A visitor leaflet about Stowe House and Gardens compiled by two Oxford students will be launched at the historic property on Bank Holiday Monday (25 August).
The latest crop of new words added to Oxford Dictionaries Online, from 'amazeballs' to 'zonkey', has been making headlines this month. Commentators have been amused, intrigued and even enraged by the addition of 'clickbait', 'side-eye', 'neckbeard', 'mansplain" and others.
Romance isn't dead, but it might be nine centuries old, according to an Oxford University academic. Laura Ashe, Associate Professor of English at Worcester College and the Faculty of English has described the invention of romantic love in the literature of the Middle Ages.
Last week, Arts Blog wrote about a brilliant video of student a cappella group Out of the Blue singing a close-harmony rendition of Shakira’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie'.
The packed stadiums across Brazil during the World Cup – and the public outpouring of grief after their 7-1 defeat by Germany – confirms just how popular football is in Brazil. It is less well known that football was brought to Brazil by an Englishman – or was it a Scotsman?
Oxford University's Botanic Garden is planning a send-off for the iconic black pine known as 'Tolkien's tree', which needs to be removed from the Garden after two limbs fell from the tree on Saturday.
The tree, a Pinus nigra, was a favourite of J R R Tolkien during his time in Oxford and some say its twisting branches resemble the 'ents' in his The Lord of the Rings novels.
Oxford student a cappella group Out of the Blue is raising money for local charity Helen and Douglas House with their take on Shakira.
This may be the first time Radcliffe Square has played host to a close-harmony rendition of 'Hips Don't Lie'. Shakira herself has tweeted the video, which has over 660,000 views on YouTube.
The story of the Trojan Horse is well-known. First mentioned in the Odyssey, it describes how Greek soldiers were able to take the city of Troy after a fruitless ten-year siege by hiding in a giant horse supposedly left as an offering to the goddess Athena.
Delegates from around the world came to Oxford to learn about the ways in which new technology is changing the humanities on last week's Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS).
