:59Z

Mr. Hyde is currently the master of the choristers of Magdalen College, Oxford, where, Mr. Turner noted, one of the singers happens to be a nephew of Mr. Rattle. Simon Rattle to Lead Tribute at St. Thomas Church 1459-05-31T05:00:00Z

And the talk is matched by action: the Oxford Stem Cell Institute is a recognition of the importance of the work ahead, a collaboration that brings together 37 laboratories across 17 departments at the university. Look, no embryos! The future of ethical stem cells 2011-03-13T00:05:26Z

The Pali parts were translated by Professor Richard Gombrich, president of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, who said the task "brought some amusing challenges". Opera to revive dead Asian language 2013-05-10T11:56:53Z

Mr. Grisham still owns a house in Oxford, and at Ole Miss he supports fellowships in creative writing and a visiting writer’s program. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

Vollrath's silk group at Oxford has been going for about 15 years. Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z

“You can say anything, and if you say it with enough effrontery, you can get away with it,” Pullman told The Associated Press from his home in Oxford. Philip Pullman’s latest book is adventure for an anxious age 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Nick has left Oxford and moved to London to begin his PhD on Henry James. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-07-22T21:55:09Z

In 2013 Carl Frey and Michael Osborne at the Oxford Martin School predicted that 47% of jobs in the US were at risk of being automated “relatively soon, perhaps the next decade or two”. Is Finland’s basic universal income a solution to automation, fewer jobs and lower wages? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The festival begins tomorrow and continues until Sunday, with daytime and evening events concentrated in the city centre around the university's campus on Oxford Road. Manchester prepares for its first children's book festival 2010-06-30T13:08:00Z

Live favourite Oxford Comma finds thousands singing along to lyrics about social one-upmanship, contentious punctuation, crunk music and the Dalai Lama. Vampire Weekend and?Janelle?Mon?e ? review 2010-12-05T21:31:00Z

It’s also one coming from someone with two Yale degrees, an Oxford doctorate and a tenured job-for-life inside one of the meritocracy’s most rarefied bastions. The Meritocrat Who Wants to Unwind the Meritocracy 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Not because the Oxford quintet now do everything harder, faster, cooler: quite the opposite. Foals: Total Life Forever 2010-05-06T22:30:00Z

Cheek by Jowl's staging of Ubu Roi is at Warwick Arts Centre until tomorrow before moving to Oxford Playhouse. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-01T16:28:58Z

Oxford University historian Timothy Garton Ash, an outspoken opponent of Britain's vote to leave the European Union, is to receive the 2017 Charlemagne Prize conferred annually by the German city of Aachen. Oxford historian Garton Ash to receive Germany's Charlemagne prize 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Perfected by scientists based at Oxford University's radiocarbon accelerator unit, it allows researchers to pinpoint the ages of ancient bones and other organic material with unprecedented accuracy. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

"I was a Radio 1 DJ for 12 years, one of the most amazing experiences of my life," he told BBC News after his Oxford appearance on Wednesday. BBC DJ criticises Radio 1 diversity 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson attended Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit secondary school about 35 miles north of Manchester, and then Magdalen College, Oxford. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

When our conversation ended and we left the café for the hustle of Oxford Street, he asked me, somewhat mournfully, “Did you like me before we met?” Simon Amstell’s Ego 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

He contacted the University of Oxford and the University of California, Los Angeles, both major repositories of his work, and reviewed their catalogs. Unearthed Raymond Chandler Story Rebukes U.S. Health Care System 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Oxford, located one degree, 15 minutes and 24 seconds west of the prime meridian at Greenwich, is technically 5 minutes and 2 seconds behind. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The auction house says it spent the past seven years and thousands of pounds determining the water-stained violin's origins, consulting numerous experts including government forensic scientists and Oxford University. Auction house: We found Titanic violin 2013-03-15T13:20:20Z

As the election results come in, Nick recalls a scene that took place in one of the narrative's gaps, a "bleak little image of a parting on Oxford Street". The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2011-07-22T21:55:09Z

I didn't actually meet Jeremy until the early 1960s when I was pruning my front garden in Oxford. Azed: a giant among crosswords 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

His roles onstage at Oxford were in Shakespeare, culminating in his playing the title role in “Hamlet.” Hugh Grant contemplates the complexities of a film actor’s life 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Surgeons at the Oxford Eye hospital implanted a tiny electronic chip at the back of her right eye’s retina in an attempt to help her see. Woman fitted with 'bionic eye' speaks of joy after reading a clock for first time in years 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

A replica of the rescue cage that lifted the miners to safety stands in the semi-darkened main gallery of Modern Art Oxford. Deep and meaningful: Roman Ond?k's Time Capsule 2011-03-15T21:30:01Z

In researching a book on the social, medical and moral history of gin and tonic, I have imbibed – moderately – in bars from the Raffles Hotel in Singapore to the Morse Bar in Oxford. The icy backstory to that "clink clink" you’ll hear when raising a toast to the end of 2020 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

There in the Gladstone Room of the historic Oxford Union, Justice Scalia indicated that he shared this opinion. Scalia told me a secret about George W. Bush 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

As director of Modern Art Oxford since 2009 and the Milton Keynes Gallery for five years before that, Stanley was held in the highest esteem by his peers and artists. Michael Stanley, rising star in art firmament, dies aged 37 2012-09-25T17:05:51Z

In 1566, Elizabeth I's archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker, was disconcerted to receive a bill from the bailiffs of the city of Oxford. Saints, Sacrilege & Sedition by Eamon Duffy - review 2012-07-27T21:55:05Z

There is a Punjabi lady who cooks proper food every weekend in north Oxford. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z

Later she went to Oxford - her home in the early 1980s - for a party to celebrate her 67th birthday. Aung San Suu Kyi pays BBC tribute 2012-06-19T15:38:16Z

But the New Oxford’s claim that Marlowe and Shakespeare actually collaborated on the “Henry VI” plays is far from mainstream. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

While on a year abroad from the Sorbonne in the late 1950s, studying English in Oxford, she drifted into the ambit of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z

“Artful” began its life as a series of four lectures delivered by Ms. Smith, early in 2012, at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. Books of The Times: ‘Artful,’ by Ali Smith, a Novel With a Ghost 2013-01-22T20:49:36Z

The works performed by Blue Heron escaped such ignominies because a chorister from Magdalene College, Oxford, copied them out for use in the newly reconstituted Canterbury Cathedral. Review: Singing the Lone Survivors of Nearly Lost Music 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

The plan is also dependent on an arrangement being reached with All Souls College Oxford, which owns the library. Kensal Rise library offered lifeline after council's night-time book clearance 2012-06-01T23:19:06Z

At Oxford he met the actress Josee Richard, whom he would eventually marry, edited the student magazine Isis and imbibed the varsity lore and legend that underlies his first novel. Robert Robinson obituary 2011-08-13T12:28:49Z

A project of Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research and Oxford University Press, the dictionary will not just collect spellings and definitions. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Illusion, a slippery story of love, is at the Brighton Dome on the eve of Valentine's Day before it moves to the North Wall in Oxford next Friday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-08T15:48:00Z

Ogilvie shared stories of her stint as chief editor of Oxford Dictionaries, where she had access to the archives that showed the very start of how the dictionary was conceived. Why Jamaica Kincaid loves the OED 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

He moved into jobs as a full-time adult education tutor, first in 1978 at Oxford University and a year later at Bristol. Mick Aston, archaeologist at the heart of Channel 4's Time Team 2013-06-25T16:35:38Z

As before, the hero of this book becomes president not via Yale Law School and Oxford University, but through the messy man-of-the-people crucible of military service. In Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Second Novel, an Ex-President Goes Rogue 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

Marsh’s background is rich, spanning childhood experience as a chorister at St. Thomas Choir School in New York and Salisbury Cathedral in Britain, plus degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Oxford. Review | Bach Consort goes full-fanfare in a crisp if orchestrally weak “Christmas Oratorio” 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

The author taught English at Oxford, decided one should not try to explain poems, qualified as a doctor, then as a psychiatrist, and then worked at Johns Hopkins neuroimaging the brain. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

“All these other vaccine words increased, but nothing like vax,” said Fiona McPherson, a senior editor for new words at Oxford Languages, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year Is a Shot in the Arm 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I wanted to go to Oxford and read English literature, philosophy, and comparative religion. That was my plan,” she said. She’s Marianne Faithfull, Damn It. And She’s (Thankfully) Still Here. 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The newest words have only been added to the online dictionary, not the Oxford English Dictionary — the web edition’s more academic, reputable counterpart. ICYMI: Oxford Dictionaries adds “mansplain” and “douchebaggery” 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

And they realized that to do such a mammoth task that they — a small group of men living in London or Oxford — couldn't do alone. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

Instead, the Oxford University Press detailed the many new words that began trending, or entering the language, from the beginning of 2020 onward. Oxford dictionary skips 'Word of the Year' for 2020, says 'unprecedented' year required dozens instead 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

She graduated from Auburn University, and received a Master of Science in contemporary India from Oxford University. Katherine Davis, Michael Golden 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

In March, Harvard students of color launched a play and photo campaign called I, Too, Am Harvard, inspiring similarly named projects at the likes of the University of Iowa, Princeton and even Oxford. At Georgetown, hopes for a continuing conversation about diversity

After graduation in 1968, she entered Cambridge University, about 100 miles away from Oxford, where she had a boyfriend named Frank Aller; he also had attended the University of Washington. Who is Robin Raphel, the State Department veteran caught up in Pakistan intrigue? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

He continued to work as a classicist long after he became a successful novelist, holding visiting professorships at Princeton, Oxford, the University of London and elsewhere. 2010-01-20T06:41:00Z

And he chews at pipes with the deliberation of a senior tutor in an Oxford common room. Colin Davis Brings London Symphony to Carnegie Hall 2011-10-16T01:25:19Z

After three attempts I was finally accepted by Oxford in 1961. Digested read: When One Door Closes by Peter Sissons 2011-02-07T21:29:00Z

The effect of Oxford on me, the son of an unemployed miner? Writer's centenary is celebrated 2013-07-06T10:35:47Z

The mid-season premiere was brutal, grim, disturbing—all the earmarked words in Marylin Manson’s copy of the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus. Walking Dead Recap: OMG This Show! 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

John Jones, professor of poetry at Oxford from 1978 to 1983, was an especially brilliant lecturer, one who never required notes. A Book of Cheeky Obituaries Highlights ‘Eccentric Lives’ 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Godfrey added that the Oxford English Dictionary’s embrace of words from Nigeria, with the world’s largest black population in one country - was only right. Nigeria and the Oxford English Dictionary 'rub minds' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

So at the age of 16 she found herself travelling south with her navy blue cardboard suitcase for an interview at Oxford. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

“The Royal We” makes her an American and has them meet cute on her first day at Oxford. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The word, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as “honorableness,” is the longest in all of Shakespeare. Theater: Maybe ‘Orange’ Will Work 2013-07-19T18:16:37Z

She went to Oxford, but left to follow a boyfriend to the U.S. Setting the Stage for Africa at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

He left the army and entered Balliol College, Oxford, and began to study English literature and dabble in rare paintings and antiquities. Character Mortdecai has much in common with creator Kyril Bonfiglioli 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

The Herbert joins a list of previous winners including the Killhope mining museum, in County Durham, Oxford museums, the Falmouth Art Gallery and the Weston Park Museum, in Sheffield. Undercover judges name Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as most family-friendly 2010-04-01T17:01:00Z

The tone evokes a cheeky Oxford professor regaling us over a pint of stout in the pub, and Forsyth revels in his Britishisms as much as any P. G. Wodehouse character. Sloshed, Hammered, Blotto — We’ve Been Doing It for Ages 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

The drive to Oxford takes about an hour and 20 minutes. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

To be published in America by Oxford University Press in September; $29.95. A dark duke 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The wife he had married 13 years before, the dark, statuesque Jane Burden, daughter of an Oxford stablehand, had virtually left him for his friend and brother artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Morris in Iceland 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

British media reported that some students from Oxford University were disappointed that the event failed to generate a lively debate on the subject. South African woman wins Miss World beauty pageant in London 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Smith, the son of a coal miner who later became a bookie, directed plays when he was a small boy and later while he was a student at Oxford in the 1970s. Mel Smith, TV Actor, Director and Producer, Dies at 60 2013-07-25T02:38:20Z

Oxford University-set thriller The Riot Club, a big screen adaptation of the hit play Posh, will also debut at the event. British films to premiere at Toronto 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Although he studied Jacobean drama at Oxford, Rudd's classical background hasn't prevented him from improvising alongside club-hardened comics, a talent that serves him mightily well in "Dinner for Schmucks." What makes Paul Rudd laugh 2010-07-30T00:29:00Z

This show gathers some of the most important documents in history, from the collection of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. Five Things to Do This Weekend 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

The Cheshire Cat is a marvel, and the opening and closing sequences, set in the Deanery garden at Christ Church College in Oxford, are beautifully imagined. Giselle; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – review 2013-03-31T00:05:25Z

In particular, the soft tissue of the Oxford dodo recently provided scientists with a sample of dodo DNA. Oxford museum of natural history: remains of the dodo 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Yet the process of evaluating evidence and writing definitions in a clear and unbiased manner remains the objective, said Katherine Connor Martin, head of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again. 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

He might find the print of the English translation by Oxford Classics a little small, but I'm sure he can find a large-print version in French. John Galliano: the books he should have read in rehab 2013-06-05T11:50:27Z

“This is where we’ll build a giant barn. It will feel like a cathedral. The cloister will be here,” he said, making reference to Chartres, and Oxford, and the grandeur of medieval cathedrals. The Man Who Knew Too Little 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

Finch, who is 36, was born in New York City, educated at Phillips Academy and Yale, then was off to graduate study at Oxford, where he still lives and writes. The civilized crime fiction of Charles Finch 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

According to Stanley Wells in the Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, most modern scholars take view that Whateley was "almost certainly the result of clerical error". In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z

The hotel sits discreetly between Oxford Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, both cluttered with nightclub, theater and shopping traffic. | Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Dean Street Townhouse in London 2010-04-15T22:42:00Z

Its first noted use in English was in 1727, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Clarkson jokes about BBC suspension 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

First lady Michelle Obama recognized her work during a White House event, and Carpenter has spent this school year studying at Oxford. Is this Howard University’s tipping point? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Before Lou died in early December after a freakish accident that broke his neck, Ms. Oxford, 39, adhered to a certain rhythm to her mornings. Kelly Oxford Is Looking for Peace of Mind 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

In 1953 Bennett turned down a place at Oxford to read modern languages for a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett 2011-07-22T22:55:02Z

Not least Kirk, Pete's South African flatmate, and his mate Rob's pretentious girlfriend Anna – who is naming tables at their wedding reception after Oxford colleges. Home Movie Roadshow 2010-08-06T05:44:00Z

In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries chose the “face with tears of joy” emoji as its word of the year, saying it best represented “the ethos, mood and preoccupations” of the period. Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

His own direction was set nearly four decades ago when, as an Oxford student, he traveled to Berlin to prepare a doctoral thesis on resistance to Hitler. Timothy Garton Ash Puts Forth a Free-Speech Manifesto 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Dr Bernie Hogan, an expert in online dating from the University of Oxford, welcomed the study but cautioned that “desirability” was based on responses to an online profile, not necessarily how someone really is. Out of your league? Study shows online daters message more desirable people 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

The Oxford and Cambridge boat race is heading for the big screen again. Trailer Trash Cannes 2013-05-18T23:04:12Z

The lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary do not give a definite origin of this word. 7 Words English Borrowed From American Indians 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Tonight at the North Wall in Oxford you can catch Idle Motion's That Is All You Need to Know, set at Bletchley Park during the second world war. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z

Short-term presumptions and soundbites proliferated last year from which no one of their perpetrators emerged with much credit, any more than poetry or Oxford University's interest in it did. Out of the poetic mire 2010-05-28T18:29:00Z

In a speech at Oxford University last year, Wang conceded that the first time he heard Chinese pop music, he thought, "This stuff is lame. I don't like it!" Can Leehom Wang transcend China and America's pop cultures? 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

He did however find to time to mention he plays the young Earl of Oxford in Roland Emmerich's forthcoming historical thriller, Anonymous. Winners and wannabees 2011-05-12T08:46:30Z

At 20, I moved to Oxford and was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. 'It's nothing like a broken leg': why I'm done with the mental health conversation 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

Biggar’s Ethics and Empire project was the target of protest last year by students, an international coalition of academics, as well as 58 historians from Oxford itself. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bayley spent most of his career as a professor and literary critic at the University of Oxford. John Bayley, British literary scholar who wrote a memoir about his wife, author Iris Murdoch, dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

He said his new role at Oxford was "incredibly enjoyable – and resembles a tremendous amount of work." Damazer awarded CBE for services to broadcasting 2010-12-31T00:01:13Z

Tolkien, future Oxford don and author of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. J.R.R. Tolkien’s war experiences inspire his grandson’s novel, ‘No Man’s Land’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

