Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme
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Commemorating remarkable people and highly significant events and locations throughout Oxfordshire since 2001 https://www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/
More about Iris Murdoch here on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques website: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/murd...
Dame Iris Murdoch: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques scheme
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October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
More about Iris Murdoch here on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques website: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/murd...
The house next door, 35 St Giles', also has a blue plaque, to Annie Rogers www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/roge...
Annie Rogers
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October 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The house next door, 35 St Giles', also has a blue plaque, to Annie Rogers www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/roge...
Daniel Evans designed and built this terrace of three large houses: he himself lived in the one for sale, which is on the right. More information about Evans and Symm on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques website: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/evan...
Daniel Evans & Joshua Symm
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October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Daniel Evans designed and built this terrace of three large houses: he himself lived in the one for sale, which is on the right. More information about Evans and Symm on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques website: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/evan...
Muirhead Bone’s drawings and paintings of Oxford were used to illustrate the annual Oxford Almanack fifteen times, and he was the first official war artist, being sent to France in August 1916 to draw scenes of the Front history.blog.gov.uk/2014/07/22/s...
Sir Muirhead Bone: First Official War Artist
Muirhead Bone was born on the 23rd March 1876 in the suburb of Partick in Glasgow. Born into rather an impoverished family, any talent Bone and his siblings showed was encouraged. Each birthday Bone r...
history.blog.gov.uk
September 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Muirhead Bone’s drawings and paintings of Oxford were used to illustrate the annual Oxford Almanack fifteen times, and he was the first official war artist, being sent to France in August 1916 to draw scenes of the Front history.blog.gov.uk/2014/07/22/s...
More about Chiang Yee here on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme’s website. His plaque includes his name in Chinese lettering: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/chia...
July 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
More about Chiang Yee here on the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme’s website. His plaque includes his name in Chinese lettering: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/chia...
… and Part II here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/e...
Early Council Housing in Banbury, Part II: King’s Road and the Cow Fair Roarer
I’m pleased to feature the second part of this fine guest post by Jane Kilsby – a wonderful record of the struggle to build decent working-class housing in the early years of …
municipaldreams.wordpress.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
… and Part II here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/e...
And it's also great to read the excellent guest post by Jane Kilsby on your Municipal Dreams blog about Herbert Payne and the Kings Road council houses. People who want to read it will find Part I here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/e...
Early Council Housing in Banbury, Part I: King’s Road and the Cow Fair Roarer
I’m delighted to feature this week and next another guest post – a fascinating piece of social, political and housing history from Jane Kilsby in Banbury. Jane worked in…
municipaldreams.wordpress.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
And it's also great to read the excellent guest post by Jane Kilsby on your Municipal Dreams blog about Herbert Payne and the Kings Road council houses. People who want to read it will find Part I here: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/e...
More information on Herbert Payne here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/payn...
Herbert Payne: Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme
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May 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
More information on Herbert Payne here: www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/payn...
At 22:30mins on the same programme, Portillo visits the MG Car Club at Kimber House in Abingdon where he learns about Cecil Kimber, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on the Boundary House pub there: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
May 14, 2025 at 7:27 AM
At 22:30mins on the same programme, Portillo visits the MG Car Club at Kimber House in Abingdon where he learns about Cecil Kimber, who has an Oxfordshire Blue Plaque on the Boundary House pub there: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...