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Concierge guides to Bodleian Library Tours
Practical, concierge-written guides to visiting Bodleian Library Tours: timing, transport, comparisons and FAQs.
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Bodleian Library tour tickets: how to get a place on the 60-minute tour
Twice a month, at nine in the morning, a fortnight of tours goes on sale. Here is how the release works, why it fills, and what to do when your date has gone.
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Inside the Bodleian Library's 60-minute tour: the four rooms, one by one
A carved Gothic hall, a parliament house, a university courtroom and a reading room that opened in 1488. What to look for in each, in the order you see them.
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Can you go inside the Bodleian Library? What is free, and what needs a tour
Some of the Bodleian is open to anyone who walks in. The rooms most people come for are not. A plain guide to which is which.
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A short history of the Bodleian Library, from Duke Humfrey to the Weston
A medieval gift, a library emptied and left to the doctors, a diplomat who brought it back in 1602, and four centuries of building around the same rooms.
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An Oxford day built around the Bodleian Library tour
How to get to Oxford, when to take the tour, and what to see within a few minutes' walk of the Old Library before and after.