Uncomfortable Oxford

The organisation also creates podcasts, blog articles, runs workshops and outreach programs, and hosts public lectures.

[7] The first Uncomfortable Oxford tours were given the city's Ideas Festival in 2018, wherein 300 people took in the guided walking tours featuring landmarks with connections to colonialism such as The Codrington Library, Rhodes House, Oriel College's statue of Cecil Rhodes, the Tirah Memorial in Bonn Square, the Weston Library, and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

[8] Uncomfortable Oxford holds various tours in addition to seasonal and specialist events, though the themes and routes change regularly.

[2][12] Following protests in 2020 triggered by the murder of George Floyd, Uncomfortable Oxford published series of articles on statues and their legacies.

[13] In 2020 researchers from the University of London used Uncomfortable Oxford tours as a model in a study on decolonisation in school curriculums.

[22] In 2020, researchers at Cumberland Lodge recommended to teachers that Uncomfortable Oxford's tours could be used as supplementary educational material.

The first batch of tours were free entry, with guests being encouraged to instead donate to a homeless charity called Jimmy's Cambridge.

Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum is one of several academic institutions in Oxford working in tandem with Uncomfortable Oxford to teach the public about British imperial history