Wode Exhibition installation view

Showcase

Every book, object and archive in University Collections has a story to tell.
Discover 30 stories about gifts from our collections and the people who gave them.

Books

Freshwater Collection of Publishers’ Decorated Cloth Bindings

Freshwater Collection

Title page of The Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

Group image of One Hundred Merks

One Hundred Merks

Questiones Evangelicorum tam de Tempore quam de Sanctis

Questiones Evangelicorum

Book of Hours: Flanders

Book of Hours

Auden’s Poems

Title page of Flowres of Sion

Flowres of Sion

Objects

Bassoon

Bassoon

Anatomical figure of a horse, bronze with black patina

Anatomical Horse

Valved trombone

Valved trombone

Harpsichord

Harpsichord

Clarsach

Clarsach

Alto violin

Alto violin

Gandharan sculpture fragments Seated Buddha

Gandharan fragments

Clavichord

Clavichord

Tam Tam

Tam-tam

Portfolio Featured Image

Going to the Fair

Dung-Dkar, Tibetan temple conch-shell trumpet

Dung-Dkar

Guitar decacorde

Guitar decacorde

Nine Gastropods in a box

Nine gastropods

Tottenham Court Road Mosaic Arches

Mosaic Arches

Clarinet

Clarinet in D

PROCESSIONS Banner

PROCESSIONS Banner

Archives

Clement Litil’s Bequest Charter

Bequest Charter

Plans for McEwan Hall

Plans for McEwan Hall

Detail of Ragamala miniature entitled ‘Desakh ragini’

Ragamala miniature

Pages from a collection of Ball and Stage Dances

Ball and Stage Dances

Frogs poem

Frogs: a poem

Publicity leaflet for Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser

Folk Songs