2
25
50
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/24e607d6fbc01243942369d10610476b.jpg
6384bf801ef6d7edd29ea4363340ef03
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
A Supplement to the Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands to which is added those Birds of New Zealand not figured by Buller
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Gregory M. Mathews
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1928
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Special Collections QL693 MD667
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: H.F. & G. Witherby
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Some of my students’ researches over the last 20 years have involved the genetic analysis of the world’s cormorants and shags. Most recently, we have discovered that the Stewart Island Shag is actually two distinct species: the Otago Shag (<em>Leucocarco chalconotus</em>) and the Foveaux Shag (<em>L. stewarti</em>). They have separate geographical distributions. They also differ in facial colour patterns, especially prior to the breeding season; in the timing of breeding; in their size; and crucially in their genetics. Interestingly, both black-and-white (‘pied’) and all-dark (‘bronze’) individuals occur in both species, although the bronze form is most common in the Otago Shag. In order to formalize this split into two species, we needed to know which names had been applied in the past. Mathews’ <em>Supplement</em> (1936) provided the answer by illustrating the bronze and pied forms of the Otago under the names <em>Hypoleucus chalconotus</em> and <em>H. huttoni.<br /></em><strong>(Chosen by Professor Hamish Spencer, Department of Zoology, Otago)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/c93be6591596361d1923f34ec7b859cd.jpg
7df93000e28303747fe6e384df7a99e8
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Cultivating Myths: Fiction, Fact & Fashion in Garden History
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Helen Leach
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2000
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Special Collections SB451 LD83
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Auckland: Godwit
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Emeritus Professor Helen Leach used images from Johannes Kip's Nouveau <em>Theatre de la Grande Bretagne</em>... for her book, <em>Cultivating Myths.</em>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/9d253b2a9e054ac6800639cd4c459f3e.jpg
ac15b4b39d6e43ccfd7d78d7eeeb6626
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Health for the Māori: A Manual for Use in Native Schools
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
James H. Pope
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1894
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Truby King Collection WA350 PT58 1894
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Wellington: Government Printer
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
The rapid demise of the Māori population was regularly predicted by many 19th century settlers. James H. Pope (1837-1913), the first Inspector of Native Schools, had a much more optimistic outlook. In this little book, first published in 1884, Pope expressed the belief that if Māori learned the best Pākehā health practices, they would not only survive, but also thrive. While the English version was produced for children, Pope also produced a version in Māori for parents entitled <em>Te Ora mo te Maori</em> (1884). My research suggests that this book became a ‘bible’ for health reformers such as Sir Apirana Ngata and Rēweti Kōhere. In effect, Pope provided a guide to new ways of living in the changing environment that Māori faced. This book was embraced as a guide by members of the Young Māori Party, the Kotahitanga (the Maori Parliament) in the late 19th century, and by the religious leader Tahupōtiki Wiremu Rātana in 1918.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Professor Barbara Brookes, Department of History and Art History, Otago)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/9b12a64673d5c9f31909441947323268.jpg
ffe5c66bed877a31100ea219d4b8ea6e
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne; ou, Description Exacte des Palais de la Reine, et des Maisons les plus considerables des Seigneurs et des Gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Johannes Kip
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1708
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Ed 1708 N
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
[London]: David Mortier
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Works on the history of horticulture are comparatively rare. So writers of popular gardening books often cover the background of their topics by repeating uncritically the words of their predecessors, to the point where a myth is born. In the 1990s the ornamental potager was a fashionable form of vegetable garden. It was presented and widely accepted as a ‘re-creation’ of 16th and 17th century formal kitchen gardens in France and Britain. Tourists flocked to Villandry in France and Barnsley House in England to see their archetypal potagers. In Chapter 2 of my book <em>Cultivating Myths</em>, I used original sources to show that the layout and planting of formal fruit and vegetable gardens was for maximum productivity, not elaborate display. Johannes Kip’s volume of plans for country estates provided me with invaluable evidence to dispel this myth.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Helen Leach, Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Otago)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/4d384d834e4b82cadc82024c61324f69.jpg
ec99e1e755cd07ba92e57b52b98a2d0d
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Compendium Theologiæ Christianæ
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Johannes Wolleb
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Shoults Collection Eb 1642 W
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
[Cambridge]: [Roger Daniel]
