Parchment, Paper and Pixels

Manuscripts and Special Collections at The University of Nottingham is a treasure house of archives and rare books.  Parchment, Paper and Pixels will provide a taster to some of the wonderful collections now held there, presented through text, images, sound and video.


The University of Nottingham has been collecting since the 1930s and now holds over 3 million manuscripts in more than 700 archive collections and 60,000 rare printed items. This ebook will introduce you to a selection of archives, maps, photographs, posters and music covering the globe from Iceland to China by way of Nottingham and the Soviet Union and introduced by a team of international specialists. So if you want to find out more about Robin Hood, D.H. Lawrence, the father of English geology or one of the world’s first ornithologists then please download this book.