Next Saturday morning! Tickets still available. How much do you know about Oxford’s radical past and present? Hear untold tales of our city’s revolutionaries, rioters and resisters on my popular ‘Oxford’s Rebels and Radicals’ walking tour. ✊ DATE: Saturday 5th April, 11am-1pm. ✊ ABOUT: On this walking tour you will hear about epic ‘town vs gown’ riots, fiercely independent medieval women, acid-sprinkling Suffragettes and the locals who kicked fascists out of the city for good. From Oscar Wilde to Rhodes Must Fall, Oxford’s Rebels and Radicals walking tour tells the fascinating and inspiring stories of those who have pushed back against power, privilege, discrimination and inequality throughout Oxford’s thousand-year history. ‘Jess is quite splendid. Enthusiastic, knowledgeable and humorous. Her Rebels and Radicals tour was a revelation even to those of us who have lived in Oxford for decades.’ – Carolyn ★★★★★ ✊ TICKETS: £17/£12 ✊ HOW TO BOOK: Follow the link in my bio. ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊ I’m an award-winning Oxford Green Badge tour guide. Message me to book a tour or buy a voucher - link to my website in bio. #oxford #radicalhistory #oxfordshire #visitoxford #oxfordtour #discoveroxford #oxfordguide #oxfordtourguide #experienceoxford #britainsbestguides

The magnolias are out in Iffley Village - it’s officially spring!! 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 I’m an award-winning Oxford Green Badge tour guide. Message me to book a tour - link to my website in bio. #oxford #iffley #oxfordshire #visitoxford #oxfordtour #discoveroxford #oxfordguide #oxfordtourguide #experienceoxford #britainsbestguides

Yesterday I got a rare peek into one of the Oxford colleges’ famous wine cellars - at @corpuschristiox🍷 The colleges buy their wine in bulk many years in advance, storing and bottling it themselves. This means that if you’re lucky enough to have dinner in hall you can buy a bottle of wine to accompany it that may cost you £25 in college, but can be worth over £1000 commercially! 🍾🥂 Huge thanks to Corpus Head Porter, Trevor, for allowing a gaggle of guides to poke our inquisitive noses into nooks and crannies all over the college! And to @oxford_guild_of_tour_guides for organising. 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 I’m an award-winning Oxford Green Badge tour guide. Message me to book a tour - link to my website in bio. #oxford #corpuschristioxford #corpuschristicollege #wine #oxforduniversity #oxfordshire #visitoxford #oxfordtour #discoveroxford #oxfordguide #oxfordtourguide #experienceoxford #britainsbestguides

There are some astonishing items on display in @christchurchoxford library’s Lewis Carroll exhibition at the moment, following the surprise donation to the college of probably the most important private collection of his work: 😲 Alice’s personal copy of Through the Looking-Glass - and the copy Carroll/Dodgson inscribed and gave to her mother. 😲 A letter he wrote to one of his child-friends. Backwards. 😲 The (in)famous ‘Beggar Maid’ photograph Dodgson took of Alice. 😲 A gift from Illustrator John Tenniel with an extra pencil doodle of Alice on the title page. 😲 An engraved block used to print the title page. 🤣 A version of Alice in Wonderland translated into Klingon. And of course an opportunity to see the magnificent library where Dodgson himself used to work. Well worth a visit - it’s on until 17th April, open Tuesday and Thursday 10am-1pm and Wednesday 1-4.30pm. 📖📖📖📖📖📖📖📖📖📖📖📖📖 I’m an award-winning Oxford Green Badge tour guide. Message me to book a tour - link to my website in bio. #oxford #christchurch #christchurchoxford #lewiscarroll #aliceinwonderland #charleslutwidgedodgson #library #exhibition #oxforduniversity #oxfordshire #visitoxford #oxfordtour #discoveroxford #oxfordguide #oxfordtourguide #experienceoxford #britainsbestguides

This is what storing 10 million books looks like 📚🤯 I had the incredible experience yesterday of visiting the @bodleianlibraries Collections Storage Facility in Swindon. Us guides talk about it every day, but few people get to go inside. 📕 10 million books 🗺️ 2 million maps 📤 150,000 new items a year 🏢 153 miles of shelving Order any book in Oxford by 10.30 in the morning, it will be there by the afternoon. It’s an unbelievably ingenious and efficient set-up and I’m so grateful to @oxford_guild_of_tour_guides and the warehouse staff for giving us such a thorough and entertaining tour. 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚 I’m an award-winning Oxford Green Badge tour guide. Message me to book a tour or buy a voucher - link to my website in bio. #oxford #bodleian #bodleianlibrary #books #collectionsstorage #swindon #universityofoxford #oxforduniversity #oxfordshire #visitoxford #oxfordtour #discoveroxford #oxfordguide #oxfordtourguide #experienceoxford #britainsbestguides