What’s on at the Bodleian Libraries brings together the wide-ranging activities taking place in the Libraries. Whether you visit an exhibition or a display, attend an event or a lecture, go on a guided tour, or visit our Shop, you will find an opportunity to discover our distinguished collections, magnificent buildings and informative programmes.
Annual Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture: Marconi and the Broadcasting Option
20 April 2013
... Or, When Marconi didn't invent broadcasting Gabriele Balbi (University of Lugano; Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, 2012) will speak about the Marconi Company's treatment of two ideas of …
EXHIBITION: Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond
29 November 2012 — 28 April 2013
Celebrate the beauty of Persian manuscripts, and the stories of human and divine love they tell, in this captivating exhibition featuring more than sixty visually …
Illustrations of early printed ballads
17 November 2012 — 21 December 2012
A display of illustrated ballads from the 17th and 18th centuries, featuring heroic and notorious characters, lovers and fighters, divine justice and a valiant apprentice. …
Exhibition: Christ Church Upper Library. Engraved gems and the classical tradition
16 January 2013
Exhibition at Christ Church Upper Library. Runs until 3 May 2013 www.chch.ox.ac.uk/library/exhibitions/2013/engraved-gems-and-classical-tradition …
Early English Childhood in the Bodleian Collections
23 January 2013
Lecture to accompany Proscholium case display 'Early English Childhood'…
LECTURE: Sa'di's Love Poetry
6 March 2013
LECTURE TO ACCOMPANY THE EXHIBITION ‘LOVE AND DEVOTION: FROM PERSIA AND BEYOND’ Speaker: Homa Katouzian (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford) As places …
Our Debt to Sir Thomas Bodley (1545-1613)
30 January 2013
LECTURE TO MARK THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF SIR THOMAS BODLEY, FOUNDER OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY Speaker: David Vaisey CBE (Bodley’s Librarian …
LECTURE: Early Children’s Books in the Opie and Other Collections in the Bodleian Library
7 March 2013
LECTURE TO MARK THE WORLD BOOK DAY 2013 Speaker: Clive Hurst (Head of Rare Books & Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library) As places are limited to 100 we …
DISPLAY: Mexico, from Picture to Print
23 February 2013
ADMISSION FREE The first printing press in the Americas began operating in what would become Mexico City in 1540, a good hundred years before the …
SEMINAR: Jim Callaghan Remembered: Centenary Reflections on Callaghan, Labour and Britain since 1912
7 March 2013
A joint event presented by the Bodleian Libraries, the History Faculty, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Press/Dictionary of National Biography marking the life …
Researching the life of R H Tawney (1880-1962), historian and political thinker
21 January 2013
MODERN POLITICAL PAPERS MASTERCLASSES: AUTHORSHIP, MEMORY & MANUSCRIPTS Speaker: Dr Lawrence Goldman (St Peter’s College, Oxford, and editor of the Oxford Dictionary …
LECTURE: Historical collections from European religious houses now in the Bodleian Library
5 March 2013
FRIENDS OF THE BODLEIAN (FOB) LUNCHTIME LECTURE Speaker: Dr Cristina Dondi (Faculty of History and of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford) All are welcome. Wine …
The Military Survey of Scotland (1747-1755): a family affair?
