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500 Years On: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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15th March 2017
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Hewitson Library, Knox College; various
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a friar and Professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany. While undertaking scriptural studies, Luther arrived at an essential tenet: the Bible alone was the source to salvation and true Christianity. Luther rejected the authority of the Pope, and thought that people should go to the church and pray, directly to God or Jesus, and not to anyone who claimed special powers or holiness. On 31st October 1517, All Saints’ Day eve, an occasion that attracted many pilgrims to the city, Luther is said to have nailed 95 theses to the church door. These disputations, in Latin, were a provocative attack on indulgences, which he saw as a money-making scheme by the Church. Initially posted to generate scholarly debate, the theses marked a beginning on the Reformation timeline. Importantly, it was not only the theses that sparked the revolution; the time was ripe for action. <br />Luther was a preacher with a prolific publication output. He utilised the relatively new technology of printing to disseminate his works, many slender tracts (<em>flugschrift</em>) and sermons written in German, to a wider audience. Supporters helped, including Philip Melanchthon and Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. And of course there were his opponents such as Johannes Cochlaeus, who wrote the first biography on him, and Emperor Charles V. The Papal authorities saw Luther as a ‘notorious heretic’, and he was excommunicated at the Diet of Worms in 1521. <br />This exhibition, <em>500 Years On. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation</em>, is a celebratory one that not only acknowledges Luther’s provocative action back in October 1517, but also the result, the spread of Reform that followed across Europe. The major players in this drama include Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, John Knox, and Henry VIII, who was instrumental in starting the English Reformation. There was also the inevitable back-lash, those involved in the ‘Catholic’ Counter Reformation. On-going Catholic and Protestant differences resulted in the wholesale persecution of various sects, the English Civil War, and internal religious and social strife throughout many European countries. Luther’s legacy continues to impact the world today. <br />Thanks to the Department of Theology and Religion, especially Professor Murray Rae, the Rev Dr Peter Matheson, and Dr Brett Knowles
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‘John Calvin’, from Herōologia Anglica
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[James Stewart]
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1620
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de Beer 1620 P
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Books
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[Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson …for Henry Holland, London]
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Image of French theologian and reformer, John Calvin.
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
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500 Years On: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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15th March 2017
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Hewitson Library, Knox College; various
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a friar and Professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany. While undertaking scriptural studies, Luther arrived at an essential tenet: the Bible alone was the source to salvation and true Christianity. Luther rejected the authority of the Pope, and thought that people should go to the church and pray, directly to God or Jesus, and not to anyone who claimed special powers or holiness. On 31st October 1517, All Saints’ Day eve, an occasion that attracted many pilgrims to the city, Luther is said to have nailed 95 theses to the church door. These disputations, in Latin, were a provocative attack on indulgences, which he saw as a money-making scheme by the Church. Initially posted to generate scholarly debate, the theses marked a beginning on the Reformation timeline. Importantly, it was not only the theses that sparked the revolution; the time was ripe for action. <br />Luther was a preacher with a prolific publication output. He utilised the relatively new technology of printing to disseminate his works, many slender tracts (<em>flugschrift</em>) and sermons written in German, to a wider audience. Supporters helped, including Philip Melanchthon and Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. And of course there were his opponents such as Johannes Cochlaeus, who wrote the first biography on him, and Emperor Charles V. The Papal authorities saw Luther as a ‘notorious heretic’, and he was excommunicated at the Diet of Worms in 1521. <br />This exhibition, <em>500 Years On. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation</em>, is a celebratory one that not only acknowledges Luther’s provocative action back in October 1517, but also the result, the spread of Reform that followed across Europe. The major players in this drama include Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, John Knox, and Henry VIII, who was instrumental in starting the English Reformation. There was also the inevitable back-lash, those involved in the ‘Catholic’ Counter Reformation. On-going Catholic and Protestant differences resulted in the wholesale persecution of various sects, the English Civil War, and internal religious and social strife throughout many European countries. Luther’s legacy continues to impact the world today. <br />Thanks to the Department of Theology and Religion, especially Professor Murray Rae, the Rev Dr Peter Matheson, and Dr Brett Knowles
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‘John Wyclif’ from [Herōologia Anglica]
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[James Stewart]
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1620
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de Beer Eb 1620 P
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Books
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[Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson …for Henry Holland, London]
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Portrait image of Oxford professor and theologian, John Wycliffe (c. 1329-84).
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
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500 Years On: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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15th March 2017
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Hewitson Library, Knox College; various
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a friar and Professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany. While undertaking scriptural studies, Luther arrived at an essential tenet: the Bible alone was the source to salvation and true Christianity. Luther rejected the authority of the Pope, and thought that people should go to the church and pray, directly to God or Jesus, and not to anyone who claimed special powers or holiness. On 31st October 1517, All Saints’ Day eve, an occasion that attracted many pilgrims to the city, Luther is said to have nailed 95 theses to the church door. These disputations, in Latin, were a provocative attack on indulgences, which he saw as a money-making scheme by the Church. Initially posted to generate scholarly debate, the theses marked a beginning on the Reformation timeline. Importantly, it was not only the theses that sparked the revolution; the time was ripe for action. <br />Luther was a preacher with a prolific publication output. He utilised the relatively new technology of printing to disseminate his works, many slender tracts (<em>flugschrift</em>) and sermons written in German, to a wider audience. Supporters helped, including Philip Melanchthon and Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. And of course there were his opponents such as Johannes Cochlaeus, who wrote the first biography on him, and Emperor Charles V. The Papal authorities saw Luther as a ‘notorious heretic’, and he was excommunicated at the Diet of Worms in 1521. <br />This exhibition, <em>500 Years On. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation</em>, is a celebratory one that not only acknowledges Luther’s provocative action back in October 1517, but also the result, the spread of Reform that followed across Europe. The major players in this drama include Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, John Knox, and Henry VIII, who was instrumental in starting the English Reformation. There was also the inevitable back-lash, those involved in the ‘Catholic’ Counter Reformation. On-going Catholic and Protestant differences resulted in the wholesale persecution of various sects, the English Civil War, and internal religious and social strife throughout many European countries. Luther’s legacy continues to impact the world today. <br />Thanks to the Department of Theology and Religion, especially Professor Murray Rae, the Rev Dr Peter Matheson, and Dr Brett Knowles
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‘Käsebauer und Käsefrau’ [Cheesemaker and his wife] (Augsburg, 1521) from Flugblatter der Reformation und des Bauernfrieges
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Hans Weiditz
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1975
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Private Collection
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Broadsheet
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Leipzig: Insel-Verlag Anton Kippenberg
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Known as ‘The Petrarch Master’, the German artist Hans Weiditz the Younger (1495-c.1537) was friends with an elite group of woodcut artists including Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein, and Hans Burgkmair, who was his teacher. This is his ‘Cheesemaker and wife’, one of the many colourful leaflets he produced dealing with common folk and working life.
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
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Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
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18th May 2016
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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Who uses Special Collections? And why? And what research results emanate from physically examining books and manuscripts? It was these questions that prompted the development of this ‘engagement’ exhibition, now called <em>Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections</em>. We certainly have a wide variety of readers. After filling out the appropriate registration forms, they settle into our Reading Room. A brief wait and they get the requested item. The type of materials used is equally varied, ranging from a single sheet Medieval manuscript and a 17th century herbal, to an issue of the Gentleman’s Magazine or a Pulp Fiction book. The actual research and the publication of the end-result can often take a long time; indeed sometimes years. It can be circuitous. The time spent poring over the books also varies: three hours to three weeks, and sometimes more. And importantly, it is just not about research. Many readers use a particular book or manuscript because it is a favourite; a work that resonates with their sense of being. It has become important to them. Readers from inside and outside the University of Otago were contacted to choose a Special Collections item. They were each asked to write 150 words on ‘their’ chosen book; their favourite, or that one item that assisted their research. <em>Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections</em> is the result. In most cases, it meant a re-engagement with the item. A new handling of an old friend. The exhibition offers true variety, with items selected from the diverse collections within Special Collections: Brasch, de Beer, Shoults, Truby King, Pulp & Science Fiction, Monro, Stack. Items on display range from Albinus’s spectacular <em>Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani</em> (1747); Augustus Hamilton’s <em>The Art Workmanship of the Maori Race in New Zealand</em> (1901); and Johannes Wolleb’s <em>Compendium Theologiae Christianae</em> (1642); to Gregory M. Mathews’s <em>Supplement to The Birds of Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands and the Australasian South Polar Quadrant</em> (1928); the scurrilous <em>Alvin Purple</em> (1974); and <em>Egypt and the Sudan: Handbook for Travellers</em> (1929). Please enjoy what others have researched and enjoyed.
