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The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford is the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. It includes the principal University library - the Bodleian Library - which has been a legal deposit library for 400 years; as well as 28 other libraries across Oxford including major research libraries and faculty, department and institute libraries. Together, the Libraries hold more than 12 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals and outstanding special collections including rare books and manuscripts, classical papyri, maps, music, art and printed ephemera. Members of the public can explore the collections via the Bodleian’s online image portal at digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk or by visiting the exhibition galleries in the Bodleian's Weston Library. For more information, visit www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
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101 | Creative Commons | Dickens' Railways | Professor Stphen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on Charles Dickens' literature. | Stephen Gill | 26 Oct 2012 |
102 | Scritture umanistiche elementari (in Italian) | Teresa De Robertis (Florence), gives a talk for The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. | Teresa De Robertis | 14 Oct 2016 | |
103 | Creative Commons | 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 Jun 2012 |
104 | Hands turned to stone: some unconventional attempts at inscriptional lettering | Marc Smith (Paris), gives a talk for The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. | Marc Smith | 14 Oct 2016 | |
105 | Creative Commons | 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 | 08 Jun 2012 |
106 | Introduction to the unskilled scribe | Irene Ceccherini (Oxford) gives a talk for the unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. | Irene Ceccherini | 14 Oct 2016 | |
107 | Creative Commons | 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 | 08 Jun 2012 |
108 | Elementary cursive handwriting in English and Scottish Charters, 1150-1250 | Teresa Webber (Cambridge), gives a talk in the the unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, held on September 30th 2016. | Teresa Webber | 14 Oct 2016 | |
109 | Creative Commons | 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 |
110 | Elite Folktales: An Exquisite Sixteenth-Century Persian Illustrated Manuscript in the Bodleian Library's Ouseley Collection | A conversation with Dr Nasrin Askari, Bahari Visiting Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book 2016 and Alasdair Watson, Bahari Curator of Persian Collections, Bodleian Library | Nasrin Askari, Alasdair Watson | 02 Aug 2016 | |
111 | Creative Commons | 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 | 08 May 2012 |
112 | Launch of the 15th Century Booktrade | Cristina Dondi and her colleagues launch the 15th Century Booktrade. | Cristina Dondi, Kristian Jensen, Geri Della Rocca de Candal, Simon Walton | 21 Jul 2016 | |
113 | Creative Commons | 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 Apr 2012 |
114 | Brown's landscapes in the twenty-first century | Join the head gardeners of Stowe and Compton Verney to explore the challenges, changes and rewards of protecting and preserving Capability Brown's landscapes in his tercentenary year. | Barry Smith, Gary Webb | 21 Jul 2016 | |
115 | Creative Commons | 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 Feb 2012 |
116 | Life, death and astrology in Shakespeare's England | Lauren Kassell (Reader in the History of Science and Medicine, Cambridge) gives a talk for the Bodleian libraries. | Lauren Kassell | 30 Jun 2016 | |
117 | Creative Commons | 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 Apr 2011 |
118 | Eloquence vault mieulx que force | Vernacular Translations of Plutarch and Political Argument in Renaissance France | Rebecca Kingston | 30 Jun 2016 | |
119 | Creative Commons | 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 | 09 Mar 2011 |
120 | Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and other elegies | Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials. | Emma Smith | 02 Jun 2016 | |
121 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
122 | Venus and Adonis | Professor Katherine Duncan Jones, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, gives a talk on Shakespeare's poem, Venus and Adonis. | Katherine Duncan-Jones | 20 May 2016 | |
123 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
124 | Donne to Death | Peter McCullough, Professor of English, University of Oxford, gives a talk on John Donne. | Peter McCullough | 13 May 2016 | |
125 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
126 | Everyday death in Shakespeare's England | This podcast talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare's day | Steven Gunn | 05 May 2016 | |
127 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
128 | 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 | 03 May 2016 | |
129 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
130 | 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 | 04 Apr 2016 | |
131 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
132 | 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 | 02 Mar 2016 | |
133 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
134 | The Prayer-Book of Abbess Odilia | Abbess Baerbel Goercke, Mariensee, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. | Bärbel Görcke | 22 Feb 2016 | |
135 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
136 | Musical Notation | Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Utrecht University, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. | Ulrike Hascher-Burger | 22 Feb 2016 | |
137 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
138 | The Incunable Traces | Alan Coates, Rare Books Assistant Librarian, Bodleain, delivers a talk for the Medingen Manuscripts Masterclass. | Alan Coates | 22 Feb 2016 | |
139 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
140 | 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 Feb 2016 | |
141 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
142 | 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 | 04 Feb 2016 | |
143 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
144 | Masterclass: Medingen Manuscripts - Introduction | Introduction to the Masterclass by Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford. | Henrike Lähnemann | 04 Feb 2016 | |
145 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
146 | 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 Jan 2016 | |
147 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
148 | Creative Commons | 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 Sep 2015 |
149 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
150 | Creative Commons | 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 Sep 2015 |
151 | Creative Commons | 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 | 02 Dec 2010 |
152 | 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 Sep 2015 | |
153 | Creative Commons | 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 Jun 2010 |
154 | Creative Commons | 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 Sep 2015 |
155 | Creative Commons | 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 Jun 2010 |
156 | 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 | 04 Aug 2015 | |
157 | Creative Commons | 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 Jun 2010 |
158 | 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 Jul 2015 | |
159 | 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 | 05 Mar 2010 | |
160 | 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 Jul 2015 | |
161 | 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 Sep 2009 | |
162 | The Savile Library | Lunchtime lecture by Will Poole accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. | Will Poole | 09 Jul 2015 | |
163 | 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 Sep 2009 | |
164 | 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 Sep 2008 | |
165 | Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening' | Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'. | Bernard O'Donoghue | 30 Apr 2008 | |
166 | The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer' | Reading from his translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'. | Greg Delanty | 30 Apr 2008 | |
167 | A poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian) | An introduction and excerpts from a poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian). | Andrew Kahn | 30 Apr 2008 | |
168 | Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic | Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic. | Mark Williams | 30 Apr 2008 | |
169 | Reading from his poem 'Flood' | Reading from his poem 'Flood'. | Paul Abbot | 30 Apr 2008 | |
170 | Reading from his poem 'Muck' | Reading from his poem 'Muck'. | Mick Imlah | 30 Apr 2008 | |
171 | The origins of 'Archipelago' | The origins of 'Archipelago'. | Andrew McNeillie | 29 Apr 2008 | |
172 | Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening | Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening. | Chris Fletcher | 29 Apr 2008 | |
173 | Seamus Heaney reading two contributions | Two contributions to the first issue of "Archipelago". | Seamus Heaney | 29 Apr 2008 | |
174 | Paradise Lost Book One: Milton's ambitions | Milton’s ambitions as a poet. | Sam Dastor | 29 Apr 2008 | |
175 | Paradise Lost Book Four | Satan first spies Adam and Eve. | Sam Dastor | 29 Apr 2008 | |
176 | Paradise Lost Book One: Satan's first speech | Satan’s first speech. | Sam Dastor | 29 Apr 2008 | |
177 | Samson Agonistes | The Biblical hero Samson bewailing his political and personal state. | Sam Dastor | 29 Apr 2008 | |
178 | Aeropagitica | Milton’s defense of the freedom of the press written to Parliament. | Sam Dastor | 29 Apr 2008 |
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