Our current display on Level 12 includes a 400-hundred year old manuscript on alchemy, a 19th century cookbook and a writer’s notebook from the 1960s. What links them is that they all contain recipes (of sorts). Antonio Neri’s ‘di Alchimia’… Read More ›
In response to the earlier post about the Robert Owen and New Lanark display on Level 7 of the library we just wanted to let people know that we have a collection of Records of New Lanark Mills, cotton manufacturers,… Read More ›
Our collection of Alasdair Gray’s handwritten drafts and original artwork for his novel ‘Lanark’ appear in a new online slideshow celebrating the 30th anniversary of its publication in February 1981. Filmed by the BBC, it features commentary by Gray talking about the influence… Read More ›
