Oriel College Library

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[Oriel College @OrielOxford]

Oriel College was founded #OnThisDay 700 years ago 🎉

On 21 January 1326, King Edward II issued a royal charter confirming our first provost Adam de Brome’s foundation of a “certain college of scholars” in Oxford.

@UniofOxford @OxUniStudents

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

✨A few highlights from 2025✨#wrapped2025

[Oriel College @OrielOxford]

Professor Lyndal Roper’s ‘Summer of Fire and Blood’ has received the @CundillPrize for her “sensational” account of the German Peasants’ War of 1525
https://t.co/FNmwq3TPBc

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

Hello from #OrielLibrary to everyone visiting #OrielCollege today during #OxOpenDays!🌞📚👋
#library #sunshine #hello

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

Oriel Library will be closed from 8.30am on Thursday 28 until 5pm on Friday 29 August.

Deep clean time! 🧼🧹🫧

We’re available to answer questions at [email protected] but we won’t have access to the library shelves 🫧

Your Library Team
Felicity, Fiona, Leah and Louise✨

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

The Library is open 24/7 over the bank holiday weekend.
The Library Office will be closed on Monday 25 August.
We'll be back on Tuesday 26th August. ✨📚

Have a lovely long weekend ✨📚

The Library Team

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

Professor Mary Beard helped celebrate 100 years of the Friends of the Bodleian by delivering their much anticipated Annual Lecture, on the theme 'Risky encounters: the library in fact and fiction'.

Watch the full talk on our YouTube channel: https://t.co/25GgRRPNm1.

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

This is to allow essential maintenance work to be carried out on the library system over the weekend of 12/13 July. During this weekend you will not be able to search for items on SOLO, request items from storage, or access online reading lists.
Apologies for the inconvenience,

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

The Senior Library needs your support this Giving Day.
Give a gift today to help with essential roof repairs so we can futureproof one of College’s most treasured spaces:
https://t.co/WbuBGOyZ3g

[Oriel College @OrielOxford]

Giving Day is now live. Join a global community to show your support for Oriel today.

Follow the campaign on our giving page and help unlock additional funds for students this Giving Day.

https://t.co/4M93n5oYh3

#OrielHereandNow #OrielCollege #OxfordUni

[Oriel College @OrielOxford]

Professor David Carpenter, one of the two researchers behind the discovery of the original Magna Carta @Harvard_Law, visited Oriel College to view our own 1300 engrossment and its accompanying Forest Charter

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

The Library Team is here today for any library-related queries you may have.
We'll be looking out the window at the rain... well, it is a bank holiday Monday in May.

[Oriel College @OrielOxford]

Register now to join @Musa_alGharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke (@PrincetonUPress), in conversation with @tmbejan @Politics_Oxford.

All are welcome to attend.

Wednesday 28 May @OrielOxford: https://t.co/26p57MXbi1

[Oriel College @OrielOxford]

Statement from the Provost of Oriel College on the discovery of the seventh surviving 1300 engrossment of Magna Carta at @Harvard_Law
https://t.co/yOsC5a2tuf

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

The Library Office lends noise-cancelling headphones for use in the Library 🦁🎧✨

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

The Library is open 24/7 over the bank holiday weekend. The Library office is open as usual on Monday for any library related queries you may have. Photo of the Pantin Library entrance looking onto a sunny third quad taken today.
Monday we can't guarantee such a sunny view.
☂️🌧️

[Oriel College @OrielOxford]

The 2025 Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize.

Open to entries from all undergraduates @UniofOxford and @Cambridge_Uni.

A Petrarchan Sonnet on any topic of the author's choosing.

Closing date 30 May.

Full details at https://t.co/ZVPcsjnjQC

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

Oriel College Library will be open 24/7 over the Easter bank holiday weekend.

The Library Office will be closed Good Friday, but we'll be open on Easter Monday 10am - 4pm.

Happy Easter from all of the Library & Archives team, enjoy your long weekend! 🐥✨

[Oriel College Library @OrielLibrary]

Would you like to work in one of the loveliest libraries in Oxford? We're currently looking for a Senior Library Assistant (Technical Services) - Maternity Cover: https://t.co/ffwOTJOyRs
Photo: The Pantin Library from third quad.