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Start · Oxford Castle, Oxford · 1142
The Empress Who Escaped Through The SnowTrapped in a besieged castle, England's rightful heir was lowered by rope into a snowstorm in white and walked to freedom.
same spot · Oxford · 1555
The Bishop's Candle That Lit The ReformationBurning at the stake beside a fellow bishop, he promised their deaths would light a candle that could never be put out.
same spot · Oxford · 1555
The Candle That Would Never Be Put OutBurned together for their faith, one died quickly while the other screamed in agony for nearly an hour.
same spot · Oxford · 1650
The Woman Who Woke Up In Her Own CoffinHanged, sealed in a coffin, and delivered to anatomists with knives ready, she was found alive when they opened the lid.
67 m on · Oxford · 1555
The Fires That Made Bloody Mary's NameTwo of England's leading Protestant bishops were chained to a stake in Oxford and burned, while Archbishop Cranmer watched and awaited his own turn.
278 m on · Oxford · 1862
The Unsettling Truth Behind WonderlandThe whimsical book everyone loves was written by a man who photographed children, some of them nude, and whose family destroyed pages of his diary.
461 m on · Oxford · 1556
The Bishop Who Burned His Own Hand FirstA scholar who had betrayed his faith to save his life recanted his recantation, then thrust the offending hand into the flames first.
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