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Three months when Oxford Castle became home to the real-life Rhaenyra Targaryen
11th Jun 2024
An historian says she’s certain that Empress Matilda, an English princess of the Middle Ages, was the inspiration behind George R. R. Martin’s Rhaenyra Targaryen – and she lived in the modern day Oxford Castle & Prison.
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Ducking: A Witch’s Punishment from Days of Old…
12th Mar 2024
Former Castle & Prison Guide Becca Colmer investigates the unpleasant history of the ducking stool.
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Hangman’s Hill and the Hangmen who Hanged Here
11th Mar 2024
For almost 1000 years, our Castle mound has loomed over the Oxford skyline, a monument to our Norman roots. However, the castle mound has another name; Hangman’s Hill, a much more disturbing label….
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Helen Craggs
8th Mar 2023
Oxford Castle & Prison has been home to many prisoners over the centuries among them, Helen Craggs a teacher who was to become a Suffragette seeking women’s suffrage. Read about here story here.
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The Curse of Rowland Jenkes
14th Feb 2023
The 16th Century was a time of great religious upheaval throughout all of Europe and England in Particular.
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