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Format Title Author/Contributor Source Date Published
Audio America’s War Culture since 9/11 Patrick Deer, Christine Strandmose Toft http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/americas-war-culture-911 12 May 2020
Audio The First World War, India and Empire Santanu Das, Kate McLoughlin http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/first-world-war-india-and-empire 12 May 2020
Audio Out of Silence 4: William Cowper Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-4-william-cowper 12 May 2020
Audio Out of Silence 3: D.H. Lawrence Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-3-dh-lawrence 12 May 2020
Audio Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-2-virginia-woolf 12 May 2020
Audio Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/out-silence-1-william-shakespeare 12 May 2020
Essay Sarah Howe - Artefacts of Writing Peter D McDonald https://artefactsofwriting.com/sarah-howe/ 04 May 2020
Essay Kirsty Gunn - Artefacts of Writing Peter D McDonald https://artefactsofwriting.com/kirsty-gunn/ 04 May 2020
Essay Tracy K. Smith - Artefacts of Writing Peter D McDonald https://artefactsofwriting.com/tracy-k-smith/ 04 May 2020
Essay Reading between life and work: Reflections on J.M. Coetzee’s life-writing Elleke Boehmer 08 Apr 2020
Other Phillis Wheatley Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley 05 Mar 2020
Image Phillis Wheatley 05 Mar 2020
Essay Celebrating women's writing: the pen in their hands Ros Ballaster 04 Mar 2020
Other A Play in Fragments by Maria Edgeworth - A Surviving Manuscript Ellen B. Brewster, Ros BallasterMaria Edgeworth 25 Feb 2020
Essay Exhibiting Maria Edgeworth and Her Fellow Literary Lions Ros Ballaster, Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull 25 Feb 2020
Video Brighton Ambitious: Some Fragments, a play by Maria Edgeworth Ellen B. Brewster, Ros BallasterMaria Edgeworth 04 Feb 2020
Essay Brighton Ambitious: Some Fragments Ellen B. Brewster, Ros BallasterMaria Edgeworth 04 Feb 2020
Essay Maria Edgeworth - A biographical note. Ros Ballaster 04 Feb 2020
Video Patience Agbabi reading and conversation Patience Agbabi, Elleke Boehmer, Marion Turner https://writersmakeworlds.com 03 Feb 2020
Video Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland Robert Douglas-Fairhurst https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 03 Feb 2020
Video Middle Earth and Tolkien's Digital Afterlives Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 03 Feb 2020
Video Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' Margaret Kean https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 03 Feb 2020
Video The Death Masks of Macbeth Simon Palfrey https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dbooks/ 03 Feb 2020
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/ 31 Jan 2020
Video Useful Frames and Dead Pasteboard Sarah Hook https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Literary Allusion in Harry Potter Beatrice Groves, Victoria McGuinness https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Video Memoir and Memory: Aminatta Forna in Conversation with Elleke Boehmer Aminatta Forna, Elleke Boehmer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Edmund Blunden Margi Blunden https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Impact of the 1914 – 1918 Poets Adrian Barlow https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio 'Earth Voices Whispering’: Reading Ireland’s Poetry of WWI: An Introduction Gerald Dawe https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio David Jones Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Isaac Rosenberg: ‘Fierce Imaginings’ – the Private and the Poet Jean Liddiard https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Ivor Gurney: A Poet born out of War Philip Lancaster https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Manuscripts Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Edward Thomas: Edwardian War Poet Guy Cuthbertson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Popular Poetry Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio ‘On your lips my life is hung’: Robert Graves and War Charles Mundye https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Poetry vs. History Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Georgians and Others Stuart Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio The Early Poets Alisa Miller https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Poetry of the Empire Simon Featherstone https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Siegfried Sassoon Meg Crane https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Wilfred Owen Jon Stallworthy https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Women Poets Jane Potter https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio War Poetry Mark Rawlinson https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ 31 Jan 2020
Audio Elleke Boehmer's The Shouting in the Dark and Other Southern Writings Elleke Boehmer, Emma Parker 21 Jan 2020
Other Prismatic Jane Eyre Matthew Reynolds https://prismaticjaneeyre.org/ 09 Jan 2020
eBook 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, clima... Trusler, John, 1735-1820. https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/ 07 Oct 2019
Other Science and the Supernatural Melissa Dickson https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/ 28 Mar 2019
Other Dracula and Modern Life Emilie Taylor-Brown, Hosanna Krienke, Sarah Green https://diseasesofmodernlife.org/ 28 Mar 2019

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