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# Title Description Contributor
1 What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are… Sandie Byrne
2 13.Bodleian Ballads Online: engagement for performance, teaching and research. Cultural Connections talk by Giles Bergel. Part of the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School… Giles Bergel
3 16.To Shakespeare and Beyond: a panel discussion. Cultural Connections discussion panel Casandra Ash, Peter Kirwan, Jose Perez Diaz and Emma Smith.… Emma Smith, José Pérez Díez, Peter Kirwan, Cassandra Ash
4 06.Writing for New Audiences. Cultural Connections workshop with novelist, screenwriter and Head of Creative Writing at Brunel… Max Kinnings
5 Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears" A second Masterclass on how Shakespeare spins rhetoric for the actor, with Sam Leith, journalist… Gregory Doran, Sam Leith
6 Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin' A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company looking at what clues… Gregory Doran
7 The Sandwich that Sabotaged Civilisation Myths and Mistakes. How a well known photograph and an infamous lunch break have shaped our memory… Dr Paul Miller
8 Popular fiction in World War One An argument for a more nuanced assessment of the popular literature consumed by the wider public… Jane Potter
9 Wartime Art and Grief German women and the aesthetics of loss portrayed through art during the First World War. Claudia Siebrecht
10 Shedding light on the dark ages The Dark Ages are traditionally seen as nasty, brutish and short - a cultural and intellectual… Janina Ramirez
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