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Format Resource Title Contributor Source Date Published
Video Beowulf - Scyld Scefing's Funeral Matt Love https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
Handout/Transcript Handout - Structure of Beowulf (Times) Stuart Lee https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
eBooks Who's Who and Backstory in Beowulf Bruce Gilchrist https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord////
Other Old English Coursepack Stuart Lee https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/items/show/150
Video The Coming of the English Matt Love https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/
Video DH Lawrence 2. Humour Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence 2. Humour Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio DH Lawrence 1. Consciousness Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video DH Lawrence 1. Consciousness Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Other Woruldhord Stuart Lee https://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord////
Audio Babbling a Dialect of France: Loanwords, French, and Johnson's Dictionary Lynda Mugglestone https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio King John Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography Alan Hollinghurst, Hermione Lee https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video J.M. Coetzee Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio J.M. Coetzee Peter McDonald https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Olive Schreiner Elleke Boehmer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Olive Schreiner Elleke Boehmer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine Faith Binckes https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Katherine Mansfield and Rhythm Magazine Faith Binckes https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio George Eliot - A Very Large Brain Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video George Eliot - A Very Large Brain Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio William Blake David Fallon https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video William Blake David Fallon https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio 18th Century Labouring Class Poetry Jennifer Batt https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video 18th Century Labouring Class Poetry Jennifer Batt https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Jonathan Swift and the Art of Undressing Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Beowulf Francis Leneghan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Beowulf Francis Leneghan https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shakespeare and the Stage Tiffany Stern https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Video Shakespeare and the Stage Tiffany Stern https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Pericles, Prince of Tyre Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Richard III Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Cristian Aliaga: Your Virtues Are Your Faults. Poetry Reading (Spanish and English) Ben Bollig, Cristian Aliaga https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Comedy of Errors Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Joys of Cricket Adam Rounce https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio George Eliot 3. Reception History Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio History of English Pronunciation Simon Horobin https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Henry IV part 1 Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio George Eliot 2. Genre and Justice Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio The Tempest Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio George Eliot 1. Intellect and Consciousness Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Antony and Cleopatra Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Charlotte Brewer https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Richard II Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth Catherine Brown https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio English and Gender Deborah Cameron https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Twelfth Night Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Titus Andronicus Emma Smith https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/
Audio Poetry and Tobacco John Clargo, Laurence Williams, Abigail Williams https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/