Lectures, seminars, workshops, prizes and opportunities for engagement with manuscripts, book history, and Bodleian Special Collections. Links below to affiliated groups and programmes.
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Bodleian Special Collections Coffee mornings, Fridays at 10:30am in the Weston Library for Special Collections
All Bodleian Readers are welcome, every Friday in termtime, 10:30-11:30 at the Special Collections coffee morning in the Visiting Scholars’ Centre (Level 2, Weston Library).
A Bodleian Reader card or University card is required for access. Each week a guest speaker shows new acquisitions, discoveries or re-discoveries from the Special Collections. To subscribe to email updates for Friday coffee mornings, send an email message to coffee-mornings-weston-subscribe[at]maillist.ox.ac.uk
Lectures and public events at the Weston LIbrary
History in Hiding: The Impact of Researching and Writing Underrepresented History
Thursday 12 June 2025
5:15 pm, Weston Library
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/history-in-hiding
Internationally acclaimed author Ruta Sepetys talks about writing historical fiction, exploring questions of historical equity and representation.
Reading the Room: Books in Heritage Spaces
Monday 16 June 2025
1 pm, Weston Library or online
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/reading-the-room
Heritage libraries are a unique historical resource: in contrast to research libraries across the world, their library collections are preserved in the places where they were assembled and read. In those locations they reflect a rich history of social exchange.
This panel talk explores what it means to engage with books in a heritage setting, and how we might better enable contemporary engagement with our histories of books and reading.
Reading the Room is a collaborative research project between the University of Oxford, Coventry University and the National Trust.
The panel:
Abigail Williams is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Oxford.
Alice Leonard is Research Fellow at Coventry University.
Amy Solomons is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Oxford.
Tim Pye is National Curator for Libraries at the National Trust.
Achilles at Lincoln: Unlocking the Medieval Text of a Classical Poem
Thursday 19 June 2025
5:15 pm, Weston Library or online
A ‘Lincoln Unlocked‘ event
https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/achilles-at-lincoln
Rebecca Menmuir (Lincoln College, Oxford)
Simon Whedbee (Loyola University, New Orleans)
Oxford Bibliographical Society meetings
All welcome. See the OBS website for list of events.