A student night out culminating in a trip to A&E is not a new phenomenon. On 10 February 1355 an argument between two students and a pub landlord ended up with 93 people dead.

It was a Tuesday night, and Walter de Springheuse, Roger de Chesterfield, and other clerks were out for some wine at the Swindlestock Tavern in Oxford’s city centre (now the Santander Bank at Carfax).

In a scene that could have been from any age, when the wine was brought to them, they tried it, and let the landlord know that they were not taken with its quality.

The landlord, Roger de Croydon, did not receive the criticism well. He replied with “stubborn and saucy language”, following which there was an exchange of “snappish words”. Before long, the wine and its jug were hurled at the landlord’s head.