Category: digital gladstone
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 16 - what happens next?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 15 - who is the woman in the hat in some of the images?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 14 - what should we look for when we watch the animations?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 13 - were there any surprises during the animation process?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 12 - why did you choose to animate these drawings?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 11 - why are the new drawings so colourful?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 10 - who can we see in the original drawings?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 9 - what made you choose these drawings?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 8 - did the Victorians find these sorts of political cartoons funny?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 7 - who would have been enjoying these drawings when they were first printed?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 6 - who drew the Victorian cartoons?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 5 - where did you get the original cartoons from?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 4 - what do you want this project to achieve?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 3 - who is involved in the project?
Drawing Blood Q&A, week 1 - how did this project get started?
From the Archives...do you still send Christmas cards?
by Gladstones Library | Friday, 13th December 2019
Before the reign of Queen Victoria no one in Britain celebrated Christmas in the way we do today. There were no Christmas crackers, no one had heard of Santa Claus and no Christmas cards were sent. During the reign of Victoria, from 1837 onwards, the wealth of printing inventions and technologies of the industrial revolution meant that the face of Christmas changed forever.
From the Archives...The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie
by Gladstones Library | Monday, 01st April 2019
Many of our patrons will know that in January 2018, the Library embarked on a three-year project externally funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York under the title of Digital Gladstone. The project aims to fully digitise and catalogue 15,000 nineteenth-century manuscript letters and 5,390 annotated printed books.