April 27, 2016, Filed Under: Conservation, Meet the StaffMeet the Staff: Jane Boyd and the art of the paper lab Meet the Staff is a blog post series on Cultural Compass that highlights the work, experience, and lives of staff at the Harry Ransom Center. This installment of Meet the Staff is released in conjunction with our series for the American Library Association’s Annual Preservation Week, which highlights work in… read more
April 22, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, Theatre + Performing ArtsMuch ado about a dress Rosalind Iden’s gown and the character it plays
April 21, 2016, Filed Under: Research + TeachingAnnual report reveals growth The Ransom Center is pleased to share its annual report covering the 2014–2015 academic year. Ransom Center Director Stephen Enniss notes that “The Ransom Center reached new records in numerous categories, including the number of visitors to our exhibitions, the numbers of students we served, and the number of onsite researchers we… read more
April 21, 2016, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsWhen $4, $40, and $400 all count the same Like many undergraduate students, my first visit to the Harry Ransom Center was as an exhibition visitor. A friend and I, both fresh-faced freshmen, stumbled upon
April 21, 2016, Filed Under: ConservationSay it with flowers Princess Marthe Bibesco was the quintessential Napoleonic cosmopolite—worldly, literary, political, and modern
April 13, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsDiscovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde This post was written in collaboration with author and independent scholar Thomas Wright. Oscar Wilde was many things: dramatist, dandy, essayist, lecturer, novelist, poet—and he was very much a bibliophile.
