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The morning calm before the readers arrive. 📚
Bodleian Libraries, Duke Humfrey's Library, 8.30 am
Oxford | December 2025
Earl of Pembroke, Oxford, 2024
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Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, 2024
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Snow, Oxford, 2024
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Touched some much needed grass today in the form of visiting the Treasured exhibit at the Weston Library in Oxford. The exhibit is completely free of charge and is running until February 1st. The Bodleian have dug through their archives and put on display some of their rarest treasures, some dating back thousands of years. Fair warning, there are letters from slave owners in the exhibit, which are quite distressing to read.
Above, in order, are some of my favourites.
A portrait of Mary Shelley created from her death mask.
A 3,500 year old papyrus from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
The final CQD message sent from the Titanic.
The original manuscript of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
The first copy ever printed of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
A portrait handed to the Bodleian in 1755. Originally it depicted a painting for Sir Thomas More. Later, when x-rayed it revealed there was a painting beneath. They cleaned it up, and the above is what they found. The woman is unidentified.
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, 2024
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