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The North Oxford house where James Murray edited the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary from a corrugated-iron shed in the back garden — the original Scriptorium, with 1,029 pigeon-holes and a Post Office postbox of its own.

The North Oxford house bearing the plaque to Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin — Somerville chemist, X-ray crystallographer, and the only British woman scientist to have been awarded a Nobel Prize.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's most famous fiasco — Rossetti, Morris and Burne-Jones painted Arthurian scenes onto the bare brickwork of the Union's debating hall in 1857. The paint started peeling before the work was finished.