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Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Encaenia - Now and Then

Archive footage of Oxford University's Encaenia ceremony
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Wartime Oxford - June 1943 and 1944

Archive film of Oxford from June 1943 and June 1944
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

High Street - Now and Then

Archive film footage of High Street, Oxford from 1937 and 1944.
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Rules and Regulations

Archival film uncovers the quirky dos and don'ts that governed student life in the golden age of the 1920s and 30s.
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Cycling Through Time

Archive footage of cycling through the busy streets of Oxford and Cowley in the 1920s, 40s, and 50s.
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

St Giles' Fair

The changing faces of St Giles' Fair. In this episode we look at St Giles' Fair which is held for two days in September in the heart of the city.
How Epidemics End
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Carolyn Eastman on Yellow Fever in New York

Dr Carolyn Eastman (VCU) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how epidemics of yellow fever ended in 1790s New York, and the multiple ends of an epidemic for different parts of a society.
Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar
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Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? The Social Reality behind Kha stag ʼDzam yag’s "Diary" and Lhag pa Don grub’s "Life of a mule driver"

Fictional Facts or Factual Fiction? Lucia Galli's talk on self-representation and the social reality behind two Tibetan memoirs
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Oxford at War in 1944

In this 2nd episode, we collate rare colour Oxfordshire footage shot in 1944 by US airforce officers. Film clips concentrate on the social life in Oxford city centre, Wallingford, Dorchester, Abingdon and surrounding villages.
Keble College

The Ralph Walter History Lecture: Keble, Oxford, Britain, and the World

The Different Scales of Modern History.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Germs Revisited

On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (Medical Sciences Division) on the subject of Germs Revisited.
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Oxford At War: Footage from Mount Farm Airbase

World War Two arrives in Oxford in this episode, using never before seen Oxford footage from a US Flight Surgeon for the 14th Photo Reconnaissance Unit at Mount Farm Airbase, Dorchester. Includes colour and monochrome film from 1944.
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Oxford: Then and Now

We compare and contrast locations in and around the city from the 1940s, and the present day. How have the places and people changed? How present is the Second World War in 1940s Oxford? After 70 years how different is Oxford?
Oxford on Film: From Attic to Archive

Attic to Archive - Welcome to the Dreaming Spools Project

In this episode we take you on a trip through time as we introduce a selection of the archive film footage that the Dreaming Spools project has discovered.
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Furniture Behind the Wire

An examination of the material culture and social history of the German internees held on the Isle of Man, who made furniture designed by CR Mackintosh for the Northampton home of the Bassett-Lowke family between 1916 and 1919.

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