The mystery of Diedrich Knickerbocker’s disappearance played out over several issues of the Post that autumn, culminating in the publication of a book that put a young Washington Irving on the ...

The term "waka jumper" has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. The colloquial phrase, which is used almost exclusively in New Zealand politics, is among several new words the dictionary has ...

Oxford has lots of historic pubs and here is a selection which can claim to be among the oldest. The Mitre in High Street was one of Oxford’s most historic pubs until it shut in 2019 for a major ...

Applicant Marick Real Estate Limited submitted the scheme to Oxford City Council for the former Odeon cinema in George Street in June. The aparthotel will feature around 145 rooms, and these ...

The Labour mayor wants to reboot plans that would make the “nation’s most famous high street” traffic-free, starting with the stretch between Oxford Circus and Selfridges. His vision is for ...

Oxford's impressive start to the Sky Bet Championship season continued with a well-earned 1-0 victory against Stoke at the Kassam Stadium. The U's edged out the Potters thanks to Idris El Mizouni ...

The universities of Oxford and Cambridge should scrap interviews and instead pick applicants from a lottery of top-performing students, professors have argued. In a book called Born to Rule ...

Waterstones is returning to Oxford Street eight years after it closed its last remaining store on the iconic central London shopping strip. A new Waterstones bookshop will open within the John ...

It is the latest flashpoint in the ongoing battle over cars in Oxford, which has been one of the country’s most fraught. “It’s completely crazy,” says Edmund King, president of the AA.

What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with ...

It was then, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, that Thomas Huxley, an English biologist and representative of the new theory of evolution, bested in debate Samuel Wilberforce ...