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Balliol College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1263 by John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world. Balliol has a long history of innovation. It was one of the first Oxford colleges to appoint a Fellow in English, a Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science and was a founding college for Classical Archaeology and Ancient History. Famously, it was the birthplace of PPE in the 1920s and A. D. Lindsay, later master, played a key role in establishing the degree. In 2006, 45% of Balliol undergraduates obtained First Class degrees, a record within Oxford at the time.Members of Balliol have been awarded 13 Nobel Prizes with 12 Laureates (the most of any Oxford college). Balliol has educated four Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom (the second highest of any Oxford college), Harald V of Norway, Empress Masako of Japan, President Richard von Weizsäcker of Germany, Seretse Khama of Botswana, several Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, 7 Archbishops of Canterbury and 2 Cardinals. Balliol alumni also include the astronomer James Bradley, legal figures Lord Bingham and John Marshall Harlan II, geneticist Baruch Samuel Blumberg, writers Robert Southey, Gerard Hopkins, Matthew Arnold and Algernon Swinburne, historians R. H. Tawney, Christopher Hill and James H. Billington and philosopher Derek Parfit. Among the most famous students are the "Father of Economics" Adam Smith, the leader of the Baháʼí Faith Shoghi Effendi, the biologist Julian Huxley and his son Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World.John Wycliffe, who oversaw the first complete translation of the Bible into English, was master of Balliol in the 1360s. Due to the college's antiquity, knowledge of membership before around 1630 is incomplete, though eminent figures like Sir Thomas More and Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester have been suggested as potential students. Through his friendship with master Benjamin Jowett, the poet Robert Browning became the college's first Honorary Fellow.When John de Balliol died in 1268, his widow, Dervorguilla (whose wealth far exceeded that of his own) continued his work in setting up the college. It fell to Dervorguilla to confirm the foundation, with the blessing of the Bishop as well as the University hierarchy. She established a permanent endowment for the College in 1282, as well as its first formal Statutes. She is thus considered the co-founder of the college, and is commemorated through the Dervorguilla Society, and the annual Dervorguilla Seminar Series, while a Latin Requiem Mass was sung at Balliol for the 700th anniversary of her death.

Thornton's Bookshop (locally known as Thornton's) was the oldest university bookshop in Oxford, England. It was founded in 1835 by Joseph Thornton (1808–1891) in Magdalen Street.From 1870, the bookshop was located at 11 Broad Street (opposite Balliol College), continued as a family business by five generations of the Thornton family and from 1983 by the Meeuws family, but closed at the end of 2002. The business continues to sell via the Internet and mail order from Faringdon, about 18 miles from Oxford. The shop premises on Broad Street were frequently used for television adaptations like Brideshead Revisited, and the last Inspector Morse episode, The Remorseful Day.The premises are now occupied by "The Shop of Secrets", a Harry Potter-themed shop.

Boswells of Oxford was the largest independent family-run department store in Oxford, England. The store closed in 2020.The store first traded in 1738, and was the second oldest family-owned department store in the world. It was initially founded by Francis Boswell and located at 50 Cornmarket Street. Boswells started up in business manufacturing and selling luggage and trunks, and it is believed their wares were taken on Captain Cook's trip to explore the Southern Hemisphere. The business remained in the Boswell family until 1890 when there was no one left for direct succession. The ownership passed to Arthur Pearson, the then owner of the Oxford Drug Company. Boswells and the Oxford Drug Company are still owned by the Pearson family and, unusually for a Department Store, Boswells still contained a Pharmacy - right until it closed. In 1928, it expanded its premises with the main entrance moving to Broad Street, opposite Balliol College and close to the spot (marked with a cross in the middle of the road) where the Oxford Martyrs were burnt at the stake in the 16th century. The store was traditional in style and a local shopping landmark, particularly for toys, kitchenware, and luggage, continuing the tradition from 1738. It retained a smaller side entrance at the north end of Cornmarket Street, which was originally the Oxford Drug Company building. Its address is now 1–4 Broad Street. The company did not use an apostrophe in its name, although others sometimes mistakenly do so. In 2014, the store launched an e-commerce website to replace a purely marketing website and sold products from all its departments online. In 2015, Boswells expanded upstairs to create a new tearoom and customer toilets, and added a takeaway cafe in 2018. The store departments were: Basement – Cookshop and Kitchen Electricals, Hardware, Household Essentials, Lighting, Small Electricals, Tableware Ground Floor – Cosmetics, Accessories, Umbrellas and Bags, Gifts, Luggage, Pharmacy, Tourism, Broad Street Cafe First Floor – 1738 Tearoom, Toys and Games Second Floor – Bedding and Bathrooms, Customer Toilets, Haberdashery, Parcel Collection pointIn 2020, there was a closing down sale after 282 years of trading. The COVID-19 pandemic brought forward the closure of the store. The store closed due to the crisis, apart from the pharmacy, which closed on 11 April 2020.

Durham College was a college of the University of Oxford, founded by the monks of Durham Priory in the late 13th century. It was closed at the dissolution of the monasteries in the mid 16th century, and its buildings were subsequently used to found Trinity College, Oxford.

St Mary Magdalen is a Church of England parish church in Magdalen Street, Oxford, England, dedicated to Jesus' companion Mary Magdalene. It is one of the city's ancient parish churches and is a Grade I listed building.

Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope, on land previously occupied by Durham College, home to Benedictine monks from Durham Cathedral.Despite its large physical size, the college is relatively small in terms of student numbers at approximately 400. It was founded as a men's college and has been coeducational since 1979. As of 2022, the total funds of Trinity amounted to £212 million, including a financial endowment of £181 million.Trinity has produced three British prime ministers, placing it third after Christ Church and Balliol in terms of former students who have held that office.

The Oxford Phasmatological Society was an organisation from Oxford that investigated paranormal phenomena. It lasted from 1879-1885. It is considered to have been the first psychical research society.It was founded by Edward Ridley and F. C. S. Schiller, with Charles Oman, who served as one of its four presidents. Arthur Headlam also served as president. Similarly to the Society for Psychical Research formed in 1882, it collected and investigated reports of ghosts, hauntings, and psychic phenomena.Meetings were held in the rooms of Schiller at Balliol College.

Ship Street is a short street in central Oxford, England that runs east–west.

The City Church in Oxford, England, is where the mayor and corporation (local government officials) are expected to worship. There have been three churches designated the City Church in Oxford, first established around 1122: St Martin's Church, Carfax (c. 1122–1896), demolished apart from the tower All Saints Church, High Street (1896–1971), deconsecrated and now the library of Lincoln College St Michael at the North Gate, Cornmarket (1971 onwards), the present City Church

Broad Street is a wide street in central Oxford, England, just north of the former city wall. The street is known for its bookshops, including the original Blackwell's bookshop at number 50, located here due to the University of Oxford. Among residents, the street is traditionally known as The Broad.

St Michael at the North Gate is a church in Cornmarket Street, at the junction with Ship Street, in central Oxford, England. The name derives from the church's location on the site of the north gate of Oxford when it was surrounded by a city wall. Since 1971, it has served as the ceremonial City Church of Oxford, and has joined the parishes of the two earlier City Churches with its own. The entire tower is accessible to the public, including the top which provides a view of the city as well as an original clockwork mechanism

The Martyrs' Memorial is a stone monument positioned at the intersection of St Giles', Magdalen Street and Beaumont Street, to the west of Balliol College, Oxford, England. It commemorates the 16th-century Oxford Martyrs.