| Modernist Photobooks, Propaganda and the Everyday |
Associate Professor Donna West Brett gives a lecture on the collection of photobooks donated to the Bodleian Library in 2020 by Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey. |
Donna West Brett |
3 July, 2024 |
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| Exploring Chaucer Here and Now |
In this webinar, Professor Marion Turner introduces some of the themes of Chaucer Here and Now, the exhibition currently on view at the Weston Library. |
Marion Turner |
5 April, 2024 |
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| 'The hooly blisful martir for to seke' Manuscripts with Chaucer’s pilgrims |
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales tell the story of pilgrims 'from every shires ende / Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende’. Experience these journeys, both real and imagined, through medieval manuscripts from the Bodleian collection live under the visualiser. |
Alison Ray, Andrew Dunning |
3 April, 2024 |
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| We Rise (Together): Taking and Making Space for BIPOC Book Arts Creatives, Cultures, and Histories |
Tia Blassingame introduced her work leading the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective (aka Book/Print Collective) and shared methods for supporting and empowering BIPOC book and print artists |
Tia Blassingame |
13 February, 2024 |
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| The Dancing Master in Context: Playford’s publishing and music-making in 17th century England |
In this session, we explore what Playford’s publishing activities can tell us about how music was incorporated into different social environments in seventeenth-century English society and the role music played in peoples lives. |
Rebecca Herissone, Alice Little, Helen Cook |
30 November, 2023 |
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| A dance band for Playford? |
This talk will consider how and why the frontispiece to this edition was different from those in earlier editions and place the image in relation to other images of ballroom dance bands before and after 1728. |
Jeremy Barlow, Alice Little, Helen Cook |
2 November, 2023 |
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| Persian lacquered bookbinding: A journey through its layers and conservation challenges |
Conservation Scientist Prof. Dr. Mandana Barkeshli looks at lacquered bookbindings made by Persian artisans in the 16th to 19th centuries. |
Mandana Barkeshli |
17 July, 2023 |
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| Analysis of Pigments on Painted Byzantine and Japanese Manuscripts |
An introduction to the analysis of painted Byzantine and Japanese manuscripts by the Bodleian Libraries' new Heritage Scientist. |
Kate Fulcher |
4 July, 2023 |
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| Daniel Meadows - 50 years of The Free Photographic Omnibus |
Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. A photographer, documentarian and digital storyteller. He returns to the Bodleian library to muse on his life and archive and the power of photography. |
Daniel Meadows |
27 June, 2023 |
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| Queer Bibliography: A Discussion |
What is queer bibliography? How does it intersect with other critical bibliographies, (feminist, Black and liberation bibliography)? How does it relate to traditional bibliographic practice? What opportunities might queer methods and approaches provide? |
Sarah Pyke, James Sargan, Adam Smyth |
26 June, 2023 |
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| The New Nature of the Book: Publishing and Printing in the Post-Digital Era |
In this lecture, Matthew Kirschenbaum considers textual stability, a concern of publishers and readers since before the advent of printing, in the post-digital era. |
Matthew Kirschenbaum |
13 June, 2023 |
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| What is Photography For? |
Social documentary photographer Jim Mortram and photographer and publisher Craig Atkinson ponder why should we care about photography? Why take photographs? Why preserve them. |
Helen Cooke, Jim Mortram, Craig Atkinson |
5 May, 2023 |
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| Making wood type then and now |
Thomas Gravemaker explores the history of wood type printing as well as his own recent manufacture using digital design and a CNC router. |
Thomas Gravemaker |
19 April, 2023 |
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| Modern Times: Photography in Britain 1800–1850 |
Geoffrey Batchen explores the first fifty years of photography in Britain. |
Geoffrey Batchen |
6 April, 2023 |
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| ARCHiOX - Seeing the Unseen in Bodleian Collections |
A research collaboration between the Bodleian Libraries and the Factum Foundation |
John Barrett, Adam Lowe, Jorge Cano, Andrew Irving, Richard Allen, Damien Bov, Jessica Hodgkinson, Jo Story, Alessandro Bianchi, Chiara Betti |
17 February, 2023 |
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| Unveiling the invisible belt: the shareholders of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 1897–1901 |
Drawing on a detailed survey of shareholders of the Marconi in 1897 and 1900, this lecture will trace an overall profile of the diverse categories of investors who dared to back this venture through it's experimental phase to becoming commercially viable. |
Dr. Anna Guagnini |
14 November, 2022 |
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| Making machines: Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace |
Join our experts in conversation as they consider the thinking of two great 19th century women writers exploring the boundary between human and machine |
Ursula Martin, Sharon Ruston, Helen Cook |
21 June, 2022 |
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| Meet the pigments: the art and science of early English decoration |
Discover how cutting-edge scientific techniques are transforming our understanding of medieval manuscripts, and how book production began to recover under King Alfred and his successors |
