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Must Love Dogs: E. J. Detmold

Posted April 25, 2018

<html><body>This month's "Must Love Dogs" blog series again focuses on an illustrator. E. J.

World War I in the Everyday Experience

Posted April 11, 2018

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Must Love Dogs: Cecil Aldin

Posted March 28, 2018

<html><body>Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) was a British artist and illustrator, famous for his portrayal of dogs.

Handmade books and the Old Stile Press

Posted March 16, 2018

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Founders: The People Behind William & Mary

Posted February 14, 2018

<html><body>This year's Charter Day marked the 325th anniversary of the founding of William & Mary by William III and Mary II, the first and (to date) only joint-m

Tis the Season

Posted December 6, 2017

<html><body>In this month's dog series post, we decided to focus on dog books related to the December holidays.

Must Love Dogs: 11/11/18

Posted November 8, 2017

<html><body>In 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, an armistice was signed between the Allies and Germany, effectively ending World War I.

Must Love Dogs: Journal of a Neglected Bulldog

Posted October 11, 2017

<html><body>You may recall from our <a href="https://scrc.blogs.wm.edu/2017/09/13/mu…

Must Love Dogs

Posted September 13, 2017

<html><body>If you've ever visited the Special Collections Research Center, you may have learned that we hold the second largest collection of books about dogs in the Unit

"The Looted Book"

Posted August 16, 2017

<html><body>Institutional knowledge is an awesome thing and something that is often taken for granted and/or overlooked.

Mosaic Intern's Work Offers Glimpse of Artistic Text

Posted August 9, 2017

<html><body>What do Indiana Jones and the Content Services Mosaic Intern have in common?

Instruction in Special Collections: A Closer Look at SCRC's Recent Acquisitions

Posted August 2, 2017

<html><body>With a goal of not only collecting and preserving texts and objects for future generations, the Special Collections Research Center is devoted to acquiring books an

A Lover of Words Reveal'd

Posted June 28, 2017

<html><body>Swem Library holds two editions of A grammar of the English tongue, with the arts of logick, rhetoric, poetry, &c., but it is in the earl

Bingo Finds his Way to Belarus: Yiddish Dog Books in the Interwar Period

Posted June 21, 2017

<html><body>Many of the treasures in Special Collections don't actually live in the stacks downstairs but are instead housed in Swem Library's Offsite Stacks (SOSS).

Printing Anti-Spanish Propaganda for European Purposes

Posted May 31, 2017

<html><body>It may seem like Spanish empire in the Americas would have little to do with European politics, but we should not assume that the Atlantic world of the sixteenth an

The ties that bind: How the decay of a binding shows its construction

Posted May 3, 2017

<html><body>Swem Library has a great many books in very bad bindings. Most modern books, for instance, are held together only by glue at the spine.

Believable Lies

Posted March 29, 2017

<html><body>The island of Taiwan, once commonly known in the West by the Portuguese name of Formosa, has recently resurfaced in the news in connection with the One China policy

Propaganda and the Beginnings and End of Spanish America

Posted March 22, 2017

<html><body>The arrival of Europeans in the Americas was an event of global importance, and its effect on the people already living here was devastating.