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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In this blog, Noor Zohdy, Laidlaw Scholar 2024, reports on their summer research project looking at editions of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant…
Date 19 July 2024
Category Projects
In this blog, Furniture & Wooden Artefacts Conservator Sarah Gerrish reports on conservation work carried out on a Japanese photo album…
Date 2 July 2024
Category Collections care
In April of this year I found myself posing with a colony of penguins. Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone was there too. The…
Date 10 May 2024
Category Book Collecting
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There is nothing in the paper I can do…
As a general rule, we do not retain examination scripts or answers in the University archive. There are a few items however that have been kept by archivists due to their uniqueness. During this examination period, we…
Urania Propitia by Maria Cunitz
In this blog Farah Wallauer outlines a 2023 summer project which was made possible through funding from the Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) public engagement funding, as…
Cradle Making at the V&A Dundee
In this blog Conservation Technician Gemma Kelly from the National Library reports on a recent exhibition cradle making course hosted at the V&A Dundee. In December last year, I had the pleasure of attending a course…