CS Lewis’ Oxford Part 2: Graduate, fellow and man of many abodes

Clive Staples Lewis is most known for his many books which include the Narnia tales, his science fiction novels and those on religion. His day job was as an academic predominantly as a fellow at Oxford then later as a professor at Cambridge. My series of three videos concentrate on Oxford: the Oxford of CS Lewis. It covers his life as a student at University College, and as a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College. It introduces the public houses where he met with Tolkien and the other members of the Inklings, the many houses he shared with Mrs Moore: particularly The Kilns where he lived for the major part of his working life. This is not a biography of Lewis - there are surely enough of those - it is more of a scenic tale of his surrounding in the city that he loved and his haunts there.
This video is the second of three parts and it covers Lewis’ life as an undergraduate at University College studying first Classics and then English which led to the award of a triple first. This is followed by a short period as a tutor at the same college and then a very long period at Magdalen College as a fellow and a tutor in English. This part also traces his walking route via a whole series of houses which he shared with Mrs Moore within the Headington area.