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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
eBooks The Virginia house-wife: method is the soul of management https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3152
eBooks In the dead of the night. Sung by Mrs. Jordan in The wedding dayWedding day. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5472
eBooks The progress of envy: a poem, in imitation of Spenser. Occasioned by Lauder's attack on the character of Milton. Inscribed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Bath. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3645
eBooks Memoirs of some transactions during the late ministry of Robert E. of OxfordAccount of the conduct of Robert, Earl of Oxford https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4491
eBooks Critical observations on the sixth book of the Æneid https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4650
eBooks A dialogue between a dissenter and the Observator, concerning The shortest way with the dissenters https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/3934
eBooks An account of the life, and dealings of God with Silas Told: ... Written by himself. https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/5414
eBooks Epistles philosophical and moral https://llds.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/llds/xmlui/handle/20.500.14106/4884
Other thedimofdawn.com Students at The King’s School Canterbury https://thedimofdawn.com/
Audio Why should we study Old English Literature? Francis Leneghan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Victorian Realism and the Implied Reader Michael Whitworth https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Translations as Literature Matthew Reynolds https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks 3. Art and Morality (handout) Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 3. Art and Morality Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Wolves and Winter: Old Norse Myths and Children's Literature Carolyne Larrington https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist (handout) Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
eBooks 1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art (handout) Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art Sos Eltis https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? Sandie Byrne https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? Sandie Byrne https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Smallpox in poetry Elizabeth Atkinson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The poetry of war Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Ladle: a comic poem Louise Curran https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Music in miscellanies Giles Lewin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Pastoral Poetry Kathleen Lawton-Trask https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Politics in poetry John McTague https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The life of epigrams Dianne Mitchell https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Petticoats and fashion Elizabeth Atkinson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Information about Great Writers Inspire Sarah Wilkin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre? Tiffany Stern, Ilana Lassman https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study medieval romance? Sarah Wilkin, Nicholas Perkins https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 13.Bodleian Ballads Online: engagement for performance, teaching and research. Giles Bergel. https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video 13.Bodleian Ballads Online: engagement for performance, teaching and research. Giles Bergel https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 16.To Shakespeare and Beyond: a panel discussion. Emma Smith, José Pérez Díez, Peter Kirwan, Cassandra Ash https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video 16.To Shakespeare and Beyond: a panel discussion. Emma Smith, José Pérez Díez, Peter Kirwan, Cassandra Ash https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video 06.Writing for New Audiences. Max Kinnings https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 06.Writing for New Audiences. Max Kinnings https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study the humanities? Helen Small, Ilana Lassman https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Johnson? Sarah Wilkin, Ros Ballaster https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Postcolonial Literature? Elleke Boehmer, Sarah Wilkin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Chaucer? Ilana Lassman, Laura Ashe https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Shakespeare? Ilana Lassman, Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Why should we study Dickens? Ilana Lassman, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 03 Lire Sade avec Rousseau Mladen Kozul https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 08 Obscenity off the Scene: Sade's La Philosophie dans le Boudoir John Phillips https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 07 Sade, homme de lettres Stéphanie Genand https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears" Gregory Doran, Sam Leith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears" Gregory Doran, Sam Leith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin' Gregory Doran https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/