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If you work in the media and need further information about the Bodleian Libraries, or about any of the items contained in the News area, contact our Communications team.
Press office contacts
Press Office
For general press and media enquiries to the Bodleian Libraries:
Telephone: 07800 959577
Email: communications@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
The Press Office is open Monday – Friday from 9am – 5pm. For out-of-hours queries, please leave a message and email communications@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
If you are planning a news story about the Bodleian Libraries and wish to film in one of our libraries or would like to use an image of one of our libraries or of a manuscript from our collections, please contact the Communications Office.
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Latest news and press releases
Helen Hamlyn Trust to permanently endow the most senior position at the Bodleian Libraries
Oxford and OpenAI launch collaboration to advance research and education
Isabel Allende and Sir Don McCullin CBE to be awarded the prestigious Bodley Medal
Inside of Herculaneum scroll seen for the first time in almost 2,000 years
New exhibition explores the ‘Radio Craze’ and how it affected family life
Remembering David Vaisey: Bodley’s Librarian (1986–1996)
Engravings discovered on reverse of copper plates thought to be the earliest produced by William Blake
Remembering Dame Maggie Smith, recipient of the Bodley Medal (2016)
New exhibition dedicated to divination explores our universal need to find answers
The Bodleian Libraries make online services and resources available to students and academics from Gaza and the West Bank
Liverpool University Press to publish ‘The Bodleian Library Record’ from 2024
Lewis Carroll photography acquired by the Bodleian Libraries
Exploring Family History: Join Peter Brathwaite for special event at the Weston Library
The Bodleian Libraries to show highlights of Sir Roger Bannister’s never-before-displayed archive to mark 70th anniversary of his four-minute mile
The Wilson Centre for Photography deposits magnificent collection at the Bodleian Libraries
The Bodleian Libraries to acquire rare manuscript treasure in the hand of Johann Sebastian Bach
Ali Smith to be awarded the prestigious Bodley Medal as part of the Oxford Literary Festival
New exhibition sheds light on the cutting room floor of modern literature
Experience ‘Mischief in the Archives’ at the Bodleian Libraries this February
'Kafka: Making of an Icon' opening in May 2024
New exhibition tracks the influence of Geoffrey Chaucer across the centuries
Press release archive
Explore our archive of press releases for those published before 2020.