Thornton's Bookshop
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Thornton's Bookshop (locally known as Thornton's) is the oldest university bookshop in Oxford, England. It was founded in 1835 by Joseph Thornton (1808–1891) in Magdalen Street.
From 1870 the bookshop was located at 11 Broad Street (opposite Balliol College), continued as a family business by 5 generations of the Thornton family and from 1983 by the Meeuws family, but closed on 31 December 2002. The business continues to sell via the Internet and mail order from Cowley in Oxford and Faringdon, about 18 miles from Oxford. In Faringdon the antiquarian section can be found within the premises of the Whitehorse Bookshop
The shop premises on Broad Street were frequently used for television adaptations like Brideshead Revisited and the last Inspector Morse programme, The Remorseful Day. Visitors to the shop included many authors and other well-known people such as:
- Rowan Atkinson
- Isaiah Berlin
- Umberto Eco
- Susan Hill
- P. D. James
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- T.E. Lawrence
- John le Carré
- C. S. Lewis
- Iris Murdoch
- Michael Palin
- John Thaw (as Inspector Morse)
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- A. N. Wilson
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