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The Radcliffe Camera has been part of the Bodleian Library since 1860 when the latter outgrew its existing premises next door.
The 'Rad Cam' was designed in the 1730s by James Gibbs in the English Palladian style, and construction was completed in the 1740s.
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After over thirty years in Oxford I finally got into the Radcliffe Camera back in August. A slight lie as I had actually been inside a few years ago on a guided tour but that doesn't count as cameras weren't allowed...... This time round it was a event specifically for photographers and we were encouraged to bring our cameras and take as many photos as we liked.
Very glad I took my 8mm fisheye with me as it's probably the best way to capture the essence of the main reading rooms domed ceiling.
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From Wikipedia, "The Radcliffe Camera (colloquially known as the "Rad Cam" or "The Camera"; from Latin camera, meaning 'room') is a building of the University of Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in a Baroque style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is sited to the south of the Old Bodleian, north of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, and between Brasenose College to the west and All Souls College to the east. The Radcliffe Camera's circularity, its position in the heart of Oxford, and its separation from other buildings make it the focal point of the University of Oxford, and as such it is almost always included in shorthand visual representations of the university. The Radcliffe Camera is not open to the public."
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Date: 9th October 2015.
Copyright: (c)2015 SBC.
Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
From a very high cupola window. I had to compose and shoot this with the camera sideways and the twins, side by side.
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From a photography workshop at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, including the opportunity to photograph from locations not normally open to the public, not to photographers. My thanks to the Bodleian for organising this.
Divinity School at the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Some background information:
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. It is one of the oldest libraries in Europe and in Britain is second in size, only surpassed by the British Library.
Though university members may borrow some books from dependent libraries (such as the Radcliffe Science Library), the Bodleian principally operates as a reference library and in general documents may not be removed from the reading rooms.
Whilst the Bodleian Library, in its current incarnation, has a continuous history dating back to 1602, its roots date back even further. The first purpose-built library known to have existed in Oxford was founded in the fourteenth century by Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester. This collection continued to grow steadily. Between 1435 and 1437 Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester (the brother of Henry V of England), donated a great collection of manuscripts. But the space was deemed insufficient and therefore a larger building was required. A suitable room was finally built above the Divinity School and completed in 1488. This room continues to be known as Duke Humfrey’s Library.
The late sixteenth century saw the library go through a period of decline. The library’s furniture was sold and only three of the original books belonging to Duke Humfrey remained in the collection. It was not until 1598 that the library began to thrive once more: Duke Humfrey’s Library was refitted and Thomas Bodley, a former fellow of Merton College, donated a number of his own books to furnish it. Finally the library was re-opened on 8th November 1602 under the name "Bodleian Library".
The Bodleian collection grew so fast that the building was expanded from 1610 to 1612, and again from 1634 to 1637. Until the establishment of the British Museum in 1753 the Bodleian was effectively the national library of England.
By the late 18th century, further growth of the library demanded more expansion space. In 1860 the library was allowed to take over the adjacent building, known as the Radcliffe Camera. In 1861 the library’s medical and scientific collections were transferred to the so-called Radcliffe Science Library.
Between 1909 and 1912 an underground book stack was constructed beneath the Radcliffe Camera and Radcliffe Square and in 1914 the total number of books in the library’s collections breached the one million mark. By the 1920s the Library needed further expansion space and in 1937 building work began on the New Bodleian building. Construction was completed in 1940. A tunnel under Broad Street connects the Old and New Bodleian buildings. It contains a pedestrian walkway, a mechanical book conveyor and a pneumatic Lamson tube system which was used for book orders until an electronic automated stack request system was introduced in 2002.
Today the Bodleian Group cares for some eleven million items on 117 miles of shelving, and has a staff of over 400. The continued growth of the library has resulted in a severe shortage of storage space. Therefore over one and a half million items are currently stored in locations outside Oxford, including a disused salt mine in Cheshire.
The Bodleian Library as part of Hogwarts:
The Library's fine architecture has made it a favourite location for filmmakers, representing either Oxford University or other locations. Amongst its film appearances there are also ones in the first two Harry Potter films. In "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" from 2001 Bodleian’s Divinity School doubles as the Hogwarts hospital wing. And in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" from 2002 Bodleian’s Duke Humfrey's Library represents the Hogwarts library.
Visitors can book guided tours through the Bodleian Library by which among other things the guides reveal many details about the Harry Potter films and their filming in the library. So I can highly recommend you such a guided tour as it’s very interesting (in particular if you’re a fan of Harry Potter). The only wormwood of these tours is that participants are not allowed to take photos inside the library, except of one hall, the Divinity School, where photographers can pursue their passion to their heart’s content.
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After over thirty years in Oxford I finally got inside the Radcliffe Camera back in August. A slight lie as I had actually been inside a few years ago on a guided tour but that doesn't count as cameras weren't allowed...... This time round it was a event specifically for photographers and we were encouraged to bring our cameras and take as many photos as we liked.
