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For much of the 19th century, corn merchants in Oxford conducted their trade in the open air in Cornmarket Street. [1] In the early 1860s, a group of local businessmen decided to form a private company, known as the "Oxford Corn Exchange Company", to finance and commission a purpose-built corn exchange for the city. [2]
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Dating back to 1654, it is the oldest continually serving coffee house in Europe, [2] [3] but it has only been on the present site (Oxford, England) since 1970. [4] The building in which it operates is a Grade II listed building. [4] It was in this coffee house where Jeremy Bentham discovered Utilitarianism. [5] In 2009, it rebranded itself as ...
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The Assassins (known for their debauchery in the 1980s; [1] not to be confused with the unrelated student society, Oxford Guild of Assassins [2]) The Bullingdon Club [3] [4] [5] (founded 1780; dress in navy blue tailcoats, with navy velvet collar, ivory silk lapels, brass buttons, mustard waistcoat, and a sky blue bow tie; club tie is sky blue striped with ivory; sometimes called The Buller ...
With the 2025 Academy Awards airing Sunday, March 2 (ABC and Hulu, 7 p.m. ET/4 PT), we look back at the biggest Oscar snubs of all time.
Stock Exchange Luncheon Club (1898–2006) 20th- and 21st-century foundations. Nova Scotia Club (1900) Princeton Charter Club (1901) Quadrangle Club (1901) Coefficients (1902) Princeton Tower Club (1902) Terrace Club (1904) Square Club (1908) Chatham Dining Club (1910) The Other Club (1911) Cercle de l'Union interalliée (1917) Romney Street ...
A new industrial quarter to the west of Oxford arose around the high traffic of the Oxford Canal. Coal, transported along the canal directly to modern day Park End Street, resulted in the area becoming a hotbed of industry: breweries, bakeries, jam factories and more sprung up in what was undeveloped land. Though this particular public house ...