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Há 1 dia · I took pictures of almost all the writers. Here’s a list of the writer’s whose name I saw at Westminster Abbey and that I had read at least once, no particular order: Geoffrey Chaucer. John Dryden. William Shakespeare. Thomas Stearns Eliot. Alfred Lord Tennyson. Robert Browning. Henry James.
Há 5 dias · Incunabula, from the Latin for “swaddling clothes”, are books from the infancy of printing - anything printed using moveable type before 1501. These books are among the most precious items in any library and Edinburgh University is privileged to have a significant collection of nearly 300 such books. These early books have been extracted ...
Há 5 dias · Ramage (1907-1986) was a leading bibliographer and librarian, and one of his memorials is the ongoing collection purchased with funds he left to the University. Born in Leith, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1929 with a first-class honours degree in English literature and language. A scholar in French and English, a minor poet ...
Há 5 dias · Hugh MacDiarmid, the pseudonym of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892-1978), was the pre-eminent Scottish literary figure of the 20th century. As a poet, critic, essayist and political activist, he dominated the nation’s cultural scene for over five decades. He was the founding father and prime mover of the Scottish Literary Renaissance, the ...
Há 5 dias · There are particularly strong collections of maps of Scotland and particularly Edinburgh, including Post Office maps and a remarkable volume of fire insurance plans which was in use from 1892-1960 (RB.FF.156). Early foreign maps include three attractively-decorated “portolan” pilot charts drawn by Franciscus Oliva in Marseille in 1650 (Dc.1 ...
Há 5 dias · In 1895 about 300 items on forestry, land use and botany, in particular relating to India, were presented from the library of Dr Hugh F.C. Cleghorn of Stravithie (1820-1895). The collection consists mainly of 19th century publications. The books are all listed in the pre-1985 typescript catalogue and there are online records for some of them.
Há 5 dias · Sir Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940) was Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh and a brilliant musicologist and composer. Tovey was privately educated by music teacher Miss Sophie Weisse (1851-1945) and then at Balliol College Oxford. The young Tovey soon achieved fame as a pianist, scholar, composer and organiser of concerts ...
