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Victorian

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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BHM Lecture 2023: Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History

Dr Christienna Fryar, writer and independent historian of Britain and the Caribbean, tells the stories of two mixed-race Jamaican women and questions the fraught relationship between British history and Black British history.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction - The Lodger World

TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Dr Ushashi Dasgupta.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Unlocking the Church

Book at Lunchtime, Unlocking the Church
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Late Victorian into Modern

Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern
In Our Spare Times

The life of Oscar Wilde

Oxford students discuss the life of Oscar Wilde.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

In Pursuit of Beauty: Modern Guides to the Hair, Face, and Body, 1784-1933

Dr Jessica Clark discusses Victorian beauty practices with items from the Bodleian Libraries Special Collections.
Oscar Wilde

2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist

Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the modernist tradition.
Valentine's Day at Oxford

Love and Sex in Victorian Fiction

Victorian fiction is commonly thought of as treating love sentimentally and lacking all reference to sex. In this talk drawing on material from a book he is writing, Dr David Grylls, Fellow of Kellogg College, will contest such a view.
Challenging the Canon
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Why should we study Dickens?

Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and proposes why we should still study Dickens.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Dickens' Railways

Professor Stphen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on Charles Dickens' literature.
Great Writers Inspire

Oscar Wilde's Women

Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context.
Great Writers Inspire

Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling

Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of short stories'.
English Graduate Conference 2012

'Some exquisitely-dressed stage favourite': Shakespeare and the suffragettes

In this talk, Sophie Duncan examines suffragists' interactions with Shakespeare and his works, as performers, directors, consumers and critics.
Interviews on Great Writers

A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'.

Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. In her reading, she seeks out allusions to Shakespearean plays including Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. She then answers questions about the poem.
Great Writers Inspire

Why Dickens?

Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made his works so popular.
The History of Science Museum

Steampunk Exhibition

Short video about the Steampunk exhibition, from the Museum of the History of Science until February 2010 with the museum's director, Jim Bennett, explaining the various exhibits.

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