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People's Landscapes: Contested Landscapes

A roundtable discussion of the history of land access and ownership, exploring how this has both physically and politically shaped our land and our access to it.

Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture - Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism

Dan Edelstein from Stanford University gives the Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture, the convenor is Avi Lifschitz, Magdalen College.

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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

Professor Richard Sharpe, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2018-2019, gives the first of the 2019 Lyell lecture series. Part of the lecture series; Libraries and books in medieval England: the role of libraries in a changing book economy.

How and why did a large majority of Jews survive the Holocaust in France?

Professor Jacques Semelin (Sciences Po, Paris) presents a multifactorial analysis which can explain the survival of Jews in occupied France, without forgetting the dead. Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College, Oxford) chairs.

Medingen Manuscripts

For the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony).

Second part of the masterclass: The Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian

Masterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen.

Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian

A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen.

The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture - Central European philosophy and the search for truth in dark times

The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture was given by Marci Shore, associate professor of history at Yale University.

15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database

Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019.

Women Making History: The Leaders of Today – roundtable discussion chaired by Victoria Tandy, Co-Founder of the Women Leaders in Museums Network

‘Women Making History: The Leaders of Today’ is a roundtable session exploring the presence of women in senior roles in heritage organisations, at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019.

Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust – keynote by Hilary McGrady, Director-General, National Trust

‘Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust’ is the keynote by McGrady, Director-General, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019.

Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves – keynote by Melissa Benn, Writer and Campaigner

'Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves’ is the keynote by the writer and campaigner Melissa Benn at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019.

Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – keynote by Annie Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust

'Women and Power: Redressing the Balance' is the opening keynote by Anne Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019.

Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience

Sandra Mayer, author of Oscar Wilde in Vienna, argues it was his willingness to both please and tease his audience. His plays skilfully manoeuvre between conformism and subversion, conventionality and innovation.

Singing in the Age of Anxiety

Laura will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes; Dr Benjamin Walton (Jesus, Cambridge), Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Philip R. Bullock (Wadham, Oxford).

North Korea and The Bomb: A National Mission

Why did North Korea nuclearize? Are we on the cusp of nuclear war with North Korea? Join us in the first episode of Alliance as we talk to Historian Cheehyung Harrison Kim about North Korea, nuclear weapons and existential risk.

Scottish and British Authors Published Abroad 1470-1700

Jane Stevenson, Senior research Fellow, Campion Hall, Oxford, gives a talk fo the History of the Book seminar series on 1st February 2019.

Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne

Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019.

Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth

A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi.

Lincoln Leads in History 2018

Lincoln Leads seminar in History.

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