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A Few Of My Favourite Things
/1 Comment/in Archives, Book Collection, Historical Collections Blog, RCVS Archives Project /by Helena ClarksonI thought before I leave my role here, and go off to study for my MA in Archives and Records Management, it would be a nice idea to share snippets of my favourite finds and favourite materials that I’ve had the pleasure of working with during my time with RCVS Knowledge’s historical collections. For those […]
The thrill of ‘The Chace’
/0 Comments/in Book Collection, Historical Collections Blog /by Clare BoultonToday is World Poetry Day, so to mark the occasion we have brought out one of the poetry books we have in our Historical Collection, William Somervile’s The Chace: a poem (id 15172). This was first published in 1735 and we have a copy of the fifth edition which was published in 1767. William Somervile (1675–1742), […]
A green monkey, a baboon and…
/0 Comments/in Archives, Historical Collections Blog /by Clare BoultonThe story of the RCVS Museum Collection is not particularly well known – any attention it has received focussing on its most famous ‘resident’ the skeleton of Eclipse (donated in 1871 by Professor John Gamgee.) This is a shame as it housed a number of other interesting items, as a glance at the catalogue (item […]
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