March 1st marks the birthday of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812 –1852), the London-born architect, designer, artist and critic. Today Pugin is remembered for his role in championing the Gothic Revival style. From the Houses of Parliament to Alton Towers,… Read More ›
Access to material in Special Collections is extensive with busy reading and teaching rooms. We also frequently loan items to local, national and international exhibitions, most recently ‘William Blake: Apprentice and Master’ at the Ashmolean and the Whistler Retrospective in… Read More ›
This post was originally written for the College of Arts Industry Engagement blog, in conjunction with Archive Services, to highlight the potential for research in this area within Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow. Special Collections within… Read More ›
It is now less than a fortnight before our incunabula exhibition Ingenious Impressions opens to the public on Friday 27 February. The publicity banners are up on University Avenue, all the books are conserved and ready to go, and invitations… Read More ›
BBC4 have recently broadcast the TV programme Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home in which historian Susannah Lipscombe discovers that in Tudor houses the threat of a grisly, unpleasant death was never far away in a world (and a home)… Read More ›
2015 promises to be an exciting and busy year for the Glasgow Incunabula Project. Not only will the cataloguing of all our 1050 books be completed over the next few months, but our allied exhibition Ingenious Impressions opens to the… Read More ›
As 2014 draws to a close, it is time to reflect on the progress made by our project over the past year, look forward to what is coming up, and – most importantly of all – wish all our blog… Read More ›
The national theatre of Scotland is pantomime. actor/director Lewis Casson, speaking in the 1920’s For those unfamiliar with the concept of pantomime here is the dictionary definition: “a kind of play performed at Christmas time characterized by farce, music, lavish… Read More ›
Most of the books in this clutch of incunabula are annotated by early readers. While these are all fascinating as evidence of various reader engagement with texts, our copy of works by the Roman historian Sallust particularly stands out. Printed… Read More ›
After reading a recent fascinating biography of the Victorian writer Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), I was inspired to search out what Collins items we have in our collections. Collins was one of the most famous, and well loved Victorian fiction writers… Read More ›
