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
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
Back in April, we received an addition to the Ladislav Holy Collection – Ladislav Holy (1933–1997) was a Czech anthropologist and Africanist, who came to… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection
Are you a hoarder? A collector? Are your shelves filled with your favourite titles? Or maybe you have box filled with letters or photographs which… Read More »James David Forbes Book Collecting Prize, 2015, Open!
Humans have been looking to the night sky for millennia in awe and wonder of the heavens above us, or in contemplation of the complex… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 51: How to discover a planet
As we are in the midst of orientation week, I thought it would be appropriate for this week’s historical how-to to focus on one of… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 45: How to Matriculate
Sometimes you come across someone in the story of the University who just makes you stop and stare, whose erudition and achievements in enabling the… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 39: compile a dictionary
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
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 Margaret Connolly describes the Roll of Kings
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 Christine McGladdery on the Statutes of St Leonard’s College
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
The sixth issue of 600 Years of Book Collecting will be available for sale from the Main Library next Wednesday, the 12th of March. This issue, the… Read More »600 YEARS OF BOOK COLLECTING, ISSUE 6: ARTS — COMING SOON!!
