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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Video A history of the dictionary: Dr Johnson, I presume? Henry Hitchings https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/a-history-of-the-dictionary-dr-jo…
Video Literature and Politics in Seventeenth Century London (lecture) Anna Beer https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/literature-and-politics-in-sevent…
Video Chaucer Daniel Wakelin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Ruffus The Dog - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1998) https://archive.org/details/opensource_movies
Video Ezra Pound Rebecca Beasley https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Mary Leapor Jennifer Batt https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video DH Lawrence 7. Reception History Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video DH Lawrence 6. Birds, Beasts and Children Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video John Milton Anna Beer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Only Collect: An Introduction to the World of the Poetic Miscellany Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video DH Lawrence 5. The Alps Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video DH Lawrence 4. The World at Large Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video DH Lawrence 3. Christianity Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Beowulf - Scyld Scefing's Funeral Matt Love https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
Video The Coming of the English Matt Love https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
Video DH Lawrence 2. Humour Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video DH Lawrence 1. Consciousness Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video J.M. Coetzee Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Olive Schreiner Elleke Boehmer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine Faith Binckes https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video George Eliot - A Very Large Brain Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video William Blake David Fallon https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video 18th Century Labouring Class Poetry Jennifer Batt https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Beowulf Francis Leneghan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Shakespeare and the Stage Tiffany Stern https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Authorised Version in Modern Literature: David and Job get makeovers Terrence Wright https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video This book of starres': biblical constellations in the poetry of Herbert and Vaughan Helen Wilcox https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Scissored and Pasted: readers and writers redoing and undoing King James Valentine Cunningham https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video The Making of the King James (Authorised) Version of the Bible 1604-1611 Pauline Croft https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Swirls and secrets: the mysteries of Jonathan Swift's love letters Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Athol Fugard: "Defining Moments" Athol Fugard https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley Alan Garner https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video First year English Tutorial: Old English Riddles Lucinda Rumsey https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Old English Tour - British Library Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/