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Series associated with Academic Services and University Collections (ASUC)
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Behind the Scenes at the Oxford University Museums
Biology - Organisms Lectures
Botanic Garden
Botanic Garden Audio trail
Botanic Garden Chemistry Audio Tour
Centre for the Study of the Book
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures
Death at the Museum
Designing English: Graphics on the medieval page
Digital Sketchbooks: Using tablets to support a museum art visit
History of the Book 2017-2019
Illuminating the Museums conference 2014
Living in the Stone Age
Medieval German Studies
Museum of Natural History Public Talks
Museum of the History of Science
Oxford Union Library Audio Tour
Pitt Rivers Museum
Plant Conservation
Plants and People
Reading, Writing, Romans
Recording the Reformation
Reformation 2017
Researchers at work in Bodleian archives and historic collections
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Oral Histories
Staging History, 1780 to 1840
The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
The Elements of Drawing
The Paratexts Podcast
The UN at 70: witness seminar
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection
Understanding Egyptian Collections: Innovative display and research projects in museums
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| 1 | Creative Commons | When Life Got Hard | In this podcast episode Museum research fellow Dr Duncan Murdock talks about the first animals to build skeletons, and what they did with them. | Duncan Murdock | 13 Sep 2019 |
| 2 | The Great Debate; Should We Engineer Our Way Out of Climate Change? | We must reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to avoid dangerous climate change, right? But can we? Is it too late? Should we focus our efforts on adapting to the coming change instead? Or should we engineer the earth system to avoid climate change? | Gideon Henderson, Nick Eyre, Felix Heilmann, Friederike Otto | 04 Jul 2019 | |
| 3 | Defying Hitler: The White Rose Resistance Group | Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Lecturer in German, Magdalen College and St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, gives a talk on the White Rose Resistance Group. | Alexandra Lloyd | 25 Jun 2019 | |
| 4 | Creative Commons | Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions | 6,000 surviving notes and drawings reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s way of thinking. This talk focuses on Leonardo’s second book, On Mechanics, and explores how he later applied mechanical laws to studies for 'useful inventions'. | Matthew Landrus | 12 Jun 2019 |
| 5 | Creative Commons | Particles in space | Join Dr Donal Hill for a tour of the invisible, as he describes how particle detectors measure 3D information to help uncover the secrets of tiny fundamental particles. | Donal Hill | 12 Jun 2019 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D | Discover how researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to acquire images that show how the heart works on both a whole organ and cellular level. With Dr Kerstin Timm and Dr Justin Lau. | Kerstin Timm, Justin Lau | 12 Jun 2019 |
| 7 | Plans and elevation: the development of architectural drawings | Dr Karl Kinsella introduces a 12th-century manuscript which explores the mystical visions of the prophet Ezekiel and contains some of the earliest architectural drawings in existence. | Karl Kinsella | 12 Jun 2019 | |
| 8 | Parallel lines down the centuries | For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity. | Christopher Hollings | 12 Jun 2019 | |
| 9 | Decay and closure of libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (6) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the sixth and final lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 16 May 2019 | |
| 10 | Growth, competition, stability, loss, renewal - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (5) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fifth lecture inthe 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 14 May 2019 | |
| 11 | Turnover in libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (4) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fourth lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy | Richard Sharpe | 09 May 2019 | |
| 12 | Library books and personal books - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (3) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the third lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 07 May 2019 | |
| 13 | English medieval library catalogues - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (2) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the second lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 02 May 2019 | |
| 14 | Medieval libraries of Great Britain - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (1) | Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the first of the 2019 Lyell lecture series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. | Richard Sharpe | 30 Apr 2019 | |