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‘Le Festin de Pierre’ in Les oeuvres ...
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Molière
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1684
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de Beer Fb 1684 M
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Books
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Amsterdam: Wetstein
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One of the most famous interpretations of the Don Juan legend, Molière’s comedy originally titled<em> Le Festin de Pierre</em> but now known by its original sub-title, <em>Dom Juan</em>, was first performed in Paris in 1665. Accused of impiety and blasphemy, it was soon withdrawn from the company’s repertoire, and when first published, in 1682, the text was so heavily censored that in three crucial scenes it was unfaithful to Molière’s original intentions. Meanwhile, an Amsterdam publisher had acquired a copy of the play as it must have been first performed, and issued it in 1683. Publishers and translators elsewhere soon preferred it to the Paris edition, and modern scholars have followed them in recognising the Amsterdam edition as the basis of any serious study of the play. Special Collections’ copy of this play is bound with other individually published Molière plays. The volume was presented to the library by Dr Esmond de Beer in 1973.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Roger Collins)</strong>
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Intrepid Journeys. Travelling with the Hakluyt Society. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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8th June, 2017
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Special Collection, University of Otago Library
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‘I am on the road to Timbuktu’ <br /><br />Intrepid Journeys is an exhibition that highlights two major aspects. The first is the Hakluyt Society, established in London in 1846 with a commitment to print rare or unpublished voyages and travels. Beginning in 1847 with <em>The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt in his Voyage into the South Sea in the year 1593</em>, their publication programme has continued, enthralling readers around the world with the accounts of a wide range of voyagers and travellers, who manage to document something of their toil and adventures as they traverse unknown and distant regions. The second aspect celebrates the work of Dr Esmond de Beer, the Dunedin-born scholar of John Evelyn and John Locke, who was President of the Hakluyt Society from 1972 to 1978. De Beer and his sisters were generous and indefatigable supporters of the Society and its activities. He is the University of Otago Library’s prime benefactor, giving his large library collection to Special Collections. <br /><br />Rather than concentrate on well-travelled paths like the Pacific, more attention in this exhibition has been given to those lesser known accounts, those that reveal something of those strange, exotic, out of the way areas of the world that have been explored, travelled, and mapped. The range is wide, covering 14th century Greenland and 17th century India, to mysterious Timbuktu, and travel into the interior of Australia. Magellan, James Cook, and Carteret also feature. Importantly, included are a number of maps. Not only do these documents help ground the reader in what was the real world, ‘terra firma’, but they also offer excellent visual impact. The Hakluyt Society continues to produce very pleasing, scholarly editions that make journeying easy and accessible; ideal for the armchair traveller. Please enjoy the journey.
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‘Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing 1824-1826’ in Missions to the Niger, Vol. I
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Edited by E. W. Bovill
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1962
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Journals G161 H2 Ser.2 no.123
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Books
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press for the Hakluyt Society
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Who has not wanted to pen the words: ‘I am on the road to Tombuctoo’? So wrote explorer Alexander Gordon Laing (1794-1826) to Hanmer Warrington, his father-in-law, on 3rd November 1825. Supported by Sir Joseph Banks and others, Laing set off to confirm the location of Timbuktu, and position clearly the Niger River. In mid-July 1825, he left Tripoli and started across the Sahara. By August 1826 he was in Timbuktu, after being robbed, stabbed numerous times, and losing his right hand. On preparing to leave the city, he was killed by Tuareg raiders. This publication is a compilation of his writings such as ‘Cursory Remarks’ on the Niger and a few surviving letters. Laing ‘re-discovered’ Timbuktu. It is regarded as one of the great journeys in the history of African exploration.
Hakluyt Society
Maps
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The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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21st June, 2019
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‘As a class, women seem always to have been too busy to say much about themselves. And sometimes it has seemed that the more worthwhile their deeds the less they said about them. Few women have had Boswells, though many should have’. <br /> Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead, 1937 <br /><br />A woman’s role in society, until recently, has traditionally been as wife, mother, and caregiver. She is often remembered in history, overwhelmingly written by men, for her looks, her body, or her scandalous behaviour. Women make up at least half of the world’s population, but they occupy less than one percent of recorded history. As you will find in this exhibition, <strong>The Female of the Species: A Celebration of Women in History</strong>, women have always been writers, inventors, leaders, activists, and warriors. However, their contributions have often been overlooked, fading into a background overshadowed by men. <br /><br />The paucity of resources about women has proven a challenge, but in the exhibition, you will find books highlighting familiar faces: Cleopatra, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Florence Nightingale, and Janet Frame. You will also learn of the endeavours of less familiar women in history: Christine de Pisan, the 14th century proto-feminist; Boudica, Queen of the Iceni; Hypatia, the mathematician; Ida Pfeiffer, the Austrian traveller; Mary Somerville, the scientist; Ann Radcliffe, the writer; Margaret Sanger, the birth control activist; Teuta, the pirate Queen; Charlotte Guillard, the Paris printer; and many more besides. <br /><br />Let us now bring the exploits of all these women into the light.
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Curated by Romilly Smith and Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago
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‘Marignac, near St. Beat Haute, Garonne, October 4, 1821’, Plate 47 from Plates Illustrative of a Journal of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy.
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Marianne Colston
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1823
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Special Collections D919 CP 95
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Drawing
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London: Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker
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In 1819, <strong>Marianne Colston</strong> (née Jenkins, 1792-1865) married the wealthy Bristol merchant, Edward Francis Colston. Almost immediately, they set off on their Continental tour, with servants in tow. <strong>Marianne</strong> recorded their travels in her <em>Journal of a Tour</em>, which sadly Special Collections does not own. However, we do have the 50 folio lithographs that accompanied her two-volume set. <strong>Marianne</strong> was also an amateur painter and sketched her way through Europe. In the hope that her pencil supplied the deficiencies of her pen, she sketched picturesque sights that always appear grand. When people are placed within the scene, they are always small-scale. Here, <strong>Marianne</strong> is at Marignac, near St. Beat Haute, Garonne, sitting quietly with pencil and pad in hand. Perhaps, it is her husband shading her with the umbrella.
