This blog post first appeared earlier this week on Our Country Lives: the new MERL blog.  The Shell Guides we already hold mentioned below are part of our Printing Collection.  Written by […]
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 […]
This Saturday 13th June is the 150th Anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats, with events taking place across the UK, Ireland and beyond. Here at Special Collections we […]
What better way to celebrate May being National Share-a-Story Month and 15 May being the International Day of Families â than a chance to look at some of the highlights of […]
Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian Whilst retrieving an item for a reader, I came across a wonderful selection of illuminated manuscript leaves and original leaves from books by early […]
Georgia Charitou, intern from Greece, shares some further highlights from her work on the Stenton Coin Collection, which spans the 7th to the 20th century. Previously: Bloodaxe, Vikings and other early coins. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Itâs almost Christmas! That means good cheer, Christmas spirit andâŠ.a fight to the death competition?! Although technically the 12 days of Christmas begin with 25 December, we wonât be around […]