A curious fact …

15 January 2013 by Katherine Ford

I’ve spent some time searching through our card catalogue lately, a fascinating but occasionally bewildering resource. During one of these…

Deciphering the Duke of Sussex

20 September 2012 by James Elder

Cataloguing manuscripts can be great fun, but if the author’s handwriting is bad, it can become a form of exquisite…

8 April 2011 by Jo McManus

Earlier this week we uploaded to our website a brand new set of manuscripts using Turning the PagesTM technology. The…

11 March 2011 by Emma Davidson

Once again, the inspiration for this post was provided by a chance sighting of a reference in our archive catalogue…

14 February 2011 by Jo McManus

Call me an old romantic softy, but in an age of texts and tweets you can’t beat a hand written…