Women
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500 Years On: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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15th March 2017
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Hewitson Library, Knox College; various
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a friar and Professor of Theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany. While undertaking scriptural studies, Luther arrived at an essential tenet: the Bible alone was the source to salvation and true Christianity. Luther rejected the authority of the Pope, and thought that people should go to the church and pray, directly to God or Jesus, and not to anyone who claimed special powers or holiness. On 31st October 1517, All Saints’ Day eve, an occasion that attracted many pilgrims to the city, Luther is said to have nailed 95 theses to the church door. These disputations, in Latin, were a provocative attack on indulgences, which he saw as a money-making scheme by the Church. Initially posted to generate scholarly debate, the theses marked a beginning on the Reformation timeline. Importantly, it was not only the theses that sparked the revolution; the time was ripe for action. <br />Luther was a preacher with a prolific publication output. He utilised the relatively new technology of printing to disseminate his works, many slender tracts (<em>flugschrift</em>) and sermons written in German, to a wider audience. Supporters helped, including Philip Melanchthon and Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony. And of course there were his opponents such as Johannes Cochlaeus, who wrote the first biography on him, and Emperor Charles V. The Papal authorities saw Luther as a ‘notorious heretic’, and he was excommunicated at the Diet of Worms in 1521. <br />This exhibition, <em>500 Years On. Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation</em>, is a celebratory one that not only acknowledges Luther’s provocative action back in October 1517, but also the result, the spread of Reform that followed across Europe. The major players in this drama include Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, John Knox, and Henry VIII, who was instrumental in starting the English Reformation. There was also the inevitable back-lash, those involved in the ‘Catholic’ Counter Reformation. On-going Catholic and Protestant differences resulted in the wholesale persecution of various sects, the English Civil War, and internal religious and social strife throughout many European countries. Luther’s legacy continues to impact the world today. <br />Thanks to the Department of Theology and Religion, especially Professor Murray Rae, the Rev Dr Peter Matheson, and Dr Brett Knowles
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‘Martin Luther’ from [Herōologia Anglica]
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[James Stewart]
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1620
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de Beer Eb 1620 P
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Books
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[Arnhem: Printed by Jan Jansson …for Henry Holland, London]
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Image of Protestant reformer, Martin Luther.
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
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The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869-1938): Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist. Online exhibition.
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9th January 2015
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Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938) was an Otago graduate who became a ceramicist, a cartoonist, and, more importantly, a famous chemist. Indeed, his single-handed effort to complete his 16 volume definitive work <em>A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry</em> (1922-1937), which amounted to over 15,000 pages and 16 million words, has never been equalled. From very humble beginnings and self-initiated study, Mellor obtained a place at the University of Otago, and then won a scholarship to study for a research degree at Owens College, Manchester. He then moved to Stoke-on-Trent, where he became principal of the Technical College (now part of Staffordshire University). During the First World War, Mellor's research was directed towards refractories, high-temperature ceramics relevant to the steel industry and thus the war effort. It was for this work that he was offered a peerage, which he turned down. In 1927 he was elected to the Royal Society for work related to ceramics, the only other being Josiah Wedgwood in the eighteenth century. Mellor retained a boyish sense of humour all his life, and he was dubbed by colleagues the 'Peter Pan of Ceramics'. He was also a skilled cartoonist and his <em>Uncle Joe’s Nonsense</em> (1934) contains a collection of humorous stories illustrated with clever pen sketches. Just before Mellor died in May 1938, he received a C.B.E. <br /><br /><em>The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869-1938) Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist</em> is an exhibition that highlights Mellor’s life, work and legacy. It begins with his early years in Kaikorai Valley and first work at Sargood's Boot Factory, and his study at the University of Otago. It then deals with his marriage to Emma Cranwell Bakes, his many publications and relationships with his publishers, his contemporaries and friends such as Bernard Moore, Frank Wedgwood, and Louis Solon, and his involvement in various ceramic societies world-wide. And then there is his legacy, which constitutes today annual memorial lectures associated with the Ceramic Society in England and the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, a Mellor Professorship at the University of Otago, and a Mellor street and park in the suburb of Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin. His personal archives, ceramics and books are found at Special Collections, University of Otago, the Otago Museum, and the Heritage Collection, Dunedin Public Library.
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Various collectors
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English Ceramic Society
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1914-15
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Mellor Papers, Box 1
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Pamphlets
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[Stoke-on-Trent: English Ceramic Society]
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Louis Marc Solon (1835-1913) trained as an artist at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and moved to Stoke-on-Trent in 1870 where he worked for the pottery firm Minton’s Ltd. Solon refined the pâte-sur-pâte (lit. paste-on-paste) technique of building up, with white slip or liquid clay, a relief image or cameo effect on a pot’s surface. He became a master and created a vase for Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1887, which sold for over five million dollars (US) in 2006. Although Mellor and Solon were friends, it was a volatile good-hearted relationship. Mellor said at a memorial lecture of Solon that ‘one of his favourite arguments [was]…that science was all bosh….I had then to demonstrate that art was all flap-doodle’.
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‘Memorial Lecture on Mr. M. L. E. Solon’ from Transactions of the English Ceramic Society, Vol. XIV
cartoons
ceramics
inorganic chemistry
Joseph Mellor
Louis Marc Solon
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The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869-1938): Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist. Online exhibition.
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9th January 2015
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Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938) was an Otago graduate who became a ceramicist, a cartoonist, and, more importantly, a famous chemist. Indeed, his single-handed effort to complete his 16 volume definitive work <em>A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry</em> (1922-1937), which amounted to over 15,000 pages and 16 million words, has never been equalled. From very humble beginnings and self-initiated study, Mellor obtained a place at the University of Otago, and then won a scholarship to study for a research degree at Owens College, Manchester. He then moved to Stoke-on-Trent, where he became principal of the Technical College (now part of Staffordshire University). During the First World War, Mellor's research was directed towards refractories, high-temperature ceramics relevant to the steel industry and thus the war effort. It was for this work that he was offered a peerage, which he turned down. In 1927 he was elected to the Royal Society for work related to ceramics, the only other being Josiah Wedgwood in the eighteenth century. Mellor retained a boyish sense of humour all his life, and he was dubbed by colleagues the 'Peter Pan of Ceramics'. He was also a skilled cartoonist and his <em>Uncle Joe’s Nonsense</em> (1934) contains a collection of humorous stories illustrated with clever pen sketches. Just before Mellor died in May 1938, he received a C.B.E. <br /><br /><em>The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869-1938) Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist</em> is an exhibition that highlights Mellor’s life, work and legacy. It begins with his early years in Kaikorai Valley and first work at Sargood's Boot Factory, and his study at the University of Otago. It then deals with his marriage to Emma Cranwell Bakes, his many publications and relationships with his publishers, his contemporaries and friends such as Bernard Moore, Frank Wedgwood, and Louis Solon, and his involvement in various ceramic societies world-wide. And then there is his legacy, which constitutes today annual memorial lectures associated with the Ceramic Society in England and the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, a Mellor Professorship at the University of Otago, and a Mellor street and park in the suburb of Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin. His personal archives, ceramics and books are found at Special Collections, University of Otago, the Otago Museum, and the Heritage Collection, Dunedin Public Library.
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Various collectors
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Joseph W. Mellor
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c. 1898
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Mellor Papers, Box 10, folder 9
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Drawing
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Unpublished
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This illustration of the School of Agriculture at Lincoln was obviously sent to Emma as a way for her to know the environment in which Mellor was living. His sense of humour and feeling for the place is evident with red pen scrawls: ‘room in which staff meet for mutual improvement & admiration’, ‘letter rack where I always find your letters’, and the more cynical: ‘MY PRISON’. Mellor left Lincoln in June 1899 and by July, the married couple were travelling to England, where Mellor started his career at Owens College, Manchester.
