St Edmund Hall, Oxford

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St Edmund Hall is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college has a claim to be "the oldest academical society for the education of undergraduates in any university" and is the last surviving medieval hall at the university.The college is located just off Queen's Lane, near the High Street, in central Oxford. After more than seven centuries as a men-only college, it has been coeducational since 1979.As of 2018, the college had a financial endowment of roughly £58 million.

St Hilda's College, Oxford

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St Hilda's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college is named after the Anglo-Saxon Saint, Hilda of Whitby and was founded in 1893 as a hall for women; remaining an all-women's college until 2008. St Hilda's was the last single-sex college in the university as Somerville College had admitted men in 1994. The college now has almost equal numbers of men and women at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. The current Principal is Sir Gordon Duff, who took up the post in 2014. As of 2018, the college had an endowment of £52.1 million and total assets of £113.4 million.

Хэртфорд-колледж (Оксфорд)

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Хэртфорд-колледж — один из колледжей Оксфордского университета. Основан в 1874 году. Выпускником колледжа 1923 года являлся выдающийся английский писатель Ивлин Во, изобразивший колледж в первой части своего самого знаменитого романа — «Возвращение в Брайдсхед». Протагонист романа — Чарльз Райдер, изображён студентом колледжа.

Колледж Иисуса (Оксфорд)

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Колледж Иисуса — один из колледжей Оксфордского университета. Основан в 1571 году королевой Елизаветой I. Находится в центре города. В настоящее время насчитывает до ста членов и лекторов и более 500 учащихся . Поддерживает тесные связи с Уэльсом. С 1974 года разрешён приём женщин. Среди видных воспитанников колледжа Лоуренс, Томас Эдвард, лидер лейбористской партии и премьер-министр Великобритании в 1964—1970 и 1974—1976 гг. Вильсон, Гарольд, главный министр Ямайки с 1955 по 1962 год Мэнли, Норман. Робертс, Льюис Эдвард Джон, известный британский химик-ядерщик.

Regent's Park College, Oxford

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Regent's Park College is a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford, situated in central Oxford, just off St Giles'. Founded in 1810, the college moved to its present site in 1927, and became a licensed hall of the university in 1957. The college now admits both undergraduate and graduate students to take Oxford degrees in a variety of arts, humanities and social science subjects. It is one of the few academic institutions within the University of Oxford to have accepted women as well as men since before the mid-twentieth century, with women attending the college since the 1920s. The college also trains men and women for ordained ministry among Baptist churches in Great Britain and overseas.

Christ Church Picture Gallery

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Christ Church Picture Gallery is an art museum at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford University in England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 300 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings. It is one of the most important private collections in the United Kingdom. The greater part of the collection was bequeathed by a former member of the college, General John Guise, arriving after his death in 1765. Further gifts and bequests were made by W. T. H. Fox-Strangways, Walter Savage Landor, Sir Richard Nosworthy & C.R. Patterson . The Picture Gallery is especially strong on Italian art from the 14th to 18th centuries. The collection includes paintings by Annibale Carracci , Duccio, Fra Angelico, Hugo van der Goes, Giovanni di Paolo, Filippino Lippi , Sano di Pietro, Frans Hals, Salvator Rosa, Tintoretto, Anthony van Dyck and Paolo Veronese, and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer and Peter Paul Rubens and a great range of other artists, especially Italians.The drawings collection is shown by a small exhibition, changing roughly every three months, and sometimes showing works not in the permanent collection, especially those by modern artists. The gallery was designed by Hidalgo Moya and Philip Powell, and built in 1968, enabling the collection to be open to the public for the first time. It is located in the Deanery garden.Professor Joanna Woodall of the Courtauld Institute is a former Assistant Curator of the gallery. The current curator is Jacqueline Thalmann.Late on 14 March 2020, paintings by Van Dyck, Annibale Carracci and Salvator Rosa were stolen from the gallery.

Nuffield College, Oxford

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Nuffield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is a graduate college and specialises in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. Nuffield is one of Oxford's newer colleges, having been founded in 1937, as well as one of the smallest, with around 75 postgraduate students and 60 academic fellows. It was also the first Oxford college to accept both men and women, having been coeducational since its foundation.Its architecture is designed to conform to the traditional college layout and its modernist spire is a landmark for those approaching Oxford from the west. As of 2018, the college had an estimated financial endowment of £233.6m. Due to its small intake, it was the wealthiest educational institution per student in the world as of 2013. Since 2017, Nuffield has committed to underwriting funding for all new students accepted to the college.

St Hugh's College, Oxford

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St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a 14.5-acre site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a women's college, and accepted its first male students in its centenary year in 1986. It enjoys a reputation as one of the most attractive colleges because of its extensive, pleasant gardens. In its 125th anniversary year, the college became a registered charity under the name "The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh's College in the University of Oxford". As of July 2018, the college's financial endowment was £37.6 million.

Крайст-черч

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Крайст-черч — один из самых крупных аристократических колледжей Оксфордского университета. Основан в 1524 году кардиналом Томасом Уолси. Преимущественно в 1526 и 1546 году сооружён позднеготический «Большой квадрат» колледжа, в 1529 году — холл. 1-й ярус «Башни Тома» построен в 1526 году, завершение — в 1681—1682 гг., архитектор «Башни Тома» — Кристофер Рен. Часовня колледжа с 1546 года является кафедральным собором диоцеза Оксфорда. С 1526 года существует хор Крайст-черч. Первым главным органистом и руководителем хора в 1526—1530 гг. был Джон Тавернер .