The Library has two new exhibitions. Artist and poet, Alec Finlay, is currently Leverhulme artist-in-residence at the University of Stirling, working in collaboration with Professor Kathleen Jamie in the School of Arts and Humanities. The installation adapts a 19th century Nether hive system for beekeeping. In this Nether hive the knowledge of books […]
Category: Archives
Research Bites: Archives and Special Collections, 12th June, 12.30pm
Research Bites is a new summer programme of lunchtime briefings for researchers. The first session is on Archives and Special Collections on Wednesday 12th June at 12.30pm in the Library Seminar Room. Come along to find out how the Archives and Special Collections might help you with your research. To sign up, please email […]
British Library Labs Competition Live – Calling all researchers and developers!
Propose an innovative and transformative project that answers a research question using the British Library’s digital collections / data and if your idea is chosen, the Labs team will work with you to make it happen and you could win a prize of up to £3,000. From the digitisation of thousands of books, newspapers […]
New resource for tracing early printed manuscripts
Anyone researching or studying medieval British history may be interested in a new resource from JISC – Manuscripts Online, which provides access to written materials from the period 1000 – 1500. The single search box searches manuscripts, early printed books, and historical documents from libraries, archives, publishers and universities. Some materials searched are freely available, others may […]
Check out our Archives and Special Collections Advent Calendar
Following on from the success of our ‘Going Wild in the Archives’ exhibition earlier this year, we thought we’d give our festive Archives and Special Collections Advent Calendar a wildlife theme. Every day in the run up to Christmas, a new image from our collections relating to the natural world will […]
Britain from Above – a new archive of historical aerial photographs
A unique online archive of over 10,000 aerial photographs has recently been launched. The photographs currently on the Britain from Above website cover the time period 1919 to 1953 and offer an interesting insight to this period for anyone studying or researching twentieth century British social history. Britain from Above can be accessed here: http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/ A lot […]
New display of Publishing Projects in the Library
The display cases in the Library are currently housing a selection of project work produced by Masters students in the Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication. One of the most exciting and challenging modules that Publishing students undertake is the Publishing Project. Over the course of a year, students conceptualise a publishing […]
Robert Leighton and his books
The latest exhibition in the Library features Archbishop Robert Leighton, who was Bishop of Dunblane and then Archbishop of Glasgow in the 17th century. You may be familiar with the Leighton Library in Dunblane, which houses Robert Leighton’s personal collection of books. As 2011 is the 400th anniversary of Leighton’s birth (we don’t know his […]
EU Screen – access to Europe’s televisual heritage
Researchers or students of European cultural history or television history may be interested in the newly relaunched EU Screen Portal, (www.euscreen.eu) This website currently provides access to over 10,000 digital archival television objects from 26 European countries. The collections are expected to grow to contain 30,000 resources by September 2012. EU Screen allows researchers to view and compare coverage of significant historical events […]
MediaHub – a new resource for locating audio visual resources
Students and staff at the University of Stirling now have access to MediaHub, a brand new resource for locating and accessing audio visual and multimedia resources. MediaHub from JISC provides access to collections of film, audio and image resources including the archives of organisations such as ITN, the Imperial War Museum, The Wellcome Trust, Films of […]