At 27 he became keeper of fine art at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the oldest public museum in Britain. ‘Kenneth Clark’ Paints a Portrait of a Cultural Titan 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

A used but immaculate Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary must rank near the top. Why Maggie Nelson Is Drawn to Certain Autobiographies 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Later, I decided to try staying in an Oxford dorm with a friend. Journeys: British Dorm Rooms Substitute for Hotels 2010-07-31T05:15:00Z

“We made fun of him in the paper” — that would be Cherwell, Oxford’s student-run weekly, where Kuper was a reporter — “all the while not realizing that we were helping to build his brand.” An Outsider Takes an Inside Look at the Oxford ‘Chums’ Who Run the U.K. 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

“They might choose a really English-style small town, such as in the Cotswolds near Oxford,” he added. Flights, camera, action: Chinese couples in pursuit of perfect photos 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Stirling's mistake was to build sloppily in Cambridge, and then to compound things with his Florey Building at Oxford, where impracticalities were again countenanced for the sake of form. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z

Mr. Hill, an Oxford graduate, is to assume the mantle of poetry professor in the fall, succeeding Christopher Ricks. Geoffrey Hill Is Oxford's Next Professor of Poetry 2010-06-18T15:55:00Z

Similar scenes were chronicled on Twitter and Instagram from the H&M Oxford Street store, and other cities like Sydney, Australia, and Manchester, England. Release of Balmain x H&M Collection Creates Chaos in London 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Hints of the Oxford, England, quintet's potential were revealed on "Antidotes," as well as at a previous Neumos gig back in '08. Foals return to Seattle after producing one of the most exciting records of the year 2010-10-21T20:23:00Z

Victoria Hall — the longest hall in Oxford — is an excellent doppelgänger. Journeys: British Dorm Rooms Substitute for Hotels 2010-07-31T05:15:00Z

Now, the Oxford five-piece are offering "the world's first newspaper album". Radiohead to release new album this Saturday 2011-02-14T10:50:22Z

Boat Race: viewers complained after swearing by the Oxford cox was aired on live TV. BBC told to take action after 'inappropriate' Boat Race swearing 2013-06-17T13:21:53Z

HMV on Oxford Street – the future for London's classical music hunters? Don't let independent classical music shops become a thing of the past 2010-07-28T14:17:00Z

Another Oxford neighborhood that I like — in part for its cheap ethnic restaurants — is Cowley on the city’s southeast flank. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z

After three years at Oxford I wanted to do something that wasn't about me, frankly. Mark Haddon: 'What I love about theatre is that it's like being a kid again' | Interview 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z

I stepped out of Oxford Circus tube into mid-morning crowds and cold, bright sunshine. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Le Carré's books have many links with Oxford, not least Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, in which Smiley pays a visit to his old colleague Connie's memorably squalid digs. John le Carr? gives his literary archive to Oxford's Bodleian library 2011-02-23T20:21:46Z

In an upmarket bar near Oxford Circus in London, I am watching two men hit on women with all the desperation of a doomed cavalry charge. 50 years of pickup artists: why is the toxic skill still so in demand? 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

“Tailgating in the Grove is a combination of so many things that are dear to hearts in Oxford,” Mr. Wilkie said. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

Mr. Marías’s career as a translator culminated when, from 1983 to 1985, he lectured at Oxford University on the theory of translation. Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

Moshenska is a scholar of 16th- and 17th-century literature, who teaches at the University of Oxford, facts he alludes to more than once. The Blind Poet Who Saw Visions of Religious and Political Freedom 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

At the same time, he was drawing on his deep well of knowledge of literature and writing by becoming the unrivalled king of anthologies for Oxford University Press. John Gross obituary 2011-01-11T18:09:15Z

Lewis returned to Oxford where he taught English and was a close friend of "The Lord of the Rings" author J.R.R. Narnia author Lewis to be honored at Poets' Corner 2012-11-22T15:36:55Z

My first Christmas experience was kick-started by a school visit to Oxford Street in London to see the lights and look at Selfridges’ Christmas windows. How we embraced Christmas 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

Why, after Sebastian threw up through Charles's ground-floor Oxford college window, did the latter not clean up the mess but retire to bed, where the stench must surely have invaded his dreams? Your next box set: Brideshead Revisited 2012-08-30T15:01:00Z

Its Oxford English Dictionary and others found themselves madly updating well beyond routine schedules to keep up. Dictionary companies choose same word of the year: pandemic 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

When he attended Oxford, he was known for his spectacular dandyism. Review: In Tracy Tynan’s Memoir, ‘Wear and Tear,’ Feeding on Explosive Drama 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

In successive close-ups, a patch of lichen on an Oxford road sign comes to resemble the profile of Goethe. Robinson in Ruins 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

Actually, his contention that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare felt like an unrelated gripe shoehorned into an otherwise illuminating investigation, but at least he graciously allowed an Oxford professor to put the other case. TV review: The Hollow Crown: Richard II; Derek Jacobi on Richard II; Mad Mad World 2012-07-01T20:00:01Z

He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and publishes in GQ and Oxford American, places where some of these essays first appeared. Books of The Times: ?Pulphead,? by John Jeremiah Sullivan ? Review 2011-10-27T22:16:57Z

Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford he was taught by historian AJP Taylor, with whom he became good friends. Television presenter Robert Kee dies aged 93 2013-01-11T16:23:00Z

“I told you to be home when I get home, little woman,” is one from Oxford Dictionaries. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

Bosworth, an Oxford don, who contends that those visitors jostling for glimpses of the city’s art and architecture are wrong to ignore its recent past. Travails of a modern city 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Amid the crowd, too, you might catch a glimpse of the University of Mississippi’s greatest sports legend, Archie Manning, a kind of secular saint in Oxford. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

His fellow Oxford alumnus Paul von Hartmann, a well-bred third secretary at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, despises Hitler and plots with a handful of diplomats and officers to kill the Nazi leader. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

But, Watson concedes Faulkner is more appreciated in Oxford these days. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

The consensus view among the objectors was that Oxford University should not support the project, which they saw as a crude “balance sheet” approach to colonial history. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

While its London editorial offices were staffed by graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, the key strategists and financial players were largely outsiders. Review: ‘Everything Explained That Is Explainable’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

His exhibition of recent work in Oxford reveals that he is still advancing, and still thinking. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman Strictly speaking, a short story, but an irresistible add-on to the His Dark Materials trilogy. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

Abrams discovered it while researching his next book, Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film, to be published by Oxford University Press next year. Lost Stanley Kubrick screenplay, Burning Secret, is found 60 years on 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

After two years at Lafayette College, she transferred to Oxford to study English and art history. Up Close: Kate Young, a Stylist in Her Busy Season – Up Close 2013-02-06T19:23:12Z

Worse, two of these buildings were in the ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge, wherein opinion formers spent their formative years. Stirling buildings 2011-03-20T00:01:01Z

Edwin Newman, Journalist, Dies at 91 Edwin Newman, the genteelly rumpled, genially grumpy NBC newsman who was equally famous as a stalwart defender of the honor of English, has died in Oxford, England. Edwin Newman, Journalist, Dies at 91 2010-09-16T15:17:00Z

While studying English and history at Oxford University, he directed some 10 plays. Oliver Mears Takes a Big Leap to the Royal Opera 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The premise of the film is that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare's plays, a belief Rylance shares. Mark Rylance: 'It's all about the attitude' 2010-06-15T20:30:00Z

He won a scholarship to an elite preparatory school and, after army service as a clerk in World War II, received a degree in English literature from Oriel College at Oxford. Sandy Wilson, composer of ‘The Boy Friend,’ dies at 90

"The Riot Club," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, is a story inspired by the elite dining societies of Oxford and Cambridge. UK class, entitlement unleash violence in film 'The Riot Club' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Hetherington was born in Liverpool, England, and studied literature and photojournalism at Oxford University. 'Restrepo' director Hetherington killed in Libya 2011-04-20T22:00:11Z

It was Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year. 9 Reasons Selfies Are Good For Women 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

“My mother gave me a concise copy of the Oxford English Dictionary and I read it like a book,” she said. Why Jamaica Kincaid loves the OED 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

I devoured them one after the other, Brideshead Revisited putting me in the mood for both the army and for Oxford. We're all going on a ... 2011-07-30T23:04:12Z

In that role until retiring in 1987, the Daily Telegraph reported, he “ran the English and Classics syllabuses for Oxford’s examination board.” Colin Dexter, British author who created the Inspector Morse series, dies at 86 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

One was an Oxford graduate working in the media and the other a postman. Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man 2010-10-09T23:08:00Z

“The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails” is an enormous and authoritative work of scholarship, nearly a decade in the making. An Encyclopedic New Guide to Cocktails Stirred, Shaken, Rolled, Tossed, Swizzled, Muddled... 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

The beguiling British actress Felicity Jones, who still looks like she belongs on the Oxford campus she once roamed as an English major, recently turned 30. | Felicity Jones, Star of the Dark Romantic Drama ‘Breathe In’ 2014-03-26T19:12:16Z

I heard of a professor from Oxford who was trying to get an interview with Beckett in Paris for three years, and finally Beckett agreed to meet him in some cafe. All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't 2012-11-07T19:00:01Z

Ruggedly experimental free-jazz, classical, South African townships bop, Hammond-organ blues – Oxford pianist Hawkins splices it all, with idiosyncratic tributes to Thelonious Monk and Art Tatum thrown in. Best jazz albums of 2012 2012-12-13T22:01:22Z

Rhodes Scholarships, created in 1902, provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England. Woody Allen, Mia Farrow's son named Rhodes scholar 2011-11-21T17:56:24Z

After graduate school, I treated myself to a full set — that's 20 very large and heavy volumes — of the Oxford English Dictionary for my home office. Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

He wears worn chinos and Oxford cloth shirts, which is what you might expect from a husband and father of three who lives in South Park Slope, Brooklyn. In Film and Music, the Galkin Brothers Are on Their Own Together 2010-07-14T20:09:00Z

The programme also spawned what the Oxford English Dictionary would call its . Political drama 2012: Fact v fiction 2012-12-31T07:11:28Z

The works, completed when he was still in his teens, are presented in the exhibition “Sensation: Rembrandt’s First Paintings,” on view at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, until Nov. 27. What Rembrandt Did as a Teenager: 4 of His ‘Sense’ Works Are Reunited 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary has been crowdsourcing since the 19th century, she added. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Since I can’t get enough of ye olden, olden, really olden days, I also went on the somewhat hokey but fascinating tour of the ancient Oxford Castle. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z

Oxford celebrates an annual "Alice's Day" in honor of the novel, with this year's celebrations scheduled for July 1. 'Alice in Wonderland' collection fetches 88,000 dollars at auction 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

He got a degree in literature from Oxford and held many jobs in journalism before becoming the literary editor of The Evening Standard and then, in his mid-30s, The Sunday Times of London. Among the Literary Lions, at Full Roar, in the 1980s 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

A new group biography of the small Oxford literary club that included J.R.R. 30 books for spring reading 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Andy Hall Up on the roof of Professor Fritz Vollrath's lab in the zoology department at Oxford University, there is a makeshift greenhouse in which he nurtures his favourite golden orb web spiders. Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?' 2013-01-12T19:00:00Z

Listening, I don't find it surprising she was offered a place at Oxford to read philosophy and theology. Hayley Atwell 2010-10-09T23:05:00Z

I went to Oxford, then did a postgraduate teaching qualification, and got a job as a history lecturer at Edinburgh University in 1964. Oliver Ford Davies, actor – portrait of the artist 2012-12-18T19:30:01Z

Oxford English Dictionary adds new words For its 100th anniversary, the Oxford English Dictionary is proving it's still hip with the times by adding some tech-centric terms to its pages. Boy, woman shot in Englewood home 2011-08-20T04:35:00Z

He said he had been persecuted by the bishop of Oxford “in the most unaccountable manner,” barred from officiating for reasons unknown. How a Fake Priest Duped Oxford and a World-Famous Historian 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

As a teenager, she won an exhibition to Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford, where she earned a degree in English in 1942. Elaine Morgan 2013-07-29T14:32:27Z

Oxford University said Wednesday that Nash was a postgraduate student working part-time as a librarian, but declined to confirm she was dismissed. Oxford librarian 'sacked' for Harlem Shake video 2013-03-20T15:22:08Z

Besides the one in the Canary Islands, Mr. Bayley also had a home in Oxford and an apartment in London. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

In her book about Oxford, she notes in passing: “Of course the Trojans founded it, abetted if you believe all the legends by Merlin the wizard.” The Sinking of the Most Powerful Warship in History 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

“Theology and Falsification,” a short paper presented to the Socratic Club at Oxford and published in 1950, brought him immediate attention. Antony Flew, 87, Philosopher and Ex-Atheist, Dies 2010-04-17T02:21:00Z

On Wednesday, Oxford Dictionaries released a list of the newest additions to its online edition, many of which reflect the popularization of silly Internet slang. ICYMI: Oxford Dictionaries adds “mansplain” and “douchebaggery” 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Vamos's mask theatre show, Finding Joy, is at the North Wall in Oxford. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-04-26T13:42:00Z

Of course I realise that what we read in Ivy League colleges and at Oxford was not representative of the general population. Not-so essential reading 2010-10-22T08:43:00Z

The story opens at Oxford, but not our Oxford. Review: ‘His Dark Materials’ Paints a Vivid Children’s Crusade 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

After graduating with a degree in modern languages from Oxford, she was accepted to the Jacques Lecoq school of theater in Paris. Who is Benedict Cumberbatch's Fiancée Sophie Hunter? 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

At the same time her fiction career was taking off, Kuang immersed herself in Chinese history and language, and got master’s degrees in Chinese studies from Cambridge and Oxford. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

He returned to Oxford and earned a degree in history in 1948. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Lord Hall of Birkenhead, as he now is, quoted Berlioz's remark last weekend in a speech at St Anne's College, Oxford. The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z

He was both a Fulbright and Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford. Zackory Burns and Kevin Liu 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

I did, though, spend the whole time thinking about how I could keep your name as small as possible in the acknowledgements for the Oxford Book of English Twentieth Century Verse. Digested read: Letters to Monica by Philip Larkin 2010-10-11T20:00:00Z

It was immaculate and with double-paned windows overlooking the park and Oxford Street, thankfully quiet. Hotel Review: Hard Rock Hotel, London 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

She graduated from Princeton and received a doctoral degree in classical archaeology from Oxford University in England. Cynthia Drakeman, Richard Wanerman 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

She graduated from Yale and received a Master of Fine Arts in playwrighting from the University of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England. Amanda Glassman, Claudio Emma 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

Detail from Howard Hodgkin's 2007 work, Home On The Range, on display at Modern Art Oxford to 5 Sep. Howard Hodgkin, Oxford Howard Hodgkin looks like he has got quicker and sized-up with age. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z

And scholars had sometimes been allowed to bring papyri to their rooms at Oxford. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Virginia Woolf wasn’t there either — nor was she on my literature course at the University of Oxford. Jeanette Winterson Owns the Entire Oxford English Dictionary 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

“It’s not surprising that our choice reflects a year dominated by highly-charged political and social discourse,” said Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford's Word of the Year for 2016 Is 'Post-Truth' 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Oxford Film And Television/PA Remember the last one of these, the BBC's A Year With a few years ago? Our Queen; It's Kevin; In The Flesh; The Lady Vanishes; The Incredible Story of the Monarch Butterfly – TV review 2013-03-18T07:00:15Z

A keen eye for bad grammar ... academics at the University of Oxford. 'Illiterate' letter wins campaigning professors an award for bad grammar 2013-05-03T10:18:21Z

And from here, at the Radcliffe Camera, spreads the Oxford of the dreaming spires, the ancient, walled colleges bumping up one against the other and connected by a warren of lanes and roads. In Search of Oxford 2014-03-21T16:22:35Z

He once insisted on helping a man with a white stick across Oxford Street. Bernie Andrews obituary 2010-07-20T17:08:00Z

The new book, published by Oxford University Press, purports to offer a counterbalance to El Sistema's formidable publicity machinery. New book about El Sistema paints unflattering portrait 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Having taken a first degree at Birmingham, I reapplied to Oxford, as I was certain it would be ideally suited to an ambition that exceeded my talent. Strictly Ann by Ann Widdecombe – digested 2013-06-16T19:00:02Z

“Compromised is the right word for him,” said Rana Mitter, a professor at the University of Oxford’s China Center, in a telephone interview. British Students Paint Over Kipling Mural, Protesting ‘Racist Attitudes’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

When he was commissioned to photograph a collection of skeletons for an Oxford museum, in 1857, he shot the specimens in bright, direct sunlight, accentuating their anatomical intricacies. Lewis Carroll’s Portraiture 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Back in the UK, she completed an MPhil in Latin American studies at Oxford University, followed by a PhD in ethnomusicology at Edinburgh University. Jan Fairley obituary 2012-06-14T12:56:13Z

