Oxford University Student takes you around the libraries tourists never see

[@HelenR72]

What beautiful buildings! Thank you for sharing!

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

Really happy to share them as they are so stunning

[@agnespm4181]

Thank you for the lovely tour. ❤

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

It is lovely share these places that are only open to students and staff as they are so stunning

[@gaylem4333]

They all take my breath away! I do love the one featured in “A Discovery of Witches” but I would feel like a bull in a china shop. I live in Michigan and my town was founded in 1871. All these places were already there! Many of them before the US was a nation! If I went to school there I could have a Harry Potter room because I know where my time would be spent! Thank you for the tour!

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

You're welcome. Yes the age and beauty of the buildings here is amazing

[@gramarye_cottage]

OMG those libraries are amazing 🙌 They’re all incredible, too hard to pick a fave.

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

They really are! I feel so lucky to get to study in them x

[@jimgordon6629]

Lovely tour! I believe the Radcliffe Canera is my favorite!

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

Thank you. Good choice!

[@JeriLandersofHopalongHollow]

Being surrounded by such architectural beauty and history must be a wonderful way to study and read; you are a very lucky lady. The ceiling of the last Library is just marvelous, no wonder, William Morris!

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

Yes Morris and Rossetti, it is amazing. I am very lucky

[@lubainashabreen4972]

thanks for the tour! loved it, can you please make videos of the college libraries as well?

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

I'm so pleased you liked it. The college libraries aren't as attractive as the ones I have filmed but I will see what I can do

[@trishgibbons8726]

The Bodleian is most definitely my favourite library. Thank you for this post, cheers me immensely. Im a library anorak, weather its the size of a front room, or one of these magnificent buildings, I have to go in xx

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

They are definitely one of our happy places also. Thanks so much for watching xx

[@elihouse1994]

These are all so beautiful. I think the Radcliffe Camera is my favourite, so much atmosphere. Thank you for this wonderful tour.

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

Thanks so much for watching. That is probably my favourite to study in

[@MrTorleon]

Thank you ever so much for taking the time to create this quite marvelous video. One library that most people never see is the old library at Merton College, which, I believe is the oldest continuously functioning college library in the world !!! As an Emeritus Prof. of Early Medieval History, and an Oxford academic for nearly forty years, I know most of the libraries included here very well, spending a fair amount of time in Duke Humfrey`s Library at the Bodleian, always a genuine delight. I may be mistaken, but I understood the films you mention did not take place within the Bodleian Library as such, but the interiors were digitally reconstructed elsewhere - far too higher a risk of damage to rare irreplaceable volumes. Anyway, thank you again- and very well done :)

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

Thank you so much for watching. I will have to visit the library at Merton, it sounds fascinating. I am at New which is of course a stunning college but with a rather mediocre library

[@MrTorleon]

@@cerridwencottagediary9194 You are most welcome. I hope you do have an opportunity to see Merton College old library - it is not often open to the general public, so I would suggest making an arrangement to visit. It is after all, around 700 years old, and was threatened with demolition in the past - so a rare survivor :) I wish you well with your studies, and you are enjoying the particular ambience that is Oxford !!!!

[@dianehunter1285]

Such a privilege to have access to those beautiful buildings. Enjoy your time there.

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

Thank you. I really enjoyed sharing with everyone

[@marilynharris1749]

Wow.. they were all stunning! Thanks for showing them!😊

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

I am so pleased you enjoyed seeing them x

[@mancroft]

Smashing tour! I love the Rad Cam. Beautiful building.

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

That's so kind of you to say so. Yes Rad Cam is awesome!

[@JanTrewhitt]

How can anyone choose? They are all so beautiful. The most stunning to me was the round library sitting all by itself Your a very fortunate girl to attend Oxford!!.

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

It is very hard work but I am so grateful for the amazing opportunity

[@luke28]

I looooooved this video; what a wealth of buildings, books and spaces. I couldn't possibily choose between them; just having one of those in the city I live currently would be such a treat! Thank you for bringing us along; this summer I will be in Oxford for a couple of days. Perhaps I can see some of them for myself (or perhaps they are closed).. This video put me very much in the Oxford mood ánd imagine all those cool books!!

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

I am so thrilled you liked it. We have lost a third of our subscribers after watching it so I thought it must be a bad video. Unfortunately most of the libraries I showed aren't open to the public. You can pay to go in a part of the Bodleian. I really hope you enjoy your visit!

[@luke28]

@@cerridwencottagediary9194 not at all! I love this video :) i guess these things sometimes just hapoen but dont let it bring you down; just keep putting out content that you enjoy making :)

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

@@luke28 Great advice,thank you

[@luke28]

@@cerridwencottagediary9194 haha, no prob :) I do have a question though; I hope you won't mind... Which college would you recommend staying at during the summer time for a couple of nights: Magpie, Mansfield, Magdalen or st Hughs? I hope you dont mind me asking. Feel free not to answer if you don't want to. xx Luke

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

@@luke28 I would stay in Magdalen (pronounced Maudlin). It is stunning, has lovely grounds, is central and is opposite the botanic garden. However my Mum and I stayed in St Hugh's several years ago when we came here on holiday and it was really nice but abit further out x

[@IsobelStone]

Wonderful! XXX

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

Thank you dear friend XXX

[@wooble73]

What are you reading in Oxford?

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

Biology

[@wooble73]

@@cerridwencottagediary9194 I read Biochemistry 😁 My time there was wonderful

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

@@wooble73 Which college?

[@wooble73]

@@cerridwencottagediary9194 St John’s 😁

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

@@wooble73 Very nice!