CS Lewis’ Oxford Part 1: Coming up to war-time Oxford

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 were 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 first of three parts and it focuses on his arrival at Oxford as a potential student, his difficult beginnings at University College weighed down as it was by World War One, his return to that college after the war and the commencement of his life-long relationship with Mrs Moore and her daughter.