Reading the Collections, Week 12: Every Building on the Sunset Strip
Working with the Photographic Collection, it may seem self-evident that I prefer to read books with pictures. So when asked to read a book from the collections I wracked my […]
Working with the Photographic Collection, it may seem self-evident that I prefer to read books with pictures. So when asked to read a book from the collections I wracked my […]
Contributing to a blog named ‘Serendipity’ seems very appropriate today.
As I went into the archive stacks this morning, with my list of reference numbers, ready to find some correspondence between Sir D’Arcy…
21 April 1860:
20th April 1860:
Friday 20th. Aboard the Deodar, Finchley and…
19th April 1860:
Thursday 19th. Lending the Deodar a hand to haul…
18th April 1860:
17th April 1860:
Tuesday 17th. Aboard the Wressel…
This is another find from the Maitland Dougall trunk. It’s a paper ladder, carefully cut out, with a heart at the top. One side is labelled ‘Ascent’ and each step on the ladder records the stages of falling in…
Sunday 12 April 2015 saw a fantastic concert in St Salvator’s Chapel to launch ‘Sanctiandree’, the first CD label established by a Scottish University. The CD ‘Salvator Mundi – the […]
16th April 1860:
Monday 16th. Ashore in the morning. Matilda afternoon.