Broad Street
Broad historic street of bookshops and colleges, with a cobbled cross marking a Tudor burning site.
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This guide to Broad Street in Oxford starts at your feet, with a small cross set into the road outside Balliol College, and goes back to October fifteen fifty-five, when two Protestant bishops who had been tried for heresy under Queen Mary were led out to waste ground beyond the city ditch. You'll meet Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and the chronicler John Foxe, whose famous account of that morning may not be entirely what it seems. Stand by the cross in the middle of the street, minding the traffic.
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