Back in April, we received an addition to the Ladislav Holy Collection – Ladislav Holy (1933–1997) was a Czech anthropologist and Africanist, who came to… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection
Today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, when the British under the Duke of Wellington and their allies from the Netherlands, Hanover,… Read More »“A complete victory gained with great bloodshed”
On Sunday morning (10th May) a number of burgeoning and talented artists gathered at the Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther for the workshop entitled ‘Faces from… Read More »Faces from the Past: Whaling portraits workshop
This week, the Historical How-To’s return for a brief encore. Since the Mince Pie Bake-Off last Christmas was such a success, the staff here at… Read More »Historical How-tos, Special Holiday Edition: the Great Gingerbread Bake-Off
We’ve sadly come to the end of our year long exploration of our collections. We’ve had tremendous fun getting to know obscure corners of our… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 52: A Special Scrapbook and Commonplace Book
Sharin Schroeder spent two weeks in our reading room in July as part of the 2014 Visiting Scholarship Programme. In this fascinating blog post, she explains how… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Lang and the Works of Tolkien
When you are known as the whaling archivist here at Special Collections, it can be difficult to come up with a historical how-to which will… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-to’s, Week 49: How to Write a Whaling Report
The moment you login to Facebook you are faced with an up-to-the-second archive of vacation photographs, pet videos, political screes, and daily frustrations of your… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Friending Cicero
I am ashamed to say that, despite being a long-term traveller on the East Coast Main Line and spending much of my doctorate on trains between… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Chris Langley’s Reflections
Part III of Henry Noltie’s trip through the Western Himalayas: Sent 2nd September 2014 In a very rainy McLeod Ganj (which would better known as… Read More »FOLLOWING HUGH CLEGHORN TO THE WESTERN HIMALAYA – PART III
A few weeks ago we featured a guest blog from Henry Noltie who is currently retracing the journey of Hugh Cleghorn to the Western Himalaya (Following… Read More »Following Hugh Cleghorn to the Western Himalaya – Part II
Another in our occasional series of blogs from those using our collections in our Reading Room … For about five years I have been working… Read More »Following Hugh Cleghorn to the Western Himalaya
