This category is used for posts created by archives and special collections staff from August 2016.
The David Murray Book Collecting Prize is now open to submissions from all current University of Glasgow students with an interest in collecting. This can consist of printed books, printed ephemera, manuscripts, photographic material, or a combination of these, with… Read More ›
The Ballast Trust is a unique processing service for technical business records in Scotland, particularly plans and drawings. Large collections of technical plans and drawings can often be overwhelming to cataloguers and consequently these kind of items can be left… Read More ›
Guest blog by Dr Anita Quye, CChem MRSC, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science and Head of History of Art, University of Glasgow. One year ago this month we published a guest blog on Anita’s Dye-versity project and put out a… Read More ›
The latest foyer display in Special Collections on level 12 of the Library features three items from the collection of Theophilus Siegfried Bayer (1694-1738) and continues the focus on William Hunter (1718-1783) and his library in this tercentenary year of his… Read More ›
A guest blog post by Irene Diego-Rodríguez, University of Alcalá [1] During the Middle Ages, it was assumed that man was a microcosm of the universe and, as a result, medieval society merged the art of Astrology with a wide… Read More ›
A guest blog post by Shauna Haynes, Renaissance Art MLitt work placement student Following on from my initial exploration of author portraits in the Hunterian Library, my second blog focuses on some other features of the Quintus Curtius: History of… Read More ›
23 May 2018 marks the 300th anniversary of William Hunter’s birth. Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) was an anatomist, physician, teacher of medicine and man-midwife. Today we view him as major figure in the Enlightenment and in the development of museums… Read More ›
