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📢Visiting Research Fellowships University of Glasgow Library are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our unique research collections #UofGLibraryFellows Apply here: gla.ac.uk/library/resear… 🗓️Closing date: 9th Nov 2023

Before 19th-century publisher's cloth bindings became available, the daughters of English poet Robert Southey protected their father's books with a 'Cottonian' #bookbinding from scraps of colourful cotton and calico. NLS: Bdg.s.275 and L.C.2458(1-2)

📢 Last chance to apply for our University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowships - applications close 9th Nov 2023 We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our unique research collections #UofGLibraryFellows Apply here: gla.ac.uk/library/resear…

✨Reformation Cardinal highlight #2✨ In 1538, Henry VIII decreed that images of Thomas Becket ‘‘are to be plucked down…and the services in his name shall be razed out of all books" In this Psalter, the memoriae to Becket have been obliterated. 🔗tinyurl.com/2s42kht4

To celebrate Ulster-Scots Language Week, we are highlighting an interesting publication by Sir John W. Byers (PRONI reference D3734/1) noting the connections between the language used by those in the North of Ireland and by Shakespeare!🎭✍️

1/12/73 The People's Daily praises the "revolution" of open-book exams which enthuse students, unlike the "bourgeois" obsession with memorising.

A surprising new discovery about Keats: the poet was investigated by Italian police shortly before his death. More here: theguardian.com/books/2023/dec…

The new foyer display🥳curated by @DrHilaryMacartney Step into history with our latest acquisition for the #StirlingMaxwellCollection🎨 Behold the sumptuous coronation of King George IV in all its hand-coloured aquatint glory🏰✨ #RoyalSplendor #ArtHistory

RIP to the last great critic and the philosopher of our time, Fredric Jameson