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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) — 121 episodes
We Rise (Together): Taking and Making Space for BIPOC Book Arts Creatives, Cultures, and Histories
The Dancing Master in Context: Playford’s publishing and music-making in 17th century England
A dance band for Playford?
Persian lacquered bookbinding: A journey through its layers and conservation challenges
Body of evidence
Reynard the Fox
Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries
The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum
Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age
Researching the Impeachment and Trial of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford
A life in politics: Lord Heseltine in conversation with Lord Hennessy
Research business and the shortwave beam: Marconi and the uses of wireless in postwar years
Marconi's early Latin projects over the South-Atlantic
Performing Shakespeare: then and now
Shakespeare and the Victorians
Modelos cursivos y aprendizaje de la escritura en la Corona de Castilla en el siglo XV (in Spanish)
Scritture umanistiche elementari (in Italian)
Hands turned to stone: some unconventional attempts at inscriptional lettering
Introduction to the unskilled scribe
Elementary cursive handwriting in English and Scottish Charters, 1150-1250
Life, death and astrology in Shakespeare's England
Donne to Death
Everyday death in Shakespeare's England
The Magic of Shakespeare
Books for mind and community in 12th-century Oxford and Cirencester
1594: Shakespeare's most important year
200 years of fun and games
Malone's Chronologizing of Aubrey's Lives (putt in writing... tumultuarily)
Distinguishing Marks of Genius
Pieces of the jigsaw: history through the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
The Savile Library
Painted by numbers: decoding Ferdinand Bauer's Flora Graeca colour code
Mr Douce steps into the nursery and lingers...
Beauty and the Victorians
Writing The Hobbit: a perilous quest
New Sappho and new libraries
Four centuries of Chinese book collecting
The Trade in Printed Books: an ingenious innovation that changed the Western World
Abridging Histories: Capt. James Cook and the Voyages of Reading (1784-)
Naming Names: Underwriting Patronage in Tonson's Caesar (1712)
Singular Multiples: Comprehending the General Evening Post (1754-86)
Proliferating Images: Diagrams of the Slave Ship Brookes (1789)
True Colours: A Natural History of Louis Renard's Poissons (1719)
Engraved Throughout: Pine's Horace (1733) as a Bibliographical Object
Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences
The Lives of Harold Macmillan and Roy Jenkins
Conscription and Conscientious Objection
The Problem with Propaganda
The Meaning of 1914
Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London
How to make your own eyeglasses for about one pound: an Oxford technology created to benefit the developing World
Lord Nuffield's Legacy to Oxford
Oxford Medical Firsts: Celebrating 800 Years of Oxford Medicine.
Embodying song in Early Modern England
Wolves and Winter: Old Norse Myths and Children's Literature
Stoicism and its Legacy
Once and Future Arthurs - Arthurian Literature for Children
Richard Wagner: 200 Today
The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day 2010
Dr Lawrence Goldman introduces the commemoration, 'Jim Callaghan Remembered'
Andrew Smith MP pays tribute to Jim Callaghan
Michael Callaghan remembers his father Jim Callaghan
Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington remembers her father, Jim Callaghan
Lord Owen remembers Jim Callaghan
Lord Morgan remembers Jim Callaghan
Lord Donoughue remembers Jim Callaghan
Xu Bing: The Kind of Artist I Am
Marconi and the Broadcasting Option: Annual Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture
Roy Strong talks to Brian Sewell: Self-portrait as a Young Man
Image Matching on Printed Images in Bodleian Collections
Dickens' Railways
Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored
The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising
Wireless Communications during the Titanic Disaster
The Bodleian Library and the Scientific Revolution
Shakespeare and Medieval Romance
The Birth of Romance in England
The Role of Open Access in Maximising The Impact of Biomedical Research
Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature
Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow
William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life'
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane'
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias'
Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein
Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents
Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin
William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places Discussion The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places - Reading of Alan Garner's Work
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley
Pre-1500 Printed Books
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short)
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long)
Magna Carta and Wind In The Willows
Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'
The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'
A poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian)
Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic
Reading from his poem 'Flood'
Reading from his poem 'Muck'
Paradise Lost Book One: Milton's ambitions
Paradise Lost Book Four
Paradise Lost Book One: Satan's first speech
Samson Agonistes
Aeropagitica
Magna Carta at Oxford
The origins of 'Archipelago'
Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening
Seamus Heaney reading two contributions
Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk
The Creation as told in the Qu'ran
The Creation as told in the Bible
The Creation as told in the Torah