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2011- Discovering the rich social, cultural and political detail in the family letters of a 19th century wool manufacturer and politician. More on the Special Collections blog.
2011-. Meet 100 amazing objects from Special Collections, one a week. This interactive online exhibition, inspired by the recent British Museum/BBC series, will bring the story of the University and its Collections to life.
2009-2010. The initial phase of the PaxCat Project, supported by the National Cataloguing Grants Scheme, catalogued and raised awareness of the most significant of the Commonweal Archives.
2010- We are now considering our next steps in bringing these collections to life.
2010-2011. Jacquetta Hawkes was an extraordinary woman: archaeologist, poet and naturalist. Find out more about how we are celebrating her centenary.
June-October 2010 (with ongoing additions). Online exhibit: reflections on J.B. Priestley's 1940 Postscript broadcasts, as they happened.
Various welcome donations over the past few years have enabled us to conserve books in the Mitrinovic Library and provide better storage for the related archives of the New Atlantis Foundation. Further detail about the preservation project in this blog post.
Our printed books, maps, and journals are much more widely known thanks to the COPAC Challenge Fund. Now their catalogue records appear on COPAC, where they join 32 million records from UK libraries. Further detail in blog post.
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