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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guy Gavriel Kay: A Short Introduction |
An introduction to the novels of Guy Gavriel Kay, examining his development as a writer from his... |
Katherine Olley |
| 2 | Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience |
A joint event hosted by the Theatre Studies and Queer Studies Networks. Sandra Mayer, author of... |
Sandra Mayer, Mary Luckhurst, Dominic Janes, Stefano Evangelista |
| 3 | Wartime Art and Grief |
German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War. |
Claudia Siebrecht |
| 4 | Conflict Culture |
How much do we really know about the experience of the average individual soldier? |
Matthew Leonard |
| 5 | Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours? |
The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914. |
Catriona Pennell |
| 6 | The Victorians: Life and Death (lecture) |
Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video... |
Richard Evans |
| 7 | The Victorians: Religion and Science (lecture) |
Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video... |
Richard Evans |
| 8 | The Victorians: Time and Space (lecture) |
Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video... |
Richard Evans |
| 9 | The Victorians: Empire and Race (lecture) |
Free public lecture by Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA. From Gresham College. Available as video... |
Richard Evans |
| 10 | Dickens and the Moving Age (lecture) |
Free public lecture from Gresham College. Available as video, audio and transcript. ... |
Tony Williams |
| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Literary Allusion in Harry Potter |
J.K. Rowling’s imagination is fired by the past. How do historical objects illuminate the real-... |
Beatrice Groves, Victoria McGuinness |
| 2 | Shakespeare and the Victorians |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare... |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
| 3 | Wartime Art and Grief |
German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War. |
Claudia Siebrecht |
| 4 | The Better Part of Valour |
Combatant Courage on the Western Front. |
Edward Madigan |
| 5 | Rethinking British Volunteerism in 1914: A Rush to the Colours? |
The British response to the outbreak of War in 1914. |
Catriona Pennell |
| 6 | The Life and Times of Wilfred Owen (lecture) |
Free public lecture at Gresham College. Available as video, audio and transcript ... |
Peter Bunyan, Chris Cuff |
| 7 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias' |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Ozymandias' is the Greek name for Ramses... |
Christopher Adams |
| 8 | Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first notebook was probably... |
Christopher Adams |
| 9 | Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816,... |
Hannah Morrell |
| 10 | Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the... |
Nouran Koriem |
| 11 | Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry |
Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814... |
Henry Cockburn |
| 12 | The Bodleian Shakespeare: A treasure lost... and regained |
From the 2010 Alumni Weekend. Emma Smith reveals how Oxford University mobilised Alumni support... |
Emma Smith |
| # | Essay Title | Description | Contributor |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First World War |
The Great War (also known as World War One, and the First World War) was a global combat centred... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 2 | Renaissance Theatre |
When John Brayne built the Red Lion Theatre in London’s Whitechapel in 1569, he could hardly... |
Emma Smith |