Matthew Holford, Richard Gameson, Helen Cook |
24 May, 2022 |
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| 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. |
Sjoerd Levelt, Ad Putter |
14 April, 2022 |
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| 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. |
Martin Holford, David Rundle |
14 April, 2022 |
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| Meet the Maps: Unconventional Views of Oxford |
Focusing on four very different maps of Oxford - each of the maps has its own tale to tell, some showing Oxford as it was; others showing Oxford as it might have been; and others how Oxford never was. |
Nick Millea, Stuart Ackland, Helen Cook |
5 April, 2022 |
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| MS Ashmole 1504 |
Dating from around 1520 and probably conceived as a pattern book, this manuscript is best described as a 'herbal and bestiary' and contains images of flora and fauna together with stylised, floriated ornaments and coloured alphabets. |
Martin Kauffmann, Helen Cook, Lynn Hulse |
4 February, 2022 |
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| Meet the Manuscripts: Correcting Christmas Carols |
In the 3rd talk in our Meet the Manuscripts series, you will learn how singers lived with change in their favourite songs, and hear carols of the Middle Ages both familiar and new. |
Micah Mackay, Andrew Dunning |
14 December, 2021 |
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| Meet the Manuscripts: Uncomfortable English Manuscripts |
In this lecture, we look at some beautiful, austere, and distinctively uncomfortable manuscripts and learn how the Middle Ages shaped the way we read today both in print and on screen. |
Dan Wakelin, Andrew Dunning, Helen Cook |
8 November, 2021 |
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| Meet the Manuscripts: Meet the Fragments |
Exploring their physical function in manuscripts – and the bad things that can happen when they are removed for study – as well as showing what they can contribute to book history. |
Andrew Honey, Matthew Holford |
20 October, 2021 |
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| Roots to Seeds: the evolution of plant science |
Join Professor Stephen Harris (Curator of Roots to Seeds at the Bodleian Library) and Dr Chris Thorogood, (Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum) as they discuss the past, present and future of botanical research and teaching. |
Stephen Harris, Chris Thorogood, Helen Cook |
17 September, 2021 |
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| Body of evidence |
In this online event, Ana Paula Cordeiro, the creator of Body of Evidence, speaks from the workshop in New York City where she produced it. She will be joined in conversation by Merve Emre, Associate Professor of American Literature. |
Ana Paula Cordeiro, Merve Emre |
17 August, 2021 |
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| Singing together; apart: drama and medieval chant |
As both audience members and actors, you will learn to sing the classic Easter sequence hymn 'Victimae paschali laudes' ('Praises to the paschal victim') and see how it formed part of a medieval play. |
Henrike Lähnemann, Andrew Dunning, Zachary Guiliano, Nick Swarbrick, Marlene Schilling, Carolin Gluchowski |
17 June, 2021 |
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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. |
Martin Kauffmann, Matthew Holford |
28 May, 2021 |
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| Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop for Candlemas |
Building on the repertoire from our previous workshop, we will add further pieces for Candlemas where everybody is invited to join in by singing the communal response |
Henrike Lähnemann, Nick Swarbrick, Andrew Dunning |
29 March, 2021 |
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| Meet the Manuscripts: judging a book by its cover |
The covers can tell us as much about a book as its contents. This workshop explores the secrets which bookbindings reveal about the uses and histories of medieval manuscripts. |
Matthew Holford, Andrew Honey |
29 March, 2021 |
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| Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop – Song of Simeon |
In this online choir workshop you will learn to sing along with a simple voice part from the Candlemas Nunc Dimittis and see the 15th-century manuscript from the Cistercian nunnery of Medingen where the music is preserved in the Bodleian Libraries |
Henrike Lähnemann, Nick Swarbrick, Andrew Dunning, Alexandra Burgar, Jasmine Lowe, Timothy Powell |
15 December, 2020 |
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| Reynard the Fox |
In this BodCast from the Friends of the Bodleian, Professor Dame Marina Warner interviews Anne Louise Avery, writer and art historian, on the subject of Avery's recent book, Reynard the Fox https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/reynard-the-fox |
Dame Marina Warner, Anne Louise Avery |
9 December, 2020 |
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| Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries |
Join Rebecca Abrams in conversation with Samuel Fanous to discuss her riveting and beautiful new book, edited with César Merchan-Hamann, Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries. You can purchase the book https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/jewish-treasures |
Rebecca Abrams, Samuel Fanous |
8 June, 2020 |
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| Trinity: A Real Life Spy Story |
Frank Close tells the story of Klaus Fuchs and the Bodleian Library. Trinity was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. |
Frank Close |
29 April, 2020 |
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| 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. |
Shiva Mihan |
24 April, 2020 |
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| Accumulating narrative: Meaning and mutation in letterpress printing |
David Armes (Red Plate Press), the Bodleian’s Printer in Residence 2019-20, describes artists and ideas that influence his work, asking how meaning can mutate through the process of production. |
