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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
Auden’s Poems
Title page of The Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species
Questiones Evangelicorum tam de Tempore quam de Sanctis
Questiones Evangelicorum
Title page of Flowres of Sion
Flowres of Sion
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
Book of Hours: Flanders
Book of Hours
Group image of One Hundred Merks
One Hundred Merks

Objects

Bassoon
Bassoon
Tam Tam
Tam-tam
Clarsach
Clarsach
Alto violin
Alto violin
Portfolio Featured Image
Going to the Fair
Gandharan sculpture fragments Seated Buddha
Gandharan fragments
Tottenham Court Road Mosaic Arches
Mosaic Arches
Guitar decacorde
Guitar decacorde
Anatomical figure of a horse, bronze with black patina
Anatomical Horse
Harpsichord
Harpsichord
Dung-Dkar, Tibetan temple conch-shell trumpet
Dung-Dkar
PROCESSIONS Banner
PROCESSIONS Banner
Nine Gastropods in a box
Nine gastropods
Valved trombone
Valved trombone
Clarinet
Clarinet in D
Clavichord
Clavichord

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
Carlyle Circle 30 years logo

Celebrating three decades of impact,
30 years of the Carlyle Circle.

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