Perhaps this is her own way of reminding us that some things don't change, even if it's just the view from an Oxford rooftop. Val McDermid's new whodunit rattles with recent Balkans history 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Postwar California, Oxford and London are re-created superbly and brightly. Book reviews roundup 2011-01-22T00:06:24Z

We went to see them at the Metro on Oxford Street and completely fell in love with them. Ten years of Wichita Recordings 2010-07-09T10:30:00Z

“Studies clearly show that there are social and wellbeing benefits to be derived directly from drinking alcohol, especially in relaxed social environments,” said the evolutionary biologist Professor Robin Dunbar of Oxford University. 10,000 years of cheers: why social drinking is an ancient ritual 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

“I got a first-class degree from Oxford,” Mr. Lanchester said the other day. John Lanchester’s ‘How to Speak Money’ 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Kay Brodersen and her colleagues at the University of Oxford found that about 60 percent of the time adult reports of pain to a stimulus were correlated with a pattern of brain activation. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

When British director Mat Whitecross was growing up in Oxford, only so many movies screened in his local cinema - and not the intriguing movies he read about playing at film festivals or elsewhere. Tribeca looks to expand notion of film festival 2010-04-20T18:46:00Z

He was a guest lecturer at Oxford before returning to Los Angeles. William Schallert, Father on ‘The Patty Duke Show’, Dies at 93 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

He grew up in Oxford, the younger child of schoolteachers. Tom Hollander Is Starring on Broadway, Poor Guy 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

It is nothing less than a full neighborhood developed by Related Companies, the mega-developers run by the billionaire Stephen M. Ross, in a joint venture with Oxford Properties Group. If You Gild It, Will They Come? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

The fourth edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage was released on April 8, 2016, by Oxford University Press. 5 Common Words That Used to Be Totally Unacceptable 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

His Eton and Oxford education was not substantial enough for him to be able to hazard "big chart" as a literal translation of Magna Carta. David Cameron on Letterman: politics is not light entertainment 2012-09-28T19:31:01Z

The very funny Swamp Juice stops off at the Parabola in Cheltenham and Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing plays the main house at Oxford Playhouse. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-06-22T15:56:03Z

Years later, when Ms. Simmons was at Oxford during her first year as a Rhodes scholar, she fell into a gray slump. Girls, Uninterrupted 2010-08-13T22:38:00Z

“They wore tweed and offered me snuff. They were clubbable men with battered Range Rovers and vowels that bespoke Eton and Oxford.” Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Showing in the lower galleries, the film marks Modern Art Oxford's reopening alongside Swedish artist Johanna Billing's fantastic touring show, I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm, which has a similar note of community renewal. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

In a pub in Oxford there lived some writers. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and 'The Fellowship' of fantasy writers 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Its dramatisation of a tumultuous night out with the Riot Club – closely modelled on Oxford University's Bullingdon club – was a sharp, funny, disturbing portrait of our government-in-waiting. Best theatre of 2012, No 2: Posh 2012-12-20T16:44:49Z

She received a master’s degree in American history from Oxford University in England. Megan Armknecht, Samuel Dearden 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z

Jampol went on to earn a master’s in Russian and East European studies at Oxford before embarking on a PhD there in modern history. The Cold War as a museum: At the Wende, one man's 100,000-piece collection finds a new home 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

They point to a letter received in March from the Oxford college, which says that All Souls "would be happy to consider the library being kept open" as proposed in their business plan. Brought to book 2012-05-16T19:48:15Z

Emre, a professor of English at Oxford, wrote a previous book on the surge of readers in postwar America, and she knows that a story is inextricable from how it’s told. ‘The Personality Brokers’ Conjures the Mother and Daughter Who Helped Us Think of Ourselves as Types 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

All were at Cherwell School in Oxford together, and Slater was their drama teacher. New Edinburgh act of the day: Idle Motion 2011-08-10T13:08:44Z

As we await the third album from sinuous Oxford indie explorers Foals, the band have issued a stopgap in the form of an excellent mix album. Clubs picks of the week 2012-07-13T23:11:31Z

Yes, each of those is a new entry in Oxford’s online database that collects modern uses of words. Oxford Dictionaries Adds New Words 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

The Oxford is one of a growing number of establishments in the Pacific Northwest with a mission: to bring the combination of luxury and environmentally conscious lodging to a new level. Heads Up: Northwest Hotels Go Eco-Plus 2010-10-15T19:26:00Z

The Oxford University graduate began his film career in what was known as "kitchen-sink" realism. Ken Loach wins Berlin's Golden Bear 2014-02-14T13:57:24Z

Speaking about the book to an audience in Oxford on Sunday, Pullman acknowledged that it was likely to cause offence. Pullman risks Christian anger with Jesus novel 2010-03-28T18:42:00Z

The story centers on Lyra Belacqua, an orphan living at Jordan College in a parallel-world Oxford, in which zeppelins float and the gargoyles represent animal daemons. ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

I'd love to have an Oxford spread with him with pheasant and quince. Russell Kane's favourite TV: Breaking Bad, The Apprentice, Through The Keyhole 2013-07-08T11:00:00Z

"I remember I was in Oxford Circus trying to do some Christmas shopping," says Lola. Our dad, Joe Strummer, remembered 2012-07-27T23:05:09Z

Headlong are at Oxford Playhouse from Tuesday with their terrific updated The Seagull. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z

He gained a scholarship to Stowe school, Buckinghamshire, and an exhibition to study history at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was taught by and became a friend of AJP Taylor. Robert Kee obituary 2013-01-11T18:56:24Z

Lewis was a don at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1941 when he wrote “The Screwtape Letters” and dedicated it to his friend and colleague J. R. R. Tolkien. | 'The Screwtape Letters': Adaptation of C. S. Lewis Novella at Westside Theater 2010-06-11T22:44:00Z

Jews greatly predominate among the people sheltering in the tubes", and decides to verify this, examining "the crowds sheltering in Chancery Lane, Oxford Circus and Baker Street stations. Christopher Hitchens's introduction to George Orwell's diaries is published 2012-07-16T11:44:38Z

The book’s official narrator, who is nameless, was born into money and entitlement: he is the grandson of a former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, and the son of an Oxford physicist. James Wood: Zia Haider Rahman’s Dazzling “In the Light of What We Know” 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

"I'm not necessarily convinced that Oxford is the author of these plays, but I am definitely absolutely adamant that it was not the guy called William Shakespeare from Stratford," he said. Roland Emmerich wins over critics with new film 2011-09-12T19:14:56Z

But there’s much more to Oxford than cloistered academia. 36 Hours in Oxford 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

As one Oxford psychiatrist haltingly puts it: “I think we should be honest about — acknowledge how limited our understanding is.” Investigating a Famous Study About the Line Between Sanity and Madness 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The New Oxford Shakespeare, for which Taylor serves as lead general editor, is the first edition of the plays to credit Christopher Marlowe as a co-author of Shakespeare’s “Henry VI,” Parts 1, 2, and 3. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

The collection, primarily promised gifts, is relatively new to the museum, as is its curator, Ruth Barnes, who comes from the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford. Art Review: Yale University Art Gallery Reopens After Renovations 2012-12-13T23:11:46Z

He was educated at Latymer Upper school in west London, and won an exhibition to study English at Lincoln College, Oxford. Paul Marcus obituary 2011-03-03T18:35:25Z

He often ends up returning to an older version of himself, donning an Oxford shirt and a baseball cap. The Soul-Searching of Buzz Bissinger 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

In 2004, he recalled that he had been impressed by her at Oxford, where they overlapped. Paul Johnson, Prolific Historian Prized by Conservatives, Dies at 94 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

I found it impossible to join in the mirth that greeted the account of his parents wanting to come to see him in Oxford and him not wanting them there. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z

Of all strange things, this meadow in Taos had exactly the same rough grass stalks, feathery at their tips, as the field next door to my childhood home in the Cherwell Valley north of Oxford. Favorite Place: In Taos, N.M., an Ordinary Field Evokes the Extraordinary 2012-04-06T20:05:28Z

The Daily Mississippian reports that they backed a free screening for 280 people at a theater in Oxford, home of the University of Mississippi. Celebs back Mississippi theater screening of ‘Just Mercy’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Worse still, he says he doesn't want to sit his Oxford entrance exam! The Lost Man Booker prize 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z

"A couple of seasons at the Old Vic and a stint or two at Oxford and I could swing one fairly easily with Labour in power," he muses. The Richard Burton Diaries edited by Chris Williams – review 2012-11-29T08:00:03Z

Depressed and anxious, she had recently quit her job; she rarely left her apartment, except on that particular day when she tried to step in front of a bus headed to Oxford Circus. Review | Cooking can be therapeutic. For Ella Risbridger, it saved her life. 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

His takedown of a book by an Oxford colleague, Lawrence Stone, was described as one that “connoisseurs of intellectual terrorism still cherish to this day.” Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z

Mr. Ortíz Cuadra first became interested in food history as a student at Ruskin College in Oxford, England, said Crystal Díaz, a graduate student of his at the University of Puerto Rico. Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra, ‌Face of Puerto Rican Culinary History, Dies at 67 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

She has glossy dark hair, a compact build, a master’s degree from Oxford and synesthesia: an unusual condition that blurs and blends sense perception. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

The work's completion is being marked by a conference and a display at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Medieval Latin dictionary completed 2013-12-09T14:21:26Z

The quartet from Oxford, with six studio albums under its belt, decided to break up "due to the 17 year itch," it said in a statement. British band Supergrass announces split 2010-04-12T13:09:00Z

At the Greenroom in Whitworth Street West, near Oxford Road train station, it was a less happy scene, as the theatre was among the 206 casualties nationally that lost all funding. Arts funding cuts leave many organisations fearing for future 2011-03-30T18:22:10Z

An Oxford professor offers an imaginative biography of the 17th-century poet that sets out to capture Milton’s “desire to escape time, to be perennially contemporary.” 8 New Books Coming in December 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

Now, Hobby Lobby is suing Obbink, saying that 32 items it bought from him were stolen from the Exploration Society, which identified some of those artifacts as having come from its collection at Oxford. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

It deals with an exclusive Oxford undergraduate dining club, the Riot, named after an 18th century rakehell. Posh 2010-04-16T00:58:00Z

The editors at the Oxford English Dictionary typically wait and watch for years before giving new words a chance to be included in their hallowed pages. Oxford Dictionary Adds 'Gender-Fluid,' ''Merica' and 'Squee' 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

His packed early morning lectures at Oxford on Marx were bracing. Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic by David Caute – review 2013-06-20T07:00:34Z

May sticks his head out to see an approaching figure wearing scuffed brown Oxfords and thumping an ancient walking stick. 'Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart,' by Christopher Fowler 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Skinner was born in Oxford to two classical musicians. Cavetown’s Heartfelt Bedroom Pop Brings Kindness to a Cruel World 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

The working-class girl batters her way into Oxford University, feeling like the ill-fated Jude the Obscure in Thomas Hardy's novel, except "I was determined not to hang myself." Jeanette Winterson's memoir of the redemptive power of books 2012-03-07T22:47:07Z

Ida Harris, a writer and graduate student in Oxford, Miss., was similarly unpleasantly surprised by the work of putting on a wig. Now’s the Time for Wigs. If You Can Get the Hair for Them. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

And an audio collection is being digitized by the Reel 2 Real Project at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. Louis Sarno Dies at 62; Moved to Africa to Preserve Ancestral Music 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

“The ultimate in a long line of centerless résumé featherers,” was how the piece’s author, Andrew Sullivan, described Mr. Sherwood, a Harvard graduate who was attending Oxford at the time on a Rhodes scholarship. Slings and Arrows? Nothing New to Him 2011-03-11T21:48:41Z

Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at Oxford University, strongly defended dieting, saying that even small amounts of weight loss were worthwhile. Low-carb and Mediterranean diets beat low-fat plans for losing weight – report 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Geoffrey Hill, elected today to the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry. Geoffrey Hill wins poetry race 2010-06-18T15:14:00Z

He enjoyed the work because it meant time out in the big city of Oxford. Gerald Stratford Knows How to Garden 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2015 is not a word. Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is an emoji (insert confused face emoji here) 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The Oxford report also highlights increased use of “in-person,” often in retronyms, as lexicographers refer to a new term for an existing thing that distinguishes the original from a new variant. Oxford’s 2020 Word of the Year? It’s Too Hard to Isolate 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z

The plot was also all too familiar, a complicated and unlikely story about a group of seemingly unconnected people who had all been at Oxford together sometime in the past. TV review: Hitler's Children; Lewis 2012-05-23T21:00:02Z

That same week, she also made an appearance at the Oxford Union, where she apparently wowed the assembled undergraduates with her knowledge of Shakespeare and Mozart. Courtney Love: 'Sometimes I'm a little bit weird... but never unpopular' 2010-03-25T21:30:00Z

Kemp spoke of one student – an Austrian – with a finer appreciation of English grammar than a room which included at least one Oxford graduate. Imogen Stubbs hits out at mumbling actors 2013-06-22T11:26:42Z

Belfast-born Lewis was an Oxford University fellow and tutor at Magdalen College and is buried at Holy Trinity. Festival to mark life of CS Lewis 2013-05-10T10:17:57Z

We recently won a grant from the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust and they politely suggested that the moment was a good opportunity for us to change to a more suitable name. Morgan Lloyd's wheelchair ride: Q&A 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

She said: "My association with Oxford goes back a long way and continues to this day. "Not only was I an Oxford scholar, but so was my father. Bodleian handed Trollope manuscripts 2014-03-25T10:32:40Z

Now, a new dictionary — the Oxford Dictionary of African American English — will attempt to codify the contributions and capture the rich relationship Black Americans have with the English language. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

There are dark hints of an earlier breakdown and his behaviour becomes ever more erratic as their halcyon Oxford days draw to an end. The Lessons by Naomi Alderman | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

Except for his time at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he led the chapel choir on and off in the 1540s, evidence of his life is thin. From a 1550s Pandemic, a Choral Work Still Casts Its Spell 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Things are hazy, though: Oxford balls last all night and finish with breakfast and a “survivors photo” of revelers in their bedraggled finery taken at about 6 a.m. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

"It's not surprising that our choice reflects a year dominated by highly-charged political and social discourse," said Casper Grathwohl, president of Oxford Dictionaries, which publishes the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary and other works. 'Post-truth' beats 'Brexiteer' to title of word of the year 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

One recently ordered a complete set of the Oxford Mark Twain, a 29-volume collection of works by the beloved American author with forewords by Kurt Vonnegut, E.L. Island Books creates a reading oasis on Mercer Island 2010-06-28T03:36:00Z

A fragment of ancient papyrus given to an expert at Oxford University contains two previously unknown works by Greek poet Sappho, according to his findings. 'Two new poems' by Sappho recovered 2014-01-30T11:22:34Z

At Oxford he found, he felt, the family he previously lacked. ‘Anthony Powell’ Captures the Rich, Long Life of the Man Behind an Epic Series 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

But after graduating, she left for the University of Oxford to pursue a master’s degree in English and United States history as a Rhodes scholar. Princeton valedictorian gets engaged to her 71-year-old former professor 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

Best of all, four years after I left, the head porter of my college became friendly with Bill Clinton when he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Digested read: When One Door Closes by Peter Sissons 2011-02-07T21:29:00Z

He graduated from Dartmouth, and earned a master’s degree in modern Chinese studies from Oxford, as well as a Ph.D. in government from Cornell. Lindsay Lieberman, Isaac Kardon 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

That year, he also edited “New Oxford Book of Australian Verse,” the first general anthology to include Aboriginal poems translated into English. The Homegrown Language of Les Murray 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

This was much debated and became a source of agony to one of the founders of the movement – William Morris – as he realised his influence had actually reached little further than north Oxford. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z

The Oxford don, a nervy bachelor and specialist in Renaissance studies, was far from an outgoing aesthete in himself but he became the revered spokesman for aestheticism. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z

It was this idea that drove the exceptional linguist and Oxford scholar William Tyndale to risk and eventually lose his life so the ploughboy might read the Bible in his own language. Christianity: a faith for the simple 2011-01-31T13:00:01Z

Of the novel’s modern English versions, the best has long been the Oxford World’s Classics edition by Verne biographer and scholar William Butcher. Review | ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ — about to get a reboot — is the perfect Christmas tale 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Between remote coursework and Oxford’s restrictions on socializing, I realized that meeting actual British students — the reason I had come — was going to be difficult. I Bet You Think These Songs Are About You 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

The man eventually convinced Bernie that he had 20:20 vision, did not wish to cross Oxford Street and was just trying to carry home a new broom handle. Bernie Andrews obituary 2010-07-20T17:08:00Z

The younger Clinton, a special correspondent for NBC News, is a graduate of Stanford University and holds master's degrees from Oxford and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Chelsea Clinton to receive doctorate from Oxford 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z

Eventually, the case takes Neith to Oxford to question a celebrated professor of semiotics, then to a foreign embassy to confront an old enemy known as the Waxman. Review | What it might feel like to live in a high-tech surveillance state 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

