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The Oxford Mail was founded in 1928 by MP Frank Gray as a successor to Jackson's Oxford Journal (1753 - 1928), named after William Jackson, a former printer of the University of Oxford.
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, [5] making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.
The Oxford Times was founded in 1862 as a weekly broadsheet. [3] [4]In 1922, T.E. Lawrence (known as Lawrence of Arabia) commissioned The Oxford Times to typeset and print an advance private edition of Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
The course of a Roman road between Dorchester-on-Thames and Alchester passes through Barton. There was a Roman villa northwest of Barton in the 3rd and 4th centuries. [4] In the 1940s, sixteen Roman coins were found near Barton and in 1953 three Romano-British pots were recovered from Bayswater Brook.
19th-century view of the High Street in Oxford. 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 confluence with the River Cherwell, the town grew in national importance during the early Norman period, and in the late 12th century became ...
Abingdon-on-Thames (/ ˈ æ b ɪ ŋ d ən / AB-ing-dən), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish [2] on the River Thames in the Vale of the White Horse district of Oxfordshire, England.
Headington is an eastern suburb of Oxford, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. [1] It is at the top of Headington Hill overlooking the city in the Thames valley below, and bordering Marston to the north-west, Cowley to the south, and Barton and Risinghurst to the east.
The Kassam Stadium (also known as Grenoble Road) is the home of Oxford United F.C., and is named after the ground's owner and former chairman of the football club, Firoz Kassam.