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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Video The Victorians: Empire and Race (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-empire-and-race
Video The Victorians: Art and Culture (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-art-and-culture
Video Post-Colonial Criticism (lecture) Paul Fry https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300/lecture-22
Video The Tempest - Our revels now are ended: Bringing a scene to Life Archie Cornish, Dylan Townley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Hogarth's London (lecture) Robin Simon https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/hogarths-london
Video Are traditional texts always what they seem? Great Expectations pt2 (lecture) Simon Swift https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/303-are-traditional-texts-alway…
Video Are traditional texts always what they seem? Great Expectations pt1 (lecture) Simon Swift https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/306-are-traditional-texts-alway…
Video Studying William Blake in context pt.2 (lecture) David Higgins https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/193-studying-william-blake-in-c…
Video Studying William Blake in context pt.1 (lecture) David Higgins https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/289-studying-william-blake-in-c…
Video Narrative in The Great Gatsby Andrew Warnes https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/212-narrative-in-the-great-gats…
Video The Great Gatsby and the roaring twenties (pt1) Andrew Warnes https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/213-the-great-gatsby-and-the-ro…
Video The Great Gatsby and the roaring twenties (pt2) Andrew Warnes https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/214-the-great-gatsby-and-the-ro…
Video The Origins of World War I (lecture) John Merriman https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-276/lecture-13
Video Beyond AC Bradley & FR Leavis: The critics & how to handle them pt2 Alaric Hall https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/211-beyond-ac-bradley-fr-leavis…
Video Beyond AC Bradley & FR Leavis: The critics & how to handle them pt1 Alaric Hall https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/35-beyond-ac-bradley-fr-leavis-…
Video The concept of 'literariness' or 'the literary' pt2 Katie Mullan, Francis O'Gorman https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/272-the-concept-of-literariness…
Video The concept of 'literariness' or 'the literary' pt1 Francis O'Gorman, Katie Mullan https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/273-the-concept-of-literariness…
Video Queer Theory and Gender Performativity Paul Fry https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300/lecture-23
Video How words, form and structure create meaning: Women and writing (pt2) Simon Swift https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/249-how-words-form-and-structur…
Video How words, form and structure create meaning: Women and writing (pt1) Simon Swift https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/250-how-words-form-and-structur…
Video The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory (lecture) OpenYale https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300/lecture-17
Video The Classical Feminist Tradition (lecture) OpenYale https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300/lecture-20
Video Genre (pt.2) Jane Rickard https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/290-genre-pt2
Video Genre (pt.1) Jane Rickard https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/291-genre-pt1
Video The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality (lecture) Richard Evans https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-gender-and-sexuali…
Video What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 3 Helena Kennedy https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Ulysses: Joyce and Cinema Cleo Hanaway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJYhZWWMfE
Video What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 2 Judith Luna https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video What is a Classic? English Graduate Conference 2012 Panel Debate, Talk 1 Ankhi Mukherjee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Open Yale Courses: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner. Pt 1: Hemingway's 'In Our Time' https://oyc.yale.edu/american-studies/amst-246/lecture-2
Video 'A Dead Silence': Reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park pt2 Richard De Ritter https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/323-a-dead-silence-reading-jane…
Video 'A Dead Silence': Reading Jane Austen's Mansfield Park pt1 Richard De Ritter https://www.theenglishfaculty.org/a-levels/item/324-a-dead-silence-reading-jane…
Video Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored Kathryn Sutherland https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising Kathryn Sutherland https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video World War I Poetry in England (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-7
Video Ezra Pound (lecture) Langdon Hammer https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310/lecture-9
Video Great Writers Inspire- An Introduction to the Project Joshua Carr https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Literature and Form 4: What is "Comparative Literature"? Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Literature and Form 3: Multiple Plotting Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Literature and Form 2: Chapters Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Literature and Form 1: Unreliable Narrators Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video What is a Great Writer? An academic panel discusses the question. Rebecca Beasley, Ankhi Mukherjee, Peter McDonald, Margaret Kean, Seamus Perry https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Dons, Deaths and Detectives: Oxford in Crime Fiction Colin Bundy https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The face of Charles Dickens - portraits of the great author Andrew Xavier https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-face-of-charles-dickens-portr…
Video The Dictionary Garret - Anatomy of a Room Natasha McEnroe https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-dictionary-garret-anatomy-of-…
Video Dickens and the Moving Age (lecture) Tony Williams https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/dickens-and-the-moving-age
Video Dickens’s law makers and law breakers: Barnard's Inn and beyond Andrew Sanders https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/dickenss-law-makers-and-law-break…
Video ‘Lesser breeds within the law’ - Dickens and minor legal officers Angus Easson https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/lesser-breeds-within-the-law---di…
Video Phiz, Dickens and London Valerie Browne Lester https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/phiz-dickens-and-london
Video Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities Tony Williams https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/dickens-a-tale-of-two-cities