Following on from last year’s project with Alice and Indre, interns from the School of Mathematics, this year we had two more interns working with us, again under the supervision of Dr Isobel Falconer, Reader in the…
The next report from our 2018 Visiting Scholars is by Lee Chichester of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In this report Lee Chichester shares her research examining the effects of D’Arcy Thompson’s theories on an early…
In the second of the reports from our 2018 Visiting Scholars, Matthew Holmes, then of the University of Leeds, now Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, shares with us his experience of…
Over the summer, two undergraduate students Alice Gowenlock and Indre Tuminauskaite, took part in a research internship funded by the Strathmartine Trust and the School of Mathematics and Statistics. The internship…
Back in March, we announced the names of this year’s University Library Special Collections Visiting Scholars. We have enjoyed getting to know the first of them over the last few weeks. From this coming Monday, our…
There has been a lot of research interest in the work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson in the last few years. 2017 marked the centenary of his seminal text, On Growth on Form which was celebrated with an international…
Two students from the Mathematics Department, Heather Dickinson and Barbora Cernakova, recently undertook an internship, funded by the Strathmartine Trust, which involved consultation of the papers of Professor D’Arcy…
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the Special Collections Division. For this project, authors for…
I’ve been doing some work in the stacks lately with our interns and have been focusing some attention on our 17th century reserve collections (around 5,ooo volumes) which remain largely uncatalogued. This collection is…
This very pretty book was the last book off my shelf today for cataloguing. Not a bad way to end a day, eh? This is the Library’s copy of Paolo Veneto‘s Expositio librorum naturalium Aristotelis, printed in Venice by…