31 January 2013
THE OXFORD SEMINARS IN CARTOGRAPHY - 20th Annual Series Speaker: Rachel Hewitt (Wolfson College, Oxford) Location: Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford, …
World Book Day LECTURE
7 March 2013
Clive Hurst (Head of Rare Books & Printed Ephemera, Bodleian Library), Early Children’s Books in the Opie and Other Collections in the Bodleian Library …
LECTURE: Mexico, from Picture to Print
14 March 2013
Accompanies a display of books and manuscripts from Bodleian collections in the Proscholium, Old Library. …
WORLD BOOK DAY DISPLAY: Shirley Hughes at the Bodleian
7 March 2013
To celebrate the acquisition of the Shirley Hughes archive, the Bodleian will mark World Book Day 2013 with a small display of original drawings and manuscripts …
Autographs Ancient and Modern (The Lyell Lectures 2013)
23 April 2013
Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge) gives the first of a series of five lectures on 'Aspects of late-medieval English autograph writings' 23 Apr. : ‘Autographs Ancient and Modern’ 5 …
Fugitive Pieces:Medieval English Literary Autographs (The Lyell Lectures 2013)
25 April 2013
Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge) gives the second of five lectures on 'Aspects of late-medieval English autograph writings' T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford …
Set Pieces: Medieval English Literary Autographs (The Lyell Lectures 2013)
30 April 2013
Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge) gives the third of five lectures on 'Aspects of late-medieval English autograph writings' T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford …
The Hand of the Family: Medieval English Autograph Letters (The Lyell Lectures 2013)
2 May 2013
Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge) gives the fourth of five lectures on 'Aspects of late-medieval English autograph writings' T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford …
The Hands of Others: Medieval English Autograph Letters (The Lyell Lectures 2013)
7 May 2013
Professor Richard Beadle (Cambridge) gives the fifth of five lectures on 'Aspects of late-medieval English autograph writings' T.S. Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton College, Oxford &…
LECTURE: Richard Wagner - 200 Today
22 May 2013
ADMISSION FREE In addition to the lecture a short Wagner rarity (Kinderkatechismus) will be performed. There will also be a small display of special items …
LECTURE: Behind the Scenes - the Bodleian's Mughal Paintings of Love and Devotion
10 April 2013
ADMISSION FREE Lunchtime lecture to accompany our main exhibition Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond . For details about visiting the exhibition in person, …
LECTURE: Painted Poetry, Persian and Chaghatay, Herat and Bukhara
17 April 2013
ADMISSION FREE Lunchtime lecture to accompany our main exhibition Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond . For details about visiting the exhibition in person, please …
LECTURE: Letters from My Father
23 April 2013
ADMISSION FREE For more information about this lunchtime lecture, please visit the Friends of the Bodleian events page . …
DISPLAY: Domestic Interiors in Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts
6 April 2013 — 5 May 2013
Illuminated manuscripts constitute a rich resource for the study of representations of domestic interiors. Countless images in manuscripts depict house and household and some of …
LECTURE: A Cartographic Genealogy of Globalism
2 May 2013
The 20th annual series of the Oxford Seminars in Cartography presents a lunchtime lecture 'Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more …
LECTURE: The British as Art Collectors
14 May 2013
ADMISSION FREE For more information about this lecture, please visit the Friends of the Bodleian events page . …
EXHIBITION: Magical Books - From the Middle Ages to Middle-earth
23 May 2013 — 27 October 2013
The Bodleian's summer exhibition takes as its theme the work of some of the foremost modern exponents of children's fantasy literature, members of the group …
LECTURE: Once and Future Arthurs - Arthurian Literature for Children
29 May 2013
Lunchtime lecture accompanying the exhibition Magical Books: From the Middle Ages to Middle-earth . …
LECTURE: Books of Magic
12 June 2013
Lunchtime lecture to accompany the exhibition Magical Books: From the Middle Ages to Middle-earth . …
LECTURE: King Arthur Joins the Boy Scouts: Children and Arthurianism 1860-1918
18 June 2013
Lunchtime lecture to accompany the exhibition Magical Books: From the Middle Ages to Middle-earth . …
DISPLAY: Stoicism and its Legacy
11 May 2013 — 6 June 2013
The ancient philosophy of Stoicism has been a perennial influence on Western thought. The 16th century in particular saw a concerted effort to revive Stoicism …
DISPLAY: Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2013
11 June 2013 — 10 August 2013
Following the success of the first International Bookbinding Competition, held in 2009, the Bodleian Library and Designer Bookbinders with the generous support of Sir Paul Getty …
LECTURE: Stoicism and its Legacy
5 June 2013
Lecture to accompany the display Stoicism and its Legacy . …
MASTER CLASSES: The Jewish Library: The Material History of Four Jewish Classic Texts
29 April 2013
THE CATHERINE LEWIS MASTER CLASSES 2013 with Dr David Stern (University of Pennsylvania) Convenor: Dr César Merchán Hamann (OCHJS/ The Bodleian) …
MASTER CLASS: The Cadiz Expedition (1596) and censorship in Elizabethan England
8 May 2013
Dr Anders Ingram (National University of Ireland) looks at evidence of removal of pages, or insertion of later pirated versions, in copies of Richard Hakluyt's …
DISPLAY: 'Binsey Poplars' manuscripts on display for one day only
9 May 2013
A one-day display showing for the first time together the five surviving manuscripts of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'Binsey Poplars'. These include the last draft …
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