| 15 | The conservation of Japanese collections at Bodleian Libraries | Learn about the conservation of unique Japanese items such as Naraehon, a Japanese genre of lavishly-illustrated literature from the fifteenth-eighteenth centuries. | Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán | 11 Apr 2019 | |
| 16 | Thinking 3D: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture | Thinking 3D is an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of three-dimensionality and its impact on the arts and sciences, co-investigated by Dr Laura Moretti and Daryl Green. | Laura Moretti, Daryl Green | 05 Apr 2019 | |
| 17 | Medingen Manuscripts | For the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony). | Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 18 | Second part of the masterclass: The Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian | Masterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen. | Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 19 | Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian | A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen. | Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 20 | Creative Commons | The Gut-Brain Axis and How What We Eat Affects How We Feel | For Brain Awareness Week, Dr Phil Burnet (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford) speaks about how the gut microbiome can affect mood and mental health. | Phil Burnet | 19 Mar 2019 |
| 21 | 15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database | Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019. | Marco Bertagna | 08 Mar 2019 | |
| 22 | Creative Commons | Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books | A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin. | Emily Martin | 12 Feb 2019 |
| 23 | Scottish and British Authors Published Abroad 1470-1700 | Jane Stevenson, Senior research Fellow, Campion Hall, Oxford, gives a talk fo the History of the Book seminar series on 1st February 2019. | Jane Stevenson | 06 Feb 2019 | |
| 24 | Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne | Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019. | Earle Havens | 30 Jan 2019 | |
| 25 | Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries | An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. | Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron | 29 Jan 2019 | |
| 26 | Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth | A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. | Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi | 25 Jan 2019 | |
| 27 | Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England | Julia Mattison (RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries until 19 December 2018) gives a lecture on reading french in 15th century english. | Julia Mattison | 03 Dec 2018 | |
| 28 | Marconi lecture 2018: Imperial Wave: how empire shaped the network of wireless in South Asia at the turn of the twentieth century | Dr Medha Saxena (Delhi, and Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellow), gives the 2018 annual Marconi lecture. | Medha Saxena | 03 Dec 2018 | |
| 29 | Creative Commons | The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum | Panel Discussion to debate the proposed changes to the policy on Open Access for monographs in the next REF after REF 2021 which will have profound implications for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. | Richard Ovenden, Julia Smith, Helen Snaith, David Clark | 16 Nov 2018 |
| 30 | Old Norse | Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse. | Eleanor Parker | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 31 | Old English | Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english. | Mark Atherton | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 32 | Gothic | Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest. | Elizabeth Solopova | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 33 | Medieval Welsh | Tolkien once termed Welsh 'the elder language of the men of Britain'; this talk explores how the sounds and grammar of Welsh captured Tolkien's imagination and are reflected in Sindarin, one of the two major Elvish languages which he created. | Mark Williams | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 34 | Middle English | This lecture is on Tolkien and middle english. Professor Carolyne Larrington, Tutorial Fellow in English Literature, St John's College, Oxford gives the first talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. | Carolyne Larrington | 31 Oct 2018 | |
| 35 | Why Read Frankenstein in 2018? | Two hundred years after it was first published, Nick Groom explains the abiding appeal and extraordinary contemporary relevance of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. | Nick Groom | 22 Oct 2018 | |
| 36 | A Birth Charm | Dphil student Sian Witherden introduces a 15th Century birthing charm, one of the items on display in the Designing English Exhibition | Sian Witherden | 18 Oct 2018 | |
| 37 | How to record music on the page | Professor Henrike Lähnemann discusses how the challenge of recording music on the page was made in the late middle ages by inventing a musical notation system | Henrike Lähnemann | 18 Oct 2018 | |
