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Can someone explain the title? I get that it's a reference to Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech [0], but why "buttery"? Does it have some particularly significance with regards to Oxford?

0: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-fin...

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Historically a storeroom for provisions in monasteries, in Oxford colleges it is where students get their food. Edit: To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen.

Oxford colleges use quite a lot of antique jargon. Battel is also something related that took me a while to figure out.

A battel is an account of items supplied by a buttery, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battel.

And they pronounce 'Magdalen' as 'maudlin' because that's briefly how people pronounced it hundreds of years ago.

> To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen

Well, the college refectory - canteen

In some colleges it's the bar, e.g. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/discover/conferences/dining-at-st-e...

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