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

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