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Richard Ovenden is the senior librarian for the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University. He has previously held roles at Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library, and the National Library of Scotland. He was awarded an OBE in 2019. Currently, Richard is writing a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge.

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1 Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries

An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks...

Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron