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“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a...'

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Join us for a collective public reading of Kafka's 'Metamorphosis'!
🗓️Mon 3 June
🕕6–7.30pm
📍Sheldonian Theatre

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordreadskaf…

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Tomorrow:
Celebrating Diversity in Science and Medicine

All University of Oxford members are welcome to join this exhibition and networking event!

May be of particular interest to MSD and MPLS staff and students. Sign up for your free place!
ox-ac.libcal.com/event/4201874

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If you can be in Oxford on 20 June, please do come along. Thanks to Bodleian Libraries for this honour, and to Wadham College and Queen's College Library whose books I will be discussing

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Bored on a rainy day in Oxford? Make it fun and join kristen haas curtis on one of her free drawing workshops at our Weston Library. First one at 11.30am! There are other activities, too! Not to mention our amazing free Chaucer exhibition. It's the final weekend

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Today is anniversary of which brought an end to Portugal's authoritarian regime of Estado Novo. This poster features a map used as a face. Stuart Ackland lists more examples of anthropomorphism in maps in Bodleian collections blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/

Today is #50th anniversary of #CarnationRevolution which brought an end to Portugal's authoritarian regime of Estado Novo. This poster features a map used as a face. Stuart Ackland lists more examples of anthropomorphism in maps in Bodleian collections blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/
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It was lights, camera, action kind of vibe at the Bodleian this morning with University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor prof. Irene Tracey being photographed by John Cairnes

It was lights, camera, action kind of vibe at the Bodleian this morning with @UniofOxford Vice-Chancellor prof. Irene Tracey being photographed by John Cairnes
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Our free Here and Now exhibition closes this Sunday!

Make the most of it. Drop into our Creating Chaucer day on Saturday for
🙋 chats with academics in our 'living library'
✏️ cartooning session
🐎 storytelling & more

All welcome.
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Our free #Chaucer Here and Now exhibition closes this Sunday! Make the most of it. Drop into our Creating Chaucer day on Saturday for 🙋 chats with academics in our 'living library' ✏️ cartooning session 🐎 storytelling & more All welcome. #MyBodleian visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Special Event:
Join us for live readings from correspondence between Julia Margaret Cameron and Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Thackeray, GF Watts, Sir John Herschel and Anne Thackeray Ritchie.
📅 Monday 13 May 2024
🕕 6 – 7.15pm
📍 Weston Library
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/colin-fo…

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Oxfordshire Artweeks Open Studio!

Drop in to our letterpress printing studio to see recent handmade books and prints, and see printing in action. Find out about classes and workshops.
📅 Sat 11 and Sun 12 May
🕛 12–4pm
📍 Bodleian Old Library
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/may24/ar…

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Happy birthday(ish) !

This very special, upcoming lecture at Weston Library (Thursday 20 June) is about the fascinating, different lives of Oxford's First Folios - from trans-Atlantic rivalry to 18th-century classicism
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/fob-annual-lec…

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This Saturday 1.30-2pm, curator Prof Turner will be in conversation with poet Patience Agbabi about her versions of Chaucer’s 'Canterbury Tales' in forms ranging from rap to sonnets.

Part of our special 'Creating Chaucer' event at the Weston Library!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/apr24/cr…

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Free talk this Wednesday: 'Exhibiting Chaucer'

Prof Turner explains how every age has remade Chaucer in a different way: from anonymous 15th-century scribes to Zadie Smith, folios to films, Caxton to the Cachoeria Tales.

2-3pm; Weston Library & online
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/apr24/ex…

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Pleased to be The Grid ⁦Observer New Review⁩ today, featuring images from a magnificent new addition to our photo collections ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩ from the Wilson Center, with thousands of albums & photobooks (all on our Archives & Manuscripts catalogue) available for research!

Pleased to be The Grid ⁦@ObsNewReview⁩ today, featuring images from a magnificent new addition to our photo collections ⁦@bodleianlibs⁩ from the Wilson Center, with thousands of albums & photobooks (all on our Archives & Manuscripts catalogue) available for research!
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'Voltaire wrote a really terrible adaptation of the Wife of Bath. But my absolute least favourite adaptation is Pasolini's 1970's film of the Canterbury Tales...'

Prof Marion Turner reflects on (subjectively) bad - and good - adaptations of Chaucer's work!

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A warm welcome to all returning to our libraries for Trinity term.

Find all the information you need at bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

📷 The Bodleian Law Library

A warm welcome to all returning to our libraries for Trinity term. Find all the information you need at bodleian.ox.ac.uk. 📷 The Bodleian Law Library
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Searching for the perfect gift? This recent acquisition for the @Bodleiancsb Biblio Press shows that remarkable things can still be found in the most unexpected of places.

Read more in this new blog⬇️

blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/ma…

Searching for the perfect gift? This recent acquisition for the @Bodleiancsb Biblio Press shows that remarkable things can still be found in the most unexpected of places. Read more in this new blog⬇️ blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/ma…
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Excited to take part in the Creating Chaucer event at Bodleian Libraries on Sat 27th April! I’m part of the Living Library but you can also draw cartoons with kristen haas curtis, print a keepsake, make a pilgrimage badge, and much more! visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/apr24/cr…

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