Spring British History Lectures

In April, Belk Library hosted two lectures by British history scholars. Rhinehart Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Victoria Jackson spoke on April 24, 2018, about her research on material and visual culture in early modern Britain and her use of the Rhinehart Rare Book Collection on British History in Special Collections over her two years as a postdoctoral fellow. On April 26, 2018, Dr. Denis Paz of University of North Texas delivered the Sixth Annual Appalachian Lecture in British History entitled, “Anti-Semitism in the Chartist Movement: Rife or Rare?” Both lectures featured displays of books pertinent to the lectures from the rare book collections in Special Collections. Enjoy these images from the events.

Dr. Victoria Jackson (left) discusses manuscript notations in The Compleat Gentleman from the Rhinehart Collection.

Rare book viewing after the lecture. Dr. Jackson helps viewers decipher a manuscript notation (top). Greta Browning, Curator of the Rhinehart Collection, describes a book printing process to an audience member (middle row, left). Engravings from British Zoology in the Rhinehart Collection (bottom).

Dr. Denis Paz

Book exhibit in the Rhinehart Room

Images of nineteenth century British prime ministers in The Popular History of England (left) and Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor’s entry in The Chronicles of Crime (right)

An engraving,“The Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, 1848," in Old and New London in the Rhinehart Collection.

A sampling of recent additions to the Rhinehart Collection: Suggestions in Floral Design (left) and a Geneva Bible (right)