A public inquiry has ruled against Oxford University's plans for its world-famous Bodleian Library. The university, which hoped to build a £29m depository at Osney Mead to house eight million books, ...
This year marks five centuries since the death of Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist who forever changed the direction of publishing, and got in one of its first copyright squabbles. Aldus was a ...
An ancient landmark in Oxford has been named among the UK's 30 most beautiful buildings and no, it isn't Blenheim Palace. Two-thirds (67 per cent) of those quizzed agree that the UK has some of the ...
Ambitious plans to redevelop the Bodleian Library in Oxford will have to be put on hold if its new book depository does not get the go-ahead. Last week, Julian Blackwell, president of Blackwell's, ...
One titillating, new library collection has the whole world watching. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library exhibit, Story of Phi: Restricted Books, displays a collection of "obscene" literature ...
More than 10 million books, maps and artefacts belonging to Oxford University's world-famous Bodleian Library are stored in a warehouse near Swindon. The unassuming building in South Marston houses ...
Stepladders have been banned from part of Oxford University's famous Bodleian Library over health and safety fears. Some students are frustrated that they cannot access hundreds of books on the higher ...
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Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries sends sacred Hindu text Shikshapatri on UK tour to mark bicentenary
One of the oldest known copies of the Shikshapatri, usually on display at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, is on a historic tour of UK temples in collaboration with leaders of the ...
When Vaisey took the Bodleian’s top job in 1986, having risen through the ranks from lowly postgraduate archivist to Keeper of Western Manuscripts, the library was facing what seemed the impossible ...
Gerrit van Honthorst, Portrait of Princess Palatine Elizabeth, oil on canvas; Richard Rothwell, Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840-43), oil on board (all images courtesy the Bodleian ...
England's Bodleian Library at Oxford University, established by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1602 and now the largest of the University's group of 'Bodleian Libraries', is home to a collection of medieval ...
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