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love and
devotion:
From persia
and beyond
EXHIBITION
until 28 April

Contents
MAIN EXHIBITION P3
TALKS AND LECTURES P6
FRIENDS OF THE BODLEIAN LECTURES P7
MASTERCLASSES: POLITICAL PAPERS P8
SPECIAL SEMINAR P9
VISIT THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY P10
EVENTS - TwELFTH NIgHT P12
wHAT’S ONLINE P13
wORLD BOOK DAY P14
TEMPORARY DISPLAYS P15
HIRE A VENUE P16
BODLEIAN LIBRARY PUBLISHINg P17
FRIENDS OF THE BODLEIAN P18
CALENDAR OF EVENTS P19
TRANSFORMINg AND SUPPORTINg THE BODLEIAN P20
Front cover image: Sufi master ‘Abd Allāh Anşārī receiving initiates into the mystical way. From a manuscript of the hagiographical
work Majālis al-‘Ushshāq or the “Assemblies of the Lovers” attributed to Kamāl al-Dīn Gāzurgāhī, dated to 1552.
This brochure is published by the Communications Office, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
Tel: 01865 277627 Email: communications@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. All images © Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford,
unless otherwise stated.
A digital edition of this brochure can be accessed and downloaded in pdf format from the Bodleian Libraries website:
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/exhibitions
Designed by Sophie Durand, edited by Oana Romocea
Love and
devotion
From Persia and Beyond
Presented by the Bodleian Libraries, University of oxford
in partnership with State Library of victoria, australia.
Image: The marriage of Yūsuf (Joseph) and Zulaykhā.
صلاخا و ق شع
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Exhibition

Exhibition
Main Exhibition
Exhibition Room, Old Schools Quadrangle
love And devotion: froM persiA And Beyond
UNTIL 28 APRIL
Love and Devotion celebrates the beauty of Persian manuscripts and depicts the stories of human
and divine love told through their lavishly-illustrated pages.
The show features more than 60 rare Persian, Mughal Indian and Ottoman Turkish illustrated
manuscripts spanning from the 13th to 18th century. These provide a rare overview of Persian
calligraphy, illumination and miniature painting from one of the richest periods in the history
of the book.
Love and Devotion shows the many representations of human and divine love within the great
narratives and poetry of Persian literature. Classic love stories by writers such as Nizami and
Jami, as well as Firdawsi’s Shahnamah, or Book of Kings, Persia’s great literary epic, are exhibited.
Visitors can see works from the great Sufi poets such as ‘Attar, Rumi and Hafiz, which have been
enormously popular in the West as well as the East.
Acknowledgements
Love and Devotion: From Persia and beyond is based on an exhibition curated by Susan Scollay
and Clare Williamson for the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne. This presentation of
the exhibition has been curated by Alasdair Watson, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts at the
Bodleian Library.
Follow us on twitter
@bodleianlibs #BODlove
explore tHe online exHiBition
The Bodleian Library exhibition website:
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/exhibitions/online/love-and-devotion
The State Library of Victoria exhibition website:
http://exhibitions.slv.vic.gov.au/love-and-devotion
lunCHtiMe leCtures
Free admission - All welcome
AdMission
free
A programme of lunchtime lectures support the exhibition. Full details and how to book can
be found on page 6.
Love and Devotion Exhibition
puBliCAtion
A lavishly illustrated companion volume, Love and Devotion: from Persia
and beyond, by Susan Scollay is also available.
The book can be purchased in the
Bodleian Shop or online at
www.bodleianbookshop.co.uk
Hardback, 240 pp,
135 colour illustrations,
ISBN: 9781851242788, £40
MerCHAndise
The Bodleian Shop offers a striking new range of exhibition-related gifts
for sale, also available from our website: www.bodleianshop.co.uk
Love and Devotion
Notecard Box Set £19.95
visit tHe
BodleiAn sHop
weBsite
www.bodleianshop.co.uk
Conference of the Birds
Poster £6.25
Exhibition
Conference of the Birds. From c Attar, Mantiq al-Tayr, 1493. Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Elliott 246, fol. 25v (detail). In association with the State Library of Victoria, Australia. Designed and published by Zetta Florence Trading Pty Ltd 2011. All rights reserved
A5 Journal – Preparations for
a Royal Picnic £10.50
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Events
Talks and Lectures
free AdMission – All welCoMe
13.00 - 13.30 Convocation House, Old Bodleian
Please note that places are limited in Convocation House (100 places per lecture), so we
recommend booking in advance via the Bodleian Library website: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/events.
