Home to the U.K.'s oldest university, Oxford is eccentric, engaging and personable—epitomizing the spirit of Old England in many ways. The "city of dreaming spires" claims the world's densest ...

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If the combination of faun and lamppost sounds familiar, that’s because that very passageway was well-trod by “Chronicles of Narnia” author C.S. Lewis during his tenure at Oxford. Tour guides will be ...

I HAD BEEN here before. Gone running here, passing swans and wildflowers, along the banks of the River Thames in Port Meadow park. I’d taken this path frequently, during the nearly nine years I’d ...

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British universities Oxford and Cambridge are constantly ranked among the best in the world and celebrated for their academic excellence. But their murkier history is being brought to life for ...