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Professor Emma Smith has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023 for her book Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers (Allen Lane). 

Professor Daniel Wakelin has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy for his distinguished contributions to research.

We recently held a reception to celebrate books by our Faculty members which have been published in the past year. 

Congratulations to Dr Ben Higgins who has been announced as joint winner of the Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award for his book Shakespeare’s Syndicate: The First Folio, its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade. 

Alice Oswald's valedictory lecture is now online. Listen to Counterblast! (a manifesto for poetry), plus other Professor of Poetry lectures on the Oxford University podcast site.