W&M Libraries Blog

2016

• Pirates in Special Collections!

  Posted on February 24, 2016
  From the Special Collections Blog
  Pirates, pirates, pirates!

• From the Cradle of Printing into the Classroom

  Posted on February 10, 2016
  From the Special Collections Blog
  One of the titles we will be showing in two upcoming instruction sessions this week, the 1483 Leaves from the Ninth German Bible (Biblia Nona Germanica), is the only one of our nine titles printed before 1500 that is in a language other than Latin.

• Chinese New Year

  Posted on February 8, 2016
  From the Special Collections Blog
  The Rou

• The Royal Charter on Display

  Posted on February 4, 2016
  From the Special Collections Blog
  Andros Copy of the Royal Charter (UA 77)

• Children's Letters

  Posted on February 1, 2016
  From the Special Collections Blog
  Parents keep their children’s letters and drawings, now often putting them on the refrigerator. Unless the children were sent away for education, in the eighteenth and nineteenth-century, most stayed close to home and probably only wrote if a parent were away. There are some letters in our collection written by older students away at boarding school or college, but letters by very young children are few.