However, if places are still available on the day, early arrival might secure you a place.
leCtures to ACCoMpAny tHe
exHiBition ‘love And devotion:
froM persiA And Beyond’
(see pages 4-5)
Wednesday, 16 January
Divine Ascent: Prophet, Poets, Pilgrim
Birds, and the Art of Illustrating the
Unutterable
Rafal Stepien (Academic Visitor, Wadham
College, Oxford)
Wednesday, 13 February
Love and Devotion: Epic and Romance
Barbara Brend (Independent Scholar, London)
Wednesday, 6 March
Sa‛di’s Love Poetry
Homa Katouzian (Faculty of Oriental Studies,
Oxford)
leCture to ACCoMpAny tHe displAy
‘eArly enGlisH CHildHood’
(see page 15)
Wednesday, 23 January
Early English Childhood in the Bodleian
Collections
Nicholas Orme (Emeritus Professor of
History, Exeter University)
If you have any enquiries regarding our talks and lectures,
please contact us on:
E-mail: rsvp@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 277000
lunCHtiMe leCture
To mark the 400th anniversary of
Sir Thomas Bodley’s death
Wednesday, 30 January
Our Debt to Sir Thomas Bodley
(1545-1613)
David Vaisey CBE (Bodley’s Librarian Emeritus)
leCture to ACCoMpAny tHe world
BooK dAy displAy At tHe BodleiAn
(see page 14)
Thursday, 7 March
Early Children’s Books in the Opie and
Other Collections in the Bodleian Library
Clive Hurst (Head of Rare Books & Printed
Ephemera, Bodleian Library)
leCture to ACCoMpAny tHe
displAy ‘MexiCo: froM piCture to
print’ (see page 15)
Thursday, 14 March
Mexico: from Picture to Print
Dr Clive Griffin (Retired University Lecturer
in Latin American Literature, Fellow of Trinity
College, Oxford)
ALL OUR LECTURES
ARE FREE AND OPEN
TO THE PUBLIC.
ADVANCED BOOKING
RECOMMENDED ON:
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/events
Friends of the Bodleian Lunchtime Lectures
free AdMission – All welCoMe
13.00-13.30 Convocation House
Tuesday, 12 February
Pretty Tales and Pretty Things: some neglected children’s books from
the second half of the long eighteenth century
David Hounslow
Tuesday, 5 March
Historical collections from European religious houses now in the
Bodleian Library
Dr Cristina Dondi (Faculty of History and of Medieval and Modern
Languages, Oxford)
Wine and sandwiches will be served in Chancellor’s Court after each
lecture at a cost of £7 per person, for which bookings should be made
and paid for in advance at fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk or 01865 277234.
tHe oxford seMinArs in CArtoGrApHy
20th Annual series
Thursday, 31 January
The Military Survey of Scotland (1747-1755): a family affair?
Rachel Hewitt (Wolfson College, Oxford)
17.00 - 18.30 Oxford Centre for the Environment, South Parks
Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY
Thursday, 21 February
TOSCA Field Trip – Mapping the Spheres: a visit to Oriel
College Library and Archives
Space limited on the field trip - for further details, please contact:
nick.millea@bodleian.ox.ac.uk or 01865 287119
supported By:
The Friends of TOSCA, ESRI (UK) Ltd
Oxford Cartographers
The British Cartographic Society
The Charles Close Society
The School of Geography and the Environment
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Events
Top: The Golden Primer, 1815, an
early hand-coloured battledore, or
alphabet card.
