M at thew Arnold is responsible for two of the most celebrated remarks ever made about Oxford. One is the phrase “city of dreaming spires”—actually “that sweet City with her dreaming spires,” in his ...

Nicky Schmidt explores the great archways and hallowed halls of Oxford, and discovers a city steeped in myths and magic. Oxford - the city of dreaming spires Home Page ...

The tourism business is booming in Oxford: 7 million visitors spend more than a billion dollars a year in and around the city and support one in every nine local jobs.

Dashes, dots, disfigured shapes... Strolling forward, fascinated; wandering backward, bewildered at the sight, where the silent spires of Oxford savour their sensations in the dusking drizzles ...

Oxford's newest hotel is the Vanbrugh House (01865 244 622; vanbrughhousehotel.co.uk), an imaginative conversion of an 18th-century town house with the old city walls running through its basement ...

When I took off in late October to join my husband, a law professor on sabbatical in Oxford, I thought I knew what to expect, thanks to all the books and movies that have been set in this ...

One of Oxford’s world renowned academic institutions is now studying the problem of how to get 7 million tourists and 150,000 residents to rub along in a small, medieval city, in the 21 st ...