Posts tagged with ‘manuscripts and special collections’
Threads of Empire: Rule and resistance in colonial India c1740-1840
Seventy years after India gained independence, an exhibition at Nottingham Lakeside Arts reveals the acts of resistance that shaped the British Empire in India, based on Manuscripts and Special Collections’s extensive archives on colonial India.
Tags: manuscripts, manuscripts and special collections, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, threads of empire
From sorcery to super computers: the story of weather as told through a selection of treasures from The National Meteorological Archive
A free lunchtime talk in connection with Manuscripts and Special Collections’ latest exhibition, Weather Extremes: Making and breaking records in Nottinghamshire.
Tags: Lakeside Arts, manuscripts and special collections, national meteorological archive, weather extremes
Whom do we blame for the weather?
A free lunchtime talk in connection with Manuscripts and Special Collections’ latest exhibition, Weather Extremes: Making and breaking records in Nottinghamshire.
Tags: Lakeside Arts, manuscripts and special collections, weather, weather extremes
Family Fun Day
Have a go at creating your own bird or bug mobile, design your own insect, try to solve our fiendishly difficult ‘muddle puzzles’ or learn more about Nottinghamshire’s famous naturalist with a guided tour of the Francis Willughby exhibition currently hosted by the Manuscripts and Special Collections department.
Tags: family fun day, francis willughby, free, manuscripts and special collections
Francis Willughby and the Study of Birds
Professor Tim Birkhead, ornithologist and author, examines the way Francis Willughby changed how we study birds in what is effectively the most important and exciting transition in the history of ornithology.
Tags: exhibition, francis willughby, manuscripts and special collections
Manuscripts and Special Collections 10th anniversary open day
Manuscripts and Special Collections is holding an open day on Friday 9 September to celebrate ten years at King’s Meadow Campus, featuring displays of some of our archives and rare books, competitions, and goodies to take away.
Tags: anniversary, journal, King's Meadow Campus, manuscripts, manuscripts and special collections, open day, tour
Danger and the Grand Tour
Mountain precipices, erupting volcanoes, battles, malaria and the ever-present danger of social failure: travel on the eighteenth-century Grand Tour could be unpleasantly hazardous. Join Sarah Goldsmith (University of York) to explore why Grand Tourists risked such dangers. Could these perils ever be more than a dangerous nuisance?
Tags: exhibition, grand tourists and others, manuscripts and special collections
Private view of Grand Tourists and Others: Travelling abroad before the 20th Century
There will be a private viewing for Manuscripts and Special Collections’ new exhibition, Grand Tourists and Others.
Tags: levison wood, manuscripts and special collections, Weston Gallery Exhibition
Anti-ageing in the twentieth century
Ageing is a process that will affect us all. Throughout human history we have tried to slow down and even reverse the effects of ageing. Dr James Stark (Research Fellow, Leeds Humanities Research Institute) will explore how and why a wide range of anti-ageing technologies and products gained popularity in the 20th century, how our understanding of ageing and youth has changed and reflect on what it means to age.
Tags: beauty, cosmetics, culture, history, manuscripts and special collections, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, Weston Gallery, Weston Gallery Exhibition
Living History Day
Visit the 5th/60th Rifles, an active re-enactment group, in their 1815 Living History Camp. Around 1pm there will be a drill and firing display demonstrating the tactics used by line infantry at the Battle of Waterloo, two hundred years ago.
Tags: community, family, history, living history, manuscripts and special collections, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, re-enactment, Weston Gallery Exhibition