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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Scottish History PhD candidate Kate McGregor has been has been working for the past year as a Research Assistant on a project…
Date 23 June 2023
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Scottish History PhD candidate Kate McGregor has been has been working for the past year as a Research Assistant on a project…
Date 6 June 2023
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When I received the notification that I had been chosen as the winner of the 2023 J. D. Forbes Prize, I was thrilled. Not for me, but for…
Date 26 May 2023
Category James D. Forbes Collecting Prize
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More books in the Library
Can’t find the book you want in the library? You can request it through the more books service. Many students and members of staff have found this service useful. Take a look at the Main Library blog to read more about…
‘The Usurpers’ by Willa Muir
We recently celebrated the publication of a novel which had waited 70 years to get into print. This is Willa Muir’s ‘new’ novel, The Usurpers. Two typed versions of the manuscript, and a few pages of a handwritten…
When books go missing…
In 1456 the Faculty of Arts at the University recorded a decision to install library furniture ‘in a small room at the end of the big school’, and acknowledged gifts of books from two donors to begin the library. The…