Bottom: Sir Thomas Bodley

Events
Camouflaged warship - sketch passed to Lewis Harcourt at a Cabinet meeting, Feb. 1915
Modern politiCAl pApers MAsterClAsses - AutHorsHip, MeMory &
MAnusCripts
17.00 – 18.00 Colin Matthew Seminar Rooms, History Faculty building (entrance: New Inn
Hall Street)
The seminars explore key Bodleian documents in the modern political manuscript collections
used by the speakers in their current research. For this third series each seminar has a guest
chair. In place of a seminar on 4 March there is a joint Bodleian Library, History Faculty and
OUP/Oxford Dictionary of National Biography event marking the life of Jim Callaghan, Baron
Callaghan (1912-2005) on Thursday, 7 March (see separate listing on the next page)
Monday, 21 January
Researching the life of R H Tawney (1880-1962), historian and political thinker
Dr Lawrence Goldman (St Peter’s College, Oxford, and editor of the Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography)
Chair: Professor Jose Harris (St Catherine’s College, Oxford)
Monday, 4 February
Policy from Below: The UN and the Congo Crisis (1960-1964), research at Oxford’s United
Nations Career Records Project
Dr Teresa Tomas Rangil (Jesus College, Oxford)
Chair: Dr Patricia Clavin (Jesus College, Oxford)
Monday, 18 February
Asquith’s Cabinet at War: the unofficial journal of Lewis Harcourt 1914-1916
Mike Webb (Department of Special Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Chair: Professor Hew Strachan (Chichele Professor of the History of War, All Souls College,
Oxford)
Special Seminar
17.30 – 20.00 Convocation House and Divinity School
Thursday, 7 March
Jim Callaghan Remembered: Centenary Reflections on Callaghan,
Labour and Britain since 1912
A joint event presented by the Bodleian Library, the History Faculty,
University of Oxford, and Oxford University Press/Dictionary of
National Biography marking the life of Jim Callaghan, Baron Callaghan
(1912-2005). A leading campaigner against British colonialism during
the 1950s, Callaghan became one of the key figures in the Wilson
governments, 1964-70 and 1974-6 holding all three of the most senior
Cabinet posts: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary, and
Foreign Secretary. From 1976 to 1979 he served as Prime Minister. In
retirement he was an active Elder Statesman. His private papers in the
Bodleian Library are a major historical resource.
17.30 Centenary event. Speakers include Baroness Jay, Lord
Hattersley, Lord Morgan, and Andrew Smith, MP. The event is
chaired by Dr Lawrence Goldman, editor of Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography.
18.45 Reception
Further information
from the convenor
of the seminars,
Helen Langley,
Curator of Modern
Political Papers.
E-mail: helen.langley@
bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 277147
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Events
Top: Undated (1950s) photograph of
Jim Callaghan
Left: Extract from Lord Callaghan’s
Ruskin anniversary Speech, London,
October 1996

Information
Visit the Bodleian Library
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Old Schools Quadrangle, Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library was founded by Sir Thomas Bodley and officially opened in 1602. Today,
together with the other libraries which serve the University of Oxford, the Bodleian is the
largest university library in the UK. In its reading rooms generations of famous scholars have
studied through the ages, amongst them five monarchs, 40 Nobel Prize winners, 26 British
Prime Ministers and writers including Oscar Wilde, CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. The Bodleian
Library is also a major visitor attraction drawing over 300,000 visitors a year.
experienCe And enJoy
The Bodleian welcomes visitors to see its iconic buildings and learn about the Library’s history
and its vast collections. Whether you have just half an hour or half a day to spare, there is always
a chance to explore the historic buildings and quadrangles.
You may wish to see the magnificent Divinity School at your own pace, take a self-guided audio
tour or book a guided tour.
our world fAMous BuildinGs inClude:
• The Old Schools Quadrangle with its magnificent buildings and monumental Tower of the
Five Orders of Architecture
• The Divinity School, a masterpiece of English Gothic architecture with its beautiful carved
stone ceiling - the oldest teaching room and the first examination school of the University of
Oxford
• The 17th-century Convocation House, where Parliament was held during the Civil War,
and Chancellor’s Court
• The medieval Duke Humfrey’s Library, our oldest reading room
• The Radcliffe Camera, the first rotunda library built in Britain
• The Gladstone Link, the former underground bookstacks beneath the Radcliffe Square and
the tunnel between the Bodleian Library and the Radcliffe Camera.
Tours at a glance
dAily tours
We offer a range of daily tours varying in length between 30 and 60 minutes
and led by our guides. All include a visit to Duke Humfrey’s Library.
extended tours
Extended tours take 90 minutes and include a visit to the Divinity
School, Convocation House, Chancellor’s Court, the Old Schools
Quadrangle, Duke Humfrey’s Library and the Radcliffe Camera.
