Oxford activities, tours, and other experiences to move your vacation beyond sightseeing
Oxford's ancient colleges inspired the look of Hogwarts—and the filmmakers even used locations around Oxford to recreate the wizarding school in the Harry Potter movies
Oxford University's origins date to the 12C, but women were not admitted until 1878 with the establishement of the all-women Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville (soon to be followed by others)—and even then, women were basically just auditing. Oxford only began granting degrees to women in 1920, and didn't award full collegiate status to its five women's colleges until 1959. It wasn't until 1974 that the last holdouts—Brasenose, Jesus College, Wadham, Hertford and St Catherine's—dropped their all-male policies and began admitting women as well. Ironcially, however, it wasn't until 2008 that entire university officially became co-ed... when St Hilda's College finally started admitting men.
