Remembering Ann Crotchley, a Victim of Oxford's Unsafe Streets
Content warning: sexual assault, violence against women On the night of Thursday 6 December 1827, Ann Crotchley, a young woman from...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
Rebels with a Deer Park? Magdalen vs the Monarchy
On 8 June 2021, conservative news website Guido Fawkes broke the story that a student committee at Oxford’s Magdalen College had voted to...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 5 min
What’s in a Street Name? Questioning Florence Park’s Colonialist Legacy
This is a guest post by the Decolonising Florence Park project. Some street names are engagingly straightforward: The Hill, Station Road,...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 9 min
Abraham Lazarus: The Champion of Oxford’s Working Class
Who was Abraham Lazarus? Of the thousands of activists and leaders in the past century to have served the residents of Oxford, few can...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 9 min
Stop the Squeal: Oxfordshire's Dirty Election
In the year since rioters failed to nullify the 2020 US presidential election, commentators have dutifully picked through American...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 4 min
‘Mint Julep Day’: Oxford’s South Carolinian Tradition
[CONTENT WARNING: slavery] Every year, on the 1st of June, Mint Julep Day rolls around at New College, Oxford. In a garden hedged by the...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 8 min
'Anti-Vacers': Vaccine Resistance in nineteenth-century Oxfordshire
This year more than any other has brought conversations about vaccines to the forefront of public discourse. Oxford has centred vividly...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
Charlie Hutchison: Oxfordshire’s Forgotten Black Anti-Fascist
Born in Witney, Charlie Hutchison (1918-1993) led an extraordinary life as both a champion of working-class interests and a dedicated...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 7 min
Money, Matchdays, and the Maxwells: How Oxford Nearly Lost Its Football Club
For anyone who’s not a fan of the so-called ‘beautiful game’, the passions evoked by football are sometimes difficult to comprehend. Or...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
Proctors and Prostitutes: Policing Women at the University of Oxford
“University police officers, called Proctors, who are clergymen, are appointed to prevent, as far as they can, debauchery, gross...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
Marmalade and the Revolution: The Gently Subversive History of Oxford's Most Famous Foodstuff
Oxford is known for many things, but neither culinary delicacies nor revolutionary politics generally feature among them. Nonetheless,...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
Collective punishment and colonial terror: The lessons of Britain’s war in Malaya
Trigger warning: graphic violence, colonial atrocities, sexual assault. Britain’s military policies during the Malayan Emergency...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 7 min
One Woman Against the Crown: Elizabeth Lilburne Rides to the Rescue
Elizabeth was a campaigner in her own right and shared in many of her husband’s dangers, suffering imprisonment alongside him in 1645 ...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 4 min
Review: ‘Between making and knowing something’ by Mariana Castillo Deball
An exhibition review by Verónica Cordova de la Rosa Before the second lockdown of 2020, I went to see Mariana Castillo Deball’s...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 5 min
Alexander the Great in Skopje: an “up yours” to Greece?
In 2011, a bronze statue was erected in the main square of Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. At 22 metres tall, made from dazzling...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
Diego de Landa: From Monasteries to Roundabouts
Landa is an example of an individual who ordered acts of persecution and colonisation that, even at the time, were considered unacceptable.
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
A Day for All Souls? Remembering the Middle Ages Today
In the season of the dead, there are many spectres who have a claim to our attention. In a week’s time Britain will fall briefly silent...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
Medicine and Colonization: How Scientific Research Shapes Politics
This is the second post in a two-part series on Francis Galton by Lunan Zhao. Lunan's first blog post can be found here. In recent months...
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 5 min
Empty Spaces: Where are the Statues to Imperial Victims?
Why are there so many inappropriate statues, yet so few appropriate statues?
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Uncomfortable Oxford
- Feb 24, 2022
- 6 min
An Interview with Isabella Hammad: Part Two
This is the second part of an interview with Isabella Hammad, the author of The Parisian: an epic tale of a Palestinian man's journey...
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