A History of Knowing: Encyclopedias Through the Ages
As the library celebrates Dr Moses Li’s extraordinarily generous donation of the Siku Quanshu—the monumental eighteenth‑century compendium of Chinese scholarship—to the
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Exhibition: A “Digital Graveyard” of Obsolete Media
Queen’s Special Collections & Archives prepared a “Digital Graveyard” in November, exhibiting obsolete media formats once commonly used at Queen’s University. This exhibition launched
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Guest Blog: The Discovery of Mogao Caves by Aurel Stein and a Hungarian Expedition (Part 2)
This is the second of two guest blogs on Sir Marc Aurel Stein, the Hungarian-born, British archaeologist. You can read
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MS 39 McNeill Correspondence
Special Collections at Queen’s University is pleased to announce that we have a new manuscript collection ready for viewing. McNeill
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Queen’s, Belfast 1845-2025
Queen’s, Belfast is celebrating its 180th anniversary in 2025 Queen’s College Belfast was founded alongside its sister Colleges in Cork
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Commemorating Black Histories: Reflections on discovery within Queen’s University Belfast Library, Special Collections & Archives
Guest blog by Gift Sotonye-Frank and Dina Zoe Belluigi As a contribution to Black History Month (BHM) 2024 by members
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Story Threads: Creative Readings Exhibition
This exhibition, situated on the Ground Floor of the McClay, celebrates student creativity and the ability to interpret Latin American
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Work Experience @QUB Library
For my school’s week of work experience, I was lucky enough to gain a work placement at the Queen’s University
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Early Presbyterian Libraries and the Gamble Library
Many thanks to Joy Conkey, Librarian of the Gamble Library in Union Theological College, Belfast, for this guest blog. The
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A short case study of unaccompanied Jewish child refugees to Northern Ireland during the Second World War
Many thanks to Dr Pamela Linden Aveyard for her guest blog post in recognition of World Holocaust Day 2023, which
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