She said the Divinity School, built in 1488 as a room for teaching divinity, was now a ceremonial room used to offer hospitality to the university's distinguished visitors on special occasions.

IF KATE Middleton and Prince William are looking for a historic venue for their wedding, they couldn’t do better than Oxford. The Bodleian Library’s Divinity School has applied for a licence ...

Since its founding, the Bodleian Library has welcomed illustrious visitors, including five kings, 40 Nobel Prize winners, and 25 British prime ministers — not to mention literary greats such as ...

Oxford University has made a massive U-turn by withdrawing its planning application to turn the Old Bodleian Library into a tourist attraction (AJ 25.10.01) after objectors deluged the city council ...

But as well as the 9th-century illuminated manuscript, the surroundings of the Old Library are spectacular, with the 18th-century Long Room (65m long, to be precise) housing 200,000 of the library ...

The plaque above the doors that lead to the Divinity School bears the inscription “Quod feliciter vortat” and this wish that things might turn out happily for the library has been fulfilled.

The Divinity School in the Bodleian Library is the oldest purpose-built part in any University around the world. The Building was built in the 1400s to accommodate house lectures, oral exams and ...

Stepladders have been banned from part of Oxford University's historic Bodleian library - because of health and safety fears. The ruling by officials means that students cannot use items on the ...