Professor Adam Smyth talks to cataloguer Lucy Kelsall and book conservator Nikki Tomkins about the seventeenth-century library of Nicholas Crouch, now in Balliol College, and how to deal with fragile books.
Hand-press printing
A demonstration of and discussion about hand-press printing with the Bodleian's Dr Paul Nash.
Emma Smith uses evidence of early reception and from more recent productions to discuss the question of whether Katherine is tamed at the end of the play.
A podcast with Michael Scott and Marchella Ward This episode of the Staging the Archive podcast brings together Professor Michael Scott (Warwick) and Dr Marchella Ward (Oxford), to discuss the problematic idea of 'Western Civilisation' and how this plays out when looking at moder ...Show more
Join renowned playwrights Alecky Blythe (London Road, Little Revolution), Howard Brenton (Pravda, Never So Good), Natasha Gordon (Nine Night), and Conor McPherson (The Weir, Girl from the North Country) and publisher Nick Hern, to explore how playwriting has – and hasn’t – change ...Show more