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• What’s in a title[page]? Or Spinoza – the return…

  By Robert MacLean on May 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Just imagine for a moment that you’re a respectable god-fearing Dutch gent living in the late 17th century. You’re at a friend’s house on a social call. He leaves the room briefly and you – incorrigibly nosey – can’t help… Read More ›

• Vox Populi – The Referendum of 1997

  By Sonny Maley on May 21, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Today at 5:30pm, in room 611 of the Boyd Orr Building, Brian Taylor (BBC Scotland) will deliver the ninth lecture in the Vox Populi series: ‘The Referendum of 1997: The Settled Will of the Scottish People?’ This seminar is free and… Read More ›

• New books in the Library Weeks Beg 6th and 13th May 2013

  By Kay Munro on May 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Below is a selection of books recently received by the Library. This selection is part of a larger collection of recently received books currently on display on Level 3 of the Main Library. Books are available on this display for… Read More ›

• Blogathon: “Biblio-archaelogy”: Digging through Special Collections

  By fionalaird on May 20, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

   By Charlotte Edwards Exploring Fore-Edge Painting in the Hepburn Bequest In February, as part of my Museum Studies MSc, I began a project to investigate several books in the library’s Special Collections that carried a form of decoration about which… Read More ›

• The Frenchman Fighting Forward, by Carol Hunter

  By emmaeanthony on May 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  If you did a quick internet search of Alfred Mercier, you may come across an American French writer responsible for such works as L’Habitation Saint-Ybars and Le Fou de Palerme. However, if you care to dig a little deeper, another… Read More ›

• Observing the 80s

  By Clare Paterson on May 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  The Mass Observation Archive, the British Library Oral History Collections and the University of Sussex Library have recently launched a new digital resource – Observing the 80s. Offering digitised oral histories, responses to the Mass Observation directives, and ephemera Observing… Read More ›

• New resource for Philosophy students and researchers

  By Clare Paterson on May 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy The Library now has a subscription to this online resource which we hope will be well used by our students and academics.  It covers around 150 key philosophical ideas, theories and philosophers, providing an authoritative introduction… Read More ›

• Glasgow Incunabula Project update (9/5/13)

  By Robert MacLean on May 9, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  When it comes time to blog about the latest batch of incunabula sometimes one item stands out from the rest; other times there are simply too many things to choose from! This is such a batch – where to start?… Read More ›

• Queens Speech and State Opening of Parliament 2013

  By Sonny Maley on May 8, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Today at the State Opening of Parliament the Queen delivered her address outlining the legislative agenda of the Coalition Government for the forthcoming parliamentary session. The State Opening takes place on the first day of a new parliamentary session, or shortly after… Read More ›

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