Balliol College
Medieval college behind a Broad Street gate, home to a Sunday concert series running since Victorian times.
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This guide to Balliol College in Oxford sets aside the scholars and turns to a Victorian music teacher from Harrow, brought to Broad Street by the Master Benjamin Jowett in eighteen eighty-five. It follows a quarrel over what was allowed on a Sunday evening, and the poets, scientists and violinists who came to the college hall. Stand at the gate on Broad Street, facing the front quad, while you listen.
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