Richard Ovenden
Richard Ovenden OBE is the 25th Bodley's Librarian (since the post was set up in 1600) at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Since 1987 he has worked in a number of important archives and libraries, including the House of Lords Library, the National Library of Scotland (as a Curator of Rare Books) and in the University of Edinburgh, where he was Director of Collections. He was educated at the University of Durham and University College London, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford and holds a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford. His writing has been frequently published in major newspapers and online platforms. Most recently, he has written a history of the deliberate destruction of knowledge, Burning The Books.
Burning the Books
Culture 6 November 16:00 Richard Ovenden, Director of Oxford’s world-famous Bodleian Libraries, will be in conversation with James Spackman about his new book ''Burning the Books – A History of Knowledge Under Attack'. They will discuss this fascinating history of ideas and how the survival of knowledge is so vital for the survival of civilisation itself.Speakers
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