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‘My Prison’ School of Agriculture, Lincoln, Canterbury, NZ
cartoons
ceramics
inorganic chemistry
Joseph Mellor
Owens College
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All the Year Round: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Periodical. Online exhibition
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Special Collections
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6th June, 2018
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Dunedin Public Library
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Nineteenth-century periodicals were the television of their day. They offered riveting serials, lifestyle recommendations, vivid illustrations by leading artists, and the inevitable advertising. They were shared among readers, who discussed their contents avidly and sometimes read them aloud to local audiences. <br /><em>All the Year Round: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Periodical</em> tells the story of the rise of the British periodical. The exhibition charts the rapid expansion of periodical publication from the early years of the nineteenth century, when writers like Lord Byron and John Keats were reviewed and reviled, to the last decades of Queen Victoria’s reign, when ‘decadent’ journals caused controversy, the <em>Boy’s Own</em> and <em>Girl’s Own Paper</em> catered to an expanding young readership, and Sherlock Holmes’s appearance in <em>The Strand</em> inspired a devoted following across all classes. <br /><em>All the Year Round</em> takes its title from Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, which reached tens of thousands of readers and featured many of his now classic novels. The exhibition’s strongest presence comes from the satirical London journal <em>Punch</em>, whose columns and cartoons mocked prominent politicians and celebrities and shaped middle-class attitudes. Colonial spinoffs, like <em>Otago Punch</em>, soon spread across the British Empire. While the exhibition primarily features holdings from the University of Otago’s Special Collections and the Hocken Library, it also includes works kindly lent from the Dunedin Public Library and the Olga and Marcus Fitchett Collection. Please enjoy. <br />This exhibition was co-curated by Dr Tom McLean and Dr Grace Moore, both of the English Department, University of Otago
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‘New Chapel and Burial-Ground of the British Protestant Residents at Caracas, the Capital of Venezuela, in South America’, in The Saturday Magazine, No. 147
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A Spectator [Jane Porter]
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18 October, 1834
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Private collection
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Periodicals
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London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
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Jane Porter was one of the most popular novelists of the early nineteenth century. Her brother, the artist and writer Sir Robert Ker Porter, served as British Consul to Venezuela in the 1830s, and Jane was anxious to promulgate her brother’s successes. To do so, she often hid her identity behind a pseudonym. This article, signed ‘A Spectator’, describes the ceremony marking the opening of the first Protestant cemetery in Venezuela. The piece appears to be the work of an eyewitness. In fact, Porter based her article on her brother’s description of the event. Robert also provided a drawing for the engraver.
Victorian Periodical
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All the Year Round: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Periodical. Online exhibition
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Special Collections
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6th June, 2018
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Dunedin Public Library
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Nineteenth-century periodicals were the television of their day. They offered riveting serials, lifestyle recommendations, vivid illustrations by leading artists, and the inevitable advertising. They were shared among readers, who discussed their contents avidly and sometimes read them aloud to local audiences. <br /><em>All the Year Round: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Periodical</em> tells the story of the rise of the British periodical. The exhibition charts the rapid expansion of periodical publication from the early years of the nineteenth century, when writers like Lord Byron and John Keats were reviewed and reviled, to the last decades of Queen Victoria’s reign, when ‘decadent’ journals caused controversy, the <em>Boy’s Own</em> and <em>Girl’s Own Paper</em> catered to an expanding young readership, and Sherlock Holmes’s appearance in <em>The Strand</em> inspired a devoted following across all classes. <br /><em>All the Year Round</em> takes its title from Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, which reached tens of thousands of readers and featured many of his now classic novels. The exhibition’s strongest presence comes from the satirical London journal <em>Punch</em>, whose columns and cartoons mocked prominent politicians and celebrities and shaped middle-class attitudes. Colonial spinoffs, like <em>Otago Punch</em>, soon spread across the British Empire. While the exhibition primarily features holdings from the University of Otago’s Special Collections and the Hocken Library, it also includes works kindly lent from the Dunedin Public Library and the Olga and Marcus Fitchett Collection. Please enjoy. <br />This exhibition was co-curated by Dr Tom McLean and Dr Grace Moore, both of the English Department, University of Otago
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‘North and South’ in Household Words, No. 241
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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4 November 1854
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Storage Journal AP 4 H68 V.10
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Periodical
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London: The Office
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Many famous Victorian novels appeared in serial format. As readers eagerly awaited each instalment, authors could respond to public opinion, sometimes changing the fate of a character in a bid to increase sales. Elizabeth Gaskell’s <em>North and South,</em> a serial of life in industrial Manchester, appeared over 20 weeks in Dickens’s <em>Household Words </em>from September 1854 to January 1855. Dickens and Gaskell frequently clashed over editorial matters, so much so that both swore never to work together again. However, Dickens realized Gaskell’s talent and popularity, and lured her back to serial publication with generous remuneration and promises of greater creative freedom.
Victorian Periodical
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All the Year Round: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Periodical. Online exhibition
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Special Collections
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6th June, 2018
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Dunedin Public Library
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Nineteenth-century periodicals were the television of their day. They offered riveting serials, lifestyle recommendations, vivid illustrations by leading artists, and the inevitable advertising. They were shared among readers, who discussed their contents avidly and sometimes read them aloud to local audiences. <br /><em>All the Year Round: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Periodical</em> tells the story of the rise of the British periodical. The exhibition charts the rapid expansion of periodical publication from the early years of the nineteenth century, when writers like Lord Byron and John Keats were reviewed and reviled, to the last decades of Queen Victoria’s reign, when ‘decadent’ journals caused controversy, the <em>Boy’s Own</em> and <em>Girl’s Own Paper</em> catered to an expanding young readership, and Sherlock Holmes’s appearance in <em>The Strand</em> inspired a devoted following across all classes. <br /><em>All the Year Round</em> takes its title from Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, which reached tens of thousands of readers and featured many of his now classic novels. The exhibition’s strongest presence comes from the satirical London journal <em>Punch</em>, whose columns and cartoons mocked prominent politicians and celebrities and shaped middle-class attitudes. Colonial spinoffs, like <em>Otago Punch</em>, soon spread across the British Empire. While the exhibition primarily features holdings from the University of Otago’s Special Collections and the Hocken Library, it also includes works kindly lent from the Dunedin Public Library and the Olga and Marcus Fitchett Collection. Please enjoy. <br />This exhibition was co-curated by Dr Tom McLean and Dr Grace Moore, both of the English Department, University of Otago
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‘Oliver Twist’, in Bentley’s Miscellany, Vol. 1
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Charles Dickens
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1837
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Storage Journal AP 4 B446 V.1
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Periodical
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London: Richard Bentley
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<p class="Normal1"><em>Bentley’s Miscellany</em> (1837-1868) offered an assortment of serial fiction, short stories, historical writing, reviews (musical, culinary, and literary), and other snippets of information. Charles Dickens served as the journal’s inaugural editor, although he soon severed ties with its owner, Richard Bentley, whose interventionist approach to editing infuriated the up-and-coming novelist. This instalment of Dickens’s <em>Oliver Twist</em> features George Cruikshank’s famous illustration of Oliver asking for more. William Harrison Ainsworth succeeded Dickens as editor in 1839, and his serialized novel, <em>Jack Sheppard</em>, was even more successful than Dickens’s classic tale.</p>
Victorian Periodical
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A Letterpress Legacy: The Dartmouth College Book Arts Workshop. Online exhibition
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Special Collections
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8 August, 2016
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Dartmouth Book Arts Workshop; Special Collections, University of Otago
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In 1936, Ray Nash (1905-1982), an American graphic-arts historian and calligraphy expert, established a hand press in the Baker Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. The Graphic Arts Workshop, as it was called then, with the imprint of The Baker Library Press, ran for some 25 years. Teaching, instruction and discussion were all part of the print programme. In 1989, three Nash students - Mark Lansburgh, Roderick D. Stinehour, and Edward Connery Lathem - re-established the Workshop. This initiative was aided by the kindness of the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment that not only provided funding to re-establish the workshop in the Baker Library but also the support for a Fellow in the Book Arts. Today the Workshop provides students with access to a letterpress studio and a bookbinding studio. There they can mix inks, create posters and cards, and learn how to set type and bind a book. In the spirit of Nash and his students, the Workshop is open to all Dartmouth students and the Dartmouth community after they complete an orientation session.
In 2015, Dartmouth College celebrated the Workshop’s 25th Anniversary with an exhibition entitled: ‘The Secret Revealed. The Books Arts Workshop at 25 Years’. This exhibition showcased a selection of print and book arts materials produced by students and staff at Dartmouth over the years. To celebrate the University of Otago’s association with Dartmouth College through the Matariki Network*, this exhibition highlights a small selection of materials borrowed from Dartmouth’s Books Arts Workshop and Rauner Special Collections Library. Please enjoy.
