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Senior Library Assistant, Special Collections

• Dishes for the Sickroom: Invalid Recipes from Glasgow’s Culinary Collections

  By Sam Gilchrist on August 22, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Guest blog by Lindsay Middleton, fourth year PhD researcher across the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow. The connections between food and health are even more longstanding than the formal use of medicine. In previous centuries, there were no distinctions… Read More ›

• Visualizing Collation in the Hunterian Manuscript Collection

  By Sam Gilchrist on July 1, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Guest blog by Dot Porter, University of Glasgow Library Research Fellow. My name is Dot Porter and I’m the Curator, Digital Research Services at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. In 2020 I was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the… Read More ›

• The Foulis Brothers Book Receipts Project: how much can an invoice tell us?

  By Sam Gilchrist on August 13, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Guest blog by Belén Hernáez Martín, an Art History student studying Collecting & Provenance in the University of Glasgow My online placement within the Archives and Special Collections consisted in using eighteenth-century invoices to research the books sold by Robert… Read More ›

• The Italian Renaissance Bible of the Fregosi family: Part II

  By Sam Gilchrist on July 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  This blog continues from part I, exploring MS Gen 1060 with Polina Govorukhina, MLitt Art History student from the University of Glasgow. Folio 4r: Genesis An interesting feature within the illustrative plan of the folio that represents stories from Genesis… Read More ›

• The Italian Renaissance Bible of the Fregosi family: Part I

  By Sam Gilchrist on July 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Guest blog by Polina Govorukhina, an MLitt Art History student in the University of Glasgow Hello, I am Polina Govorukhina, an MLitt Art History student from the University of Glasgow. I specialize in the art of the Renaissance. As a… Read More ›

• Alchemy at Glasgow: John Ferguson and his ‘Crowning of Nature’ Manuscripts

  By Sam Gilchrist on September 8, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Guest blog by Dr Anke Timmermann, University of Glasgow Library Fellow in 2019.[1] Health, wealth, and happiness were as desirable in the medieval and early modern period as they are today. However, five hundred years ago it was not science… Read More ›

• 150 years of Gilmorehill: designing the new campus

  By Sam Gilchrist on May 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  by Andrew Mackay, History of Art placement student in Archives and Special Collections.  For centuries, the University of Glasgow had been located on the High Street of Glasgow. However, come the 1800s it became clear that a change was necessary…. Read More ›

• ASC Rewind: Writings on the Calendar by the Venerable Bede

  By Sam Gilchrist on April 9, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with new eyes. This article was originally published on January 2001 by Julie Gardham and the full… Read More ›

• International Women’s Day 2020

  By Sam Gilchrist on March 6, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  This International Women’s Day the University of Glasgow is celebrating women, and their roles and achievements in the University, by recreating a 19th century image of University professors and staff. The image is dramatically titled ‘The Exodus from the Old… Read More ›

• The David Murray Book Collecting Prize 2019-20

  By Sam Gilchrist on October 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The David Murray Book Collecting Prize is now open to applications from all currently registered University of Glasgow students. Read on to find out more about how to enter and your chance to win £500! The purpose of the prize… Read More ›