New Acquisitions: Hand-coloured 1589 Luther Bible
Earlier this year the rare books team acquired a significant, and rather pretty, addition to its developing Bible Collection. This Bible, a 1589 folio production of Luther’s edition, was […]
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Lighting the Past: Historical ABCs
While cataloguing the Reserve Collection, I came across a little gem of a spelling book. It contains four separate publications which have been bound together, each dating from the early […]
New acquisition: Peter Fraser’s collection of Martin Parr photobooks
This past Monday morning was a sad morning. It was the last Monday morning in a series of Monday mornings that I’ve been spending inside the headspace of Martin Parr. […]
Seeing the light in a dark room: Paper as Evidence Workshop hosted by School of History and Special Collections
Material culture can prove beneficial, if not essential, to help us understand historical events, literature, science and art. Throughout the history of mankind, the materiality of day-to-day life has had […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 51: How to discover a planet
Humans have been looking to the night sky for millennia in awe and wonder of the heavens above us, or in contemplation of the complex forces that guide the seemingly […]
Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Lang and the Works of Tolkien
Sharin Schroeder spent two weeks in our reading room in July as part of the 2014 Visiting Scholarship Programme. In this fascinating blog post, she explains how studying our Andrew Lang collection […]
Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Early Modern Physics in the Archives
Our next Visiting Scholars blog is from Liza Blake who spent three weeks in our reading room in July as part of the 2014 Visiting Scholarship Programme. It was a pleasure […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-to’s, Week 48: How to Borrow a Library Book!
So, this week, I thought I’d take a look at how to borrow a library book – after all, this is a library blog! I’ve chosen something a little more […]
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 47: To Make Yeast
For this week’s Historical How-To, I intended to look for a jam or jelly recipe to preserve the bumper crop of blackberries in the hedgerow near my home, but turned […]
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS VISITING SCHOLARS – BOCCACCIO IN SCOTLAND
More than any other poet of late medieval Scotland, Gavin Douglas delighted in writing about the books he had read: the reputations of their authors, the errors he found in […]