Andrew Gibson: Jack of All Trades, Master of them All.
Andrew Gibson was born in the village of New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in south-west Scotland on 23 December 1841. He was
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Category: Manuscript Collections
Ethel Smyth: words and music
Image 1: Ethel Smyth in 1922. Image courtesy of the George Grantham Bain collection at the Library of Congress via
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MS 29 The Fownes/Tighe Manuscripts
The Fownes, the Tighes and Woodstock The Fownes/Tighe manuscripts are a collection of handwritten estate papers dating from the 18th
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Corr Collection MS 65
The Corr Collection MS 65 is a small collection of documents and artefacts from the Corr family archive. It was
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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2021. Event 2: Guest Blog post by Cathryn McWilliams
Following the launch of our celebration of International Women’s Day 2021 with a guest lecture from Cathryn McWilliams, we are
Continue readingBlack History Month 2020 : Black History online : Irish historical newspapers
Online historical archives present challenges as well as opportunities for the researcher. On the one hand, what is there not
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Decolonising the curriculum: sources for Black History at Queen’s
Access to material and knowledge is at the heart of what librarians do. In an age when we are surrounded
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George Benjamin Fentum, organist at Shanghai
Researcher, Keith Robinson has written this blog on the music programme’s of Sir Robert Hart. Saturday 29th May 1886 Shanghai.
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Music-making in the Customs Service
The following guest blog is by Dr. Andrew Hillier, Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol. A personal letter from Robert
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Hart’s Music Programmes
Researcher, Keith Robinson has written this blog on the music programme’s of Sir Robert Hart. Hart’s Music Programmes Online There
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