Here we feature archive photos from the Oxford Mail in 1995.
It was a year when the 50th anniversary of VE Day was celebrated and Archbishop Desmond Tutu shared a joke with students at Oxford Brookes University when he visited.
Tributes were paid to the Nobel Prize winner in December 2021 when he died aged 90.
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The tireless rights campaigner was equally comfortable swapping high fives with schoolchildren - as he did on a trip to Oxford in 2010, when he was praised as 'magical' - as he was in the company of heads of state.
In 2010, the archbishop visited Oxford to give the Bynum Tudor lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre.
But he also spent 45 minutes at the – then – Windmill Fairtrade Shop in Headington, speaking to staff and customers, blessing the shop and exchanging high fives with pupils from St Andrew’s Primary School.#
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