This week’s historical how-to relates to my own interest as a bobbin lace maker and a curiosity as to how my craft was represented in… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 40: lace making
When the idea for the Historical How-to’s series was first mooted both Norman and I immediately wondered how we might turn it into an excuse… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 30: A short mountain walk
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the… Read More »TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY PODCAST: Dr Luke Gartlan on John Thomson’s Through Cyprus with a Camera
For this week’s entry of 52-Weeks of Historical How-To’s we are looking at the wet-plate collodion on glass photographic process. The invention of the collodion… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 15: The Wet Collodion Process
For this week’s Historical How-To post, we’re turning our eyes (and our lens!) to the 20th century for some inspirational portrait photography! We’re going to… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 14: Lighting a Portrait
Earlier this summer I was lucky enough to spend a few months writing catalogue entries for some of the works held in the new Photographic… Read More »Exposing the Photographic Book Collection: a summer amongst the stacks
From well before the time when William Henry Fox Talbot ventured into the realm of photographic experiments, the effects of silver nitrate, salts and light… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 3: Talbot’s Photogenic Drawing in The Pencil of Nature
The Women’s British Open is the leading Major Golf Championship recognised by both the Ladies European Tour and the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Begun in… Read More »The Women’s British Open Championship is in St Andrews this week!
Over the past year staff from the Special Collections Division have been putting together posts highlighting ‘Inspiring Illustrations’ of material in our collections. Representing the… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 48: the Trajectory of the Photographic Medium
At its core the reproduction of the printed word is usually a process which is based on relief printing. Historically (as things are now different),… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 46: A Marriage of Convenience — The Half-Tone Relief Process
This Inspiring Illustration post on photography is inspired by a wonderful acquisition added to our Photographic Collection this week of a Scottish family’s photographs from… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 44: the Family Album
For our ‘April Fool’ post, we decided not to attempt the creation of a spoof medieval manuscript or late 14th century Scottish printed book, tempting… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 41: All is not as it seems…
