Archive for: February 2014

  1. Hayward Letters Available Online

    In 2011 the University of Melbourne Archives (UMA) was gifted a series of correspondence between the members of the Hayward Family from the plantation ‘Pieterszorg’ in …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2014/02/25/hayward-letters-online

  2. McPhersons Limited available online June 2014

    Established in Melbourne in 1860 McPhersons Limited recently celebrated its 150th year of continuous business, a major achievement in this day and age of company acquisition …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2014/02/24/mcphersons-limited-new-acquisition

  3. Nullius in Verba: The Royal Society’s Two Earliest Books

    Earlier this week the Royal Society announced the launch later this year of Royal Society Open Science, an open access peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarly research in …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2014/02/21/nullius-in-verba-the-royal-societys-two-earliest-books

  4. The Steps to Piranesi

    The Piazza di Spagna, the location of the Spanish Steps, led directly to Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s printmaking and antiquities studio in the Strada Felice. Traversing the …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2014/02/03/the-steps-to-piranesi