In my first term, I was asked by a friend to produce Hamlet at the Old Fire Station in Oxford. Young, early, emerging: Daniel Brodie, associate producer, Royal Court 2013-05-21T09:03:58Z

In this photo, he is dressed for church in a white Oxford and black tie, his large eyes shaded by a straw hat. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

The Oxford Hotel sits in downtown Bend within easy walking distance of breweries, galleries and restaurants. Skiing in My Own Backyard 2014-02-14T17:55:27Z

Jacobsen was most famous for his chairs: among his best known are the Swan and the Egg, and there are plenty of examples of both, including some rescued from an auction in Oxford. Need a hygge? Try Copenhagen for a happiness fix 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

An Oxford graduate who has worked in Westminster, she also suspects that a factor behind the success of her campaign is because “I look and sound like them”. The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

I happened to grow up in Oxford, England, a city, and country, where biking is a normal means of transport, no more a sport than bipedalism is. Journeys: Park the Pickup: Santa Fe by Bicycle 2012-10-28T05:00:23Z

When the war began we were evacuated to Oxford – just me and my sister and my mother – while my dad stayed in London working. Lionel Blair 2013-02-15T13:00:01Z

The pair met at Oxford before collaborating together in Monty Python, said there are still traces of Jones left despite the effects of his illness. Terry Gilliam says he disagrees with John Cleese's worldview 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Like Potts, Spier trained as an archaeologist, earning degrees from Harvard and Oxford, before branching into a career in art scholarship. Getty Museum hires Jeffrey Spier, Davide Gasparotto as senior curators 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

The Oxford Nanopore MinION is a pocket-sized DNA sequencer — it’s smaller than a typical smartphone, and significantly faster at producing data than most sequencers currently in use. Pocket-sized DNA sequencers could soon stop food-borne pathogen outbreaks as soon as they start 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

Here are seven fake words that ended up in Webster's, Oxford, and the like. 7 fake words that actually ended up in the dictionary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

When Gatsby declares that his family traditionally sends its sons to study at Oxford, the reader suspects he is simply spinning a glamorous backstory to disguise some sordid criminal reality. Review | A new look at Gatsby — as an Oxford man 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

He graduated from Northwestern and received an M.B.A. from the University of Oxford, England. Lauren Schorr, Jeffrey Potter 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

The qualities that both politicians share — charisma, confidence, boldness — and which have made them so successful, are the subject of a new book by Kevin Dutton, a research psychologist at the University of Oxford. 'The Wisdom of Psychopaths': coldhearted and competent 2012-11-20T21:35:24Z

Wrapped in a scarf that seemed to be protecting him from the indoor elements, Brook spoke softly in rich, cultivated tones that reflected both his Oxford education and his global citizenship as an artistic explorer. Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

They even used the same performing edition from Oxford University Press. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

Buying mostly manuscripts, he generally set aside printed matter, which also revealed much "of great significance" and left plenty for rivals from Oxford University and others later. 'Sacred Treasure' tells engaging story of early Hebrew documents 2011-01-06T22:03:06Z

It transpires that he was the main ringleader of that long-ago protest in Oxford Circus – and that story, too, had an epilogue. Bronco Bullfrog: the film the UK forgot 2010-06-03T22:10:00Z

Favorite locations from the picturesque campus and environs of Oxford, the setting for all three shows, are revisited. ‘Endeavour’ Review: Farewell to the Morse Cinematic Universe 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

This memoir takes her through her improbable acceptance to and graduation from Oxford University and covers a bit of her career as a writer. Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z

After leaving Oxford, Mr. Amis held a string of journalistic and literary jobs in London. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

When Morse, collapses on an Oxford quad, Fauré’s Requiem is, conveniently but poignantly, being sung in the college chapel, and becomes the soundtrack to the closing sequence, until Morse’s beloved Wagner underscores his last breath. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

The first Oxford Shakespeare included a poem beginning “Shall I die? Shall I fly?” that Taylor found in a manuscript collection bearing Shakespeare’s name. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

I was giving some talks to students at Oxford and I got an e-mail from my agent asking if the word Shibumi meant anything to me. Killer idea 2011-04-28T07:50:00Z

He also spent eight years at Oxford Health Plans, which was once hailed as a progressive HMO and is now part of UnitedHealth Group. On Heels Of Record Health IT Funding, Castlight Health Recruits Former Medco Executive 2012-05-15T13:04:25Z

I also spent a lot of time in Oxford while writing this book. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Elif Shafak on Mixing Faith and Doubt 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

Oxford has never looked more beautiful or less attractive than it does in Inspector Morse. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #14 – Morse 2012-07-30T11:20:37Z

Ronnie Barker ran an antiques shop in Chipping Norton for ten years after retiring The late comedian Ronnie Barker is being commemorated with a blue plaque at the Oxford home where he grew up. Blue plaque honours Ronnie Barker 2012-09-28T09:59:21Z

In rural Oxford, Miss., Heather McTeer Toney is at her kitchen table with a laptop, a cup of coffee and some Goldfish crackers. November may be the darkest month Americans have seen in a long time 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

Buckland’s father was not only canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford but also the university’s first professor of geology and a passionate amateur biologist. Frank Buckland, both intellectually and literally omnivorous 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Stewart went to Princeton, studied abroad at Oxford, graduated from law school at Stanford, and worked a few years at a white-shoe law firm in Washington. Scott Stewart wasn’t well known in the antiabortion world. Now he’s leading the charge to overturn Roe at the Supreme Court. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Rudd graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles and studied drama at Oxford University. Paul Rudd, looking for change, returns to Broadway 2012-09-19T16:49:41Z

The story centres around a night of drunken debauchery by an elite Oxford dining society at a country gastropub. Posh play gets political makeover 2012-05-24T11:35:36Z

It was Mr. Rutledge’s 25-year-old son, Logan, a hospitality-management major from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, who led the fight for the beer ordinance. 2010-02-07T06:40:00Z

Godfrey Smith, an Oxford friend and fellow journalist, happened to mention that his first novel had just been accepted. Robert Robinson obituary 2011-08-13T12:28:49Z

On Wednesday, the opposition leader will address Oxford University where she is expected to receive an honorary degree. Aung San Suu Kyi pays BBC tribute 2012-06-19T15:38:16Z

Ramadan, a senior research fellow of St Antony’s College, took leave of absence from Oxford University last November “by mutual agreement” after the two women filed complaints. Oxford professor of Islamic studies charged with raping two women 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Students walk past the Radcliffe Camera building in Oxford city centre. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

And then, when I told them that after going to Harvard and Oxford, I wanted to be a curator. Scientists aren’t the only innovators! We really need artists 2014-03-10T22:58:00Z

Wigan began his career in England in the 1950s as a talent agent after he graduated from Oxford University. 2010-02-15T12:51:00Z

In it, Christopher Tyerman , an Oxford historian, looks at the thinking that went into a crusade — how it was justified, supported, peopled, financed and supplied. World War II Seen by a Classicist, and Other New Books About Conflict 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

How could a first-class history graduate from Oxford really be so non-judgmental? Louis Theroux: 'I'm not that comfortable doing polemic' 2011-01-30T20:30:00Z

The 21-year-old author plans to write seven novels in The Bone Season series By the year 2059 Oxford will be a prison colony for clairvoyants. Fantasy author on Oxford's influence 2013-08-20T10:24:51Z

After graduating, she landed a job with the Royal Court theatre before doing rep in Ipswich, Oxford and Sheffield. Caroline John obituary 2012-06-21T18:03:05Z

It includes a series of fabulous illustrations by one of Belloc's Oxford chums Basil Temple Blackwood. Dead as a dodo? There's life in this old bird yet 2013-06-28T10:50:35Z

Over the years, speculation has centered mostly on a handful of men, namely Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford, Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon. Mary Sidney, Shakespeare and the Authorship Question 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

After two more years of military service in Palestine, then a British protectorate, she was discharged as an army lieutenant and enrolled at Oxford University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in English literature in 1951. Jan Morris, Celebrated Writer of Place and History, Is Dead at 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Over dinner one night in New York, where he was starring in Ira Levin's Deathtrap, I suggested he should return to the role of Richard III which he'd famously played as an Oxford student. John Wood: an actor who made us see things anew 2011-08-11T12:32:33Z

In 2014, a small controlled trial by the NHS and the University of Oxford found that some people with severe depression responded well to small quantities of the drug. ‘My therapist gave me a pill’: can MDMA help cure trauma? 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Together, she and her husband the Oxford graduate ran the business she had by then set up, a company that serviced legal clerks. Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z

“Never mind that I’d graduated with honors at Stanford or studied at Oxford.” The fall of Roger Ailes: He made Fox his ‘locker room’ — and now women are telling their stories 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

She might have taught her most famous colleague, Christopher Wren, who rather abruptly took up architecture in the 1660s after a decade as an Oxford scientist. Antiques: The Case for a 17th-Century Female British Architect 2012-03-08T23:47:52Z

I wound up going to Oxford, and that was where I met Richard Curtis and the whole thing took off. Before and after 'Bean': A talk with Rowan Atkinson, continued 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

For Cosham, the fact that the French Canadian detective studied at Oxford is significant to his accent. Ralph Cosham, the voice of Armand Gamache in Louise Penny audiobooks

The history of these wonder tales, as they are sometimes called, is a favourite subject of Marina Warner, a literature professor at Birkbeck College in London and All Souls, Oxford. Enchanted, I’m sure 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

But she, now an emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford, comes at Stoppard from the academy. It’s Tom Stoppard’s World and We Don’t Live in It 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

The runner-up in the U.S., with 9% of usage, was this number: Caspar Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Dictionaries, explained that their choice reflects the walls-down world that we live in. Oxford's 2015 Word of the Year Is This Emoji 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Set in Oxford in the immediate aftermath of the English Civil War, that book was composed of four long parts, each telling the same story from a different character’s point of view. ‘Arcadia’ by Iain Pears: A plot built for an app. In fact there is one. 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

So my grandmother returned to the library – and this proves there must have been a decent librarian – and came home with Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of Ballads. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z

The summer session is also a great time for short courses in unusual settings, such as an art class in Rome, a literature course at the University of Oxford, or a science class in Hawaii. How to Make the Most of Summer College Courses 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The use of the term “climate emergency” increased by a hundredfold since 2018, according to data collected in the Oxford Corpus, a database containing hundreds of millions of words of written English. Oxford Names ‘Climate Emergency’ Its 2019 Word of the Year 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

“I was highly suspicious of this book when I first started it,” said Richard Howorth, the owner of Square Books in Oxford, Miss., and a revered authority on Southern literature. Bill Cheng’s Novel is ‘Southern Cross the Dog’ 2013-05-08T20:26:13Z

Niko Pfund, the president of Oxford University Press, seconded the notion, pointing additionally to the history profession's continued reliance on the scholarly monograph for tenure decisions. ArtsBeat: Historians Look Back, and Inward, at Annual Meeting 2013-01-04T23:52:38Z

This was barely a decade after my father, seeking lodgings in Oxford, faced “No Blacks No Irish No Jews” signs; we expected inhospitality. Memories of Myrtle Allen, the Matriarch of Irish Cookery, and of Family Holiday Idylls at Ballymaloe 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Brilliant and intellectually omnivorous, he studied the classics and mathematics at Oxford while doing genetics experiments on the side. The Groundbreaking Scientist Who Risked All in Pursuit of His Beliefs 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

So they thought they knew their chosen area of expertise when they began putting together “The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails” nearly a decade ago. 900 Pages of Drinking Wisdom, a Decade in the Making 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

In 1873, the students of Oxford were shaken by a very strange book. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z

Mr. Bowman attended New College, Oxford, as an organ scholar and was a member of the New College and Christ Church choirs. James Bowman, Who Helped Resurrect the Countertenor, Dies at 81 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

In doing so, he leans on an idea formulated by Sudhir Hazareesingh, an Oxford scholar, that France is an “unfinished republic”. Citoyen, citoyenne 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Three bishops were burned alive just outside my bedroom window in my old Oxford college for giving the unapproved answer. Why I want all our children to read the King James Bible 2012-05-19T20:30:01Z

In 1979, with $20,000, half of it borrowed, the couple opened Square Books, an event often credited as the turning point in Oxford’s transition from backwater to literary hub. A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Brian Rasic / Rex Features The Oxford English Dictionary traces the term "pop " to 1926, and reduces its meaning to a matter of "popular appeal", which is fine, as far as it goes. The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records 2013-06-13T06:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary definition of a witch includes two opposing meanings. The haters of Mary Beard's grey hair 2013-01-25T10:31:28Z

He graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and received a D.Phil. in medical oncology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes scholar. Meghal Shah, Shaan-Chirag Gandhi 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z

Because the coronavirus pandemic brought on gargantuan language changes, according to Oxford Languages, “2020 is a year which cannot be neatly accommodated in one single `word of the year.’ Dictionary companies choose same word of the year: pandemic 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

The photo was posted with a note by Jamario Howard who was at Brad’s BBQ in Oxford, Ala., last week with two friends. Photo of 3 Alabama men who kept widow company at restaurant goes viral 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

I was doing my DPhil at Oxford, a wearying and miserable time, during which I often fell asleep after supper, following a long day of failing to write. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z

“The word is not there in all its glory,” said Lyn Roberts, the general manager of Square Books in Oxford, Miss., which ordered 40 copies. A Heckuva Book Pitch. That?s Putting It Mildly. 2011-06-07T21:50:25Z

Didion’s account of her travels from New Orleans and Biloxi, Miss., to Meridian, Miss., and Tuscaloosa, Ala., and onto Faulkner’s hometown, Oxford, Miss., makes it clear that she feels like an outsider there. Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’ 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Thank you for your invitation to speak at the Oxford Poetry Society. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4 1928-1929 (ed. Valerie Eliot and John Haffenden) 2013-01-06T18:30:02Z

Shapcott started a promising PhD on Bishop's poetry at Oxford, but then landed a two-year scholarship to Harvard, where she studied under Heaney, and writing staked its claim on her. Jo Shapcott: the book of life 2011-01-27T08:00:06Z

The Oxford group’s sound is polished too, but less homogenous: it was easy to hear the individual voices within the blend. Music Review: Choir of New College, Oxford, at St. Thomas Church 2010-04-21T22:26:00Z

“Water is really important for us,” said Munazza Ebtikar, who is of Afghan descent and studies the country’s history and anthropology at the University of Oxford. For Afghans Abroad, Nowruz Is a Chance to Reflect 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

She graduated from the University of Oxford and received a master's degree in biblical studies from Yale, from which she also received a Ph.D. in religious studies. Candida Moss, Justin Foa 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

Later that summer, Aubrey moved to Washington and moved in with Will before returning to Oxford to complete her final year of graduate school. When she didn’t feel a spark, her date wasn’t bitter. In fact, he played matchmaker. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

She writes in her book that on Sept. 11, 2001, she was at home in Washington, D.C., visiting her mother and sisters before starting her final year at Oxford. This C.I.A. Officer Wants to Give Peace a Chance 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Barry Edelstein, artistic director of San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, who has a degree from Oxford in Shakespeare, had a more upbeat assessment when I spoke to him, too, about the ramifications of “Play on!” Perspective | Dumbing down Shakespeare: Are Americans too intellectually lazy to appreciate his genius? 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

They hadn't heard of any other universities other than Cambridge or Oxford. Richard Ayoade: Mr Modest 2011-01-15T00:03:59Z

It's unfortunate, because this one, based on things that actually went on down the west end of Oxford Street towards the beginning of last century, is more fun so far. TV review: Borgen; Mr Selfridge; Speed Dreams: The Fastest Place on Earth; Glee 2013-01-06T23:00:01Z

For many, the name Oxford conjures up images of its venerable university and fictional super-sleuth Inspector Morse. A Perfect Day... in Oxford 2012-03-05T03:35:00Z

“They might choose a really English-style small town, such as in the Cotswolds near Oxford,” he added. Flights, camera, action: Chinese couples in pursuit of perfect photos 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

“I’m going to Cambridge and Trinity Hall,” though he landed at Oxford. Movie Review: ‘56 Up’ Adds to Michael Apted’s Documentary Series 2013-01-03T23:33:57Z

Last word … the Oxford English Dictionary will review its word selection policy. Oxford English Dictionary apologises for 'highly insensitive' word of the day 2012-12-20T12:53:22Z

People think I didn't enjoy myself at Oxford because I turned it into this horrible, crumbling prison city... but it's a very claustrophobic city, I found. Fantasy author on Oxford's influence 2013-08-20T10:24:51Z

He attended Duke, graduated from Harvard in 1948 and earned a doctorate at Wadham College at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, writing his thesis on William Butler Yeats. William Becker, Who Transformed Janus Films, Dies at 88 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

She graduated from the University of Oxford in England. Jennifer Rigterink, Andrew Kingsley 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Current number of students at Corpus Christi College at Oxford — 240 undergraduates and 115 graduate students. Literary treasures from Corpus Christi College at Oxford arrive in Washington 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

The Oxford band performed The King of Limbs live for the first time at this year's Glastonbury festival. Watch Radiohead debut new songs in live session 2011-07-11T10:32:29Z

