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Book Blogs: The Edwardians

By cshriver on August 14, 2015

We have a highly literary book blog post for you all today! This is the seventh in a series of blog posts that celebrate the “Book Blogs” created by students in Professor Siân Echard’s “The History of the Book” course during the spring 2015 term. For this assignment, students in the class were asked to […]

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Book Blogs: Educational Books of New England

By cshriver on August 7, 2015

Believe it or not, the beginning of the new school year is fast approaching! To start getting into the proper mindset, this week we have an education-themed book blog post. This is the sixth in a series of blog posts that celebrate the “Book Blogs” created by students in Professor Siân Echard’s “The History of […]

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Book Blogs: E. Pauline Johnson’s Legends of Vancouver

By cshriver on July 24, 2015

It’s a rainy Friday here in Vancouver, and, after the heatwave we’ve had recently, things are springing back to life! In honour of the rain and Vancouver generally being awesome, how about a Vancouver-themed book blog post? This is the fifth in a series of blog posts that celebrate the “Book Blogs” created by students […]

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Book Blogs: Vancouver, B.C., 1890

By cshriver on July 17, 2015

Ready for the weekend? Great! Ready for the fourth in a series of blog posts that celebrate the “Book Blogs” created by students in Professor Siân Echard’s “The History of the Book” course during the spring 2015 term? Of course you are! For this assignment, students in the class were asked to choose an item […]

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Book Blogs: Chinatown Tours

By cshriver on June 19, 2015

Happy Friday! Time for the third in a series of blog posts that celebrate the “Book Blogs” created by students in Professor Siân Echard’s “The History of the Book” course during the spring 2015 term. For this assignment, students in the class were asked to choose an item (book or otherwise) from RBSC, research its […]

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Book Blogs: 15th-Century Gradual

By cshriver on June 5, 2015

It’s Friday afternoon…time for the second in a series of blog posts that celebrate the “Book Blogs” created by students in Professor Siân Echard’s “The History of the Book” course during the spring term. For this assignment, students in the class were asked to choose an item (book or otherwise) from RBSC, research its history, […]

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Book Blogs: The Family Dictionary

By cshriver on May 29, 2015

This past spring term, Rare Books and Special Collections hosted more classes than we have ever before! We welcomed classes from a wide variety of disciplines, including English; history; medieval studies; archival studies; art history; geography; French; gender, race, sexuality and social justice; and Asian studies. In addition to hosting single-session class visits, a few […]

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