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BHM Lecture 2023: Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History |
Dr Christienna Fryar, writer and independent historian of Britain and the Caribbean, tells the stories of two mixed-race Jamaican women and questions the fraught relationship between British history and Black British history. |
Christienna Fryar, Tim Soutphommasane |
14 May 2024 |
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Book at Lunchtime: Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction - The Lodger World |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Dr Ushashi Dasgupta. |
Ushashi Dasgupta, Jeremy Tabling, Sophia Psarra, Wes Williams |
10 Mar 2021 |
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Unlocking the Church |
Book at Lunchtime, Unlocking the Church |
William Whyte, Dan Hicks, Julia Smith, Mark Chapman |
11 Dec 2017 |
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Late Victorian into Modern |
Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern |
Laura Marcus, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Michael Bentley, Charlotte Jones |
08 Dec 2017 |
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The life of Oscar Wilde |
Oxford students discuss the life of Oscar Wilde. |
Aled Walker, Davis Rivera, Yannick Lambert, Conor Malloy |
26 May 2016 |
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In Pursuit of Beauty: Modern Guides to the Hair, Face, and Body, 1784-1933 |
Dr Jessica Clark discusses Victorian beauty practices with items from the Bodleian Libraries Special Collections. |
Jessica Clark |
13 Oct 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist |
Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the modernist tradition. |
Sos Eltis |
22 Oct 2013 |
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Love and Sex in Victorian Fiction |
Victorian fiction is commonly thought of as treating love sentimentally and lacking all reference to sex. In this talk drawing on material from a book he is writing, Dr David Grylls, Fellow of Kellogg College, will contest such a view. |
David Grylls |
04 Oct 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Why should we study Dickens? |
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and proposes why we should still study Dickens. |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Ilana Lassman |
31 Jul 2013 |
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Creative Commons |
Dickens' Railways |
Professor Stphen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on Charles Dickens' literature. |
Stephen Gill |
26 Oct 2012 |
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Creative Commons |
Oscar Wilde's Women |
Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context. |
Sophie Duncan |
19 Sep 2012 |
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Creative Commons |
Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling |
Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of short stories'. |
Julian Thompson |
19 Sep 2012 |
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Creative Commons |
'Some exquisitely-dressed stage favourite': Shakespeare and the suffragettes |
In this talk, Sophie Duncan examines suffragists' interactions with Shakespeare and his works, as performers, directors, consumers and critics. |
Sophie Duncan |
17 Jul 2012 |
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Creative Commons |
A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. |
Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. In her reading, she seeks out allusions to Shakespearean plays including Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. She then answers questions about the poem. |
Sally Bayley |
16 Jul 2012 |
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Creative Commons |
Why Dickens? |
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made his works so popular. |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
02 Mar 2012 |
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Steampunk Exhibition |
Short video about the Steampunk exhibition, from the Museum of the History of Science until February 2010 with the museum's director, Jim Bennett, explaining the various exhibits. |
Jim Bennett |
10 Dec 2009 |
