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| 191 | 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 | |
| 190 | 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 Apr 2022 | |
| 189 | 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 Apr 2022 | |
| 188 | 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 | 05 Apr 2022 | |
| 187 | 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 | 04 Feb 2022 | |
| 186 | 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 Dec 2021 | |
| 185 | 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 | 08 Nov 2021 | |
| 184 | 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 Oct 2021 | |
| 183 | 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 Sep 2021 | |
| 182 | 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 Aug 2021 | |
| 181 | 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 | 17 Jun 2021 | |
| 180 | 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 | |
| 179 | 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 Mar 2021 | |
| 178 | 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 Mar 2021 | |
| 177 | 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 | |
| 176 | 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 | |
| 175 | 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 | |
| 174 | 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 |
| 173 | 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 | |
| 172 | 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 |
| 171 | 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 | |
| 170 | 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 | |
| 169 | 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 | |
| 168 | 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 |
| 167 | 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 |
| 166 | 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 |
| 165 | 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 | |
| 164 | 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 | |
| 163 | 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 | |
| 162 | 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 | |
| 161 | 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 | |
| 160 | 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 | |
| 159 | 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 | |
| 158 | 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 | |
| 157 | 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 | |
| 156 | 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 | |
| 155 | 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 |
| 154 | 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 | |
| 153 | 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 | |
| 152 | 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 | |
| 151 | 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 | |
| 150 | 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 |
| 149 | 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 | |
| 148 | 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 | |
| 147 | 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 | |
| 146 | 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 | |
| 145 | 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 | |
| 144 | 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 | |
| 143 | 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 Sep 2018 | |
| 142 | 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 Jun 2018 | |
| 141 | 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 | 09 Jul 2015 | |
| 140 | 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 | 09 Jul 2015 | |
| 139 | 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 | 09 Jul 2015 | |
| 138 | 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 | 08 Jul 2015 | |
| 137 | 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 | 08 Jul 2015 | |
| 136 | Creative Commons | 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 | 03 Jun 2015 |
| 135 | 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 | |
| 134 | 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 | |
| 133 | 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 | |
| 132 | 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 | |
| 131 | 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 | |
| 130 | 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 | |
| 129 | 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 | |
| 128 | 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 | |
| 127 | Engraved Throughout: Pine's Horace (1733) as a Bibliographical Object | Professor Michael Suarez gives the first Lyell Lecture of 2015. | Michael Suarez | 08 May 2015 | |
| 126 | Creative Commons | 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 | 06 May 2015 |
| 125 | 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 Nov 2014 | |
| 124 | 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 Nov 2014 | |
| 123 | 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 Nov 2014 | |
| 122 | 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 Oct 2014 | |
| 121 | Creative Commons | 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 | 05 Jun 2014 |
| 120 | Creative Commons | 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 Mar 2014 |
| 119 | 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 | 07 Feb 2014 | |
| 118 | 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 Nov 2013 | |
| 117 | Creative Commons | 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 Nov 2013 |
| 116 | Magna Carta at Oxford | Richard Sharpe explains that the seventeen surviving manuscripts on the Magna Carta are engrossments, not copies: official documents from Royal Chancery bearing the ruler's seal. Prof. Sharpe also reveals why so many examples of the Magna Carta survive. | Richard Sharpe | 29 Apr 2008 | |
| 115 | Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk | Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk | Philip Pullman | 29 Apr 2008 | |
| 114 | The Creation as told in the Qu'ran | World Book Day 2008 Talk. | Professor Yahya Michot | 29 Apr 2008 | |
| 113 | The Creation as told in the Bible | World Book Day 2008 Talk. | Alister McGrath | 29 Apr 2008 | |
| 112 | The Creation as told in the Torah | World Book Day 2008 Talk. | Norman Solomon | 29 Apr 2008 | |
| 111 | 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 Jun 2018 | |
| 110 | Creative Commons | 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 Oct 2013 |
| 109 | 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 Jun 2018 | |
| 108 | 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 Jun 2018 | |
| 107 | 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 | 06 Jun 2013 | |
| 106 | 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 Jun 2018 | |
| 105 | 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 | 06 Jun 2013 | |
| 104 | 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 Mar 2018 | |
| 103 | Creative Commons | 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 |
| 102 | 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 Dec 2017 | |
| 101 | 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 | |
| 100 | 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 | 08 Dec 2017 | |
| 99 | 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 | |
| 98 | 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 | 08 Dec 2017 | |
| 97 | 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 Apr 2013 | |
| 96 | 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 Nov 2017 | |
| 95 | 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 Apr 2013 | |
| 94 | 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 Sep 2017 | |
| 93 | 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 Apr 2013 | |
| 92 | 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 Sep 2017 |
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