Asylum Art on Loan from Special Collections / LHSA These art works, from our Laycock Collection, were created by William Bartholomew at the Crichton Royal Hospital in the 1830s.  They are some of the earliest examples of art created …Continue reading →

Darwin’s voyage of discovery Rare Books & Manuscripts has begun a mini-project to catalogue our new collection of first editions of the works of Charles Darwin.  This collection, generously presented by the Heiskell Bibliographical …Continue reading →

Rare books all sorted out in new strongroom Our new strongroom holds some 760 shelves of rare and early printed books – over 10,000 individual volumes.  These were moved back from the Library Annexe earlier this year and …Continue reading →

New Darwin discovery This appears to be a previously-unknown collection of shells formed by Charles Darwin.  Whilst cataloguing chosen exhibits for an upcoming exhibition, myself and Gillian McCay the geology curator tipped out …Continue reading →