XClose

Library Services

Home
Menu

Podcasts

Our bite-sized podcast episodes explore some of the items and collections held in UCL Special Collections. Listen online, or download episodes to your device.

1. English Literature Collections: an overview, with Professor Susan Irvine and Susan Stead (6:15)
Medieval manuscripts; the Ogden Collection; Shakespeare; Milton; Romantic Poets; using the English Literature Collection in academic events; the George Orwell Archive

2. Treasures from the English Literature Collections, with Professor Susan Irvine and Susan Stead (6:11)
John Gower’s Confessio Amantis; The Crafte to Lyve Well and to Dye Well, printed by Wynkin de Worde

3. Science and Medicine Collections: an overview, with Professor Steve Jones and Susan Stead (5:12)
The Graves Collection; astronomical incunabula; the History of Science Sources; the history of genetics; anatomical and medical texts

4. Treasures from the Science Collections, with Professor Steve Jones and Dr Paul Ayris (7:10)
Francis Galton’s composite photographs; ‘On the motion of blood’ by William Harvey

5. Natural History Collections: an overview, with Susan Stead and Professor David Price (4:46)
Illustrated bird books; ‘Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia’; Johnston-Lavis Collection; malacology

6. Treasures from the Natural History Collection, with Professor Steve Jones and Susan Stead (5.43)
‘A monograph of the land and freshwater mollusca of the British Isles’ by J. W. Taylor; ‘A natural history of birds’ by Eleazar Albin

7. Architecture and Art Collections: an overview, with Susan Stead and Professor Adrian Forty (5:41)
Vetruvius in the Renaissance; students accessing books on the history of architecture; Piranesi; John Flaxman; Blake Society books; Carswell’s anatomical drawings; Sir Edward Burne-Jones’ photograph collections

8. Treasures from the Art and Architecture Collections, with Professor Adrian Forty and Lucy Lyons (7.10)
‘De Architectura’ by Vetruvius Pollio; pathological drawings by Robert Carswell

9. Social History Collections: an overview, with Professor Rosemary Ashton and Gill Furlong (5.49)
The history and records of UCL; Lord Brougham’s archive; maps in the London History Collection; Latin American business archives; the importance of primary resources; religious material; Frederick Mocatta

10. Treasures from the Social History Collections, with Professor Rosemary Ashton and Dr Paul Ayris (6:39)
‘Mogg’s new plan of London’ (1834); Mocatta’s Haggadah.

11. Small Press Collections: an overview, with Liz Lawes, Gill Furlong and Professor John Sutherland (4:42)
Poetry Store; Little Magazines; Alternative Press; international and retrospective material; history and development of literature; continued relevance to university studies

12. Treasures from the Small Press Collections, with Liz Lawes and Gill Furlong (6:23)
‘An anecdote topography of chance’ by Daniel Spoerri; ‘Stoke Newington People’s Paper’ (1971)