| 38 | Designing English Book Art Competition | Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses some of the inspired entries they received from contemporary book artists in response to the Designing English Exhibition | Daniel Wakelin | 18 Oct 2018 | |
| 39 | A Tiny Book of Hours | MPhil Student, Kierri Price, introduces a tiny book of hours - a collection of prayers and devotional material from the late 1300s that would have been read at set intervals during the day. | Kierri Price | 18 Oct 2018 | |
| 40 | Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues | Tom Shippey's lecture will move from the detail to the (eventual) design of Tolkien's languages, and even the philosophical issues embedded in Tolkien's fiction. | Tom Shippey | 19 Sep 2018 | |
| 41 | The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Cultures of collecting in the 17th century' | David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the fifth and final Lyell lecture on 8th May 2018. | David Pearson | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 42 | The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for the common man' | David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the fourth Lyell lecture on 3rd May 2018. | David Pearson | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 43 | The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Women and books in the 17th century' | David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the third Lyell lecture on 1st May 2018. | David Pearson | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 44 | The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for use and books for show' | David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the second 2018 Lyell lecture on 26th April 2018. | David Pearson | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 45 | The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Setting the scene: Trends and patterns' | David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, gives the first of the 2018 Lyell lectures on Tuesday 24 April 2018. | David Pearson | 11 Jun 2018 | |
| 46 | Siamon Gordon | Georgina Ferry interviews Siamon Gordon. Siamon Gordon FRS is Professor Emeritus of Cellular Pathology in the Dunn School. | Siamon Gordon | 04 Jun 2018 | |
| 47 | Sermon on Indulgences | Relay Reading for the Launch of the 'Sermon von Ablass und Gnade' in the Taylor Editions. | Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones, Emma Huber, Martin Kessler | 02 May 2018 | |
| 48 | What happened to wireless? | Jacob Ward, Bodleian Libraries Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL, gives the 2018 Marconi lecture. | Jacob Ward | 19 Mar 2018 | |
| 49 | Digital Typography - Did you mean incurable? Searching and Finding Incunabula in the World Wide Web | Dr Falk Eisermann (Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin), gives a talk for the History of the Book Seminar series on 9th March 2018. | Falk Eisermann | 13 Mar 2018 | |
| 50 | Neil Barclay | Georgina Ferry interviews Neil Barclay. | Georgina Ferry, Neil Barclay | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 51 | George Brownlee | Georgina Ferry interviews George Brownlee. | Georgina Ferry, George Brownlee | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 52 | Herman Waldmann | Georgina Ferry interviews Herman Waldmann. | Georgina Ferry, Herman Waldmann | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 53 | Pete Stroud | Georgina Ferry interviews Pete Stroud. | Georgina Ferry, Pete Stroud | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 54 | Eric Sidebottom | Georgina Ferry interviews Eric Sidebottom. | Georgina Ferry, Eric Sidebottom | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 55 | Elizabeth Robertson | Georgina Ferry interviews Elizabeth Robertson. | Georgina Ferry, Elizabeth Robertson | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 56 | Fiona Powrie | Georgina Ferry interviews Fiona Powrie. | Georgina Ferry, Fiona Powrie | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 57 | Gordon MacPherson | Georgina Ferry interviews Gordon MacPherson. | Georgina Ferry, Gordon Macpherson | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 58 | Keith Gull | Georgina Ferry interviews Keith Gull. | Georgina Ferry, Keith Gull | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 59 | Gillian Griffiths | Georgina Ferry interviews Gillian Griffiths. | Georgina Ferry, Gillian Griffiths | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 60 | David Greaves | Georgina Ferry interviews David Greaves. | Georgina Ferry, David Greaves | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 61 | Matthew Freeman | Georgina Ferry interviews Matthew Freeman. | Georgina Ferry, Matthew Freeman | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 62 | Paul Fairchild | Georgina Ferry interviews Paul Fairchild. | Georgina Ferry, Paul Fairchild | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 63 | Peter Cook | Georgina Ferry interviews Peter Cook as part of the | Georgina Ferry, Peter Cook | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 64 | History of Art - The De Spira Brothers vrs. Nicolaus Jenson, 1469-1472: A Rivalry Traced through Hand-illuminated Copies of their Editions | Professor Lilian Armstrong (Wellesley College) gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 2nd March 2018. | Lilian Armstrong | 06 Mar 2018 | |
