Echoes from the vault
The University Library’s Special Collections blog highlights items from the collections to explore their past and context.
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Staff and research students of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research have put together an online mini-exhibition to highlight some…
Date 8 April 2022
Category Archives
Today we celebrate the 25th anniversary of World Book Day, an initiative to promote reading for pleasure and a celebration of books. Here…
Date 3 March 2022
Category Rare Book Collection
In Spring 2020 I submitted an entry to the J.D. Forbes competition. My entry, loosely based on my PhD research, was titled From Salt to…
Date 9 February 2022
Category James D. Forbes Collecting Prize
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Global History of Terrorism Archive
Maia Sheridan, Manuscripts Archivist, reports on leading an international effort to tackle a huge archive on international terrorism. For those of you used to getting all your news online or through RSS feeds to your…
Basilikon dōron, or His Maiesties instrvctions to his dearest sonne, Henry the prince
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) last year were again asked to submit a blog post as part of their course. Here is the next in a…
John Knox and ‘A godly letter’: An Attack on Marian Catholicism
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) last year were again asked to submit a blog post as part of their course. Here is the next in a…