Plan your trip to Oxford
Oxford useful information to help you plan your vacation
Oxford useful information to help you plan your vacation
How to get to Oxford, England, by car, coach, train, and airplane
Tourist information, guidebooks, maps, tips for niche groups (students, LGBT, seniors, disabled, etc.), and more
Keeping in touch while traveling—Cellphones and Skype, mail and roaming fees, and how to call to, from, and within the U.K.
From credit cards, cash, and ATMS to VAT refunds, travelers checks, and customs limits
All those boring but necessary travel details: passports, entry visas, trip insurance, health insurance, customs regulations, and all the other super-fun pre-trip preparations
Oxford University's origins date to the 12C, but women were not admitted until 1878 with the establishement of the all-women Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville (soon to be followed by others)—and even then, women were basically just auditing. Oxford only began granting degrees to women in 1920, and didn't award full collegiate status to its five women's colleges until 1959. It wasn't until 1974 that the last holdouts—Brasenose, Jesus College, Wadham, Hertford and St Catherine's—dropped their all-male policies and began admitting women as well. Ironcially, however, it wasn't until 2008 that entire university officially became co-ed... when St Hilda's College finally started admitting men.