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SCOLAR Exhibition Images Online

Showcasing the highlights of recent exhibitions:

 

 

 

January - February 2007          Victorian Illustrations

‘The Lady of Shalott’ by W. H. Hunt

An exhibition to celebrate the launch of the Database of Mid-Victorian Illustrations (DMVI) by Cardiff University's Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR). The database allows users to search and view in detail over 800 images from illustrated books and periodicals published in 1862. View the database.

See extracts from the exhibition Victorian Illustrations.

View a selection of SCOLAR's illustrated historical resources.

 

 

 

 

March - May 2007                 A Century of Devolution Documents from Wales

Cover page

This exhibition marked 100 years since the founding of the National Library and National Museum of Wales in 1907, and traced a timeline of events that led to Wales' devolution referendum in 1997. The exhibition coincided with the 2007 National Assembly elections, and contained extracts from a new research collection developed by SCOLAR - election leaflets from South Wales constituencies. These are valuable ephemeral resources that will give future generations insight into the political issues affecting Wales at the beginning of the 21st Century.

See extracts from the exhibition A Century of Devolution Documents from Wales.

See the Devolution Timeline.

 

 

June - October 2007              The Abolition of Slavery 1807: Key Rare Texts

A ballad by Solomon Nutry

SCOLAR celebrated the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery Act by showcasing its wide range of sources on slavery from a British and Welsh perspective. The exhibition contained Thomas Clarkson's famous drawing of a slave ship, an abolitionist Welsh ballad, various early editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a unique copy of the Personal Narrative of the Sufferings and Escape of William A. Hall, Fugitive Slave.

See extracts from the exhibition The Abolition of Slavery Act 1807: Key Rare Texts

See a bibliography of SCOLAR's sources on slavery.

 

 

 

 

October - December 2007          Cardiff Alumni History via Student Newspapers

 

1880s: Handwritten front cover of 1885 issue of University College Magazine

SCOLAR holds a near complete run of student newspapers produced throughout the University's history, from the first single handwritten edition in 1885 to the current issue of Gair Rhydd. The newspapers document not only changing student experiences, but also the radical political and social changes which took place throughout the twentieth century.

See extracts from the exhibition Cardiff Alumni History via Student Newspapers

See SCOLAR's student newspaper holdings

 

 

 

January - May 2008               The Birth of Cardiff University: World Snapshot 1883-84

 

Original University staff

See extracts from the exhibition: The Birth of Cardiff University: World Snapshot of the Year 1883-84

See a bibliography of all items included in the exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

June - September 2008            Celf Cyhoeddiadau'r Eisteddfod

 

1940

 

See extracts from the exhibition: Celf Cyhoeddiadau'r Eisteddfod / Art of Eisteddfod Publications

Click here for a background history of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October - December 2008         Five Hundred Years of Rare Books: 1508-2008

 

1508

 

2008 sees Special Collections and Archives' collections span 600 years, as Cardiff University's oldest Welsh-related book was published in 1508. The exhibition displays a wide range of historical books on all subjects, such as medicine, religion and literature, published during the years 1508, 1608, 1708, 1808, 1908, and 2008. See extracts from the exhibition: Five Hundred Years of Rare Books: 1508-2008.

Click here for a list of all books featured in the exhibition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March - May 2009               10 Research Collections in 10 Historical Pictures

 

Menai Bridge, North Wales. 1847

This exhibition is the result of a request for SCOLAR to produce 10 postcards from pictures in our collections, for the UK LILAC conference to be held here in Cardiff at the end of the month. The ten images chosen for the postcards can be viewed in the exhibition 10 Research Collections in 10 Historical Pictures.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 2009 - January 2010              Darwin and Wallace: Evolution of the Same Idea

Portrait of Charles Darwin

2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species. Darwin was prompted to publish The Origin of Species after receiving a letter from Alfred Russel Wallace, positing the same theory that Darwin himself had been working on for twenty years. Remarkably, through separate study, both thinkers had come to similar conclusions regarding evolution and the survival of the fittest. The letter from Wallace provided the impetus Darwin needed to overcome his hesitation in publicising his controversial theory to the world. See extracts from the exhibition Darwin and Wallace: Evolution of the Same Idea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March - May 2010                       Human Genetics: Origins of a 20th Century Science

Julia Bell, Treasury of Human Inheritance, 1912

An exhibition to celebrate the foundation of the Human Genetics Historical Library in Special Collections and Archives. The Library forms a definitive collection of key older and historical monographs and other books relating to human and medical genetics, that can be used by historians, geneticists and others. The venture was supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust, and the Genetics and Medicine Historical Network. See extracts from the exhibition Human Genetics: Origins of a 20th Century Science.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November - December 2010           First Showing: Cardiff Rare Books

F. S. Ellis (ed.), The floure and the leafe, 1896

In November 2010, a reception and exhibition was held at the Senedd to celebrate the transfer of an important collection of 14,000 rare books from the Cardiff Public Library to Special Collections and Archives, enabled with funding from the Welsh Assembly Government and HEFCW, and the support of Cardiff Council. The collection includes rare examples of early books or incunabula printed before 1500; many early Bibles dating from 1540; early atlases including a world map published in 1492, a few months before Columbus reached America; a comprehensive set of seventeenth century Restoration plays; seventeenth century copies of Shakespeare's works and many examples of fine printing from Victorian publishers. See extracts from the exhibition.

