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Here we have 3 postcards depicting WWI patients, Royal Army Medical Crops personnel, nurses & a matron. We wonder what stories they have to tell of their experience on the 1st Northern General Hospital Newcastle University during #WWI #NationalNursesDay

Last few days to see the Provenance exhibition on Level 2 of the Philip Robinson Library. Explore the former owners & the marks they left in our collections. Free for all. Open until Sunday 11th May. Find more information online ncl.ac.uk/library/specia…

Did you know Newcastle University's Merz Court Building was officially opened 60 years ago yesterday, on the 7th May 1965, by Harold Wilson? Read the pamplet produced for the event, desribing the new building on CollectionsCaptured here: cdm21051.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec… #ThrowbackThursday

A new site allowing a global audience to navigate the UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 Gertrude Bell is now live! Archaeology at NCL and Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives are excited to share a new visual experience depicting Bell's live and travels. Discover more >> bit.ly/3Z3LgEC

Are snooker and pool are games or sports? Hopefully we'll agree they can be fun at least, and fit in with Explore Your Archive's #EYAFunAndGames theme for May. Here are 3 pics from the University Archive of students cueing for fun at Castle Leazes and Henderson Hall in 1991.

Do you want to learn more about the collections that we hold & the services that we offer, from finding material, requesting material & how we support teaching, research & engagement? Find us online ncl.ac.uk/library/specia…

New on CollectionsCaptured is Crawhall's Chap-book Chaplets, with the author's own hand coloured copy of illustrated ballads with press cutting, reviews & correspondence inserted collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/collec…

2025 marks 50 years since the death of Frederick Charles Pybus, surgeon and collecter of books. In 1965 he donated his book collection to the University, and it still remains part of our collections today. Read about his life and legacy on this blog post: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/2017/…

Found in our Charles Philips Travelyan Archive is this 'fun' activity, which invites you to light a fuse and seemingly set fire to item. It looks like #FridayFun, but if we tried it out we might not have the item any more! Ref. CPT/1/1/1/13 #EYAFunAndGames Explore Your Archive

New free exhibition now open! 'Town and Gown on the Tyne' a study of data from Jesmond, Newcastle and the North East, examining the past present, & future of social statistics, as shown through posters & material from our collections. Find out more online ncl.ac.uk/library/specia…

You can also read a blog post written by curator Dr Murray Dick, which talks more about the posters in the exhibition around student awareness of Jesmond, Newcastle & the North East, on the evolution of data visualization for social improvement blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/2025/…

Have you got any fun or games planned for the Bank Holiday weekend? For some inspiration here are some photos members of the Trevelyan family of Wallington enjoying some outdoor actitivies in the early 20th Century. #EYAFunAndGames [ref. CPT/PA/4, 8 and 28]

Our reading room is back open today after the #BankHolidayMonday. We're open 10am-4pm, Mon-Fri by appointment. If you would like to find out how to request material and what happens when you visit the reading, follow these step-by-step videos for more info ncl.ac.uk/library/specia…

Discover details of the 1831–32 cholera outbreak in Gateshead in this letter incl. 6 deaths in Beggars Entry, 2 in Hillgate & 1 Jackson's Chare, displayed in The Origins of Public Statistics in Newcastle case at the Town & Gown on the Tyne exhibition 🔗 ncl.ac.uk/library/specia…

As May nears its end here's a cheery song about the month 'Written in the Month of May' from 'The Gateshead Cabinet, being a Collection of Songs', a rare pamphlet found in our Robert White Collection. Find the whole pamphlet on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/collec…

Is your idea of a fun Friday night a game of cards with friends? Here are two constrasting illustrations of card games in action from our collections. Browse our Local Illustrations and James Gillray Prints on CollectionsCaptured: cdm21051.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/search… #EYAFunAndGames

Today is #WorldBicycleDay2025 Here we have a photograph from 1965 of group of RAG event participants posing beside a bicycle which has been decorated to promote rock collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/collec…

'Town and gown' is an old term for a problem that today we think about in relation to studentification.This is not a new problem, as explained in more detail in our 'Town and Gown on the Tyne' exhibition, on display L2 Philip Robinson Library.Find out more ncl.ac.uk/library/specia…

Did you know that John Dobson designed a chapel as part of Richard Grainger's unbuilt plans for Elswick? In our Rare Book Collection we have a manuscript from 1840 of Dobson's plans for the unbuilt chapel. See the whole volume on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/collec…

This fascinating story from our Alumni colleagues (link below) looking back at Castle Leazes includes several photos from our Unviersity Archive. If you want to see more, browse over 70 photos of Castle Leazes through the years on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/search…