GuIDED TOurs
30-minute mini tour £4.50
60-minute standard tour £6.50
90-minute extended tour (can be booked in advance) £13.00
AuDIO TOurs (sELf GuIDED)
Individual Ticket £2.50
Family Ticket (2 adults and up to 3 children) £6.00
DIvINITy scHOOL vIsIT (sELf GuIDED)
Individual Ticket £1.00
Individual Ticket with introductory talk
(must be booked in advance) £2.00
fAmILy vIsIT DIvINITy scHOOL
(Includes Thomas Bodley’s children’s trail sheet)
Admits 2 adults and up to 3 children £3.50
All tours are subject to availability. Groups must be booked in advance.
Children aged 11 and over may join guided tours.
TOur vOucHEr
Visit the Bodleian Library in January or February 2013 for a
one-hour guided tour for just £5 per person
when 2 people book (usual price £6.50).
Tickets are sold from 9am on the day on a first-come first-served basis,
when you present this voucher. Please check in advance for times and dates.
Groups (10-13 people) must be booked in advance.
Please ask for a booking form, quoting wHAtson2013
Call 01865- 277224 or see www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Offer subject to availability and in exchange for voucher only. No copies.
Normal terms and conditions also apply.
for More
inforMAtion
on tours pleAse
ContACt:
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 277224
Email: tours@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/visitors
Top: Old Schools Quadrangle
Bottom: Duke Humfrey’s Library
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Information

Events
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friends of tHe BodleiAn
williAM sHAKespeAre’s
twelftH niGHt,
or wHAt you will
Saturday 9 February 2013 at 7pm
Divinity School, Bodleian Library, Oxford
performed by sovereign Arts, a theatre
company comprising current students and
alumni of the university of oxford as part of the
royal shakespeare Company’s open stages project.
it is produced in association with thelma Holt.
A pre-performance panel discussion involving a
number of high-profile speakers will take place at
5pm in Convocation House, bodleian library.
light refreshments will be served between
4.30pm and 5pm in the divinity school.
tiCKets: £30 (performance) and £5 (pre-performance talk) are available from the
Friends of the Bodleian office: 01865 277234 or fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
What’s Online
redisCoverinG ryCote
The history of a lost Tudor
mansion
Rycote Park website -
COMiNG SOON.
Rediscovering Rycote is a project
which centres upon Rycote Park,
Oxfordshire, and its associated
owners and their families who
have played a key role in local
and national events and the
project explores these connections
through illustrated biographical
guides of key personalities. The
project website will incorporate a
diverse selection of digital images
of drawings, maps, music, letters,
accounts and inventories from the
Bodleian’s collections to present an
illustrated history of Rycote Park.
oxford-GooGle
diGitizAtion reACHes
Milestone
The Bodleian Libraries’ books
digitized by Google, as part of
the Oxford-Google Digitization
project established in 2004, are
now fully available to the academic
community and the general
public for the first time. Much
of the material that the Bodleian
collaboratively digitized with
Google has only been available in
“snippet” or “metadata-only” view
to users of Google Books outside
the US. By making the Bodleian
copy of the digitized books available
online, the material becomes fully
available to all users in PDF format.
This feature has proved popular
since its soft launch in March last
year. From the initial load of about
335 thousand books, users from
all over the world have made over
60,000 downloads.
Now the materials digitized are
being added to SOLO, the online
catalogue of Oxford’s collections
(http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk).
Making these digitized works
accessible via SOLO enables
the Bodleian to provide a direct
link between the digital version
and the physical item scanned,
which can be very important for
researchers who need to work
with a particular copy of a text.
Moreover, the Bodleian Libraries
are working on providing enhance
functionality such as improved
scans or better full-text searching.
‘Google Books is revolutionising
- and significantly speeding
up - the process of research. As
a historical researcher now, I
use it regularly for preliminary
research and bibliographical
purposes and I’m thrilled that
so many rare and older texts are
now being made fully available
online through the Oxford-
Google digitization project.’
Dr Nazneen Ahmed,
Research Assistant, COMPAS/
Department of History
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What’s Online
Top: South East view of Rycote Chapel,
Oxfordshire
Bottom: Rycote Park

Special Event
Shirley Hughes at the Bodleian
The Golden Primer, 1815, an early hand-coloured battledore, or alphabet card.
