Hand-press printing |
A demonstration of and discussion about hand-press printing with the Bodleian's Dr Paul Nash. |
Paul Nash, Adam Smyth |
25 September, 2014 |
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Love and Math |
A public lecture given by Edward Frenkel, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, talking around his best-selling book "Love and Math" followed by a conversation with Marcus du Sautoy and Q&A. |
Edward Frenkel, Marcus du Sautoy |
12 July, 2014 |
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Scribal correction and literary craft: English manuscripts 1375-1510 |
Adam Smyth talks to Professor Daniel Wakelin about his new book on cultures of correction in later medieval manuscripts. |
Daniel Wakelin, Adam Smyth |
8 July, 2014 |
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'Almost Identical': Copying Books in England, 1600-1900 |
Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the history of facsimiles. |
Henry Woudhuysen, Adam Smyth |
19 June, 2014 |
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Pax Canadiana: Canada, the Commonwealth, and the End of Empire |
Dr McKercher is Royal Bank of Canada Visiting Scholar at the Bodleian Library. His research explores Canadian reactions to the demise of the British imperial order, looking at Canadian foreign relations beyond the North Atlantic. |
Asa McKercher, Richard Ovenden, Margaret MacMillan |
13 June, 2014 |
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Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London |
Marie-Claude Felton, a Royal Bank of Canada-Bodleian Visiting Scholar in 2013-14, describes her research on the legal and business history of self-publishing in the eighteenth century. |
Marie-Claude Felton |
5 June, 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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Ether and Wireless: an Old Medium into New Media |
Jaume Navarro (Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, 2013) talks about the influence of the idea of the 'ether', an all-pervading substance, in the history of wireless communication. |
Jaume Navarro, Guglielmo Marconi |
15 May, 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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The History of Oxford University Press |
Adam Smyth is joined by Professor Ian Gadd to discuss his just-published collection on the history of OUP. |
Adam Smyth, Ian Gadd |
17 March, 2014 |
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Bibliography in Bits |
Adam Smyth talks to Professor Will Noel about the potentials of digital technology for the study of manuscripts. |
Will Noel, Adam Smyth |
23 February, 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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Early modern plays in bits and pieces |
Professor Tiffany Stern joins Dr Adam Smyth to discuss her current research on the materiality of the early modern play text. What happens to our thinking about plays when prologues, epilogues and songs become mobile pieces, detached from the whole? |
Tiffany Stern, Adam Smyth |
3 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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Love and Sex in Victorian Fiction |
Victorian fiction is commonly thought of as treating love sentimentally and lacking all reference to sex. In this talk drawing on material from a book he is writing, Dr David Grylls, Fellow of Kellogg College, will contest such a view. |
David Grylls |
4 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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Audiotour 19: Conclusions |
Part nineteen of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 18: Carving part two |
Part eighteen of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 17: Carving part one |
Part seventeen of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 16: Ceiling |
Part sixteen of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 15: Fireplace |
Part fifteen of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 14: Mural 10 |
Part fourteen of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 13: Mural 9 |
Part thirteen of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 12: Mural 8 |
Part twelve of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 11: Mural 7 |
Part eleven of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 10: Mural 6 |
Part ten of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 09: Mural 5 |
Part nine of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 08: Mural 4 |
Part eight of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 07: Mural 3 |
Part seven of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 06: Mural 2 |
Part six of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 05: Mural 1 |
Part five of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 04: Looking at Each Mural |
Part four of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 03: Deterioration and Restoration |
Part three of the Oxford Union Library Tour. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 02: History of the Murals |
Part two of the Oxford Union Library. |
Olivia Cross |
2 May, 2013 |
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Audiotour 01: Introduction |
Part one of the tour of the Oxford Union Library. |
Olivia Cross |
2 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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The Romance of the Middle Ages |
Dr Nicholas Perkins talks about how romance functions as a genre in the middle ages, especially about how gifts and tokens were exchanged as signs of fidelity, specifically in Sir Orfeo, Sir Gawain, and King Horn. |
Nicholas Perkins |
21 June, 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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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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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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Conclusion to Crossing Borders |
The conclusion to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May, 2010 |
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Sciences |
Piet looks at how the works of famous ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid or Ptolemy traveled from culture to culture and formed the basis of Muslim, Christian and Jewish science and philosophy alike. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May, 2010 |
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User-produced Hebrew Prayer Books and Shared Iconography |
Some Hebrew manuscripts were produced in Christian workshops, others were made by Jewish artists themselves for their own use. Piet looks at examples of these and explores the shared iconography between Christian and Jewish faiths, such as the unicorn. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May, 2010 |
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Hebrew Prayer Books for Public Use |
Piet looks at the three great Bodleian mahzorim (large and elaborately decorated prayer books for the festivals), which were illuminated by Christian painters in collaboration with and under the supervision of Jewish scribes. |
Piet van Boxel |
10 May, 2010 |
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