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"Special Collections News"

"Special Collections News" is our e-newsletter, published roughly once a term, covering interesting developments in Special Collections. It appears in PDF format. If you would prefer to receive it in another format, please contact Special Collections staff. For more frequent Special Collections news updates, have a look at the Special Collections Blog.

Issue 12, Autumn 2009

JBP delights again.
Darwin in Bradford.
New Atlantis preserved: part 2.
Ephemera forever.
Dales icons.
1930s PR for Priestley

Issue 11, Summer 2009

From Bradford Moor to Silver Dale: the Willie Riley Archive.
Drawing for Peace: Peggy Smith.
Did Mr Miniver read Priestley?
Bradfinder live 28 July.
Preserving the New Atlantis.

Issue 10, Autumn 2008

The Joseph Riley Archive: wool, magic lanterns and Methodism in 19th century Bradford.
PaxCat Project: bringing peace archives to life.
The goddess of Bradford.
Bones, bodies and disease.
Keeping Yorkshire afloat.

Issue 9, Spring 2008

Archives relating to 50 years of CND and other anti-nuclear protest.
Showcasing hidden gems: our new blog and other web developments.
"Red Ted" Edward's Archive catalogued.
Improved handlist for the Isaac Holden Papers.
Caring for the Collections: the "disaster box".

Issue 8, Autumn 2007

"Made in Bradford: the University in pictures". Exhibition in the Library.
J.B. Priestley news: just received! - his letters from the trenches and early short stories, essays and poems. Please note that the letters are not yet available to the public: they are awaiting conservation work and the publication of their text in 2008.
Two more Commonweal Archives on peace movements catalogued and ready to use.
Caring for the Collections: keeping clean with our new "minivac".

Issue 7, May 2007

New collections now available: books by Adam Curle (our first Peace Studies professor) and the Albania scrapbooks of Edith Durham, Balkan traveller.
Maps in May: Arthur Raistrick's map collection on the Archives Hub.
Happy retirement to Dr Horton.
Caring for the Collections: digital archives are special too.

Issue 6, November 2006

Exhibitions on campus until January 2007: "The University in Pictures" and "Celebrating Ted Edwards".
Picturing Priestley: mini-season at the Ilkley Literature Festival
New collections on Yorkshire history (Dales photographs by Fred Robinson Butterfield and a Bradford man's autobiography by Joseph Riley) and peace studies (Adam Curle Archive, library of Joseph Rotblat)
Caring for the Collections: meet the Foam Family and the friendly book snakes.

Issue 5, June 2006

Happy 40th birthday Bradford!
Celebrating Commonweal
Caring for Special Collections: conservation
New collections: archives of Ted Edwards, Adam Curle, Fred Singleton; Quaker books.

Issue 4, May 2005.