This exhibition celebrates Scotland’s textile industry from the 1930s to the present day. It brings together samples of textile design from Scotland’s designers and textile companies, a series of documentary films about these companies and new works inspired by these… Read More ›
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Victorian Christmas Greetings
If you haven’t tired of snowy scenes yet (!), check out the latest Special Collections flickr set which features a small selection of Victorian Christmas cards. These are from an album of Christmas and other greetings cards compiled by Elma… Read More ›
Gardener’s delights: flower books on exhibition
Over the summer, a number of items from Special Collections have been on display in the National Galleries of Scotland, as part of the Impressionist Gardens exhibition. A selection of 19th century journals, flower books and gardener’s handbooks were selected by… Read More ›
On board HMS Medusa, 1802-1810: A new online exhibition
Archive Services are pleased to make available online for the first time, a rare logbook, charting a Scottish sailors’ life on one of Nelson’s ships. Andrew Service, born in Port Glasgow in 1781, served on the HMS Medusa as a sailor in the… Read More ›
A poet’s scrapbooks – Edwin Morgan’s 90th birthday
Edwin Morgan, the distinguished Scottish poet, celebrates his 90th birthday on 27th of April 2010. To mark the occasion, Special Collections are exhibiting material from his significant and extensive archive, which includes scrapbooks, correspondence and handwritten drafts of poems, given to the department over… Read More ›
Who killed Moctezuma II? Intrigue and subversion at the British Museum…
One of the University of Glasgow Library’s most impressive and unusual treasures is currently on loan at the British Museum. The Historia de Tlaxcala, also know as the Codex Tlaxcala, is central to the museum’s fascinating new exhibition, Moctezuma: Aztec… Read More ›
Take Flight!
To celebrate Archives Awareness 2009, Archive Services have launched a new exhibition – Take Flight! This features images of the aircraft built by William Beardmore & Co Ltd and the ahead of its time George Bennie Railplane. Enjoy!
Now on display in the Hunterian Museum
Last week we changed over the Library books that are on display in the Hunterian Museum as part of the Hunter: man, medic and collector exhibition. As usual, the two books now on exhibition are from William Hunter’s magnificent 18th… Read More ›
Editing the 18th Century
Original editions of books by Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope are currently on display in the showcase in Special Collections (level 12 of the Library). We are highlighting these writers to complement a conference being organised by the… Read More ›
The Blakes are back…
…after a brief ‘holiday’ in France. We recently lent a number of works by the engraver, artist and poet, William Blake (1757-1827) to an exhibition at the Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts, in Paris. These included the illuminated book… Read More ›
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