Bodleian Libraries

The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford form the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. They include the principal University library-the Bodleian Library-which has been a library of legal deposit for 400 years; major research libraries; and libraries attached to faculties, departments and other institutions of the University. The combined library collections number more than 11 million printed items, in addition to 30,000 e-journals and vast quantities of materials in other formats. The Old Bodleian is also a major visitor attraction, drawing over 300,000 visitors a year. More information about the Bodleian Libraries and their activities can be found at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

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Title	Description	People	Date
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.	Hannah Morrell	2 December, 2010
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.	Hannah Morrell	2 December, 2010
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.	Nouran Koriem	2 December, 2010
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.	Nouran Koriem	2 December, 2010
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.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
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.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
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.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
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.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
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.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
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.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
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.	Hannah Morrell	2 December, 2010
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.	Hannah Morrell	2 December, 2010
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.	Annabell James	2 December, 2010
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.	Annabell James	2 December, 2010
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.	Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds, Robert Powell	21 June, 2010
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.	Robert Powell, Alan Garner	21 June, 2010
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.	Alan Garner	21 June, 2010
Conclusion to Crossing Borders	The conclusion to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
Sciences	Piet looks at how the works of famous ancient thinkers such as Aristotle, Hippocrates, Euclid or Ptolemy traveled from culture to culture and formed the basis of Muslim, Christian and Jewish science and philosophy alike.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
User-produced Hebrew Prayer Books and Shared Iconography	Some Hebrew manuscripts were produced in Christian workshops, others were made by Jewish artists themselves for their own use. Piet looks at examples of these and explores the shared iconography between Christian and Jewish faiths, such as the unicorn.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
Hebrew Prayer Books for Public Use	Piet looks at the three great Bodleian mahzorim (large and elaborately decorated prayer books for the festivals), which were illuminated by Christian painters in collaboration with and under the supervision of Jewish scribes.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
Arabic Art Forms in Spanish Book Production	Piet explains Arabic design and illustration in Spanish books, looking in particular at the Kennicott Bible, produced in La Coruna, Spain, in 1476.	Piet van Boxel	10 May, 2010
From Roll to Codex	Piet explains codices, the oldest manuscripts in book form, looking in particular at a fragment of the Hebrew text of the book of Ecclesiasticus (ch. 40) from the Cairo Genizah, and the four Gospels in Syriac.	Piet van Boxel	6 May, 2010
Introduction to Crossing Borders	An introduction to the Crossing Borders exhibition. The exhibition tells the story of how Jews, Christians and Muslims have contributed to the development of the book.	Piet van Boxel	6 May, 2010
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.	Paul Nash	5 March, 2010
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.	P. D. James, Colin Dexter	30 September, 2009
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.	P. D. James, Colin Dexter	30 September, 2009
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.	Bodleian Library	11 September, 2008
Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'	Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'.	Bernard O'Donoghue	30 April, 2008
The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'	Reading from his translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'.	Greg Delanty	30 April, 2008
A poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian)	An introduction and excerpts from a poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian).	Andrew Kahn	30 April, 2008
Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic	Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic.	Mark Williams	30 April, 2008
Reading from his poem 'Flood'	Reading from his poem 'Flood'.	Paul Abbot	30 April, 2008
Reading from his poem 'Muck'	Reading from his poem 'Muck'.	Mick Imlah	30 April, 2008
Paradise Lost Book One: Milton's ambitions	Milton's ambitions as a poet.	Sam Dastor	29 April, 2008
Paradise Lost Book Four	Satan first spies Adam and Eve.	Sam Dastor	29 April, 2008
Paradise Lost Book One: Satan's first speech	Satan's first speech.	Sam Dastor	29 April, 2008
Samson Agonistes	The Biblical hero Samson bewailing his political and personal state.	Sam Dastor	29 April, 2008
Aeropagitica	Milton's defense of the freedom of the press written to Parliament.	Sam Dastor	29 April, 2008
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.	Richard Sharpe	29 April, 2008
The origins of 'Archipelago'	The origins of 'Archipelago'.	Andrew McNeillie	29 April, 2008
Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening	Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening.	Chris Fletcher	29 April, 2008
Seamus Heaney reading two contributions	Two contributions to the first issue of "Archipelago".	Seamus Heaney	29 April, 2008
Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk	Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk	Philip Pullman	29 April, 2008
The Creation as told in the Qu'ran	World Book Day 2008 Talk.	Professor Yahya Michot	29 April, 2008
The Creation as told in the Bible	World Book Day 2008 Talk.	Alister McGrath	29 April, 2008
The Creation as told in the Torah	World Book Day 2008 Talk.	Norman Solomon	29 April, 2008

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