🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

The Bodleian Libraries’ Reader Survey is your chance to shape how we run our libraries. Your feedback drives real change—like improved Wi-Fi, more books, and better facilities. The results of our 2022 survey led to more than 50 improvements: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/librarie…

We are almost at the end of Hilary Term! 🥳 From today all books issued from the library won’t need to be returned until Tues 29th April (1st week, Trinity).💃🕺 blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/history/2025/0…

­­­Anatomy Jargon Dissected: Exploring Medical Terminology & Early Misconceptions of the Human Body at @RadcliffeSciLib on Tues 8 April. This event, hosted by Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, & the RSL is open to all University of Oxford members. ox-ac.libcal.com/calendar/rslev…

The Commons Journals are an invaluable source for our research. From 1835 onwards they can be accessed online here: parliament.uk/business/publi…

Due to a power outage in central Oxford some Bodleian libraries (The Weston Library, Radcliffe Camera, and the Old Bodleian) will close at 5pm today. SSE hope to restore power by 9.30pm.

The Radcliffe Science Library will be open until 7pm today, if anyone's looking for somewhere to work.😄

The Radcliffe Camera is now closed until Sun 25/4 (incl.). We will be open as normal 9am on Easter Monday 21/4. Please note however that there will be no book delivery service on this day. We hope you all have a wonderful long Easter weekend!

Our census reports area in the VRTI is coming along nicely. It's an ongoing process, but all reports are/will be searchable, browsable. Nice...

Join @brepols.bsky.social for a webinar introducing the new Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) interface. BBIH is a key resource to finding historical research 👍 28 April 2025 4-4.15pm, followed by Q&A More info and register at bit.ly/BBIHwebinar

⏳ There are still a few days left to register for the J.H. Elliott History Forum Inaugural Symposium “Early Modern History in the Making” (Exeter College, Oxford, 5-6 June). The registration deadline is 30 April 2025 (see the link below). history.ox.ac.uk/event/early-mo…

Calling all digital researchers! Join us for our May Doctoral Open Day on Digital Collections and Resources. From our newspaper archive to digital mapping and the use of collections data, find out more about how our collections can support your studies: bit.ly/BLOpenDayMay25

New Trial Database alert! Bodleian Readers can now access American History 1493-1945 until the 25th May 2025. Find out more via our blogpost: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/vhl/2025/05/07…

To mark #VEDay80, we've created a special page featuring VE Day stories, quotes and artefacts from the Their Finest Hour archive: 🔗theirfinesthour.english.ox.ac.uk/veday We'll also share highlights here, remembering #VEDay through the words and belongings of those who experienced it.

We are running a few trials for early modern & modern digital resources on #Britishtrade, #slavery, #ColdWar & #Communism & #C20culturalhistory. See tinyurl.com/2mztc28f for details. Trials end later this month. #telluswhatyouthink 👍🙏

More database trials! This time it's Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism. Range of primary & 2nd sources, covers long C19th, mostly Europe & America, but also Asia. Looks like a good digital library on C19 #historyoffeminism. Thoughts? tinyurl.com/p3a2p74t

Join #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner Richard Ovenden on 19 June in conversation with Andrew Hui at Weston Library to discuss his new book: The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries Bodleian Libraries visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/ri…

📕 In our Foreign Office records, we hold the UK's copy of the 1951 Refugee Convention. The convention established the definition of a refugee and the legal protection, rights and assistance to which they are entitled. Learn more: nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-co… #RefugeeWeek

An important message for all our finalists: firstly, congratulations! 🥳 We’ve created a checklist of ‘Things To Do’ before you go. From returning books to depositing research, the ‘Finishing Your Degree’ webpage will help you wrap up any loose ends: bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ask/getting-st…

The VHL is now in Long Vacation opening hours: ⏰Mon-Fri: 9am - 5pm ⏰Sat-Sun: Closed Have a lovely summer, and do remember to return any library books if you are leaving the university!

We are running more trials! Tell us how useful Liverpool Shipping Records, 1820-1900 (British Online Archives) is. Trial ends 20/7. See tinyurl.com/ynafmx66 for more details.