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James David Forbes Book Collecting Prize, 2015, Open!
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 you’ve gathered over time? Tell […]
Day 249. Flying fish and salt horse: a seafaring tale
5th April 1860:
Thursday 5th. Aboard the David G.…
Day 248. Flying fish and salt horse: a seafaring tale
Wednesday 4th. Sailed the Caribou of Liverpool. Run another regatta the…
Day 247. Flying fish and salt horse: a seafaring tale
3rd April 1860:Tuesday 3rd. Aboard the Caribow of Liverpool. Arrived the Annie Wilson of Liverpool.
Taming the Leviathan
If you are looking for something to do in Fife this Easter weekend, then why not visit the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther to see Poles Apart: changing attitudes to whaling in the 20th century!
The Observatory of Letters
Here marks a new waypoint on my journey: I traveled west over to Special Collections. Here is where I have begun work on “the papers”. “István Hont’s papers” doesn’t sound very intimidating. The image I had in my mind…