David Armes |
23 April, 2020 |
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| Islamic manuscripts and bindings as a window on East-West relations |
The making, use and trade of manuscripts was an important part of Islamic culture, the technical developments influenced the making of books in the west from the later medieval period onward. |
Karin Scheper |
20 April, 2020 |
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| 2020 Colin Ford Lecture |
Professor Larry Schaaf delivers the 2020 Colin Ford Lecture, providing a fascinating insight into his work on The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne. |
Larry Schaaf |
14 February, 2020 |
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| Defying Hitler: The White Rose Resistance Group |
Dr Alexandra Lloyd, Lecturer in German, Magdalen College and St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, gives a talk on the White Rose Resistance Group. |
Alexandra Lloyd |
25 June, 2019 |
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| Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions |
6,000 surviving notes and drawings reveal Leonardo da Vinci’s way of thinking. This talk focuses on Leonardo’s second book, On Mechanics, and explores how he later applied mechanical laws to studies for 'useful inventions'. |
Matthew Landrus |
12 June, 2019 |
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| Particles in space |
Join Dr Donal Hill for a tour of the invisible, as he describes how particle detectors measure 3D information to help uncover the secrets of tiny fundamental particles. |
Donal Hill |
12 June, 2019 |
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| Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D |
Discover how researchers are using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to acquire images that show how the heart works on both a whole organ and cellular level. With Dr Kerstin Timm and Dr Justin Lau. |
Kerstin Timm, Justin Lau |
12 June, 2019 |
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| Plans and elevation: the development of architectural drawings |
Dr Karl Kinsella introduces a 12th-century manuscript which explores the mystical visions of the prophet Ezekiel and contains some of the earliest architectural drawings in existence. |
Karl Kinsella |
12 June, 2019 |
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| Parallel lines down the centuries |
For 21 centuries, mathematicians worried about a fundamental assumption made by Euclid of Alexandria: that parallel lines must meet at infinity. |
Christopher Hollings |
12 June, 2019 |
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| 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. |
Richard Sharpe |
16 May, 2019 |
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| Growth, competition, stability, loss, renewal - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (5) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fifth lecture inthe 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
14 May, 2019 |
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| Turnover in libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (4) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the fourth 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 |
Richard Sharpe |
9 May, 2019 |
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| Library books and personal books - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (3) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the third lecture in the 2019 Lyell series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
7 May, 2019 |
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| English medieval library catalogues - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (2) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019 gives the second 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. |
Richard Sharpe |
2 May, 2019 |
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| Medieval libraries of Great Britain - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (1) |
Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the first of the 2019 Lyell lecture series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy. |
Richard Sharpe |
30 April, 2019 |
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| The conservation of Japanese collections at Bodleian Libraries |
Learn about the conservation of unique Japanese items such as Naraehon, a Japanese genre of lavishly-illustrated literature from the fifteenth-eighteenth centuries. |
Virginia M. Lladó-Buisán |
11 April, 2019 |
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| Thinking 3D: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture |
Thinking 3D is an interdisciplinary exploration of the concept of three-dimensionality and its impact on the arts and sciences, co-investigated by Dr Laura Moretti and Daryl Green. |
Laura Moretti, Daryl Green |
5 April, 2019 |
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| Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books |
A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin. |
Emily Martin |
12 February, 2019 |
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| Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries |
An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron |
29 January, 2019 |
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| Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth |
A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. |
Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi |
25 January, 2019 |
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| Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England |
Julia Mattison (RBC Foundation-Bodleian Visiting Fellow at the Bodleian Libraries until 19 December 2018) gives a lecture on reading french in 15th century english. |
Julia Mattison |
3 December, 2018 |
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| Marconi lecture 2018: Imperial Wave: how empire shaped the network of wireless in South Asia at the turn of the twentieth century |
Dr Medha Saxena (Delhi, and Byrne Bussey Marconi Fellow), gives the 2018 annual Marconi lecture. |