If you get it right – as on the outskirts of Oxford, or Bournville, or some of the great London suburbs – it can be an engine that drives forward the economy. Home truths: architects tackle the housing crisis 2012-07-11T17:15:59Z

A recent University of Oxford study found no evidence that any smartphone technology is accurate for the measurement of blood oxygen saturation. What is a pulse oximeter, and does the coronavirus pandemic mean you need one? 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

At Thursday’s British Embassy party thrown by Politico — a mock Oxford debate that most of the crowd politely ignored — Playbook reporter Ryan Lizza got everyone’s attention briefly with a line that drew some gasps. At correspondents’ dinner scene, Vanderpump rules. (Too bad, Tucker.) 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

He eventually enrolled in Oxford’s Worcester College, where he studied medieval history. Robert Kime, Decorator for Nobility and Other Notables, Dies at 76 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hill became enamored of poetry as a child and graduated from the University of Oxford in 1953. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

I'm sitting in the Oxford Union TV room watching the early news with a whole gang of friends. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z

Coming to the Oxford Union The bucolic setting for an improbable U.F.C. bout: Oxford University. This House Has No Confidence in Her Majesty's Jujitsu Skills: U.F.C. Coming to the Oxford Union 2010-08-31T15:31:00Z

Dreaming of becoming World Book Capital in 2014 ... the dome of the Radcliffe Camera and the quad of All Souls in Oxford. Oxford launches World Book Capital bid 2010-09-17T13:54:00Z

It was a fantasy of notoriety that made Oxford buy a pair of duelling pistols and take a pot shot at Victoria in 1840. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-19T19:00:02Z

Proceedings are scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press. Dr Alien, PhD: the horror classic that academia loves 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Britain is on a collision course with the European Union over vaccine shortages after Brussels refused to accept that people in the UK have first claim on Oxford/AstraZeneca doses produced in local plants. Britain and EU clash over claims to UK-produced Covid vaccine 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Born in Kidderminster, England, Mr. Shilvock said he decided to become an opera administrator while studying music at Christ Church College at Oxford. San Francisco Opera Picks Matthew Shilvock, an Insider, to Be Its Leader 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

I hugged her in Oxford Street and no one looked at us as though we were being inappropriate. A letter to … London, where my girlfriend and I could be out and proud 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

It was written on the notepaper of my Oxford college, so it must have dated from 1966 at the latest. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z

Caroline Hawkins, creative director of Oxford Scientific Films, reveals that one of her hit shows also arose from conversations with a commissioner. ‘You think: are we really doing this?’: how TV’s strangest shows get made 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

"Jay" Mitchell, who grew up in Oxford, recalled being on the square with friends and making fun of the writer. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

Hall, who had joined the corporation straight from Oxford, is one of those figures who progressed fast. The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z

He attended Oxford University and served in the Royal Air Force before beginning his acting career in Stratford-upon-Avon with the troupe that later became the Royal Shakespeare Company. Robert Hardy, British Actor Who Played Churchill Often, Dies at 91 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Oxford exerts a strong influence on those it touches, whether they love it or hate it, whether they embrace it or resist it, whether they admit it or deny it. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

The worldwide notice given this past month to the re-attribution to Rembrandt of a small painting at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum is a testament to the fascination the Dutch artist still holds for us. Review | In ‘Young Rembrandt,’ Onno Blom tries to piece together the artist as a young man 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

These 10 tree stumps began life in Ghana, but this week were hoisted onto the lawn of Oxford University’s Museum of Natural History. In pictures: Ghost Forest - tree stumps travel from Ghana to Oxford 2010-07-14T10:20:00Z

Puberty and a few good hidings took me out of this phase and, ever since, I've had no desire to visit Marlowe's LA or Morse's Oxford. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

Starring residents from Oxford's Rose Hill housing estate, the antics are based on that ever rose-tinted social document, the community newsletter of yesteryear, which provided an anchor for community life. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

Born in London, Rubinstein was educated at Cheltenham college and, after training as a pilot in the RAF between 1944 and 1947, read philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford. Hilary Rubinstein 2012-06-14T14:56:25Z

The Oxford Preservation Trust hopes to manage the property, which is currently owned by the city council, and open it to the public. Cash boost for Bard's tavern room 2013-06-10T13:47:46Z

She was married — to Jack Lively, a political theorist she met at Oxford — and had two children, and was casting about for something to do. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

The original proposal, for a store positioned not only within sight of the dreaming spires, but on a flood plain on the outskirts of Oxford, provoked furious opposition from conservationists and environmental campaigners. Bodleian Library sets up in Swindon 2010-10-07T09:38:00Z

The plaque will be unveiled by the Lord Mayor, Councillor Alan Armitage, and Mike Chew, chairman of the City Of Oxford School Association, which donated the plaque. Blue plaque honours Ronnie Barker 2012-09-28T09:59:21Z

The Recovery trial, based in Oxford, is testing a number of treatments, including convalescent plasma. Male survivors of Covid-19 asked to give plasma for treatment trials 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

In fact, the analysts at Oxford University Press estimated that as of March, “coronavirus” was one of the most “frequently used” nouns in all of the English language. Oxford dictionary skips 'Word of the Year' for 2020, says 'unprecedented' year required dozens instead 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

He currently sits on the executive board of the Oxford Business Alumni Chapter in Manhattan. Lauren Schorr, Jeffrey Potter 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z

THE Oxford English Dictionary defines a pastiche as “a medley of various ingredients; a hotchpotch, farrago, jumble.” ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z

We would like to travel to different places like Bath and Oxford and even to London for the day. Q&A: The Cotswolds and Public Transportation 2010-09-28T16:00:00Z

The bishop of Oxford is dead and someone has made off with his head. What we wrote... 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

After the exhibition in Oxford, the competition display will travel to another ten venues around the world including Estonia, Spain and Japan. Designers honoured for book binding 2013-06-10T17:03:06Z

His parents were both successful professionals and he was educated at one of London’s top private schools before going on to Oxford. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Hunter is a graduate from Oxford and best known in the theater world for directing plays and operas. Meet Benedict Cumberbatch's Fiancé Sophie Hunter 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Would you consider flying over to Oxford, and we could show you the workings, and you could meet the editors? Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

He meant people like the young woman wearing a calf-length gray knit cardigan who looked as if she got lost on her way to a reading at an Oxford literary society. Critical Shopper: Chuck and Doc Step Out 2011-01-05T18:57:08Z

He was accused by Prof Rory Collins at Oxford University of endangering lives. Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The beautiful and rarefied setting of both Oxford and Cambridge add an unhelpful patina to the stories of students like Joe Cooke and Chris Monk, who both featured in the programme. University politics offers more than eccentric skulduggery 2012-08-10T17:42:26Z

The brother, James, goes to London to pursue a career as a writer, taking lodgings with Christopher Paige, a dilettantish former classmate from Oxford. Pop culture’s “Twilight” plague: How vampire-ifying stories is ruining perfectly good plots 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Museums/Galleries: The Whitney, the MoMA, the Ashmolean in Oxford — they used to have these amazing creepy drawers full of shrunken heads you could rummage through, and I remain fascinated with that place. | Sara Rotman 2010-10-20T15:28:00Z

In its classical definition—brought to you by the folks at Oxford—the word simply means “able to be related to something else.” We like women better when they fall: “Me Before You” stumbles into the same old “relatable” trap 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

At the hospital in Oxford, I watch two technicians prepare tissue for storage behind a glass window, framed by balloons from a leaving party. 'It gives you hope': the fight to save the fertility of children with cancer 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kambalu, 46, is an associate professor at the Ruskin School of Art, part of Oxford University’s Humanities Division. A London Monument to Equality, Inspired by an Act of Defiance 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

The majority of the album’s 10 tracks are tidily packaged dance motivationals that stay well beneath the five-minute mark and wear the band’s influences like a freshly pressed Oxford. A Right Dance-Worthy Album from Franz Ferdinand 2013-08-30T09:45:31Z

In the early autumn of 2006, the mother of my best friend was taken into hospital in Oxford with acute stomach pains. Author, author: Paul Bailey 2011-01-15T00:05:47Z

"The whole point of what we were doing was surely to challenge the smug hegemony of the Oxford, Cambridge, public-schoolboy comedy network, as well as destroying the old-school working men's club racists!" Alexei Sayle: 'I'm still full of hate' 2013-01-22T18:45:01Z

After chatting with Rogers, I walk north toward Oxford Street, the city’s main shopping thoroughfare, a place I have learned to avoid because of its dense human traffic. As lockdown restrictions ease, a changed London awaits the return of foreign tourists 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

Apsara Iyer, for example, is an expert in cultural heritage with degrees from Yale and Oxford; her five languages include Hindi and Spanish. Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

The writer and former Harper’s magazine editor Willie Morris, a longtime Oxford resident who died in 1999, once dilated at length on “the beauteous sorority girls for which Mississippi has always been famous.” Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

The simplest and best answer I got at the event in Oxford was "for paying attention". Poetry's future 2010-06-18T07:30:00Z

Initially I was thinking of these three girls at Oxford as completely separate personalities. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Elif Shafak on Mixing Faith and Doubt 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

His hopes of academic glory in late 18th century Oxford were scuppered when his scholarly essays flopped, and he failed to bag a professorship. A Compendium of Everyday Genius 2010-08-15T16:53:00Z

A couple of weeks ago, Stormzy became the first grime artist to speak to the Oxford Guild, where he offered a conciliatory note about the recent #BritsSoWhite diversity controversy. Review: Stormzy Delivers Grime Music From Britain 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

For the next two decades he was the senior assistant secretary at the Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations, which set exams for secondary schools. Colin Dexter, Whose Creations Included Inspector Morse, Dies at 86 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

The Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from Oxford’s continually updated corpus of more than 11 billion words, gathered from news sources across the English-speaking world. Oxford’s 2020 Word of the Year? It’s Too Hard to Isolate 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z

He was educated at the Dragon school, in Oxford, and the Leys school, in Cambridge. Raphael Loewe obituary 2011-08-04T18:00:49Z

Oxford is also keen for translations of Anglo-Saxon texts, pictures and videos of Anglo-Saxon buildings or monuments, recordings of Old English, and even videos of historical re-enactments, to be included in the archive. Oxford University opens Anglo-Saxon archive to online submissions 2010-07-06T15:33:00Z

From a former chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, a charmingly frank account of a 35-year career dedicated to lexicography. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

The future Howards' Way star studied at Trinity College, Oxford and decided to make acting his career after joining the Oxford University Drama Society. In pictures: Nigel Davenport 2013-10-30T11:34:19Z

Tolkien’s annotations on a recently discovered map reveal that Hobbiton was located at the approximate latitude of Oxford. ‘Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth’ Review: Bringing a World to Life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

She read English literature at Oxford and did an MA at York. Grace McCleen's Christian sect novel wins Desmond Elliott prize 2012-06-29T15:42:19Z

The Oxford to which he came in 1963 was not so different from "Fatherland" he says. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z

After Darwin published The Origin of Species, FitzRoy confronted him at an Oxford debate, “raising a heavy Bible above his head and imploring the audience to believe in God rather than man.” Make them talk about evolution: Why won’t a single Republican presidential candidate admit that Darwin’s right 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

After graduating from Oxford, Ms. Jones moved to London to pursue acting full-time, appearing in stage productions at the Donmar Warehouse and getting a crucial break in a TV adaptation of “Northanger Abbey.” From ‘Rogue One’: A Rising Star in a Galaxy Far, Far Away 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

It follows Stephen Newman from his childhood in suburban Los Angeles to Oxford, England. Newly Released Books 2011-04-20T22:05:44Z

In a 2001 interview with Oxford American magazine, former President Bill Clinton was asked to name a musician readers would be surprised he listened to. Peter Brötzmann, 82, Dies; His Thunderous Saxophone Shook Jazz Traditions 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

As an instructor at Oxford, Mr. Gilbert became skilled at drawing maps on chalkboards. Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

After a brief career as a concert violinist, she studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate prize. Rough Music by Fiona Sampson 2011-01-24T10:58:45Z

From Oxford I flew to Paris for the six-week breaks between terms. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

It was at Oxford that Burt began wearing women’s clothes — just sometimes, when he was in the mood. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z

A 2009 study by Oxford University, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, found that those taking SSRIs reported "a general reduction in the intensity of the emotions that they experienced". Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z

The Oxford alumnus penned it in response to the felling of trees running alongside the Thames in Binsey, a village on the west side of the city. Bodleian Library buys Hopkins poem 2013-05-02T10:08:49Z

But these students are not studying at Oxford, the Sorbonne or an art institute in Florence. More Students Choose a Junior-Year Abroad in the Mideast 2010-08-06T22:00:00Z

“I was a Faulkner nut. I thought, ‘I’m going to live in Oxford, Miss.’ ” A Bookstore Owner Taps a Wound to Write a First Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

The author of 30 books, he is a professor of philosophy at Birbeck College in London, and a supernumerary of St Anne's College, Oxford, as well as a UN human rights activist. AC Grayling: 'How can you be a militant atheist? It's like sleeping furiously' 2011-04-03T20:00:01Z

At Oxford, and then at Birmingham, Coughlan developed a gift for comedy and, because she has always looked mind-bendingly young for her age, a knack for playing children. The Secret Is Out on This ‘Bridgerton’ Star 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

In an interview with the Kansas radio station 98.9 The Rock reported by NME.com, Mr. Taylor said his invitation to Oxford was “very ironic seeing as I didn’t graduate from high school.” ArtsBeat: People = Surprised: Corey Taylor of Slipknot to Speak at Oxford Union 2011-05-20T14:56:02Z

A big screen adaptation of the hit West End play Posh, The Riot Club is a fictionalised version of Oxford University's Bullingdon Club - the exclusive society known for its boisterous behaviour. Toronto Film Festival 2014: British films set to screen 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

After Oxford, and marriage to my first wife Kirby, we spent a year at Stanford, on a fellowship of two thousand dollars a year. Garlic with Everything 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

His exhibitions at Milton Keynes and Oxford were original, brave and beautifully presented. Michael Stanley, rising star in art firmament, dies aged 37 2012-09-25T17:05:51Z

There will be heightened security at Pullman's event at the Oxford Literary Festival next Sunday as a result of the letters. Philip Pullman's book on life of Jesus prompts letters condemning him to 'eternal hell' 2010-03-22T11:59:00Z

In “A Note on the Word ‘Gubernatorial,’” which Davis contributed to the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, she enjoys the word’s sound, “incorporating two voiced plosives and the word ‘goober.’” For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Solnit’s 2008 essay “Men Explain Things to Me” helped give birth to the term, which has been canonized by the Oxford online dictionary, been translated into multiple languages and inspired countless memes. Perspective | Rebecca Solnit on mansplaining and her new book, ‘The Mother of All Questions’ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

As the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, “presentism” is a philosophical term describing “the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts.” Let’s Look Back on 2021, When We Couldn’t Stop Looking Back 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Since you are moving to Oxford, how about any of the very splendid novels set in Oxford? Can you suggest any moving house books for a worried seven-year-old? 2012-05-28T16:29:43Z

A major study led by a team from Oxford University, published in the journal Nature in October 2018, showed that huge reductions in meat-eating are essential to slow the rate of climate change. Why do people hate vegans? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Various rival suggested authors have included fellow playwright Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, the Earls of Oxford and Derby, Francis Bacon and even a spurious suggestion that Elizabeth I might have influenced 'bardoltry'. In search of Shakespeare's ghosts 2011-07-14T07:42:46Z

About 15 minutes into the Oxford opening, there was a general power cut, and the play stopped. At 20, an Upstate Arts Haven Keeps Breaking New Ground 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

“Word Crimes,” meanwhile, is likely to be shared a lot on Facebook by the kinds of people who worry about the Oxford comma or gag at the sight of dangling participles. Weird Al Yankovic Endures 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

As a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, Smith honed his theatrical and comedy prowess with a production of The Tempest in Oxford and shows at the Edinburgh fringe. Mel Smith 2013-07-21T16:12:44Z

I eventually returned to an Oxford that I felt detached from, and went through the motions of dressing formally for examinations I now regarded as obstacles to be negotiated before attempting to claim my future. Once upon a life: Caryl Phillips 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z

Leaving Oxford without a degree, he enlisted in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at the outbreak of World War II in 1939. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

I was walking down the Rue de Rivoli - which is Paris's Oxford Street - and there were poster prints of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean and other cinema icons. Tom Hiddleston on his Oscar double 2012-02-09T08:34:12Z

When the first edition was being created, inserts were slipped into books, looking for volunteers to read particular titles, write down phrases they found interesting and mail them back to Oxford. Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Above all, “Gatsby’s Oxford” reminds us, yet again, that “The Great Gatsby” more than lived up to Fitzgerald’s initial intention to “write something extraordinary and beautiful and simple” but also — oh, yes indeed — “intricately patterned.” Review | A new look at Gatsby — as an Oxford man 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

Oxford played an important part in our father's life. Cecil Day-Lewis letters donated to Oxford library by his children 2012-10-30T00:01:03Z

