OHS_Library @OHS_readbooks
Twitter account of the library at Oxford High School GDST 📚 oxfordhigh.gdst.net Oxford, England Joined June 2018-
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Introducing our 10 best debut novelists of 2021 theguardian.com/books/2021/jan…
Bernardine Evaristo: the forgotten black British novels everyone should read theguardian.com/books/2021/jan… via @guardianreview
Lewis Carroll was born #OnThisDay in 1832. Carroll’s world was filled with wordplay, starting with his pen name. Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, he translated his first two names into the Latin ‘Carolus Ludovicus’, then anglicised it into ‘Lewis Carroll’.
Amid the horror of the Holocaust, I'd like to pay tribute to the Jewish librarians & archivists who risked & lost their lives to preserve their culture, & serve their communities. Khakl Lunski, librarian of the Strashun Library in Vilna, murdered 6 Oct 1943 #HolocaustMemorialDay
Find your peace in every season. 📖 #Wintering by @_katherine_may_ blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ…
Are you tuning into #APerfectPlanet on @BBCOne? 🌍 ✨ Discover more with Huw Cordey's official companion book, packed with beautiful photography, stills from the show, and a foreword by Sir David Attenborough: bit.ly/APerfectPlanet…
Have you read #BlondeRoots yet? Booker Prize winner @BernardineEvari's thought-provoking satire on the transatlantic slave trade, in which the roles are reversed and Africans enslave Europeans, is now only £1.99 in eBook: bit.ly/BlondeRootskin… Don't miss out!
💻 ONLINE EVENT Don't miss our online event with @doctor_oxford in conversation about her new memoir #Breathtaking, Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic. 🗓 Thursday 28th January at 7pm 🎟 Blackwells.co.uk/events (Ticket + Signed Book or Ticket only options available.)
‘Virginia Woolf’s determination "Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself" feels wise and familiar after a tough 2020.’ penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/…
Match these quotes to the right book 1. ‘It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen’ 2. ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’ 3. ‘There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all’
From challenging inequality to building self confidence, here are some inspirational author talks you can watch at home. penguin.co.uk/articles/2021/…
Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week? theguardian.com/books/booksblo…
Have you seen the Women Writers series from @BL_Publishing yet? It’s a curated collection of forgotten works showcasing the best fiction by female authors from the 1910s to the 1960s, all taken from the British Library collection ⬇️
Thirty books to help us understand the world in 2020 theguardian.com/books/2020/oct…
We recommend Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, another fantastic feminist retelling of Greek mythology, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. #AskPenguin bit.ly/TheSilenceofth…
We recommend Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls, another fantastic feminist retelling of Greek mythology, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. #AskPenguin bit.ly/TheSilenceofth…
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Top #blackauthor reading tips from @RachelDEdwards during @GDST #bookclub - Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and @BernardineEvari "I can't recommend #GirlWomanOther enough" @digitalGDST
Such an exciting lunchtime hosting book club with @SuttonPrepDH @bale_claire @RachelDEdwards, joined by girls across the @GDST family. A huge thank you to our wonderful speakers for their thoughtful, uplifting and inspirational insights into diverse narratives in literature.
Privacy is Power - Why and How you should take back control of your data Carissa Véliz of Oxford University introduces her highly practical book on how all our personal data is being collected and used against us. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/produ… @CarissaVeliz
One of America’s leading writers, Claudia Rankine, will discuss her new book #JustUs in an exclusive online event with the @southbankcentre this Friday ✨ Don't miss out! Book your tickets for Beyond the Culture War here: bit.ly/BTCultureWar
Nina SONG @NinaSONG18
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Mum @art_mum
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Gwen Byrom @GwenByrom
926 Followers 699 Following Personal views of the Director of Education Strategy, NLCS Intl Ltd. GSA President (2018). Rides fast bikes, pens articles. Gets about a bit: Hull at heart
Xi @Xi45675654
2 Followers 120 Following
Charlotte Frise @obstetricmedic
2K Followers 2K Following Consultant in Obstetric Medicine @ImperialNHS, Lead Consultant Obstetric Physician for NW London MMN. Co-EiC @OBMedicine
Naseeb @NaseebAuwal
596 Followers 1K Following Student | Reader | Writer WATTPAD account @Naseeb01 https://t.co/TmctNg7aae
Modern Languages Depa.. @Languages_OHS
231 Followers 320 Following The Official Twitter account for the Modern Languages Department at Oxford High School GDST. Offering French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish.
