Curators:
Leah Duffin—Graduate Trainee, New College, Oxford
For this online exhibition, Leah worked on the ‘Restoration and the Indolent 18th Century’ tab and helped to digitise many images used throughout the exhibition.
Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson—Former Curatorial Assistant, New College, Oxford
For this online exhibition, Jess researched on and wrote the text for the ‘Wykeham’s Foundation’ and the ‘Reformation’ tabs.
Will Shire—Deputy Librarian, New College, Oxford
For this online exhibition, Will researched on and wrote the text for the ‘Civil War’, ‘Refoundation’, and ‘The Modern College’ tabs. He also worked with Leah on the ‘Restoration and the Indolent 18th Century’ tab. Finally, Will was responsible for editing many of the images and for liaising with Olamalu to develop new features for this online exhibition.
Thanks:
This online exhibition would not have been possible without the support of Olamalu, who designed the website. Thanks are also due to Dr Michael Stansfield, Archivist at New College, for his speedy assistance in retrieving archival material for consultation, and to Michael and to Dr Christopher Skelton-Foord, Librarian at New College, for proof-reading the text of this exhibition in its entirety.
Images:
Unless listed below, all images are in the public domain or are © Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford. If you wish to reproduce an image in any way or have any questions about the images, please contact the Librarian.
18th-century male wigs—Three men’s wigs on stands. (Wellcome Collection) Public Domain Mark.
English Civil War Pikemen and Musketeers—Barry Skeates (Flickr) Creative Commons Licence.
Nosegays—The Polite Maccaroni presenting a Nosegay to Miss Blossom (1772). © The Trustees of the British Museum.
Photo of Mabel Wace delivering food outside a tent at New College, Oxford, 1915, Magdalen College Archives, Oxford, P/408/P2/6.
Plan of Oxford City fortifications, 13 November 1644, Bodleian Library MS. Top. Oxon b. 167.
Wig Curler—Wig curlers and hair tongs © 2011 The Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, England.
Woodforde’s sheets of music—Manuscript of the Messiah.
Chattels Images:
The following images used in the exhibition are part of the New College Chattels collection. These images are © Warden & Scholars of New College, Oxford/Bridgeman Images.
3rd Southern General Hospital, New College Gardens, 1914–15 (w/c on paper), artist Walter Ernest Spradbery, NCO193418.
Anne Barton, 2001 (oil on canvas), artist James Lloyd, NCO272017.
Helmet, breastplate and back plate, mid 17th century (metal), NCO404073.
Memorial for foreign New College Members who fought and died for Britain during World War One, NCO403553.
Memorial to Robert Pinke, West Wall, Ante-Chapel, 1648 (marble), NCO309361.
Plan of the proposed new library, New College, Oxford.
Plaque commemorating Civil War ramparts, located outside the Clore Music Studios, New College, Oxford.
Plaque commemorating 25th anniversary of the first female undergraduates at New College, located outside the Library, New College, Oxford.
William Archibald Spooner, Warden of New College, Oxford, 1913 (oil on canvas), NCO260489.
Further Reading:
The following sources were consulted when writing the text for this online exhibition:
General Research:
Black, Jeremy. A Short History of Britain. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Brockliss, L. W. B., The University of Oxford : A History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Buxton, John, and Penry Williams, eds., New College, Oxford, 1379–1979. Oxford: Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford, 1979.
Tyerman, Christopher, New College. London: Third Millennium Publishing, 2010.
Wykeham’s Foundation:
Davis, Virginia, William of Wykeham. London: Hambledon Continuum, 2007.
Meacham, Thomas, The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2020, esp. pp. 17–40.
Moberly, George Herbert, Life of William of Wykeham sometime Bishop of Winchester and Lord High Chancellor of England. Winchester: Warren, 1893.
