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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Handout/Transcript Teaching Pack (Guide): The Hobbit
Handout/Transcript Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760 Carly Watson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Handout/Transcript Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760 Carly Watson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Handout/Transcript Teaching plan
Handout/Transcript Modernism Chronology Carol Peaker https://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/resources/documents/modernism-chronology
Handout/Transcript Some Features of Modernism (1890–1939) (handout) Carol Peaker https://open.conted.ox.ac.uk/resources/documents/some-features-modernism-1890%E…
Handout/Transcript Ben Johnson, 'The Alchemist' and Blackfrairs (transcript) Andrew Gurr https://www.gresham.ac.uk/
Handout/Transcript Shakespeare, 'The Tempest' and its City Connections David Daniell https://www.gresham.ac.uk/
Handout/Transcript Citizen Authors and Their Heroes: Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and Sir Thomas Gresham (transcript) Julia Gasper https://www.gresham.ac.uk/
Handout/Transcript Literary Londoners: William Blake Peter Ackroyd https://www.gresham.ac.uk/
Handout/Transcript Literary Londoners: Charles Dickens Michael Slater https://www.gresham.ac.uk/
Handout/Transcript Handout - Structure of Beowulf (Times) Stuart Lee https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/