| Wed 8 February 2012 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books Ten great book collectors whose volumes have enriched the University Library's holdings from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. |
| 9:00AM - 8:00PM |
A 50 Years Restrospective of Self Portraits |
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| 9:30AM - 3:30PM |
Archaeological discovery days - seeing under the soil Led by Dr Carenza Lewis, well-known from Channel 4’s Time Team, Discovery Days are curriculum extension learning courses for school groups which introduce new knowledge, ideas and approaches from the multi-disciplinary subject of archaeology in practical hands-on activities. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight These Rough Notes: Captain Scott's last expedition A chance to see unique manuscripts from the archive of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13) on show to commemorate the centenary of the first British expedition to the attain the South Pole. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer Coins and medals from the 17th-century |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Discover the extraordinary expressive potential of the pencil in a display ranging from 17th-century miniatures on vellum to compositional sketches by George Romney and William Blake, and drawings by Ingres and Degas. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Work, rest and play: Women and children in prints after Chardin This exhibition investigates the appeal of Chardin’s familial imagery for the 18th-century public, and takes a close look at the skill of the printmakers who interpreted his canvases into graphic art. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Braided together Hair in the work of contemporary women artists |
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| 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
This course is aimed at beginners only, which started in October and continues in the Lent term |
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| 1:00PM - 5:00PM |
Artists in focus: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the closure of the house extension. The first of these displays will look at the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. |
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| 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
Projects in manuscript conservation With Kristine Rose, Conservator of Manuscripts and Printed Books |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles. |
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| 3:30PM - 5:00PM |
In the early 1990s,the European order which had prevailed since the end of World War II underwent a dramatic shift. Most notably, the Soviet Union and the Yugoslav Republic collapsed, with the resulting states becoming open to western influence in many spheres. |
