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We're delighted to celebrate Christ Church's partnership with IntoUniversity – a charity working with local schools to help young people foster a love of learning and reach their p… More...
Musicologist Maria João Rodrigues de Araujo MBE, ComIH (1996, Music) recently received honours from UK and Portugal for … More...
Peckwater Quad Christmas tree 'in progress'... More...
Continuing the Picture Gallery’s series on materials and materiality of Renaissance and Baroque drawings, 'It's not just… More...
Thank you to everyone who donated to one of the four Giving Day funds. The Christ Church community has raised over £70,0… More...
Staff are making excellent progress with an ambitious plan to catalogue Christ Church’s outstanding collections of rare books and the Charles Dodgson … More...
This year’s W. H. Auden Prize has been shared between two student poets: Sarah Liu (2023) and Ruby McCallion (2024). The prize honours the poet W. H. … More...
We are grateful to John Cherry (1960) for supporting the conservation of a 1575 copy of Abraham Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the Worl… More...
We're delighted to celebrate Christ Church's partnership with IntoUniversity – a charity working with local schools to help young people foster a love… More...
Five year ago, as an undergraduate intern, Megan Bowler (2023) wrote for the Higher Education Policy Institute addressing whether there was a 'languag… More...
Join the Library's forthcoming study afternoon, exploring John Locke's ideas, their connection to Christ Church – and to the wider European context of… More...
Jon Down, Christ Church’s first-ever Surveyor, has announced that he will retire at the end of March after a 16-year tenure marked by extensive conser… More...
Peckwater Quad Christmas tree 'in progress'... More...
Continuing the Picture Gallery’s series on materials and materiality of Renaissance and Baroque drawings, 'It's not just black and white' explores dra… More...
Join Historian and author Sophie Bacchus-Waterman to hear about her new book, 'Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen’s Mother', the first solo biogr… More...
Judith Valerie Engel (2020, Music) is an Austrian musicologist. Her forthcoming piano recital will introduce some of the women she encountered explori… More...
Since his death in 1530, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey’s memory has been controversial. Patrick Hornbeck (2005, Theology) traces Wolsey’s 'afterlife'; how wr… More...
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of becoming Head of the River in Summer Eights, the 1985 and 1984 crews held a reunion in Christ Church on Friday 17… More...
Musicologist Maria João Rodrigues de Araujo MBE, ComIH (1996, Music) recently received honours from UK and Portugal for her work on Anglo-Portuguese r… More...
De Quan Wu (1991, Engineering), Alex Drong (2006, Chemistry), Javid Lakha (2007, PPE) and Lisa Thalheimer (2017, Geography) raised a glass to the Hous… More...
'Shooting Up' is Jonathan Tepper’s (1998, History) forthcoming book which reflects on his childhood growing up in Madrid’s San Blas neighbourhood duri… More...
Dirk Aarts, Professor of Chemistry, met a group of alumni and members of the Family Programme in Dubai to toast Christ Church's 500th anniversary on T… More...
This year’s anniversary has prompted many gatherings around the UK and abroad. To help alumni stay in touch with each other after these events, we hav… More...
'Paintings can be viewed hundreds of times, well-thumbed books read time and again; but live music is something which happens in one moment, and then … More...
Joachim Stanley's (1992, English) poem for a grown-up Alice Liddell started out in life as “Hush, hush, whisper who dares, Christopher Robin is saying… More...
The Cathedral's special service of Solemn Vespers, on Saturday 28 June, offered an opportunity to celebrate the rich musical legacy of Christ Church. … More...
An exciting opportunity to hear Errollyn Wallen CBE, Master of the King’s Music, discussing her life and career with Dr Leah Broad (2010, Music) on Sa… More...
Enjoy Advent Carols from Christ Church, recorded on Sunday 30 November. More...
The latest album from the Cathedral Choir, 'A Lullaby Carol: Christmas at Christ Church', available from Avie Records and on streaming services, enter… More...
One of the organs previously installed in Christ Church Cathedral chancel has been moved to St Pancras Church, Widecombe. A recital – to mark its arri… More...
In October we launch the 500th Anniversary Music Festival which celebrates artists and composers – past and present – with links to the House. The Fes… More...
Celebrate Christmas in the Cathedral. More...
Louise Guy (2024, Law) is a second-year student at Christ Church. She has been awarded the William Ewald Instrumental Exhibition for piano and is perf… More...
A study afternoon on Cardinal College's first Organist-Composer, John Taverner, took place in Christ Church Upper Library and Research Centre on Satur… More...
Frideswide Voices toured the Netherlands at the end of July! The girls' choir of Christ Church Cathedral, directed by Helen Smee, visited a number of … More...
'Oxford’s Astrophoria Foundation Year – What, Why, and Who'? Learn about the one-year fully funded programme for UK state school students at a Webinar… More...
The Library has lent ten gold Mohurs and one Moghul gold coin, with Emperor Jahangir and a Persian inscription on the reverse, to 'Great Mughals: Art,… More...
Dr David Fletcher's book on Christ Church’s estate map was published back in the 1990s. His second book: 'The Queen’s Atlas: Saxton’s Elizabethan Mast… More...
The Picture Gallery's current exhibition: 'Secrets of the Sibyls — Sandro Botticelli, Filippino Lippi and artistic practice in Florence' runs until Mo… More...
Members of Convocation will elect a new Chancellor of the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term 2024. To make the election accessible to the global … More...
The programme for the University's 'Meeting Minds 2024', from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 September, is available. The weekend offers a variety of talks, p… More...
Christ Church's next Special Interest Event, 'Thomas Hardy, Art and Culture', will be held from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 April. More...
The Varsity Matches, organised by Oxford University Rugby Football Club, will be held on Saturday 8 March at the StoneX Stadium, home of premiership s… More...
A new exhibition – 'Sacred Spaces' – features the work of David Stumpp, Rare Books Librarian at Christ Church. More...
The Library has recently acquired a rare book from the collection of its former Librarian, scholar Robert Burton (1577–1640): a copy of Michael Scot’s… More...