*The Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) is an international group of seven universities that focuses on strong links between research and undergraduate teaching. Alongside the University of Otago, the other six are Durham University; Queen’s University; University of Tübingen; University of Western Australia; Uppsala University; and Dartmouth College.
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‘Ornamented Types in America’, by Ray Nash in Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typeface
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Nicolette Gray
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1976
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Special Collections Z250 A2 GS27
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Books
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Berkeley: University of California Press
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As a man dedicated to the printed page (encompassing paper, ink, and type) Nash was well-versed in the intricacies of American type design. Nicolette Gray recognised his expertise and included his ‘Ornamented Types in America’ within her book.
Dartmouth College Book Arts
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The Melrose Library: Reflecting the Life and Works of Sir F. Truby King
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‘<em>Truby King was the greatest man in New Zealand, and should have the most imposing monument New Zealand can build to commemorate him</em>.’ George Bernard Shaw, April 1934. <br /><br />Sir Frederic Truby King (1858-1938) was a scientist, farmer, gardener, doctor, and educator. He was single-minded to the point of obnoxiousness; an eccentric; and a financial incompetent who held beliefs that were often unscientific and glaringly contradictory. Because of his wide interests, King was also a great reader. About 1933, King’s library numbered some 1680 titles. In 1938, he bequeathed many scientific titles to the British Medical Association. In June 1989 the remaining volumes – the so-called Melrose Library – arrived in Dunedin from the Truby King House in Wellington. This collection of some 1000 volumes was collected by King in his lifetime; some are signed; many are annotated. Two-thirds deal with the health of women and children, consisting of both professional and popular texts. The remainder is non-medical, comprising works of general reference and some fiction. Subjects covered include child health, nutrition, paediatrics, child diseases, psychology, horticulture and animal husbandry, gardens, especially rose and rhododendron books, and social issues such as race theory and education. As the collection stands, it has been called ‘the best general collection in New Zealand, of publications on the general subject of the health of women and children for the period of 1900 to 1938’ (Strachan). A select number of books from King’s library have been used in this exhibition to highlight his life and activities: his early years, his education, his work at Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, and his pioneering work in child and infant care. The establishment of the Plunket Society in 1907 was one of his most tangible and influential parts of his legacy. King died in February 1938. He was given a state funeral, the first private citizen in New Zealand to be given this honour. In 1957 he featured on a postage stamp celebrating the Plunket Society; again the first to be afforded this honour. All in all, Sir Frederic Truby King was a remarkable man.
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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14 August 2015
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Various
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‘Our Babies’
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Hygeia, <em>Otago Witness</em>
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September 27, 1921
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Truby King Collection
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Newspapers
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Dunedin: <em>Otago Witness</em>
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Bella King was as much a reason for the Plunket Society’s success as her husband. As Truby’s constant companion and helpmeet, she did a lot of work to support her husband’s crusade to ‘help the mothers and save the <em>babies’. In 1908 they started a newspaper column in the Otago Daily Times</em> called ‘Our Babies’ in which, under the pen-name ‘Hygeia’, they wrote advice for mothers on topics such as babies’ bowel movements, dummies, prams, weaning and breast-feeding. Bella usually wrote the column; Truby maintained editorial control. The column was syndicated, appearing in over 50 newspapers nationwide and exported to Australia, Britain and America. Although Bella died in January 1927, the column continued to appear, possibly written by King himself.
Bella King
Otago Daily Times
Plunket Society
Truby King
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Black + White + Grey. The Lives + Works of Eric Gill + Robert Gibbings. Online exhibition
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29 May 2015
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In 1946, artist Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) visited his friend John Harris, who was then University Librarian at the University of Otago. Gibbings gave Harris five printed vellum sheets: three of Chaucer’s <em>The Canterbury Tales</em> (1929-31) and two of John Keats’s <em>Lamia</em> (1928). Both these titles were printed at The Golden Cockerel Press, which Gibbings owned from 1924 to 1933. One of the ‘Canterbury’ sheets contained an important addition: illustrations executed by Eric Gill (1882-1940), sculptor, stone cutter, engraver, and typographer. This vellum sheet is a small representative of the work that Gibbings and Gill did together, including the collaboration that resulted in <em>The Canterbury Tales</em>, and <em>The Four Gospels</em> (1931), which has been called ‘the typographical masterpiece of the 20th century’ (John Dreyfus). Both Gibbings and Gill were sons of clergymen; Gibbings visited New Zealand; Gill’s father was born in the South Seas in 1848; both wrote extensively on a wide range of topics; both were members of the Society of Wood Engravers (founded in 1920); both were talented artists; and both were prolific wood-engravers. And importantly for this exhibition, both made and designed books, although at first they were both typographically naïve. Their bookish collaboration lasted from 1925 to 1931. Both men have had a lasting influence in the artistic world. Gibbings created some outstanding limited edition books through his The Golden Cockerel Press. He also left some marvellously lyrical travelogues on places such as Tahiti and Ireland. Gill’s legacy is perhaps more evident. His sculptures are found in institutions throughout the world; his line illustrations are frequently reproduced; and importantly, there are his typefaces such as Perpetua and Gill Sans (the typeface used for this exhibition); the latter often used by modern-day book-makers and designers today. This exhibition is based on holdings within Special Collections. It is an overview, offering a glimpse into the lives and work of these two gifted artists.
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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‘Plate 15’ from Manuscript & Inscription Letters for Schools & Classes & for the Use of Craftsmen
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Edward Johnston
Date
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1911 (i.e. third impression, reprint of the second impression, 1916).
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Special Collections NK3600 J59 1916
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Plates
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London: John Hogg
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‘The importance of the part of the Pen has played in the development of letters cannot be over-estimated; and I believe that it is beginning to be recognised that the best way to study letters, or even to “design” them, is to practise oneself in the use of a broad-nibbed pen…’. So wrote Edward Johnston in his <em>Manuscript & Inscription Letters for Schools & Classes & for the Use of Craftsmen</em>. Gill attended Johnston’s calligraphy classes at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in 1901 and was no doubt inculcated into the master’s mantra of a systematic and careful approach towards lettering. The seed, however, had been sown. While at Chichester (1897-1900) Gill became ‘mad’ on lettering, writing in his diary that ‘letters were something special in themselves’… they are ‘things, not pictures of things’. Here is A.E.R. Gill’s ‘Raised Letters’ carved on Hopton Wood stone, a type of limestone which is almost like marble.
Engravings
Eric Gill
Robert Gibbings
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Black + White + Grey. The Lives + Works of Eric Gill + Robert Gibbings. Online exhibition
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29 May 2015
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In 1946, artist Robert Gibbings (1889-1958) visited his friend John Harris, who was then University Librarian at the University of Otago. Gibbings gave Harris five printed vellum sheets: three of Chaucer’s <em>The Canterbury Tales</em> (1929-31) and two of John Keats’s <em>Lamia</em> (1928). Both these titles were printed at The Golden Cockerel Press, which Gibbings owned from 1924 to 1933. One of the ‘Canterbury’ sheets contained an important addition: illustrations executed by Eric Gill (1882-1940), sculptor, stone cutter, engraver, and typographer. This vellum sheet is a small representative of the work that Gibbings and Gill did together, including the collaboration that resulted in <em>The Canterbury Tales</em>, and <em>The Four Gospels</em> (1931), which has been called ‘the typographical masterpiece of the 20th century’ (John Dreyfus). Both Gibbings and Gill were sons of clergymen; Gibbings visited New Zealand; Gill’s father was born in the South Seas in 1848; both wrote extensively on a wide range of topics; both were members of the Society of Wood Engravers (founded in 1920); both were talented artists; and both were prolific wood-engravers. And importantly for this exhibition, both made and designed books, although at first they were both typographically naïve. Their bookish collaboration lasted from 1925 to 1931. Both men have had a lasting influence in the artistic world. Gibbings created some outstanding limited edition books through his The Golden Cockerel Press. He also left some marvellously lyrical travelogues on places such as Tahiti and Ireland. Gill’s legacy is perhaps more evident. His sculptures are found in institutions throughout the world; his line illustrations are frequently reproduced; and importantly, there are his typefaces such as Perpetua and Gill Sans (the typeface used for this exhibition); the latter often used by modern-day book-makers and designers today. This exhibition is based on holdings within Special Collections. It is an overview, offering a glimpse into the lives and work of these two gifted artists.
