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December 11, 2023
200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo – 18 June 2015 TAGS: Battle of Waterloo | Dr. John Thomson | Henry Aston Barker | J. Burnet THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO REFLECTED IN OUR ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS On Sunday 18 June 1815, on the muddy fields of Waterloo just outside Brussels in today’s Belgium, Napoleon Bonaparte with his …Continue reading →
A Scottish Witness of the Great Kantō Earthquake
To mark the centenary of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923, we are publishing a...
Come Hither: Walter de la Mare and the Young of All Ages
The English writer Walter de la Mare was born 150 years ago this week on...
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In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...
The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together
In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training...
