Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
- Article
The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
- Long read
Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard
Journalist Florence Wildblood examines the case of Primodos – a conveniently quick but risky hormone pregnancy test that was prescribed in the 1960s and ’70s – and profiles two women at the story’s shocking heart.
Catalogue
- Books
The ancient kalendar of the University of Oxford, from documents of the fourteenth to the seventeenth century : together with Computus manualis ad usum Oxoniensium, from C. Kyrfoth's edition, Oxon., 1519-20 (with seven facsimiles) / edited by Christopher Wordsworth for the Oxford Historical Society.
Date: 1904- Books
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Reminiscences of Oxford by Oxford men, 1559-1850 / selected and edited by Lilian M. Quiller Couch.
Date: 1892- Books
- Online
Oxford topography : an essay / by Herbert Hurst.
Hurst, Herbert, 1833-1913.Date: 1899- Books
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Register of the University of Oxford.
Date: 1885-1889- Books
The Grey Friars in Oxford / by Andrew G. Little.
Little, A. G. (Andrew George), 1863-1945.Date: 1892