The Archives & Special Collections are always on the look out for historical or scarce items that may be of interest to our teach faculty or students. Here are a few items we've picked up this year that relate to city life in the 19th and 20th centuries, which may be of particular interest to [...]
To celebrate Archives Awareness Week, held the first week of April, the archives installed a small exhibit outlining the values and uses of archives, including a number of publications that have used the Clara Thomas Archives own holdings for their research.
We also co-hosted an information booth at the Scott Library with our colleagues from the [...]
To celebrate International Women's Day, here is a selection of items celebrating the political and social activism of women.
From Special Collections
A vindication of the rights of woman with strictures on political and moral subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft. London : Printed for J. Johnson, 1792. First Edition. xix, 452 p. ; 22 cm.
This first edition of [...]
The Archives & Special Collections recently acquired a lovely edition of Shakespeare's poems produced by the Kelmscott Press. One of 500 copies, this 1893 edition features original vellum bindings. The Kelmscott Press was founded by William Morris, the Pre-Raphaelite printer, designer and architect who was associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris founded the [...]
To celebrate Freedom to Read Week, here are some examples of historical and more contemporary censorship selected from the holdings of the Archives & Special Collections.
Il Petrarcha colla spositione di Misser Giovanni Andrea Gesvaldo : Alla illvstriss. Signora Donna Maria di Cardona la Signora marchesana de la Palvde
This item on [...]
The contributions of Black Canadians has historically been underrepresented in the archival record. Often the voice of Black agents of history can be hidden in the records of other donors and organizations. Researchers have to dig deeper into the record to access rich resources that document the activities and agency of historically marginalized groups.
Here [...]
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