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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Video Is Jin Yong 'China's Tolkien'? Jonathan Hui
Video The Last of the Titans Jane Bliss
Video Arthur Rackham at Trinity College Emma Sillett, Caroline Batten
Video Edward Lear and Fantasy Jasmine Jagger
Video The Saga of Eric the Unlucky Jane Bliss
Video Werewolves in Medieval Literature vs Modern TV Minjie Su
Video Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi
Video Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues Tom Shippey
Video Middle English: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval languages Carolyne Larrington
Video Medieval Welsh: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval Languages Mark Williams
Video Gothic: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval Languages Elizabeth Solopova
Video Old English: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval Languages: Mark Atherton
Video Old Norse: 'The Tree of Tongues' Tolkien's Medieval Languages Eleanor Parker
Video The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads Jasper fforde
Video Morte D'Arthur Murals in the Oxford Union Tom Corrick, Caroline Batten
Video Broceliande in Ruritania Jane Bliss
Video What is the 'Silmarillion'? Grace Khuri https://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/engfac/fantasy_lit/2021-04-23-engfac-fantasy-si…
Video Verse and Prose in Fantasy Literature Katherine Olley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/verse-and-prose-fantasy-literature
Video Guy Gavriel Kay: A Short Introduction Katherine Olley
Video Sylvia Townsend Warner Carolyne Larrington https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/sylvia-townsend-warner
Video Approaching Fantasy Literature Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/approaching-fantasy-literature
Video H. P. Lovecraft Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/h-p-lovecraft
Video Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century Maria Sachiko Cecire https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/re-enchanted-rise-childrens-fantasy-literature-twenti…
Video Why 'Game of Thrones' Matters Carolyne Larrington https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/why-game-thrones-matters
Video Diana Wynne Jones Gabriel Schenk https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/diana-wynne-jones
Video T. H. White Gabriel Schenk https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/t-h-white
Video Ursula K. Le Guin Caroline Batten https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ursula-k-le-guin
Video Significant Lives: Biography, autobiography, and women's history in South Asia Supriya Chaudhuri https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/article/supriya-chaudhuri-significant-lives-biography…
Video Brighton Ambitious: Some Fragments, a play by Maria Edgeworth Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster
Video Patience Agbabi reading and conversation Patience Agbabi, Elleke Boehmer, Marion Turner https://writersmakeworlds.com
Video Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Robert Douglas-Fairhurst https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Middle Earth and Tolkien's Digital Afterlives Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' Margaret Kean https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Death Masks of Macbeth Simon Palfrey https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks/
Video The Stories of Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Stuart Lee, Margaret Kean https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Useful Frames and Dead Pasteboard Sarah Hook https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Memoir and Memory: Aminatta Forna in Conversation with Elleke Boehmer Aminatta Forna, Elleke Boehmer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Late Victorian into Modern Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Laura Marcus https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Character in Modern Drama Kirsten Shepherd-Barr https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Sally Shuttleworth, Marie Tidball https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Theatre, 1660-1760: The Arrival of the Actress David Taylor https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Theatre, 1660-1760: Restoration and Change David Taylor https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Race and Empire, 1660-1760 Ruth Scobie https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Drama and the Theatre, 1660-1760 Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Literature and Gender, 1660-1760 Kathleen Keown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760 Carly Watson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video What is a Literary Period? Clare Bucknell https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Nineteenth-Century Stuff: Dickens, Paperwork and Paper Sorrows Sophie Ratcliffe https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video What is a War Poem? Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Diaries as Literature - The Case of Virginia Woolf Michael Whitworth https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/