The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Masterclass: Medingen Manuscripts - Introduction
04 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Introduction to the Masterclass by Professor Henrike Laehnemann, Chair of Medieval German Literature and Linguistics, University of Oxford. On the 22n...
200 years of fun and games
29 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Ballam talks about the rich collections of games and pastimes he has recently donated to the Bodleian, the subject of the display Playing with...
The Future of Research Libraries
15 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A talk delivered by Andrew Green at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 2...
Leadership and Embedding a Culture of Innovation at the University of Manchester
15 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A talk delivered by Jan Wilkinson at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, ...
The State of the Archives in the UK and the Challenges Ahead
15 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A talk delivered by Clem Brohier at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 2...
Evidence-Based Decision Making for Collection Management
15 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A talk delivered by Paul Cavanagh and James Kay at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions ...
Malone's Chronologizing of Aubrey's Lives (putt in writing... tumultuarily)
04 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Keynote lecture by Margreta de Grazia, (Emerita Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) for the Marg...
Distinguishing Marks of Genius
15 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What do geniuses have in common, across the arts and sciences? And how do we distinguish genius from talent? Andrew Robinson, author of Genius: A Very...
Pieces of the jigsaw: history through the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
10 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A lunchtime lecture by Julie-Anne Lambert accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. Th...
The Savile Library
09 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Lunchtime lecture by Will Poole accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. Henry Savile...
Painted by numbers: decoding Ferdinand Bauer's Flora Graeca colour code
09 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Lunchtime lecture by Richard Mulholland accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. Outs...
Mr Douce steps into the nursery and lingers...
09 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A lunchtime lecture by Clive Hurst accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. Some doze...
Beauty and the Victorians
09 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
'Buying beauty in the Victorian period' Dr Jessica Clark looks at the Victorian beauty industry, and the transition from disapproval of artifice to a ...
Marks on canvas, stone, wood and paper: the Genius of the Bodleian Portrait Collection
08 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Josephson gives a talk for the Marks of Genius Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries series.
Missionaries and Religious Print Culture in Canada
08 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Bibles and religious literature were an integral part of Canadian society and culture between 1830 and 1900. This period saw increased distribution o...
Writing The Hobbit: a perilous quest
03 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk Stuart Lee will look at the various texts we may call The Hobbit. Starting with the 1937 edition (on display) he will look at the changes...
New Sappho and new libraries
19 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Fourth Lunchtime lecture accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. With Dr Dirk Obbink...
Four centuries of Chinese book collecting
19 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Third Lunchtime lecture accompanying the exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries. With Mr David Helliw...
The Trade in Printed Books: an ingenious innovation that changed the Western World
19 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Second in the Marks of Genius series, with Dr Christina Dondi
Engraved Throughout: Pine's Horace (1733) as a Bibliographical Object
08 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Michael Suarez gives the first Lyell Lecture of 2015.
Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences
06 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Robin Wilson, author of Alice's Adventures in Numberland, gives a talk on the history of studying Mathematics at Oxford, which is as old as ...
The Lives of Harold Macmillan and Roy Jenkins
14 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Political biographers D R Thorpe and John Campbell speak about their subjects' careers culminating in the role of Chancellor of the University of Oxfo...
Conscription and Conscientious Objection
12 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this short talk Professor Martin Ceadel, Fellow and Tutor in Politics, New College, Oxford discusses the issue of military conscription and conscie...
The Problem with Propaganda
12 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Adrian Gregory, Fellow and Tutor in History, Pembroke College, Oxford discusses the use of propaganda by all sides during the first world war.
The Meaning of 1914
30 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation between Professor Sir Hew Strachan and Professor Margaret MacMillan, chaired by Professor Patricia Clavin.
Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London
05 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Marie-Claude Felton, Royal Bank of Canada-Bodleian Visiting Scholar, gives a talk for the Bodleian Library BODcasts series
Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London (Slides)
05 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Marie-Claude Felton, Royal Bank of Canada-Bodleian Visiting Scholar, gives a talk for the Bodleian Library BODcasts series
How to make your own eyeglasses for about one pound: an Oxford technology created to benefit the developing World
27 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Joshua Silver talks about his invention of the self adjusting spectacles.
Lord Nuffield's Legacy to Oxford
07 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Eric Sidebottom, Retired University Lecturer in Experimental Pathology, gives a lunch time talk to accompany the exhibition 'Great Medical Discover...
Lord Nuffield's Legacy to Oxford
07 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Eric Sidebottom, Retired University Lecturer in Experimental Pathology, gives a lunch time talk to accompany the exhibition 'Great Medical Discover...
Once and Future Arthurs - Arthurian Literature for Children
06 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Caughey gives a lecture at the Bodleian Library looking at the varying spectrum of literature about King Arthur written for children.
Richard Wagner: 200 Today
22 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Lecturer and conductor Dr Paul Coones delivers a lecture celebrating the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner. The talk is preceded by Siegried's Horn Cal...
The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day 2010
22 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Judith Priestman, curator of literary manuscripts at the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 Tolkien exhibition, at which a selection ...
Xu Bing: The Kind of Artist I Am
22 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese Artist Xu Bing gives a talk on the subject of his art and the kind of artist he is.
Xu Bing: The Kind of Artist I Am
22 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese Artist Xu Bing gives a talk on the subject of his art and the kind of artist he is.
Roy Strong talks to Brian Sewell: Self-portrait as a Young Man
15 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Art critic Brian Sewell talks to Sir Roy Strong as part of the Times Literary Festival 2013. Art historian, writer and broadcaster Sir Roy Strong has ...
Image Matching on Printed Images in Bodleian Collections
13 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Giles Bergel and Andrew Zisserman from the Broadside Ballad Connections project demonstrate new image matching software that allows researchers to tra...
Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored
08 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane Austen, what we can learn from them about her family l...
Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored
08 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane Austen, what we can learn from them about her family l...
The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising
08 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel 'The Watsons' and what we can ...
The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising
08 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel 'The Watsons' and what we can ...
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley
21 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Garner gives an illustrated lecture on the Legend of Alderley. This version of the myth of the Sleeping Hero is rooted to places on Alderley Edge...
Pre-1500 Printed Books
05 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The earliest printers spread from Mainz in Germany where Gutenberg first had his printing house to Venice, Rome, Paris, and the Netherlands. Examples ...
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short)
30 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating a...
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short)
30 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating a...
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long)
30 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating a...
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long)
30 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating a...
Magna Carta and Wind In The Willows
11 Sep 2008
Contributed by Lukas
A short history of how the Bodleian library stores original copies of the Magna Carta and the original Wind in the Willows letters.