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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

John Wonnacott exhibition

A 50 Years Restrospective of Self Portraits

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.

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Grey matters: Graphite

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.

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.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Braided together

Hair in the work of contemporary women artists

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Open class in Modern Hebrew

This course is aimed at beginners only, which started in October and continues in the Lent term

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.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

Projects in manuscript conservation

With Kristine Rose, Conservator of Manuscripts and Printed Books

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

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.

3:30PM - 5:00PM

High-stakes testing at the school/university interface: experiences from the former socialist states of central and eastern Europe

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.