Oxford Time Tours

22/06/2024

Lovely tour today with folk from Hong Kong, Ukraine and Tring 😁. It's a good time to visit Oxford, students have finished but it's not overloaded with tourists yet. And the weather is amazing right now! ☀️🤩

06/05/2024

https://youtu.be/htSHsQdh_x4?si=0_ueh8Ci8mfCPgMn. Amazing how little Oxford has changed in 100 years.... Roads look a lot flatter then 😅.

I colorized, restored and created sound design for this video of Oxford, England 1924, You can see several scenes of Oxford and its Universities.Video Restor...

19/04/2024

Summer is coming! Hoping it's as hot as 1976. I remember 1382 being a good one too! 😁

25/07/2022

401 years? Seems like only yesterday, how time flies 😅.

On this day in Oxford:

Oxford’s Botanic Garden, originally known as the Physick Garden, was opened on 25 July 1621. It celebrates its 401st anniversary today.

https://morrisoxford.co.uk

07/05/2022

The real thing all 3 minutes 59.4 seconds of it! Amazing that less than a year later he gave up competitive running to concentrate on his medical career!

31/01/2022

Henry XIII had a lot to answer for! Most Oxford colleges that disappeared got replaced, apart from this one. Although it's a shame we don't have a St Bernard's college any more...barrel of brandy for every student :D.

FRAGMENTS of Oxford’s ‘lost college’ have been uncovered by archaeologists.

17/01/2022

College rivalries are getting more catty ;).

The battle for Radcliffe Square has reached new heights as Hertford College cat Simpkin IV has been spending a lot more time in Exeter College cat Walter’s usual digs. In response, Exeter College has now banned Simpkin from the College library.

20/10/2021

Wow! My daughter would have been terrified when she was little - a giant White Rabbit at Blackwells was bad enough :D.

On 26 October, Little Amal will arrive in Oxford to meet Alice in Wonderland, in giant puppet form. Come and join them as they travel across the city on a journey of hope featuring music, dance and more.🎶

This is a free outdoor event for all the family. Plan your visit today with our handy event guide and map: https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/amal

The Walk Good Chance Theatre Mandala Theatre Company Ark-T Oxford Youth Dance Company Tac-au-Tac Dance Theatre Refugee Resource Asylum Welcome K**A Oxford Charlbury Refugee Action Group Oxford Festival of the Arts Smoking Apples Iraqi Women Art and War Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum Christ Church, Oxford Oxford City Council

22/09/2021

Amazing interview with an Oxford icon, a little bit of audio time travel!

J.R.R. Tolkien interviewed by Denys Gueroult for BBC in 1964 (released 1971).

01/09/2021

Typical 1700s lecture :D.

William Hogarth (British, 1697–1764)
Scholars at a Lecture (c. 1736-37)
Etching and engraving, 19.1 x 17.8 cm.
National Gallery, Washington DC (Rosenwald Collection)

Here a tedious professor (believed to be William Fisher, the Registrar of Oxford) is delivering one of his lectures entitled, "Datur Vacuum" -- 'A vacuum is granted'. Surrounding him are his students who exhibit a myriad of responses to the lecture. Indifference, boredom, scorn, amazement, skepticism, incredulity and drowsiness are all portrayed. Every reaction, in fact, is here except genuine interest.

(commentary from artoftheprint.com website)

25/07/2021

Happy birthday Botanic Garden! https://artsandculture.google.com/story/FgURJOs2MsEowQ?fbclid=IwAR2fZOBj8Z4pbDXqquDXVf0yVv2q6g6XBPatkVaR_uFwJtiPB_wy3-dttMg.

04/07/2021

Great to be doing tours again, two fun ones this weekend with folk from Pakistan and Wales :). Oxford is still so quiet so definitely a good time to visit!

06/05/2021

On the anniversary of Sir Roger Bannister's under 4 minute mile here in Oxford, a slightly different race :D.