Digital Bodleian–One Million Images
Uploader: Bodleian Libraries
Original upload date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 20:11:42 GMT
The Bodleian Libraries has reached a significant milestone in its online digital library allowing over 1 million images from its collections to be seen and freely used anywhere in the world.
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ed in 2015, the Digital Bodleian website is a free resource for everyone that covers everything from beautifully illuminated manuscripts from medieval Europe and centuries-old maps to Victorian board games and British political election posters from the last 100 years. Over the past six years it has grown and grown, offering a wide range of access to the Bodleian’s stunning collections.
The one millionth image to be digitized is from an original notebook of poet Jenny Joseph, who studied at St Hilda’s College and maintained a connection with Oxford all her life. It shows the first draft of her poem, Warning, which was voted the ‘nation’s favourite poem’ in a BBC poll in 2006. To commemorate this milestone, the libraries have commissioned Oxford graduate Róisín McCallion, do a reading of the poem set to images from Digital Bodleian.
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
