Women are inducted into the Freemen of the City of Oxford for the first time, Helen Butterfield is one of them (foreground)

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is an ancient civic body is to admitted women as members for the first time in its 1,000-year history. The Freemen of the City of Oxford are thought to have formed in Saxon times and were recorded in the Domesday Book.

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Keywords: ancient, ceremony, city, english, freeman, freemen, oxford, tradition, woman