Researchers at work in Bodleian archives and historic collections

Researchers share the questions they are examining with the help of archival and book collections of the Bodleian Libraries.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Elite Folktales: An Exquisite Sixteenth-Century Persian Illustrated Manuscript in the Bodleian Library’s Ouseley Collection	A conversation with Dr Nasrin Askari, Bahari Visiting Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book 2016 & Alasdair Watson, Bahari Curator of Persian Collections, Bodleian Library	Nasrin Askari, Alasdair Watson	8 July, 2016
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.	Jessica Clark	13 October, 2015
Pax Canadiana: Canada, the Commonwealth, and the End of Empire	Dr McKercher is Royal Bank of Canada Visiting Scholar at the Bodleian Library. His research explores Canadian reactions to the demise of the British imperial order, looking at Canadian foreign relations beyond the North Atlantic.	Asa McKercher, Richard Ovenden, Margaret MacMillan	13 June, 2014
Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London	Marie-Claude Felton, a Royal Bank of Canada-Bodleian Visiting Scholar in 2013-14, describes her research on the legal and business history of self-publishing in the eighteenth century.	Marie-Claude Felton	5 June, 2014
Ether and Wireless: an Old Medium into New Media	Jaume Navarro (Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, 2013) talks about the influence of the idea of the 'ether', an all-pervading substance, in the history of wireless communication.	Jaume Navarro, Guglielmo Marconi	15 May, 2014