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The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford form the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. They include the principal University library-the Bodleian Library-which has been a library of legal deposit for 400 years; major research libraries; and libraries attached to faculties, departments and other institutions of the University. The combined library collections number more than 11 million printed items, in addition to 30,000 e-journals and vast quantities of materials in other formats. The Old Bodleian is also a major visitor attraction, drawing over 300,000 visitors a year. More information about the Bodleian Libraries and their activities can be found at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Series associated with Bodleian Libraries
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1 | 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 | 15 Dec 2020 | |
2 | 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 | 09 Dec 2020 | |
3 | Panel Discussion 4: Working to Establish Tomorrow's Names | Taous Dahmani chairs a discussion with Fiona Rogers, Max Houghton and Anna Fox | Taous Dahmani, Fiona Rogers, Max Houghton, Anna Fox | 17 Nov 2020 | |
4 | Panel Discussion 3: Feminist Multi-taskers: Being a Photographer, a Writer and a Curator | Taous Dahmini chairs a discussion with Patrizia Di Bello and Deborah Cherry | Taous Dahmani, Patrizia Di Bello, Deborah Cherry | 17 Nov 2020 | |
5 | Panel Discussion 2: Unveiling the Archive, Revealing Photographers | Taous Dahmini chairs a discussion with Erika Lederman and Jessica Sutcliffe | Taous Dahmani, Jessica Sutcliffe, Erika Lederman | 17 Nov 2020 | |
6 | Panel Discussion 1: Historiography's Origin Stories | Taous Dahmani chairs a discussion with Val Williams | Taous Dahmani, Val Willams | 17 Nov 2020 | |
7 | Fast Forward: Women in Photography | Anna Fox gives an overview of Fast Forward - a research project designed to promote and engage with women in photography across the globe. | Anna Fox | 13 Nov 2020 | |
8 | Maud Sulter: Discourse and Debate | Deborah Cherry discusses the work of Maud Sulter as a writer, curator and photographer | Deborah Cherry | 13 Nov 2020 | |
9 | Write or be Written Off: the work of Jo Spence (1934-1992) as photography 'theory' | Patrizia Di Bello discusses the work of Jo Spence as a writer, organiser and photographer | Patrizia Di Bello | 13 Nov 2020 | |
10 | The Isabel Project: Uncomvering 19th Century Institutional Photographers, One Woman at a Time | Erika Lederman talks about her practice and the work of the V & A museum's first in house photographer, Isabel Cowper. | Erika Lederman | 13 Nov 2020 | |
11 | Interview with John Ledingham, professor of clinical medicine and former Director of Clinical Studies, University of Oxford | Peggy Frith interviews John Ledingham, focusing on five themes: the growth and then success of the Oxford Medical School, Ledingham's two appointments as Director of Clinical Studies, women in medicine, and reflections on what makes a good doctor. | Peggy Frith, John Ledingham, Rosie Fitzherbert Jones | 05 Nov 2020 | |
12 | The Helen Muspratt Archive | Jessica Sutcliffe, the daughter of photographer, Helen Muspratt, give a short talk on her mother's life and career. | Jessica Sutcliffe | 26 Oct 2020 | |
13 | Creating History and Building Legacy (Illuminations, The Other Observers, Warworks, Signals Festival) | Val Williams gives a short talk on what it is like for early women photographers in a very male dominated industry | Val Williams | 26 Oct 2020 | |
14 | The Golden Age of French Writing Masters? | Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 4th lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series | Marc Smith | 09 Oct 2020 | |
15 | Renaissance Calligraphy from Pen to Press and Back | Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 3rd lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series | Marc Smith | 06 Oct 2020 | |
16 | Bibliography and the Life Cycles of Writing Books | The 2nd lecture in the 2020 series delivered by Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris | Marc Smith | 01 Oct 2020 | |
17 | Writing Models and the Formation of National Scripts | The first lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2020 series delivered by Professor Marc Smith - Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2020 | Marc Smith, Richard Ovenden | 29 Sep 2020 | |
18 | Interview with Susan Burge (part 4), consultant dermatologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, University of Oxford | Final part of the interview with Susan Burge, where she discusses teaching dermatology nationally, women and working part time in medicine, and reflects on her medical career. | Susan Burge, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
19 | Interview with Susan Burge (part 3), consultant dermatologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, University of Oxford | Continuing from episode 15, Burge talks about dermatology treatment in Oxford and her time as Director of Clinical Studies, 1999-2002. | Susan Burge, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
20 | Interview with Susan Burge (part 2), consultant dermatologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, University of Oxford | Continuing from episode 14, Burge discusses her time as a consultant at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and lupus research. | Susan Burge, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
21 | Interview with Susan Burge, consultant dermatologist and former Director of Clinical Studies, University of Oxford | Derek Hockaday interviews Susan Burge. Burge recounts her journey into Dermatology, the transformation of Oxford dermatology and her pre-clinical and clinical years. | Susan Burge, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
