Listen to behind-the-scenes impressions from our marvellous Medieval Mystery Cycle 2025, with thx to 'Beyond Shakespeare' for capturing the excitement and buzz of the day! audioboom.com/posts/874257...
Last Friday, we had the pleasure of listening to artist and art historian Ashkan Sepahvand presenting the 'Irradiant Archive' from WW2 Iran, including an unpublished epic romance manuscript by a an Iranian peasant. 📖 Watch the latest Coffee Morning presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWye...
Take a look at the Conservative Party Archive in the Bodleian Library, presented by Fran Allen and Hannah Bithel-Vaughan at last week's Medievalists Coffee Morning in the Weston Library: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXAv...
Learn about the first western discovery of the star tables of fifteenth-century Timurid astronomer-ruler Ulugh Beg and watch last Friday's presentation by Daniel Fried, doctoral student at New College. 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEL...
Watch last Friday's fascinating talk by PhD researcher Georgie Anderson from the University of Kent, who traces the Black Knight in medieval manuscripts to shed light on processes of race-making in medieval Europe. Find the full talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf36... #RaceInHistory
A trip back to the ... 1980s at yesterday's Medievalists Coffee Morning, with Jack Orchard's fascinating talk on the history of technology and personal computing culture in 1980s Britain. #chuckiegg 👾💾 Watch the full presentation on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-WF...
From ancient Alexandria to Britain during WW2, the Bodleian hosts lots of ... rubbish! Listen to today's talk by Péter Tóth and Andrew Honey about dumped papyri form the 3rd century, a recycled map from the 1940s and other kinds of rubbish held at the Bodleian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10T...
Last friday's Medievalists' Coffee Morning sparked excitement for Hilary Term, with Visiting Fellow Jarrah Sastrawan presenting on religious transformations in 16th-century Island Southeast Asia. 📜☕️ Check it out on the @oxmedstud.bsky.social YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSQA...
Let James Freemantle of the St James Park Press, the current Printer in Residence, introduce you to Artists' Books from the Bodleian and from his from his private Collection. Watch the full presentation from last Friday's Coffee Morning at the Weston Library here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tafb...
A victim, a witness, a sacrifice? Listen to the latest Coffee Morning presentation by Jana Lammerding from the University of Vienna to learn more about the presence of the child in books on witchcraft in the Bodleian's Francis Douce Collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EMj... #witch #douce
