John Goto's Two Days at Oxford – A View of the City in the Thirties (1938) has the admirable aim of subverting the cosy Brideshead view of Oxford as the city of dreaming spires and disinterested ...

Philly Rutt's work is mainly acrylic on canvas. Several are random streaks of paint streaking vertically, as if a teenager had suddenly discovered Abstract Expressionism and thought what fun it would ...

Once, there was a pub in central Oxford called The Red Lion. It was a fairly ordinary pub, nowt special, no pretensions. It could easily have been taken for a Wetherspoons with its cheap beer and ...