Category: Special Collections

November 6, 2017 / archives / Special Collections

#44 Birds of Paradise

The Victorian era saw great advances in the production of books, which on the one…

July 17, 2017 / archives / Special Collections

James Hogg (1770-1835) was a shepherd, but battled against a childhood of poverty in the…

June 26, 2017 / archives / Special Collections

The Leighton Library in Dunblane is founded on the personal library of Archbishop Robert Leighton…

May 1, 2017 / archives / Special Collections

Last year one of the treasures of our collections set off on a journey to…

April 10, 2017 / archives / Special Collections

Bonnie Prince Charlie’s shoe buckles (ref. MS 93.10f) The Amulree collection of material relating to…

February 13, 2017 / archives / Special Collections

The University Library is fortunate to have a collection of Penguin Books which is almost…