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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‘Plate 16’ from Manuscript & Inscription Letters for Schools & Classes & for the Use of Craftsmen
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Edward Johnston
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1911 (i.e. third impression, reprint of the second impression, 1916)
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Special Collections NK3600 J59 1916
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Plates
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London: John Hogg
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In 1900, Gill was employed as an architect’s assistant in the London firm of W.D. Caröe, specialists in ecclesiastical architecture. He learnt quickly about the drawing up of architectural plans and the principles and techniques of buildings, especially churches and cathedrals. He also enrolled in classes in practical masonry at the Westminster Technical Institute. Lettering on stone was something Gill enjoyed; there was the physicality: finding the right stone, banging away swiftly and surely on the surface; and the sharp chisels of the right temper to obtain the desired result. One of his first jobs was lettering (inscribing) a tombstone for which he was paid £5. Here is a photograph of Gill’s 'Roman letters'.
Engravings
Eric Gill
Robert Gibbings
Typography
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The Melrose Library: Reflecting the Life and Works of Sir F. Truby King
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‘<em>Truby King was the greatest man in New Zealand, and should have the most imposing monument New Zealand can build to commemorate him</em>.’ George Bernard Shaw, April 1934. <br /><br />Sir Frederic Truby King (1858-1938) was a scientist, farmer, gardener, doctor, and educator. He was single-minded to the point of obnoxiousness; an eccentric; and a financial incompetent who held beliefs that were often unscientific and glaringly contradictory. Because of his wide interests, King was also a great reader. About 1933, King’s library numbered some 1680 titles. In 1938, he bequeathed many scientific titles to the British Medical Association. In June 1989 the remaining volumes – the so-called Melrose Library – arrived in Dunedin from the Truby King House in Wellington. This collection of some 1000 volumes was collected by King in his lifetime; some are signed; many are annotated. Two-thirds deal with the health of women and children, consisting of both professional and popular texts. The remainder is non-medical, comprising works of general reference and some fiction. Subjects covered include child health, nutrition, paediatrics, child diseases, psychology, horticulture and animal husbandry, gardens, especially rose and rhododendron books, and social issues such as race theory and education. As the collection stands, it has been called ‘the best general collection in New Zealand, of publications on the general subject of the health of women and children for the period of 1900 to 1938’ (Strachan). A select number of books from King’s library have been used in this exhibition to highlight his life and activities: his early years, his education, his work at Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, and his pioneering work in child and infant care. The establishment of the Plunket Society in 1907 was one of his most tangible and influential parts of his legacy. King died in February 1938. He was given a state funeral, the first private citizen in New Zealand to be given this honour. In 1957 he featured on a postage stamp celebrating the Plunket Society; again the first to be afforded this honour. All in all, Sir Frederic Truby King was a remarkable man.
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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14 August 2015
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Various
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‘Plunket Society Rag Collection: Save Your Old Rags Help Your Own Funds’ poster
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The Plunket Society
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c. 1950
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Kindly supplied by Catherine Caley, Otago Community Services Leader, Plunket
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Posters
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Christchurch, New Zealand: The Caxton Press
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The online edition of the <em>Encyclopaedia of New Zealand</em> states that local branches of Plunket always had a ‘large degree of autonomy and responsibility’ despite being ultimately controlled by a central body and ‘it is this distribution of authority and responsibility that has proved to be the foundation of the Society’s strength’. It was not just cookbooks that furnished the Plunket Society branches with funds, the recycling of rags was a nationwide form of fundraising.
Plunket Society
Truby King
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The Melrose Library: Reflecting the Life and Works of Sir F. Truby King
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‘<em>Truby King was the greatest man in New Zealand, and should have the most imposing monument New Zealand can build to commemorate him</em>.’ George Bernard Shaw, April 1934. <br /><br />Sir Frederic Truby King (1858-1938) was a scientist, farmer, gardener, doctor, and educator. He was single-minded to the point of obnoxiousness; an eccentric; and a financial incompetent who held beliefs that were often unscientific and glaringly contradictory. Because of his wide interests, King was also a great reader. About 1933, King’s library numbered some 1680 titles. In 1938, he bequeathed many scientific titles to the British Medical Association. In June 1989 the remaining volumes – the so-called Melrose Library – arrived in Dunedin from the Truby King House in Wellington. This collection of some 1000 volumes was collected by King in his lifetime; some are signed; many are annotated. Two-thirds deal with the health of women and children, consisting of both professional and popular texts. The remainder is non-medical, comprising works of general reference and some fiction. Subjects covered include child health, nutrition, paediatrics, child diseases, psychology, horticulture and animal husbandry, gardens, especially rose and rhododendron books, and social issues such as race theory and education. As the collection stands, it has been called ‘the best general collection in New Zealand, of publications on the general subject of the health of women and children for the period of 1900 to 1938’ (Strachan). A select number of books from King’s library have been used in this exhibition to highlight his life and activities: his early years, his education, his work at Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, and his pioneering work in child and infant care. The establishment of the Plunket Society in 1907 was one of his most tangible and influential parts of his legacy. King died in February 1938. He was given a state funeral, the first private citizen in New Zealand to be given this honour. In 1957 he featured on a postage stamp celebrating the Plunket Society; again the first to be afforded this honour. All in all, Sir Frederic Truby King was a remarkable man.
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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14 August 2015
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Various
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‘Plunket-RSA Queen Carnival Crowning, February, 1950’
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___
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1950
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Kindly supplied by Catherine Caley, Otago Community Services Leader, Plunket
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Photographs
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Dunedin: Kapai Studio
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This photograph, embossed with Kapai Studio, Dunedin in the lower right corner, depicts the Queen Carnival Crowning of February 1950. A joint venture between the Plunket Society and the RSA, it was probably another opportune fundraising occasion.
Dunedin (NZ)
Plunket Society
Truby King
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The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869-1938): Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist. Online exhibition.
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9th January 2015
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Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938) was an Otago graduate who became a ceramicist, a cartoonist, and, more importantly, a famous chemist. Indeed, his single-handed effort to complete his 16 volume definitive work <em>A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry</em> (1922-1937), which amounted to over 15,000 pages and 16 million words, has never been equalled. From very humble beginnings and self-initiated study, Mellor obtained a place at the University of Otago, and then won a scholarship to study for a research degree at Owens College, Manchester. He then moved to Stoke-on-Trent, where he became principal of the Technical College (now part of Staffordshire University). During the First World War, Mellor's research was directed towards refractories, high-temperature ceramics relevant to the steel industry and thus the war effort. It was for this work that he was offered a peerage, which he turned down. In 1927 he was elected to the Royal Society for work related to ceramics, the only other being Josiah Wedgwood in the eighteenth century. Mellor retained a boyish sense of humour all his life, and he was dubbed by colleagues the 'Peter Pan of Ceramics'. He was also a skilled cartoonist and his <em>Uncle Joe’s Nonsense</em> (1934) contains a collection of humorous stories illustrated with clever pen sketches. Just before Mellor died in May 1938, he received a C.B.E. <br /><br /><em>The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869-1938) Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist</em> is an exhibition that highlights Mellor’s life, work and legacy. It begins with his early years in Kaikorai Valley and first work at Sargood's Boot Factory, and his study at the University of Otago. It then deals with his marriage to Emma Cranwell Bakes, his many publications and relationships with his publishers, his contemporaries and friends such as Bernard Moore, Frank Wedgwood, and Louis Solon, and his involvement in various ceramic societies world-wide. And then there is his legacy, which constitutes today annual memorial lectures associated with the Ceramic Society in England and the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, a Mellor Professorship at the University of Otago, and a Mellor street and park in the suburb of Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin. His personal archives, ceramics and books are found at Special Collections, University of Otago, the Otago Museum, and the Heritage Collection, Dunedin Public Library.
