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#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!...

#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...

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...

#EYAWildlife

Wild in name, wild for nature – we’re looking back at Brian Wildsmith’s evocative work for #EYAWildlife...