Historical Highlights #041

It’s Friday again! Here are your historical highlights of the week, including some fun lists and a quiz; archives and archaeology news; and a local exhibit on wedding fashion.

Let’s start with a question: Would you try bibliotherapy?

Read an interview with Elizabeth DeBold, curatorial assistant at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Check out this top 10 list of secret libraries (historical and fictional).

Next is a list of seven of the most interesting special collections in the UK and Ireland, including the Wizard of Oz collection at Reading University.

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Archives Outside, of New South Wales, Australia, presents a top five list of why archives are awesome.

In archives news, Princeton has announced that a major portion of the papers of Toni Morrison (famous for her novels The Bluest Eye and Beloved, among others) are now open to students and scholars.

If you like old photographs, don’t miss these eleven “portraits from Toronto’s quirky past.”

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George Pearce. Unknown photographer, from the Canadian Documentary Art Collection, Toronto Public Library

A tribute to a heroic canine: “Last Known 9/11 Search-and-Rescue Dog Dies”

Archaeologists have discovered an oracle to Apollo in Athens.

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The oracular well itself, dedicated to Apollo, the first of its kind to be found in Athens. It dates to about 1800 years ago but may have been used for eons before. Credit: Jutta Stroszeck

In the mood for a quiz? Test how much you know about the history of Shakespeare in America. (I got 5 out of 7.)

If you’re in the Calgary area, you might want to stop by this exhibit at Lougheed House: “Something Old, Something New: 125 Years of Wedding Fashion.” It runs until October 16, 2016.

Have a lovely weekend, everyone.

3 thoughts on “Historical Highlights #041

  1. Lori Ferguson says:

    Good links this week, Margaret! I did bad on the Shakespeare test. Only 5/7 and part of that was only luck.

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