Our Map Galleries highlight a number of significant items from the map collections using high resolution zoomable images. The latest addition is a selection of indexes to the County Series of the Ordnance Survey. The County Series of Scotland was… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘nineteenth century’
Help Murder Polis !
Help..murder… Polis ! Over the summer, the Library has been busy adding photographs to our Flickr account. One which has already caught the eye is this illustration (taken from our “Images of Glasgow” set) of an early 19th century “polisman”… Read More ›
New resource for researching 18th and 19th Century life in Britain
The Library now has a new online collection of British Periodicals covering the 18th and 19th centuries, which will be invaluable for teaching, learning and research into virtually any topic eg history, literature, music, art, drama, archaeology, architecture etc. A… Read More ›