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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Admission Free The Napoleonic Wars, which were fought between Britain, France and their allies from 1803, […]
Tags: Department of History, exhibition, manuscripts and special collections
Stories from the First World War are being revealed for the first time at a University […]
Appears in Issue 77
Tags: All Quiet in the Weston Gallery: The First World War, Hayley Cotterill, manuscripts and special collections, Weston Gallery
Dr Dorothy Johnston, Keeper of Manuscripts and Special Collections. is retiring from the University after 25 years of dedicated service.
Appears in Issue 63
Tags: Dr Dorothy Johnston, manuscripts and special collections