Tittle: Oxford
Author: Andy
Hopkins and Joc Potter
Publishers: Oxford
university press
Summary:
More than 111.000
people have their homes in Oxford. But in some months of the year there a lot
more people in the city, thousands of students come from other towns for parts
of the year. The city is an important centre for work, shopping and nightlife.
Oxford is not as
old as some other English cities. A long time ago religious people went to the
University of Paris to study; now they started to come go Oxford.
Under the
protestant queen Elizabeth I, life in Oxford was easier than under her older,
Catholic sister ‘Bloody Mary’. In Elizabeth England there were still problems
between Protestants and Catholics in Oxford.
It was fashionable
for the rich to send their sons to the University of Oxford, and they built new
buildings, for example, The Bodleian Library and the Sheldonian Theatre.
Between 1642-1646 there
was a civil war in England.
Some of Oxford’s
finest buildings are from eighteen century. In 1844 the railway arrived in the
city, and poorer people could travel to and from Oxford more easily. Oxford
started to look like a modern city, in North Oxford rich people lived in more
expensive houses. The first woman got her degree in 1920.
William Morris was
an important part in the history of Oxford, he was mending bicycles. He enjoyed
racing and making the machines, and then he opened a shop in the city centre to
sell them.
He liked cars too,
and he made his first car in 1913. Later he opened a car factory in Cowley. He
helped to make Oxford a modern city, and he gave a lot of money to hospitals.
In Oxford, during
the Second World War, to help people, in Greece a charity named Oxfam was started. After
the war Oxfam decided to help other people around the world who were hungry or
homeless.
Oxford had more
visitors and the city needed hotels, food and other facilities, so a lot of
people work in the tourist industry.
Oxford is a
beautiful city. By day people enjoy walking near the green gardens. Oxford has
some of Britain’s finest museums (the Museum of the History of Science, the
University Museum and the Museum of Modern Art).
1st of
May, people wait in the street outside Magdalen College, and at six o’clock
there is singing from the top building.
St Giles’ Fair is
in early September, in this day people come into the city to buy and sell, eat
and drink, and play sports.
The Boat Race takes
place on the Thames in London every year. It is a race between the universities
of Oxford and Cambridge
There are pubs with
live music and pubs with popular games, there are a number of cinemas in Oxford
and two main theatres
One place that
people visit in Oxford is the small country town of Woodstock, and its palace
named Blenheim Palace.
To the west of
Oxford there are the Costwold hills with their villages and small towns of the
yellow-grey stone.
Opinion: It is interesting if you want to know things about
Oxford.
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