A few more of these to come....... apologies if it's getting a bit monotonous for regular visitors to my photostream but this was a big photographic bucket list item ticked off.
Click here to see more photos of the Radcliffe Camera : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157629238398412
From Wikipedia, "The Radcliffe Camera (colloquially known as the "Rad Cam" or "The Camera"; from Latin camera, meaning 'room') is a building of the University of Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in a Baroque style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is sited to the south of the Old Bodleian, north of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, and between Brasenose College to the west and All Souls College to the east. The Radcliffe Camera's circularity, its position in the heart of Oxford, and its separation from other buildings make it the focal point of the University of Oxford, and as such it is almost always included in shorthand visual representations of the university. The Radcliffe Camera is not open to the public."
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I took this shot of the beautifully simple Christmas tree in the Bodleian Schools Quadrangle on the night of the Oxford Christmas Lights switch on. I wish I'd had longer to take the photo but I couldn't stop as I was part of the Unsilent Night procession that was winding its way around the back lanes of Oxford. For more on 'Unsilent Night' click here : www.unsilentnight.com/about.html
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A few more of these to come.......
After over thirty years in Oxford I finally got inside the Radcliffe Camera back in August. A slight lie as I had actually been inside a few years ago on a guided tour but that doesn't count as cameras weren't allowed...... This time round it was a event specifically for photographers and we were encouraged to bring our cameras and take as many photos as we liked.
By the way, does anyone else see the dome as convex rather than concave?
Click here to see more photos of the Radcliffe Camera : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157629238398412
From Wikipedia, "The Radcliffe Camera (colloquially known as the "Rad Cam" or "The Camera"; from Latin camera, meaning 'room') is a building of the University of Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in a Baroque style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is sited to the south of the Old Bodleian, north of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, and between Brasenose College to the west and All Souls College to the east. The Radcliffe Camera's circularity, its position in the heart of Oxford, and its separation from other buildings make it the focal point of the University of Oxford, and as such it is almost always included in shorthand visual representations of the university. The Radcliffe Camera is not open to the public."
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The Grade II Listed Statue of William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke which was erected in 1723. Located outside Bodleian Library, Oxford, Oxfordshire.
William was a bookish man, once tutored by the poet Samuel Daniel, and preferred to keep to his study with heavy pipe-smoking to keep his "migraines" at bay. His father negotiated a marriage between the young Herbert and Bridget de Vere, the granddaughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Offered 3,000 pounds and an annuity to begin at Burghley's death, the prospective groom wanted immediate payment of the annuity. The negotiations failed, and he remained single.
At the age of twenty, he had an affair with Mary Fitton (who has been suggested as a possible model for the Dark Lady of the sonnets), whom he impregnated. Admitting paternity, he refused to marry her and was sent to Fleet prison where he wrote verse. In 1601, Mary gave birth to a boy who died immediately. He petitioned Sir Robert Cecil and was eventually released, though he and Mary were both barred from court. He married Lady Mary Talbot, the dwarfish and deformed daughter of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, on 4 November 1604.
Herbert had an affair with his cousin, Lady Mary Wroth, daughter of Robert Sidney, brother of Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Herbert's mother. The relationship produced at least two illegitimate children, a daughter, Catherine, and a son, William. In “Herbertorum Prosapia” a seventeenth-century manuscript compilation of the history of the Herbert family, held at the Cardiff Library, a cousin of the earl of Pembroke, Sir Thomas Herbert records William Herbert’s paternity of Wroth’s two children. He died in 1630, aged 50 and his titles passed to his brother, Philip Herbert, 1st Earl of Montgomery. He was buried in Salisbury Cathedral in a family vault in front of the altar.
Herbert has been seen as the "Fair Youth" in William Shakespeare's sonnets, whom the poet urges to marry. Some years Shakespeare's junior, he was a patron of the playwright and his initials match with the dedication of the Sonnets to one "Mr. W.H.", "the only begetter of these ensuing sonnets." The identification was first proposed by James Boaden in his 1837 tract On the Sonnets of Shakespeare. E. K. Chambers, who had previously considered Southampton to be the Fair Youth, changed his mind when he encountered evidence in letters that around 1595 young Herbert had been urged to wed Elizabeth Carey, granddaughter of Henry Carey, the Lord Chamberlain who ran Shakespeare’s company. But he refused to marry her. In her Arden Shakespeare edition of the Sonnets, Katherine Duncan-Jones argues that Herbert is the likelier candidate. The First Folio of Shakespeare's plays was dedicated to "incomparable pair of brethren" William Herbert and his brother Philip Herbert.
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After over thirty years in Oxford I finally got into the Radcliffe Camera back in August. A slight lie as I had actually been inside a few years ago on a guided tour but that doesn't count as cameras weren't allowed...... This time round it was a event specifically for photographers and we were encouraged to bring our cameras and take as many photos as we liked.
