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  • A man wearing a gown and mortar board sits on a bank under a tree holding a book. Engraving by Freeman.
  • A man in a gown and a mortar board is seated on a chair, carried above the heads of the crowd by men who are in turn standing on the heads of men also wearing academic dress. Lithograph.
  • The Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of Oxford University, wearing academic robes and carrying a mace, instructs his Tory supporters portrayed as academics in gowns and mortar boards. Lithograph by John Doyle, 1834.
  • Sailors on H.M.S Dominion, one in bridal drag, conduct a mock wedding on Christmas Day. Photographic postcard, 1915.
  • Sailors on H.M.S Dominion, one in bridal drag, conduct a mock wedding on Christmas Day. Photographic postcard, 1915.
  • British prisoners of war in smart attire performing a show at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 1916-1917.
  • British prisoners of war in smart attire performing a show at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 1916-1917.
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : a first!.
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : a first!.
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : a first!.
  • 'Migril' masters migraine : a first!.
  • University lecturers at Christmas playing cards. Etching after H. Bunbury.
  • Two Oxford dons manhandling a woman representing Religion, trying to pull her towards or away from the requirement that Oxford University should have to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. Etching by Athanasius Credo, 1773.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • The dissection of the body of Tom Nero. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1751.
  • William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1810.