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Various collectors
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‘Ptomaine Poisoning’
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J. W. Mellor
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c. 1932
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Mellor Papers, Box 8, folder 1
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Cartoons (Commentary)
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Unpublished
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The NLC is described as a ‘completely independent’ organisation ‘closely identified with the historic Liberal traditions and Liberals worldwide’. In Mellor’s time it was common for members to stay overnight at the Club if they were in London on business. This cartoon by Mellor recalls a day in early 1932 when he collapsed in his room at the Club with ‘ptomaine poisoning’, a food-borne illness caused by bacteria. ‘Peter Pan’ as Mellor was known, was taken to a private hospital where he was able to recover. It is clear from this cartoon that Mellor enjoyed the nurses’ attentions. The episode was even reported in the<em> Evening Sentinel</em> on 19 May 1932.
cartoons
ceramics
inorganic chemistry
Joseph Mellor
National Liberal Club
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Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago, Dunedin
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29 August 2018
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‘…for it is only through imaginative thinking that society grows, materially and intellectually…’ <br />Charles Brasch, ‘Notes’. <em>Landfall</em>, March, 1959 <br /><br />This year, 2018, is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago. It is the oldest and most prestigious literary art award in New Zealand. There has always been some mystery surrounding the people who helped set it up, but Dunedin’s own Charles Brasch certainly had a hand in it. <br /><br />The purpose of the Fellowship was to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of the Scottish poet, Robert Burns (1759), and to acknowledge the Burns family’s involvement in the early settlement of Otago by the Scottish diaspora. <br /><br />The Fellowship serves as a way of fostering nascent or already established New Zealand writing talent. It is hosted by the University of Otago’s Department of English and Linguistics, where an office is provided and a stipend is paid. There is no expectation of output.<br /><br />The city of Dunedin, with its statue of Robert Burns in the Octagon, is part of the personality of the Fellowship. The University, Dunedin’s tradition of education and literature, the ‘smallness’ of the city, the ‘Scottishness’, the weather, landscape, and people have all uniquely contributed to the experience of each Fellow. For some, Dunedin has become their <em>turangawaewae</em>. <br /><br />This exhibition, <em>Auld Acquaintances: Celebrating the Robert Burns Fellowship</em>, features every Robert Burns Fellow, and where possible the publication that resulted from their tenure is on display; read their own words on how the Fellowship impacted their lives. The Robert Burns Fellowship. Long may it continue!
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Curator: Romilly Smith
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‘Review of The Man on the Horse’ from The New Zealand Listener
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James Bertram
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6th October 1967
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Brasch PR9641 B3 M3
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Periodicals
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[Auckland: <em>The New Zealand Listener</em>]
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Robert Burns Fellow 1966 and 1967: James K. Baxter (1926-72) <br /><br />Like Janet Frame, James K. Baxter was Dunedin-born. His parents and extended family still lived in the city and surrounding area. His acceptance as Burns Fellow was a kind of homecoming after 20 years away, and he made the most of his two years. Baxter wrote about 90 poems and numerous plays; he gave lectures and wrote essays; he took part in protests of the Vietnam War, and spoke out against the University’s stance on mixed flatting in <em>A Small Ode on Mixed Flatting</em>. Lectures he gave during his tenure were printed in <em>The Man on the Horse</em> (1967). Here is James Bertram’s review of the work. In his own words, Baxter said ‘on the whole, I think I made an exemplary Burns Fellow.’
New Zealand literature
Robert Burns
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All the Year Round: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Periodical. Online exhibition
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Special Collections
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6th June, 2018
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Special Collections, University of Otago; Dunedin Public Library
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Nineteenth-century periodicals were the television of their day. They offered riveting serials, lifestyle recommendations, vivid illustrations by leading artists, and the inevitable advertising. They were shared among readers, who discussed their contents avidly and sometimes read them aloud to local audiences. <br /><em>All the Year Round: Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Periodical</em> tells the story of the rise of the British periodical. The exhibition charts the rapid expansion of periodical publication from the early years of the nineteenth century, when writers like Lord Byron and John Keats were reviewed and reviled, to the last decades of Queen Victoria’s reign, when ‘decadent’ journals caused controversy, the <em>Boy’s Own</em> and <em>Girl’s Own Paper</em> catered to an expanding young readership, and Sherlock Holmes’s appearance in <em>The Strand</em> inspired a devoted following across all classes. <br /><em>All the Year Round</em> takes its title from Charles Dickens’s weekly journal, which reached tens of thousands of readers and featured many of his now classic novels. The exhibition’s strongest presence comes from the satirical London journal <em>Punch</em>, whose columns and cartoons mocked prominent politicians and celebrities and shaped middle-class attitudes. Colonial spinoffs, like <em>Otago Punch</em>, soon spread across the British Empire. While the exhibition primarily features holdings from the University of Otago’s Special Collections and the Hocken Library, it also includes works kindly lent from the Dunedin Public Library and the Olga and Marcus Fitchett Collection. Please enjoy. <br />This exhibition was co-curated by Dr Tom McLean and Dr Grace Moore, both of the English Department, University of Otago
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‘S.T. Coleridge’ and ‘Anecdotes of Lord Byron’, in The New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XI, no. 63
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Edited by Alaric Alexander Watts
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1 April, 1819
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Storage Journals AP4 N482 Ser.1 V.11
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Periodicals
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London: Henry Colburn
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<p class="Normal1">The <em>New Monthly Magazine</em> (1814-1884) was an early production of Henry Colburn, one of the century’s most important publishers. Each issue included an engraved portrait of a well-known figure. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge thought the drawing from which this engraving was made ‘the most striking likeness ever taken’ of him. This issue includes ‘Anecdotes of Lord Byron’ by a still unidentified writer, who offers some colourful details (Byron ‘never went to sleep without a pair of pistols and a dagger by his side’). Readers were also treated to the first printing of ‘The Vampyre’, supposedly written by Lord Byron but in fact the work of his doctor and friend, John William Polidori.</p>
Victorian Periodical
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Charting the Land on the Ocean: Pacific Exploration, 1520-1876. Online exhibition
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On 28 November 1520, Magellan sailed through the straits that would bear his name into the great expansive waters he dubbed ‘Mar Pacifico’. His venture opened up the exploration of the southern seas, a vast tract of water with numerous islands dotted about, most uncharted. Politically and commercially-driven expeditions then began that put shape to continents and the (re-) discovery of these islands. Notable first explorers included Mendaña de Neira, Sir Francis Drake, Abel Tasman, William Dampier, Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret; the latter two discovering Tahiti and Pitcairn respectively.
Scientific expeditions began with Bougainville and Cook, each aided by the improvements in navigational equipment, and with institutional backing that employed a full contingent of artists, draughtsmen and botanists to help record and collect.
Cook travelled hundreds of miles throughout the Pacific in the course of his three voyages. By the time of his death in 1779, the map of the Pacific was practically as it is now. It is no wonder that La Pérouse (1785) once said: ‘Cook had left me nothing but to admire.’
Other voyages of exploration then followed, including those commanded by Malaspina (1789), d’Entrecasteaux (1791), Kotzebue (1815-18; 1825-26), Freycinet (1817-20), Dumont d’Urville, and the later United States Exploring Expedition.
