Gifts and Books Day | Visit the Bodleian Libraries

About the event

Enjoy hands-on activities, storytelling, taster talks and readings in this celebration of giving, books and stories.

Contribute to our giant collaborative artwork and print your own themed keepsake.
Dare you have a blind date with a book?
Make a pop-up card and give a story inside
Take a tour of Gifts and Books with exhibition curator, Dr Nicholas Perkins
Discover how books transform lives with charity Give a Book: Prison Reading Groups
10% discount on the Gifts and Books exhibition book on the day in the Bodleian shop.

Location

This event is held in Blackwell Hall at the Weston Library.

Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG

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Wheelchair access

The Weston Library is wheelchair accessible.

In the shop

A gold horizontal flourish

A 3D view of the front cover of 'Gifts and Books', blue with gold lettering

Gifts and Books: From Early Myth to the Present
Nick Perkins
£40

The front cover of 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano' by Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
£9.99

The front cover of Robert Macfarlane's 'The Gift of Reading'

The Gifts of Reading
Robert Macfarlane
£20

A golden bookmark engraved with a quotation laid on top of a book

Lady Macbeth brass bookmark
£12

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