On Thursday 27 September we welcomed two visitors from India to Special Collections, Devang Vibhakar, a publisher, and Mirani Patel, a journalist, both part of a Group Study Exchange scheme from Gujurat, organised by the Rotary Club of Kelvin. Niki… Read More ›
The Birds, bees and blooms web exhibition, featuring images from some of the wonderful natural history books housed in the University of Glasgow Library’s Special Collections, was created in 2007. It has proven so popular over the years that we… Read More ›
Long standing fans of Special Collections may well remember our “book of the month” feature where every month (funnily enough) we selected a different item to highlight from the collections. We hope the blog has replaced this way of discovering… Read More ›
A recently catalogued photograph album in Special Collections contains some stunning images from the Arctic, taken 90 years ago. John Walton (Professor of Botany, 1930-1962) was a member of an expedition to Spitsbergen in 1921, which included the zoologist and… Read More ›
