ALT Sepia photograph of Oscar Wilde, holding a cane and wearing a suit and fur coat. Christmas lights have been added on to the image, along with a Santa hat for Wilde. A speech bubble from Oscar has the words: ""I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relatives." a quote from his play 'The importance of being Earnest'

ALT Advent calendar with all twenty-four ‘windows’ open.

ALT Photograph of library and archives team members, in St John’s Quad, Magdalen College, next to Magdalen’s Christmas Tree.

ALT Advent calendar with twenty-three ‘windows’ open.

ALT Coloured postcard of Magdalen tower, with handwritten dedication, reading “Merry Xmas from Roy” Archives reference P322/P8/3

ALT Reverse of the postcard, with handwritten address and timestamp of 12 Dec ’05 along with a penny stamp with King Edward VII on it

ALT Advent calendar with twenty-two ‘windows’ open.

ALT A decorated Christmas tree, with presents underneath it. On the right-hand-side, text reading: “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

ALT Advent calendar with twenty-one ‘windows’ open.

ALT Black & white photograph of choir singing in the College Hall under a very large Christmas tree, dating from the 1950s. Archive reference: P424/P1/2

ALT Advent calendar with twenty ‘windows’ open.

ALT Title page of the book “The lawfulness and the right manner of keeping Christmass and other festivals: a sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Dunstan in the West, upon Christmas-Day, 1704.” By Ofspring Blackall The reference for the library book is a.12.4(27)

ALT Advent calendar with twenty ‘windows’ open.

ALT Title page of the book “The lawfulness and the right manner of keeping Christmass and other festivals: a sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Dunstan in the West, upon Christmas-Day, 1704.” By Ofspring Blackall The reference for the library book is a.12.4(27)

ALT Advent calendar with twenty ‘windows’ open.

ALT Title page of the book “The lawfulness and the right manner of keeping Christmass and other festivals: a sermon preach'd at the parish church of St. Dunstan in the West, upon Christmas-Day, 1704.” By Ofspring Blackall The reference for the library book is a.12.4(27)

ALT Advent calendar with nineteen ‘windows’ open.

ALT Handwritten training plan for rowing and gym exercises. Archive reference O4/A6/7

ALT Handwritten training plan for rowing and gym exercises. Archive reference O4/A6/7

ALT Advent calendar with eighteen ‘windows’ open.

ALT Cover of A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde

ALT Poster advertising Magdalen's Wilde, an exhibition in the Old Library at Magdalen College running from 16th October 2024- 16th April 2024

ALT Advent calendar with seventeen ‘windows’ open.

ALT Title page of ‘Crackers for Christmas: more stories’ by Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, featuring an illustration of a witch riding a broomstick. The reference for the book is Magd. KNAT-E (CRA) (res.)

ALT Advent calendar with seventeen ‘windows’ open.

ALT Title page of ‘Crackers for Christmas: more stories’ by Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, featuring an illustration of a witch riding a broomstick. The reference for the book is Magd. KNAT-E (CRA) (res.)

ALT Advent calendar with sixteen ‘windows’ open.

ALT A pile of Christmas crackers along with text reading: “What’s the best Jane Austen book to read at Christmas? Frankincense and Sensibility!”

ALT Advent calendar with fifteen ‘windows’ open.

ALT Statue of Oscar Wilde in Dublin. A Santa hat has been photoshopped on Oscar's head. At the bottom a quote from Wilde reads: “I have very simple tastes, I am always satisfied with the very best.”

ALT Advent calendar with fourteen ‘windows’ open.

ALT Light blue square with text reading: Christmas Reading List. Two cartoon Christmas trees make up the right hand side of the square. Reading list is as follows: · Midwinter Murder by Agatha Christie · Make the Season Brightby Ashley Herring Blake · Hogfather (Discworld series) by Terry Pratchett · Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery by Jenny Colgan · A Poem for Every Day of Christmas edited by Allie Esiri

ALT Light blue square with text reading: Christmas Reading List. Two cartoon Christmas trees make up the right hand side of the square. Reading list is as follows: · The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights by Various Authors · You're a Mean One Matthew Prince by Timothy Janovsky · Letters from Father Christmas by J. R. R. Tolkien · Christmas is All Around by Martha Waters · The Cat of Yule Cottage by Lili Hayward

ALT Advent calendar with thirteen ‘windows’ open.

ALT Illustration by Pauline Baynes of the White Witch on her sleigh, from the 1998 Collins publication of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1998

ALT Poster advertising a library exhibition, C.S. Lewis: words and worlds, which took place between 24th April and 16th September.

ALT Advent calendar with twelve ‘windows’ open.

ALT Photograph of the Longwall Library, on a snowy day, its roof covered with a light dusting of snow. In the foreground, a small snowman has been built on one of the tables in the library courtyard.

ALT Longwall Quad in the snow, with the Library in the background. The lawn is covered in snow.

ALT Advent calendar with eleven ‘windows’ open. Behind the 11th window is a poster advertising Magdalen’s Wilde: an exhibition in the Old Library

ALT Pane of glass in a wooden frame. The pane has an image of a tree, a man, and a dog on it, along with the words Little Mr Bouncer. This was done by Oscar Wilde.

ALT Poster advertising Magdalen's Wilde, an exhibition in the Old Library at Magdalen College running from 16th October 2024- 16th April 2025

ALT Advent calendar with ten ‘windows’ open.

ALT 8 volumes of old books on a shelf, arranged by size with the tallest on the left and shortest on the right. The reference for the smallest book, a copy of The Bible, is s.21.9