The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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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- The Dancing Master in Context: Playford’s publishing and music-making in 17th century England 30.11.2023
- A dance band for Playford? 02.11.2023
- Persian lacquered bookbinding: A journey through its layers and conservation challenges 17.07.2023
- Body of evidence 17.08.2021
- Reynard the Fox 09.12.2020
- Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries 08.06.2020
- The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum 16.11.2018
- Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age 08.12.2017
- Researching the Impeachment and Trial of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford 10.11.2017
- A life in politics: Lord Heseltine in conversation with Lord Hennessy 21.03.2017
- Research business and the shortwave beam: Marconi and the uses of wireless in postwar years 03.11.2016
- Marconi's early Latin projects over the South-Atlantic 03.11.2016
- Performing Shakespeare: then and now 02.11.2016
- Shakespeare and the Victorians 19.10.2016
- Modelos cursivos y aprendizaje de la escritura en la Corona de Castilla en el siglo XV (in Spanish) 14.10.2016
- Scritture umanistiche elementari (in Italian) 14.10.2016
- Hands turned to stone: some unconventional attempts at inscriptional lettering 14.10.2016
- Introduction to the unskilled scribe 14.10.2016
- Elementary cursive handwriting in English and Scottish Charters, 1150-1250 14.10.2016
- Life, death and astrology in Shakespeare's England 30.06.2016