22 | Interview with Joan Trowell, consultant physycian and former Deputy Director of Clinical studies, University of Oxford | Derek Hockaday interviews Joan Trowell. Topics include comparisons between her time at the Royal Free, Hammersmith and Oxford, liver research, her roles at the General Medical Council and the work of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. | Joan Trowell, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
23 | Interview with Chris Winearls (part 2), consultant nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford | Continuing from episode 11, Winearls talks about advice given to final year medical students. | Chris Winearls, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
24 | Interview with Chris Winearls, consultant nephrologist and Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford | Derek Hockaday interviews Chris Winearls. Winearls recounts coming to England from South Africa, his DPhil in transplantation, working at the Oxford Kidney Unit and discusses the importance of pathology to renal work. | Chris Winearls, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
25 | Interview with Michael Tunbridge, former Director of Postgraduate Medical Education and Training, University of Oxford | Derek Hockaday interviews Michael Tunbridge. Tunbridge recounts his medical career and compares Northampton, Reading, London and Newcastle with Oxford as locations for clinical training, as well as reflecting on changes in medical education as a whole. | Michael Tunbridge, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
26 | Interview with Keith Hawton, consultant psychiatrist and professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford | Derek Hockaday interviews Keith Hawton. Hawton recalls his journey into medicine through experimental psychology, the psychiatric training scheme, his MD topic on self harm and suicide research at the Barnes unit and the clinical tutoring of Psychiatry. | Keith Hawton, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
27 | Interview with Chris Adams (part 3) senior neurosurgeon | Carrying on from episode 7, Adams recalls the building of the new John Radcliffe, work on clotting and sub-retinal haemorrhages, work on the spine and his OxDONS Syndrome: the inevitable disease of the NHS reforms paper. | Chris Adams, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
28 | Interview with Chris Adams (part 2) senior neurosurgeon | Carrying on from episode 6, Chris Adams recalls time as a senior house officer. | Chris Adams, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
29 | Interview with Chris Adams, senior neurosurgeon | Derek Hockaday interviews Chris Adams, who recalls how and why he came to Oxford and the Radcliffe Infirmary. | Chris Adams, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
30 | Interview with Hywel Jones (part 2), consultant geriatrician | Carrying on from episode 4, Jones discusses the progress of clinical medicine in the last thirty years | Hywel Jones, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
31 | Interview with Hywel Jones, consultant geriatrician | Derek Hockaday interviews Hywel Jones. Jones discusses multidisciplinary teams in managing care, cottage hospitals, consultancy in Oxford and the development of the level 4 ward at the John Radcliffe Hospital. | Hywel Jones, Derek Hockaday | 16 Sep 2020 | |
32 | Interview with Richard Boyd, Emeritus Professor, lecturer in Medicine and fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford | Derek Hockaday interviews Richard Boyd. Boyd discusses the Oxford Medical School, medical education in general, comparisons of Dundee Medical School and University College Hospital with Oxford and changes to the pre-clinical courses in Oxford. | Richard Boyd, Derek Hockaday | 15 Sep 2020 | |
33 | Interview with George Alberti, research endocrinologist and former President of the Royal College of Physicians | Derek Hockaday interviews George Alberti. Alberti talks about the Coolidge scholarship and time in the United States, his DPhil project at Hans Krebs' lab relating to amino acid metabolism in mitochondria, his diabetes research and clinical biochemistry. | George Alberti, Derek Hockaday | 15 Sep 2020 | |
34 | Interview with John Spalding, former consultant and research neurologist for Oxford United Hospitals | John Oxbury interviews John Spalding. Spalding recounts being a house surgeon for Hugh Cairns at the Radcliffe Infirmary during the second world war, the East Radcliffe ventilator and time in Morocco to advise on a paralysis epidemic with Honor Smith. | John Spalding, John Oxbury | 15 Sep 2020 | |
35 | 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 | 08 Jun 2020 | |
36 | Looking forward to the next 100 years of the Osma Studentship | Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen, Osma Student ‘99–00, head curator of the Arab World collections at the V&A, traces with a specialist eye the collection at the Instituto and her research there, followed by an expert roundtable on the future of the Studentship. | Mariam Rosser-Owen, Carole Souter, Miriam Ali de Unzaga, Xenia Elsaesser | 02 Jun 2020 | |
37 | Osma Students from the past: The stories of British novelist Inez Pearn, first woman to hold the studentship ‘35–36, and Dr Alan Forey, Osma Student ‘56–57 and '57–58 | Simon Deefholts and Louisa Long, grand-daughter of Inez Pearn, talk about her time in Madrid before the Civil War as a source of inspiration for her novels. Dr Alan Forey, reader emeritus at the University of Durham, recalls his studentship in the 1950s. | Simon Deefholts, Alan Forey, Louisa Long | 02 Jun 2020 | |
38 | Stories of past de Osma Students and a journey through the Bodleian Archives exploring the history of the studentship | Osma Student ‘93–94 Dr Bruce Taylor speaks on his experiences in Madrid and predecessors who have passed, and centenary-organiser Dr Marina Pérez de Arcos shares her archival research on the history of the first modern Spanish endowment at Oxford. | Bruce Taylor, Marina Perez de Arcos | 02 Jun 2020 | |
39 | An archival apprenticeship experience and a biographical profile of Guillermo de Osma | Introduced by Bodley’s Librarian Richard Ovenden, Prof Duncan Wheeler speaks on his experience as a studentship holder in 2009, and art historian Guillermo de Osma shares a biographical profile of his great-granduncle. | Richard Ovenden, Duncan Wheeler, Guillermo de Osma | 02 Jun 2020 | |
40 | Creative Commons | 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 Apr 2020 |
41 | 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 Apr 2020 | |
42 | Creative Commons | 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 Apr 2020 |
43 | 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 Apr 2020 | |
44 | 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 Feb 2020 | |
45 | Interview with Jennifer Scott, Professor of Mathematics at University of Reading, and Individual Merit Research Fellow at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Georgina Ferry interviews Jennifer Scott as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Scott discusses her D Phil in the Oxford Computing Lab, her fellowship at St. John's college and leading the Numerical Analysis Group at Rutherford | Georgina Ferry, Jennifer Scott | 20 Jan 2020 | |
46 | Interview with Susan Hockey (part 2), Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London | Carrying on from episode 12, part 2 of Georgina Ferry's interview sees Susan Hockey discussing observations of gender split within the computing profession. | Georgina Ferry, Susan Hockey | 20 Jan 2020 | |
47 | Interview with Susan Hockey, Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London | Georgina Ferry interviews Susan Hockey as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Hockey discusses digital humanities research, management and organisations, and her work for Oxford Computing Service from 1975-1991. | Georgina Ferry, Susan Hockey | 20 Jan 2020 | |
48 | Interview with Jill Hoare, former programmer for Elliott Brothers and the NHS | Georgina Ferry interviews Jill Hoare as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Hoare discusses early experiences of coding and programming, work at Stanford University in 1973 and working on hospital systems for NHS Oxfordshire. | Georgina Ferry, Jill Hoare | 20 Jan 2020 | |
49 | Interview with Linda Hayes (part 2), former head of User Services at the Oxford Computing Service | Carrying on from episode 9, the second part of Georgina Ferry's interview with Linda Hayes includes her recount her time at St. Cross College and the origins of the university single sign on system. | Georgina Ferry, Linda Hayes | 20 Jan 2020 | |
50 | Interview with Linda Hayes, former head of User Services at the Oxford Computing Service | Georgina Ferry interviews Linda Hayes as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Hayes discusses her diploma in Numerical Analysis and Automatic Computing at Cambridge, and working for the Oxford Computing Service 1965 onwards. | Georgina Ferry, Linda Hayes | 20 Jan 2020 | |
51 | Interview with Eleanor Dodson, computational methods developer of Protein Crystallography | Georgina Ferry interviews Eleanor Dodson as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Dodson discusses her time as research technician for Dorothy Hodgkin, use of the Oxford Computing Service and Collaborative Computational project no.4. | Georgina Ferry, Eleanor Dodson | 20 Jan 2020 | |
52 | Interview with Julia Dain, former research assistant for the Programming Research Group (PRG) | Georgina Ferry interviews Julia Dain as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Dain recounts her traineeship at Marconi company, studying Maths at Oxford and working in the computer science department at Warwick University. | Georgina Ferry, Julia Dain | 20 Jan 2020 | |
53 | Interview with Jana Colchester (part 2), former programming teacher at Marconi College and University of Essex | Carrying on from episode 5, this second part of Georgina Ferry's interview with Jana Colchester includes Colchester discussing attitudes relating to gender in the maths and computing professions. | Georgina Ferry, Jana Colchester | 20 Jan 2020 | |
54 | Interview with Jana Colchester, former programming teacher at Marconi College and University of Essex | Georgina Ferry interviews Jana Colchester as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Colchester discusses working in the Oxford Computing Labs, lecturing and teaching at a range of further and higher education institutions. | Georgina Ferry, Jana Colchester | 20 Jan 2020 | |
55 | Interview with Shirley Carter, founding member of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) | Georgina Ferry interviews Shirley Carter as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Carter recounts early experiences of programming, her computer science lectureship at Liverpool in the 1970s and the formation and development of NAG. | Georgina Ferry, Shirley Carter | 20 Jan 2020 | |
56 | Interview with Carol Bateman (part 2), former training and information manager for the Oxford Computing Service | Carrying on from episode 2, in the second part of Georgina Ferry's interview with Carol Bateman she discusses the professional computing community and needs of users of the Oxford Computing Service in the late 1980s-early 1990s. | Georgina Ferry, Carol Bateman | 20 Jan 2020 | |
