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The historiography on the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain has tried to explain how there was a widespread change from Romano-British to Anglo-Saxon cultures in the area roughly corresponding to present-day England between the Fall of the Western Roman Empire and the eighth century, a time when there were scant historical records.
Wolvercote Cemetery is a cemetery in the parish of Wolvercote and district of Cutteslowe in Oxford, England. Its main entrance is on Banbury Road and it has a side entrance in Five Mile Drive. It has a funeral chapel, public toilets and a small amount of car parking. It was awarded plaques as a category winner of 'Cemetery of the Year' in 1999 ...
Aerial view of Oxford city centre. The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the Saxon period. Originally of strategic significance due to its controlling location on the upper reaches of the River Thames at its junction with the River Cherwell. The town grew in national importance during the Norman period.
Wolvercote was featured in a 1987 episode of the ITV detective drama Inspector Morse, [17] in which a wealthy American tourist was found dead in her hotel room shortly after arriving in Oxford to return a valuable artifact, the Wolvercote Tongue, one-half of an ancient belt buckle, to an Oxford archaeological museum.
Oxfordshire History Centre holds a wide range of records which may be of use in family history, local history or other types of research: Local administrative records of the county, including the Quarter Sessions, County Council, District Councils, Parish Councils, Poor Law Union and Borough records. Oxford City Archives
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The cemetery was established along with Osney Cemetery and St Sepulchre's Cemetery. [1] In 1855, new burials were forbidden at all Oxford city churches, apart from existing vaults. The cemetery is now a wildlife refuge with many birds (including pheasants that nest there), butterflies, and small and larger mammals, including muntjac deer and ...
It has published around 140 volumes on the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire, especially concentrating on early records. The Society is administered by a committee of trustees from the university and city of Oxford. Its current president is William Whyte, Fellow and Tutor in History at St John's College, Oxford. [4]