Oriel College Library

Oriel College was founded #OnThisDay 700 years ago 🎉 On 21 January 1326, King Edward II issued a royal charter confirming our first provost Adam de Brome’s foundation of a “certain college of scholars” in Oxford. @UniofOxford @OxUniStudents

✨A few highlights from 2025✨#wrapped2025

Professor Lyndal Roper’s ‘Summer of Fire and Blood’ has received the @CundillPrize for her “sensational” account of the German Peasants’ War of 1525 oriel.ox.ac.uk/news/emeritus-…

Hello from #OrielLibrary to everyone visiting #OrielCollege today during #OxOpenDays!🌞📚👋 #library #sunshine #hello

Oriel Library will be closed from 8.30am on Thursday 28 until 5pm on Friday 29 August. Deep clean time! 🧼🧹🫧 We’re available to answer questions at library@oriel.ox.ac.uk but we won’t have access to the library shelves 🫧 Your Library Team Felicity, Fiona, Leah and Louise✨

The Library is open 24/7 over the bank holiday weekend. The Library Office will be closed on Monday 25 August. We'll be back on Tuesday 26th August. ✨📚 Have a lovely long weekend ✨📚 The Library Team

Professor Mary Beard helped celebrate 100 years of the Friends of the Bodleian by delivering their much anticipated Annual Lecture, on the theme 'Risky encounters: the library in fact and fiction'. Watch the full talk on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=5VAz94….

This is to allow essential maintenance work to be carried out on the library system over the weekend of 12/13 July. During this weekend you will not be able to search for items on SOLO, request items from storage, or access online reading lists. Apologies for the inconvenience,

The Senior Library needs your support this Giving Day. Give a gift today to help with essential roof repairs so we can futureproof one of College’s most treasured spaces: givingday.oriel.ox.ac.uk/p/oriellibrary/

Giving Day is now live. Join a global community to show your support for Oriel today. Follow the campaign on our giving page and help unlock additional funds for students this Giving Day. givingday.oriel.ox.ac.uk #OrielHereandNow #OrielCollege #OxfordUni

Professor David Carpenter, one of the two researchers behind the discovery of the original Magna Carta @Harvard_Law, visited Oriel College to view our own 1300 engrossment and its accompanying Forest Charter

The Library Team is here today for any library-related queries you may have. We'll be looking out the window at the rain... well, it is a bank holiday Monday in May.

Register now to join @Musa_alGharbi, author of We Have Never Been Woke (@PrincetonUPress), in conversation with @tmbejan @Politics_Oxford. All are welcome to attend. Wednesday 28 May @OrielOxford: oriel.ox.ac.uk/events/provost…

Statement from the Provost of Oriel College on the discovery of the seventh surviving 1300 engrossment of Magna Carta at @Harvard_Law oriel.ox.ac.uk/news/statement…

The Library Office lends noise-cancelling headphones for use in the Library 🦁🎧✨

The Library is open 24/7 over the bank holiday weekend. The Library office is open as usual on Monday for any library related queries you may have. Photo of the Pantin Library entrance looking onto a sunny third quad taken today. Monday we can't guarantee such a sunny view. ☂️🌧️

The 2025 Eugene Lee-Hamilton Prize. Open to entries from all undergraduates @UniofOxford and @Cambridge_Uni. A Petrarchan Sonnet on any topic of the author's choosing. Closing date 30 May. Full details at oriel.ox.ac.uk/eugene-lee-ham…

Oriel College Library will be open 24/7 over the Easter bank holiday weekend. The Library Office will be closed Good Friday, but we'll be open on Easter Monday 10am - 4pm. Happy Easter from all of the Library & Archives team, enjoy your long weekend! 🐥✨

Would you like to work in one of the loveliest libraries in Oxford? We're currently looking for a Senior Library Assistant (Technical Services) - Maternity Cover: oriel.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/seni… Photo: The Pantin Library from third quad.