We are happy to announce that the winner of the James D. Forbes Collecting Prize 2018 is Parker Gordon, PhD candidate in the School of English. In this blog, Parker tells us about his winning collection. From today…
Last week I travelled down to Cardiff, along with two 19th century books from our collections, to take part in what promised to be a very interesting event. This brief time in Cardiff brought me into contact with some…
A new database promising to provide access to all books published before 1601, in all languages, will be launched on 22 November 2011. The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) will contain a total of some 350,000…