Guest blog by Eilidh McAllan, a Junior Honours student on placement in Archives & Special Collections. Books can be deeply personal items, to be looked after and adorned; hence, there is the urge to claim a book, to make your… Read More ›
rare books
A Robert Burns relic owned by a Scottish sugar plantation doctor and slave owner
In 2010 I wrote about a book once owned by Robert Burns. The book itself is unremarkable, being a rather dry collection of published tables of weights and measures. The point of interest is the association with Burns – the… Read More ›
The Legacy of Oriental Shawls in Nineteenth–Century Britain
Guest blog post by Suchitra Choudhury, Research Fellow 2020 supported by The William Lind Foundation. I was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections in 2020 to study rare books associated with Britain’s… Read More ›
Mrs McLintock’s Receipts for Cookery and Pastry-Work: Looking at Scotland’s Early Culinary History
Guest blog by Charlotte Holmes. Charlotte recently completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh, in which she discussed domestic medicine in early modern Scotland. Charlotte is interested in the relationship between food and medicine in this period as well… Read More ›
The Arte of Faire Writing
Guest blog by Sebastian Verweij, Senior Lecturer in Late-Medieval and Early Modern English Literature. ‘[I]n 2022 I managed at last to spend two happy weeks in the Level 12 reading room during April and August. My project revolved around Scottish manuscripts, and more particularly’
Dishes for the Sickroom: Invalid Recipes from Glasgow’s Culinary Collections
Guest blog by Lindsay Middleton, fourth year PhD researcher across the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow. The connections between food and health are even more longstanding than the formal use of medicine. In previous centuries, there were no distinctions… Read More ›
The Foulis Brothers Book Receipts Project: how much can an invoice tell us?
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 ›
ASC Rewind: The expression of the emotions in man and animals
Charles Darwin, The expression of the emotions in man and animals, London: 1872, Sp Coll Dougan 3 This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with fresh… Read More ›
ASC Rewind: Le Roman de la Rose
Le Roman de la Rose, Paris: c.1505 [Hunterian Bw.3.6] This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with fresh eyes. This article was originally published on February 2000 by… Read More ›
David Murray Book Collecting prize 2020: the winners!
The entries came in, the jury deliberated, and we are now delighted to reveal the winners of our 2019-20 David Murray book collecting prize. The judging panel had a very difficult task in awarding the prize this year. Not only… Read More ›
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