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Poet and civil servant John Milton (1608-74) composed a systematic theology consisting solely of beliefs which scripture validated. More than half of his Christian Doctrine is made up of thousands of biblical citations, arranged under headings. All this work was modelled on that of Johannes Wollebius or Wolleb (1589–1629), a Swiss Protestant theologian. However, whereas Wollebius was orthodox, summarising mainstream doctrines, Milton often veered away from what he read in Wollebius. For example, regarding the Protestant Last Supper in contrast to the Catholic Mass, Wolleb’s writes: 3. <em>Christus se non in Sacra Coena, sed in cruce obtulit; at in Missa sua Christum offerri volunt</em>. (3. Christ did not offer himself in the sacred Supper, but on the Crosse; but they [Catholics] will have Christ to be offered in their Masse.) Milton’s version is: 3. <em>Christus se non in sacra coena, sed in cruce obtulit; in Missa Christus quotidie a sacerdote sacrificatur.</em> (3. Christ did not offer himself in the sacred supper, but on the Crosse; in the mass Christ is sacrificed daily by the priest.). Here the poet keeps the first half verbatim, then hinges the contrast more starkly with no conjunction. He puts the description of Catholic practice more strongly, stressing ‘daily’ and ending with a figured climax, echoing sac- in his last two words. <br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr John Hale, Fellow, Department of English and Linguistics, Otago)</strong>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1642
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/f98cf68b8392617a16b0d7c9cc6eb2ab.jpg
179fef0857b648f92ab384b02d9a3505
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Love’s Revenge: A Dramatic Pastoral
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
John Hoadly
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1737]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Eb 1737 H
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Winchester: Printed and sold by W Greenville
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
This broken and dismembered volume, with spine labelled ‘POEMS SET TO MUSIC BY DR. GREENE’, led researchers to discover the remainder of John Hoadly’s personal cache of his largely unacknowledged writings. Dr Hoadly (1711-76), a high-ranking English churchman and son of the disputatious Bishop Benjamin, led a pleasant and more private life as the friend of actor Garrick, artist Hogarth, and collaborator with the English composer Dr Maurice Greene. Thanks to this handful of manuscript and printed pieces in Special Collections, Hoadly can now be appreciated as a considerable poet and dramatist. It was a bonus that I recognised two of the four printed pieces: <em>The Force of Truth: An Oratorio and Phoebe: A Pastoral Opera</em> as printed by Samuel Richardson. The provenance of this book, Esmond de Beer, is a reminder of Dunedin’s very generous son.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Keith Maslen, retired lecturer, Department of English and Linguistics, Otago)</strong><br /><p><strong> </strong></p>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/fc6d96cb6d53397e7c2ba9e1fa3480c9.jpg
68eb9a974e477ddd4c4e3ad196ccab94
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The Poetical Works of John Keats
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
John Keats
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Brasch Collection PR 4831 FP66
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Oxford University Press
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Charles Brasch wrote that Keats ‘was the first poet I came to know as a person’, and that at age 15 he was ‘deep in his spell’. Brasch’s father asked that his family not give Charles more books of poetry that might ‘encourage harmful tendencies’. Despite this, Charles asked for and received his own ‘complete Keats’ for his 16th birthday in 1925. Surprisingly, that important book is not in his library in Special Collections today, and has been replaced by this 1931 edition. Pencilled flyleaf annotations hint at his close reading. The word ‘essence’ is noted in relation to <em>The Phoenix and the Turtle</em> [by Shakespeare], and twenty-six years later, for a <em>New Statesman</em> competition in 1960, Brasch has captured a different ‘essence’ of Keats’ ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ with a summary of it in ten words: ‘Lovers / On jug / Never / Can hug. / – Men not, / Pots not.’ This copy was bought by Brasch in London in 1934. <br /><strong>(Chosen by Alan Roddick, Poet and Charles Brasch's literary executor)</strong>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1931
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/f4cfc4a38930c6ffb5a468aa7f1c00af.jpg
3b30c93db996fd1c6c8731e4d390a898
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The Harmony, Chronicle and Order of the New-Testament
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
John Lightfoot
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1655
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Ec 1655 L
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Printed by A.M. for Simon Miller
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
A number of books printed in Britain from 1653 onwards contain what seem to be half-titles. Against the norm these ‘title-labels’ (the best term to describe them), often printed in the largest type possible, run vertically on a leaf that would otherwise have been blank. The most likely explanation for this is that these ‘title-labels’ were intended to label parcels of unbound sheets in storage. The practice was not universal ‒ not all books had an available blank leaf and others were not sufficiently ‘serious’ to need storing. The practice was all but abandoned by 1700. Just over 400 examples are currently known. At least three separate examples of which are housed in Special Collections. My work on this subject has been published in an issue of the <em>Harvard Library Bulletin</em> New Series Vol. 14, No. 4 (Winter 2003).<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Brian McMullin, Monash University, Melbourne)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/eddfd5eba662fab6aece9489f7bb71d9.jpg
