Introduction
1 The Eccentric Year
January, March, March/April, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, Occasional
2 Eccentric History
Oxford bags of history, The university gets going, William Morris and William Morris, Twentieth-century pressures
3 Eccentric Literature
Alice, the prince, the Nazi and Mr Toad, The Wind in the Willows and real tragedy on the riverbank, Oxford's unequalled literary pantheon, Further reading
4 Eccentric People
An eccentric Oxford don: Richard Cobb, The deeply eccentric Robert Hawker, The last great eccentric? Baron Berners, Oxford's most eccentric sculpture, Political also-rans and poly dollies, Sex and the var-sity, The what sports club?
5 Eccentric Colleges
Colleges, their eccentric dons and other animals., All Souls, Balliol, Brasenose, Brookes, Christ Church, Corpus Christi, Exeter, Green Templeton, Harris Manchester, Hertford, Jesus College, Keble, Kellogg, Lady Margaret Hall, Linacre, Lincoln, Magdalen, Mansfield, Merton, New College, Nuffield, Oriel, Pembroke, Queen's, Ruskin College, St Anne's, St Antony's, St Catherine's, St Cross, St Edmund Hall, St Hilda's, St Hugh's, St John's, St Peter's, Somerville, Trinity, University College, Wadham, Wolfson, Worcester
6 Eccentric Churches
Name that saint, St Mary the Virgin, High Street, Christ Church Cathedral, St Thomas of Canterbury, Elsfield, St Giles, Horspath, St Barnabas, Horton-cum-Studley
7 Walks: Central Oxford
The architectural crown jewels
8 Walks: East Oxford
Enter the freaky cosmic triangle
9 Walks: North of the Centre
From Broad Street to the Bird and Bastard, From St Giles to Jericho and beyond, North Oxford: plain living and high thinking, Summertown
10 Eccentric Things to See or Do
Punting: pleasure or humiliation?, Children's stuff (outdoors), Museums (and not just for children), Eccentric days out, Bike to spooky Otmoor
11 Out of Town
Binsey, Boars Hill, Iffley
12 Eccentric Facts
Oxford and Cambridge: strange similarities, Eccentric Oxford street names, 12 peculiar meanings of the word Oxford
13 Eccentric Living
Eat eccentric, Drink eccentric, Stay eccentric, Shop eccentric, Non-eccentric shopping
14 Postscript: Odds & Bods 'Civilian' eccentrics, Port Meadow's secret
Eccentric Glossary
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