On 15th October 1940, the Royal Observatory Greenwich was rocked by a German bomb blast which destroyed the main entrance gates. It was the first […]
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One of the primary benefits of legal deposit is that all sorts of obscure, locally published material makes its way safely into a national collection […]
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In the papers of Sir James George Scott there are a few photographs, including one of a football team featuring a mix of Burmese and […]
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Guest post by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, an independent historian specialising in late 18th and early 19th century British political, military and naval history. Jacqueline received […]
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A knowledge of molecular structures and properties is crucial in our understanding of large parts of science, from semiconductors to proteins and from the composition […]
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This summer marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907). Lord Kelvin gave his name, the ‘kelvin’, to the […]
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Guest post by Matt Ryan, an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at Newcastle University. His research focuses on the relationships between printers, publishers, booksellers, and writers in […]
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Amongst the correspondence and papers of the Baldwin, Kipling, Burne-Jones, Poynter, and Macdonald families (MS Add.9974) can be found a folder of drawings and sketches […]
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This guest post is by Summer Mainstone-Cotton and Aine Widdicombe, who are Masters students at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge respectively. Earlier this year, […]
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Post by Dr Sarah Pyke, Munby Fellow in Bibliography 2023/24, who is using the University Library’s legal deposit holdings (the Tower Collection) to survey illustrated […]
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