October 19, 2017, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsA baroness and her bookshelves in an English parish church In May, the Ransom Center acquired two volumes of Ambrose’s Opera (or Works) in Latin. The edition was published in Basel in 1567. What is most compelling about these particular books, however, is less the writings of the Church Father, as such, and more their story as books.
October 5, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingPublic has access to archive of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin holds the archive of novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature for 2017.
September 25, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingComing out of the archives Coming Out of the Archives is a selection of materials curated by students in my spring 2017 Queer Archives class. The materials can be seen in the Ransom Center’s Stories to Tell exhibition that features rotating highlights from the collections. [Editor’s note: the items are no longer on view, as… read more
