Eccentric Oxford

This new edition of Ben le Vay’s irrepressible and irreverent guide to one of the greatest of English cities has been updated and expanded to include even more entertaining tales. There are more civilian/non-academic eccentrics, there is more local history, and there’s a particularly fascinating bit of military history about Oxford that even many locals have never heard of.

Have a pint in the superb central Oxford pub garden where Bill Clinton didn’t inhale wacky backy and TV’s Inspector Mo...