Lisa Heathfield @LisaHeathfield
2K Followers 2K Following Author of a few books. Lucky recipient of lots of awards. Constantly inspired by the students I teach. Rep'd by V Baxter @DHAbooks
Sophie Roell @sophiemaynard
1K Followers 914 Following Editor of @five_books and believer in the power of books to understand the world we live in. Volunteer @westoxonlibdems
jeremy chan @jeremyc57968658
0 Followers 61 Following
Edward Wong @edwardcywong
53 Followers 365 Following
Kioko @Kioko_YE
49 Followers 172 Following Welcome - we are Kioko! Oxford High School Young Enterprise group. We make beautiful handcrafted products out of waste coconut shells 🥥 🌴
OHS Sixth Form @OHS_SixthForm
386 Followers 105 Following Director of Sixth Form at Oxford High School
Evelyn Hargraves 💙 @evelynhargraves
99 Followers 2K Following
Marina Gardiner Legge @oxfordhighhead
529 Followers 553 Following Head of the wonderful @OxfordHighsch
Julia @Julia66448888
1 Followers 32 Following
Francis Martin @korkymaster
666 Followers 999 Following Illustrator,Author,Artist, Simon and Schuster,Little Door, Little Tiger, What’s so funny about peace love and understandin? https://t.co/bi4p2QHTBP…
Oxford High PE & Spor.. @OHS_Sport
784 Followers 265 Following Follow sport fixtures at https://t.co/ltmXzdEBNr
Er. Sanjay Rathore @ErSanjayRathor1
7 Followers 87 Following #Always_be_a_fan_of_ourself #Civilrights #Civilengineering
Marina Gardiner Legge @MarinaGL12
716 Followers 1K Following Personal account of a Head. Proud Head of Oxford High School GDST and President of the Girls’ Schools Association for 2023 - 2024. All views and errors mine!
susannahwise @susannahwise
2K Followers 2K Following Author. Actor. THIS FRAGILE EARTH and OKAY THEN THAT'S GREAT @Gollancz @Orion books Lit agent: @L_Macdougall @UA_Books https://t.co/CJzc6CKSXK
Tina Malhotra @Tinamalhotra19
70 Followers 701 Following Consultant Psychiatrist Associate Medical Director @OxfordHealthNHS
Swati Kanoi @Swati_Kanoi
3 Followers 105 Following
jamila @jamilaaltaf
2 Followers 199 Following
Kate Oldfield @kate_oldfield_
676 Followers 2K Following Writer, poet, scribbler & writing mentor. Host of various workshops & weekly drop-in, online writing group The Write Place. Oxford dweller but miss the hills.
Electric Monkey⚡�.. @EMTeenFiction
8K Followers 2K Following High voltage reading! YA imprint of @FarshoreBooks And follow us on IG: @electricmonkeybooks Newsletter sign up link below!
This Singer Sews @ThisSingerSews
17 Followers 55 Following Seamstress ✂️ | Amateur singer 🎶 | Creating bespoke face masks 😷 | Selling bread proving covers 🍞 #facemask #sourdough #covidaware
Astronyx @astronyx_
31 Followers 90 Following We are an all female group competing in STEM and business competitions around the globe with our product Astratum. Follow us on Instagram @astronyx_ and Youtube
Zoe Steer @z_steer
1K Followers 1K Following Head of Biology & School Consultant Teacher for T&L at Oxford High School GDST. MSc in Learning & Teaching @UniofOxford. Views are my own.
Hannah Tame @HJS_TAME
283 Followers 1K Following Museum Archivist @NAM_London | special interest in Oral Histories, Sound & Film Archives | she/her | Views my own
