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• Budget 2015

  By Sonny Maley on July 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP, presented his Budget to Parliament on 8th July 2015. This is the first Budget of the current Conservative Government following the pre-election Budget of the coalition Government presented on March 19th. In his Budget… Read More ›

• Queens Speech and State Opening of Parliament 2015

  By Sonny Maley on May 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Yesterday at the State Opening of Parliament the Queen delivered her address outlining the legislative agenda of the Conservative Government for the forthcoming parliamentary session. This is the first all-Conservative Queen’s Speech since 1996. The State Opening takes place on the first day of… Read More ›

• Election 2015 Data and Key Issues

  By Sonny Maley on May 20, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The House of Commons Library has published its analysis of the results of the 2015 general election. This report presents data from the election at national and constituency level for the United Kingdom, with comparisons to results from the previous 2010… Read More ›

• Pre-election Budget 2015

  By Sonny Maley on March 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP, presented his pre-election Budget to Parliament on 18 March 2015. This is the sixth and final Budget of the current Coalition Government. In his Budget speech the Chancellor outlined how the Government plans to… Read More ›

• Syphilis Symposium 27.01.15

  By Sonny Maley on January 26, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  There are still a few places available for our Syphilis Symposium this coming Tuesday. If you’d like to attend please use the Eventbrite link below to book a place:- https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-syphilis-collection-symposium-tickets-14972964540 Doors will open at 1pm for those who wish to… Read More ›

• Glasgow Syphilis Collection Symposium 27/01/15

  By Sonny Maley on January 6, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  On the afternoon of the 27th January we will be holding a half-day symposium to explore current research, and research opportunities, relating to a collection of early printed works on syphilis and venereal disease newly described as part of a Wellcome Trust funded… Read More ›

• Unexpected Notes on Syphilis

  By Sonny Maley on December 5, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  One of the more pleasant surprises when cataloguing rare books is finding a note or comment that gives some insight into the thoughts of the owner of a book. Even better when the note still has some relevance to current… Read More ›

• “Sweet bit of binding” – Cataloguing Puzzles

  By Sonny Maley on October 23, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Explaining what rare book cataloguing entails can be tricky at times, but in the simplest terms you are carrying out two tasks:- Fully describing an item in order to make it discoverable for researchers, and… Solving puzzles There are other tasks… Read More ›

• Syphilis – what’s in a name?

  By Sonny Maley on September 12, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Quite how the name ‘syphilis’ came in to common usage is a story as long as the history of the disease. The origin of the disease itself has been debated since the late 15th century. Its appearance has at one time… Read More ›

• Syphilis in the Library

  By Sonny Maley on August 15, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Special Collections recently discovered that the University of Glasgow possesses perhaps the third strongest collection in the United Kingdom of printed works on syphilis before the early nineteenth century, containing many extremely rare medical treatises, some of which are unique in… Read More ›