Leisure and culture

Rachel Joyce

World Book Night

Four Oxfordshire libraries are marking a worldwide celebration of reading with a range of author events.

10 Apr 2012
Heritage Gateway

Oxfordshire now on national ‘Heritage Gateway’

Oxfordshire’s Historic Environment Record is now live on Heritage Gateway, a national database integrating both national and local records of England’s historic and archaeological sites and listed buildings.

13 Feb 2012
Mother and son in the library

Cabinet approves revised plan for libraries

Work with local communities to establish a network of volunteers in some libraries will begin following a decision taken on Monday 12 December by Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet on a plan that will see all 43 public libraries remain open.

12 Dec 2011
Library self service

Consultation prompts change to libraries proposal

A four-month public consultation into the future of Oxfordshire’s public libraries which attracted nearly 5,000 responses has resulted in a new plan that if adopted would see all 43 libraries remain open with the help of fewer volunteers than previously proposed.

2 Dec 2011
The Anglo-Saxon brooch

Open day to feature Anglo-Saxon brooch

An Anglo-Saxon brooch - discovered close to where a human skeleton was buried in West Hanney - will be on public show for the first ever time during an open day at Oxfordshire County Council's Museums Resource Centre on Sunday October 9.

3 Oct 2011
One of the pieces on show

Exhibition raises temperature at county museum

The temperature is set to rocket at The Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock with the arrival of a colourful new exhibition.

7 Sep 2011

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