#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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#EYASparkle
It’s December so time for some #EYASparkle and we bring you gifts from our silver collection.
Introducing Epexio
The OUP Archive has successfully completed transition from our previous Collections Management System to a new specialist system, Epexio, managed by Metadatis Ltd.
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Exhibition Contribution: Through Time, Print Art in Aberdeen Street
Oxford University Press Archives were delighted to have contributed to the recent Hong Kong print exhibition, Through Time – Print Art in Aberdeen Street, hosted by HKOP Print Art Contemporary at PMQ in Central Hong Kong.
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Remembering Rosemary Sutcliff
Born on 14 December 1920, Rosemary Sutcliff became one of the most influential children’s authors to be associated with Oxford University Press.
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