The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare Oxford 2016 series. When... Read more

Professor Michael Suarez gives the first Lyell Lecture of 2015.

'Buying beauty in the Victorian period' Dr Jessica Clark looks at the Victorian beauty industry, and the transition from... Read more

Chinese Artist Xu Bing gives a talk on the subject of his art and the kind of artist he is.

Two contributions to the first issue of "Archipelago".

A short history of how the Bodleian library stores original copies of the Magna Carta and the original Wind in the Willo... Read more

World Book Day 2008 Talk.

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Using false names, Shelley sent copies of The Necessity of the Atheism to 'men o... Read more

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the almost universal disapproval... Read more

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814, accompanied by Mary's step-s... Read more

Alan Garner gives an illustrated lecture on the Legend of Alderley. This version of the myth of the Sleeping Hero is roo... Read more

Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic.

Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds and Robert Powell take part in a discussion on the subject of pieces of places, objects and ar... Read more

Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk

The 50th anniversary of the publication of Alan Garner's first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. A talk examining t... Read more

Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if women were educated i... Read more

Professor Michael Suarez, in the Lyell Lectures 2015, urges scholars to remember the books that most readers encountered... Read more