Morgan, Kenneth O., The Oxford History of Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Partner, Peter, ‘Wykeham, William (c. 1324–1404)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Walcott, Mackenzie E. C., William of Wykeham and his Colleges. Winchester: David Nutt, 1852.
Reformation:
Allison, Antony Francis and David McGregor Rogers, eds., The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640, 2 vols. (1989–94), vol. 1, pp. 88, 135–40; vol. 2, pp. 138–9.
Catto, J. I., ‘Wyclif and Wycliffism at Oxford, 1356–1430’ in J. I. Catto and T. A. R. Evans (eds.), The History of the University of Oxford, Volume II: Late Medieval Oxford. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. 175–261.
Hudson, Anne, The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
Hudson, Anne and Anthony Kenny, ‘Wyclif [Wycliffe], John [called Doctor Evangelicus] (d. 1384)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Mayer, T. F., ‘Pole, Reginald (1500–1558)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Mayer, T. F., ‘Sander [Sanders], Nicholas (c. 1530–1581)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Marshall, Peter, The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Morgan, Jason, ‘Maria Regina Angliae: A Gift for a Tudor Queen’, New College Notes 10 (2019).
Parrott, David, ‘New College and the Reformation', New College Notes 9 (2018).
Schutte, Valerie, Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Willoughby, James, ‘The King’s Eye’, New College Notes 6 (2015).
Willoughby, James, ed., Reformation Cardinal: Reginald Pole in Sixteenth-Century Italy & England. Oxford: New College Library & Archives, 2023.
Wizeman, William, ‘Harpsfield, John (1516–1578)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Woolfson, Jonathan, ‘Reginald Pole and his Greek Manuscripts in Oxford: A Reconsideration’, Bodleian Library Record 17, no. 2 (2000), pp. 79–95.
Civil War:
Ashley, Maurice, England in the Seventeenth Century. London: Hutchinson, 1978.
Coward, Barry. A Companion to Stuart Britain. Malden: Blackwell, 2003.
Morrill, J. S. (John Stephen), Stuart Britain : A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Parrott, David, ‘The British Civil Wars and the Defence of Oxford’, New College Notes 11 (2019).
Tyacke, Nicholas, The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.
Wormald, Jenny, ed., The Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Restoration and the Indolent 18th Century:
Langford, Paul, Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Mortimer, Ian. The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to the Years 1660–1700. London: The Bodley Head, 2017.
O'Gorman, Frank. The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History, 1688–1832. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Southcombe, George, and Grant Tapsell. Restoration Politics, Religion, and Culture: Britain and Ireland, 1660–1714. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Wood, Antony à, and Andrew Clark, The Life and Times of Anthony Wood, Antiquary, of Oxford, 1632–1695. Charleston: BiblioLife, 2010.
Woodforde, James, and John Beresford. The Diary of a Country Parson. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1981.
Refoundation:
Cook, Chris, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914. London: Routledge, 2005.
Gardiner, John, The Victorians : An Age in Retrospect. London: Hambledon and London, 2002.
Hewitt, Martin, The Victorians : A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Matthew, H. C. G., ed., The Nineteenth Century : The British Isles, 1815–1901. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Ryan, A. ‘Spooner, William Archibald (1844–1930)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Stamp, Gavin, ‘Scott, George Gilbert (1839–1897)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Thompson, F. M. L., ed., The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950. Volume 3, Social Agencies and Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
The Modern College:
Carpentier, Vincent, ‘Higher Education in Modern Europe’, in John L. Rury and Eileen Tamura (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 258–74.
Morgan, Kenneth O., Twentieth-Century Britain : A Very Short Introduction. Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2000.
Pugh, Martin, State and Society : A Social and Political History of Britain since 1870. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Shire, William, ‘Supporting the War Effort: The Convalescent Hospital at New College during the First World War’, New College Notes 23 (2025).
Stansfield, Michael, ‘The Wartime Use of the Founder’s Library, 1939–1946’, New College Notes 23 (2025).
