Editing Radcliffe Camera (section)

===Later history as part of the university===
Between 1909 and 1912, an underground book store of two floors was constructed beneath the north lawn of the library with a tunnel connecting it with the [[Bodleian Library|Bodleian]], invisibly linking the two library buildings, something envisaged by [[Henry Acland]] in 1861.<ref name=bh/> It was known as the "Radder" in 1930s slang but was later referred to as "the Radcliffe Link" or "the Link". This was refurbished as reading rooms, completed in 2011, and is now known as the "Gladstone Link".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/notices/2011/2011-jul-08a|title=Find a library}}</ref> 
[[File:Oxford Palestine solidarity encampment - second encampment at Radcliffe Square - 20 May 2024 07.jpg|thumb|A Palestinian solidarity encampment on the lawn of the Radcliffe Camera, 2024]]
After the Radcliffe Science Library moved into another building, the Radcliffe Camera became home to additional reading rooms of the Bodleian Library. The interior of the upper reading-room houses a six-foot [[Marble sculpture|marble statue]] of John Radcliffe, carved by [[John Michael Rysbrack]].<ref name=bh/> It now holds books from the English, history, and theology collections, mostly [[secondary sources]] found on Undergraduate and Graduate reading lists. There is space for around 600,000 books in rooms beneath [[Radcliffe Square]].

The Radcliffe Camera has been the site of several student-led protests. In November 2010, the building was occupied by students for over twenty-four hours, as part of wider national protest against proposed changes to university funding and substantial increases in the cost of tuition.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-11830491 |title= Oxford students protest at university fees |date= 24 November 2010 |publisher= BBC News |access-date=26 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cherwell.org/content/11131 |title= Rads cram Rad Cam in 24-hour stand-off |author= Cherwell news team |date= 26 November 2010 |publisher= Cherwell |access-date= 26 November 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101201151129/http://www.cherwell.org/content/11131 |archive-date= 1 December 2010 |df= dmy-all }}</ref> In October 2023, the building was sprayed with orange paint in a protest by [[Just Stop Oil]] against Oxford University's links to fossil fuel companies such as [[Ineos]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=Maggie Wilcox |title=Mixed feelings from students after Just Stop Oil vandalise RadCam |url=https://cherwell.org/2023/10/10/mixed-feelings-from-students-after-just-stop-oil-vandalise-radcam/ |website=[[Cherwell (newspaper)|Cherwell]] |access-date=10 October 2023 |date=10 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Radcliffe Camera in Oxford daubed with paint in Just Stop Oil protest |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-67068249 |website=[[BBC News]] |access-date=10 October 2023 |date=10 October 2023}}</ref> In May 2024, pro-Palestinian activists set up a tent encampment of the grounds of the Radcliffe Camera as part of the [[2024 University of Oxford pro-Palestinian campus occupations]] demanding that Oxford University [[Disinvestment from Israel|divest from Israel]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-20 |title=Oxford Has Two Liberated Zones |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/oxford-has-two-liberated-zones/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=National Review |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=News |first=Cherwell |date=2024-05-19 |title=Rally breaks out at the second OA4P encampment at the Radcliffe Camera |url=https://cherwell.org/2024/05/19/rally-breaks-out-at-the-second-oa4p-encampment-at-the-radcliffe-camera/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=Cherwell |language=en-GB}}</ref>