The Library’s Special Collections has recently acquired ten cartes de visite depicting members of the British royal family in the 1860s. Queen Victoria and Prince… Read More »Victoria R: the “first media monarch” of modern Britain
Since 2014, we have welcomed a number of visiting scholars who wish to pursue their own research projects to make use of materials held in… Read More »Visiting Scholars 2017
Back in Week 15 of our Historical How-To’s, we created some collodion wet plate negatives. It is here that I must confess we did not… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 50: How to Varnish a Collodion Plate
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
