Minor Book Repair Workshop with Caroline Bendix
Life can be dangerous for a book. Someone might thoughtlessly pull it off a shelf by the top of its spine, bash its corners, ignore… Read More »Minor Book Repair Workshop with Caroline Bendix
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Reading the Collections, Week 33: It’s all Greek to me
Cataloguing the backlog of early and rare printed books held in the Special Collections Division of the University Library can be a source of surprises.… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 33: It’s all Greek to me
Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks and Other Albums
Back in June, we received our first Visiting Scholar for 2015 – Professor Kevin James of the University of Guelph. Since delivering a workshop based… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks and Other Albums
Reading the collections, Week 31: The Lawrence Levy Collection
In the 1980s there was precious little golf on the TV in the UK. There was no internet and the newspapers were, with the exception… Read More »Reading the collections, Week 31: The Lawrence Levy Collection
Reading the Collections, Week 30: A Jacobite Declaration, 1715
Today, 6 September, is the 300th anniversary of the raising of the Standard of the Jacobite army at Braemar by John Erskine, 6th Earl of… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 30: A Jacobite Declaration, 1715
Wedderburn and Simson Collections now on SAULCAT
Special Collections is pleased to announce that the cataloguing of two of its rare book collections is complete. Both the Simson Collection and the Wedderburn… Read More »Wedderburn and Simson Collections now on SAULCAT
Reading the Collections, Week 29: Brontë Book Covers
For this post we will take a look at some of the different bindings and covers of Wuthering Heights in our collections. Some of these… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 29: Brontë Book Covers
Reading (or Singing) the collections, week 28: A performance from the Gradual
Last Monday (10th August) Gillian Hurst, who is in the final stages of an MLitt in Mediaeval Studies, delighted an audience at St Leonards’ Chapel… Read More »Reading (or Singing) the collections, week 28: A performance from the Gradual
Contemporary Calotypists visit Special Collections to View Early Calotypes and Photographic Prints
This past week, Special Collections helped host the bi-annual meeting of The Calotype Society, a modern day take on the original photographic exchange circles that… Read More »Contemporary Calotypists visit Special Collections to View Early Calotypes and Photographic Prints
Reading the Collections, Week 27: University Calendars and the office of Bedellus
At the end of July, John Jardine, University Bedellus, retired after 29 years’ service with the University. In that role as mace-bearer, almost the personification… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 27: University Calendars and the office of Bedellus
Reading the Collections, Week 26: Discovery of the Microbial World
Antony van Leeuwenhoek is widely recognised as the person who discovered the microbial world and I have always been intrigued by this somewhat unusual and… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 26: Discovery of the Microbial World
Reading the Collections, Week 23: Brides Wedding Book
It’s summer time, the season of weddings, and so this week the focus is upon Brides Wedding Book by Elizabeth Hillier, a graduate of the… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 23: Brides Wedding Book
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