10.00 – 16.00 Divinity School, Bodleian Library
Thursday, 7 March
LUNCHTIME LECTURE (see page 6)
To celebrate the acquisition of the Shirley Hughes archive, the Bodleian will mark World Book
Day 2013 with a small display of original drawings and manuscripts featuring Alfie, Dogger and
other favourites by this much loved children’s author and illustrator.
Shirley Hughes, an award-winning children’s author and illustrator, deposited her collection
of original artwork with the Bodleian Library in September 2012. It contains sketches and
paintings from many of her works including the Alfie and My Naughty Little Sister collections,
Dogger, and Ella’s Big Chance. It was when Ms Hughes was studying at Oxford’s Ruskin
School of Drawing and Fine Art that she was encouraged to work in the format for which she
became famous.
Each year the Library celebrates World Book Day by exhibiting its great treasures. Past displays
include:
The Gutenberg Bible (2004);
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the autograph manuscripts (2005);
Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ (2006);
The original Wind in the Willows: the centenary of a children’s masterpiece (2007);
The Creation as told in the Torah, the Bible and the Qur’an (2008);
Uncommon Readers: St Margaret of Scotland to Queen Elizabeth I (2009);
There and Back Again: The Hobbit (2010);
John le Carré’s newly bequeathed archive (2011);
Jane Austen material (2012).
Temporary Displays - AdMission free
The Romance of Alexander
Entrance Hall (Proscholium)
eArly enGlisH CHildHood
12 January – 17 February
The history of children entered a new era between about 1300 and 1500. Illuminated
manuscripts began to feature historic children, such as Christ and the young Virgin Mary, and
children of the period playing various kinds of games. More literature was written for children,
ranging from Latin schoolbooks to Chaucer’s Astrolabe, courtesy books and the humorous story
The Friar and the Boy. The Bodleian Library has rich holdings in these areas, a selection of which
will be on display in the Proscholium during January, with an accompanying lunchtime lecture
by Canon Professor Nicholas Orme (see page 6).
MexiCo: froM piCture to print
23 February – 31 March
The first printing press in the Americas began operating in what would become Mexico City
in 1540, a good hundred years before the English colonies in the Americas. This display
showcases a number of early printed books from Mexico, including volumes in indigenous
languages such as Nahuatl and Zapotec. The books reflect the history of printing in the
New World, as well as exploring themes of travel and discovery. The centrepiece of the
exhibition, however, will not be a printed book. The Codex Mendoza, commissioned by
Antonio de Mendoza, first Viceroy of Mexico 1535−1550, is one of the treasures of the
Bodleian. As well as copies of a lost chronicle of the Aztec lords of Tenochtitlan, and an
ancient Tribute Roll, this fascinating manuscript depicts Aztec life from birth to death in
traditional Aztec pictograms, with annotations in Spanish made by a Nahuatl-speaking
Spanish priest. A lunchtime lecture accompanies this display (see page 6).
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Corporate and private events, weddings and receptions
tHe BodleiAn liBrAry is liCensed
for Civil weddinGs And
Civil pArtnersHip CereMonies
Historic Venues Office
01865 277224
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Celebrations at the
Bodleian Library
picture by Justa Milinska
Bodleian Library Publishing - new titles
Roy Strong: Self-Portrait as a Young Man
Roy Strong
For nearly half a century, Roy Strong has been at the forefront of the arts
world in Britain. Yet remarkably little is known about his life prior to
the Swinging Sixties, when he burst onto the scene as the revolutionary
young director of the National Portrait Gallery at the age of just thirtyone.
In this book, richly illustrated with drawings, letters, photographs
and other archival material, he recounts for the first time the story of his
social origins and the roots of his life-long passion for the culture and
history of England.
Price £25.00 hb, March
Ware’s Victorian Dictionary of Slang and Phrase
J. Redding Ware with an introduction by John Simpson
Ware’s dictionary, first published in 1909, is a treasure trove of the words
and phrases of everyday English from the 19th century. Reproduced in
facsimile with an introduction by John Simpson, Chief Editor of the
Oxford English Dictionary, this eminently readable dictionary provides
a fascinating and highly entertaining witness to the colourful history of
unofficial English.