Our increasing obsession with art as a financial asset is toxic—the word that Oxford Dictionary chose to sum up the spirit of 2018. The Year in Art 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

She remembers her time at Oxford in flashbacks throughout the night. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Elif Shafak on Mixing Faith and Doubt 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

It’s these kinds of topics that Uncomfortable Oxford wants to tackle with local examples. In Britain, these Oxford walking tours focus on often-glossed-over parts of the city’s history 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, Watson said, Faulkner would walk around Oxford in a flight officer's uniform, complete with a cane and sometimes with a limp, and tell people he'd been wounded in a plane crash, which wasn't true. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z

Mohr has a PhD in English literature from Stanford and Holy Sh*t is published by Oxford University Press, which means she applies an academic rigour to her investigation of swearing. Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr – review 2013-06-30T14:00:02Z

"To come in from the cold after all this time is a wonderful thing," he says from his kitchen in Oxford. Ibrahim el-Salahi: from Sudanese prison to Tate Modern show 2013-07-03T18:30:01Z

A distillation of a lifetime’s research and writing, by the Oxford academic who also created freespeechdebate.com. High fliers 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The road from the skeleton takes us across Scotland to Oxford, the Hague and ultimately to the region formerly known as Yugoslavia. Val McDermid's new whodunit rattles with recent Balkans history 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

But Bill Hamilton at Oxford and EO Wilson at Harvard were also interested in exploring how our biological inheritance causes us to behave in ways not solely dictated by genetic self-interest. Tim Flannery: A life in books 2011-03-14T07:59:01Z

But as Morris rightly points out, the loafer, unlike the Oxford, is a casual shoe. | A Brief History of Fashion's Favorite Flat 2012-11-23T20:00:44Z

While Dickens appears to have added the "smoking" to the name, the English literary critic George Saintsbury hypothesized in his 1920 "Notes on a Cellar-Book" that it was born at Oxford University. 5 historical hot cocktails that are perfect for cold weather 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sahner, 34, is an associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Oxford. Sarah Van den Bergh, Christian Sahner 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

He recently sold the lease on one of its megastores on London's Oxford Street to a fashion retailer for close to £14m to raise cash. HMV struggles to survive amid tumbling sales 2010-12-09T19:57:00Z

She arrived to study at Oxford with lit dirt under her fingernails. Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z

When musician Matt Sage moved to Oxford, he found himself feeling a tad isolated. Open Mic Night 2010-06-16T06:59:00Z

The UK’s regulator approved the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in late December. Britain and EU clash over claims to UK-produced Covid vaccine 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

She graduated from Wellesley College and earned master’s degrees in medieval literature and in financial economics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes scholar. Heather Long, Andrew Park 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

I explained at some length what was known about Shakespeare as a co-author, and how the culture of playwriting at the time precluded collaborations between professional dramatists and aristocrats like Oxford. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

He entered theForeign Office, and was told, "You're coming into the B-stream" because he didn't come from Oxford or have a private income that would allow you to become an ambassador. Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z

This original artwork was created by David Roberts for the 2011 Oxford University Press edition. Children's classic books on display 2013-10-04T05:56:53Z

The canal leads out of central Oxford toward a series of picturesque villages with lots of places to stop for a beer or a bite. 36 Hours in Oxford, England 2012-05-31T14:10:43Z

After graduating from Harvard University, James got her M.Phil. from Oxford University, a Ph.D. from Yale, eventually becoming a Shakespeare professor. YES MEANS KNOW: Respect, ravishment, and the non-con job of being a wanton woman 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Inspired by a lifelong fascination with science and lecture visits to MIT, Oxford and Harvard, the long-gestating “Dark Matter” is a concept album about the cosmos. Your week in Seattle music: Joan Baez, Flying Lotus and more 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

In the early 90s, she began a teacher training course in Oxford, but dropped out after "accidentally" joining Footlights. Olivia Colman in Rev 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

Malick might respond to that question with a question of his own; he was once a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Oxford, after all. Cannes: Brad Pitt and Terrence Malick's crazy religious allegory 2011-05-16T16:45:00Z

Photographers' Gallery, London W1F, until 30 June Stephen WillatsThis seminal figure in British conceptual art has worked with Oxford communities to create art about communication and – as we said back in the day – signification.• Rachel Whiteread and the decaying streets of Palermo – the week in art 2013-04-19T10:23:00Z

The couple met in June 2016 at a G&D’s cafe in Oxford, England, while she was working on her dissertation at Weston Library archives and he was doing research at the Bodleian Library. Lydia Walker, Alan Ross 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

The actress, who studied at Oxford and Brown University, now juggles her role with the U.N. with her busy acting career. Emma Watson Says Becoming a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Gave Her a 'Sense of Peace' 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Yet significantly, even Oxford and Cambridge, supposedly the ultimate sorting houses of academic ability, do not wash away the advantages of class origins. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

After earning a doctorate in political science from Oxford, she presented American radio programmes for 10 years before making the move to television in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. Rachel Maddow 2011-03-08T00:05:27Z

Eventually I joined the Oxford University Press as a desk editor and worked my way up. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z

The manuscript, originally owned privately, was purchased by the Bodleian Libraries of Oxford. Austen script sells for ?993,250 2011-07-15T07:47:25Z

The bride, 30, and groom, 31, met on a blind date while attending Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from which they graduated. Julie Keys, Andrew Heathfield 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

And then, as she recalled over Zoom last fall from her house in Oxford, she immediately thought to herself, “Oh my God, what have I done?” In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

I had arrived at Oxford a month previously and witnessed the Kennedy assassination on the BBC and read Malcolm’s comments in the press. Malcolm X at Oxford: 'They're going to kill me soon' 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

The term it inspired — “mansplaining” — became not only a part of everyday conversation, but an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. Review | Rebecca Solnit, who inspired the term ‘mansplaining,’ explains herself (sort of) 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

He left Google in 2013 to conduct doctoral research at Oxford on the philosophy and ethics of attention persuasion in design. Finding It Hard to Focus? Maybe It’s Not Your Fault 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

He crammed to get into Exeter College, Oxford, and, once there, never slowed down. Books of The Times: ‘Martin Amis: The Biography,’ by Richard Bradford 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z

He studied at Melbourne University's Conservatorium of Music at the age of 16 and in 1955 gained a scholarship to Oxford University. Australian composer Sculthorpe dies 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Data on the language used in the stories, each of which is no longer than 500 words, is tabulated and analyzed by Oxford University Press, publishers of the Oxford Children’s Dictionaries. And the Winner of the Child-Author's Competition Is … Lego, Universal Pictures 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The comedy star attended Donnington Junior School and won a scholarship to the City of Oxford High School for Boys, which is now Oxford University History Faculty building, in George Street. Blue plaque honours Ronnie Barker 2012-09-28T09:59:21Z

Robin Lane Fox, a historian of classical antiquity at Oxford University, finds him captivating. O come all ye faithful 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Oxford and the world are inseparable; scores of prime ministers up to and including Thatcher, against Cambridge's lonely Walpole and Pitt cannot be a coincidence. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z

You might guess that the revered 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica or the multi-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the greatest of all modern reference works. ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Instead of “worldview diversification” there’s a remarkable intellectual homogeneity; the dominant voices belong to white male philosophers at Oxford. Effective Altruism Warned of Risks. Did It Also Incentivize Them? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Already planning a 2014 repeat of the central London event and a crawl in south London next spring, Ms. Risa is also eyeing Edinburgh and Oxford for expansion. A Heady Cocktail of Books and Booze 2013-09-12T17:11:04Z

After college, where she studied English and classics, she enrolled in a six-month foundation course at the Oxford School of Drama. The Secret Is Out on This ‘Bridgerton’ Star 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Even without a personal tour guide, you might add an enjoyable hour or two at the current queen of Oxford Street, the experience known as Selfridges. Another London must-see: Selfridges, the iconic luxury department store 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

The only child of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is pursuing a doctorate at Oxford and working for the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. Chelsea Clinton is hired by NBC News 2011-11-14T20:58:07Z

“Possible reasons might be related to lower cholesterol levels or a deficiency of some nutrients, such as vitamin B12,” says Tammy Tong, a researcher in the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health. Is veganism as good for you as they say? 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

“Midtown certainly was not in the script,” said Stephen Godfroy, one of Rough Trade’s owners, in a video interview from his home in Oxford, England, last week. Rough Trade Record Store Has an Unlikely New Home: 30 Rock 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

Born in Britain, Armstrong studied English at Oxford, spent seven years as a Catholic nun, and then, after leaving the convent, took a brief detour toward hard-line atheism. Karen Armstrong on Sam Harris and Bill Maher: “It fills me with despair, because this is the sort of talk that led to the concentration camps” 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z

And the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force says that the animal was “skinned and beheaded, and the hunters tried to destroy the GPS collar that Cecil was wearing as part of research backed by Oxford University.” Jimmy Kimmel eviscerates “a-hole dentist who wants a lion’s head over the fireplace in his man cave,” proving he’s late night’s true hero 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Here, five distinguished female residents give their tips for a perfect day in Oxford. A Perfect Day... in Oxford 2012-03-05T03:35:00Z

Oxford draws pilgrims to sites both secular and sacred. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

After Oxford, he studied acting at Central School of Speech & Drama in London, and by 23 he had made his film debut in The Road To Guantánamo, about the Tipton Three. Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter 2013-04-27T08:00:00Z

Travelling to America in 1961, Johnson made sure to visit Faulkner’s Oxford, Mississippi. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

The three-hour drive between Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Oxford, Miss., is lovely, a meandering tour through the Appalachian foothills of northern Alabama. Modern Love: Modern Love: Revelations of a Feminist 2011-09-08T22:11:00Z

Paul Pennyfeather is shaken from his studies at Oxford by the marauding Bollinger Club, and embarks on a vertiginous, queasy journey through the relative innocence of school teaching to the corrupt experience of chrome-covered London. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z

Career From Oxford and Harvard Business School she went on to a career in banking, working at McKinsey and Credit Suisse, before setting up her own company offering financial advice for women. Claire Perry: a new breed of iron lady 2012-05-27T20:53:51Z

His father worked in Naugatuck, Conn., as an electrical software engineer at General DataComm, a telecommunications concern, now in Oxford, Conn. John Christian, Anthony Vellucci 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

But it also makes the New Oxford’s attribution to Christopher Marlowe an odd fit. The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

According to David Wondrich, the editor in chief of the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, it’s difficult to pinpoint where licorice- and anise-flavored spirits originated. Pastis, a Perfect Aperitif for the Lazy Days of Summer 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

She loved her gardens in Oxford and in France, where she and Brian created a home from a disused barn. Elizabeth North obituary 2010-10-11T17:14:00Z

Atkins grew up in a village outside Oxford, where his father worked as a graphic artist and his mother as a secondary-school art teacher. Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Prime Minister Boris Johnson — an Oxford classics graduate who loves to quote ancient Greek — has for years said the marbles belong in London. As Europe Returns Artifacts, Britain Stays Silent 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

I was a doormat at Oxford reading Goethe, so I was happy that neither he nor his sister Leah paid me much attention. Digested read: Great House by Nicole Krauss 2011-02-21T21:00:00Z

A trip to view Faulkner’s spirits is the best possible way to begin a long weekend in Oxford, a town in which civilization and distillation, in all their higher forms, are revered. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

In many places, audiences bristle when “a white Brit from Oxford,” he said, turns up to advise them on how society should express itself. Timothy Garton Ash Puts Forth a Free-Speech Manifesto 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

It's certainly true that – the poppy likes of My Number aside – Foals' music lacks the instant appeal of those bands, although that never stopped a certain other Oxford band from hogging top slots. Foals on Holy Fire: 'We were inspired by voodoo' 2013-04-25T17:11:02Z

While Aubrey was a student at Oxford, he lived through England’s civil war. You Remember John Aubrey. Chased by Debt Collectors, Chaser of Whores. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

P cycles to Oxford Street at four in the morning every day to change the clothes on the mannequins in one of the major clothes shops. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

Meeting Malcolm X at an Oxford Union debate in 1964, he was pleased to discover that Malcolm was "a great admirer of Cuba and Vietnam". A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z

Sam Mendes, a childhood friend from Oxford, was the director, their pal Tom Piper was designer and Nick Clegg, then a frequent student actor, played Carbon de Castel-Jaloux, captain of the cadets. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z

The volume in which it was discovered, the Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany, published in 1708, was, said Williams, "a set of poems written by witty young men about town for witty young men about town". Did John Milton write filthy, innuendo-laden rhyme? 2010-09-22T15:56:00Z

I was watching the film with my girlfriend and her sister in the manky basement of a pretty unsafe house off the Cowley Road in Oxford – a setting which seemed worryingly close to the film. Threads: the film that frightened me most 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Photograph: University of Oxford/PA Lewis is able to manipulate the implant using dials on a small wireless power supply held in her hand. Woman fitted with 'bionic eye' speaks of joy after reading a clock for first time in years 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

The 24-year-old Brit, who spent part of her college career at Oxford, enrolled at Brown in 2009, but continued to work on several films while studying, most recently the biblical epic Noah. Emma Watson Will Graduate This Month (From Brown, Not Hogwarts) 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

A purple heron — “rakish, with long thin neck” in the words of the Oxford “Pocket Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent” — landed in a clump of water hyacinth. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z

A year's hurried cramming got him in to Oxford to study English. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z

A hockey mom, explains the New Oxford American Dictionary rather blandly, is "a mother who devotes a great deal of time and effort to supporting her children's participation in ice hockey". Hockey moms and bromance pimp dictionary's definitions 2010-09-20T14:40:00Z

The letters will be displayed alongside a selection of Tolkien collections, inspirations and artifacts from the UK and U.S. at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, from June 1 to Oct. Tolkien Christmas letters to his children to go on show 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Alwyn Collinson, 24, a recent graduate in Renaissance history from Oxford University, hatched his own plan to invade Poland in a mere five days. Re-enacting Historical Events on Twitter With RealTimeWWII 2011-11-27T20:53:31Z

The University of Oxford has declined to address the matter in any detail but acknowledged that Obbink left the University’s employment in February. He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The manuscript of an early poem, Heart's Yearnings, by Oscar Wilde, written at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1874, sold for £67,250. Irish poets' work sells for £130,000 2013-05-10T11:59:26Z

In the early 80s, while studying Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics at Oxford, he came across two rival interpretations of it. A life in writing: Ray Monk 2012-11-09T22:55:03Z

Alsina and Maurice, who was a fellow at All Souls, the storied graduate college at Oxford, wished to diversify the press’s offerings. The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

In this second of the show’s three last episodes, the dean of an Oxford college is found bludgeoned to death after a passionate debate in a pub. What’s on TV: ‘Black Orpheus’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ Marathon 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

Jeanie King, our protagonist, lives in Oxford but spent her childhood in a remote cabin on the coast of Washington State. A Bloody Crime, a Mysterious Disappearance and the Long After 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

The gallery’s current home, in a redeveloped warehouse near Oxford Street, will next year become the anchor for a local council initiative called the Soho Photography Quarter, intended to rebrand and develop the surrounding area. 50 Years of Taking Photography Seriously 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

Hopefully, late 2016 will see the publication of the “Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails,” a monster project Wondrich is editing. The man who helped spark the cocktail movement — and keeps feeding it 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

Oxford was Smiley's spiritual home, as it is mine. John le Carr? gives his literary archive to Oxford's Bodleian library 2011-02-23T20:21:46Z

Running almost parallel to Oxford’s literary rebirth has been its emergence as a mecca of Southern eats. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

Almost immediately on coming down from Oxford in 1966, Ali began to agitate for a workers' uprising – not just in Britain but across the world. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z

She grew up in a large, creative family in Oxford. Florence Pugh goes down a dark rabbit hole in ‘Midsommar’ 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Oxford professor and IgNobel prize winner Charles Spence continues his work on the key role that the sound of crunchy food plays in our very enjoyment and perception of flavor. The one food texture that makes me happiest 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Iannucci, who dropped out of doctoral studies at Oxford to become a comedian, writer and filmmaker, asked him why. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Apparently yes, as Armstrong reports having heard versions of this statement from “American commentators and psychiatrists, London tax drivers and Oxford academics.” Richard Dawkins is wrong: Religion is not inherently violent 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

Next month, Mrs. Sahner, who is 31 and a lawyer specializing in charities law, will join the Oxford office of the law firm Winckworth Sherwood. Sarah Van den Bergh, Christian Sahner 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

After the air force, he went to Oxford University to study law. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Then it's a circular route back along the canal to the Victorian suburb of Jericho, where the industrial, brooding, Jude the Obscure atmosphere complements the grandeur of medieval Oxford. A Perfect Day... in Oxford 2012-03-05T03:35:00Z

Following this year's events in London, the 2013 Korean Film Festival - which features no films from North Korea - will present highlights from its programme in Oxford, Bradford and St Andrews. Korean festival brings hits to London 2013-11-06T16:36:22Z

“Camp” — as a word for a type of affected behavior associated with gay men — may have entered the Oxford English Dictionary as early as 1909. | 'Unnatural Acts' : Behind the Closed Doors of Harvard, 91 Years Ago 2011-06-24T02:01:10Z

Faulkner was a native of New Albany, Miss., then lived in Oxford, Miss. The University of Mississippi runs a museum at his Greek Revival house. William Faulkner collection auctioned in NYC 2010-06-22T17:04:00Z

The professors, from universities including Nottingham Trent, Leeds Metropolitan, Oxford and Bristol, published their letter in national newspapers in March, warning of the dangers of Gove's national curriculum proposal. 'Illiterate' letter wins campaigning professors an award for bad grammar 2013-05-03T10:18:21Z

According to the research, which also involved universities in Glasgow, York, Oxford and Northern Ireland, 21% of households are behind with household bills, against 14% in the late 1990s. Poverty hits twice as many British households as 30 years ago 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Denis Mack Smith, whose myth-destroying interpretation of Italian unification infuriated many Italian historians but established him as the pre-eminent British writer on modern Italy, died on July 11 at his home in Oxford, England. Denis Mack Smith, Chronicler of Modern Italy, Dies at 97 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

This summer sees the launch of a new website dedicated to finding and exploring the UK’s numerous hillforts, coordinated by the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Strolling the ancient hillforts of southern England 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

The film will chart her remarkable journey from housewife bringing up her children in Oxford to taking on the power of Burma's generals by becoming opposition leader. Aung San Suu Kyi's tragic love and incredible life come to the big screen 2010-12-19T21:30:10Z

Stephen Hawking, the great physicist who probably knows more than anyone about the tricky ways of space and time, was born in Oxford and did his undergraduate work here. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

A later chapter peers more closely at Waugh, finding the apotheosis of the so-called Oxford novel in “Brideshead Revisited.” Review | A new look at Gatsby — as an Oxford man 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

The word “selfie“was recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013, the same year it beat out “twerk” for Word of the Year. These Are the Best (and Worst) Celeb Selfies of All Time 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

The Oxford graduate wrote the book over four years while working as an actress and as a PA in a City firm. Miniaturist novel wins book prize 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

He was gifted son of a Welsh miner whose escape to Oxford helped him become a man of erudition, insight and self-knowledge, as well as a hell-raiser. Burton diaries' passion and shame 2012-08-15T11:56:58Z

In the UK, in the 10-year period to 2017, more than two-thirds of all millionaire donations – £4.79bn – went to higher education, and half of these went to just two universities: Oxford and Cambridge. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Modern Art Oxford and The Ashmolean Museum Of Art & Archeology, to 26 Sep A film shows three builders erecting scaffolding on a beach. This week's new exhibitions 2012-06-22T23:06:30Z

There are around 700 surviving Stradivari instruments in the world, with the finest and best preserved now gathered in Oxford, he said. Behold the Messiah: 21 of the finest Stradivarius violins go on show 2013-06-12T17:43:59Z

When he called recently from his home near Oxford, England, it was revealing, and rather charming, that he referred several times to his “patchy music education.” How Jonny Greenwood Wove the ‘Phantom Thread’ Score 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

I pined, but I was also busy with A-levels and Oxford entrance preparation, and doing all the busy, good-girl stuff that was expected of me. My grimly inappropriate boyfriend dumped me in the pub | Emma Beddington 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

It begins in 1940 when David Sparsholt, an impossibly handsome young man bound for a military career, arrives at Oxford University. In Alan Hollinghurst’s Latest, a Hazy Sex Scandal Looms Over Many Lives 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

When her dreams of being an actress didn’t pan out, she became an academic, studying at Oxford, where she eventually became the first woman in the prestigious role of Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

Adam Raine, a laborer’s son who has been taken in by a wealthy man, sets aside his studies at Oxford to serve in the Army. Perspective | Six novels that get to the truth of World War I 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

Over the summer, I was coming out of Oxford Street tube station in London when something stopped me in my tracks. Starvation diets, obsessive training and no plus-size models: Victoria’s Secret sells a dangerous fantasy 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

In “Reinventing Shakespeare,” Taylor wrote that the Oxford Shakespeare “repeatedly shocks its readers, and knows that it will.” The Radical Argument of the New Oxford Shakespeare 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

When the Oxford student newspaper once asked him in a survey, “What is the price of a Big Mac?,” he responded: “Oh, about £2,000 with a colour screen.” Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Oxford will be marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 2016. ArtsBeat: An Effort to Put First Edition of Shakespeare Online 2012-08-01T16:07:19Z

Air Force, grandson of a Swedish army officer and in the 1ate 1950s a Rhodes Scholar in English Literature at England's Oxford University. Country singer Kristofferson looks to end of road 2012-11-21T13:27:47Z

They are still going to drive to Tupelo, or to Oxford, with its college crowd. 2010-02-07T06:40:00Z

Tim Crouch's controversial and engaging The Author is at the North Wall in Oxford from Friday before heading to Bristol Old Vic. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-09-17T16:05:00Z

The Oxford University Press analyses the 50 million words contained in the stories to discover general and emerging themes. Challenging children's imagination 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

This year marked the 159th annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge University Viewers heard the Oxford cox Oskar Zorilla repeatedly swear as he urged his team on to victory on Sunday, 31 March. ITV rapped over Kensit guest slot 2013-04-22T13:15:43Z

Finally published in six volumes by Oxford University Press in 2005 as “The Oxford History of Western Music,” it is an endlessly informative, often opinionated page-turner — all 4,272 pages of it. Music’s Towering Intellectual, With an Appetite for Trouble 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z

At Oxford, my chief non-scholastic pursuit was writing, but a chance event took me into the world of public speaking. Philip French: my life as a stammerer 2010-12-26T00:05:05Z

Price was a Rhodes Scholar and studied in Oxford, England. Reynolds Price, author and Duke professor, dies 2011-01-21T11:53:09Z

He attended grammar school and gained an Oxford scholarship, but this was thwarted by his national service in 1942. Jeff Keen 2012-06-24T15:35:14Z

A bookshop in Oxford, Mississippi, has even created a window display featuring books agented by Wylie, marked "these books not for sale". US authors blame publishers for Wylie Amazon ebook deal 2010-07-27T14:55:00Z

Twenty years later, Howick is a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Oxford. ‘I knew they were sugar pills but I felt fantastic’ – the rise of open-label placebos 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

I was lucky enough to witness the singular sight of Howard Jacobson delivering a Sunday sermon in a church in Oxford last year. Bath festival's reading will revive the spirit of the King James Bible 2011-02-22T18:09:34Z

He recently won a competition to redevelop the former Oxford Barracks, a onetime British military outpost in Münster, Germany, upgrading housing, commercial spaces, parks, and other public areas in the residential community. Homegrown Hero 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary says that he coined the term “Bada-bing,” heard during a routine titled “An Italian Wedding” on the “Our Hero” album. Pat Cooper, Comedian of Outrage, Is Dead at 93 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Borné insists that “the South is much more than a geographic or cultural monolith,” and she’s determined to make sure Oxford American reflects the region’s complexity. Oxford American celebrates its hard-won 25th anniversary 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

After leaving Oxford, she got into directing and tentatively joined the young writers programme, feeling like "an infiltrator". Royal Court theatre prepares to bid farewell to King Dominic 2013-03-10T07:00:00Z

Subsequent positions included a stint as organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, and the job grandly titled Informator Choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford. The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

“His Dark Materials” introduced the world to Lyra, an imaginative, unmanageable child being raised by scholars of Oxford’s Jordan College. Philip Pullman’s latest book is adventure for an anxious age 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Sounds vague and nebulous to me,” Moody complains, to which Hathaway sensibly replies, “Well, this is Oxford, sir.” Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Thus, in “Tell Me How You Organize Your Books” he describes his study and the reference works he consults most often, starting with the Oxford Companion to English Literature and the Oxford Classical Dictionary. ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Last month she was stripped of a similar honor by the British university city of Oxford, where she was an undergraduate. Bob Geldof hands back Dublin honor shared with Aung San Suu Kyi 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

As Clifford Bartlett, the editor of the Oxford edition, noted in his introduction to the score, the soloists in Handel’s time likely sang the choruses as well. Around New York, Different Ways of Hearing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

Baranski has spent the past two summers in the UK, taking courses at Oxford University. Mamma Mia's Christine Baranski on schmoozing with Cher and meeting Trump 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

He describes a stuffed dodo in Oxford, the Chandos portrait of Shakespeare and a giraffe with soft, liquid eyes. ‘Letters of a Dead Man’: A travel guide like no other 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

We chatted with a woman from Oxford walking solo who was exuberant over the stunning scenery. We walked half of Scotland’s West Highland Way to fulfill an old hiking dream 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

He was the enology adviser to the most recent edition of The Oxford Companion to Wine. Denis Dubourdieu, Who Elevated Bordeaux White Wines, Dies at 67 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The former Radio 1 DJ, who now broadcasts on Asian Network and 5 Live, was taking part in a panel on diversity at the Oxford Media Convention when he made his comments. BBC DJ criticises Radio 1 diversity 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

His Florey building for Queen's College Oxford is a sort of inhabited viaduct turned into theatrical U-shaped court, a distant derivation of the Oxford quad, facing the river Cherwell. Stirling buildings 2011-03-20T00:01:01Z

He was born in Santa Monica and studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Oxford; he now lives in Williamsburg. The Screening Room: “Marcela & Rock” 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

She escaped, too, by marrying young, at 19, rather than applying, as she had been encouraged to do, to Oxford. A Warm Biography of the Fantastical, Feminist Angela Carter 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

The sequence of motets that follows is more varied, and more dramatic at times; the sound of the recording from Merton College Chapel, Oxford, is a little lacking in immediacy, though nicely seraphic. Clemens non Papa: Missa Pro Defunctis; Penitential Motets ? review 2011-01-27T22:18:00Z

But it wasn't until he studied acting at Lamda – having already done a degree in English at Oxford – that he decided to make a career of it. Rory Kinnear as Hamlet: A palpable hit 2010-09-19T17:33:00Z

A 2015 Oxford University study found the majority of African Americans and modern-day Yoruba people in West Africa have a similar ancestry, confirming that the region was a major source of African slaves . The story behind the design of the African American history museum 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

He pined to return to Rowan Oak, his home in Oxford. Best Places in the South 2010-02-17T21:30:00Z

Sadly, many of Stirling's early buildings – including Leicester, the History Library at Cambridge, and the Florey Building for Queen's College, Oxford – were shoddily built. The best architecture for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:02Z

Mark Gorman, a visiting fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and director of Strategic Development for HelpAge International, said many low- and middle-income schemes relied on volunteers, which ultimately was unsustainable. UK and US 'must learn from poor countries' to solve ageing crisis 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

I grew up with fig trees at my grandparents' house in Oxford, Mississippi, but for some reason, no one ate them raw, at least not that I recall. Celebrate fig season with the easiest, creamiest homemade ice cream you've ever tasted 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Comedian Ruby Wax talks to Matthew Stadlen about studying at Oxford, escaping from a Swiss charm school. her struggle with depression and how "drink and Zulus" led to her getting a break in television. VIDEO: Complex comic: Ruby Wax in five minutes 2011-05-21T07:05:45Z

When he returned home he drove trucks and forklifts until, in 1973, he joined the fire department in Oxford, Miss. It was a job he would keep for 16 years. ‘On Fire’ Makes Bad Habits Sound Very Sweet 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Burne-Jones worked his way out of his unhappy Birmingham childhood by study, arriving at Exeter College, Oxford at the same time as William Morris. The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy - review 2011-08-25T09:00:01Z

Among some of the newly ubiquitous words observed by the analysts with Oxford included “bushfire” and “impeachment” in January, followed by “acquittal” in February, before landing on “coronavirus” in March. Oxford dictionary skips 'Word of the Year' for 2020, says 'unprecedented' year required dozens instead 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

“Plague” comes from the Middle English plage, which comes from the Latin plaga, “blow” — as in, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “a blow, smiting, slaughter.” A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Oxford topped the list because it improved across the four main indicators that influence the rankings - teaching, research, citations and international outlook, Times Higher Education said. Oxford ranked as world's top university: Times Higher Education 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Shippey is a leading Tolkien scholar — he met Tolkien and taught from his syllabus at Oxford. 4 books for fans of J.R.R. Tolkien 2013-12-20T23:28:45Z

Christopher Brown, director of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford for the last 16 years, announced his retirement on Wednesday. ArtsBeat: Director of Ashmolean Museum at Oxford to Step Down 2013-06-20T18:23:23Z

It was not “impossible, but based on surviving documentary evidence, next to impossible” for Shakespeare to have co-authored plays with Oxford, I told him. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

On-air apologies were given after the Oxford cox was thrown into the river following his team's win and when the first instance of the most offensive language was heard by the production team. BBC told to take action after 'inappropriate' Boat Race swearing 2013-06-17T13:21:53Z

“OK,” whose earliest usage is 1839, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, generally means things are good or all right. Language evolves, and that’s okay (O.K.?) 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Atkins grew up in a small village near Oxford, where he acted in plays; his favorite role was Juror Eight, in “Twelve Angry Men.” An Artist Who Explores the Deep Creepiness of Facial-Recognition Technology 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Misty morning shots of the Oxford skyline punctuate sedate scenes of investigation in dreamy quadrangles and riverside cafes. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Haydn's "Oxford" Symphony, No 92, oozed sunshine thanks to warm, tender strings, a graceful solo flute and Fischer's ebullience. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer/Hough - review 2011-01-17T21:46:01Z

The design of the theatre is based on a series of drawings found at Worcester College Oxford in the 1960s, believed to be the earliest set of designs for an English theatre in existence. Globe theatre named after founder 2012-11-27T15:16:39Z

"Oxford was Smiley's spiritual home, as it is mine," he said. Le Carre gives literary archive to Oxford library 2011-02-24T00:03:12Z

Possibly when Ruby was briefly impaled between the ticket barrier at Oxford Circus after I encouraged her to run through after losing her travel card. Blind date: 'Things got a bit spicy around the main course' 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

Living in Oxford, I got so used to architectural beauty I almost stopped noticing it. Oxford: Where time is fluid, Latin is far from dead and every stone tells a story 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

Fahad, who is bound for Oxford, has an awakening of a different sort. In This Debut Novel, Family Ties Bind, Even From Afar 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

His latest contribution is New Republic, a line of affordable loafers, drivers, Oxfords and boots. Your Guide to New York Fashion Week: Men’s 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

What, then would Oxford have meant to Gatsby, Fitzgerald and Americans of his generation? Review | A new look at Gatsby — as an Oxford man 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

On Nov. 17, Oxford declared vape as their word of the year. Dictionary.com's Word of the Year for 2014 is 'Exposure' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

“You are messing up my afternoon,” Mr. Laurie said pleasantly in his distinguished Oxford English accent. Hugh Laurie Directs an Episode of ?House? 2010-04-11T22:24:00Z

Hollander grew up in a village near Oxford, part of a "moderately churchy family" that counted the "racy" local vicar a friend and can trace "a pugnacious bishop" on his mother's side in 19th century. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z

About five years ago, Ankhi Mukherjee, a professor of world literature at Oxford University, received a letter asking whether she wanted to nominate someone for the Nobel Prize in Literature. How to Choose the Nobel Laureate: Tap a Literature Professor 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

“After a steak dinner with Ruben and a stroll along El Dorado Street, Billy Tully went back to the Oxford Hotel, where he had been sleeping, sober and alone, for the past week.” In California, Finding ‘Fat City’ With the Man Who Wrote It 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Simon Mason "I really don't think of it at all as an 'issues' book," says Simon Mason, the shudder in his voice at the thought audible down the phone line from his home in Oxford. Simon Mason: Seriously funny 2011-07-29T14:30:42Z

Kind reader, spare a thought for the shoppers and strollers of Oxford Street this Tuesday afternoon past. What to say about ? The Wizard of Oz 2011-03-02T17:48:57Z

At New College, Oxford, he did no work whatsoever and left after his first year, intent on becoming a journalist. Michael Burn obituary 2010-09-23T16:57:00Z

As an Oxford undergraduate, Housman quickly established himself as a formidable student of Latin and Greek. The enduring allure of A.E. Housman’s poetry 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Like it or not, your public expression of interest in the Oxford question has, to my mind at least, disturbing political implications. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

If they don’t, it may be because they find the humor too precious, the same way some music fans find Vampire Weekend songs like “Oxford Comma” a little too adorable. Review: An Anime New York in Netflix’s ‘Neo Yokio’ 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

An HMV shop on Oxford Street in London played a crucial part in the launch of The Beatles. HMV suspends share trading, seeks rescue 2013-01-15T13:45:12Z

One brief word on the recital given last week by Mark Padmore, a tenor with no present signs of going baritonal, and pianist Graham Johnson in Oxford. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z

Even before arriving at Balliol College, Oxford, Mr. Hitchens had been drawn into left-wing politics, primarily out of opposition to the Vietnam War. Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z

