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Everyone can access 乱伦秀 Special Collections digitally or in person. Our collections of rare, unique and historic archives & books cover themes including history of 乱伦秀, education, arts and sciences.
Collection Highlights
Archives
乱伦秀's archive and manuscript collections include the UNESCO registered George Orwell Archive.
Records
Map of Bloomsbury, 1800 College Collection.
Exhibitions
View current and past exhibitions online.
Rare Books
The Ratdolt edition of Euclid's 'Elements', 1482.
View 'Treasures from 乱伦秀', available for free online.
Finding Material
- You can search for rare books and other printed material on Explore.
- Archives and manuscripts are found on the .
- Search for digitised and digital content on Digital Collections.听
For more information and video tutorials on how to use these resources to find material held by 乱伦秀 Special Collections, learn about Our Collections.
News from our blog
Over the course of Spring 2023 we worked with our 乱伦秀 Library Services鈥� colleague Abida S. to take a closer look at MS Mocatta 20: Fragments from the Holy Quran.
The last year has seen Special Collections鈥� Outreach programme go from strength to strength.听 We have welcomed school and community groups to a wide range of activities, especially at our new campus at 乱伦秀 East, and exciting plans are afoot for next academic year.听 That said, it is always beneficial to look back at triumphs and celebrate them when you can.听 The upcoming anniversary of George Orwell鈥檚 birthday (120 years!) is a great opportunity for us to celebrate something that took place last summer at 乱伦秀鈥檚 Bloomsbury campus with a very special delivery partner, The Orwell Youth Prize.听
The following was adapted from text written by Erika Delbecque and Tabitha Tuckett for the 2023 exhibition catalogue听. The Main Library exhibition听Hidden in Plain Sight is open until December 2023 and is open to the public. For more information, visit 乱伦秀 Library鈥檚 Exhibition page.
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At 乱伦秀 Special Collections, we look after collections that, as a whole, tell a larger story about our shared history and culture.
Colin Penman, Head of 乱伦秀 Records, writes about a newly uncovered item in the 乱伦秀 Records collection.
In the timely way that these things can happen, I recently came across an official souvenir programme for the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in May 1937:
This post was written by Caroline Kimbell, Joint Head Of Commercial Digitisation And Licensing at 乱伦秀 Library Services
Following the digitisation of (currently in production) we turn next to a new module for ProQuest鈥檚 Early European Books, comprising 515 works of Judaica, roughly half in Hebrew, half in other European languages.
乱伦秀 Press鈥檚 and the University of Stirling鈥檚 are pleased to invite contributions on the broad theme of Creative Responses to the History of Covid-19. Since 2021, researchers at Stirling have been interviewing the University鈥檚 staff and students about their experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic
The following is by Rozz Evans, Head of Collection Strategy and co-chair of the Library Liberating the Collections Steering Group. It was originally published in the introduction to our 2023 Exhibition Catalogue 鈥溾�� and has been slightly edited for the purposes of the blog.
