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Bodleian Libraries
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    Jan 21, 2020
    It's a novel approach.
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    Jan 1, 2023
    Happy New Year! This is Queen Elizabeth's Geneva Bible (1583) It was presented to Queen Elizabeth I of England by the printer Christopher Barker on New Year's Day, 1584. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/db9330…
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    Jan 30, 2019
    We really certainly assuredly definitely decidedly honestly truly deeply surely awfully terribly frightfully eminently remarkably positively heartily extraordinarily immensely downright love looking through the many Thesauruses in our collections.
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    Aug 30, 2019
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    Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first was probably purchased in Geneva, the second several months later in England. They were later disbound, and now exist as single sheets, which we have digitized for your online perusal. shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/Frankenstein-n…
    A notebook containing Mary Shelley's manuscript draft of Frankenstein.
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    Oct 25, 2016
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    Oct 25, 2016
    Could the Bodleian Library become bookless in the future? bit.ly/2eBjhWu @UniofOxford @bodleianlibs #library
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    Dec 8, 2024
    At least all this rain means more twinkling lights! Here's the Christmas Tree reflected on the paving stones in the Old Quad.
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    Dec 13, 2018
    The BBC and Netflix: Our new Watership Down contains intense scenes of rabbit violence and death. Medieval manuscripts: hold my spear.
    Images of rabbits from medieval manuscripts showing rabbits with spears, bows and arrows and humans on poles.
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    May 24, 2016
    It's another beautiful day! Why not spend all of it indoors. In our libraries. In the dark.
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    Nov 8, 2025
    Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚 The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602... This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
    An intricate engraving depicting the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, featuring detailed architectural elements and figures in classical attire in the foreground.
    Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, surrounded by historic buildings and walkways, with a cloudy sky above.
    View of the historic architecture of the Bodleian Library and Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, featuring intricate stonework and classical design elements.
    Architectural engraving of the interior of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, showing detailed depiction of bookshelves, arched windows, and a central circular area with statues.
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    Nov 8, 2021
    Happy 419th birthday to us! 🎂 We attribute our longevity to voracious reading - and pilchards. Feel free to send cake our way today. (No candles though please - we really don't want to have to build up our collections again from scratch.) visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/plan-your-visi…
    Inside the atmospheric Duke Humfreys Library
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    Mar 4, 2021
    Kicking off #WorldBookDay with our smallest, largest, longest and rarest. This is the 'German ABC' published in 1971. At just 3x2.5 mm it was once the smallest book in the world. It is NOT the smallest in our collection.
    The tiny German ABC
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    Nov 8, 2024
    IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY!
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    University of Oxford
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    Nov 8, 2024
    #OnThisDay in 1602, the Bodleian Library first opened its doors to scholars 📚 Happy birthday, @bodleianlibs 🎉
    View from inside the Duke Humfrey's Library.
    Looking up to the roof of the Radcliffe Camera.
    Interior of the Radcliffe Camera, featuring ornate architectural details, circular layout, and rows of wooden desks with books.
    View of the Bodleian Library's courtyard at Oxford University, featuring historic stone buildings and a central statue enclosed by a fence.
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    Bodleian Libraries
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    Nov 8, 2022
    Today we turn 420! 🎉 A good excuse for a birthday stroll up to the roof of the Radcliffe Camera.
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    Dec 22, 2024
    In at number 8 in our most popular posts of 2024 countdown, it's our first (but not our last!) tiny book appreciation post. Early printers would make miniature books as a practical challenge to showcase their skills. This #almanac captured your hearts (and it's easy to see why).
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