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This building is part of the library called the Radcliffe camera and is very beautiful and famous. Students come here to borrow books and study.

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Oxford has a very famous library called the Bodleian. The library holds 12 million printed items and is 400 years old. Some parts of the library were used in the Harry Potter films.

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Whilst at Oxford I also visited the museum of natural history. I saw lots of interesting exhibits including the famous Oxford Dodo www.oum.ox.ac.uk/learning/pdfs/dodo.pdf

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Many famous people studied at Oxford including C.S Lewis author of the Chronicles of Narnia books. He used to leave church everu Sunday and see this door which has a lion and two golden fawns. Some believe these were the inspiration for the characters Aslan and Mr Tumnus.

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Oxford has lots of departments where students and researchers work on different problems. Today I visited the lovely people at the physics and computer science faculties.

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We have many beautiful green spaces in Oxford. Students often come to the university parks to play sport and relax with friends

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Here I am at Jesus College which was founded by Queen Elizabeth is 1571. 580 students, 88 lecturers and researchers (who are called Fellows at Oxford) work and study here.

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Here I am visiting Keble college. Oxford university is made up of 34 colleges. They are places where students live and study whilst at the university. College’s have facilities such as gyms, sports grounds, bedrooms, classrooms, dining rooms, theatres, art galleries and even croquet lawns.

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Lots of people ride bikes in Oxford. Students, teachers and other local people use bicycles to navigate Oxford's narrow streets.

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Today Flat Stanley is appearing in the live-stream event alongside Oxford University academics discussing if it would be best if we all spoke the same language.  

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Flat Stanley visits Pembroke College, Oxford today to meet the students and teachers

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Here are some teachers and students from Pembroke explaining what it is like to study and work at the college