The Great Plum Pudding ‘Bake’-Off
Four more sleeps till Christmas. The mental background burble of the culinary checklist is getting louder. Make pastry. Bake biscuits for gingerbread house. Make mince pies. Prove stollen. Decorate Christmas cake.…
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Man Booker Prize Foundation Universities Initiative Annual Lecture 2017
The Annual Lecture of the Man Booker Prize Foundation Universities Initiative is to be delivered this year by author Sarah Waters (5:30pm 15th November, Booth Lecture Theatre, Medical Building). Waters is known for her…
Reading the Collections, Week 42: A Christmas Carol
My earliest exposure to this seminal work of Dickens was a film adaptation notable for being performed by a cast of singing muppets. Since then I’ve seen straight adaptations, parodies, and films with the same DNA.…
Reading the Collections, Week 19: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
Despite being a keen detective fiction fan, until recently I had never read any of the works of Wilkie Collins: Victorian author and early pioneer of mystery and detective fiction. This year’s Reading the Collections…
Cataloguing Completed: the Hargreaves Collection
The Rare Book team is pleased to announce that the Hargreaves Collection has been fully catalogued on SAULCAT and awaits your reading pleasure. Geoffrey D. Hargreaves studied classics at Pembroke College, Oxford before…