I am Georgia Charitou, and I am an intern from Greece, where I study at the University of Thessaly. For the last couple of months Iâve been working on the […]
This post comes from Brian Ryder, one of our volunteers here at Special Collections. Brianâs history with Reading collections is a long one; he used to be one of our […]
Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian The year 2015 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius (c. 1451-1515), one of the most influential figures among the early […]
In our last post we mentioned that weâre celebrating the centenary of Ladybird books, and we noted our BBC Breakfast appearance and upcoming lecture with Lawrence Zeegan. Our Ladybird material […]
100 years ago in 1915, jobbing printer Wills & Hepworth published the very first Ladybird book in Loughborough. They soon registered an official logo and devoted themselves creating âpure and […]