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Page last updated at 13:17 GMT, Friday, 18 December 2009

Stained-glass window in Christ Church, Oxford

Frideswide: Oxford's patron saint

We look at the legend and facts behind the princess and her life in Oxford during the seventh and eighth century.

The hanging of the clerks in 1209

We turn the clock back exactly 800 years to the crucial and violent moment that split Oxford and Cambridge.

The Earl of Oxford's big secret

Was the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere, the real author of William Shakespeare's plays?

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War hero honoured by old school

The first Woodstock pop concert

War poet's collection goes online

Blenheim Palace unveils new dam

Railway's 50th anniversary year

The man who shot Nelson's killer

UK's most popular ghost in Oxford

In Pictures: Queen Street history

Churchill the Oxfordshire Hussar

Pedal Power at Oxford Museum

Car manufacturer William Morris

The story of Oxfordshire's buses

The story of Barbara Pym

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Broughton Castle

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Cogges Manor Farm

River and Rowing Museum

The Ashmolean

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