Miss Hawksworth @missvhawksworth
127 Followers 353 Following Maths teacher. Personal teaching account. Views are my own.
Dan Freedman @DanFreedman99
6K Followers 8K Following Author: Jamie Johnson ⚽️ Unstoppable ⭐️ I Am Lenny Brown 📝 50 Ways Into Football
Sophie Sissons @SophieSissons
3 Followers 321 Following
CarallonHR @CarallonH
3 Followers 30 Following
Indigo Fire @IndigoFire4
0 Followers 47 Following
Andrew Webster @websterar
1 Followers 69 Following
Simon Aumonier @SimonAumonier
1 Followers 6 Following
R&SBaby @r_sbaby
0 Followers 5 Following
Penny Didcock @DidcockPenny
0 Followers 10 Following
Rwanda Parents' Initi.. @rwanda_on
284 Followers 681 Following The official twitter handle of Rwanda Parents’ Initiative on Autism - RPIA, Kigali, Rwanda
Vanessa V @Vanessa78839679
5 Followers 139 Following
Richard LW @rrllw
102 Followers 469 Following Always learning, always from others, often from my daughters... currently learning more about sustainability
Muhammad Khan 🎓 @mkhanauthor
3K Followers 2K Following Author of MARK MY WORDS 🧕🏾 & I AM THUNDER⚡️@MacmillanKidsUK |Times & Observer Book of the Week|Winner Branford Boase 2019 & GRA Award| Rep’d @PennyHolroyde
SJ Bennett @sophiabennett
4K Followers 3K Following Ex blue tick. Crime with a unique detective - book 4 out now. Find me at Sophiabennett_writer on Instagram. https://t.co/14tZCwgyxX @CCampbell_Agent
Rhi Sanderson 😷 @rhitown
707 Followers 1K Following Illustrator and bee nerd represented by Lemonade Illustration Agency • she/her 📧:[email protected]
Zeb Soanes @zebsoanes
24K Followers 5K Following Broadcaster @ClassicFM | Author @CBGBooks | Concert Presenter @Podium_Music | Voiceover @advoiceofficial | EVENTS https://t.co/CYMjhTc5Oz
Astronyx @astronyx_
31 Followers 90 Following We are an all female group competing in STEM and business competitions around the globe with our product Astratum. Follow us on Instagram @astronyx_ and Youtube
Bobby Seagull @Bobby_Seagull
29K Followers 129 Following Teacher, @mathsappeal podcast, C4 @theanswertrap host, FT columnist, West Ham ambassador, author Life-Changing Magic of Numbers [email protected]
Zoe Steer @z_steer
1K Followers 1K Following Head of Biology & School Consultant Teacher for T&L at Oxford High School GDST. MSc in Learning & Teaching @UniofOxford. Views are my own.
Lisa Heathfield @LisaHeathfield
2K Followers 2K Following Author of a few books. Lucky recipient of lots of awards. Constantly inspired by the students I teach. Rep'd by V Baxter @DHAbooks
Francis Martin @korkymaster
666 Followers 999 Following Illustrator,Author,Artist, Simon and Schuster,Little Door, Little Tiger, What’s so funny about peace love and understandin? https://t.co/bi4p2QHTBP…
Holly Jackson @HoJay92
16K Followers 857 Following #1 NYT bestselling author of A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER, GOOD GIRL BAD BLOOD and AS GOOD AS DEAD. Rep by @stubbleagent she/her
Branford Boase Award @BranfordBoase
3K Followers 1K Following The BBA rewards the most promising new writers and their editors. The award is made annually to the most promising book by a first time novelist.
Muhammad Khan 🎓 @mkhanauthor
3K Followers 2K Following Author of MARK MY WORDS 🧕🏾 & I AM THUNDER⚡️@MacmillanKidsUK |Times & Observer Book of the Week|Winner Branford Boase 2019 & GRA Award| Rep’d @PennyHolroyde
SJ Bennett @sophiabennett
4K Followers 3K Following Ex blue tick. Crime with a unique detective - book 4 out now. Find me at Sophiabennett_writer on Instagram. https://t.co/14tZCwgyxX @CCampbell_Agent
Matt Killeen @by_Matt_Killeen
3K Followers 5K Following Bestselling author of ORPHAN MONSTER SPY. Bad gamer, better dad, warrior for truth & social justice. Rep'd by @mollykh. DEVIL DARLING SPY out now. He/him #BLM
Anoushka Patel @The_Anoushka
175 Followers 312 Following
Duke of Edinburgh @Ox.. @OfEdinburgh
34 Followers 7 Following Oxford High School's DofE official twitter account
British Library @britishlibrary
1.8M Followers 1K Following We’re the UK’s national library, working to restore our services following a cyber-attack. Need help? Get in touch at [email protected]
Oxfordshire Book Awar.. @OxonBookAwards
500 Followers 187 Following Oxfordshire Book Awards - Inspiring readers for life. Voted for by young readers in Oxfordshire schools. https://t.co/MmIJI8Rkng
Mark Thornton @storiesforspace
3K Followers 4K Following Stories, space and super-wicked problems. Senior Partnerships Manager for https://t.co/gSqAG7yOYF in the UK, author-hubby of @nicki_thornton. Did I mention space?
OHS Head Girl Team @HeadGirls_OHS
152 Followers 232 Following Oxford High School Head Girl Team, representing our amazing Sixth Form and Senior School🌻 🌻Check out @OxfordHighSch and @OHS_SixthForm for more!
