The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
By Oxford University
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Description
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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We Rise (Together): Taking and Making Space for BIPOC Book Arts Creatives, Cultures, and Histories | Tia Blassingame introduced her work leading the Book/Print Artist/Scholar of Color Collective (aka Book/Print Collective) and shared methods for supporting and empowering BIPOC book and print artists | 13 2 2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Dancing Master in Context: Playford’s publishing and music-making in 17th century England | In this session, we explore what Playford’s publishing activities can tell us about how music was incorporated into different social environments in seventeenth-century English society and the role music played in peoples lives. | 30 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A dance band for Playford? | This talk will consider how and why the frontispiece to this edition was different from those in earlier editions and place the image in relation to other images of ballroom dance bands before and after 1728. | 2 11 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Persian lacquered bookbinding: A journey through its layers and conservation challenges | Conservation Scientist Prof. Dr. Mandana Barkeshli looks at lacquered bookbindings made by Persian artisans in the 16th to 19th centuries. | 17 7 2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 17 8 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 | 8 12 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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-treasu | 7 6 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 16 11 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 8 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 | 10 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A life in politics: Lord Heseltine in conversation with Lord Hennessy | Michael Heseltine discusses his political career with Peter Hennessy. | 21 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Research business and the shortwave beam: Marconi and the uses of wireless in postwar years | Giovanni Paoloni discusses the influence of the development of the shortwave beam technology on Marconi and the Marconi Company | 3 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marconi's early Latin projects over the South-Atlantic | Ines Queiroz explores how technical constraints have shaped strategies for wireless networks development | 3 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Performing Shakespeare: then and now | Jonathan Lloyd and Tiffany Stern, discuss performing Shakespeare in the past and now | 2 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shakespeare and the Victorians | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare Oxford 2016 series. | 19 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Modelos cursivos y aprendizaje de la escritura en la Corona de Castilla en el siglo XV (in Spanish) | Carmen del Camino (Seville), gives a talk The unskilled scribe: Elementary hands and their place in the history of handwriting, a seminar held on 30th September 2016. | 14 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 14 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 14 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 14 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 14 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 30 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Donne to Death | Peter McCullough, Professor of English, University of Oxford, gives a talk on John Donne. | 13 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Everyday death in Shakespeare's England | This podcast talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare's day | 5 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 3 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 4 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 29 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 4 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 15 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 10 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 9 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 9 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 9 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 9 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 3 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 19 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 19 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 | 19 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 18 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 18 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 | 18 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 18 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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? | 18 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Engraved Throughout: Pine's Horace (1733) as a Bibliographical Object | Professor Michael Suarez gives the first Lyell Lecture of 2015. | 8 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 6 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 14 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 12 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 12 11 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Meaning of 1914 | A conversation between Professor Sir Hew Strachan and Professor Margaret MacMillan, chaired by Professor Patricia Clavin. | 30 10 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 | 5 6 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 27 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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'. | 7 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 28 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 | 26 11 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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'. | 23 10 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 6 6 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 6 6 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 22 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 22 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 10 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 23 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 23 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 23 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lord Owen remembers Jim Callaghan | British politician Lord Owen talks about his experiences of Jim Callaghan. | 23 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lord Morgan remembers Jim Callaghan | Historian and author Lord Morgan speaks about the Jim Callaghan papers deposited in the Bodleian. | 23 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 23 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 22 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 22 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 15 4 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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/. | 13 12 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dickens' Railways | Professor Stphen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on Charles Dickens' literature. | 26 10 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 8 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 8 6 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 22 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 8 5 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 12 4 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 23 2 2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 26 4 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 9 3 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 2 12 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 21 6 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 21 6 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 21 6 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 5 3 2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 | 30 9 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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 | 30 9 2009 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 11 9 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening' | Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'. | 30 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer' | Reading from his translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'. | 30 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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). | 30 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic | Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic. | 30 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reading from his poem 'Flood' | Reading from his poem 'Flood'. | 30 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reading from his poem 'Muck' | Reading from his poem 'Muck'. | 30 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paradise Lost Book One: Milton's ambitions | Milton's ambitions as a poet. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paradise Lost Book Four | Satan first spies Adam and Eve. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paradise Lost Book One: Satan's first speech | Satan's first speech. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Samson Agonistes | The Biblical hero Samson bewailing his political and personal state. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Aeropagitica | Milton's defense of the freedom of the press written to Parliament. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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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. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The origins of 'Archipelago' | The origins of 'Archipelago'. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening | Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Seamus Heaney reading two contributions | Two contributions to the first issue of "Archipelago". | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk | Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Creation as told in the Qu'ran | World Book Day 2008 Talk. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Creation as told in the Bible | World Book Day 2008 Talk. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Creation as told in the Torah | World Book Day 2008 Talk. | 29 4 2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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