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Out of the ordinary: getting digital with Shakespeare’s dead, Tolkien’s tongue and the Bodleian’s…

The Bodleian Digital Comms team is no stranger to developing out of the ordinary content. Want to represent all of the varied and gruesome…

Apr 23, 2019

Out of the ordinary: getting digital with Shakespeare’s dead, Tolkien’s tongue and the Bodleian’s…

Apr 23, 2019

The Bodleian Libraries

Morris and Horace

William Morris, who died on 3 October 1896, was a lifelong lover of illuminated books. Not only a collector of fine manuscripts, Morris…

Oct 3, 2018

Morris and Horace

Oct 3, 2018

The Bodleian Libraries

BookSquashing 2: Objects made to be used

“Okay… go!”

Aug 7, 2018

BookSquashing 2: Objects made to be used

Aug 7, 2018

The Bodleian Libraries

Booksquashing

Digitization tends to squash things. It quite literally turns three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional ones. It’s not as bad as it…

Jul 31, 2018

Booksquashing

Jul 31, 2018

The Bodleian Libraries

The briefcase

Whilst clearing out the Girdlestone Memorial Library storeroom, in the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, we found more than our fair share of…

Jun 21, 2018

The briefcase

Jun 21, 2018

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Tolkien’s maps of Middle-earth translated into interactive 3D model

Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien Archivist at the Bodleian Libraries, writes.

May 31, 2018

Tolkien’s maps of Middle-earth translated into interactive 3D model

May 31, 2018

The Bodleian Libraries

Zeppelins and radio waves

Air-raids are often considered a phenomenon of the 1940s but this simple map from 1916 shows they also took place during the First Word…

Apr 25, 2018

Zeppelins and radio waves

Apr 25, 2018

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Made especially for Maker of Middle-earth

With the opening of the exhibition now only three months away, pressure is building on the various teams within the library, tasked with…

Mar 2, 2018

Made especially for Maker of Middle-earth

Mar 2, 2018

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Tolkien’s true love story and the legend it inspired

January was always a special month for Tolkien. He celebrated his own birthday on the 3rd and his wife Edith’s birthday on the 21st. It was…

Feb 1, 2018

Tolkien’s true love story and the legend it inspired

Feb 1, 2018

The Bodleian Libraries

Is there actually a GOOD reason to shelve your books ‘backwards’?

If the internet is to be believed, hip people are shelving their books in a very unexpected way right now.

Jan 19, 2018

Is there actually a GOOD reason to shelve your books ‘backwards’?

Jan 19, 2018

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