On Monday February 11th the International Heritage Project provided a pop-up display of documents from Archive Services and Special Collections to support the East Asia Global Regional Activity Briefing (GRAB) Lunch. From Special Collections we selected The History of Japan……. Read More ›
One of my long-term projects in Special Collections involves preparing transcribed summaries of the correspondence between the pioneer Sinologist, T.S. Bayer and Jesuit missionaries based in Peking (Beijing)during the eighteenth century. Theophilus Siegfried Bayer (1694-1738) was a Prussian classical scholar… Read More ›
It has been a busy 7 days for the International Heritage Project. On Wednesday we supported the Recruitment and International Office’s GRAB (Global Regional Activity Briefing) lunch, setting up a table with various objects connected to the Americas from the… Read More ›
On 11 September, the second week into my new post as International Heritage Project Support Officer, the University of Glasgow received a delegation of Chinese medical and public health academics from Sun Yat-sen University led by its Vice-President, Professor Guangmei… Read More ›
If you’ve ever wondered how the European Union came into being (but were too afraid to ask) then the House of Lords Library Note published today should answer most of your questions:- The European Union Today “This Library Note provides… Read More ›
A new set of images, showing Japan and China in the 1890s, is now online. Dougan 86 is an intriguing mix of professional photographs and amateur snapshots. Despite the technical flaws and haphazard composition of some of the images, they are an appealing, immediate record of… Read More ›
The library hosted a visit from Wenlan Chen, the Chief Librarian of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, South China Business College, this week. She was accompanied by Mr and Mrs Haihong Chen of Kangda School, Mr Chen acting as interpreter… Read More ›
