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Visual Medical Collections
Watercolour painting produced for Platt of patient with neurofibromatosis of the left leg, 1943. Work has recently begun to catalogue the work of medical artist Dorothy Davison (1890-1984). The...
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Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition – Here at Last!
We thought the most difficult part for us was to narrow down our list of objects: equally difficult was deciding how to display the objects. Fortunately for us we had expert advice from Stella, the...
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Visit from the International Map Collectors’ Society
Donna Sherman, our Map Curator, writes: The maps and atlases in our Special Collections contain a wealth of cartographic treasures just waiting to be explored. There are maps painted on vellum, drawn...
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JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series
Joseph Grünpeck, Tractatus de pestilentiali Scorra siue mala de Franzos ([Leipzig: Gregorius Böttiger (Werman), after 18 October 1496]), detail from leaf B5 recto. JRL 17409 JRRI Medieval and Early...
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JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series
Antiquarian Writing on Roman Architecture Dr Matthew Walker University of Oxford Thursday 11th May, 5.30pm Samuel Alexander Building, Room A112 All welcome. For more information, email:...
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Digitisation of a letterbook of John Nelson Darby
I am pleased to announce a new addition to the digitised material for the Christian Brethren Archive, a letterbook of John Nelson Darby (1800-1882). Darby was one of the founder members of what later...
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Delia Derbyshire Archive on film
Dr Janette Martin writes: The compositions of Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), a pioneer of British electronic music, continue to inspire and delight audiences today. As regular readers of this blog will...
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Return of Reader Services’ Curious Finds
What are Curious Finds? Curious Finds are blog posts shining a spotlight on interesting visual and historical finds from our collections. They are discovered by our Reading Room staff, as well as by...
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Discovering old treasures: Wesley College Bristol library
Work has begun on cataloguing the library of Wesley College Bristol which contains more than 3,500 early printed books and periodicals, thanks to funding from the Methodist Church in Britain. Some of...
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Celebrating Li Yuan-chia at the Henry Moore Institute Library
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Dr Janette Martin writes: On a very rainy Monday in May I spent a fascinating morning at the Henry Moore Institute (HMI) in Leeds, installing a library display on Li...
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Reader Services Curious Find – Hands of Celebrities
This Curious Find is a volume containing a number of studies of hands reprinted from The Palmist, the Journal of the Chirological Society. The book was designed to fulfil requirements of studies of...
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Conservation of a Renaissance masterpiece: Prolianus’s Astronomia
One of our most beautiful Renaissance manuscripts is a copy of Christianus Prolianus’s scientific treatise, Astronomia, produced in Naples in 1478. Many of its pages are decorated with exquisite...
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Call for Papers: ‘After the Digital Revolution’ Workshop
How can we improve the preservation and access to born-digital records in literary and publishers’ archives? “there lie in his hoards many records that few now can read, even of the lore-masters, for...
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A Travelling Life: Dorothy Richardson’s Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Travel...
Dan Eltringham, John Rylands Research Institute Visiting Research Fellow, writes: In February and March of this year, I spent an extremely enjoyable two months reading through the manuscript travel...
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Methodist ministers at War: Wesleyan chaplains of World War I
Dr Gareth Lloyd writes: On 4 August 1914 Britain declared war on Germany starting the countries involvement in what became known as the Great War. Army chaplain writing a letter home for a casualty....
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Renegade, rogue, radical
500 years on, our autumn exhibition will explore the story of three men who changed the course of history in the early 16th century as religious extremism and violence spread across Europe. Luther...
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Radical Surgery: The Frontal Lobectomy
Neurosurgeon Sir Geoffrey Jefferson was a great exponent of the frontal lobectomy in the treatment of brain tumours, a procedure now considered to be somewhat controversial. Jefferson published a...
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The Uses of History: Pit Prop and Radical Theatre
Dr Phil O’Brien writes: On October 15 1979, Pit Prop Theatre Company staged its first production: Secret Society of 1812. It wasn’t on a particularly conventional theme for a fledgling group; it was...
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Reader Services Curious Finds – Geological and historic evidence of tsunami...
This Curious Find comes from Reader Derek Mottershead. He writes: Ammianus Marcellinus (above) lived in the fourth century AD and was a soldier and chronicler of events in the Roman Empire. This...
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Visual Material in Medical Records
The patient case files of neurosurgeon Sir Geoffrey Jefferson (JCN) are rich in visual materials which enriches the textual information given in the notes. The visual material comes in the form of...
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