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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Authors
#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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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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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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