John Herschel’s earliest photographic trials in 1839

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Olena Chervonik: John Herschel’s earliest photographic trials in 1839.

Abstract: John Herschel’s earliest photographic trials date to 29 January 1839. He photographed his father’s 40-foot telescope and three of these images are featured at the Bodleian. From the onset of his experiments he was fascinated with how to render polychromy through chemicals. One of his strategies involved using “vegetable juices” and photosynthesis to induce photographic images. This paper will profile Herschel’s photographic experiments and discuss the “vegetable photographs” as fundamentals in the history of colour photography.

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850

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Department: Bodleian Library

Date Added: 20/08/2023

Duration: 00:16:25

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Photographic images published in books and newspapers show how early British photographers represented racial and class differences in their work

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850

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Geoffrey Batchen: Photographic images published in books and newspapers show how early British photographers represented racial and class differences in their work

Abstract: An exclusive focus on surviving photographs has allowed scholars to ignore the degree to which early British photographers represented signs of racial and class difference. By looking at photographic images published in books and newspapers, this paper will seek out those signs to consider how such differences were given visual form. A study of this kind will reveal yet another facet of photography as a social and political phenomenon within 19th-century British life.

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A New Power: Photography, 1800-1850

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Department: Bodleian Library

Date Added: 20/08/2023

Duration: 00:19:42

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Adam Finn

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The Pandemic People: Professor Adam Finn

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Sir Andrew and Professor Adam Finn discuss his work as paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases. They discuss the pandemic as it affected children and the different responses to the disease in adults and children.

Professor Adam Finn, Professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol and head of the Bristol Children's Vaccine Centre talks to Sir Andrew Pollard about his experience of the pandemic. Professor Finn is a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases, and has been running vaccine trials for about 25 years with a fascination for the immune responses in the nose and throat. They discuss his experience of the pandemic as a paediatrician and how the immune response to the COVID-19 disease differed between adults and younger children.

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Department: Department of Paediatrics

Date Added: 16/08/2023

Duration: 00:30:08

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Mark Williams (English Faculty)

Mark Williams read Classics and English as an undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall (1998-2001), before moving to Jesus College in 2002 to do an MPhil and subsequently a DPhil in Celtic Studies. After that he was appointed to a Research Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge, followed by five years as Darby Fellow and Tutor in Old and Middle English at Lincoln College, Oxford. After a year teaching medieval Irish in Cambridge’s Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, he returned to Oxford with jobs in two different subjects: from 2017-9 he was Departmental Lecturer in Celtic in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and simultaneously held the Fitzjames Fellowship in Old and Middle English at Merton. Mark took up his faculty position and post at St Edmund Hall in January 2019.

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Polly Waitse

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Fiona Alderdice

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Jenny Clarke

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Childhood and adolescent anxiety

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Professor Lennox sits down with Professors Cathy Creswell and Polly Waite to talk about how anxiety affects young people and the effective new treatments being developed.

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Date Added: 11/08/2023

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Maternal mental health

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Professor Lennox talks to Professors Marian Knight and Fiona Alderdice about how mental illnesses impact women and families in the postnatal period, and the power of speaking out.