• A New Project – and a New Discovery

    A New Project – and a New Discovery

    Mapping the WS Society’s Early History This week saw the beginning of a new project to catalogue the seventeenth and eighteenth century unbound paper archive of the WS Society and Signet Library, with this material being added to the existing online catalogue of bound WS Society and Signet Library archive records created during the Covid…

  • The WS Society Almanac Collection

    The WS Society Almanac Collection

    The installation in the Upper Library this week of part of the Signet Library’s collection of historical  almanacs was the final part of conservator Jo Hockey’s long-running recataloguing and conservation project. Almanacs were pocket-sized publications published from the seventeenth century into the modern era. They contained a mass of useful information on subjects including weather,…

  • Welcome to the WS Society Heritage Weblog

    Welcome to the WS Society Heritage Weblog

    Welcome to the WS Society Heritage Weblog, where we bring together news and articles about conservation, research and exhibitions taking place here at the Signet Library.

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