📚👻 At Duke Humfrey’s Library, our chained books aren’t the only things bound to stay forever… Whispers tell of a Ghostly Librarian, said to be the spirit of Thomas Allen. Allen was a highly regarded 17th-century mathematician and astrologer. He was, in fact, so talented that rumours began to circulate that he was a magician. These rumours were amplified by Allen’s relationship with Queen Elizabeth I’s head astronomer, the occultist and atheist, John Dee. Allen was also an early supporter of ou

Visit Duke Humfrey's, the Bodleian's oldest Reading Room. Maximum medieval/dark academia vibes. ⚔️📖🦇 | Bodleian Libraries

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After spending weeks in the Bodleian Libraries poring over letters, memoranda, committee minutes, reports, and account books tied to the Codrington estates in Barbados, last month brought a stark reckoning as opera singer and writer Peter Brathwaite visited the places in the papers—walking the land, meeting descendants, and confronting the living archive of his family's history. What are the Codrington estates? In 1710, The Society of the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG – the United Society Partn

Evie Chandler is a Library Assistant here at the Bodleian Libraries and recently she’s taken centre stage with a book display that’s striking all the right chords. Think hearts singing, queues forming, and readers humming show tunes as they pass by. Inspired by the viral success of Rachel Zegler’s West End performance in Evita (in which the Hunger Games star portrays the former First Lady of Argentina, Eva Perón), Evie curated a selection of books from the History Faculty collection with connect