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The street's one remaining pub, a 16th or 17th-century timber-framed building next to Blackwell's bookshop, is appropriately called the White Horse. [8] On Broad Street, the Protestant Oxford Martyrs, Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley (16 October 1555), and later Thomas Cranmer (21 March 1556), were burnt at the stake just outside the city wall. [6]
Blackwell UK, also known as Blackwell's and Blackwell Group, is a British academic book retailer and library supply service owned by Waterstones. It was founded in 1879 by Benjamin Henry Blackwell, [4] after whom the chain is named, on Broad Street, Oxford. The brand now has a chain of 18 shops, and an accounts and library supply service.
In 1879 he opened his own shop, B.H. Blackwell's, on Broad Street in Oxford. [4] The local profile he gained as a result enabled him to successfully campaign for political office, and he served as Liberal councillor for Oxford North. [5] Blackwell received the Freedom of the City of London in 1920. [2] He died in 1924, and his widow Lilla died ...
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St Martin's Tower, commonly known as Carfax Tower, it is the only existing remains of the 12th-century St Martin's Church. Oxford was first settled by the Anglo-Saxons and was initially known in Old English as Oxnaford and in Old Norse as Öxnafurða. [5] The name comes from "oxen's ford", which literally meant oxen's shallow river crossing.
The Clarendon Building is an early 18th-century neoclassical building of the University of Oxford. It is in Broad Street, Oxford, England, next to the Bodleian Library and the Sheldonian Theatre and near the centre of the city. It was built between 1711 and 1715 and is now a Grade I listed building. [1]
16 June: Blackwell's open the 930 m 2 underground Norrington Room in their main bookshop in Broad Street as part of a joint development with Trinity College. [279] September: Museum of Modern Art Oxford established in the former City Brewery in Pembroke Street, following the use of a temporary exhibition space since late 1965. [280]
The History of Science Museum in Broad Street, Oxford, England, holds a leading collection of scientific instruments from Middle Ages to the 19th century. The museum building is also known as the Old Ashmolean Building to distinguish it from the newer Ashmolean Museum building completed in 1894.