Medha Saxena |
3 December, 2018 |
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| The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum |
Panel Discussion to debate the proposed changes to the policy on Open Access for monographs in the next REF after REF 2021 which will have profound implications for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. |
Richard Ovenden, Julia Smith, Helen Snaith, David Clark |
16 November, 2018 |
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| Old Norse |
Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse. |
Eleanor Parker |
31 October, 2018 |
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| Old English |
Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english. |
Mark Atherton |
31 October, 2018 |
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| Gothic |
Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest. |
Elizabeth Solopova |
31 October, 2018 |
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| Medieval Welsh |
Tolkien once termed Welsh 'the elder language of the men of Britain'; this talk explores how the sounds and grammar of Welsh captured Tolkien's imagination and are reflected in Sindarin, one of the two major Elvish languages which he created. |
Mark Williams (English Faculty) |
31 October, 2018 |
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| Middle English |
This lecture is on Tolkien and middle english. Professor Carolyne Larrington, Tutorial Fellow in English Literature, St John's College, Oxford gives the first talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. |
Carolyne Larrington |
31 October, 2018 |
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| Why Read Frankenstein in 2018? |
Two hundred years after it was first published, Nick Groom explains the abiding appeal and extraordinary contemporary relevance of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. |
Nick Groom |
22 October, 2018 |
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| Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues |
Tom Shippey's lecture will move from the detail to the (eventual) design of Tolkien's languages, and even the philosophical issues embedded in Tolkien's fiction. |
Tom Shippey |
19 September, 2018 |
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| The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Cultures of collecting in the 17th century' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the fifth and final Lyell lecture on 8th May 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 June, 2018 |
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| The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for the common man' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the fourth Lyell lecture on 3rd May 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 June, 2018 |
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| The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Women and books in the 17th century' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the third Lyell lecture on 1st May 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 June, 2018 |
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| The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for use and books for show' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the second 2018 Lyell lecture on 26th April 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 June, 2018 |
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| The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Setting the scene: Trends and patterns' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, gives the first of the 2018 Lyell lectures on Tuesday 24 April 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 June, 2018 |
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| What happened to wireless? |
Jacob Ward, Bodleian Libraries Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL, gives the 2018 Marconi lecture. |
Jacob Ward |
19 March, 2018 |
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| Printing a Line at the Bodleian Weston Library Printing Press |
This one-off print comprised text and drawing by artist and writer Tamarin Norwood, concluding her year-long residency at Spike Island Bristol, |
Tamarin Norwood |
13 December, 2017 |
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| Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age |
Russell Maret talks about the development of the primary themes of his artist's books - alphabet design, colour printing, and geometric form, also the influences of history and technology on his methods and subject matter. |
Russell Maret |
8 December, 2017 |
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| Researching the Impeachment and Trial of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford |
Visiting fellow, Dr Robin Eagles of the History of Parliament Trust discusses his research into Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford |
Robin Eagles |
10 November, 2017 |
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| Tanakh and textuality |
Visiting researcher Dr Rachel Wamsley discusses the renowned Oppenheimer Collection, whose holdings shed light on the printing house as a site of cultural and literary encounter between Jews and Christians in early modern Europe. |
Rachel Wamsley |
15 September, 2017 |
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| Marconi and media history |
Dr Noah Arceneaux, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media Studies, San Diego State University, Byrne-Bussey Marconi Visiting Fellow 2016-17, Bodleian Library, talks about the history of wireless broadcasting and the Bodleian Marconi Archive. |
Noah Arceneaux |
14 September, 2017 |
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| A life in politics: Lord Heseltine in conversation with Lord Hennessy |
Michael Heseltine discusses his political career with Peter Hennessy. |
Michael Heseltine, Peter Hennessy, Richard Ovenden |
21 March, 2017 |
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| Rumi: his life, work, and poetry |