The exhibition ‘Charting the Land on the Ocean: Pacific Exploration, 1520-1876’ features books and maps found in the Hocken Collections, the Science Library and Special Collections, University of Otago. Although the exhibition is by necessity selective, three goals are paramount: to highlight through their publications the brave endeavours of these explorers; to reveal the steady charting of the Pacific; and to remind everyone that these resources do exist, and can be viewed, touched, read, and enjoyed.
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Various collectors
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‘Samples of Polynesian Cloth from the South Seas Islands Once Owned by Captain Cook’
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One of the curiosities taken back to England by Cook was a collection of tapa cloth specimens, which eventually became collectible. These strongly associated Cook items are from Bruce Godward’s extensive book collection that was given to the Hocken Library in 1991.
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___
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[1771-1776]
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Godward Collection, Hocken Collections
Hocken Library
Pacific
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The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869-1938): Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist. Online exhibition.
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9th January 2015
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Joseph William Mellor (1869-1938) was an Otago graduate who became a ceramicist, a cartoonist, and, more importantly, a famous chemist. Indeed, his single-handed effort to complete his 16 volume definitive work <em>A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry</em> (1922-1937), which amounted to over 15,000 pages and 16 million words, has never been equalled. From very humble beginnings and self-initiated study, Mellor obtained a place at the University of Otago, and then won a scholarship to study for a research degree at Owens College, Manchester. He then moved to Stoke-on-Trent, where he became principal of the Technical College (now part of Staffordshire University). During the First World War, Mellor's research was directed towards refractories, high-temperature ceramics relevant to the steel industry and thus the war effort. It was for this work that he was offered a peerage, which he turned down. In 1927 he was elected to the Royal Society for work related to ceramics, the only other being Josiah Wedgwood in the eighteenth century. Mellor retained a boyish sense of humour all his life, and he was dubbed by colleagues the 'Peter Pan of Ceramics'. He was also a skilled cartoonist and his <em>Uncle Joe’s Nonsense</em> (1934) contains a collection of humorous stories illustrated with clever pen sketches. Just before Mellor died in May 1938, he received a C.B.E. <br /><br /><em>The World of Joseph W. Mellor (1869-1938) Chemist, Ceramicist & Cartoonist</em> is an exhibition that highlights Mellor’s life, work and legacy. It begins with his early years in Kaikorai Valley and first work at Sargood's Boot Factory, and his study at the University of Otago. It then deals with his marriage to Emma Cranwell Bakes, his many publications and relationships with his publishers, his contemporaries and friends such as Bernard Moore, Frank Wedgwood, and Louis Solon, and his involvement in various ceramic societies world-wide. And then there is his legacy, which constitutes today annual memorial lectures associated with the Ceramic Society in England and the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, a Mellor Professorship at the University of Otago, and a Mellor street and park in the suburb of Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin. His personal archives, ceramics and books are found at Special Collections, University of Otago, the Otago Museum, and the Heritage Collection, Dunedin Public Library.
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Various collectors
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J. W. Mellor
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1934
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Mellor Papers
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Books
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London: The Ceramic Society by Longmans, Green and Co.
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This cartoon from<em> Uncle Joe’s Nonsense</em> (1934) depicts the story of a competition between Mellor and his sister Agnes. The aim was to make the best pudding based on Mrs Beeton’s recipe ‘No 754,629,831,429’. Agnes accidentally (on purpose?) left a bit of dough in the cookbook which caused two pages to be stuck together. Agnes made a good pudding while Mellor made an ‘addled pudding’, concocted from the first half of one pudding recipe and the second half of another. Mellor then suggested that Agnes ‘ought to <em>drink</em> my pudding and I <em>eat</em> hers.’ Mellor’s father was the judge and he declared the contest a draw.
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‘Science versus Rule-of-Thumb – a Draw!’ from Uncle Joe’s Nonsense for Young and Old Children
cartoons
ceramics
inorganic chemistry
Joseph Mellor
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By Land & By Sea: Scientific Expedition Reports in Special Collections from 1826 to the 1960s. Online exhibition
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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17th November, 2015
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Rich with photographs, colourful plates, scientific descriptions, anthropological and geographical observations, and general insights into expeditionary life, the Scientific Expedition Reports, housed in the University of Otago’s Special Collections, are a veritable mine of information. From the Arctic to the Antarctic, from Uganda to Patagonia, the earliest of the reports dates from D’Urville’s expedition in the <em>Astrolabe</em> from 1826 to 1829, published in 1832; the latest are from the University of Canterbury Snares Islands expeditions beginning in the 1960s. Men and women from New Zealand, Australia, Norway, France, Sweden, America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, China, Egypt and many more countries besides, have travelled the world by land and by sea in the name of science and exploration and have documented the results in these scientific reports. Many of the scientific observations made and specimens taken are still being researched today and despite the treacherous conditions and ever present risks, most members of these expeditionary parties returned alive. The Scientific Expedition Reports in Special Collections are a testament to and a record of humankind’s insatiable desire for knowledge.
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Various
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‘Seabirds and marine mammals redistribute bioavailable iron in the Southern Ocean’ from Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 510
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S.R. Wing, et al.
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September, 2014
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Online
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Journal article
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Marine Ecology Progress Series
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Professor Steve Wing and PhD student Olga Shatova, both from the Otago Marine Science Department, were researching the seabirds in early 2012 to ‘examine the role of recycled nutrients from seabirds in the productivity of phytoplankton near subantarctic islands’. This paper is the culmination of their research.
Scientific Expeditions
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The Melrose Library: Reflecting the Life and Works of Sir F. Truby King
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‘<em>Truby King was the greatest man in New Zealand, and should have the most imposing monument New Zealand can build to commemorate him</em>.’ George Bernard Shaw, April 1934. <br /><br />Sir Frederic Truby King (1858-1938) was a scientist, farmer, gardener, doctor, and educator. He was single-minded to the point of obnoxiousness; an eccentric; and a financial incompetent who held beliefs that were often unscientific and glaringly contradictory. Because of his wide interests, King was also a great reader. About 1933, King’s library numbered some 1680 titles. In 1938, he bequeathed many scientific titles to the British Medical Association. In June 1989 the remaining volumes – the so-called Melrose Library – arrived in Dunedin from the Truby King House in Wellington. This collection of some 1000 volumes was collected by King in his lifetime; some are signed; many are annotated. Two-thirds deal with the health of women and children, consisting of both professional and popular texts. The remainder is non-medical, comprising works of general reference and some fiction. Subjects covered include child health, nutrition, paediatrics, child diseases, psychology, horticulture and animal husbandry, gardens, especially rose and rhododendron books, and social issues such as race theory and education. As the collection stands, it has been called ‘the best general collection in New Zealand, of publications on the general subject of the health of women and children for the period of 1900 to 1938’ (Strachan). A select number of books from King’s library have been used in this exhibition to highlight his life and activities: his early years, his education, his work at Seacliff Lunatic Asylum, and his pioneering work in child and infant care. The establishment of the Plunket Society in 1907 was one of his most tangible and influential parts of his legacy. King died in February 1938. He was given a state funeral, the first private citizen in New Zealand to be given this honour. In 1957 he featured on a postage stamp celebrating the Plunket Society; again the first to be afforded this honour. All in all, Sir Frederic Truby King was a remarkable man.
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Special Collections, University of Otago
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14 August 2015
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‘Sir Truby King. A High Jewish Honour’ from the Press (Christchurch, NZ)
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The Press
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10 June 1929
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Papers Past (online)
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Newspapers
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Christchurch: Press
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King’s work for the Jewish people and humanity in general earned him inclusion in the Golden Book of the Jewish People, which is kept in Jerusalem.
Mothercraft
Plunket Society
Truby King