Radcliffe Camera

Due to furniture installation, the Upper Camera will open at 2pm on Wednesday 11 December. The Lower Camera and Gladstone Link will open at 9am as usual.

 

Opening hours

The Radcliffe Camera is closed to members of the public, except those on library guided tours.

The following information is for University and Bodleian Reader card holders using the library's reading rooms.

Upper Camera & Lower Camera

Monday – Friday: 9am – 9pm
Saturday: 10am – 6pm
Sunday: 11am – 7pm

Gladstone Link

The Gladstone Link closes 30 minutes before library closing. Last entry is 45 minutes before library closing.

Christmas opening hours

Monday 23 December: 9am – 5pm (the Gladstone Link will close at 4.30pm).

The Radcliffe Camera and Gladstone Link will be closed from Tuesday 24 December – Wednesday 1 January (inclusive).

The last delivery from offsite storage will be in the afternoon of Friday 20 December. The deadline for placing requests for this delivery on SOLO is 5pm on Thursday 19 December.

About the library

The Radcliffe Camera is an iconic Oxford landmark and a working library, part of the central Bodleian Library complex.

It is linked to the Bodleian Old Library by the underground Gladstone Link.  

The Radcliffe Camera is home to the History Faculty Library (HFL).

Find us

Radcliffe Camera
Radcliffe Square
Oxford  
OX1 3BG

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General enquiries

radcam-enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 277204

History Faculty Library

library.history@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 277262

 

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