Blog post by Becca Gauldie, an M.Sc Art History (Collecting and Provenance Studies in an International Context) student, on placement in Archives and Special Collections. Every second-hand book has a provenance, but most are unremarkable and their previous ownership immediately… Read More ›
Cricket may not be the first sport you’d think to associate with Glasgow. But, perhaps surprisingly, the city has close links with the game dating back two centuries; in fact people were putting bat to ball on Glasgow Green back in… Read More ›
When you look at an old printed book you’re not really looking at a single book but a series of smaller ‘booklets’ joined together. Books weren’t printed one page at a time but on large sheets of paper subsequently folded… Read More ›
Something is very strange about this titlepage. Amusingly so. Can you see what it is? During printing the second “M” of the second word in the title, “GRAMMAIRE”, must accidentally have been omitted (fairly embarrassing for a work on the… Read More ›
We’ve recently blogged about how examining physical marks in surviving old books can give us clues about whether they have been read or not. In this guest blog, Allie Newman, a current postgraduate student in Information, Management and Preservation, discusses a few other… Read More ›
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the first publication of Ariosto’s epic chivalric fantasy poem, Orlando Furioso. In this guest blogpost Simona Nisticò, a Language and Literature Master’s student from the University of Perugia on Erasmus placement at the University… Read More ›
Owning a book isn’t the same as reading it; we need only look at our own bloated bookshelves for confirmation. You may remember this great cartoon by Tom Gauld doing the rounds on social media a year or two ago…. Read More ›
For May’s collection blog, we thought we’d turn to one of our readers to see how our collections are being used out in the field. A few weeks ago, Robyn Pritzker, an MSc Book History student at the University of… Read More ›
Learn how the Glasgow Incunabula Project works and discover some of the research potential it offers with our new guest blog post for Quadrivium. Quadrivium is an annual research, careers, and skills training event for postgraduates and early career researchers… Read More ›
Do you have a favourite item of clothing, a favourite comfortable old woolly-jumper perhaps? The sweater may be stretched, faded, strange smelling and with the odd hole patched up here and there, but – defying the desperate pleas of your… Read More ›
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