Paul Sullivan

many others, such as the fact that Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, stole a piece of New College’s unicorn horn, that one of the Fellows of Christ Church was a bear or that Oxford Castle has England’s most frequently sighted ghost, are much less widely known – and some of these stories have not appeared in print for hundreds of years. Meer

Bloody British history Meer

This is the history of Oxford as you have never encountered it before. One of its principal colleges, meanwhile, doubled as a slaughterhouse — and its richest streets and university edifices backed on to some of the most pestilential slums in England. Meer

Think you can tell a killer from a king, a pirate from a pope? There’s only one way to find out! This amazing little quiz contains sixty different ‘odd one outs’. Meer