Christ Church inspiration for Alice

Christ Church was a rich source of inspiration for a famous book.

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13th December, 2011

Beneath the dreaming, snowy spires, damp smoke drifts down the cobblestone streets that sing to the strains of fairy tales, bells and choirboys. Oxford and Christmas are a bit like the holly and the ivy. The ghosts of Christmases past who roam the corridors of one of Oxford’s largest colleges, Christ Church, are an impressive bunch: students who became prime ministers, viceroys, governors-general, philosophers, writers – and, of course, Canterbury’s founder, John Robert Godley, who named Christchurch, New Zealand, after his ...

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