fe3623d8858375b9de6899e7b8af46a2
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1844
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Special Collections QK47 HS37
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Reeve Brothers
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Joseph Hooker was 22 years old when he joined Captain James Clark Ross on HMS <em>Erebus</em>, for what was the last ever sail-only voyage of discovery. Hooker’s role was to collect and describe the plant and algae species encountered as they sailed south through the Atlantic to the Southern Ocean to confirm the existence of Antarctica. Today, a botanist taking this journey would arrive home with memory cards full of digital images of plants with scientific names. Back then, Hooker was faced with largely undescribed and unfamiliar plants. The<em> Flora of Antarctica</em> is a monumental achievement. It still underpins the scientific names in use today, and for me its most impressive feature is the manner in which Hooker’s detailed observations capture the biology of the plants he discovered. His illustrations are exquisitely beautiful, and they are also botanically accurate to the tiniest detail. Importantly, Hooker’s <em>Flora of Antarctica</em> is a reminder that the discipline of accurate objective observation is a requirement of scientific understanding.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Janice Lord, Department of Botany, Otago)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/0ba85fa1c6dec0ce01ca4763e903b1a0.jpg
500bedf962467ae849ac94ec5c7a9cfc
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Sweet Sammy is Dead!
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Larry Kent [Don Haring]
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1970?]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Pulp Literature PR 9610 H28 S83
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Book covers
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Sydney: Cleveland Publishing
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
One of the book covers used in 2004 by third year Design students at the University of Otago. The students were asked to 're-package' the cover for an assignment. <br /><strong>(Chosen by Ralph Lawrence, designer, Dunedin)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/ad3d4b29e10d5ef57a737dbd51d563d0.jpg
224511af5b596bc33225dc4f143b47ae
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Printing with the Handpress: Herewith a Definitive Manual to Encourage Fine Printing through Hand-craftsmanship
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Lewis M. Allen
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1969
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Special Collections Z249 AD61
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Having started printing with a small Adana HS2 press in 1963, I became aware of this book in the 1980s. A librarian in the Canterbury Medical Library got the University of Otago copy on loan. Lewis Allen was passionate about hand-press printing. He considered that for true hand-press printing the operator alone is responsible for the quality of the output rather than relying on a motor and automatic inking. I was inspired by his philosophy and also the illustration of a cylinder proof press, minus automatic inking rollers. I could see the opportunities it offered for creative printing layout. Allen considered this was ‘a legitimate handpress’ and a more accessible and cheaper alternative to an Albion or a Colombian. After reading this book I saved the Vandercook No. 4 press, now in Otakou Press, from being used as a ship’s anchor and started to print on a larger scale. This book is now in Special Collections.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr John Holmes, Hon. Clinical Senior Lecturer, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Otago)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/f8ff9c7a93db187f83ed1925fc08a28b.jpg
8f7b25a8a7c990b7de1975ee54685f88
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Reliquiæ Baxterianæ: or, Mr. Richard Baxter’s Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Matthew Sylvester
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1696
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Ec 1696 B
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Printed for T. Parkhurst [and three others]
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
History is often written by the winners, but unfortunately the Puritan pastor and author Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was always on the losing side. Baxter was involved in negotiations for a religious settlement during the 1650s and 1660s, a time when England was faced with a constitutional and religious upheaval. He wrote notes to explain what went wrong in 17th century England: who was to blame and specifically that it was not him. He was adamant about this for posterity’s sake. He wrote: ‘only in faithfulness Historically to relate things as indeed they were’ (see §49 in Sylvester's <em>Baxterianae</em>). Matthew Sylvester (c.1636-1708) was Baxter’s literary executor, and he compiled Baxter’s autobiographical narrative of some 645,000 words. <em>Reliquiae Baxterianae</em> challenged the prevailing view that the Puritans were to blame for England’s Civil War. I am part of a team of editors who are now preparing a critical edition of <em>Reliquiae Baxterianae</em>. While I cannot miss the element of self-justification, Baxter’s account of 17th century England is one that historians should take very seriously indeed. Baxter claims that he and his colleagues should not be blamed; I think he is basically right.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Associate Professor Tim Cooper, Department of Theology and Religion, Otago)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/2d801341015c8c4e8b09bb552a323b27.jpg
42e9508bd54cb39ef4ac8f6539ca765f
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
‘Le Festin de Pierre’ in Les oeuvres ...
