Event Archive

Friends Event Series: Behind the Scenes with our Collections - Bookbinding Session & Talk

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Exclusive Friends' Event: Behind the Scenes with our Collections: Bookbinding Workshop & Talk

Exhibition: Medicine in Wartime

Medicine in Wartime: Aberdeen's Medical Innovators The Gallery, The Sir Duncan Rice Library 11th November 2017 to 18th March 2018

Lunchtime Talk by Professor Thomas Weber

As part of the current exhibition "The World Knew".

Friends Event Series: King James VI and the Beheading Game

In this talk, Professor Limon shares his research into an intriguing historical episode that links early modern Aberdeen and Gdansk.

Event & Exhibition: Celebrating Scottish PEN at 90

A Pop-Up Exhibition and Opening event to celebrate 90 years of Scottish PEN defending the freedom of writers and readers.

Exhibition: The World Knew - Jan Karski's Mission for Humanity

Exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen 16th October - 5th November 2017. This exhibition gives an example of personal bravery and a fierce sense of resistance against evil in very dark times.

Friends Event Series: Dickens and the Marshalsea

In this guest lecture at the University of Aberdeen, the eminent historian Jerry White explores the place of the Marshalsea in the life and fiction of the writer Charles Dickens.

Exhibition: The Scottish Warrior

A new student-curated exhibition in King's Museum explores the idea of the Scottish Warrior

Exhibition: COOKING THE BOOKS

Cookery books from the University of Aberdeen's Special Collections. Now extended to 1st October.

Talk: Henry Stuart (1594-1612), the Lost Prince

As part of its bookbindings exhibition, Cover Stories, the Special Collections Centre at the University of Aberdeen is hosting a series of five talks that focus on some of the individuals behind the bindings - those who owned the books, commissioned or designed their covers.