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Blockbooks and woodcut prints
Woodblock printed books and pictures made in the late 15th and early 16th centuries
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Early Printing in Europe
Images from the Bodleian's outstanding collection of pre-1500 books
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Greek manuscripts
Five major Greek manuscripts in full digital facsimiles, including Euclid (AD 888), Plato (AD 895) and an illuminated Menologion (AD 1322-40).
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Masterpieces of the non-Western book
Miniatures, illuminations, and selected manuscript pages from Oriental collections
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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript illumination (from 35mm)
Around 25,000 images from Western illuminated manuscripts and early printed books, scanned from 35mm slides and filmstrips
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A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860 in the John Johnson Collection
Exhibition on shops and shopping from the 17th century to Victorian times, including images of the Great Exhibition in 1851.
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Arthur Evans Archive (Knossos excavations)
Records and papers of Sir Arthur Evans (Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, 1884-1908), many relating to excavations at Knossos on Crete between 1900 and 1931.
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Bodleian Library/Toyota City Imaging Project
A collection of 1244 motoring and transport images from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.
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Bringing Laxton to life
A 17th-century survey and map of Laxton, Nottinghamshire.
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Broadside Ballads Online Database
Database of over 30,000 ballad songs from Bodleian Library collections, ranging in date from 16th to 19th centuries.
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Burmese life and devotion
Drawings of court life and religious scenes made in Burma in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Citizen Milton
An exhibition on the life, political views, and poetry of John Milton (1608–74).
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Cobbett's Parliamentary History
Cobbett's Parliamentary History
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Conservative Party Election posters, 1909-2007
Posters from the Conservative Party Archive representing election publicity throughout the 20th century up to recent times.
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Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures
Exhibition drawing on the Bodleian’s large and important collection of Hebrew manuscripts. (Bodleian Library, Exhibition Room, 8 December 2009 – 3 May 2010)
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Educational ephemera and children’s games of the 18th and 19th centuries
Board games, writing blanks, and other printing for children’s entertainment and education.
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Electronic Ephemera: Digitised selections from the John Johnson Collection
Thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
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Entente Cordiale
Highlights of the Bodleian Library's rich documentary sources on the subject of Anglo-French relations.
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Exploring Egypt in the 19th century
Complete facsimile of publications from the early nineteeth-century expeditions to Egypt by Champollion and Rosellini.
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Flora Graeca, Oxford’s finest botanical treasure
Botanical prints from the first half of the 19th century, with the original hand-coloured drawings
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H.H. Asquith and the Liberal Legacy
An exhibition of photographs and documents relating to the political career of H.H. Asquith, Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916.
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John Johnson Collection Online Catalogue
A searchable catalogue, with many digital images attached, of the library’s largest collection of printed ephemera.
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Kalighat paintings
110 paintings from 19th-century Calcutta, depicting Hindu gods and goddesses as well as social life and customs of Bengal.
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Key works of 17th, 18th and 19th century geological literature
Rare books relating to the history of science, geology, palaeontology, petrology, and mineralogy.
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Maps in script and print
Cartographic images from the Bodleian’s Special Collections.
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Plates from John Gould's ornithological works
20 hummingbird plates and their accompanying texts, selected from the 6 volumes of A monograph of the Trochilidae, 1861-1887. (Zoology department)
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Political Prints from the Curzon Collection
The Napoleonic wars and Napoleon’s career in a selection of 1400 satirical cartoons and political prints from England and the Continent.
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Portraits in Oxford
Portraits in the University Examination Schools building and in Pembroke College, Oxford.
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Scenes from an extraordinary life: Benjamin Disraeli
Private papers, portraits and cartoons relating to Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield ( 1804-81).
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Seeing is believing: traditional and colonial images of popular culture
Seeing is believing: traditional and colonial images of popular culture
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SJC Ms17: a unique work of medieval science
Complete facsimile of a computistical assortment executed about 1110 in Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire.
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18th Century Entertainment Ephemera
18th-century playbills and handbills for circuses, human freaks, magic shows, and waxworks, from in the John Johnson Collection .
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The entomologist’s useful compendium
Key works in 19th-century entomology from the library of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
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The Gough Map: gateway to medieval Britain
A 14th-century manuscript route map.
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The Sheldon Tapestry Map of Gloucestershire
Detailed image of a tapestry map of Gloucestershire made for Ralph Sheldon in the 1590s.
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The Suez Crisis, 1956
An 'insider's viewpoint' of the Suez crisis from politicians, diplomats, civil servants and leading public figures, drawn from the Bodleian’s holdings of modern political papers.
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The Wind in the Willows
The original manuscript of The Wind in the Willows, given to the Bodleian Library by Elspeth Grahame in 1943.
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Western Manuscripts
Medieval and later manuscripts from Oxford collections including the Bodleian Library, in digital facsimile.
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