57 | Interview with Carol Bateman, former training and information manager for the Oxford Computing Service | Georgina Ferry interviews Carol Bateman as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Bateman discusses her route into computing via Glasgow University, and progression of the Oxford Computing Service. | Georgina Ferry, Carol Bateman | 20 Jan 2020 | |
58 | Interview with Leonor Barroca, senior lecturer in Computing at the Open University | Georgina Ferry interviews Leonor Barroca as part of the Oxford Women in Computing Oral History project. Barocca recounts her time on the MSc Computing course at Oxford University and studying and teaching posts at the Universidade do Minho in Portugal. | Georgina Ferry, Leonor Barroca | 20 Jan 2020 | |
59 | Creative Commons | Fitting it in, filling it out: from Christopher Saxton's survey to Ralph Sheldon's tapestry maps | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Hilary Turner | 02 Dec 2019 |
60 | Creative Commons | The Catholic Gentry in Ralph Sheldon’s Midlands | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Katie McKeogh | 02 Dec 2019 |
61 | Creative Commons | Power, Propaganda, Magnificence: the cartographic background to the Sheldon tapestry maps | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Peter Barber | 02 Dec 2019 |
62 | One stitch at the time: Returning the Sheldon Tapestry Maps to life | This talk was given as part of the Sheldon Tapestry Maps Symposium | Nick Millea, Virginia llado-Buisan | 02 Dec 2019 | |
63 | Polish Literature | Dr Kasia Szymanska gives a highlight overview of Polish literature from the Middle Ages to the present. | Kasia Szymanska | 19 Nov 2019 | |
64 | Introduction to Modern Greek Literature | Professor Peter Mackridge takes his audience on a whistle-stop tour of the major landmarks of Modern Greek Literature. | Peter Mackridge | 19 Nov 2019 | |
65 | 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 Jun 2019 | |
66 | Creative Commons | 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 Jun 2019 |
67 | Creative Commons | 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 Jun 2019 |
68 | Creative Commons | 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 Jun 2019 |
69 | 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 Jun 2019 | |
70 | 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 Jun 2019 | |
71 | 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 | |
72 | 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 | |
73 | 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 | 09 May 2019 | |
74 | 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 | 07 May 2019 | |
75 | 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 | 02 May 2019 | |
76 | 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 Apr 2019 | |
77 | 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 Apr 2019 | |
78 | 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 | 05 Apr 2019 | |
79 | Medingen Manuscripts | For the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony). | Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
80 | Second part of the masterclass: The Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian | Masterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen. | Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
81 | Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian | A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen. | Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
82 | 15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database | Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019. | Marco Bertagna | 08 Mar 2019 | |
83 | Creative Commons | 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 Feb 2019 |
84 | Scottish and British Authors Published Abroad 1470-1700 | Jane Stevenson, Senior research Fellow, Campion Hall, Oxford, gives a talk fo the History of the Book seminar series on 1st February 2019. | Jane Stevenson | 06 Feb 2019 | |
85 | Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne | Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019. | Earle Havens | 30 Jan 2019 | |
86 | 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 Jan 2019 | |
87 | 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 Jan 2019 | |
88 | Tales of Love and History - James Ivory in Conversation | Oscar-winning American film-maker James Ivory will talk about his experiences with the legendary Merchant Ivory productions, in partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | James Ivory, Richard Parkinson, Katherine Harloe, Jennifer Ingleheart | 18 Dec 2018 | |
89 | 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 | 03 Dec 2018 | |
90 | 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 | 03 Dec 2018 | |
91 | Creative Commons | 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 Nov 2018 |
92 | 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 Oct 2018 | |
93 | 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 Oct 2018 | |
94 | 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 Oct 2018 | |
95 | 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 | 31 Oct 2018 | |
96 | 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 Oct 2018 | |
97 | 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 Oct 2018 | |
98 | A Birth Charm | Dphil student Sian Witherden introduces a 15th Century birthing charm, one of the items on display in the Designing English Exhibition | Sian Witherden | 18 Oct 2018 | |
99 | How to record music on the page | Professor Henrike Lähnemann discusses how the challenge of recording music on the page was made in the late middle ages by inventing a musical notation system | Henrike Lähnemann | 18 Oct 2018 | |
100 | Designing English Book Art Competition | Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses some of the inspired entries they received from contemporary book artists in response to the Designing English Exhibition | Daniel Wakelin | 18 Oct 2018 |
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