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December 14, 2020
Funded under an Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) partnership development grant Legacies of Catalogue Descriptions and Curatorial Voice: Opportunities for Digital...
December 14, 2020
If there are silver linings for the LWL in this current Covid moment, one surely is the fact that in the absence of the library’s usual in-residence scholars and of a busy...
December 14, 2020
The 17th David Nichol Smith Seminar and the Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a virtual conference convened by the...
wooden bowl
December 14, 2020
Visitors to the Library may recall a magnificent sugar maple that stood in front of the historic barn as one drove onto the property, providing much-appreciated shade to the...
picnic table on a patio
December 14, 2020
Since its founding in the early 1990s, the Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship program has developed a reputation as one of the most desirable, short-term research residencies...
December 14, 2020
Although for many of us there is nothing like connecting with colleagues face to face, the changes brought about by the pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders have...
December 14, 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic suddenly caused the Lewis Walpole Library staff to begin working from home in mid-March, some quick figuring was called for. Archivist Sandra...