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.
Graham Greene and Josephine Reid
Adam Smyth talks to Balliol College, Oxford archivist Anna Sander about an exciting new archive of letters relating to Graham Greene and his secretary, Josephine Reid.
Hand-press printing
A demonstration of and discussion about hand-press printing with the Bodleian's Dr Paul Nash.
Scribal correction and literary craft: English manuscripts 1375-1510
Adam Smyth talks to Professor Daniel Wakelin about his new book on cultures of correction in later medieval manuscripts. Adam Smyth talks to Professor Daniel Wakelin about his new book on cultures of correction in later medieval manuscripts.
'Almost Identical': Copying Books in England, 1600-1900
Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the history of facsimiles. Henry Woudhuysen joins Adam Smyth to discuss the subject of his 2014 Lyell Lectures in Bibliography, on the history of facsimiles, forgeries, and fantasies of authenticity.