University Oxford Blog

Oxford City – a wonderful seat of learning, rivalries, celebration and controversy. How much better to swallow its varied history than staying in university bed and breakfast lodging in the hub of the ancient City.
Decorated with architecturally wonderful colleges, bridges and libraries encircling the river Cherwell, the old University city of Oxford filters a feeling of tempered pioneering learning and settled accomplishment. When it is what tempts visitors to this amazing city, nowadays some colleges are letting guests scratch a bit deeper by providing bed and breakfast lodging in the academia’s bastions and gothic masterpieces.
This is within the center of the city that you are able to get a sense of Oxford’s long and eventful past. Like the original British university, they say it has spawned the long-term rival Cambridge, when its two scholars were hanged for a local woman murder and the resulting debate between university and town resulted in a bunch of scholars to escape to the marsh and found in a trilling school on the Cam. In addition, it was one more debate with the town, which almost caused its overthrow with the University maintaining the Royals than Parliament during the Civil War. Finally, it was saved by Oliver Cromwell that refused the Puritan calls for the close as the expression of wise thought was considered dangerous to religious belief. Thus, the university has avoided to take an official political standing. The same case cannot be stated for its graduates that boasts of 25 Prime Ministers, 25 world leaders, 20 Canterbury Archbishops and 12 Saints as well as famous writers, inventors and scientists.