#EYAColourful
We’re taking a #EYAColourful look at cover design from the 1960/70s with this insight into the cover illustration of The Hospital by Sheena Porter (1973).
Don’t worry, bee happy
Normally, having insects in an archive is not what you want at all, but for World Bee Day we’ve ventured into the shelves to find some archival bees!
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#EYAHandwriting
Transcribing handwritten historic documents is a sometimes fun and sometimes frustrating part of being an Archivist. #EYAHandwriting lets us show you the good, the bad, and the ugly from within the OED archives.
Life’s a beech!
In honour of Earth Day, we are celebrating our two beautiful copper beech trees in the quadrangle of OUP’s headquarters in Oxford.
#EYACrime
Anyone interested in the history of the Oxford English Dictionary will be well acquainted with the tragic tale of Dr. William Chester Minor, but #EYACrime lets us take a deeper look at Minor’s work for the Dictionary.
#EYAWildlife
Wild in name, wild for nature – we’re looking back at Brian Wildsmith’s evocative work for #EYAWildlife.
The Secretary, his wife, her student, and Jane Austen
In recognition of International Women’s Day this weekend we are celebrating a landmark development in Oxford’s World’s Classics series – the first original academic introduction by a female scholar for a female writer.
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#EYAConnections
‘It runs in the family’ as the old saying goes, something certainly true of our twentieth century printshop workers.
Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month with Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s connection to Oxford University Press dates back to the very year of her birth, 1892, when her father, Leslie Stephen, became the founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, taken on as an OUP publication twenty-five years later.
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The Stanhope Press
Over recent decades, the publishing world has reached wider audiences through technological advances. In the early nineteenth century, an innovation in printing had a similar effect – the Stanhope Press, the first all-metal printing press in England.
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