GTW Club and The Bodleian Libraries welcome professional group travel organisers and tour operators to the FAM trip on 28th March 2025.

• 10.30 Arrival and brunch at the Weston café
• 11.30-13.30 Walk tour of the city with Bodleian walking tour guide, seeing at least one College ( Hopefully Christ Church)
• 13.30-14.30 Afternoon tea served in the Weston café
• 14.30-15.30 Library Tour (featuring the Divinity School & the Duke Humphrey Library)

The Bodleian Libraries has been the academic heart of Oxford for 600 years. The central library for the University of Oxford, the Bodleian Libraries is home to over 13 million items, including the Magna Carta, Shakespeare’s first folio and the Gutenberg bible.

In the Bodleian’s reading rooms, generations of famous scholars have studied through the ages, amongst them monarchs, Nobel Prize winners, British Prime Ministers and writers including Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The ‘Bod’ is still a working library, with thousands of readers studying in the reading rooms every year.

A popular location for filming, the Bodleian has featured in some of the most well-known films of recent years. These include Harry Potter, The Favourite, Mary Queen of Scots and Saltburn.

Group tours

The best way to experience both the Bodleian and Oxford, is on guided tours with our fantastic guides. Delivered daily, we offer a comprehensive tours programme where groups can learn about the incredible history of our medieval library and the relationship between the University and city of Oxford on our City of Oxford walking tours with qualified green badge guides. Guided tours of the library include the Old Bodleian and the iconic Radcliffe Camera.

Weston Library

The Weston Library is a short walk from the Old Bodleian Library and has a café where groups can enjoy afternoon tea. The Weston Library is also home to fantastic free exhibitions, putting some of the Bodleian’s most special treasures on display.

How to get here

Public transport

Oxford has great transport links by bus and rail. Oxford is less than an hour from London and Birmingham by train. The Old Bodleian Library and Weston Library are a 15-minute walk from Oxford train station. The city centre has brilliant bus connections and there are five Park and Ride sites connected to Oxford. For more information visit the Oxford City Council website.

Please allow ample time to get here from destinations outside Oxford if you are using public transport, as there have been frequent issues with transport links recently.