| 65 | Trade - Merchants' books of Venice and Florence | Dr Irene Ceccherini (Lyell-Bodleian Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies, Bodleian Library, Dilts Research Fellow in Palaeography, Lincoln College, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the Seminar in the History of the Book on 9th February 2017. | Irene Ceccherini | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 66 | Early Modern Publishing Policies - Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam and the search for a niche market, 1664-75 | Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College), gives the third seminar in the History of the Book series, looking at the early modern period publishing policies in Europe on February 2nd, 2018. | Ian Maclean | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 67 | Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin | Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book. | Julia Bray | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 68 | Numismatics - Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy | Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University) gives a talk in the new Centre for the Study of the Book Seminar series. | Alan Stahl | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 69 | Curating the exhibition 'Designing English' | Daniel Wakelin talks about the concept behind the exhibition 'Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page' in the Weston Library, Oxford, and about the thrill of working with original material from the Bodleian collection at Oxford Medieval Studies. | Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann | 23 Feb 2018 | |
| 70 | Creative Commons | Trade - Merchants' books of Venice and Florence | Dr Irene Ceccherini (Lyell-Bodleian Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies, Bodleian Library, Dilts Research Fellow in Palaeography, Lincoln College, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the Seminar in the History of the Book on 9th February 2017. | Irene Ceccherini | 16 Feb 2018 |
| 71 | Early Modern Publishing Policies - Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam and the search for a niche market, 1664-75 | Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College), gives the third seminar in the History of the Book series, looking at the early modern period publishing policies in Europe on February 2nd, 2018. | Ian Maclean | 06 Feb 2018 | |
| 72 | Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin | Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book. | Julia Bray | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 73 | Numismatics - Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy | Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University) gives a talk in the new Centre for the Study of the Book Seminar series. | Alan Stahl | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 74 | Teach us how we may pray | AElfric of Eynsham teaches the congregation to recite the Lord’s Prayer in English, 'Thu ure faeder'. MS. Hatton 115, fol. 10r. Composed 990-995, copied in the second half of the 1000s. Read by Andy Orchard. | Andy Orchard | 16 Jan 2018 | |
| 75 | Come and dance with me in Ireland | The lyrics of dance songs about love and longing, jotted down without music. MS. Rawl. D. 913, fol. 1r-v. Copied in the early 1300s. Read by Helen Appleton, Daniel Wakelin. | Helen Appleton, Daniel Wakelin | 16 Jan 2018 | |
| 76 | If it be played | In the play The Burial of Christ, Joseph, Mary Magdalen and three other women cry out when they see Jesus on the Cross. MS. e Musaeo 160, fol. 141r. Copied c. 1518–1520. Read by Helen Appleton, Angela O'Brien, Daniel Sawyer, Wing Tan Lai. | Helen Appleton, Angela O'Brien, Daniel Sawyer, Wing Tan Lai | 16 Jan 2018 | |
| 77 | First entereth Wisdom | In the play Wisdom, the devil tempts three godly people into sins – lust and other ‘French fashions’. MS. Digby 133, fol. 158r. Copied in the late 1400s. Read by Arka Chakraborty, Matthew Day, Ben Sims, Daniel Sawyer. | Arka Chakraborty, Matthew Day, Ben Sims, Daniel Sawyer | 16 Jan 2018 | |
| 78 | Listeneth now and beth not deaf! | A travelling preacher recites a poem, warning about the horrors of death. MS. Add. E. 6 (R). Copied in the late 1200s. Read by Daniel Wakelin. | Daniel Wakelin | 16 Jan 2018 | |
| 79 | ‘Make we joy now in this feast’ | A carol for Christmas, ‘Nowell nowell nowell’, from a book of church music. MS. Arch. Selden B. 26, fol. 14v. Copied in the mid 1400s. | Henrike Lähnemann | 20 Dec 2017 | |
| 80 | Printing a Line at the Bodleian Weston Library Printing Press | This one-off print comprised text and drawing by artist and writer Tamarin Norwood, concluding her year-long residency at Spike Island Bristol, | Tamarin Norwood | 13 Dec 2017 | |
| 81 | Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age | Russell Maret talks about the development of the primary themes of his artist's books - alphabet design, colour printing, and geometric form, also the influences of history and technology on his methods and subject matter. | Russell Maret | 08 Dec 2017 | |
