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A list of some of the fictional colleges of the University of Oxford. The University of Oxford (often called Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
- Baillie College - Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister
- Bartlemas College - Kate Ivory detective novels, Veronica Stallwood
- Bede College - Operation Pax, Michael Innes (pseudonym of J. I. M. Stewart)
- Beaufort College - Inspector Morse TV series
- Beaumont College - Inspector Morse novels, Colin Dexter
- Biblioll College - Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy (the thinly fictionalized Oxford is identified as Christminster)
- Brazenface College - Verdant Green, Cuthbert Bede
- Charsley College - The Casual Ward, A. D. Godley
- Courtenay College - Inspector Morse TV series
- Gabriel College - His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- Hacker College - The Complete Yes Minister
- Jordan College - His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- Judas College - Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm
- Lancaster College - Incense for the Damned, a Peter Cushing horror film set partially in Oxford, based on Doctors Wear Scarlet by Simon Raven
- Lazarus College - Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope
- Lonsdale College - Inspector Morse novels, Colin Dexter
- St Ambrose's College - Tom Brown at Oxford, Thomas Hughes
- St Christopher's College - The moving toyshop, Edmund Crispin
- St George's College - Yes Minister
- St Mary's College - Sinister Street, Compton Mackenzie
- St Michael's College - His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- St Sophia's College - His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
- Scone College - Decline and Fall, Evelyn Waugh
- Shrewsbury College - Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers (Women's college, probably based on Somerville)
- Surrey College - A Staircase in Surrey, a quintet of novels by J. I. M. Stewart
Yes, Minister, and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, are British sitcoms that were transmitted by the BBC between 1980 and 1988. ...
Yes, Minister, and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, are British sitcoms that were transmitted by the BBC between 1980 and 1988. ...
Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ...
Michael Innes was the pseudonym of an Oxford academic, J. I. M. Stewart (1906â1994), under which name he wrote about forty crime novels between 1936 and 1986. ...
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (September 30, 1906 â November 12, 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. ...
Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the TV series produced by Central Independent Television from 1987â2000. ...
Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the TV series produced by Central Independent Television from 1987â2000. ...
(Norman) Colin Dexter is the British author of the Inspector Morse novels. ...
Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardys novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. ...
Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 â 11 January 1928) was a novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. ...
Christminster is a fictional town and university, modelled on Oxford, that appears in Thomas Hardys novel Jude the Obscure. ...
Edward Bradley (1827 - 1889) was a novelist and clergyman. ...
Alfred Denis Godley (1856--1925) was a classical scholar and author of humorous poems. ...
Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the TV series produced by Central Independent Television from 1987â2000. ...
The trilogy (non-North American versions), in order of succession from left to right. ...
Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946), is a British writer, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, who is the best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels and a number of other books, purportedly for children, but attracting increasing attention by adult readers. ...
Yes, Minister, and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, are British sitcoms that were transmitted by the BBC between 1980 and 1988. ...
Jordan College is a fictional college of the University of Oxford which appears in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. ...
The trilogy (non-North American versions), in order of succession from left to right. ...
Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946), is a British writer, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, who is the best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels and a number of other books, purportedly for children, but attracting increasing attention by adult readers. ...
Zuleika Dobson is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. ...
Max Beerbohm by William Rothenstein, 1893 Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 - May 20, 1956) was an English parodist and caricaturist. ...
Peter Cushing OBE Cushing (left) in the television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the winter of 1954 on BBC Television. ...
Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ...
Simon Arthur Noël Raven, (December 28, 1927 â May 12, 2001), was a novelist, journalist and dramatist. ...
Barchester Towers is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1857. ...
Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 â December 6, 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. ...
Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the TV series produced by Central Independent Television from 1987â2000. ...
(Norman) Colin Dexter is the British author of the Inspector Morse novels. ...
Tom Brown at Oxford is a novel by Thomas Hughes, first published in 1861. ...
A statue of Thomas Hughes at Rugby School For the recipient of the Victoria Cross see Thomas Hughes, VC Thomas Hughes (October 20, 1822 – March 22, 1896) was an English lawyer and author. ...
Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Bruce Montgomery (October 2, 1921âSeptember 15, 1978) an English crime writer and composer. ...
Yes, Minister, and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, are British sitcoms that were transmitted by the BBC between 1980 and 1988. ...
Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie, (1883â1972), was an Scottish novelist. ...
The trilogy (non-North American versions), in order of succession from left to right. ...
Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946), is a British writer, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, who is the best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels and a number of other books, purportedly for children, but attracting increasing attention by adult readers. ...
The trilogy (non-North American versions), in order of succession from left to right. ...
Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946), is a British writer, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, who is the best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy novels and a number of other books, purportedly for children, but attracting increasing attention by adult readers. ...
Decline and Fall is a novel by Evelyn Waugh. ...
Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ...
Gaudy Night is a 1935 Lord Peter Wimsey detective story by Dorothy L. Sayers. ...
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 â Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. ...
Full name Somerville College Motto Donec rursus impleat orbem Named after Mary Somerville Previous Names Somerville Hall Established 1879 Sister College Girton College Principal Dame Fiona Caldicott JCR President Simon Bruegger MCR President Allen Middlebro Location Woodstock Road, Oxford Undergraduates 396 Graduates 88 Homepage Boat Club Somerville College is one...
A Staircase in Surrey is a sequence of five novels by Scottish novelist and academic J. I. M. Stewart (1906–1994), and published between 1974 and 1978. ...
John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (September 30, 1906 â November 12, 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. ...
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