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Molière
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1684
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Fb 1684 M
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Amsterdam: Wetstein
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/789c55596e8f6d817a3973c1a7a6c107.jpg
a25a29cfa209eb527222baa08c878c86
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Of Education: Especially of Young Gentlemen.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Obadiah Walker
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1683
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Eb 1683 W
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Oxford: Printed for Amos Curteyne
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
A book with a 'title-label'; as chosen by Dr Brian McMullin, Monash University, Melbourne.
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/38079e99a4db271151961599f5f33b72.jpg
ef552aa0fc27427f27becc0bb3c733ae
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
[Antiquitates Veronensiae]
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Onofrio Panvinio
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1648
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Itc 1648 P
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
[Padua]: Pauli Frambotti
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
For nearly 40 years, my research interests have included the causes and control of breast cancer and cervical cancer. A famous pioneer in cancer epidemiology was an Italian surgeon, Domenico Rigoni-Stern (b.1810). In 1842 he published a classic paper, analysing the deaths attributed to cancer in the population of Verona between 1760 and 1839. He concluded that single [‘nubile’] women – a group which included many nuns – had a higher risk of breast cancer, but a lower risk of uterine cancer, than married women. The majority of uterine malignancies in those days would have been cervical cancers. Many subsequent studies have confirmed a low risk of cervical cancer among nuns. In lecturing on this subject, both here and overseas, I have wanted to show a picture of Verona in earlier times. I found this beautiful engraving in Special Collections which was donated to the University by Dr Esmond de Beer.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Professor David Skegg, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Otago)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/d65380845a3cda34e50cc49c331fc9ec.jpg
d649cf14ff619f1682949b3139387495
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Watt. ‘Traveller’s Companion’ edition
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Samuel Beckett
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1958
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Special Collections PR6003 E282 W3
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Paris: Olympia Press
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Beckett’s ugly duckling,<em> Watt</em> was written ‘in dribs and drabs’ in Roussillon (south-eastern France) during WWII, while Beckett was hiding from the Gestapo. Long thought unpublishable, <em>Watt</em> emerged in 1953, in a hideous magenta cover and riddled with typographical errors, from the Olympia Press. Other ‘unusual’ books from Olympia included <em>Fanny Hill</em>, <em>The Debauched Hospodar</em>, de Sade’s <em>Justine</em> and Nabokov’s<em> Lolita</em>. This 1958 Traveller’s Companion retains the original errors, which took scholars sixty years to correct. Watt, travelling by train to the abode of Mr Knott, encounters Mr Dum Spiro, editor of Crux (‘the popular Catholic monthly’). Spiro ponders the rat that swallows a consecrated wafer: what happens to the Real Body? He cites theological authorities, but Watt, listening to voices that constitute an imperfect paradigm (challenge: find the anomaly), understands little. Many readers (including J.M. Coetzee) consider <em>Watt</em> their favourite Beckett text. The ugly duckling has turned into that<em> rara avis</em>, a black swan.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Chris Ackerley, Emeritus Professor, Department of English and Linguistics, Otago)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/eddc3617d2078b038279c4def817c3ad.jpg
1c736fbdb486c17a8e616c746a686bbf
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The Hereford World Map. A Transcription of the Legends with Commentary
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Scott D. Westrem
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Special Collections GA304 R4 HH66
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Folio Society
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Medieval world maps commonly present a Christian-centred view of the world, with east at the top, where paradise was believed to be, and Jerusalem at the centre. The Hereford <em>Mappa Mundi</em> map contains three elements: 1.) Geographic information, such as borders between countries, names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, and oceans; 2.) Historical information, such as images and text relating to events that occurred in a previous time; and 3.) Spiritual information, such as events and scenes from the Bible. Around the border is an image of Christ, and the letters M O R S (Latin: death) as a visual reminder of the world’s temporary existence. It is likely that <em>mappae mundi</em> were used for instructional rather than functional purposes. I use the Special Collections's facsimile of the Hereford <em>Mappa Mundi</em> for teaching 4th year geo-visualisation and cartography surveying students about how maps reveal our world-view, both in the past and today.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Simone Marshall, Department of English and Linguistics, Otago)</strong>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2010
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/44fe485f264ddbf2f2e81b3d935cebb5.jpg
c2c6f91264b15e27cd119ae43953a4c5
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The Gentleman’s Magazine. Vol. I
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Sylvanus Urban
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Eb 1731 G
