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Oxford Resources
- Oxplore - The Home of Big Questions
- Oxford Sparks - exploring science research
- How to prepare for the MAT admissions test (YouTube)
- GeomLab - introduction to computer programming
- Oxford podcasts
- The Oxford University Politics blog
- Great Writers Inspire - lectures, ebooks, essays
Useful Websites
- Code Academy - learn to code (for free!)
- I Want to Study Engineering - try difficult maths/physics problems
- Nrich Maths - develop mathematical reasoning and problem solving
- Isaac Physics - Physics learning platform for students and teachers from GCSE onwards.
- Zooinverse
- Science Daily - latest research news
- Arbor Scientific - cool experiments blog
- Horizon - science stories on BBC
- The British Medical Journal (BMJ)
- The Conversation - articles on current affairs
- Poetry Foundation
- Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds
- British Library discovering literature
- Aeon - Ideas, philosophy & culture magazine
- British Museum online catalogue
- Futurelearn - online courses
- Art of Problem Solving
- Language Log
- ChemNet - The Royal Society of Chemistry
Our Students Recommend
- Philosophy Bites
- Intersectionality Matters
- Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics
- Talking Politics
- Word of Mouth - exploring how we use words
- The Allusionist - a podcast about language
- Revisionist History
- Great Writers Inspire - particularly lectures by Emma Smith and Sos Eltis
- Coursera - interesting courses on Materials Science
- Physics & Maths tutor
- Terry Eagleton, 'What is Literature'
- Jonathan Bate, 'English Literature: A Very Short Introduction'
- Emma Smith, 'This is Shakespeare'
- Goodwin and Ford, ‘Revolt on the Right’
- Legrain, ‘European Spring’,
- Evans and Tilly, ‘The new politics of class’
- Calomiris and Haber, ‘Fragile by design’
- Heilbroner, ‘The Worldly Philosophers’
- Vorman, ‘Adam Smith: what he thought and why it matters’
- Coggan, ‘The Money Machine’
- Eichengreen, ‘The European Economy Since 1945’