Queens' Old Library Blog

The volume at F.7.18 in the Old Library is a finely bound volume entitled An Essay on the value of the mines late of Sir Carbery Pryse, written by the mine manager, William Waller, and printed in...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/the-richest-mine-in-all-wales/

In the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century, a period preoccupied with systematic organisation, with Linnean taxonomy, the library of Isaac Milner (1750-1820) is a testament to the value ...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2024/08/02/books-in-motion-stay-in-motion-the-library-of-isaac-milner/

By Lizzie Willetts, Book Conservator at the Cambridge Colleges’ Conservation Consortium Retaining original material is one of the key tenets of conservation ethics and can pose interesting chal...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2024/07/23/new-life-into-old-pages-the-intricate-process-of-conserving-early-printed-books-in-queens-college-library/

By Emma Anderson (Graduate Trainee Librarian, 2021-2022), and Emma Sibbald (Rare Books Curator) Queens’ Old Library’s extensive eighteenth-century holdings include the pamphlet collection of ...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2024/05/02/the-pamphlet-collections-of-ralph-perkins-in-queens-old-library-a-case-study/

By Rodney Thomson, Emeritus Professor at the University of Tasmania, Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens’ College (Summer 2023,24). Late in my last stay at the College in May-July 2023, Dr...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/the-mysterious-provenance-of-ms-515-sixteenth-century-student-notes-unearthed-in-the-queens-college-old-court/

By Harry Bartholomew, Reader Services Librarian Doughnut-economist, Kate Raworth, famously shows in her delicious model the sustainable zone in which the global economy meets humanity’s needs w...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/rejuvenating-a-library-collection-gradual-renewal-through-stock-management-and-recataloguing/

Queens’ Library collections offer a rich insight into the material book as art object, as our historic collection allows us to track the development of book illustration across the centuries. Q...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/so-full-of-shapes-is-fancy-art-nouveau-and-the-golden-age-of-english-book-illustration-in-queens-college-library/

Following two years of digitisation work and careful curation of over 13,000 images, we are delighted to announce the completion of our project to make Queens’ manuscripts digitally available v...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/completion-of-queens-manuscript-digitisation-project/

Over a period of ten weeks in June-August, Ella Johnson (Q Pt II English) undertook invaluable research and curatorial work on the extensive collection of books and archival material bequeathed t...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/every-kind-of-useful-knowledge-uncovering-the-mysteries-of-the-david-hughes-collection/

“I knew what it was like to want a book and to buy it, but I had forgotten what it felt like to amble among the library shelves, finding the book I was looking for but also seeing who its neigh...

https://queenslib.wordpress.com/2023/05/15/obsolete-orders-the-need-to-reclassify-queens-war-memorial-library/