| 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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| The Prayer-Book of Abbess Odilia |
Abbess Baerbel Goercke, Mariensee, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Bärbel Görcke |
22 February, 2016 |
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| Musical Notation |
Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Utrecht University, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Ulrike Hascher-Burger |
22 February, 2016 |
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| The Incunable Traces |
Alan Coates, Rare Books Assistant Librarian, Bodleain, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Alan Coates |
22 February, 2016 |
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| Cistercian Punctuation |
Nigel F. Palmer, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Nigel Palmer |
22 February, 2016 |
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| The Plaque in the Psalter and the Bindings |
Andrew Honey, Book Conservator (Research and Teaching), University of Oxford, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. |
Andrew Honey |
4 February, 2016 |
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| Masterclass: Medingen Manuscripts - Introduction |
Introduction to the Masterclass by Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford. |
Henrike Lähnemann |
4 February, 2016 |
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| 200 years of fun and games |
Richard Ballam talks about the rich collections of games and pastimes he has recently donated to the Bodleian, the subject of the display Playing with History. |
Richard Ballam |
29 January, 2016 |
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| The Future of Research Libraries |
A talk delivered by Andrew Green at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. |
Andrew Green |
15 September, 2015 |
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| Leadership and Embedding a Culture of Innovation at the University of Manchester |
A talk delivered by Jan Wilkinson at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. |
Jan Wilkinson |
15 September, 2015 |
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| The State of the Archives in the UK and the Challenges Ahead |
A talk delivered by Clem Brohier at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. |
Clem Brohier |
15 September, 2015 |
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| Evidence-Based Decision Making for Collection Management |
A talk delivered by Paul Cavanagh and James Kay at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015. |
Paul Cavanagh, James Kay |
15 September, 2015 |
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| Malone's Chronologizing of Aubrey's Lives (putt in writing... tumultuarily) |
Keynote lecture by Margreta de Grazia, (Emerita Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) for the Marginal Malone conference held in Oxford on June 26th, 2015. |
Margreta de Grazia |
4 August, 2015 |
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| Distinguishing Marks of Genius |
What do geniuses have in common, across the arts and sciences? And how do we distinguish genius from talent? Andrew Robinson, author of Genius: A Very Short Introduction, considers (a little of) the evidence. |
Andrew Robinson |
15 July, 2015 |
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| Pieces of the jigsaw: history through the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera |
A lunchtime lecture by Julie-Anne Lambert accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. |
Julie-Anne Lambert |
10 July, 2015 |
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| The Savile Library |
Lunchtime lecture by Will Poole accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. |
Will Poole |
9 July, 2015 |
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| Painted by numbers: decoding Ferdinand Bauer's Flora Graeca colour code |
Lunchtime lecture by Richard Mulholland accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. |
Richard Mullholland |
9 July, 2015 |
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| Mr Douce steps into the nursery and lingers... |
A lunchtime lecture by Clive Hurst accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. |
Clive Hurst |
9 July, 2015 |
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| Beauty and the Victorians |
'Buying beauty in the Victorian period' Dr Jessica Clark looks at the Victorian beauty industry, and the transition from disapproval of artifice to a celebration of the wonders of cosmetics. |
Jess Clark |
9 July, 2015 |
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| Marks on canvas, stone, wood and paper: the Genius of the Bodleian Portrait Collection |
Dana Josephson gives a talk for the Marks of Genius Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries series. |
Dana Josephson |
8 July, 2015 |
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| Missionaries and Religious Print Culture in Canada |
Bibles and religious literature were an integral part of Canadian society and culture between 1830 and 1900. |
Stuart Barnard |
8 July, 2015 |
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| Writing The Hobbit: a perilous quest |
In this talk Stuart Lee will look at the various texts we may call The Hobbit. Starting with the 1937 edition (on display) he will look at the changes enforced on Tolkien after he had finished The Lord of the Rings and how he coped with these. |
Stuart Lee |
3 June, 2015 |
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| New Sappho and new libraries |
Fourth Lunchtime lecture accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. With Dr Dirk Obbink. |
Dirk Obbink |
19 May, 2015 |
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| Four centuries of Chinese book collecting |
Third Lunchtime lecture accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. With Mr David Helliwell. |
David Helliwell |
19 May, 2015 |
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| The Trade in Printed Books: an ingenious innovation that changed the Western World |
Second in the Marks of Genius series, with Dr Christina Dondi |
Christina Dondi |
19 May, 2015 |
