#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).
#Explore Your Archive
#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.
#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.
#EYAConnections
‘It runs in the family’ as the old saying goes, something certainly true of our twentieth century printshop workers.
#EYASparkle
It’s December so time for some #EYASparkle and we bring you gifts from our silver collection.
#EYAReligion
For #EYAReligion we are looking back to Oxford’s very first printing of the Bible – the Authorized or King James version of the Bible, printed in 1675.