For more than ten years Chris Koenigs Past Times column has been a regular favorite in the Oxford Times, bringing to life unexpected and sometimes unusual aspects of the city and countys history. Ranging over Oxford and its academic institutions, Oxfordshire with its market towns and agricultural traditions and the areas dynamic cultural and religious past, the column has informed and entertained the newspapers readers. Collected together for the first time, this selection of Past Times articles reveals a rich historic legacy and sheds light on countless corners of city and county, familiar and unfamiliar.