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Leather-bound album of postcards, Scottish, c.1910s-1930s, curator's collection.

Looking at War Memorials

Posted by Elizabeth Blood in Library Special Collections on May 7, 2020

  In October-November 2019, Archives & Special Collections featured an exhibition in the cases outside our reading room, entitled Looking at War Memorials. This was curated by me in my capacity as a PhD student in the School of History, Politics and International Relations using objects, photographs and documents from my own collection as well […]

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Death lurks behind the Angler’s shoulder, seemingly about to trap him in a fishing net. Richard Dagley, 'Death’s Doings', (London, 1827), pl. opp. p. 391

Death’s Doings

Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on September 24, 2015

While working on some book moves we are presently carrying out, I rediscovered the rather wonderful Death’s Doings illustrated by Richard Dagley, first published in 1822. This volume belongs to a long tradition on the Dance of Death theme, which dates back to medieval times, when death from war and violence, disease, poverty, childhood mortality […]

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