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Life’s a beech!

In honour of Earth Day, we are celebrating our two beautiful copper beech trees in the quadrangle of OUP’s headquarters in Oxford...

#EYACrime

Anyone interested in the history of the Oxford English Dictionary will be well acquainted with the tragic tale of Dr. William Chester Minor, but #EYACrime lets us take a deeper look at Minor’s work...

#EYAWildlife

Wild in name, wild for nature – we’re looking back at Brian Wildsmith’s evocative work for #EYAWildlife...

The Secretary, his wife, her student, and Jane Austen

In recognition of International Women’s Day this weekend we are celebrating a landmark development in Oxford’s World’s Classics series – the first original academic introduction by a female scholar...

#EYAConnections

‘It runs in the family’ as the old saying goes, something certainly true of our twentieth century printshop workers...

Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month with Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s connection to Oxford University Press dates back to the very year of her birth, 1892, when her father, Leslie Stephen, became the founding editor of the Dictionary of National...