Following a one year postponement, due to the pandemic, the James D. Forbes Collecting Prize ran again this year. This prize is offered in honour of James David Forbes (1809-1868), an eminent scientist (especially in…
In the second of a series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the archival record of Lola Mayer within the papers of Jacob Peter Mayer. As is so…
In this third instalment from our virtual showcase for the USTC Conference ‘Gender and the Book Trades’ we highlight some of the items from our collections which women authored. In 2011 we purchased a wonderful…
In the first of a series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the papers of Jacob Peter Mayer. Jacob Peter Mayer is now best remembered for his work…
In this blog post, Megan Briers, Mathematics and Computer Science student, shares her experience as a summer intern with the Special Collections team. The Very Reverend Professor John Lee (1779-1859) was appointed…
In this second instalment from our virtual showcase for the USTC Conference ‘Gender and the Book Trades’ we highlight some of the items from our collections which women have edited or illustrated. Sometimes women play…
In our last 4 posts we have described the nature of much of the General Rollo collection, and have highlighted the journeys of a (presumably) well-to-do traveller in the later years of the 19th, and the early 20th…
This year, the annual Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) Conference went online for the first time. In the past, Special Collections has supported this conference with a live show and tell – delegates could see…
Over the course of this summer we are excited to be moving collections, books and other materials to their new browsable home at the Walter Bower House Reading Room. The items being moved are those currently stored in…
Special Collections has been involved in a very exciting cataloguing project this year, in collaboration with the Institute of Intellectual History in St Andrews and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in…