Thornton's
Bookshop - (en)
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). The shop was
located at 11 Broad Street (opposite Balliol College), but closed
after 171 years of trading on 31 December 2002.
Although the bookshop is no longer open to the public, the business
continues to sell via the Internet and mail order from Boars Hill,
just outside Oxford.
The old 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 (Inspector Morse)
J. R. R. Tolkien
A. N. Wilson
