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University Museum marks 150 years
To mark the anniversary we spend a night at the museum and highlight some of its interesting exhibits....
Awards celebrate Oxford buildings
Two buildings in Oxford have been shortlisted for a prestigious World Architecture Festival award....
School rock opera receives award
Philip Pullman presents an award to recognise the anti-bullying themes of the musical 'David V Goliath'....
Pre-Raphaelite exhibition in city
The Ashmolean brings together over 140 paintings from its collection along with loans from public and private collections....
The dodo diary: fact or fiction?
Local author tells the unbelievable tale of a 17th century student's pet dodo....
In pictures: Banquets and Burials
A conference at the University of Oxford explores the link between death and dining in ancient times. Dr Catherine Draycott explains more......
Author's delight at book festival
Find out how Henley has been alive and well with bookworms this week....
Oxford poet up for Forward prize
Former heroin addict Sam Willetts has been recognised for the book of poetry charting his experiences....
Climate change game is launched
An Oxfordshire company is challenging people to save the planet from climate change through a computer game....
The Latin inscriptions of Oxford
'Latin isn't dead, it's just set in stone' or so the saying goes, and many locations in Oxford prove this....
Objections to Cornbury Park bid
The application for a series of events at Cornbury Park recieves 75 objections and nine letters of support....
Oxford Times Leisure
What scientist Katie did next . . .with chocolates
Chocolate is one of those products that can add real cheer to a dismal February day.
Melting chocolate puddings (makes 4)
February is the time to make the most of chocolate by serving warm individual chocolate puddings with a crusty top, soft sponge and a rich gooey chocolate centre. They can be cooked in small
ramekin dishes, but slightly larger dishes, which provide enough space for the pudding to rise without tumbling down the sides, seem to work best.
The Blue Boar, Witney
As Gray Matter readers might recall, I expressed my enthusiasm some weeks ago for the tasteful transformation (cost £1.5m) of the down-at-heel Marlborough Hotel in Witney into the good-looking Blue
Boar, a name harking back to an earlier period in the building?s history.
Rose Hill allotments give a taste of home
Three years ago, Askumar Limbu was jogging in Rose Hill and was drawn to the large open steel gates of the Lenthall Road Rose Hill Allotment Association (LRRHAA).
Get out and go wild
OWAIN HEGARTY, a former volunteer and trainee with the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust pays tribute to dozens of volunteers working at Chimney Meadows nature reserve
Listen out for the raven?s return
How easy it is to consider the raven as just ?a large black bird?, possibly even dismissing the sight of this magnificent creature as ?just another crow?.
Family values stripped bare
HOW controversial would a play about incest be if it were written today?
Joan shares her journey
Dame Joan Bakewell is most famous for three things: a broadcasting career that goes back to Late Night Line-Up in the 1960s, an affair with Harold Pinter and her role as champion of older people
(unbelievably she?s 78).
Brimming with sound experiments
Oxford Contemporary Music has lined up another eclectic season of unique sound worlds.
The Hothouse: Oxford Playhouse
Theatregoers travel once more into the strange but familiar territory that has come to be called Pinterland courtesy of a fine revival this week by the student company Illyria Productions of The
Hothouse. Harold Pinter wrote the play in 1958, but put it aside in favour of work on The Caretaker. It was not to surface again for more than 20 years, when its status as an important part of the
writer?s oeuvre was at once recognised.
