This category was used for posts created by special collections staff before August 2016. Since then all posts are categorised as Archives and Special Collections posts.
Guest blog post by Dr Adrian Chapman, Florida State University London Centre, and University of Glasgow Library Research Fellow In Patrick Marmion’s 2017 stage play, The Divided Laing: Or The Two Ronnies, David Cooper, a colleague of the Scottish psychiatrist… Read More ›
Staff and students at the James Herriot Library now have the opportunity to consult one of the gems of the Special Collections Department, as an additional set of the nine-volume work ‘The Horse : its treatment in health and disease‘… Read More ›
Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 novel Jane Eyre continues to enchant modern readers for various reasons: its intriguing blend of realism and Gothic elements; the tumultuous central romance; its keen critiques of unfair social institutions; and the eponymous narrator’s original voice, which veers between… Read More ›
Guest blog post by Lynn Verschuren, Museum Studies project placement in Special Collections. Earlier this month, the University of Glasgow welcomed internationally renowned scholars in the fields of philosophy, literature, art history, linguistics and disability studies as part of the… Read More ›
Guest blog post by Olivia Howarth, digital preservation trainee with the SCA Opening Up Scotland’s Archives programme. Over the past three weeks I’ve been undergoing a conservation project with the Archive’s conservator Ela, surveying embossing presses in the… Read More ›
Special Collections will be closed on Monday 18th July for the Glasgow Fair. The Glasgow Fair is a public holiday held by the city each July. The Fair began its life in the 12th century, originally as an eight day period during which… Read More ›
What might a day in the life of child growing up in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic have looked like? Well fear not, for with the help of our newest acquisition, a small illustrated Dutch children’s book from the period, we… Read More ›
Perhaps the most difficult part of this article is finding words to describe just who is, and what is Adrian Howells (1962-2014) about? It is rare to find a theatrical performer that understood theatre is not just an act to… Read More ›
One great way to re-discover or learn about items in our collections is through answering enquiries from researchers, from all over the world, who find us through our online catalogue and want to know more about items they’ve found listed…. Read More ›
Images courtesy of Dan Smyth Photography Broadly speaking, there are two ways to approach Special Collections material; you may be interested in studying an item as an object in itself, or you may be searching the content of an item for information… Read More ›