OHS Art & Textiles @OHS_ArTx
39 Followers 18 Following Art & Textiles News from Oxford High School GDST
OHS Alumnae @OHS_Alumnae
46 Followers 23 Following Oxford High School GDST celebrating 143 years of pioneering alumnae
Furlong @Furlong_Band
52 Followers 139 Following 🎤 Oxfordshire based family band 👭 Twin vocal harmonies 🎸 guitar 🎻 fiddle 🎼 tin whistle 🎼 mandola, mandolin, ukulele, banjolele, stomp box
OHS Economics and Pol.. @OHSEconomics
138 Followers 623 Following Economics and Politics departments at Oxford High School GDST
Bodleian Rare Books @RareBooksOfBod
24K Followers 651 Following This account is no longer being updated. For your regular fix of rare and special books please follow our main account, @bodleianlibs
Nicki Thornton @nicki_thornton
2K Followers 2K Following Officially the Queen of Magical Crime - Barry Cunningham. One of the most original children's writers around - Waterstones. New book Jan 24. And now on Substack
CherwellLibrary @SouthSiteLib
629 Followers 990 Following The Cherwell School South Site Library. Very busy KS3 library in the heart of Oxford.
School Library Associ.. @uksla
16K Followers 2K Following We are committed to supporting everyone involved in building a school reading culture, promoting high-quality reading and learning opportunities for all.
The Yoto Carnegies @CarnegieMedals
21K Followers 575 Following The UK's best-loved book awards for children & young people, celebrating outstanding writing & illustration; judged by librarians @CILIPInfo. #YotoCarnegies24
Bodleian Centre for t.. @bodleiancsb
10K Followers 2K Following Research and events from the Centre for the Study of the Book, in Bodleian Libraries Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs
108K Followers 1K Following Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Visit | Read | Explore
@oxfordhighCareers @Careers_OHS
306 Followers 913 Following Outstanding Careers Service for Oxford High School GDST
OHSClassics @OHSClassics
308 Followers 61 Following The Classics Department at Oxford High School is very much alive...and online!
Oxford HS Psychology @Psychology_OHS
48 Followers 23 Following
OHSFrench @OHSFrenchOXF
98 Followers 42 Following
OHS Spanish Dept. @OHS_SpanishDept
78 Followers 84 Following The Spanish Department of Oxford High School GDST
Russian @Russian_OHS
173 Followers 165 Following
Oxford High Prep Scho.. @OHPSchool
589 Followers 371 Following Oxford High Preparatory School GDST - a leading independent girls' day school based in the heart of Oxford. Follow us to catch a glimpse of life at OHPS!
Oxford High STEM @OxfordHighSTEM
201 Followers 182 Following
GirlsDaySchoolTrust @GDST
16K Followers 3K Following A family of 25 girls’ schools, including 23 independent schools and two academies, across England and Wales.
OHS Sixth Form @OHS_SixthForm
386 Followers 105 Following Director of Sixth Form at Oxford High School
Blackwell's @blackwellbooks
33K Followers 5K Following Bookseller to the world! https://t.co/0r2ef51sZn 18 million+ titles with delivery to your country included in the price
Guardian Books @GuardianBooks
2.1M Followers 1K Following News, reviews and author interviews plus tweets from the @Guardian and Observer books team. Support the Guardian today: https://t.co/g2jWebD5y0
Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks
1.8M Followers 267K Following Publishing the best books and authors for over 80 years. Discover your next great read at https://t.co/yMCVgWhHPy.
GDST Alumnae Network @GDSTAlumnae
2K Followers 494 Following GDST Alumnae Network: 70,000 former students and staff of schools in the Girls' Day School Trust. https://t.co/NWEci9G4yJ
kidslitquiz_ca @kidslitquiz_ca
747 Followers 1K Following Kids' Lit Quiz is an educational program challenging teams of middle grade readers in a literary quiz. This is the account for the Canadian competition.
