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The marquees are up and the excitement is growing. Hundreds of leading authors and public figures will be joined by thousands of festival-goers from Saturday 24th of March 2012 for the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.

The Cardinal’s College : Christ Church, Chapter and Verse, by the Archivist Ms Judith Curthoys, is the first complete history of Christ Church since Henry Thompson’s volume back in 1900...

Christ Church's Savitri Grier, a music student in her first year, won the prestigious Oxford Concerto Competition at the Sheldonian Theatre on Saturday February the 4th.

Christ Church Cathedral was filled with candle light on Sunday 29th of January as regular worshippers and many visitors came to celebrate Candlemas, with a feast of carols, readings and music for the festival which commemorates the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, gave a speech in the cathedral on Friday 16 December to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. 

Christ Church Cathedral choir’s latest CD ‘The Treasures of Christ Church’ will be Radio 3 Essential Classics featured CD of the week of 12 December.

New Undergraduate and Graduate members of Christ Church took part in the customary 'University Matriculation' ceremony on Saturday 16th October at the Sheldonian Theatre, to become members of the University of Oxford. Dressed in 'Sub-fusc' they were presented alongside those from other colleges.

Almost 200 children from 60 primary schools in the Diocese of Oxford came to Christ Church on Friday 14th October, having taken part in the Oxfordshire Illustrated Gospels Project organised by Colin Fletcher, the Bishop of Dorchester.

Treasures of Christ Church is a newly recorded, special collection spanning 500 years of English choral music performed from original manuscripts, uncovering the unique history of music at Christ Church, Oxford.

New technology developed by Christ Church's Dr Dirk Obbink and his research group at Oxford University’s classics department could help reveal the secrets of historical documents.