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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Audio The First World War, India and Empire Santanu Das, Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/first-world-war-india-and-empire
Audio Out of Silence 4: William Cowper Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-4-william-cowper
Audio Out of Silence 3: D.H. Lawrence Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-3-dh-lawrence
Audio Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-2-virginia-woolf
Audio Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-1-william-shakespeare
Essays Sarah Howe - Artefacts of Writing Peter D McDonald https://artefactsofwriting.com/sarah-howe/
Essays Kirsty Gunn - Artefacts of Writing Peter D McDonald https://artefactsofwriting.com/kirsty-gunn/
Essays Tracy K. Smith - Artefacts of Writing Peter D McDonald https://artefactsofwriting.com/tracy-k-smith/
Essays Reading between life and work: Reflections on J.M. Coetzee’s life-writing Elleke Boehmer
Other Phillis Wheatley Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley
Pictures Phillis Wheatley
Essays Celebrating women's writing: the pen in their hands Ros Ballaster
Other A Play in Fragments by Maria Edgeworth - A Surviving Manuscript Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster
Essays Exhibiting Maria Edgeworth and Her Fellow Literary Lions Ros Ballaster, Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull
Video Brighton Ambitious: Some Fragments, a play by Maria Edgeworth Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster
Essays Brighton Ambitious: Some Fragments Ellen B. Brewster, Ros Ballaster
Essays Maria Edgeworth - A biographical note. 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/
Audio Literary Allusion in Harry Potter Beatrice Groves, Victoria McGuinness 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/
Audio Edmund Blunden Margi Blunden https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Impact of the 1914 – 1918 Poets Adrian Barlow https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 'Earth Voices Whispering’: Reading Ireland’s Poetry of WWI: An Introduction Gerald Dawe https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio David Jones Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Isaac Rosenberg: ‘Fierce Imaginings’ – the Private and the Poet Jean Liddiard https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Ivor Gurney: A Poet born out of War Philip Lancaster https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Manuscripts Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Edward Thomas: Edwardian War Poet Guy Cuthbertson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Popular Poetry Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio ‘On your lips my life is hung’: Robert Graves and War Charles Mundye https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Poetry vs. History Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Georgians and Others Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Early Poets Alisa Miller https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Poetry of the Empire Simon Featherstone https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Siegfried Sassoon Meg Crane https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Wilfred Owen Jon Stallworthy https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Women Poets Jane Potter https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio War Poetry Mark Rawlinson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Elleke Boehmer's The Shouting in the Dark and Other Southern Writings Elleke Boehmer, Emma Parker
Other Prismatic Jane Eyre Matthew Reynolds https://prismaticjaneeyre.org/
eBooks The habitable world described: or the present state of the people in all parts of the globe, from north to south; shewing the situation, extent, climate, ... including all the new discoveries: ... With a great variety of maps and copper-plates, ..... https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/
Other Science and the Supernatural Melissa Dickson https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/
Other Dracula and Modern Life Emilie Taylor-Brown, Hosanna Krienke, Sarah Green https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/
Other On the Subject of Speed: Thomas Hardy Catherine Charlwood https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/