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Pivot Points: Moments That Shape Us
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1 - Hermione Lee

Our first and so far only female president - heroes, milestones and 17 year old blunders
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

North Sea Crossings: inside the exhibition

Discover the treasures that illustrate how exchanges between England and the Netherlands have shaped literature, book production and institutions such as the Bodleian itself, on either side of the North Sea.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Meet the Manuscripts: the Renaissance reform of the book

Dr Martin Holford and Dr David Rundle explore how the Italian Renaissance led to major changes in how manuscripts were made, written and decorated in England.
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews Shahnaz Ahsan

Shahnaz Ahsan is Emma's guest to discuss her debut novel, Hashim & Family. They talk about Bangladesh, about the personal and the political, and about the classroom experience that has seared itself into her fiction.
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews Alex Preston

Emma Smith chats with Alex Preston about Hertford, his career in finance, bees, and his new historical novel Winchelsea - Emma also teases Alex about the label of Mr Nice Review in Private Eye.
The Hertford Bookshelf

Emma Smith interviews Louisa Reid

Louisa Reid's Young Adult novels in verse have been widely praised: join Emma Smith for a discussion of the challenges and responsibilities of writing for teens, as well as Louisa's experience as a teacher.
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews Claire McGowan

Memories, genre fiction and writing under a different pen name are all on the agenda for this podcast with Northern Irish crime author Claire McGowan (and her alter ego Eva Woods).
Textiles in Libraries: Context & Conservation series
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Talk 1: Textiles in Libraries: glimpses from the Bodleian

The first talk in the Textiles in Libraries: Context and Conservation series brings together three colleagues from across the Bodleian Library to explore the wide variety and sometimes surprising uses of textiles found in our collections.
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews Anya Glazer

This week’s guest is children’s picture book author and illustrator Anya Glazer. We talk dinosaurs, sisters, merchandizing and how she riffed on her Modern Languages degree for her first book, Thesaurus has a Secret.
The Hertford Bookshelf
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Emma Smith interviews James Hawes

James Hawes, novelist and micro-historian of The Shortest History of England and The Shortest History of Germany, talks about agents and editors, his role in the worst film ever made, and playing the French horn on the roof of Hertford’s library.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Meet the Manuscripts: hidden treasures of medieval illumination

Matthew Holford, Tolkien Curator of Medieval Manuscripts, and Martin Kauffmann, Head of Early and Rare Collections, in conversation about the artists, patrons and significance of three extraordinary manuscripts.
Middle East Centre Booktalk

Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition

Join us for the third MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Ahmed El Shamsy about his new book, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: The Social Life of Books: A History of Reading Together at Home

Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

What’s beneath the words: a paper journey

Presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Pieces of Gold: Piecing together a mutilated Timurid masterpiece

Shiva Mihan, Harvard Art Museums and Bahari Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries, gives a talk on her work in Persian arts.
Linguamania

Why should we read translated texts?

This episode explores what we lose or gain when we read a translated book. Are we missing something by reading the English translation and not the original language version? And what can the translation process tell us about how languages work?
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Secrets from Missing Manuscripts

Oxford’s libraries house many beautiful books copied by hand before the arrival of print. What, though, about the many more books from the past which have not survived?
LIBcast - from The Queen's College

Sensing the Sacred: The Materiality and Aurality of Religious Texts

Laetitia Pilgrim, a final year history student at Queen's, gives a talk to accompany her exhibition at The Queen's college.
LIBcast - from The Queen's College

Literary Matter in Early Modern England

Dianne Mitchell and Katherine Hunt speak about their exhibition that showcases the material lives of literary texts from the collections of the Queen’s College Library.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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.

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