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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 |
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Naming Names: Underwriting Patronage in Tonson's Caesar (1712) |
Professor Michael Suarez, in the Lyell Lectures 2015, locates the visual sources of a famous illustrated edition of Caesar's works and comments on the social and political significance of the subscription plate book. |
Michael Suarez |
18 May 2015 |
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Singular Multiples: Comprehending the General Evening Post (1754-86) |
Professor Michael Suarez continues the Lyell Lectures 2015, showing that archival evidence is necessary to understand the history of newspapers |
Michael Suarez |
18 May 2015 |
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Proliferating Images: Diagrams of the Slave Ship Brookes (1789) |
Professor Michael Suarez traces the transatlantic journey of a famous image deployed against the slave trade. |
Michael Suarez |
18 May 2015 |
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One Connected Vision of Ancient Egypt: A launch of the digitised Topographical Bibliography |
Richard Parkinson, Professor of Egyptology, gives a talk about the new digital Topographical Bibliography from the Griffith Institute at Oxford. |
Richard Parkinson |
23 Jun 2014 |
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'Almost Identical': Copying Books in England, 1600-1900 |
Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the history of facsimiles. |
Henry Woudhuysen, Adam Smyth |
19 Jun 2014 |
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Bibliography in Bits |
Adam Smyth talks to Professor Will Noel about the potentials of digital technology for the study of manuscripts. |
Will Noel, Adam Smyth |
23 Feb 2014 |
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Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature |
Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie lecture on the subject of books and gives a case study of Henry Lawson, Australian author of Where the Billy Boils. |
Paul Eggert |
09 Mar 2011 |
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Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature |
Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie lecture on the subject of books and gives a case study of Henry Lawson, Australian author of Where the Billy Boils. |
Paul Eggert |
09 Mar 2011 |