Alt: Winifred Sanderson from Disney's Hocus Pocus (1993) pushes open a window and shouts from inside: BOOOOO-OOOOKKK!!!!

An international scholarly workshop exploring the library & marginalia of William Dowsing, English yeoman farmer & iconoclast, 1596 -1668.

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The works will be on display from Monday 20 July until Friday 31 August 2026 to mark the 240th anniversary of publication.

Abstract. In the summer of 1836, the clinicians of Glasgow’s Lock Hospital treated the impoverished female patients with a painful new drug. The negative i

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Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

By celebrating our authors — especially on Canada Day — we honour their role in shaping, illuminating, and preserving our unique Canadian culture.

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When Samuel Johnson called the Scots bookseller Andrew Millar “the Maecenas of the age” (Millar paid a record-breaking £800 for a Henry Fielding novel in

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Martina Mampieri reflects on her internship as part of the AJL/JTS Librarian Certificate program. Her internship focused on transcribing the writings and correspondence of Rabbi Sabato Morais and lear...