This category is used for posts created by archives and special collections staff from August 2016.
Guest blog post by Dr Francesca Brooks, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York with the Department of English and Related Literature, and University of Glasgow Library Research Fellow In the preface to his 1952 translation of Beowulf,… Read More ›
Many thanks to everyone who entered the 2022 competition. It was great fun reading your entries and each student this year had a passionate story to tell about their personal collecting journey. From a highly competitive field, we invited four… Read More ›
A guest blog post by Annie McCoid, from the Memorialising Scottish Literature & Culture placement, working on MS Morgan G/11-12 in Archives and Special Collections Archives & Special Collections at the University of Glasgow is home to a wide range… Read More ›
A guest blog post by Laura MacDonald, from the Memorialising Scottish Literature & Culture placement, working on MS Morgan G/7-8 in Archives and Special Collections Over the course of five weeks, I had the pleasure of cataloguing boxes 7 and… Read More ›
A guest blog post by Clara Newkirk, a University of Strathclyde MSc Information and Library Studies student on placement in Archives and Special Collections during semester 2, working on Sp Coll RB 5118, recently purchased from Christian White, Modernfirsteditions Ltd…. Read More ›
A guest blog post by Alasdair Goudie, from the Memorialising Scottish Literature & Culture placement, working on MS Morgan G/5-6 in Archives and Special Collections Literary controversies have always formed a unique point of entry for engaging the broader reading… Read More ›
A guest blog post by Amy Connor, from the Memorialising Scottish Literature & Culture placement, working on MS Morgan G/4 in Archives and Special Collections Thumbing through his carefully selected works, it is difficult to not feel a connection with Edwin… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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