Bloody British History: Oxford

Bloody History

by Paul Sullivan

This is the history of Oxford as you have never encountered it before. The first historical record of Oxford laments that the city has been burnt to the ground by Vikings. Its religious houses were founded by a woman who blinded her would-be attacker. Its students were poverty-stricken desperados in perpetual armed conflict with the townsmen. One of its principal colleges, meanwhile, doubled as a slaughterhouse — and its richest streets and university edifices backed on to some of the most pestilential slums in England. With a mangled skeleton in every cupboard, this is the real story of the Oxford. Read it if you dare!

Genres: History

215 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 2012

About the author

Paul Sullivan was born in 1962 beneath the dreaming spires of Grimsby, England. After surprising himself by winning a short story competition at the age of 13 with a piece about a Messianic otter, he determined to spend the rest of his life writing and seeking out the unorthodox. His various publications feature history, folklore, wildlife and far more jokes than his editors would like. Several of his recent books reflect an immersion in his latest adopted county, Oxfordshire, where he lives with wife Magdalena and two sons Jan and Theo; while his eldest son Jay enables him to keep one foot in his other adopted home county, Derbyshire. Should he ever stumble upon a willing genie, the following day's headlines will announce the following: Gerald Durrell is alive again, beer is good for you, and Babel Fish are now available on the NHS.