Oriel College: A History
Oriel College: A History

Author: Jeremy Catto

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2013-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199595723

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This is the first history of Oriel College, Oxford for over a hundred years. It is an account of a distinctive society, written by a group of specialist scholars whose aim it is to place the body of Orielenses in the context not only of Oxford but of British and international history.

Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford
Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford

Author: Sabine Chaouche

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 3030463877

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This book explores students’ consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford. Consumerism surged among undergraduates in the 1830s and decreased by contrast from the 1860s as students learned to practice restraint and make wiser choices, putting a brake on past excessive consumption habits. This study concentrates on the minority of debtors, the daily lives of undergraduates, and their social and economic environment. It scrutinises the variety of goods that were on offer, paying special attention to their social and symbolic uses and meanings. Through emulation and self-display, undergraduate culture impacted the formation of male identities and spending habits. Using Oxford students as a case study, this book opens new pathways in the history of consumption and capitalism, revealing how youth consumer culture intertwined with the rise of competition among tradesmen and university reforms in the 1850s and 1860s.

Terrae-filius, Or, The Secret History of the University of Oxford, 1721-1726
Terrae-filius, Or, The Secret History of the University of Oxford, 1721-1726

Author: Nicholas Amhurst

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780874138016

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Although Amhurst was often dismissed by nineteenth-century historians of Oxford as a bitter "slanderer of his university," his work stands as the single most important and reliable contemporarily published account of life in early eighteenth-century Oxford. The Terrae-Filius essays, despite their satirical bent, also demonstrate that Amhurst had a deep respect for the institution and a clear vision of the intellectual ideas it should embody. This modern critical edition reprints all fifty-three Terrae-Filius essays (including the three omitted from the 1726 collected editions) and provides an introduction and extensive explanatory notes that set the essays in their historical and cultural context."--BOOK JACKET.