In April of this year I found myself posing with a colony of penguins. Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone was there too. The photographer asked me to look down at the birds, and in that intimate moment, staring…
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 my collection of Tennysonian Arthuriana. I was thrilled that my collection of…
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the James David Forbes Collecting Prize 2022 is Lakshmi Thiagarajan, who graduated last year with an MA in Management and Philosophy. In this blog she tells us about her…
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 Satan: An introduction to a collection of “lesbian pulp” as cultural items. What…
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…
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the James David Forbes Collecting Prize 2019 is Antares Wells, recent graduate in the School of Art History. In this blog, Antares tells us about her winning collection of…