Burney’s Box of Delights
A surprisingly eclectic mix of curios has been unearthed by Archive Assistant, Karen Jacques, from the E.L. Burney Collection. TheContinue Reading
Author: Clare Baker
Fairy Tales for Christmas!
This volume by Arthur Rackham was recently retrieved for an archaeology seminar, but the images were just too seasonal to by-passContinue Reading
Mid-way through #Movember!
We’re at the mid-way point with our #jrlphotoaday support for #Movember and have had a great response to the imagesContinue Reading
Wesley Figures See The Light!
The Visual Collections Department have recently rehoused some of the Wesley ceramics and sculpture that the Library holds. These figuresContinue Reading
Glory Through Print: Emperor Maximilian I
George Spearing writes: The Hiero von Holtorp collection has been subject to an ongoing cataloguing project facilitated by The JohnContinue Reading
Dying Giants of the Countryside – E. Mitford Abraham’s Windmills and Watermills
The extent of my knowledge about windmills and watermills is mainly derived from Windy Miller and Maggie Tulliver, so IContinue Reading
Holtorp Collection – Look what we found!
Following on from seminar work that Edward Wouk taught through his class, Renaissance Print Cultures, the Library has been reassessingContinue Reading
Stereoscopic Images of the First World War
In February the article ‘In a Stetson and Three Dimensions: Picasso Comes to Life in 60 Year Old Pictures’ fromContinue Reading
Locating Li Yuan Chia
The past month has seen the Visual Collections Team rummaging through the unclassified archive of artist Li Yuan Chia searchingContinue Reading
May Beef and Liberty be our reward!
Over the past few months I have been working on a project to uncover the early printed photographs that areContinue Reading