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 the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European Intellectual Life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, focuses…
Date 14 September 2021
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In the next part of the series of blog posts about the Archive of European Intellectual Life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at…
Date 7 September 2021
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In this fourth, and final, instalment showcasing material used in the recent USTC Conference ‘Gender and the Book Trades’, we look at…
Date 26 August 2021
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James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2021 Winner Announced
Following a one year postponement, due to the pandemic, the James D. Forbes Collecting Prize ran again this year. This prize is offered in honour of James David Forbes (1809-1868), an eminent scientist (especially in…
A mind of her own: the papers of Lola Mayer
In the second of a series of blog posts about the Archive of European intellectual life, project archivist Miriam Buncombe, looks at the archival record of Lola Mayer within the papers of Jacob Peter Mayer. As is so…
USTC Conference: Gender and the Book Trades Part III
In this third instalment from our virtual showcase for the USTC Conference ‘Gender and the Book Trades’ we highlight some of the items from our collections which women authored. In 2011 we purchased a wonderful…