Echoes from the vault
The University Library’s Special Collections blog highlights items from the collections to explore their past and context.
Latest posts
The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technique opens up new horizons for the close study of the materiality of palpable objects…
Date 1 July 2022
Category Manuscript Collection
At a workshop back in April I applied RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) to the processing of images of a twelfth-century parchment…
Date 24 June 2022
Category Manuscript Collection
As light glimmers over the fifteenth-century illuminated initial, the calm and focused expression on the face of our university’s eponym…
Date 17 June 2022
Category Manuscript Collection
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Scotland and France: an ‘Auld Alliance’ of two equals?
We are delighted that students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s ‘Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland’ module (MO4807) have once again submitted blog posts as part of their course. Here is the first in a small series…
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022
Queen Elizabeth II is the first British Monarch to celebrate 70 years of service. Her reign is already longer than the reigns of her four predecessors put together. To mark the Platinum Jubilee weekend, we thought we…
Folger Symposium – ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’
On the weekend of 6-8 May the University hosted a Folger Symposium on ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’. This was the culmination of four years of preparation by Professor Margaret Connolly and Professor Rhiannon Purdie,…