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 the Special Collections Research Center 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 Research Center. 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.
Greta Browning, Curator of the Rhinehart Collection, describes a book printing process to an audience member
Zoology engravings from British Zoology in the Rhinehart Collection
Dr. Denis Paz
Book exhibit in the Rhinehart Room
Images of nineteenth century British prime ministers in The Popular History of England
Chartist leader Feargus O’Connor’s entry in The Chronicles of Crime
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
Contributed by Greta Browning, Reference and Instruction Archivist
Dr. Jackson helps viewers decipher a manuscript notation