Very glad I took my 8mm fisheye with me as it's probably the best way to capture the essence of the main reading rooms domed ceiling.
Click here to see more photos of the Radcliffe Camera : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157629238398412
From Wikipedia, "The Radcliffe Camera (colloquially known as the "Rad Cam" or "The Camera"; from Latin camera, meaning 'room') is a building of the University of Oxford, England, designed by James Gibbs in a Baroque style and built in 1737–49 to house the Radcliffe Science Library. It is sited to the south of the Old Bodleian, north of the Church of St Mary the Virgin, and between Brasenose College to the west and All Souls College to the east. The Radcliffe Camera's circularity, its position in the heart of Oxford, and its separation from other buildings make it the focal point of the University of Oxford, and as such it is almost always included in shorthand visual representations of the university. The Radcliffe Camera is not open to the public."
© D.Godliman
Another atypical photo of the Radcliffe Camera, lit by the last rays of the setting sun, this time given a fairly low-key blue tint.
Elegant arches at the rear of the Clarendon Building, part of the Bodleian Library , Broad St, Oxford. I've uploaded a differently composed and manipulated shot of this a while back but now I think I prefer the 'straight' version.
Radcliffe Camera reflected in a puddle
Part of the 'Made in Oxford' Exhibition by the Oxford Flickr Group.
Pentax Z-1p, 28-80mm kit zoom, 100 ISO Jessops film
Sometimes you just have to get lucky. When you're walking around ancient passage ways where camera's are strictly forbidden, but the walls are to ancient to fasten CCTV camera's too, then maybe all you need to do is wait for the lovely guardian of the house to go for a stroll.
I've always been a bit disappointed with the number of Oxford buildings that are floodlit but things have improved over the last few years though the Radcliffe Camera is still a notable exception.
Don't forget I've started a flickr group for photos of this wonderful Oxford landmark, if you've got shots feel free to join and add them : www.flickr.com/groups/radcliffecamera
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Don't say I only focus on Cambridge. Here's an old one from Oxford. However, notice that even here we've got CAM:-)
From a photography workshop at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, including the opportunity to photograph from locations not normally open to the public, not to photographers. My thanks to the Bodleian for organising this.
Illumination of the word "Kol" the Kol Nidrei Prayer, Yom Kipur, Tripartite Mahzor, 1300, South Germany. Reproduced by courtesy of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxfort. Printed in Israel. New Year Card.
Source: Digital image.
Image: P...
Date: 9th October 2015.
Copyright: (c)2015 SBC.
Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
This is Radcliffe Camera, James Gibbs' masterpiece, completed in 1749! This camera - or chamber - was built to house a library devoted to the sciences but is now a private reading room for the Bodleian!
This building is essential for JRR Tolkien's fans(like me)! Here Tolkien spent a great deal of time(a number of his manuscripts are now kept in the library), but for Tolkien the building was exactly how he envisaged Sauron's temple to Morgoth in Numenor would look!
Two famous people for the price of one........ Not great quality as it was shot at 6400 ISO, f2.8 with a long lens.
Both John Simpson and Martin Parr gave short speeches at the lauch of the Photo Oxford Festival. Seen here they were waiting for Richard Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Library, to finish his introductions, hence the rather casual stances.
John explained that he had just moved to Oxford that day so he was feeling rather guilty his wife and children were at home upacking boxes........
From Wikipedia : "John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born 9 August 1944) is an English foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of BBC News. He has spent all his working life at the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders.
Simpson was born in Cleveleys, Lancashire. He says in his autobiography that his father was an anarchist. He spent ten years growing up in Dunwich in Suffolk. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and St Paul's School, followed by Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine. In 1965 he was a member of the Magdalene University Challenge team. A year later Simpson started as a trainee sub-editor at BBC radio news."
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Yesterday I was in Oxford for a workshop that was followed by a tour of the Bodleian Library. The various library buildings are connected by a set of underground tunnels designed to transport books. Some of the old cellars and stacks are now transformed into reading rooms, and because of these works we could only see the modernised parts without the old conveyor belt system I was so looking forward to seeing in action.
The Bodleian Library is the main research library at the University of Oxford and one of the oldest libraries in Europe. It contains over 12 million items.
John Simpson giving a speech at the lauch of the Photo Oxford Festival.
John explained that he had just moved to Oxford that day so he was feeling rather guilty his wife and children were at home upacking boxes........
From Wikipedia : "John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE (born 9 August 1944) is an English foreign correspondent and world affairs editor of BBC News. He has spent all his working life at the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders.
Simpson was born in Cleveleys, Lancashire. He says in his autobiography that his father was an anarchist. He spent ten years growing up in Dunwich in Suffolk. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and St Paul's School, followed by Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine. In 1965 he was a member of the Magdalene University Challenge team. A year later Simpson started as a trainee sub-editor at BBC radio news."
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