Cambridge's Oldest Hotel Restored

While not as pretty as Cambridge, Oxford had one thing Cambridge did not: a Harper-recommended hotel. That may soon change.

Andrew Harper's Notebook: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

The beloved but dusty and sepulchral Ashmolean Museum--named for Elias Ashmole, who donated his cabinet of curiosities to Oxford University in 1677--has undergone a dramatic, $96.6 million transformation.

The Classic Pubs of Oxford, England

Public houses play a very important role in the intellectual life of this romantic university town.