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Month: <span>September 2019</span>

Month: September 2019

books for boys, books for girls, education & learning

‘time changes’: Visitor Responses to the ‘Growing Up with Books’ exhibition

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SELCIE’s first exhibition ‘Growing up with Books’ ran from June until December 2018 at the Museum of Childhood in Edinburgh. It celebrated the culmination of SELCIE researchers’ cataloguing and research work in the Museum of Childhood’s book collection. We had been exploring the collection since 2016; reading everything from 17th …

books for boys, books for girls, education & learning, history, illustrated books, readers & book owners

Behind the Scenes at Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood: A Look at the Technical Side of Accessing Collections

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What secrets can the skills of a cataloguer unlock about a book collection? In this blog, Kathryn Downing, MSc student in Book History and Material Culture at the University of Edinburgh, shares some fascinating insights from her experience working with some of the oldest books in the Museum of Childhood’s …

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