Students took shelter from the rain within the grand and glorious walls of the Ashmolean Museum, founded in the 17th century to house the ‘cabinet of curiosities’ bestowed upon the University of Oxford by antiquary, politician, astrologer and alchemist Elias Ashmole in 1677. Students explored half a million years of art and archaeology, staring Roman emperors and Greek philosophers in the face, peering at the museum’s gleaming silver hoard, and finding fascination in the current exhibition of drawings by the master of the High Renaissance, Raphael.

Back in St Hugh’s, students revisited an old favourite, Zumba, the aerobic workout that has whipped the world into a fitness frenzy with its soca sounds and mambo moves.