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| Abridging Histories: Capt. James Cook and the Voyages of Reading (1784-) |
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. |
Michael Suarez |
18 May, 2015 |
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| Naming Names: Underwriting Patronage in Tonson's Caesar (1712) |
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. |
Michael Suarez |
18 May, 2015 |
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| Singular Multiples: Comprehending the General Evening Post (1754-86) |
Professor Michael Suarez continues the Lyell Lectures 2015, showing that archival evidence is necessary to understand the history of newspapers |
Michael Suarez |
18 May, 2015 |
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| Proliferating Images: Diagrams of the Slave Ship Brookes (1789) |
Professor Michael Suarez traces the transatlantic journey of a famous image deployed against the slave trade. |
Michael Suarez |
18 May, 2015 |
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| True Colours: A Natural History of Louis Renard's Poissons (1719) |
Professor Michael Suarez continues the Lyell Lectures 2015, asking what role colour plays in bibliographical description? |
Michael Suarez |
18 May, 2015 |
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| Engraved Throughout: Pine's Horace (1733) as a Bibliographical Object |
Professor Michael Suarez gives the first Lyell Lecture of 2015. |
Michael Suarez |
8 May, 2015 |
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| Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences |
Professor Robin Wilson, author of Alice's Adventures in Numberland, gives a talk on the history of studying Mathematics at Oxford, which is as old as the University itself. |
Robin Wilson |
6 May, 2015 |
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| The Lives of Harold Macmillan and Roy Jenkins |
Political biographers D R Thorpe and John Campbell speak about their subjects' careers culminating in the role of Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The discussion was chaired by Lord Patten of Barnes. |
D R Thorpe, John Campbell, Chris Patten |
14 November, 2014 |
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| Conscription and Conscientious Objection |
In this short talk Professor Martin Ceadel, Fellow and Tutor in Politics, New College, Oxford discusses the issue of military conscription and conscientious objection during the first world war. |
Martin Ceadel |
12 November, 2014 |
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| The Problem with Propaganda |
Dr Adrian Gregory, Fellow and Tutor in History, Pembroke College, Oxford discusses the use of propaganda by all sides during the first world war. |
Adrian Gregory |
12 November, 2014 |
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| The Meaning of 1914 |
A conversation between Professor Sir Hew Strachan and Professor Margaret MacMillan, chaired by Professor Patricia Clavin. |
Hew Strachan, Margaret MacMillan, Patricia Clavin |
30 October, 2014 |
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| Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London |
Marie-Claude Felton, Royal Bank of Canada-Bodleian Visiting Scholar, gives a talk for the Bodleian Library BODcasts series |
Marie-Claude Felton |
5 June, 2014 |
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| How to make your own eyeglasses for about one pound: an Oxford technology created to benefit the developing World |
Professor Joshua Silver talks about his invention of the self adjusting spectacles. |
Joshua Silver |
27 March, 2014 |
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| Lord Nuffield's Legacy to Oxford |
Dr Eric Sidebottom, Retired University Lecturer in Experimental Pathology, gives a lunch time talk to accompany the exhibition 'Great Medical Discoveries: 800 Years of Oxford Innovation'. |
Eric Sidebottom |
7 February, 2014 |
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| Oxford Medical Firsts: Celebrating 800 Years of Oxford Medicine. |
Conrad Keating, Writer-In-Residence, The Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, gives a lecture about the remarkable contribution Oxford has made to the art and science of medicine. |
Conrad Keating |
28 November, 2013 |
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| Embodying song in Early Modern England |
Katherine Larson (University of Toronto) gives a talk on music in Early Modern England accompanied by Lutenist Matthew Faulk |
Katherine Larson, Matthew Faulk |
26 November, 2013 |
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| Wolves and Winter: Old Norse Myths and Children's Literature |
Dr Carolyne Larrington, Supernumerary Fellow and Tutor in English, St John's College, gives a talk to accompany the exhibition 'Magical Books: From The Middle Ages to Middle Earth'. |
Carolyne Larrington |
23 October, 2013 |
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| Stoicism and its Legacy |
A lecture given by Dr John Sellars, lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London, about Stoicism to accompany the display at the Bodleian Library. |
John Sellars |
6 June, 2013 |
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| Once and Future Arthurs - Arthurian Literature for Children |
Anna Caughey gives a lecture at the Bodleian Library looking at the varying spectrum of literature about King Arthur written for children. |
Anna Caughey |
6 June, 2013 |
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| Richard Wagner: 200 Today |
Lecturer and conductor Dr Paul Coones delivers a lecture celebrating the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner. The talk is preceded by Siegried's Horn Call played by Sophie Dillon and includes the rarely performed Kinder-Katechismus zu Kosel's Geburtstag. |
Paul Coones |
22 May, 2013 |
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| The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day 2010 |
Judith Priestman, curator of literary manuscripts at the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 Tolkien exhibition, at which a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork for The Hobbit, was on display to the public. |
Judith Priestman |
22 May, 2013 |
