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Picture Oxon allows you to search for any subject, place or name in the catalogue records - e.g. evacuees, ethnic minorities, morris dancing, East Hanney, Lord Nuffield.
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The role of the pianist in the silent cinema
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The Cutteslowe Walls - 'a social blasphemy'
(.mp3 format, 1.1Mb, 1m:46s) |
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Francis Shergold, squire of Bampton Morris
(.mp3 format, 1.63Mb, 2m:51s) |
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Contrasting styles of two Oxford Mail reviewers
(.mp3 format, 976Kb, 1m:39s) |
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Piecework at Cowley
(.mp3 format, 1.77Mb, 3m:06s) |
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May day memories
(.mp3 format, 1.2Mb, 2m:06s) |
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Fish and chips in winter, ice cream in summer
(.mp3 format, 1.52Mb, 2m:40s) |
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Making a wheel the old-fashioned way
(.mp3 format, 931Kb, 1m:35s) |
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War-time rationing
(.mp3 format, 1.32Mb, 2m:18s) |
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Life on the canals (.mp3 format, 1.39Mb, 2m:26s)
Upsetting the ice-boat(.mp3 format, 1.1Mb, 1m:56s) |
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Cattle breaking shop windows in Banbury
(.mp3 format, 962Kb, 1m:38s) |
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Assessing Billy Morris's temper
(.mp3 format, 630Kb, 1m:04s) |
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Up Headington Hill by 'The Rocket'
(.mp3 format, 923Kb, 1m:34s) |
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When petrol was less than 4d a gallon
(.mp3 format, 1.85Mb, 3m:14s) |
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The fears of war-time evacuees
(.mp3 format, 580Kb, 0m:59s) |
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Suffragette in prison for knocking on a door
(.mp3 format, 1.15Mb, 2m:01s) |
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