UK scientists made a breakthrough in deciphering ancient scrolls charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ...

The group are calling for the University to cut all financial ties with Israel. In a statement, the University of Oxford said it was "currently working to safely remove the protes ...

was Bodley’s Librarian at the University of Oxford between 1986 and 1996, a febrile period when the Bodleian Library was on the cusp of modernisation but struggling to stave off a funding crisis ...

Researchers have generated an image of text from inside a scroll that was buried in volcanic ash with the ancient city of ...

More than 10 million books, maps and artefacts belonging to Oxford University's world-famous Bodleian Library are stored in a warehouse near Swindon. The unassuming building in South Marston ...

But standing in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, I can observe the moment when Franz Kafka realised the shape his final novel, The Castle — published posthumously as Das Schloss in 1926 — would ...

A “distinguished and loyal” librarian based at Oxford University has died aged 89. David Vaisey CBE was Bodleian Librarian ... College on matters such as library policy and on the cataloguing ...

Its construction directly followed the re-establishment of the university library by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598, after whom the Bodleian is named. He was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, where he ...

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UK scientists have announced what they term a “historic breakthrough,” after the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago was uncovered ...

Finding it: This is a private house in the northern suburbs of Oxford. It is not open to the public. A historic plaque faces the street. Bodleian Library Oxford University's main library houses ...