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| Dr Lawrence Goldman introduces the commemoration, 'Jim Callaghan Remembered' |
Dr Lawrence Goldman, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, introduces and chairs the seminar to commemorate the centenary of Jim Callaghan's birth. |
Lawrence Goldman |
10 May, 2013 |
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| Andrew Smith MP pays tribute to Jim Callaghan |
Member of Parliament for Oxford East, Andrew Smith gives his view of Jim Callaghan. |
Andrew Smith |
23 April, 2013 |
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| Michael Callaghan remembers his father Jim Callaghan |
Jim Callaghan's son Michael gives a talk about his memories of his fathers political life. |
Michael Callaghan |
23 April, 2013 |
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| Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington remembers her father, Jim Callaghan |
The daughter of Jim Callaghan, Margaret Jay, gives the closing speech for the event. |
Margaret Jay |
23 April, 2013 |
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| Lord Owen remembers Jim Callaghan |
British politician Lord Owen talks about his experiences of Jim Callaghan. |
David Owen |
23 April, 2013 |
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| Lord Morgan remembers Jim Callaghan |
Historian and author Lord Morgan speaks about the Jim Callaghan papers deposited in the Bodleian. |
Kenneth Morgan |
23 April, 2013 |
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| Lord Donoughue remembers Jim Callaghan |
British politician, businessman and author Baron Donoughue of Ashton speaks about his view as special advisor to Jim Callaghan. |
Bernard Donoughue |
23 April, 2013 |
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| Xu Bing: The Kind of Artist I Am |
Chinese Artist Xu Bing gives a talk on the subject of his art and the kind of artist he is. |
Xu Bing |
22 April, 2013 |
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| Marconi and the Broadcasting Option: Annual Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture |
Held on Marconi day, 20th April, Gabriele Balbi (University of Lugano) gives a talk about Marconi, co-inventor of the radio. |
Gabriele Balbi |
22 April, 2013 |
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| Roy Strong talks to Brian Sewell: Self-portrait as a Young Man |
Art critic Brian Sewell talks to Sir Roy Strong as part of the Times Literary Festival 2013. |
Brian Sewell, Roy Strong |
15 April, 2013 |
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| Image Matching on Printed Images in Bodleian Collections |
Giles Bergel and Andrew Zisserman from the Broadside Ballad Connections project demonstrate new image matching software that allows researchers to track images across early forms of printed literature. Visit http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/. |
Giles Bergel, Andrew Zisserman, Relja Arandjelovic |
13 December, 2012 |
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| Dickens' Railways |
Professor Stphen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on Charles Dickens' literature. |
Stephen Gill |
26 October, 2012 |
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| Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored |
Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane Austen, what we can learn from them about her family life but also her writing style and techniques. |
Kathryn Sutherland |
8 June, 2012 |
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| The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising |
Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel 'The Watsons' and what we can learn about her from these. |
Kathryn Sutherland |
8 June, 2012 |
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| Wireless Communications during the Titanic Disaster |
Michael Hughes (Bodleian Libraries) gives a talk about the final wireless communications from the Titanic. |
Michael Hughes |
22 May, 2012 |
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| The Bodleian Library and the Scientific Revolution |
Dr Poole presents the Bodleian and the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution in terms of its contributions to Oxford and to British science in the period. |
William Poole |
8 May, 2012 |
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| Shakespeare and Medieval Romance |
Professor Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge, speaks about the continuities between the Romance of the middle ages and Shakespeare's plays. She looks at textual features from his plays (including King Lear) which may indicate his influences. |
Helen Cooper |
12 April, 2012 |
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| The Birth of Romance in England |
Dr Laura Ashe delivers a lecture on the birth of romance in England in the 12th Century, part of a series of lectures to accompany The Romance of the Middle Ages exhibition at the Bodleian Library. |
Laura Ashe |
23 February, 2012 |
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| The Role of Open Access in Maximising The Impact of Biomedical Research |
Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, gives a lecture on scholarship, publishing and the dissemination of research designed to stimulate debate in Oxford on the issues surrounding changes in scholarly communications. |
Sir Mark Walport |
26 April, 2011 |
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| Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature |
Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie lecture on the subject of books and gives a case study of Henry Lawson, Australian author of Where the Billy Boils. |
Paul Eggert |
9 March, 2011 |
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| Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822. |
Nouran Koriem |
2 December, 2010 |
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| William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after hearing of Shelley's death. |
Hoare Nairne |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the death of John Keats in Rome, and by Shelley's belief that Keats's illness was caused by the hostile notices his work had been given in the Quarterly Review. |
