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Encaenia - Now and Then |
Archive footage of Oxford University's Encaenia ceremony |
Peter Robinson |
12 Apr 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Wartime Oxford - June 1943 and 1944 |
Archive film of Oxford from June 1943 and June 1944 |
Peter Robinson |
12 Apr 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
High Street - Now and Then |
Archive film footage of High Street, Oxford from 1937 and 1944. |
Peter Robinson |
12 Apr 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Rules and Regulations |
Archival film uncovers the quirky dos and don'ts that governed student life in the golden age of the 1920s and 30s. |
Peter Robinson |
12 Apr 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Cycling Through Time |
Archive footage of cycling through the busy streets of Oxford and Cowley in the 1920s, 40s, and 50s. |
Peter Robinson |
12 Apr 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
St Giles' Fair |
The changing faces of St Giles' Fair. In this episode we look at St Giles' Fair which is held for two days in September in the heart of the city. |
Peter Robinson, Charlie Beesley |
12 Apr 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Carolyn Eastman on Yellow Fever in New York |
Dr Carolyn Eastman (VCU) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how epidemics of yellow fever ended in 1790s New York, and the multiple ends of an epidemic for different parts of a society. |
Carolyn Eastman, Erica Charters |
15 Mar 2022 |
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Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? The Social Reality behind Kha stag ʼDzam yag’s "Diary" and Lhag pa Don grub’s "Life of a mule driver" |
Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? Lucia Galli's talk on self-representation and the social reality behind two Tibetan memoirs |
Lucia Galli |
04 Jun 2020 |
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Oxford at War in 1944 |
In this 2nd episode, we collate rare colour Oxfordshire footage shot in 1944 by US airforce officers. Film clips concentrate on the social life in Oxford city centre, Wallingford, Dorchester, Abingdon and surrounding villages. |
Peter Robinson |
07 May 2020 |
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Creative Commons |
The Ralph Walter History Lecture: Keble, Oxford, Britain, and the World |
The Different Scales of Modern History. |
William Whyte |
15 May 2018 |
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Germs Revisited |
On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (Medical Sciences Division) on the subject of Germs Revisited. |
Emilie Taylor-Brown, Jamie Lorimer, Nicola Fawcett, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr |
25 Apr 2017 |
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Oxford At War: Footage from Mount Farm Airbase |
World War Two arrives in Oxford in this episode, using never before seen Oxford footage from a US Flight Surgeon for the 14th Photo Reconnaissance Unit at Mount Farm Airbase, Dorchester. Includes colour and monochrome film from 1944. |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
03 Oct 2014 |
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Oxford: Then and Now |
We compare and contrast locations in and around the city from the 1940s, and the present day. How have the places and people changed? How present is the Second World War in 1940s Oxford? After 70 years how different is Oxford? |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
01 Oct 2014 |
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Attic to Archive - Welcome to the Dreaming Spools Project |
In this episode we take you on a trip through time as we introduce a selection of the archive film footage that the Dreaming Spools project has discovered. |
Peter Robinson, Hannah Lucas |
01 Oct 2014 |
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Furniture Behind the Wire |
An examination of the material culture and social history of the German internees held on the Isle of Man, who made furniture designed by CR Mackintosh for the Northampton home of the Bassett-Lowke family between 1916 and 1919. |
Jake Kaner, Yvonne Cresswell |
30 Sep 2014 |