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Archives & Special Collections, University of Glasgow Library.

• “Poetry About Everything, Words About Nothing”: a consideration on Edwin Morgan and John Cage’s approach to creativity.

  By Sarah Hepworth on May 23, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Guest blog post by Eli Coderoni Rigamonti, MLitt Theatre Studies, on placement in Archives and Special Collections. This article aims to draw a connection between artists Edwin Morgan and John Cage, focusing on their common interest for Modernist techniques, and… Read More ›

• Edwin Morgan: The ‘Most Readable’ Translations of a Genius Poet. 17 May 2019

  By Sarah Hepworth on May 21, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  A guest blog post by Charlotte Lynn Smith, MLitt Theatre Studies, on placement in Archives and Special Collections. Over the past few months, I have been in the Special Collections in the University of Glasgow Library, which holds the Edwin… Read More ›

• Early photography: Elizabeth Johnston Hall (1822-1901)

  By Sarah Hepworth on February 1, 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  Guest blog post by Roddy Simpson, photographer, Honorary Research Fellow School of Culture and Creative Arts and author of ‘The Photography of Victorian Scotland’ (2012). Elizabeth Johnston Hall (1822-1901) is one of the most famous photographed Scottish women because of… Read More ›

• Aquisition: letter from Whistler to Monet

  By Sarah Hepworth on November 9, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  We are delighted to highlight this important acquisition, acquired with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions. The item is a letter from James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) to Claude Monet (1840-1926), two hugely influential figures in the history of Western… Read More ›

• Cultural Encounters: What’s in a Letter?

  By Sarah Hepworth on November 9, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Contributed by Jade Scott, AHRC Research Assistant, English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow The acquisition of a letter from James McNeill Whistler to Claude Monet (see related blog post), is an opportunity to share details of other notable letters… Read More ›

• Season of Photography: The Pencil of Nature

  By Sarah Hepworth on November 30, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  When we posted about the Season of Photography in Scotland, we didn’t mention William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) in our list of collections but the Library is fortunate to hold an original copy of his pioneering work ‘The Pencil of… Read More ›

• Season of Photography in Scotland 2017

  By Sarah Hepworth on October 3, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The Season of Photography in Scotland, which runs until the end of November, is an initiative of Photography Scotland, a consortium comprising the National Galleries of Scotland, The University of Glasgow, the University of St Andrews, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow,… Read More ›

• Innovative images: The Glasgow Photographic Association

  By Sarah Hepworth on May 18, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Guest blog post by Roddy Simpson, photographer and writer on the history of photography. Roddy has researched and described a significant recent acquisition to our early photographic collections. The Glasgow Photographic Association was active from 1862 until 1900 and succeeded… Read More ›

• Your Theatre History: Remembering the Dundee Palace

  By Sarah Hepworth on August 16, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Following on from the success of Your Theatre History events in Glasgow and Paisley, the Scottish Theatre Archive headed to Dundee Central Library for a day, to celebrate the city’s famous variety theatre, the Palace. Opened by the Livermore Brothers in… Read More ›

• A Special Collections project: MS Sutton

  By Sarah Hepworth on June 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  By Felicity Cullen Davison (M Litt Dress and Textile Histories) I have been working on the MS Sutton papers as the placement for my MLitt in Dress and Textile Histories, under the aegis of the Art History department. The MS… Read More ›