The University Library’s rare books collection is housed in a specialised cube on the 7th floor of the Library. It includes a wide variety of titles published between 1473 and 2002, with strengths in the 18th and early 20th centuries. One of its highlights include our Holy Trinity Collection which researcher Joan Lee, has been analysing for […]
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The title of Diana Souhami’s 2020 book proclaims, No Modernism without Lesbians – and one of the key women in it came from one of the great Hull shipping families. Annie Winifred Ellerman was born in Margate in 1894. She was the daughter of John Reeves Ellerman, the Hull shipping company magnate, and his partner […]
Spotlight Guest Contributor – Dr Marianne Gilchrist We always invite suggestions for our Spotlight lists and in February we welcomed the contribution of our library colleague and Historian, Dr Marianne Gilchrist, who as a child began a lifelong fascination with Aubrey Beardsley. ‘When you go into the University Art Collection, one of the first pictures […]