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Accident or Choice? The Outbreak of the First World War

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Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures
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The causes of the First World War have long been controversial and remain so. The Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The War that Ended Peace (2013) brings us up to date on the debate.
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Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures
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Margaret MacMillan
Keywords
history
world war one
#ww1
great war
first world war
Department: Christ Church
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:44:27

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Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures

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Oh What a Lovely War? First World War Anniversary Lectures
2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the First World War, whose war dead still cascade down the north wall of the entrance to Christ Church Cathedral, and which continues to haunt the imagination of contemporary Britons, shaping our views of armed force, of authority, and of patriotism. This lecture series looks at aspects of the First World War. Sponsored by the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life, and Christ Church Cathedral

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Early modern plays in bits and pieces

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Centre for the Study of the Book
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Professor Tiffany Stern joins Dr Adam Smyth to discuss her current research on the materiality of the early modern play text. What happens to our thinking about plays when prologues, epilogues and songs become mobile pieces, detached from the whole?
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Centre for the Study of the Book
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Tiffany Stern
Adam Smyth
Keywords
centre for the study of the book
history of the book
oxford
material texts
drama
Plays
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:18:26

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Lab, Camera, Action: Tides

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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The Bay of St Brieuc in Brittany has one of the largest tides on Earth. Dr Andrew Steele takes some time out of his holiday, on the day of the highest tide of the year, to find out why.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Andrew Steele
Keywords
Physics
science
waves
tides
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:04:18

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Lab, Camera, Action: Transit of Venus

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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In June of 2012, one of the rarest predictable astronomical phenomena took place: Venus passed directly in front of the Sun, as seen from Earth. For more information, visit transitofvenus.org.
As part of the Lab, Camera, Action! series, Dr Andrew Steele explores the science behind one of the rarest predictable astronomical phenomena of 2012: the Transit of Venus. Venus transit 2004 images courtesy of Dan Kiselman, Institute for Solar Physics and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Planet textures courtesy of NASA, JPL/Caltech. Videography by Tom Fuller and Andrew Steele.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Andrew Steele
Keywords
Physics
science
transit of venus
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:03:29

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Lab, Camera, Action: Maglev Train

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Wheels are so last century. We’ve got a train set which doesn’t have any; it just floats around the track in a billowing cloud of steam. Dr Andrew Steele explains how our superconducting magnetic levitation—or maglev—train really works.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Andrew Steele
Keywords
Physics
science
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:05:27

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Lab, Camera, Action: Particle Accelerator

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Dr Andrew Steele takes a look inside the ISIS particle accelerator in Oxfordshire, where scientists use neutrons to investigate the structure of materials, and accelerator physicist Dr Suzie Sheehy explains how this massive machine works.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Andrew Steele
Suzie Sheehy
Keywords
Physics
science
particle accelerator
isis
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:04:36

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Lab, Camera, Action: Make your own CD spectrometer

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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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How do we know what the stars are made of when we've never been to one? Dr Andrew Steele shows us how to make a spectrometer, a device used by scientists to analyse light, using a cereal box and a CD.
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Oxford Physics Short Talks and Introductions
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Andrew Steele
Keywords
Physics
science
astronomy
Department: Department of Physics
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:04:09

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Political ecology of disease

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Anthropology
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This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was delivered on 22 November 2013
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Anthropology
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Stanley Ulijaszek
Keywords
anthropology
society
disease
politics
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:52:47

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Disease transitions

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Anthropology
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This lecture by Professor Stanley Ulijaszek of ISCA, the University of Oxford, is part of the Disease Ecology series and was presented on 13 November 2013.
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Anthropology
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Stanley Ulijaszek
Keywords
anthropology
society
disease
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 03/02/2014
Duration: 00:48:07

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