News and Views

Published Date
July 29, 2019

Publishing and Printing in Milan

In late June, members of the archive and library team at UMASCs travelled to Milan for staff training under the…

Published Date
July 15, 2019

Recovering Publishing Histories: the Adam & Charles Black Letterbooks

By Amara Thornton (Research Officer, Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology) The publishing house Adam and Charles Black was established in…

Published Date
June 3, 2019

The Queen’s Resolve: Queen Victoria in the Special Collections

Following the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s birth, Liaison Librarian Bethan Davies takes a closer look at our Special Collections…

Published Date
May 15, 2019

New exhibition: “Colours More Than Sentences”: illustrated editions of ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’

Text by Michael Seeney, abridged and adapted with additional text by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian. “I wish I could draw…

Published Date
May 1, 2019

Baskerville’s marbled papers

by Anna Murdoch, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant.   The Department of Typography & Graphic Communications’ teaching sessions always involve a…

Published Date
March 16, 2019

Aubrey Beardsley, the author: ‘Under the Hill’

Written by Fiona Melhuish, UMASCS Librarian. Aubrey Beardsley, who died on this day in 1898, is well known as one…

Published Date
March 8, 2019

“Guardian angel” of the Cole Library: Dr Nellie B. Eales

    Members of the Library staff came rapidly to recognise her sprightly, bright-eyed figure making its way to the…

Published Date
February 28, 2019

LGBT History Month: Publishing pacifism, ‘perversity’, and prosecution

Written by Anna Murdoch, Graduate Trainee Library Assistant. You never quite know what you could find browsing the shelves in…

Published Date
January 25, 2019

Best lookers rather than best sellers: Gaberbocchus Press

Written by Fiona Melhuish (UMASCS Librarian) “There is a madness about various Gaberbocchus books which is the spice of life,…