Hester Prynne, eat your heart out: naughty books previously on lock-down now on display
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Oxford University is in lust with The Scarlet Letter. As Matthew Taub delightfully tells us in Atlas Obscura, the University of Oxford’s… Read more »
Long lost—and angry! —Shelley poem found after 200 years
Not long after news broke that the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford had acquired a lost poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the library’s website crashed. It has been long acknowledged that as an… Read more »
Oxford and the Vatican launch digitization project
The Vatican City Library and the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University will soon be able to offer access to many of their rare and ancient texts online, thanks to a… Read more »
Bodleian Library acquires a classic of environmental literature
A draft of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “Binsey Poplars”—the last major Hopkins manuscript known to be in private hands—has been bought by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford… Read more »