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ARCHiOX - Seeing the Unseen in Oxford University Collections

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Reading in the Woods - Dating the Undatable: from blocks to prints

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Reading in the Woods - First Impressions: Woodblocks used for printing

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Reading in the Woods - Conserving the Wooden Library

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Modernist Photobooks, Propaganda and the Everyday

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Exploring Chaucer Here and Now

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'The hooly blisful martir for to seke' Manuscripts with Chaucer’s pilgrims

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We Rise (Together): Taking and Making Space for BIPOC Book Arts Creatives, Cultures, and Histories

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The Dancing Master in Context: Playford’s publishing and music-making in 17th century England

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A dance band for Playford?

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Persian lacquered bookbinding: A journey through its layers and conservation challenges

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Analysis of Pigments on Painted Byzantine and Japanese Manuscripts

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Daniel Meadows - 50 years of The Free Photographic Omnibus

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Queer Bibliography: A Discussion

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The New Nature of the Book: Publishing and Printing in the Post-Digital Era

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What is Photography For?

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Making wood type then and now

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Modern Times: Photography in Britain 1800–1850

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ARCHiOX - Seeing the Unseen in Bodleian Collections

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Unveiling the invisible belt: the shareholders of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, 1897–1901

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Making machines: Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace

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Meet the pigments: the art and science of early English decoration

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North Sea Crossings: inside the exhibition

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Meet the Manuscripts: the Renaissance reform of the book

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Meet the Maps: Unconventional Views of Oxford

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MS Ashmole 1504

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Meet the Manuscripts: Correcting Christmas Carols

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Meet the Manuscripts: Uncomfortable English Manuscripts

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Meet the Manuscripts: Meet the Fragments

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Roots to Seeds: the evolution of plant science

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Body of evidence

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Singing together; apart: drama and medieval chant

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Meet the Manuscripts: hidden treasures of medieval illumination

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Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop for Candlemas

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Meet the Manuscripts: judging a book by its cover

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Singing Together; Apart: Gregorian Chant Workshop – Song of Simeon

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Reynard the Fox

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Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries

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Trinity: A Real Life Spy Story

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Pieces of Gold: Piecing together a mutilated Timurid masterpiece

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Accumulating narrative: Meaning and mutation in letterpress printing

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Islamic manuscripts and bindings as a window on East-West relations

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2020 Colin Ford Lecture

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Defying Hitler: The White Rose Resistance Group

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Leonardo's thoughts on mechanics and useful inventions

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Particles in space

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Getting to the heart of cardiac disease: a multi-disciplinary effort to image the heart in 3D

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Plans and elevation: the development of architectural drawings

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Parallel lines down the centuries

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Decay and closure of libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (6)

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Growth, competition, stability, loss, renewal - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (5)

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Turnover in libraries - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (4)

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Library books and personal books - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (3)

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English medieval library catalogues - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (2)

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Medieval libraries of Great Britain - The Lyell Lectures 2019 (1)

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The conservation of Japanese collections at Bodleian Libraries

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Thinking 3D: Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture

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Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books

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Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries

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Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth

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Royal Bank of Canada Foundation Lecture: Reading French in 15th-century England

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Marconi lecture 2018: Imperial Wave: how empire shaped the network of wireless in South Asia at the turn of the twentieth century

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The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum

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Old Norse

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Old English

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Gothic

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Medieval Welsh

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Middle English

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Why Read Frankenstein in 2018?

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Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues

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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Cultures of collecting in the 17th century'

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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for the common man'

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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Women and books in the 17th century'

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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for use and books for show'

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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Setting the scene: Trends and patterns'

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What happened to wireless?

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Printing a Line at the Bodleian Weston Library Printing Press

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Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age

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Researching the Impeachment and Trial of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford

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Tanakh and textuality

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Marconi and media history

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A life in politics: Lord Heseltine in conversation with Lord Hennessy

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Rumi: his life, work, and poetry

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Research business and the shortwave beam: Marconi and the uses of wireless in postwar years

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Marconi's early Latin projects over the South-Atlantic

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Performing Shakespeare: then and now

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Shakespeare and the Victorians

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Modelos cursivos y aprendizaje de la escritura en la Corona de Castilla en el siglo XV (in Spanish)

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Scritture umanistiche elementari (in Italian)

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Hands turned to stone: some unconventional attempts at inscriptional lettering

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Introduction to the unskilled scribe

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Elementary cursive handwriting in English and Scottish Charters, 1150-1250

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Elite Folktales: An Exquisite Sixteenth-Century Persian Illustrated Manuscript in the Bodleian Library's Ouseley Collection

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Launch of the 15th Century Booktrade

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Brown's landscapes in the twenty-first century

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Life, death and astrology in Shakespeare's England

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Eloquence vault mieulx que force

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Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and other elegies

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Venus and Adonis

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Donne to Death