Price £25.00 hb, March
Oxford Literary Festival 2013
Come along to the fascinating talks by Bodleian authors speaking about
their books, including Roy Strong (in conversation with Brian Sewell),
Michael Phillips – Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Jeremy Barlow
– A Dance Through Time, Melanie King – Can Onions Cure Ear-ache?
and Christopher de Hamel – Bibles.
More information and bookings from
http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/
16 -24 March
Request a catalogue, or place an order:
Tel: 01767 604968
Email: publishing@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Web: www.bodleianbookshop.co.uk
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Publishing

Friends
Friends of the Bodleian
Friends of the Bodleian – the oldest
organization of this kind – helps the Library
enrich its collections with unique manuscripts
and rare books which would otherwise
be beyond its reach. Notable acquisitions
include: a 14th-century manuscript Book of
Hours, the Sheldon tapestry map, autographs
of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Jane Austen’s
The Watsons, Felix Mendelssohn’s Hebrides
overture and Franz Kafka’s letters. The Friends
also support preservation of the priceless
collections and explain their significance
through lectures as well as literary, musical
and other events.
wHy not Join us todAy And
enJoy A rAnGe of Benefits:
• Free lectures on the Library’s history,
buildings, collections and services, and on
more general cultural topics
• Literary and musical evenings with eminent
figures discussing their work
• Private views of the Library’s exhibitions
Events and other events
• Special tours of the Library and visits to
other libraries in Oxford and elsewhere
• Two issues per year of the Friends’ Newsletter
• Opportunity to take guests to visit Arts End
in Duke Humfrey’s Library
• 10% discount on a Bodleian reader’s ticket,
subject to the Library’s normal admission
requirements
• 10% discount in the Library Shop
• 10% discount in the Bodleian café
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• Life membership £700
• Dual Life membership £1100
14th-century manuscript Book of Hours for use
at St George’s church built in Oxford in 1074
for More inforMAtion pleAse visit:
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/friends or contact the Friends’ Administrator:
Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG Tel: (0) 1865 277234/277596
Email: fob@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Calendar of Events
JAnuAry event pAGe
Wednesday, 16 LECTURE: Divine Ascent: Prophet, Poets, Pilgrim Birds, 6
January
and the Art of Illustrating the Unutterable
Monday, 21 MASTERCLASS: Researching the life of R H Tawney 8
January
(1880-1962), historian and political thinker
Wednesday, 23
January
LECTURE: Early English Childhood in the Bodleian 6
Wednesday, 30
January
LECTURE: Our Debt to Sir Thomas Bodley (1545- 1613) 6
Thursday, 31 SEMINAR: The Military Survey of Scotland (1747-1755): 6
January
A family affair?
feBruAry
Monday, 4
February
Tuesday, 12
February
Wednesday, 13
February
Monday, 18
February
Thursday, 21
February
MASTERCLASS: Policy from Below: The UN and the 8
Congo Crisis (1960-1964), research at Oxford’s United
Nations Career Records Project
FOB LECTURE: Pretty Tales and Pretty Things: some 7
neglected children’s books from the second half of the long
eighteenth century
LECTURE: Love and Devotion: Epic and Romance 6
MASTERCLASS: Asquith’s Cabinet at War: the unofficial
journal of Lewis Harcourt 1914-1916
TOSCA FIELD TRIP: Mapping the Spheres: a visit to Oriel
College Library and Archives
MArCH
Tuesday, 5 FOB LECTURE: Historical collections from European 7
March
religious houses now in the Bodleian Library
Wednesday, 6
March
LECTURE: Sa‛di’s Love Poetry 6
Thursday, 7
March
DISPLAY AND LECTURE: World Book Day 14, 6
Thursday, 7 SEMINAR: Jim Callaghan Remembered: Centenary 9
March
Reflections on Callaghan, Labour and Britain since 1912
Thursday, 14
March
LECTURE: Mexico: from Picture to Print 6
16-24 March Oxford Literary Festival 17
For more details, please visit our website: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/events
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trAnsforMinG And supportinG
tHe BodleiAn
The major restoration and renovation of the New Bodleian Library on
Broad Street continue apace. Now in the construction phase, with the
countdown underway to reopening to the public as the Weston Library
in 2015, it is not long now until all visitors will enjoy exhibitions in
new specially-designed galleries and events in the auditorium. The
redevelopment will also ensure high-quality storage for the valuable
special collections and space for the support of advanced research.
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