The appearance mid-April of foodPark. in front of the UL is only the most recent innovative use of the grounds in a crisis. During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the […]
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Elias Gibb was a rather private and reclusive man of scholarship, but his contribution to Turkish studies in the form of translations and discussions of […]
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We all put things in books. Whether it’s bookmarks (old train tickets, receipts or some other bit of paper no longer required), related ephemera (magazine […]
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In the second in a series of guest posts by UL researchers, Samantha Brown shares her work on the materiality and afterlives of the manuscripts […]
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‘Wisdom will not expect the men of my generation or of several later ones to leave without a sore pang of regret the old home […]
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Post by Emily Perdue In my previous blog entry, I described a group of letters associated with William Allen, and other Quaker reformers, in the […]
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In Ancient Egyptian culture, matters relating to death and the afterlife were of great significance, as both the body and the soul were believed to […]
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A reminder of good practice by Henry Creswick (University Librarian 1949-67), courtesy of the University Archives:
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…upon our Hebrew manuscripts” said Henry Bradshaw in June 1865. Bradshaw was Head of the manuscript collections in the University Library and was keen to […]
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Venice showed itself at its most beautiful in late September when hosting a gathering of over 100 academics, librarians, members of the book trade and […]
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