This year Shrove Tuesday falls on Tuesday, 4th March. Naturally, there is only one thing I should cover in this week’s blog post…Pancakes, Pancakes, Pancakes! Shrove Tuesday, the religious celebration […]
This week we have tried to bring together the kit that a soldier would have carried to the front on active service in World War I. Not authentic memorabilia, you […]
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountered with their favourite items from the Special Collections Division. […]
For those of you who may have forgotten tomorrow is Valentine’s Day! There is much speculation about the origins of this holiday, whether it has connections with the Roman fertility […]
The subject of this week’s blog is a rather interesting manuscript, bound with three printed works, and takes me back to my postgraduate days of studying late-mediaeval veterinary medicine. All […]
This year’s Special Collections Christmas party was slightly different to the usual festive celebration, as we continued to follow our Historical How-To theme. We brought along the decorations we have […]
When we first started talking about cooking our way through the collections, one of the early ideas was to make mincemeat for Christmas following an historic recipe that contained meat. […]
We bought this recipe book at auction recently, and it arrived with no provenance information. However, from the names and places mentioned, I have worked out that it belonged to […]
T’was a dark and stormy night….no, honestly, it really was….when a gallant band of Special Collections and friends set out in full costume, accompanied by an even more gallant, because […]
Over the past couple of years we’ve had themes for weekly blog posts throughout the year, beginning with the very popular 52 weeks of fantastic bindings, and followed by 52 […]