At the time of William Fulton Jackson’s trip to Waterloo in June 1903, battlefield tourism to the site was long established. By the 1830s English stage coach owners based in Brussels advertised trips there and Thomas Cook had organised his… Read More ›
29 June 2017 is the 85th anniversary of the birth of the critic, educator and poet Philip Hobsbaum. To mark the occasion, we are publishing a detailed catalogue of the Group Papers (MS Hobsbaum C) His entry in the Oxford… Read More ›
Newly published official publications from : Westminster and the UK Government Increases in the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s – “Briefing regarding the WASPI campaign and the impact of legislation increasing the State Pension age for women… Read More ›
To mark the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, we take a look at her love of music and investigate its influence on her written works. ‘Without music,’ Jane Austen wrote in Emma, ‘life would be a blank to me.’ … Read More ›
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the inaugural David Murray Book Collecting Prize is Edward Cole. Edward (who has just completed a PhD focusing on Glasgow Museum’s collections of birds’ eggs) submitted an entry describing his collection… Read More ›
Professor Alexander John Haddow donated his collection to the University of Glasgow just before he died in December 1978. The papers within his archive are not just confined to his mosquito catch records and professional work, they also… Read More ›
From today (Tuesday July 11th) the Library is introducing a booking system for using the Datastream terminal on Level 6 during the hours of 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday. There is now a black DataStream booking folder next… Read More ›
Below is a selection of books received by the Library in the weeks leading up to 10th July. For a complete listing of books received during this period see: New_Books_070717 [xls] Cosmos, gods and madmen : frameworks in the anthropologies of… Read More ›
