Oxford

      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 Engli12sh 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).

1^st 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,at 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.