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Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1931-1939. Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.

Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1921-1930. Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.

It seems likely that the surname Chessell arose from a place-name originally meaning ‘chest hill’. At least two places in England at one time were known as Chesthill or variations on that name in accordance with Old English (Anglo-Saxon)…

A PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Gregory's Minster, in beautiful setting in Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, has a sundial that records its renovation -- just a few years before the Norman Conquest. The sundial also…

Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1911-1920. Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.

This is a blog post by writer Joanna Preston discussing 'Wulf and Eadwacer' from a poet's perspective. The translation provided is a composite made up of translations found on the web. Please note that this is a zipped file: in order to read it,…

A series of extracts from S. Lee and E. Solopova's 'The Keys of Middle-earth' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005). The books sets out to attract fans of Tolkien's fiction to the original medieval texts by providing analysis, texts in their original, and…

Pre-print extracts from E. Solopova and S. Lee's 'Key Concepts in Medieval Literature' (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007) with illustrative essays on Old English and the Anglo-Saxons. Can be ordered (pb/hb) at:…

Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1901-1910.

Please note that these are zipped files: in order to open a file, you will need to download it, right-click and choose 'Extract all'.

Oxford University English Faculty exam papers for Trinity Term, 1899