OHS Co-Curriculum @OXCoCurriculum
198 Followers 69 Following A snapshot of life at Oxford High School beyond the classroom
OHS Tech Theatre @OHS_TechTheatre
53 Followers 157 Following Technical Theatre, Oxford High School GDST
OHS Computer Science @OHS_CS
197 Followers 72 Following All things Computer Science, Oxford High School GDST @oxfordhighsch
OHS Maths @OHSMaths
295 Followers 52 Following The Mathematics Department of Oxford High School, GDST.Ahead of #BurnsNight on Monday we've dusted off a #RobertBurns song #YeJacobitesByName for this weeks #FurlongFriday
Rain, rain, rain today so let Amy inspire you- lots of flooding in her village so she decided to go up & down her stairs 250 times, covering a distance of 2.5km for her team for Race Across Europe! Absolutely amazing.👏🏻#WhereTheresAWillTheresAWay #RaceAcrossEurope #TeamOHS💙💛
𝘈𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘰 - Peacock Butterfly Taken by my partner whilst exploring the Cotswolds today.
Reni Eddo-Lodge and Emma Watson to redraw London tube map with women's names theguardian.com/books/2020/jul…
Book Hunt Look out for Blackwell's Wooden Books around Oxford. Hand it in at our Broad Street and claim a price!
We did a gig today! No, we really did! Thanks to the wonderful folks at #AbingdonPizzaBoat we had a socially distanced audience taking in the music and relaxing in the sunshine. Fab to have a live audience again. #LiveMusic
Day 5- Part two- Team of the Year and a live visit to the Sports Person of the Year’s house (socially distanced) to hand over the trophy. Who is behind the door that Mrs Berry knocks on?! Watch and find out. #VirtualSportsAwardWeek #TeamOHS 💙💛
To mark what would have been #PrideInLondon, we're lighting up our clock tower at St Pancras in a rainbow sequence of colours this weekend. Our #LGBTQ+ staff network reflects on celebrating #PrideMonth in lockdown & examines our Quasar flag logo for June ow.ly/zLsD50Aan6g
All of us at Barrington Stoke are so sorry to hear about the passing of Wendy Cooling. Wendy transformed so many lives with her ground-breaking book gifting projects and was such a pleasure to work with; charming, warm-hearted and awesomely knowledgeable. She'll be much missed.
'If you can read, you can do anything.' We are so sorry to hear that children's book pioneer and Bookstart founder Wendy Cooling has died. She was an incredible person who did so much to help children - her legacy is huge. Thank you, Wendy. booktrust.org.uk/news-and-featu…
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s thousands of men, women and children left the Caribbean for Britain. This pamphlet, published c.1959, offers advice on everything from finding work to dressing for English weather #WindrushDay
Our 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal Winner @anthony_mcgowan talks about Lark and shares a short Winner Speech @BarringtonStoke #CKG20 #BestChildrensBooks vimeo.com/428433857
Today’s the day! Tune in to @BBCFrontRow at 7:15pm this evening to find out who has won the 2020 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals! The winners will be announced and interviewed live on the show! #CKG20 #BestChildrensBooks
Oh goodness it's hard to get any work done when there's such exciting stuff going on at Empathy Day Live! We loved this @jocotterillbook & @redbreastedbird & could empathise with the feelings expressed so well #empathyday2020 @EmpathyLabUK tinyurl.com/y9nav977
@jocotterillbook @ab_greenfield @redbreastedbird This is superb. Everyone can learn from this.
Our Library Cafe is up and running again with these and many more beautiful book parcels to be delivered to our students very soon! Thanks to @lonbookproject, @CherwellEnglish and @MsCaldwell1
#NewProfilePic for #PrideMonth. The colors reflect the diversity of the LGBTQ community. 🌈 #GDSTgirl #OHSgirl @GDST
This week is #NationalVolunteersWeek For the past 2 yrs, Annabelle (Yr 10) has volunteered with @Girlguiding @stjohnambulance & @ageukcampaigns “I feel like I am making a difference to people’s lives and doing my bit to make the world a better place” - Annabelle #GDSTgirl
If you're venturing out in Abingdon, please look at our window filled with books from talented black writers. These and so many more books by, and about, people of colour can be ordered from us. We are committed and take pride in providing a diverse range to our community.
Well done Jessie 🎉 👏 “Jessie’s story engaged me with its distinctive subject matter – resistance to a microchip for humans – but also through her storytelling skills” - GDST #GDSTgirl #OHSgirl
The theme for this year's GDST Creative Writing prize was ‘New Rules for the future world’. Read the winning stories here — gdst.net/news/writing-n… #wheregirlslearnwithoutlimits @BrightonGirls @nhehs @SHHSforGirls @OxfordHighSch @NottmGirlsHigh @RoyalHighBath @SuttonHighGirls ✍️
A lovely song for our #FurlongFriday Nine Million Bicycles originally sung by #KatieMelua youtu.be/AZ8DGZ_LvHk Stay cool, stay safe.
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