1860. A massacre occurred in Damascus. But why is it such a watershed moment? And what relevance does it have to the modern day?
Come along to the Inaugural Margoliouth Lecture to hear Professor Eugene Rogan consider this further: 5PM, 29th April, New College. All are welcome!
Welcome back to many of our students! Soon Trinity Term will be in full swing... ☀️
A reminder that magnolias are not just a feast for the eyes 👀 You can make champagne and pickled magnolia petals!
Grotesque with hands over their eyes
Grotesque looking worried
Gargoyle on New College building
"How's your week going?" Gargoyle/grotesque edition!
Journalist and writer Yvonne Singh remembers her first job at a national news paper and reflects on how it has developed, in the context of her recent publication INK!: From the Age of Empire to Black Power, the Journalists who Transformed Britain.
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What makes a life well lived?
Just one of the questions discussed by Katie Brewer and John Withington, one of the UK's leading disaster historians, in the latest episode of Old Member Conversations.
When you think summer’s coming but the clouds are back… Balthasar giving some attitude 😒
Victorians got the Battle of Hastings wrong, says Professor Tom Licence.
His new research has suggested that, contrary to the famous story of soldiers marching almost 300 miles from Stamford Bridge to Hastings, Harold and his troops most likely travelled by boat, with a fully functional fleet 📜
Get a different view of Oxford from the top of New College’s Robinson Tower 👀
Longer days, more time to admire glorious skies like these 🌅
Thank you to Stephen, one of our Porters, who without fail manages to capture Oxford’s beautiful sunrises and sunsets
The News of New College sing The Girl from Ipanema👏
And they’re just returning from their tour in the US!
From sending our Outreach Officer into space 🚀 to welcoming a flock of sheep to New College 🐑, we’ve made some big claims over the years on a particular day in April…
What should we do next year?
Longer days and some sun's got us feeling like...
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The weather was confused all day
so who can say why it was just then
the light fell that way -
This stanza from The Light Fell by Owen Sheers feels fitting for the sun, wind, hail, grey we’ve had the past few days! Here one of the brighter moments
A moment for the magnolia tree at the back of New College gardens 😍
Christmas trees have arrived at New College!
My old staircase at New College Oxford—a tall sandstone building covered in wisteria
New College garden—lovely flowerbeds and old city walls
New College Mound—a large artificial hill/mound now with steps up to the top! There are two gentlemen playing conkers on the steps
New College cloisters, photo from the inner lawn to a statue of a saint who is illuminated
My old college isn't too shabby!
@newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
First Oxford sunset for all our new freshers ❤️🧡💛
#NewCollege #oxforduni #freshersweek
It’s Degree Day! Our students are gowned, briefed and ready to graduate 🎓
Pop by New College for the #OxOpenDay! We’d love to show you around and have a chat about studying at Oxford
#oxford #openday #newcollege
A date for the diaries... drop into New College as part of Oxford Open Doors only on SUNDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER!
Balthasar's on patrol...
1905, 1985 and 2025 - New College across a century of photographs 😍 On #WorldPhotoDay, take a look at these three different vistas of the same Bell Tower in New College 🫶
Lovely morning for lounging around…
Dramatic sky over New College Front Quad
#frontquad #NewCollege #Oxford
It being, apparently, Spoonerism day today, its a chance to repost my blog about @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social, at which the good Reverend Sooner was once Warden
New College or Cue, knowledge?
wonkhe.com/blogs/higher...
Students waving
It’s Day 2 of the #OxOpenDays! Pop along to New College to chat to our wonderful students and tutors 🙌
5 DAYS UNTIL OUR OPEN DAYS! The countdown is on ⏰ We’re excited to welcome you to New College next week. Keep an eye on our page for information, timings and tips so you can get the most out of your open day 🫶📚
#opendays #NewCollege #oxforduni
DPhil student Honora Driscoll has been recognised in the Women's Engineering Society's 2025 Top 50 Women in Engineering awards.
Honora's research looks at green ammonia and green hydrogen production using offshore renewable energy sources, particularly tidal stream energy.
