Manuscripts and Special Collections have launched a range of Christmas cards featuring seasonal images from unique […]
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Tags: Christmas, Christmas cards, manuscripts and special collections
Colin Heywood, Emeritus Professor of Modern French History at the University of Nottingham, focuses on the society and culture in which children were raised in the 19th century.
Tags: Childhood education, children's books, children's stories, Colin Heywood, literacy, literature, manuscripts and special collections
It is easy to forget the role of a translator in producing English versions of many children’s tales. In this talk, Gillian Lathey introduces some of these invisible storytellers and pays homage to their neglected craft.
Tags: children's books, children's stories, Gillian Lathey, literature, manuscripts and special collections
Rachel Palfreyman, Associate Professor in German Studies at the University of Nottingham, discusses how fairy tales have been interpreted.
Tags: children's stories, Faity tales, manuscripts and special collections, Rachel Palfreyman
Using original archives and rare books from the University of Nottingham’s Manuscripts & Special Collections, this exhibition will explore a range of children’s stories and traditional tales.
Tags: children's books, children's stories, Fairy stories, literature, manuscripts and special collections
Invade…immigrate…integrate… inspire. ‘Danelaw Saga’ tells the tale of how the Vikings shaped the East Midlands: The exhibition includes artefacts, maps and medieval documents from Manuscripts and Special Collections at the University of Nottingham and from regional museums.
Tags: Arts and Humanities Research Council, Bringing Vikings back to the East Midlands, Centre for Study of the Viking Age, Danelaw saga, Dr Roderick Dale, Greath Heathen army, manuscripts and special collections, Professor Judith Jesch, vikings
An exhibition of material from the literary archives and collections of printed books held by the University of Nottingham, highlighting the work of Nottinghamshire writers and the treasures to be found in the historic collections of local literature lovers.
Tags: City of Literature, creative writing, literature, manuscripts and special collections, UNESCO, UNESCO city of literature, writer-in-residence, writing
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
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
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