Bruce Peel Special Collections
- Arts & Culture
Leah Hennig Bruce Peel’s new exhibit ‘Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates’
Starting in September and running through March, the Bruce Peel Special Collections will display the Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-Pirates exhibit.…
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Supplied PhD student wins three awards for poetry collection ‘Whitemud Walking’
Whitemud Walking, a poetry collection published in 2022 by Matthew James Weigel, has won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the…
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Khadra Ahmed From the Archives: “The Book of Witches”
Recently, there has been a notable increase of interest in witchcraft. From modernizing shows such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch…
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Helen Zhang Four 4,000-year-old tablets make up the oldest item in the U of A’s library collection
Three years ago, the University of Alberta acquired the first of four ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, which together form the…
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Joshua Storie From the Bruce Peel Archives: Anatomy of a Book
Artist: Alexander McGuckin Collection: Alexander McGuckin Bindings Year: 2013 Call Number: Z 272 M3J — 2013 folio While the original bookbinding…
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Joshua Storie From the Bruce Peel Archives: Nuremberg Chronicle
Nuremberg Chronicle Author/Compiler: Hartmann Schedel Collection: Gregory S. Javitch Collection Year: 1493 Call Number: [In transit] The second most famous…
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Joshua Storie From the Bruce Peel Archives: The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Author: Charles Dickens Collection: Charles Dickens’ Works Year: 1870 Call Number: PR 4564 A1 1870a…
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Joshua Storie Bruce Peel Special Collections library reopens after renovations, students can now read rarest books on campus
University bibliophiles can relieve a 14-month long rare book drought by visiting the newly upgraded Bruce Peel Special Collections and…
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