The Treasury houses the College chest, which contained money and important documents (the beginnings of the Archives). Over time they outgrew the chest and eventually moved to the Muniment Room below - now the Library and Archives office! #EYAYourArchives #ExploreYourArchive

#ExploreYourArchive 2025 marked 80 years since the end of WWII. College was taken over by the military, and most BNC students moved to Christ Church. This is an image of sandbagging in 1939 from Principal Stallybrass’s photo collection. https://t.co/kmKUsBskPz #EYAAnniversaries

In 1974 Brasenose was one of the first 5 Colleges to admit women, and in fact we believe that we may have been the first College to vote for the change in 1967. This may have surprised the author of this poem in the Archives dated 1884 #EYAInclusion #ExploreYourArchive

Sunlight on stone. A view that never wears out.

For our 2009 Quincentenary the Chapel Choir made recordings of sheet music held in the Archives, now preserved in the digital archive. One of these was The Song of the Torpid by George Cunningham and Philip Morgan Watkins, members of the Boat Club. #EYADigital #ExploreYourArchive

We are delighted that our Frewin Garden Building (the recently completed new student block) has been selected as a Regional Finalist for the 2026 Civic Trust Awards. Great work by Lee Fitzgerald architects, and everyone else involved in the project! 👏🤩 https://t.co/P279Fild6E

Take note of the dates below if you are interested in Graduate Open Days at Physics. More details of each event in our website: https://t.co/6r9NooSR06 #Graduate #OpenDays @UniofOxford @OxfordGradStudy

Despite a ban on pets recorded in the Vice-Principal’s Register of 1851, we have quite a few photos of pets in the Archives. One of these was the College tortoise. Here you can see it with the Brasenose Rugby XV in 1912 and 2nd Eight in 1913. #EYAPets #ExploreYourArchive #EYA

College Statutes outline governance proceedings and rules for conduct of members. Here you can see a copy of the statutes from 1681. Statute 20 urges College members to maintain silence during the reading of the Bible or other appointed book. #EYASilence #ExploreYourArchive #EYA

Registrum A records meetings of BNC Seniority from 1539-1594, and contains fragments of a C13th manuscript from a commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics by scholar Averroes, translated into Latin c.1220-1224 by Michael Scot. Find out more here https://t.co/DNAMa5p3mP #EYAMedieval

Cushions made for the consecration of the ‘new’ Chapel in 1666, bearing the arms of College founders Bishop William Smyth and Sir Richard Sutton, and the bill for making them. Read more here. #EYABeauty https://t.co/DNAMa5ovxh

To kick off #ExploreYourArchive week, here is an 1889 drawing by the New Quad architect Sir Thomas Graham Jackson for gargoyles on the parapet, being cleaned by the National Conservation Service prior to repair #EYAConservation https://t.co/DNAMa5p3mP

Tomorrow is the start of Explore Your Archives Focus Week! Over the next 7 days we’ll be posting a series of highlights from our collections based on the given themes. #ExploreYourArchive https://t.co/DNAMa5ovxh

This Giving Day Meagan, MBA 2023, shares her favourite things about Brasenose and you can too! #bncgivingday https://t.co/1rthGvoA98

Why do we sleep the way we do, and what happens when we don’t? @UniofOxford’s Professor Russell Foster explores how our circadian rhythms shape health, mood and performance, and what happens when they’re disrupted. Read more ⬇️ https://t.co/tjPPnN4sqm

What makes Brasenose special to you? Let us know! #bncgivingday https://t.co/1rthGvo2jA

Will you accept the challenge? If 25 new donors sign up today you will unlock £2,500 of funding for students #BNCgivingday https://t.co/1rthGvoA98

Support students, transform the future. Join in the Brasenose giving day today! #BNCgivingday https://t.co/1rthGvo2jA

Huge congratulations to Brasenose alumnus David Szalay (English, 1992) who has won the Booker Prize 2025 with his novel Flesh. More details about the book and the prize can be found here:

Delighted to share that Brasenose College, University of Oxford has launched The Grigas Award, supporting students to pursue academic and extracurricular activities in Lithuania. @BNC_Members @brasenosejcr @UniofOxford https://t.co/r9IBjPmHAW