November marks the start of UK Disability History month and the opportunity to discover and learn new narratives within the University’s archives. Archivists Sarah Rodriguez… Read More »Disability History – new narratives in old records
It is that time of year again – costumes, raisins receipts and foam fights! The earliest records in the University’s archive relating to Raisin celebrations… Read More »A pound of raisins
In this blog PhD candidate Phoebe Macindoe discusses leaf books and a new acquisition for the Library. All the volumes in the library are made… Read More »Unbe-leaf-able! A Thynne-ly disguised secret appears in a library book
In this blog, Noor Zohdy, Laidlaw Scholar 2024, reports on their summer research project looking at editions of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.… Read More »The Brontë books in the Hargreaves Collection
In this blog, Furniture & Wooden Artefacts Conservator Sarah Gerrish reports on conservation work carried out on a Japanese photo album from University Collections (ALB-116).… Read More »Conservation of a Japanese Lacquered Photograph Album
In April of this year I found myself posing with a colony of penguins. Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone was there too. The photographer asked… Read More »Winner of the 2024 James David Forbes Collecting Prize: March of the Grenguins
As a general rule, we do not retain examination scripts or answers in the University archive. There are a few items however that have been… Read More »There is nothing in the paper I can do…
In this blog Farah Wallauer outlines a 2023 summer project which was made possible through funding from the Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology… Read More »Urania Propitia by Maria Cunitz
In this blog Conservation Technician Gemma Kelly from the National Library reports on a recent exhibition cradle making course hosted at the V&A Dundee. In… Read More »Cradle Making at the V&A Dundee
In October 1942, the University Librarian George H Bushnell, amused the University Celtic Society with a ghost story which, according to the society minutes, was… Read More »‘A Handful of Ghosts’ – ghost stories from the University Librarian
Bringing in collections Incoming university collections are routinely checked for dirt, mould and insect activity before being cleaned, rehoused and shelved in the stores. Not… Read More »The colour aniline purple – housing silk textiles from the Calvert Chemistry Collection
This year is the 250th anniversary of Phillis Wheatley’s work Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, the first volume published by an African… Read More »Finding Phillis: The First African American Author
