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Looking for ways to de-stress this afternoon?
Why not check out our @The_Big_Draw activity page and try your hand at some sketching, colouring in or even a jigsaw?
➡️ https://t.co/1QaULQDpWk
#OnThisDay in 1746 Flora MacDonald successfully smuggled Bonnie Prince Charlie from Benbecula to Skye dressed as her maid.
B2 155 & B1 106 from our MacBean Print Collection
➡️ https://t.co/xBaAWdELpf
@Scranlife @gary__thomson Yup there was a zoo in Aberdeen until it closed due to financial difficulties in 1977.
We have the plans for some pretty cool buildings that were never built in our collections and on our #InsectWeek activity page https://t.co/w9bCW8gYdE
Her next #FavouriteItem is this detail depicting birds and a snail from a Dutch Book of Hours (1400-1450), donated to King’s College by its alumnus and benefactor James Fraser. (MS 274) #Archive30
‘And, vow! Tam saw an unco sight
Warlocks and witches in a dance;
Nae cotillion brent-new frae France’
This woodcut with stencil colouring from broadsheet of Tam o’Shanter was printed in Glasgow during the early 19th century.
Have a great #BurnsNight ! 🎉🥃
The library search engine – Primo – is being updated and will be unavailable from today, 24 July. Service should be restored by Friday 27 July. To search our collections, please use the following options: archives https://t.co/Gz31z2ZH2m / printed books: https://t.co/fHZxleTLkv
In the course of a long and illustrious career spanning the end of the Ancien Regime and the beginning of the new empire, Pierre-Joseph Redouté made illustrations of some 1,800 botanical species - many represented for the first time.
La botanique de J. J. Rousseau (1805)
Jan our Principal Information Officer's favourite book has to be Vesalius’s 'De humani corporis fabrica', Basileae. 1543. (Pi f61 Ves 1). The revolutionary anatomical discoveries combined with exquisite art & innovative printing leaves me both awed & enthused. #BookWeekScot
Detail depicting birds & snail from a Dutch Book of Hours (1400-1450),
donated to King’s College by its alumnus & benefactor James Fraser