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Frontispiece: Magdalen Tower. Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by R. Kent Thomas.

Keywords: colleges, bridges, boats, people, trees, towers, colour

Places shown: Magdalen College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-03-05

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The Great Court, Trinity College Cambridge (1920)

“The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, though inheriting much from the earlier college—King’s Hall—which was set up by Edward II and his son Edward III, owes almost everything to King Henry V [...]

Keywords: colour, towers, flowers, colleges

Places shown: Trinity College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-21

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Front Cover, Oxford Pictured by Haslehust, described by How Oxford (Haslehust and How) (1910)

A brownish gray cover with a thick green border around a colour image. This book is part of a series produced from around 1900 until well into the 1950s as far as I can tell.

Keywords: book covers, colleges, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-10-19

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II.—Brasenose College Quadrangle and St. Mary’s Spire The Charm of Oxford (1920)

“Nowhere, except at Cambridge, can the series of architectural works be paralleles, and at both universities, the charm of their ancient buildings is enhanced by their beautiful setting in college gar [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, greyscale

Places shown: Brasenose College; Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-01-14

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The Kitchen Wall, Peterhouse Cambridge (1920)

“But the history of the English Universities must be considered as that of communities into whose lives colleges were introduced for a social rather than a scholastic purpose. Cambridge grew into a se [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards

Places shown: Peterhouse College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-06-28

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III.—View in Radcliffe Square The Charm of Oxford (1920)

“The visitor to Oxford often asks—“Where is the University?” The proper answer is: “The University is everywhere,” for the colleges are all parts of it. But if a distinction must be made, and some b [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, buildings, spires, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2007-01-31

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The Old Hall, Corpus Christi College Cambridge (1920)

Corpus Christi college was founded in A.D. 1352. “Before turning to the more modern aspect of Cambridge, the subject demands that something should be said of those notable periods of prosperity, the f [...]

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings, courtyards, creeper, windows

Places shown: Corpus Christi College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-08-17

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Erasmus’ Tower, Queen’s College Cambridge (1920)

“The fifteenth century saw four more Colleges added to the list of Cambridge Houses: King’s, 1441; Queens’, 1448; St. Catharine’s, 1473; Jesus, 1495.” (p. 22)

Keywords: colour, colleges, buildings

Places shown: Queens’ College; Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England

Added: 2006-09-07

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IV.—Sheldonian Theatre, etc., Broad Street The Charm of Oxford (1920)

“THE BROAD STREET The east side of the University buildings proper was shown in the last picture (Plate IV [sic]); in the present one the north side of the same block is seen. The old University “scho [...]

Keywords: sketches, colleges, buildings, streets, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-03-13

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The Muniment Room at Merton College Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From a Drawing by R. Kent Thomas. (I think the Muniment Room was built to hold manuscripts, but I am not certain) “The time is the end of the fourteenth century. The forest and the moor stretch to the [...]

Keywords: entrances, colleges, windows, colour

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-10-04

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Magdalen Tower From Christchurch Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

From an Etching by A. Brunet-Debaines

Keywords: colleges, churches, towers, trees, forests, christmas, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-04-14

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Magdalen Cloisters Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes (1896)

The tower is also featured in several paintings by Haslehust’s illustrations of Oxford.

Keywords: colleges, cloisters, entrances, courtyards, creeper, gothic, churches, towers, people, arches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Oxford; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2004-06-20

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