Yesterday, we looked at Dame Millicent Fawcett who was the president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897. After the failure of the 1866 petition to […]
Today marks the 100th Anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 which extended the vote to some women over the age of 30 for the first time. In […]
2018 is an important year for the commemoration of the struggle for women’s suffrage. A number of anniversaries of key events in the history of votes for women are celebrated […]
This week we present a letter from Ludwig (Louis) van Beethoven (1770-1827) writing from Vienna in February 1818 to the London piano manufacturer Thomas Broadwood in anticipation of the gift […]
A wife’s head is immaterial, compared with her heart” Robert Burns This year we are able to present an exciting addition to the Burnsiana in our collections – a letter […]
The Lighting the Past team share their highlights from the ‘M’ section of the Copyright Deposit Collection. You can see the previous posts in the series here. While cataloguing the […]
Ro Spankie, Principal Lecturer, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, shares with us her recent search to find out about her ancestor Thomas Spankie and his […]
In part I of this post, we saw the pre-treatment condition of ‘Le Bosphore’ and ‘Sketches in Turkey, Syria and Egypt’. In part II, the Library’s Preventive Conservator explains the […]
To start the New Year, we take a look at the conservation work carried out on two of our rare books, in this two-part blog. Two treasures from the Library’s […]
Echoes from the Vault will be taking a break over the seasonal period but we will be back in January 2018. Season’s Greetings to All!Filed under: Announcements Tagged: Season's Greetings