Balliol is one of the top colleges in Oxford. We are highly international, we have an exceptional academic reputation, and many would say that we are among the most informal, friendly, and academically exciting of all the Oxford Colleges. Find out more from the Master about the people who come to Balliol and what it’s like to be here.
Women at Balliol
We are celebrating thirty years of women at Balliol. It was in 1979 that the first female undergraduates arrived at the College. A special anniversary booklet is available to order. And the MCR has produced its own magazine, Balliol's Rib: Reflections on Gender & Equality.
Carly Watson (Master of Studies in English, 1550-1780) has been this year's Balliol-Bodley Scholar: you can read about the Scholarship, the brainchild of Gillian Einhorn (2007) and Sarah Thomas, Bodley's first woman Librarian and Fellow of Balliol, in Floreat Domus (pp.46-7); and Carly's essay about her work on the Bodleian's Harcourt family archive, including poetry written and collected by Elizabeth, Countess Harcourt (d.1826), is available here.
Floreat Domus 2010
The latest issue of the College magazine is available to download (pdf). Read about two Balliol novelists, Balliol and the East End, Balliol in business - and much more!