Events

Reconstructing a remarkable 17th-century garden from John Aubrey's drawing of the Deepdene, Dorking

Sarah Couch (Architect, RIBA, and Visiting Lecturer, University of Bath)

Tuesday 7 February 2012 at 1pm, Convocation House, Bodleian Library, Oxford

Sarah Couch, architect and historic landscape specialist, will show how careful examination of Aubrey's drawing, now held in the Bodleian, reveals that much of Charles Howard's terraced Italian garden laid out in the mid-seventeenth century still survives. Sarah began her research into the Deepdene in 1992 and has produced historic landscape survey and management plans for the site, now the subject of a bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Admission to lecture free.  All welcome.

Wine and sandwiches will be served in Chancellor's Court after the lecture at a cost of £7 per person, for which bookings should be made and paid for in advance with the Administrator.

 

RSVP: The Administrator, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG.  Tel: 01865 277234, Email: fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Signs of life at the Bodleian: genealogical diagrams in Bodleian collections

Dr Giles Bergel (Tutorial Fellow, Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford) 

Tuesday 28 February 2012 at 1pm, Convocation House, Bodleian Library, Oxford

The Bodleian Library holds extensive collections of genealogical materials in manuscript, print and other media.  The holdings date from the earliest written records to more recent times and represent both a history of genealogy and a life-history of the book in many of its forms.  This talk will showcase a selection from this relatively unexamined legacy.

Admission to lecture free.  All welcome.

Wine and sandwiches will be served in Chancellor's Court after the lecture at a cost of £7 per person, for which bookings should be made and paid for in advance with the Administrator.

 

RSVP: The Administrator, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Libraries, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG.  Tel: 01865 277234, Email: fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Haydn á l'anglaise

 

His songs in late 18th-century England, including some he did not know he had written.

 

Friday 30 March 2012, 5 - 7pm, in the Divinity School, Bodleian Library

 

A lecture by Dr Derek McCulloch to accompany a Proscholium exhibition of early Haydn editions and manuscripts, followed by a short concert by members of his ensemble, Cafe Mozart.

 

Free admission to members of the Friends of the Bodleian includes a glass of sparkling wine.  A collection will be made in aid of the Friends of the Bodleian.

 

RSVP by 23 March (early replies recommended) to The Administrator, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3BG. Tel: 01865 277234; Email: fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

 

This event is supported by The Haydn Society of Great Britain.

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