Dr Zahra Taheri, Bahari Visiting Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book, speaks about Rumi's life, mystical teaching, doctrine, and poetry. With Music by Dr Peyman Heydarian. |
Zahra Taheri, Peyman Heydarian, Fitzroy Morrissey |
24 January, 2017 |
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| Research business and the shortwave beam: Marconi and the uses of wireless in postwar years |
Giovanni Paoloni discusses the influence of the development of the shortwave beam technology on Marconi and the Marconi Company |
Giovanni Paoloni |
3 November, 2016 |
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| Marconi's early Latin projects over the South-Atlantic |
Ines Queiroz explores how technical constraints have shaped strategies for wireless networks development |
Inês Queiroz |
3 November, 2016 |
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| Performing Shakespeare: then and now |
Jonathan Lloyd and Tiffany Stern, discuss performing Shakespeare in the past and now |
Jonathan Lloyd, Tiffany Stern |
2 November, 2016 |
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| Shakespeare and the Victorians |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare Oxford 2016 series. |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
19 October, 2016 |
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| Modelos cursivos y aprendizaje de la escritura en la Corona de Castilla en el siglo XV (in Spanish) |
Carmen del Camino (Seville), gives a talk The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. |
Carmen del Camino |
14 October, 2016 |
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| Scritture umanistiche elementari (in Italian) |
Teresa De Robertis (Florence), gives a talk for The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. |
Teresa De Robertis |
14 October, 2016 |
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| Hands turned to stone: some unconventional attempts at inscriptional lettering |
Marc Smith (Paris), gives a talk for The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. |
Marc Smith |
14 October, 2016 |
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| Introduction to the unskilled scribe |
Irene Ceccherini (Oxford) gives a talk for the unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. |
Irene Ceccherini |
14 October, 2016 |
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| Elementary cursive handwriting in English and Scottish Charters, 1150-1250 |
Teresa Webber (Cambridge), gives a talk in the the unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, held on September 30th 2016. |
Teresa Webber |
14 October, 2016 |
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| Elite Folktales: An Exquisite Sixteenth-Century Persian Illustrated Manuscript in the Bodleian Library's Ouseley Collection |
A conversation with Dr Nasrin Askari, Bahari Visiting Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book 2016 and Alasdair Watson, Bahari Curator of Persian Collections, Bodleian Library |
Nasrin Askari, Alasdair Watson |
2 August, 2016 |
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| Launch of the 15th Century Booktrade |
Cristina Dondi and her colleagues launch the 15th Century Booktrade. |
Cristina Dondi, Kristian Jensen, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Simon Walton, Richard Sharpe, Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, Karen Limper-Herz, Matilde Malaspina, Yujie Zhong |
21 July, 2016 |
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| Brown's landscapes in the twenty-first century |
Join the head gardeners of Stowe and Compton Verney to explore the challenges, changes and rewards of protecting and preserving Capability Brown's landscapes in his tercentenary year. |
Barry Smith, Gary Webb |
21 July, 2016 |
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| Life, death and astrology in Shakespeare's England |
Lauren Kassell (Reader in the History of Science and Medicine, Cambridge) gives a talk for the Bodleian libraries. |
Lauren Kassell |
30 June, 2016 |
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| Eloquence vault mieulx que force |
Vernacular Translations of Plutarch and Political Argument in Renaissance France |
Rebecca Kingston |
30 June, 2016 |
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| Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and other elegies |
Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. |
Emma Smith |
2 June, 2016 |
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| Venus and Adonis |
Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on Shakespeare's poem, Venus and Adonis. |
Katherine Duncan-Jones |
20 May, 2016 |
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| Donne to Death |
Peter McCullough, Professor of English, University of Oxford, gives a talk on John Donne. |
Peter McCullough |
13 May, 2016 |
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| Everyday death in Shakespeare's England |
This podcast talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare's day |
Steven Gunn |
5 May, 2016 |
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| The Magic of Shakespeare |
This lecture will celebrate Shakespeare's immortality on the exact 400th anniversary of his burial. It will begin from Theseus' famous speech in A Midsummer Night's Dream about the magical, transformative power of poetry. |
Jonathan Bate |
3 May, 2016 |
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| Books for mind and community in 12th-century Oxford and Cirencester |
In this talk Andrew Dunning (Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Fellow) traces the development of the work of Alexander Neckam, one of the earliest known lecturers in Oxford, through manuscripts housed at the Bodleian. |
Andrew Dunning |
4 April, 2016 |
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| 1594: Shakespeare's most important year |
In the summer of 1594 William Shakespeare decided to invest around 50 Pounds to become a shareholder in a newly formed acting company: Lord Chamberlain's Men. This lecture examines the consequences of this decision, unique in English theatrical history. |
Bart van Es |
2 March, 2016 |
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