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Past Exhibitions Online

A selection of exhibitions dating back to 2001 can be explored online.

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From Studio to Selfie

Alice drinking tea behind a pile of skulls - lead image from Alice in Typhoidland exhibition

Alice in Typhoidland

Babel: Adventures in Translation

Babel: Adventures in Translation

Thinking 3D exhibition in Oxford

Thinking 3D: Leonardo to the present

Abstract map art

Talking Maps

Black-and-white photograph of three children and a pigeon

Daniel Meadows: Now and Then

An illustration of mountains and trees in green and yellow with the word "Hobbit"

Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth

Votes for Women flyer from 1908

Sappho to Suffrage: women who dared

Designing English

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Which Jane Austen?

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Volcanoes

Detail of an exotic green bird from a lavishly illustrated natural history book

Bodleian Treasures: 21 pairs and a tropical forest

Closeup of Oxford students celebrating finishing exams by spraying foam and champagne

Martin Parr: OXFORD

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Shakespeare's Dead

Composite image of Bodleian treasures: manuscript extracts, illustration of poppies, wax seal

Bodleian Treasures: 24 pairs

Colour illustration of man reading book inside letter 'D'

Marks of Genius

Person viewing Chinese map

Ming Maps

Title page of Shakespeare's works edited by Samuel Johnson

Johnson and Shakespeare

Colour illustration from costume book

The Art of Dress: Western printed books from the Bodleian Library

Black-and-white illustration of an anchor with text: 'Aldus'

Aldus Manutius: The Struggle and the Dream

Art of woman holding up sign reading 'No Votes. Thank You.'

Parliament Week

Black-and-white photograph of three women sitting on steps

Colonial Nursing

Colour illustration of civilians becoming soldiers

The Great War

Portrait painting of John Radcliffe

Remembering Radcliffe

Written recommendation to the Bodleian Library for Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym

Black-and-white drawing of cell structures

Great Medical Discoveries

Colour art of a wizard releasing three birds

Magical Books

Colourful illustration of figures in traditional costumes

Mexico from picture to print

Colour art of landscape and buildings

Rediscovering Rycote

Title page of The Posthumous Papers: Pickwick Club

Dickens and his World

Colour art of jousting knights

The Romance of the Middle Ages

A manuscript illustration of a couple

Love and Devotion

A page from an illuminated bible

Manifold Greatness

Page of handwriting

Shelley's Ghost

Black-and-white photograph of John le Carré

Tinker Tailor Writer Spy

Black-and-white drawing of an ammonite

John Aubrey

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The Season of Love

Six images of men and women during different historic periods

Beyond the work of one

Colour illustration of a mole and a rat in a boat

The Original Wind in the Willows

Black-and-white art of man sitting on throne

Citizen Milton

Drawing of painter, mounted deer head and large letter A

Children's Games and Pastimes

Front cover of a catalogue: 'A Nation of Shopkeepers'

A Nation of Shopkeepers