Music collectors’ ‘Shelf Lives’
During the six months of the current University Library exhibition ‘Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books’ (18 Jan–16 Jun 2012) we’ll be […]
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Shelf Lives
The ‘mission’ of the University Library’s exhibition centre has always been to offer the public a chance to see some of its most beautiful, precious […]
Continue reading »Books and Babies
Most displays in the Library’s main Exhibition Centre draw on Special Collections materials to some degree, but few of them have included quite such a […]
Continue reading »Islamic seals event
On Thursday 19 May, Venetia Porter and Annabel Gallop will give a talk in the Library on ‘Islamic Seals: Treasures from the British Library […]
Continue reading »John Ruskin and the King James Bible
Ruskin, like many English writers, was inspired by the King James Bible: not only its religious teaching but its rhythms, imagery and social subversiveness. On […]
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