| 82 | Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age | Russell Maret talks about the development of the primary themes of his artist's books - alphabet design, colour printing, and geometric form, also the influences of history and technology on his methods and subject matter. | Russell Maret | 08 Dec 2017 | |
| 83 | Researching the Impeachment and Trial of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford | Visiting fellow, Dr Robin Eagles of the History of Parliament Trust discusses his research into Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford | Robin Eagles | 10 Nov 2017 | |
| 84 | Tanakh and textuality | Visiting researcher Dr Rachel Wamsley discusses the renowned Oppenheimer Collection, whose holdings shed light on the printing house as a site of cultural and literary encounter between Jews and Christians in early modern Europe. | Rachel Wamsley | 15 Sep 2017 | |
| 85 | Marconi and media history | Dr Noah Arceneaux, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media Studies, San Diego State University, Byrne-Bussey Marconi Visiting Fellow 2016-17, Bodleian Library, talks about the history of wireless broadcasting and the Bodleian Marconi Archive. | Noah Arceneaux | 14 Sep 2017 | |
| 86 | Creative Commons | Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen | Relay Reading for the Launch of the Taylorian Pamphlet Series. | Henrike Lähnemann, Howard Jones, Emma Huber | 31 May 2017 |
| 87 | Felas Octavi | New research reveals that this sling bullet is much ruder than previously thought. Prof. Alison Cooley discusses this with Dr Jane Masséglia and Dr Hannah Cornwell in the Ashmolean's updated Reading and Writing Gallery. | Alison Cooley, Jane Masséglia, Hannah Cornwell | 11 Apr 2017 | |
| 88 | A life in politics: Lord Heseltine in conversation with Lord Hennessy | Michael Heseltine discusses his political career with Peter Hennessy. | Michael Heseltine, Peter Hennessy, Richard Ovenden | 21 Mar 2017 | |
| 89 | Nicholas Crouch's seventeenth-century books | Professor Adam Smyth talks to cataloguer Lucy Kelsall and book conservator Nikki Tomkins about the seventeenth-century library of Nicholas Crouch, now in Balliol College, and how to deal with fragile books. | Adam Smyth, Lucy Kelsall, Nikki Tomkins | 13 Mar 2017 | |
| 90 | Law: Printing the Corpus iuris civilis in the Sixteenth Century | Professor Rodolfo Savelli, Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza, Università di Genova, gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 10th March 2017. | Rodolfo Savelli | 13 Mar 2017 | |
| 91 | Theology: The Gutenberg Bible in the Context of Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Bibles | Dr Paul Needham, Scheide Library, Princeton University Library gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 3rd March 2017. | Paul Needham | 06 Mar 2017 | |
| 92 | Manuscript Studies: Greek Script and Type in the Fifteenth century. Demetrius Damilas between Milan and Florence | Nigel Wilson, fellow of Lincoln College, reads a lecture written by Dr David Speranzi, Firenze, Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. Dr Speranzi was unable to attend the recording of this lecture so Nigel Wilson read in his absence. | David Speranzi, Nigel Wilson | 28 Feb 2017 | |
| 93 | Economics: The Price of Books in Early Modern Europe: An Economic Perspective | Dr Jeremiah Dittmar, Department of Economics, London School of Economics, gives a talk on 10th February 2017. | Jeremiah Dittmar | 22 Feb 2017 | |
| 94 | Classics: Incunabular Stemmatics, | Professor Stephen Oakley, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, gives a talk for the 15th Century Booktrade series on 3rd February 2017. | Stephen Oakley | 22 Feb 2017 | |
| 95 | The Italian Trade with the Frankfurt Book Fair around 1600 | The History of the Book and Cultural History with Professor Ian Maclean, All Souls College, Oxford on 20th January 2017. | Ian Maclean | 25 Jan 2017 | |
| 96 | Rumi: his life, work, and poetry | Dr Zahra Taheri, Bahari Visiting Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book, speaks about Rumi's life, mystical teaching, doctrine, and poetry. With Music by Dr Peyman Heydarian. | Zahra Taheri, Peyman Heydarian, Fitzroy Morrissey | 24 Jan 2017 | |
| 97 | Lion Statue | On whether there were ever lions in Egypt. Today, there are no lions roaming wild in north Africa, but evidence from ancient Egypt suggests that lions once did. | David Whyte Macdonald | 23 Jan 2017 | |
| 98 | Henry VIII Renaissance Medal | On Henry VIII and the Founding of the Church of England Minted at London in 1545, this medal shows a bust of Henry VIII, with inscriptions in Hebrew and Greek on the reverse. | Diarmaid MacCulloch | 23 Jan 2017 | |
| 99 | Meissen porcelain chocolate cup and tea bowl | On arranged marriages among royalty. | Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly | 23 Jan 2017 | |
| 100 | Arab robe worn by T. E. Lawrence | On Lawrence of Arabia and wearing Arab robes. T. E. Lawrence, or Lawrence of Arabia was infamous for his scruffy appearance when in the British Khaki uniform, and wore it as little as possible. | Eugene Rogan | 23 Jan 2017 |
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