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Victorian & Edwardian Oxfordshire illustrates through words and
pictures the county in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. It was a time of change for all levels of society. In
the countryside, agriculture was becoming increasingly mechanized
and there were bitter struggles over agricultural wages. In Oxford,
significant social changes were taking place, the first colleges
for women opened in 1879, religious tests in the universities were
abolished in 1871 and in 1877 dons acquired the permission to
marry. By 1912 William Morris had made his first car in Oxford and
begun a process of industrialization and employment opportunity
hitherto undreamt of. The area covered by this book is that of the
old county, before 1974 and the reorganization of county
boundaries. The photographs, printed here in sepia, depict the
farmer and his labourer in the countryside, the traditional
industries and the interaction of the city and the university in
Oxford. The home life of rich and poor, sports and pastimes,
traditional country customs, religious life and education are all
depicted in this collection. The text, composed of a series of
extracts gathered from a variety of contemporary sources, helps to
bring alive these glimpses of life in the county of a time that is
only just outside living memory.
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