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Magazines
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Printed for D. Henry by John Nichols
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
<em>The Gentleman’s Magazine</em> was the first publication to use the term ‘magazine’ (‘a storehouse, commonly an arsenal or armoury’: Samuel Johnson’s <em>Dictionary</em>, 1755) in its now customary sense of ‘a miscellaneous pamphlet’. It was first published in 1731 by the printer Edward Cave (who edited it under the name Sylvanus Urban, i.e., ‘town and country’) and it came out monthly. It evolved from being a digest of news from European papers, to being a trusted and original source of news and features on politics, science, the arts, society, the stock market, and scholarship. It was immediately much-imitated. It included poetry and accounts of the proceedings of parliament, which from 1741 were written by Samuel Johnson, a regular contributor. It ended publication in 1922. Special Collections has a full run of the journal from 1731 to 1866. Even now, this unique resource has only been haphazardly digitised, so the best way to use it is to come and look at the real thing. Every page has something interesting or curious, and once you start browsing, it’s very hard to stop…<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Paul Tankard, Department of English and Linguistics, Otago)</strong>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
March 1791
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/07320a484f42f195655efabde1e09b86.jpg
84192fbdbfe23c555f956178228417a1
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
A Text-book of Zoology
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
T. Jeffrey Parker and William A. Haswell
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Special Collections QL47 P719 1897
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
A textbook is not often fertile ground for an historical study but this book, published in London in 1897, is special. The authors, Thomas Jeffery Parker FRS (1850-1897; Otago University) and William Aitcheson Haswell FRS (1854-1925; Sydney University) were both evolutionists and advocated a practical ‘hands-on’ style of teaching. Parker spent the last two years of his life working intensely with his Sydney-based colleague on this book. Their correspondence provided glimpses of the enormity of the task they had set themselves: ‘I fear it will be an awfully fat book’, Parker wrote to Haswell on 18th June 1895. Most of the illustrations for this two-volume work were specially drawn. In my PhD thesis ‘Evolution Made Visible: The Worlds of Thomas Jeffery Parker (1850-1897) the Noted New Zealand Zoologist’ I used this book extensively. <br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Rosi Crane, Otago Museum, Dunedin)</strong>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1897
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/3831dc03020484982fe3bb6896077b31.jpg
b963cf4e7ecce59b27217a01eeb53a5c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
China: in a Series of Views, Displaying the Scenery, Architecture and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Thomas Allom
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1843
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Special Collections DS709 AE16
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Fisher Son & Co.
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Artists can provide insights into distant worlds; they can also misrepresent or compromise viewers’ understandings of those worlds. London-born Thomas Allom (1804-1872) was an architect, artist, and an illustrator of travel books. Allom’s travels in Europe and Turkey informed his artistic compositions even his drawings of SE China, a place that he never visited. He based his own works on drawings by others, whose hands conditioned his own knowledge of that world. His Turneresque vistas of dramatic mountains and misty atmospherics might be views of the Swiss Alps or the Neapolitan coast. Though his figures may wear Chinese style clothing, and his architecture have touches of local latticework, his genre groups are those of 17th century Holland, and his well-lit interiors as spacious as those of a French chateau. Allom’s images of China mis-informed his contemporaries of the realities of the Chinese world. <em>The Chinese Empire</em> was popular – indeed, it remains in print today.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr David Bell, Dunedin College of Education, Otago)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/9923b115e10f46d9bfaa4d784f621e8e.jpg
f0d7b6eb374cdd7626ee85b96a7d0947
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Letter from Thomas Jeffery Parker to William Aitcheson Haswell
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Thomas Parker
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Parker Letterbook 1895-97, Special Collections and Archives, Arts and Social Studies Library, (416/4), Cardiff University
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Correspondence
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Unpublished
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
In a letter of 20th July 1896, evolutionist, Thomas Parker (1850-97) urges fellow evolutionist, William Haswell (1854-1925) to consider a diagram to show ‘the changes in capacity of the brain cavity … I did it with a series of actual skulls … once and it was really nice.’ The letters reveal how they pinned zoology to the page.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
20th July 1896
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/79891ffdf74026446e3f0271507e4633.jpg
8f2b39bc208943756c2957dbdb8d32ce
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The Complete Works of John Milton. Volume VIII: De Doctrina Christiana. Part I
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Transcribed, translated and edited by John K. Hale and J. Donald Cullington
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2012
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Special Collections PR3551 CT39
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
Dr John Hale's collaborative work on Wolleb's doctrine.
