History of Universities: Volume XXXV / 1

This special edition of History of Universities, Volume XXXV/1, studies and reappraises the often ignored history of eighteenth-century Oxford, caught as it is between the upheavals of the Stuart century and the reformation of the Victorian era.

Guest Editors: Robin Darwall-Smith and Peregrine Horden.
Robin Darwall-Smith is Archivist of University and Jesus Colleges, and a historian of Oxford.
Peregrine Horden is a Fellow of All Souls College and a medieval historian.

Preface
1: Robin Darwall-Smith: The problem of Georgian Oxford
Part 1: Thought and Learning
2: Robin Darwall-Smith: In the centre and on the periphery: the paradox of Classics in Georgian Oxford
3: Judith Curthoys: Undergraduate studies and the collection books at Christ Church
4: Robin Darwall-Smith: Theology and religion in Georgian Oxford: a survey
5: Alastair Hamilton: Arabic studies in eighteenth-century Oxford
6: Mike Macnair: Eighteenth-century antecedents and rivals to Blackstone's Institutionalism
7: Anna Marie Roos: Keeping Natural Philosophy Alive in Eighteenth-Century Oxford: John Whiteside (1679-1729) and William Huddesford (1732-1772)
Part 2: Arts and Letters
8: Matthew Craske: George Clarke's Oxford: The Patriotic Creation of a Monumental City
9: Anthony Geraghty: 'Gothick' and 'sollid': Hawksmoor's work at All Souls reconsidered
10a: Clare Bucknell: Edward Young in England
10b: Catriona Seth: Cross-Channel Memorialisation: Edward Young in France
11: Susan Wollenberg: Concert life in Georgian Oxford
12: Peregrine Horden: Oxford and Cambridge colleges as patrons of religious art in the eighteenth century
Part 3: University Life
13: Norma Aubertin-Potter: The eighteenth-century servants of All Souls College, Oxford
14: Nigel Aston: The Great Survivor: Charles Butler, Earl of Arran, and the Oxford Chancellorship, 1715-1758