This week’s historical how-to takes a look at early vegetarian cooking. Although not a vegetarian myself, inspired by Vegetarian Week which has just passed, I… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 31: Vegetarian Hotch-Potch
For this week’s how-to post, I’ve taken some inspiration from one of our quirkiest collections, that of the Reverend John Beveridge (1857-1943). Beveridge gifted his… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 28: translating 17th century verse into Esperanto
Four weeks ago, we described how to make a linen shift using the directions in Robert Byfield’s Sectum: the Universal Directory in the Art of… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 27: Embroidery
This week’s How-to post gave an excuse for our two departmental home-brewers, Marc and Daryl, to stretch their boundaries to adapt a strange recipe for… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 26: Brewing Scurvy Grass Ale!
Well, this week’s post has been more challenging than expected. It started life as a blog about decorating churches for Easter. Although I have no… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 25: Easter Baking
This week’s blog is about the fun we have had singing together, learning songs chosen from the undiscovered riches of the Library’s music holdings. We… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 24: Singing the Collections
For this week’s historical how-to, we return to the early 19th century with a book entitled, Sectum: the universal directory in the art of cutting,… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 23: Dressmaking
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: Professor Christopher Given-Wilson on Rolevinck’s Fasciculus Temporum
When I told my flock of hens they were going to take part in a Historical How-To and be fed an early 19th c poultry… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 22: An experiment in early 19th century hen-keeping
For this week’s historical how-to, we’re taking a look at David Browne’s The new invention, intituled, calligraphia: or, The arte of faire writing. Printed right… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 21: Calligraphy
As part of my research for Maria Edgeworth: A Political Biography (to be published by Pickering and Chatto in 2017), I have spent a few… Read More »Highlights from the Reading Room: Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
When the idea for the 52 weeks of Historical How-To’s came to light I thought it made sense to explore the subject of ink. From… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s: Week 20, Iron Gall Ink