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/e1d0af37fa6e601835895604672eacb9.jpg
61a17beff28eec054512184e688100f0
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The Tower
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
W. B. Yeats
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Brasch PR5904 T69
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Macmillan
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
<em>The Tower</em>, with its striking green and gold cover, depicts the restored Norman tower, Thoor Ballylee, once the home of poet W.B. Yeats. The book contains several of Yeats’ greatest lyric poems, including ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War,’ ‘Among School Children,’ ‘Leda and the Swan,’ and ‘Sailing to Byzantium.’ If ‘given a month of Antiquity,’ Yeats would have chosen to spend it in Byzantium, where the early Byzantines achieved a perfect union of ‘religion, aesthetics, and practical life’ (A Vision). In ‘Sailing to Byzantium,’ Yeats travels there in his imagination, and art transforms him into a golden bird, singing a song of ‘unaging intellect’ and beauty. The tower on the cover of this book is not only a representation of Thoor Ballylee, but also a symbol of an aristocratic order which created art even in the most turbulent of times.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Lisa Marr, Research Fellow, Department of English and Linguistics, Otago)</strong>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1928
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/e615733bb7b347e1185b625d9d97cd74.jpg
3ed723c9b2ea613f915f8fcf26ea5033
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
A Treasury of New Zealand Verse
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
W.F. Alexander and A.E. Currie
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
[1926]
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Brasch Collection PR963525 TS39 1926
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Auckland: Whitcombe and Tombs
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
In 1906, journalist W.F. Alexander and lawyer A.E. Currie published <em>New Zealand Verse</em>, the first multi-author anthology of English-language ‘New Zealand’ poetry. The publication represented a growing need for the colonists to show themselves worthy as a burgeoning nation with its own values and customs. <br />In the introduction, the editors declare a ‘conviction’ that certain New Zealand poetry volumes ‘contain verse which at least comes well up to the level of modern minor poetry ... It may be admitted from the outset that there is nothing very great to be disclosed herein; the poetical element that a new land contains must always at first be small and of little power.’ <br />While writing a thesis on ‘New Zealand poetic reality’, I often delved into<em> New Zealand Verse</em> to inspect it as an artefact of its time. There are no contributions in te Reo, but Maori subjects do feature, a flavour of idiosyncrasy designed to increase the collection’s marketability in the eyes of its overseas publisher. Quaint as it may now appear, <em>New Zealand Verse</em> is not without value. Poems like H.L. Twisleton’s ‘The Whare’ obliquely express the searching loneliness of often talented settlers, probing for subject matter to exercise their usually modest creative ambitions.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Richard Reeve, Dunedin poet and lawyer)</strong>
-
https://ourheritage.ac.nz/files/original/193b4a0ddfe7248c533927814eaaec99.jpg
0eb465ac3596689ba1c17c887db90230
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Scholarly Favourites. Researching in Special Collections. Online exhibition
Date Created
Date of creation of the resource.
18th May 2016
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Special Collections, University of Otago
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
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.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
The History of St. Pauls Cathedral in London, from its Foundation untill these times
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
William Dugdale
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1658
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
de Beer Ec 1658 D
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Books
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
London: Printed by Thomas Warren
Abstract
A summary of the resource.
William Dugdale’s <em>History of St Paul’s Cathedral in London</em> was one of my personal discoveries when I began investigating Otago’s Special Collections. Although the work was catalogued, reference to the significant topographical artist, Wenceslaus Hollar, one of my favourite printmakers, was missing. The site where St. Paul’s now stands has a long history; a church has supposedly been on site since 604. Dugdale’s work is an important book on many levels. It was part of a growing antiquarian movement that recorded and preserved information on the medieval past. Produced during Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate, when so many churches were threatened by puritan zealotry, it marked a nostalgia for a royalist past. The book includes details of the cathedral in 1658, before its destruction in the Great Fire of London in 1666. It is also important because it is the first book on a particular building to contain so many illustrations of architectural views and monuments. It was ‘crowdfunded’ with subscribers paying for individual prints.<br /><strong>(Chosen by Dr Judith Collard, Department of History and Art History, Otago)</strong>