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African Studies

Sarah Rhodes
+44 (0)1865 28599

 

Lucy McCann
+44 (0)1865 285998/ 270911

Sarah Rhodes

Lucy McCann

American Studies

Helen Scott (literature)
+44 (0)1865 271051

 

Bethan Davies (history & politics)
+44 (0)1865 282701

Helen Scott

Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Susanne Woodhouse
+44 (0)1865 278089
Susanne Woodhouse

Archaeology

Helen Worrell
+44 (0)1865 278091
Art & Architecture Vacant
+44 (0)1865 (2)78094
Celtic Literature & Language Janet Foot
+44 (0)1865 278141
Janet Foot
China and Inner Asia

Minh Chung (Teaching Collections) +44 (0)1865 280432

 

 

Charles Manson (Tibetan and Himalayan Collections) +44 (0)1865 277207

 

Mamtimyn Sunuodula (Head of East Asia, Research Collections) +44 (0)1865 280437/288217

Minh Chung


Charles Manson

 

 

 

 

Classics and Ancient History

Charlotte Goodall
+44 (0)1865 277159 (Bodleian) / 288049 (Art, Archaeology and Ancient World)
Charlotte Goodall
Commonwealth Studies

Sarah Rhodes
+44 (0)1865 28599

 

Lucy McCann
+44 (0)1865 285998/ 270911

Sarah Rhodes

Lucy McCann

Dutch & Frisian Literature & Language Johanneke Sytsema
+44 (0)1865 278159
East European Studies

Nick Hearn Languages, literatures and cultures (special responsibility for Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Macedonia)
+44 (0)1865 270462

Vacant History and social sciences (special responsibility for Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the Russian Commonwealth and the former Soviet Union)
+44 (0)1865 271937

Barbara Baj Wojtowicz Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Former Yugoslavia including Macedonia, Albania and Baltic States: languages, literatures, history and social sciences

Kostas Skordyles Modern Greek language, literature, history and social sciences
+44 (0)1865 270437

Zsuzsanna Varga Hungarian language, literature, history and social sciences
+44 (0)1865 270464

Egyptology  Susanne Woodhouse
+44 (0)1865 278089
Susanne Woodhouse
English Literature & Language Helen Scott
+44 (0)1865 271051
Helen Scott
Film Studies Helen Scott
+44 (0)1865 278155
Helen Scott
French Literature & Language Nick Hearn
+44 (0)1865 270462
German Literature & Language Emma Huber
+44 (0)1865 278153
Emma Huber
Hebraica, Judaica, and Semitics

César Merchan Hamann
+44 (0)1865 277031

 

Rahel Fronda
+44 (0)1865 277602

César Merchan Hamann

Rahel Fronda

History (British & Western European)

Isabel Holowaty @iholowaty

Rachel D'Arcy Brown

+44 (0)1865 2777294

Isabel Holowaty
History of the Book

Alan Coates
+44 (0)1865 277072

 

Helen Scott
+44 (0)1865 271051

Helen Scott

History of Science & Medicine

Isabel Holowaty
+44 (0)1865 277294


Bethan Jenkins (history of medicine)
+44 (0)1865 277294 (History Faculty Library) / 274604 (History of Medicine Library)

Isabel Holowaty

 

Bethan Jenkins

Italian Literature & Language Andrea Del Cornò
+44 (0)1865 (2)78159
Japan

Alessandro Bianchi

+44 (0)1865 284502
Korea Minh Chung
+44 (0)1865 280432
Minh Chung
Latin American Studies

Joanne Ferrari (language & literature)
+44 (0)1865 288033

 

Frank Egerton (history & social sciences)
+44 (0)1865 274483

Joanne Ferrari (


Linguistics Johanneke Sytsema
+44 (0)1865 278159
Middle East & Islamic Studies

Lydia Wright
+44 (0)1865 278204


Alasdair Watson
+44 (0)1865 279984

Lydia Wright

Modern Greek Kostas Skordyles
+44 (0)1865 270437
Modern Languages Joanne Ferrari
+44 (0)1865 288033
Joanne Ferrari
Music Martin Holmes
+44 (0)1865-277064 / 276146
Martin Holmes
Numismatics Charlotte Goodall
+44 (0)1865 278090
Charlotte Goodall
Oriental Studies Gillian Evison
+44 (0)1865 277033
Gillian Evison
Palaeography & manuscript studies

Andrew Dunning 

@anjdunning

Andrew Dunning
Philosophy Hilla Wait
+44 (0)1865 615349
Hilla Wait
Portuguese Literature & Language Joanne Ferrari
+44 (0)1865 288033
Romanian Studies

Adina Bradeanu

Slavonic Literature and Language Nick Hearn
+44 (0)1865 270462
Slavonic and Russian Studies Vacant
+44 (0)1865 271937

South Asia & South East Asia

Gillian Evison
+44 (0)1865 277033

 

Emma Mathieson
+44 (0)1865 277206

Gillian Evison Emma Mathieson
Spanish Literature & Language Joanne Ferrari
+44 (0)1865 288033
Joanne Ferrari
Theology & Religion Hilla Wait
+44 (0)1865 615349
Hilla Wait
US Studies Bethan Davies
+44 (0)1865 282701
Women's Studies Helen Scott
+44 (0)1865 278155
Helen Scott

James Legg

Head of Humanities Libraries,
Taylor Librarian, Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Librarian

Tel: +44 (0)1865 278160

The Bodleian First Folio: digital facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, (1623). Shelfmark: Bodleian Arch. G c.7.

Shuinjo. The original vermillion-seal document of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, granting trade privileges in Japan to the English East India Company in 1613. Shelfmark:MS. Jap. b.2

© By permission of The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

A 13th century lavishly illustrated Ashkenazi Pentateuch with the Five Scrolls and the Additional Readings from the Prophets. (MS. Kennicott 3)

Zoomorphic initial made of intertwined bodies of bird and other animals. in Bede, Historia ecclesiastica. fol. 012v. MS. Tanner 10.

From Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Oxford Digital Library