Millions of books from Oxford's Bodleian Library, one of the largest and most famous in the world, will soon be on the move – from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the rather more pragmatic ...

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 ...

Gerrit van Honthorst, Portrait of Princess Palatine Elizabeth, oil on canvas; Richard Rothwell, Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840-43), oil on board (all images courtesy the Bodleian ...

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 ...

Camilla Turner is The Sunday Telegraph's Political Editor. Her previous roles at The Telegraph include Chief Political Correspondent and Education Editor. As a news reporter, she travelled across ...

A Bicester distillery has created the first ever Bodleian Library gin. Sky Wave Distillery at Bicester Motion has produced a premium London Dry gin for the world-famous Oxford University library.

I’ve got a secret vice. I love to visit rare book rooms and leaf through the pages of 16th-century traveller’s tales or 15th-century editions of Petrarch with their brilliantly coloured pictures. Once ...

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