![Leather-bound album of postcards, Scottish, c.1910s-1930s, curator's collection.](https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/files/2020/05/07-150x150.jpg)
Looking at War Memorials
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 […]
![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](https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/files/2015/09/SCM04398_pl_opp_p391amended-150x150.jpg)
Death’s Doings
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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