Literary Oxford with Alastair Lack SOLD OUT
Alastair Lack
Wednesday, 20 March 2024
2:00pm
2 hours
Meet outside St John’s College Lodge (main entrance), St Giles
£25
Explore Oxford colleges and landmark buildings in the company of the poets A E Housman, AC Swinburne, Edward Thomas and Robert Bridges, as well as writers such as Dorothy Sayers, Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis and Barbara Pym – not forgetting J R R Tolkein and Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson). Starting from the main entrance of St John’s College in St Giles, where Housman and Philip Larkin were undergraduates, the walk lasts two hours and ends at Christ Church.
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