In this blog, the 2026 J D Forbes Collecting Prize winner Lizzy Adlam tells us about their winning collection entitled ‘Constellation’. Once upon a time… Read More »A Constellation of Fairytale and Myth Books
In this post, winner of the 2025 James David Forbes Collecting Prize, fourth -year undergraduate student Kate Oneal, tells us about her collection of Anne… Read More »Winner of the 2025 James David Forbes Collecting Prize
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
When I received the notification that I had been chosen as the winner of the 2023 J. D. Forbes Prize, I was thrilled. Not for… Read More »Winner of the 2023 J. D. Forbes Collecting Prize: Tennysonian Arthuriana
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the James David Forbes Collecting Prize 2022 is Lakshmi Thiagarajan, who graduated last year with an… Read More »James David Forbes Collecting Prize 2022: A glimpse into the history and practice of South Indian Classical dance
In Spring 2020 I submitted an entry to the J.D. Forbes competition. My entry, loosely based on my PhD research, was titled From Salt to… Read More »Winning the 2021 James D. Forbes Collecting Prize
Following a one year postponement, due to the pandemic, the James D. Forbes Collecting Prize ran again this year. This prize is offered in honour… Read More »James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2021 Winner Announced
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the James David Forbes Collecting Prize 2019 is Antares Wells, recent graduate in the School of… Read More »A Century of Photographs, Found in Australia
We are happy to announce that the winner of the James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2018 is Parker Gordon, PhD candidate in the School of… Read More »James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2018 Winner
Bibliophile? Photography lover? Tell us about your collection and you could win £500 plus the chance to help select a new Special Collections item. The… Read More »James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2018
The winner of the James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2017, Arthur der Weduwen, tells us about his collection… My book collection attempts to offer a representative… Read More »Winner of the James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2017
Dawn Hollis won the inaugural J.D. Forbes Book Collecting Prize in 2015 for her ‘High and Distant Places: A Travel, Mountaineering, and Exploration Collection’. The… Read More »JD Forbes Book Collecting Prize: 2015 Winner