His huge collection of vinyl records was arranged in clearly labeled alphabetical order, and on a bookshelf near his wine refrigerators sat a complete set of the Oxford English Dictionary. Music: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem Talks About Discoveries 2010-05-28T21:35:00Z

My hopes that “Anonymous” would lead Stevens to distance himself from Oxford’s cause were misplaced. An Unexpected Letter from John Paul Stevens, Shakespeare Skeptic 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

In Oxford the stone colleges, the perfectly composed gardens and trimmed lawns were human and had been so for centuries. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z

That sense of contentment, as I suggested in the book, probably had more to do with the bottle of Shiraz I downed in the Oxford brasserie after leaving Swinburne. Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z

Nothing, but nothing—profanity, transgender pronouns, apostrophe abuse—excites the passion of grammar geeks more than the serial, or Oxford, comma. A Few Words About That Ten-Million-Dollar Serial Comma 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The selection follows "vax" as word of the year from the folks who publish the Oxford English Dictionary. Merriam-Webster chooses vaccine as the 2021 word of the year 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z

Mr. Marissen, 55, is a musicologist and professor emeritus at Swarthmore College; Oxford University Press is issuing his “Bach & God,” a book of scholarly essays from the last 20 years. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

He became a fellow of New College at Oxford in 1955, teaching English. John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

While examining the 10 volumes, I flashed back to when I first learned about this American analogue to Britain’s more famous Oxford English Dictionary. Perspective | When book storage is limited, people get desperate. Don’t make the mistakes I did. 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

An early clue leads Endeavour to the Oxford suburb of Jericho, where the first Morse episode was set. Television Review: Inspector Morse Returns in ‘Endeavour,’ a Prequel 2012-06-29T23:57:08Z

After national service, he read history at Jesus College, Oxford, where he was a contemporary and friend of the critic Kenneth Tynan. Peter Hardwick obituary 2013-02-28T11:49:32Z

After studying at Oxford University, he went into TV work with the BBC. With 'Les Miz,' a new kind of speech for Hooper 2012-12-21T15:31:17Z

The “Scene of the Crime Farm” is how his friend Ian McEwan described his last place, a run-down establishment on 100 acres outside of Oxford. A Story of Love and Obsession 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Alternatively, head to Warwick Arts Centre this weekend, or the Oxford Playhouse next week, for Cheek by Jowl's Barbican-bound production of The Tempest - in Russian. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2011-03-04T18:07:32Z

Andrew Sanders, author of the Short Oxford History of English Literature, recalled how the glue holding his edition of a collection of Jacobean plays together melted, causing the cover to fall off. Penguin is 75 2010-06-30T18:45:00Z

Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist at Oxford University, said: “Celebrity watching has to do with making sure the famous are not breaking the rules too much. We pay for them to be up there.” Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall? The Fascination of Odd Couples 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Pulling from the shelf my old college copy of the Oxford New Revised Standard Version, I looked up I Corinthians 13 and read it over a few times. The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z

Paul Levy, chairman emeritus of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, of which Ms. Roden was a founding member, said her scholarship on food was part of a growing cultural trend. Traveling the World for Recipes, but Always Looking for Home 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

It takes place two years after the trilogy, in the alternate Oxford introduced in Northern Lights. Val McDermid's top 10 Oxford novels 2010-09-24T09:37:00Z

After doing an MPhil in linguistics at Oxford, Callimachi flirted with the idea of staying on for a PhD in Sanskrit, “which I was terrible at, by the way; really, really bad at.” Rukmini Callimachi: the podcasting terror expert getting into the minds of Isis 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

When they played an ice-cream shop in Oxford, they were paid in "double chocs". The Candle Thieves reinvent the rock tour in your garden 2010-03-18T23:20:00Z

Born in 1868 to a wealthy industrial family in northern England, she excelled in her studies at Oxford. 7 of the most amazing women you’ve never heard of 2014-01-20T20:00:00Z

Meyerson had Oxford and Cambridge in mind, as well as Berkeley, but the “colleges” were decidedly rougher around the edges than their British antecedents. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Even so, Judt preferred what he called the more mondain tone of Oxford to Cambridge "cleverness", and said later that he had been tempted to return to Oxford, but never to his own alma mater. Tony Judt obituary 2010-08-08T17:38:00Z

I can't recommend one over another: The Oxford is less expensive, lighter and more compact; the National Geographic Atlas so heavy that just picking it up is an accomplishment. 27 beautiful books to grace your coffee table ? or someone else's 2010-12-18T01:33:05Z

Following his death in 1962, however, Oxford gradually began to embrace Faulkner and his legacy. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

When curators at the Oxford University Museum opened them years later, they found nothing but powdered remains. Art Review: ?Swept Away,? at Museum of Arts and Design 2012-04-05T21:43:03Z

Hunter is a 36-year-old graduate of the University of Oxford and an award-winning theater director. Who is Benedict Cumberbatch's Fiancée Sophie Hunter? 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

The earliest attacker was a barman named Edward Oxford, who was notorious for falling into trances or bursting into maniacal laughter. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z

He attended boarding school and a prep school, Bradford College, and in 1938 enrolled at Oxford University. Richard Adams, Author of ‘Watership Down,’ Dies at 96 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

He also received a master of science degree in financial economics from the University of Oxford in England. Jami Kirk, Brandon Levy 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

Oxford University Press on Tuesday crowned the word - defined as "a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations" - its top term of 2012. Oxford chooses 'omnishambles' as word of the year 2012-11-13T00:08:07Z

He graduated from Oxford with a degree in history and took a job as a stockbroker with the London office of Bache & Company. Prince Rupert zu Loewenstein, Rolling Stones Money Manager, Dies at 80 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Most of the memorable Biblical phrases listed above were coined not in the hallowed cloisters of Oxford colleges or in the sepulchral calm of the Jerusalem Chamber but on the run. The King James Bible reconsidered 2011-02-19T00:06:00Z

When “Inspector Morse” ended — 15 years ago! — the Oxford detective Endeavour Morse keeled over in the middle of campus, his dramatic collapse and subsequent death the appropriate capstone for a series about a self-centered snob. Review: In Final Season of ‘Inspector Lewis,’ Solving Mysteries While Navigating a New Boss 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Bell added a candidate vaccine being tested at Oxford University had gone “into man” for the first time on Thursday, after a wide range of safety studies. Coronavirus vaccine trials could be completed by mid-August 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

To wit: Oxford’s New College was last considered “new” in the 14th century. 36 Hours in Oxford, England 2012-05-31T14:10:43Z

Oxford is small enough that he knew just about everyone by name. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

The Oxford band will play four farewell shows in June, culminating in a finale in Paris on 11 June. Supergrass to split after 17 years 2010-04-12T12:03:00Z

When her parents returned to Zimbabwe a few years later, she stayed in England to attend Oxford, studying economics, politics and philosophy, and eventually became a business reporter for The Times of London. Paula Hawkins’s Journey to ‘The Girl on the Train’ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

She arrived shortly after her official graduation from Somerville College, Oxford, with a First in modern languages, and five years after she had completed her studies — 1920 being the first year Oxford acknowledged women graduates. The Power Women of Mecklenburgh Square 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

The younger Mr. Florescu earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford, followed by a Ph.D. in history from Indiana University. Radu Florescu, Scholar Who Linked Dracula and Vlad the Impaler, Dies at 88 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Fred Fisher, a 30-year-old dyslexic Oxford graduate, was told of the London Sperm Bank ban when he approached the clinic in November. Dyslexic donors turned away from largest UK sperm bank 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

Dorothy Sayers’s 1935 mystery about lethal shenanigans in Oxford’s mythical Shrewsbury College is an atmospheric masterpiece about female ambition and class tensions between town and gown. ‘Diana’s Altar’ by Barbara Cleverly beckons fans of P.D. James 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Instead, the story focuses on a fictional cozy English village on the outskirts of London and one affectionate upper-middle-class family whose oldest son, Vin, an Oxford student, enlists in the Royal Air Force. Films to Heal a Broken Moment 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

He's a postdoctoral research associate at the cool-sounding Ultrafast Group at Oxford's physics department and is currently researching the field of quantum memories. The Saturday interview: Janet Suzman 2011-08-19T23:10:48Z

Photograph: Sussie Ahlburg At a time when many festivals are being forced to curb their ambitions, the Oxford Lieder festival goes from strength to strength. This week's new live music 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

The man responsible for something of a hymn to London has left – priced out, he says – for a house in Oxford. Patrick Keiller on London: read the original interview 2012-11-30T15:00:00Z

But just two years later, he took his camera to Oxford, produced a salt plate of one of the colleges, and overlaid the print with watercolor to produce a hybrid of photograph and painting. 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

My little brother spent a year at Oxford University and I went to visit him. Anne Hathaway: 'I'm much happier talking with people than I am flirting with them' 2010-12-26T00:05:06Z

The great Victorians were masters of double lives: Lewis Carroll at Oxford; Trollope in the post office; Disraeli in politics; Dickens in virtually any journalistic activity you care to mention. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z

A Pennsylvanian living in Oxford, Lowe-Porter “did not want to vegetate intellectually” and set herself to translation. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

It has been an amazing week in the theatre and one in which, as will become evident, Oxford and Cambridge have been getting a major drubbing. Chariots of Fire; Posh; Children's Children – review 2012-05-26T23:10:02Z

I don’t know if you saw recently the hugely positive response that a young student from Oxford got when she chose to talk publicly about her experience of a sex attack. How do I tell my boyfriend I was raped? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

He attended Duke University, won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford and earned a Ph.D., writing a dissertation on humanitarian movements and relief work. Books of The Times: Muscle Memory: The Training of Navy Seals Commandos 2011-05-08T20:08:05Z

Oxford’s choice of an all-environmental shortlist, Ms. Martin said, did not reflect a similar deliberate decision to focus people’s attention, but a reading, if a necessarily subjective one, of the lexicographic evidence. Oxford Names ‘Climate Emergency’ Its 2019 Word of the Year 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Today, their daughter Isabel Cowles, 26, is a law student, and her sister Lily, 23, is doing graduate work in anthropology at Oxford. Main Course: ?I Was Never Beautiful? 2011-04-15T21:29:58Z

The incident began at a gas station convenience store near Oxford, Ala., Yahoo News reports. Police find car chase suspect hiding in Olive Garden women's room: report 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z

“When I was in college, and while Faulkner was still alive, there wasn’t a single legitimate bookstore in Oxford,” Curtis Wilkie said. Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss. 2011-10-14T18:55:01Z

The Sunday Telegraph's Matthew D'Ancona, a former fellow of All Souls, Oxford, is a past master at dropping a pop song or a film reference or four into a clever column about coalition problems. When politicians go pop – the perils of trying to appear 'in touch' 2012-12-18T14:30:01Z

Oxford neuroscientist is part of this ancient tradition. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T10:00:00Z

Bounded by Oxford Street to the north and Leicester Square to the south, Soho escaped rationalisation, boulevardisation and the intrusion of electric lighting. Nights Out by Judith R Walkowitz - review 2012-05-18T08:00:04Z

He is a senior editor at the Oxford American magazine in Little Rock, and the author of “Carry the Rock: Race, Football and the Soul of an American City.” Born for Each Other 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

Alice Oswald was elected Oxford professor of poetry in June this year, succeeding Simon Armitage and becoming the first woman in the role. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

But this year, the venerable publisher behind the Oxford English Dictionary has — like the rest of us, apparently — gone full goblin mode. The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary, the toughest of linguistic bouncers, just announced the latest words that editors have let into da club. New Dictionary Additions: 7 Useful Words You Probably Don't Know 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

“If you look at the entry in the Oxford English Dictionary,” says Cameron, “one sense of ‘woman’ that has quite a lot of illustrative quotes is as a man’s possession. ‘Hussy, baggage or filly’: are these really dictionary definitions of a ‘woman’? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

The first time happened when she was 12 and walking along Oxford Street when a man grabbed her by the crotch. Jameela Jamil: ​'I won't become a double agent for the patriarchy'​ 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and received certification in film education at the University of London. George C. Stoney, Documentarian, Dies at 96 2012-07-15T05:57:17Z

Dressed like an Oxford don in heavy gray wool pants and a maroon Burberry cardigan, Mr. Van Wyck explained how the king’s social secretary recorded each royal visit with a handwritten four-digit code. Up Close: A-List Parties: More Taste, Less Flash 2010-12-16T05:40:03Z

Researchers in the Department of Developmental Psychology at Oxford set study participants to focusing on a task while wearing headphones playing white noise. Motherlode Blog: Inattentional Deafness Disorder 2011-12-05T20:23:42Z

Because his mother was on a low wage as an academic, Philippakis qualified for an assisted place at Magdalen College boys school in Oxford. Foals: 'I built an enamel around myself' 2010-05-06T20:30:00Z

The back story is that Jack Dana, educated at Yale, Oxford and Harvard, joins the Marines just after the 9/11 attacks and survives brutal combat in Afghanistan. ‘Killer, Come Hither,’ a legal thriller set amid New York’s upper crust 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

A South African painting is being auctioned off to fund a scholarship for African students at Oxford University. Picture sale for African scholars 2012-10-17T08:11:59Z

Friday 28 December In 1998 I edited the Oxford Book of English Short Stories – the slightly shocking idea was that the stories were to be English, and not Scottish, Irish, Welsh or American. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z

I was employed as a general dogsbody in the department of Oxford University Press where they compile dictionaries for learners of English, for which I earned £4.50 an hour. Gap-year travel won't broaden the mind ? it just turns the young into fantasists 2011-01-09T00:05:35Z

My examples push "y'all" back 225 years before the citation in the "Oxford English Dictionary," and they show that the word appeared first in England rather than the United States. ‘Y'all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

A conservator in Oxford handles the rare Shakespeare volume composed of loose leaf pages in their original binding. Bodleian's battered Shakespeare First Folio to be put on internet 2012-08-01T23:01:04Z

Six months later their opinions of each other changed when she was elected president and he treasurer of Oxford’s Merton College graduate community, which comprises more than 300 graduate students. A Four-Ring Ceremony (2 Wooden, 2 Golden) 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Learning by heart … a student in Corpus Christi college library, Oxford. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-20T08:00:12Z

As Orlando, Duke of Oxford and the spy agency’s founder, Fiennes might read more cuddly than studly, but he lends a surprising gravitas to this flibbertigibbet feature. ‘The King’s Man’ Review: Suiting Up and Shooting Down 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

He was the Oxford and Cambridge scholar who, in 1983, was called upon to authenticate diaries, discovered by the German magazine Stern, said to be Hitler’s. Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z

I'd get my mother to make me pink satin Oxford bags, which I'd wear with platform shoes on the bus going into town. Philip Hoare: a life in writing 2013-06-21T15:37:01Z

In later work such as "Memoirs in Oxford", Prince seems to speak to us even more directly; but he always wears the mask of poetic form. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z

The poor dubs in Oxford Street looked as if she'd just handed them an old thrup'ny bit and told them their mother had just died, and grimaced and walked on. Last week's TV 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

At 17 he won a scholarship to Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied English literature and earned a first-class degree in 1955. John Gross Dies at 75; Critic, Essayist and Editor 2011-01-12T05:15:29Z

Directed by Christian Charles from a screenplay by Ryan Oxford, “Love Sick Love” deteriorates into a series of pranks that are not funny enough to register as comedy or brutal enough to qualify as horror. Movie Review: ‘Love Sick Love,’ Directed by Christian Charles 2013-04-18T22:57:11Z

Last year, he followed up with his second book, "The Inheritance" about a son accused of murdering his Oxford historian father. Book Talk: Diamonds inspire Tolkien grandson's novel 2011-03-10T11:33:30Z

For those who want to read more about how people are reading in the age of computers, Baron's book "Words Onscreen" is available from Oxford University Press. 92% of college students prefer print books to e-books, study finds 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

For 45 years, Miles has lived in the same building in Fitzrovia, north of Oxford Street, a stone's throw from Soho to the south and BBC Broadcasting House to the west. Barry Miles: 'I think of the 60s as a supermarket of ideas. We were looking for new ways to live' 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z

I caught it last Thursday in the Great Room of South Oxford Space in Fort Greene, Brooklyn: the show will next travel to such places as Governors Island and an Upper West Side community garden. Review: ‘The Iron Heel’ Reworks a Jack London Dystopia 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

He also excelled in school but, told that he might aspire to Oxford, shocked his headmaster by saying he intended to join the Royal Air Force when he turned 18, which he did. In ‘The Outsider,’ Frederick Forsyth shares his life of intrigue 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The Oxford degree led to the part-time consulting work that subsidizes Mr. Rebanks’s farm. James Rebanks, Man of Sheep, Man of Letters 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Making the best of this disadvantage, Bate — a distinguished Shakespeare scholar as well as provost of Worcester College in Oxford, England — proudly calls his book “unauthorized,” implying its intellectual independence. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

These examples were first gathered in 2009 for an exhibition at Oxford called “Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-Place of Culture.” Exhibition Review: ‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum 2012-09-15T00:26:51Z