To mark the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, we take a look at her love of music and investigate its influence on her written works. ‘Without music,’ Jane Austen wrote in Emma, ‘life would be a blank to me.’ … Read More ›
Special Collections
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.
Book Collecting Congratulations
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the inaugural David Murray Book Collecting Prize is Edward Cole. Edward (who has just completed a PhD focusing on Glasgow Museum’s collections of birds’ eggs) submitted an entry describing his collection… Read More ›
Philip Hobsbaum (1932-2005): a ‘servant’ to the ‘makars’….
29 June 2017 is the 85th anniversary of the birth of the critic, educator and poet Philip Hobsbaum. To mark the occasion, we are publishing a detailed catalogue of the Group Papers (MS Hobsbaum C) His entry in the Oxford… Read More ›
The Erskine Bugle: Tooting one’s horn
Each month The Archives Hub highlights an archive or collection on its ‘Features’ page, in order to promote new research and resources. This month the Erskine Hospital collection has been featured – you can read the full article here. June 2017… Read More ›
William Hunter’s Library: the Gs
One name dominates Hunter’s library catalogue in the ‘G’ section of William Hunter’s library: Galen.
Galen (129-c. 210) was a Greek philosopher-physician who summarised anatomical learning up to his time and added his own observations on human anatomy based on dissections of monkeys and pigs. Galen was influenced by the theory of the humours advocated by Hippocrates and other ancient Greek physicians.
Popular Occulture in the Ferguson Collection, 1875-1947
Blog post by Jessica Watson, an MA Honours History of Art student on placement in Special Collections. I was selected to undertake an eight-week long placement with the Special Collections department of the University library as part of my art… Read More ›
William Hunter’s Library: the Cs
Regular readers of the Special Collections blog will have noticed that there is a plan to these William Hunter’s Library project updates by now. Each time a letter from Museum Records 3 (MR 3) is completely transcribed and matched to… Read More ›
