Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have only had three chair designs in the past 400 years. Here’s the latest. “After spending a day at the library it became apparent there are some pretty unusual ...

What's the connection between the World Cup and the Bodleian Library? The august Oxford University institution is involving itself in questions more usually discussed in the pub, after being given the ...

This year marks five centuries since the death of Aldus Manutius, an Italian humanist who forever changed the direction of publishing, and got in one of its first copyright squabbles. Aldus was a ...

One titillating, new library collection has the whole world watching. The University of Oxford's Bodleian Library exhibit, Story of Phi: Restricted Books, displays a collection of "obscene" literature ...

Where can you find locks of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s and Mary Shelley’s hair alongside the fragments of Sappho’s poetry? At the Bodleain Libraries in Oxford, England. And also in the book “Marks of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 60 Hebrew, Arabic and Latin medieval manuscripts from England's Bodleian Library in Oxford will be displayed, most for the first time in the United States, in a new ...

This book is about a family romance: of Oliver Wardrop (1864-1948) and his sister Marjory Scott Wardrop (1869-1909) with Georgia. Oliver first visited the country in 1884 (when it was part of the ...

A British philanthropist has given $2.2-million to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries to expand efforts to digitize their vast collection of books and manuscripts. The gift, by the ...

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