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Oscar Wilde’s hands sketched by Edward Heron-Allen
Oscar Wilde’s Palms in New Exhibition About Divination
The Bodleian Libraries’ new exhibition Oracles, Omens and Answers opens tomorrow, exploring a wide range of historic divination techniques form
William Blake, Richard II and Queen Anne, verso showing arrow. Gough copperplate
Earliest Engravings by William Blake Uncovered Using New Scanning Technology
The Bodleian Libraries in Oxford have announced the discovery of previously unknown engravings on the reverse of a series of copper plates, thought to b
Great Gate of the Bodleian Library
Liverpool University Press to publish The Bodleian Library Record
The Bodleian Libraries has announced a new publishing partnership with Liverpool University Press
Alice Liddell's 'Beggar Maid' photograph by Dodgson
Lewis Carroll's Photographs of Alice LIddell Acquired by the Bodleian Libraries
Just in time for its Alice's Day celebrations this weekend, the Bodleian Libraries has ann
book curses
New Publication Examines the History of Book Curses
Chaining your books to the shelf to protect them from light-fingered readers has fallen out of fashion, but maybe it’s time to fall back on another popular medieval solution to thievery: the book c
Kafka letter and envelope
Kafka Letter Complaining of Writer's Block to Auction
Franz Kafka's deep insecurity about his work is the focus of a letter coming to Sotheby's in which he describes his problems with writer's block.
An Inuit woman with her child, portrait by Beverly Bennett Dobbs
Wilson Centre for Photography Deposits Collection of Early Photographs at the Bodleian Libraries
Rare salt prints from the dawn of photography made by some of the earliest photographic practitioners are among the Bodleian deposit consisting of more
Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein, BWV 128 [1725], Catalogue no.1. The autograph manuscript of the full score, the only surviving working manuscript, with annotations also by Bach's eldest son, Wilehelm Friedemann. 
Bodleian Acquires Rare Johann Sebastian Bach Manuscript
Bodleian Libraries has announced the acquisition through the Acceptance in lieu scheme of the autograph of
An excerpt from An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope
New Exhibition Focuses on Literature's Famous Revisions and Abandoned Works
The Bodleian Libraries' new Write, Cut, Rewrite exhibition will shed light on the creative importance of revision in literature.
Image of the Wife of Bath from Caxton’s second edition of The Canterbury Tales, placed above her description in the General Prologue
New Exhibition Tracks Influence of Geoffrey Chaucer Across the Centuries
A new exhibition will explore the lasting influence of Geoffrey Chaucer and