Over 4000 free audio and video lectures, seminars and teaching resources from Oxford University.
Skip to Content Skip to Navigation

material culture

# Episode Title Description People Date
1 Creative Commons Lincoln Leads in Material Culture Material Culture: The Power of the Image? Joshua Thomas, Robert Kerr, Sarah Bochicchio, Emily Glassford 02 Apr 2019
2 Creative Commons Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760 Carly Watson outlines the material forms in which literary texts circulated between 1660 and 1760. Carly Watson 07 Mar 2019
3 Creative Commons Nineteenth-Century Stuff - Dickens, Paperwork and Paper Sorrows Sophie Ratcliffe investigates the material culture of the Victorians, using examples from Charles Dickens. Sophie Ratcliffe 07 Mar 2019
4 Creative Commons Studying the origins of human material culture in young chilldren This Anthropology Departmental Seminar was delivered by Dr Eva Reindl (University of Oxford) on 2 February 2018 Eva Reindl 14 Sep 2018
5 Creative Commons Decorated Handkerchiefs: cotton, colours and conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland This paper examines a cotton handkerchief decorated by women republican prisoners Armagh Jail in 1976. It considers the power of cloth, its appropriation and circulation through in prisons of the conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland. Louise Purbrick 05 Dec 2014
6 A Jewish Teenager in Hiding: Representations of Anne Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl (1952) chronicles the two years that Anne, her family, and four other Jews spent in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. Sarach Lichtman 21 Oct 2014
7 Creative Commons Conflict Culture How much do we really know about the experience of the average individual soldier? Matthew Leonard 29 Oct 2012
8 Creative Commons Everyday aesthetics in forced displacement In this Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Sandra Dudley (University of Leicester) looks at 'material culture and Karenni forced migrants in a Thai-Burma border camp'. 10 February 2012. Sandra Dudley 27 Jun 2012
9 Creative Commons Furnishings and Domestic Culture in early Modern England A seminar presentation on doctoral research, employing probate inventories for the Oxfordshire market town of Thame in the 17th century. Antony Buxton 15 Jun 2012