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In The Footsteps of Marie-Antoinette

In The Footsteps Of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 2

Catriona Seth, visits Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, built in the 19th century by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, a great collector of 18th century decorative arts, especially objects associated with Marie-Antoinette.
In The Footsteps of Marie-Antoinette

In the Footsteps of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 1

Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford, visits the Wallace Collection in London on the trail of objects that once belonged to Marie-Antoinette.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience

Sandra Mayer, author of Oscar Wilde in Vienna, argues it was his willingness to both please and tease his audience. His plays skilfully manoeuvre between conformism and subversion, conventionality and innovation.
Alumni Voices

Foreign correspondent Bethany Bell (Keble, 1987)

BBC journalist Bethany Bell shares her love of Vienna and talks about her experiences as a reporter in this first interview in a new podcast series.
Alumni Weekend

Cultural Frontier: Early 20th Century Vienna

Re-visiting the time of Freud, Klimt and Schönberg, the Alumni Weekend panel surveys and analyse this unique period in Vienna’s history and in Western culture.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Gustav Klimt and secessionist Vienna

Vienna around 1900 witnessed a vital and anxious surge in art, design, literature and music. This creativity also inspired psychological investigations into the inner self and dreams, most famously by Sigmund Freud.

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