When is Alice's Day?
Alice's Day is taking place in Oxford on Saturday 6 July 2024.
What to expect from Alice's Day
Alice’s Day, Oxford’s city-wide celebration of all things Alice in Wonderland, is back on Saturday 6 July 2024. This year's theme is Fabulous Monsters and Curious Creatures.
Get ready to fall down the rabbit hole! Join in this annual family festival with street theatre, giant puppetry, storytelling and more! There’ll be plenty to enjoy at The Story Museum too with all-day half price entry.
Find out more at The Story Museum's website.
The history of Alice's Day
One golden afternoon on 4 July 1862, Charles Dodgson, an Oxford don, took Alice Liddell and her sisters on a boating picnic up the River Thames from Folly Bridge in Oxford. To amuse the children, he told them a story about a little girl, sitting bored by a riverbank, who finds herself tumbling down a rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world called Wonderland.
The story so delighted the 10-year-old Alice that she begged him to write it down – the result was Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865 under the pen name Lewis Carroll. It became one of the best-loved children’s books ever written. To celebrate that first telling, Oxford turns into Wonderland for one magical day every year.
How to get to Alice's Day
Travel to Oxford with GWR. With two direct services from London an hour or frequently from across the network with a change at Reading or Didcot Parkway, you’ll be in Wonderland in no time.