 

 

 

March - June 2011                           1611 King James Bible: 400th Anniversary

Nicholaus Brylinger, Bibell. Das ist alle bücher allts vn[d] neüws Testaments, auß Hebreischer vnd Griechischer jhren vrsprünglichen sprachen mit allem fleiß vnd auffs aller treüwlichest verteütschet (Basel, 1552)

An exhibition to mark 400 years since the 1611 publication of the King James Bible. It includes examples of SCOLAR's historical Bibles from across Europe, from the 1470s to the 1800s. The exhibits explore the huge controversies aroused by translations of the Bible into the common vernacular languages of Europe. See extracts from the exhibition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July - August 2011                         Postgraduate Curators 2011

 

Posters publicising the three exhibitions

 

SCOLAR's first exhibition entirely curated by postgraduate students, as part of the Graduate College's Research Students' Skills Development Programme. In February, Peter Keelan (SCOLAR), Alison Harvey (SCOLAR) and Jane Henderson (SHARE) held an RSSDP workshop on curatorial skills. Following this, three of the attendees volunteered to attend a second workshop, for which they planned, researched, and constructed their own exhibitions using SCOLAR's facilities and equipment. The curators used SCOLAR's rare books and printed sources to visually reflect and explore their research topics. All three students produced meticulously researched exhibitions to a professional standard on their chosen topic. See extracts from Healthy Reading by Johann Gregory (ENCAP), Divine Dimension by Corbett Miteff (JOMEC), and Approaches to Roman Archaeology in Wales by Jennifer Jones (SHARE). The exhibitions will be on display in SCOLAR during July and August 2011.

 

 

 

October 2011 - January 2012                 Historical Travel Literature, 1492-1914

Cook, James, A new, genuine and complete history of the whole of Capt. Cook's voyages, undertaken and performed by Royal authority [...], 1779

Five centuries of overseas historical travel literature (outside Europe) record the discoveries, and disasters, of Europeans as the world became mapped, from pole to pole, across oceans and deserts. See extracts from the exhibition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January - February 2012                    Postgraduate Curators 2012

Postgraduate curators 2012

Following the success of last year, SCOLAR has repeated the opportunity for postgraduate researchers to curate their own exhibitions, as part of the Graduate College's Research Students' Skills Development Programme. An initial workshop on curatorial skills was presented by  Peter Keelan (SCOLAR), Alison Harvey (SCOLAR) and Jane Henderson (SHARE). It was attended by eight PhD students from across the Humanities, including ENCAP, SHARE, RELIG, JOMEC and WELSH. Five of the attendees volunteered to spend the following week researching their own small exhibitions, to be displayed in the SCOLAR exhibition area. This year we are featuring exhibitions on Victorian medievalism: the fallen women of Tennyson's Camelot by Sarah W. Clausen (SHARE), Welsh Architecture from the Salisbury Collection: a selection of original artworks by Mark Baker (SHARE), Representing the workhouse by Laura Foster (ENCAP), From Celtic languages to the Roman alphabet by John Caulfield (WELSH), and The Victorian author: artist or businessman? by Helen McKenzie (ENCAP). The exhibitions will be on display until the end of February. 

 

March - May 2012                    Music Collections at Cardiff University

Alfred James Hipkins, Musical instruments: historic, rare and unique. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1888

SCOLAR holds several collections of rare published and manuscript music of international significance, dating from the 17th-20th centuries. Two major collections, Mackworth and Aylward, are on permanent loan from the Cardiff Public Library, and are to be catalogued with the help of funding from JISC. Other notable collections include a large number of rare books from the BBC’s music library, and the personal archives of several Welsh composers, including Morfydd Owen, Grace Williams and David Wynne. SCOLAR also holds an extensive collection of Welsh ballads. See extracts from the exhibition.

 

  

June - August 2012            Tynged yr Iaith: Darlith Caerdydd yn achub yr Iaith!

                                       Fate of the Language: Cardiff Lecture saves the Welsh Language!

Saunders Lewis (1893-1985)

Ysgrifennodd Saunders Lewis ddarlith i’r radio yn 1962 dan y teitl – Tynged yr Iaith; ei fwriad oedd sbarduno Cymry Cymraeg i fynnu eu hawliau i ddefnyddio’r iaith Gymraeg; rhywbeth y honnodd fyddai’n gyfystyr a ‘chwyldro’. Er na lwyddodd i wireddu popeth a anelodd ati yn y ddarlith, yn sgil ei darlledu trawsnewidiwyd statws y Gymraeg mewn cymdeithas. (Roedd Saunders Lewis yn ddarlithydd ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd).

Saunders Lewis wrote the BBC radio lecture – Tynged yr Iaith [Fate of the Welsh Language] in 1962; his intention was to urge Welsh speakers to demand their rights in using the language: something he claimed would be a revolution in itself. Although he did not achieve key aims with the lecture, in its wake Welsh language society underwent a major transformation. (Saunders Lewis was a lecturer at Cardiff University). See extracts from the exhibition.

 

 

 

September - December 2012               King Arthur in Britain: Arthurian material in SCOLAR

Morte d'Arthur: a poem, by Alfred Lord Tennyson: as designed, written out and illuminated by Alberto Sangorski. (1912)

This exhibition explores a wide range of Arthurian sources in Special Collections and Archives, and is curated by Dr. Karen Pierce (INSRV) and Dr. Juliette Wood (WELSH and LEARN). The exhibition covers themes such as the Grail in Welsh and English literature; the representation of Arthurian women; King Arthur as depicted in Malory's Morte d'Arthur; Arthur's advisor Merlin, and his basis in bardic tradition; and Arthur's companions, the Knights of the Round table, and the concept of chivalry. From a local context, the exhibition examines the figure of Arthur within the Welsh tradition, and Arthurian folklore attached to Welsh archaeological sites. See extracts from the exhibition.