An animated short produced by Oxford researcher Sally Bayley is being screened at film festivals worldwide, including the London Short Films Festival and the Berlin British Shorts Festival.
The Oxford Slade Lectures 2015 will be on the subject of printmaking before photography, it has been announced.
Antony Griffiths, former Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, will give eight lectures under the title, ‘The print before photography: The European print in the age of the copper plate and wooden block'.
What has the Bodleian received for Christmas? A spectacular travel-sized library that once belonged to Prince Charles, later King Charles I.
It has been bequeathed by John McLaren Emmerson, DPhil (Oxon), to mark the part played by the University and City in the English Civil War, and in grateful recollection of many enjoyable and informative visits to the Bodleian.
A major exhibition on the 18th century poet and artist William Blake opens at the Ashmolean Museum today, featuring his illuminated books and manuscripts as well as a recreation of his studio.
Renowned tenor Ian Bostridge was in Oxford last week as the Humanitas Visiting Professor of Classical Music and Music Education.
To an audience of students, academics and interested members of the public, he gave a lecture entitled "Why Winterreise? Schubert's Song Cycle, Then and Now" and led a masterclass/open rehearsal and an all-day symposium.
Adventures on the Bookshelf is a popular blog for school students interested in studying French at university. It is run by Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and has received more than a quarter of a million hits in its first year, with readers in more than 100 countries.
Over the last few days, media outlets from Fox News to Russia Today have reported on a new book claiming to have uncovered a previously censored ‘fifth gospel’ which they say reveals that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and they had
Sunday 9 November was the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The event was marked by thousands of illuminated balloons installed along the former course of the wall. On Sunday evening, the balloons were released into the sky.
