Rare editions presented at Dante readings (Spring Term)
Special Collections’ series of public weekly readings from Dante’s Divine Comedy continues this term, in collaboration with UCL Italian Department and the Warburg Institute. Each week, a selection of rare and early editions from UCL's outstanding Dante Collection will be shown and introduced.
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/events/2013/02/07/at-the-gates-of-heaven-a-beginners-guide-to-dantes-paradiso/
Collaboration with The Wallace Collection and West Ealing Deaf Minority Women’s Group, July 2012
UCL Special Collections is using its current restricted on-site accommodation to explore taking some of its treasures beyond the UCL borders. The first pilot trip was to The Wallace Collection, where members of West Ealing Deaf Minority Women’s Group saw and discussed items related to travel, cultural and linguistic exchange, and the history of the Dutch East Indies.
http://treasuresfromtheeast.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/workshop-with-ucl-special-collections-and-west-ealing-deaf-minority-womens-group/
West Hampstead Women’s Group view illuminated Torah, July 2012
Members of West Hampstead Women’s Group joined Special Collections staff at UCL Art Museum to see one of the library’s treasures, a beautiful illuminated Torah.
http://treasuresfromtheeast.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/west-hampstead-trip-to-ucl-art-museum-4th-july-2012/
200-year-old parchment unfolded for community project, July 2012
UCL Special Collections has unfolded a parchment charter that is unlikely ever to have been read since it was sealed over 200 years ago. The charter was one of the items chosen by a UCL PhD student to show to four community groups as part of Special Collections’ support for The Wallace Collection’s Treasures From The East project. Conservators spent two weeks gradually humidifying the document until it could be opened safely, enabling the student to read and transcribe it, and members of the community groups to be among the first to view it.
http://treasuresfromtheeast.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/trip-to-ucl-art-museum-and-special-collections-27th-june/
Aaina Women’s Group visit Special Collections, May 2012
Members of Aaina Women’s Group visited UCL to see early books, manuscripts and prints relating to the history of the Dutch East Indies as part of a seminar devised by one of UCL’s PhD students from the Dutch Department. The visit supported The Wallace Collection’s Treasures From The East project to celebrate refurbishment of its Dutch painting galleries. Aaina Women’s Group is an Asian Women’s Association support service offering health and child care for Asian women, muslim women and asylum seekers.
http://treasuresfromtheeast.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/trip-to-ucl-art-museum-and-special-collections-17th-may-2012/
