Today! Drop into the Weston anytime between 10-1pm for #SensationalBooks family fun.
#HalfTerm

An interesting event this week about combating misinformation from our friends at Oxford Internet Institute. 👇

Upcoming event:
Performing the Past: Modern Opera and Ancient Egypt

Join Grammy award winning countertenor and producer and TORCH Oxford Visiting Fellow Anthony Roth Costanzo.
📅 Weds 26 October
⏰ 5–6pm
📍 Free at Weston Library

(📸Paola Kudacki)
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⭐️ Kids aged 5+ will love our #SensationalBooks half term family fun day tomorrow! ⭐️

Experience books through all the senses
- giant poem printing
- mini sensory book making
- family exhibition trails
- café

⏰10am-1pm - just drop in :)
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Super! Thanks to all #SensationalBooks Library Late visitors last Friday for a great evening.

The next Library Late will explore the Tutankhamun archive - Fri 18 November. Book here! visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/nov22/li…

Thanks for joining this evening's #SensationalBooks Twitter taster tour 😜

The exhibition runs in Oxford until December.

Add your own favourite objects from Sensational Books and tag us!
#BodSensational
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Stop 10: x
(Touch/Taste 🖐👅)

We're used to seeing Books of Hours as beautiful museum objects - but they were intended for use.

This 15th c. example shows the marks of kissing, rubbing and handling this religious book.

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Stop 9: Confession time: How many of these sins might you be guilty of?
(Touch 🖐)

This 17th c. book lists sins on slips of paper to help the sinner prepare for confession.

Example: ‘I bragged... about impurities I had not actually committed’.

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Stop 8:
(Touch 🖐)

The sensation of turning pages is quite different depending on the material used.

This 16th c. missal, partly printed on silk, is studded with knotted page markers, and originally had a velvet binding.

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Stop 7: If you could bottle the Bod...
(Smell 👃)

These books from the Bodleian's oldest reading room, the Duke Humfrey's library, smell of leather, dust, wood - and years.

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Stop 6: Heaven scent?
(Smell 👃 )

A book smell-wheel in the exhibition identifies a range of odours - from coal and vinegar to citrus and rotten socks!

Visitors can tip a bottle to smell Magna Carta and more.

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Stop 5: Wearable words

Artists working with the form of the book have produced some of the loveliest items in the exhibition.

Jenni Gray's ruff of miniature Shakespeare editions is curator Emma Smith favourite (birthday present suggestion..?)

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Stop 4: A cheesy book
(Taste 👅)

Books are organic items, but Ben Denzer's 'American Cheese' (2018) is extreme!

These cheeky bound processed cheese slices push the definition of a book.

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Stop 3: Big birds
(Proprioception 🙆)

This is Audubon's 'Birds of America' (what a unit). The book was printed between 1827-38.

This huge volume requires two librarians to turn its pages!

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Stop 2: A Kindle fit for a king

Charles I's lovely travelling set of miniature books is a holiday Kindle - three centuries early!

Printed in several European cities from 1568 to 1608, the volumes include history, poetry and drama.

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Stop 1:

We begin with a discussion of physical books v. audio and e-books.

What's your preference? 📖🎧⚡️

Welcome to our Twitter tour of #SensationalBooks , the exhibition that explores the senses beyond sight: hearing, touch, smell, taste & proprioception (the sense that i.e. helps us know how much force to use).

Over two hours, we'll stop at 10 sensational items!
👁️👂🖐️👃👅🙆

This is the item that inspired upcoming exhibition These Things Matter.

Edits aimed to ensure that the slaves who were allowed to read would have no notion of their right to be free, or thoughts of rebellion.