Jordan Saxby |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley worked on 'The Triumph of Life', a dark and visionary poem, while living at the Villa Magni. |
Hoare Nairne |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley presented this light-hearted poem, copied out in his best hand, with the guitar he gave to Jane Williams in 1822. |
Jordan Saxby |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind |
Part of the Shelly's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley's best-known poem was written in Florence in late 1819. |
Christopher Adams |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Ozymandias' is the Greek name for Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for sixty-seven years from 1279 to 1213 BC. |
Christopher Adams |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first notebook was probably purchased in Geneva, the second several months later in England. |
Christopher Adams |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816, aged twenty-one. Her body was recovered from the Serpentine on 10 December, and an inquest into the death of one 'Harriet Smith' was held the following day. |
Hannah Morrell |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the almost universal disapproval of family and friends, and severe money problems. |
Nouran Koriem |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814, accompanied by Mary's step-sister Jane Clairmont. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Using false names, Shelley sent copies of The Necessity of the Atheism to 'men of thought and learning', including bishops and clergymen. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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| William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Godwin's memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft has been called the first modern biography. At the time, however, its frankness and emotional candour provoked general outrage. |
Henry Cockburn |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Even after their marriage Godwin and Wollstonecraft preferred to live independently during the day, and communicate by correspondence. |
Hannah Morrell |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if women were educated in the same way as men they would perform as well. |
Annabell James |
2 December, 2010 |
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| Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places Discussion The Weirdstone of Brisingamen |
Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds and Robert Powell take part in a discussion on the subject of pieces of places, objects and artefacts found and what they mean for writing fiction and for archeology in general. |
Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds, Robert Powell |
21 June, 2010 |
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| Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places - Reading of Alan Garner's Work |
The 50th anniversary of the publication of Alan Garner's first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. A talk examining the importance of place in Alan Garner's work. Robert Powell gives a reading of The Stone Book, from The Stone Book Quartet. |
Robert Powell, Alan Garner |
21 June, 2010 |
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| Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley |
Alan Garner gives an illustrated lecture on the Legend of Alderley. This version of the myth of the Sleeping Hero is rooted to places on Alderley Edge in Cheshire, where Alan Garner grew up. |
Alan Garner |
21 June, 2010 |
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| Pre-1500 Printed Books |
The earliest printers spread from Mainz in Germany where Gutenberg first had his printing house to Venice, Rome, Paris, and the Netherlands. Examples from all of these centres of 15th-century printing are found in Bodleian collections. |
Paul Nash |
5 March, 2010 |
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| BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short) |
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy. |
P. D. James, Colin Dexter |
30 September, 2009 |
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| BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long) |
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy. |
P. D. James, Colin Dexter |
30 September, 2009 |
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| Magna Carta and Wind In The Willows |
A short history of how the Bodleian library stores original copies of the Magna Carta and the original Wind in the Willows letters. |
Bodleian Library |
11 September, 2008 |
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| Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening' |
Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'. |
Bernard O'Donoghue |
30 April, 2008 |
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| The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer' |
Reading from his translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'. |
Greg Delanty |
30 April, 2008 |
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| A poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian) |
An introduction and excerpts from a poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian). |
Andrew Kahn |
30 April, 2008 |
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| Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic |
Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic. |
Mark Williams |
30 April, 2008 |
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| Reading from his poem 'Flood' |
Reading from his poem 'Flood'. |
Paul Abbot |
30 April, 2008 |
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| Reading from his poem 'Muck' |
Reading from his poem 'Muck'. |
Mick Imlah |
30 April, 2008 |
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| Paradise Lost Book One: Milton's ambitions |
Milton's ambitions as a poet. |
Sam Dastor |
29 April, 2008 |
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| Paradise Lost Book Four |
Satan first spies Adam and Eve. |
Sam Dastor |
29 April, 2008 |
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