Hacker News with Generative AI: Oxford

The "Bird and Baby" grows up: inside the new Eagle and Child (oxfordclarion.uk)
What do you get when the world’s third richest man buys Tolkien’s local? Oxford is about to find out.
Real Estate, Business, Literature, Oxford
62 points by Doctor_Fegg 45 days ago | 26 comments
We Shall Fight in the Buttery – Oxford's War 1939–1945 (literaryreview.co.uk)
It’s said that Oxford was spared destruction on the scale of Coventry because Adolf Hitler wanted the place as his capital after he conquered England. Ashley Jackson’s engrossing new book describes how the city of dreaming spires woke up to the realities of the Second World War. His trawl through the archives has yielded a rich and glittering haul, containing much that will interest more people than mere Oxonians.
History, Oxford, England, Books
55 points by andrewl 74 days ago | 11 comments
Of mice and men and Magdalen: C. S. Lewis’s Oxford (thecritic.co.uk)
C.S. Lewis, Literature, Oxford
61 points by drdee 162 days ago | 23 comments