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Languages : en
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Alumni Oxonienses
Author: Early History of Balliol College
Author: Frances de ParaviciniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : la
Pages : 396
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The Jowett Papers
Author: Robin Darwall-SmithPublisher:
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Category : Oxford (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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The Archives of Balliol College Oxford
Author: John JonesPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Burning the Books
Author: Richard OvendenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674241207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.
Fourth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical ManuscriptsPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Whispers of Cities
Author: John-Paul A. GhobrialPublisher:
ISBN: 0199672415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Explores interactions between early modern Europe and the Ottoman Empire through the experiences of the English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1692, showing how information flows between Istanbul, London, and Paris were rooted in the personal exchanges between Ottomans and Europeans in everyday encounters.
Ark of Civilization
Author: Sally CrawfordPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199687552
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Ark of Civilization: Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945 addresses Oxford's role as a shelter, a meeting point, and a center of thought in the arts and humanities in the midst of WWII, interweaving personal and global histories to explore how refugee scholars had a profound and lasting impact on the development of British culture.
The History of the University of Oxford
Author: Eade-Kyte
Author: University of OxfordPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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