Penguin Parade: Celebrating the Penguin Books Archive
Penguin Parade celebrates the extensive Penguin Archive held in the University of Bristol Library, Special Collections.
Sir Allen Lane, a Bristolian, founded Penguin Books in 1935. Penguin Parade follows his journey through the history of Penguin publishing and how the design of the books and the range of titles continue to deliver broad public appeal.
Penguins, Pelicans and Puffins – there will be books for everyone along with objects, letters, posters and a range of Penguin products.
Queen Victoria Archive Goes Online
Rarely seen documents chronicling the life and reign of Queen Victoria have been made public on a new website marking this year’s Diamond Jubilee.
The Royal Family released its archive of letters, journals, painting and photographs for the launch.
The website has nine sections tracing the life of Victoria as a princess to her own Jubilee celebrations in 1897.
It includes a letter to her uncle, King Leopold I, describing her future husband Albert as “sensible and kind”.
Penned in June 1836 shortly after meeting him, the soon-to-be Queen wrote of her future consort: “He is so sensible, so kind, and so good, and so amiable too.
“He has besides, the most pleasing and delightful exterior and appearance, you can possibly see.”
The site - Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook - also gives details of the young Princess Victoria’s studies and timetable of lessons.
Les archives du philosophe Michel Foucault classées "trésor national"
L’Etat français a décidé de classer ”trésor national” les archives du philosopheMichel Foucault et interdit leur exportation, par un avis publié samedi 14 avril au Journal Officiel.
Saisie par le ministère de la culture, la Commission consultative des Trésors nationaux fait valoir que cette réunion de 37 000 feuillets, manuscrits et textes dactylographiés couvrant quarante années, “est unique pour la compréhension et l’étude de l’oeuvre de Michel Foucault”, décédé en 1984. ”En conséquence, cet ensemble de biens présente un intérêt majeur pour le patrimoine national du point de vue de l’histoire et de l’art et doit être considéré comme un trésor national”.
Encyclopedia of Ephemera by Maurice Rickards. {I’ve actually used this and its pretty cool in a history/archival geek kind of way.}
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
“The Feeding America project has created an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes page images of 76 cookbooks from the MSU Library’s collection as well as searchable full-text transcriptions.”
Source: withenoughbutter
