Oxfordshire of one hundred years ago

Type

Book

Authors

Eleanor Chance ( Chance, Eleanor )

ISBN 10

0750902523

ISBN 13

9780750902526

Tags

Oxfordshire, 19th century, Photographs, Countryside, Oxford, Oxford University, Villages, Towns, Daily life

Abstract

Oxfordshire in the late 19th and early 20th century, illustrated with photographs from the Oxfordshire Photographic Archive. The books aims to bring together some of the best photographs and contemporary text to illustrate life in Oxfordshire at the turn of the century. The area covered is that of the old county before the boundary changes of 1974. The spread is geographically wide and representative of the diversity of the Oxfordshire countryside, its villages and market towns, Oxford city and university, and the lives of the people

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