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The Trade in Printed Books: an ingenious innovation that changed the Western World

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Second in the Marks of Genius series, with Dr Christina Dondi

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Christina Dondi
Keywords
bodleian library
books
Libraries
printed books
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 19/05/2015
Duration: 00:46:40

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Alumni Voices

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Alumni Voices
Every month a former Oxford student shares career highlights, insights, and memories of student days in this 15-minute podcast. The interviews are brought to you by the Alumni Office at the University of Oxford.
Music by Setuniman http://www.freesound.org/people/Setuniman/sounds/241138 from www.freesound.org

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Abridging Histories: Capt. James Cook and the Voyages of Reading (1784-)

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Professor Michael Suarez, in the Lyell Lectures 2015, urges scholars to remember the books that most readers encountered: the cheaper abridged versions of popular novels and accounts such as Cook's voyages.

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Michael Suarez
Keywords
Libraries
biographies
lyell
reading
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 18/05/2015
Duration: 00:58:41

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Naming Names: Underwriting Patronage in Tonson's Caesar (1712)

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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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.

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Michael Suarez
Keywords
18th century
bibliography
Ogilby
engravings
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 18/05/2015
Duration: 00:54:56

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Singular Multiples: Comprehending the General Evening Post (1754-86)

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Professor Michael Suarez continues the Lyell Lectures 2015, showing that archival evidence is necessary to understand the history of newspapers

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Michael Suarez
Keywords
18th century
bibliography
newspapers
ephemera
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 18/05/2015
Duration: 01:02:22

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Proliferating Images: Diagrams of the Slave Ship Brookes (1789)

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Professor Michael Suarez traces the transatlantic journey of a famous image deployed against the slave trade.

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Michael Suarez
Keywords
18th century
bibliography
engravings
books
woodcuts
slavery
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 18/05/2015
Duration: 00:49:48

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True Colours: A Natural History of Louis Renard's Poissons (1719)

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Professor Michael Suarez continues the Lyell Lectures 2015, asking what role colour plays in bibliographical description?

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Michael Suarez
Keywords
Libraries
biography
Louis Renard
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 18/05/2015
Duration: 00:54:03

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Human Rights After the Election: A Near Miss or Apocalypse Now?

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Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars
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Recorded 12th May 2015, in the wake of the 2015 General Election, are human rights safe or are they under serious threat?
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars
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Adam Wagner
Keywords
law
human rights
general election
democracy
politics
UK Election
Department: Faculty of Law
Date Added: 18/05/2015
Duration: 00:35:15

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Julius Caesar

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Approaching Shakespeare
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This lecture on Julius Caesar discusses structure, tone, and politics by focusing on the cameo scene with Cinna the Poet.
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK (BY-NC-SA): England & Wales; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

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Approaching Shakespeare
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Emma Smith
Keywords
shakespeare
literature
tragedy
julius caesar
rome
theatre
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 18/05/2015
Duration: 00:49:34

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Give us a hand

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Oxford Sparks: bringing science to life
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Oxford Sparks explore what chirality is.
What links drugs, shells, springs and vines? Chirality, when mirror images of things don't look the same, is explored and we learn what maths can tell us about it - from designing drugs to the very meaning of life.

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Oxford Sparks: bringing science to life
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Jo Dunkley
Alain Goriely
Robert Llewellyn
Keywords
mathematics
chirality
drug development
symmetry
origins
Physics
chemistry
biology
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 18/05/2015
Duration: 00:05:20

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