The Little Book Of Oxfordshire Av Paul Sullivan

<p><strong>Did you know?</strong></p><ul> <li> <p>A trip to the Ashmolean for Alice Liddell and Charles Dodgson led to the latter, under his nom de plume Lewis Carroll, immortalizing both Liddell and himself (as a dodo) in the Alice books.</p> </li> <li> <p>A man was crushed beneath his own cart wheels in 1872, when his horse reared after meeting an elephant on the road from Oxford to Eynsham.</p> </li> <li> <p>Despite Percy Bysshe Shelley being expelled from University College for writing the pamphlet ‘The Necessity of Atheism’, he is now its most celebrated alumnus.</p> </li> </ul><p><strong><em>The Little Book of Oxfordshire</em> is a funny, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information no one will want to be without.</strong> Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, and hundreds of interesting facts (plus some authentically bizarre bits of historical trivia).</p><p>Combining essential details with little-known and entertaining information and quotations, this book is a highly engaging guide to where you are, what to look out for now you’re here, and how on earth all this came to be.</p>