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The thing with no mouth, or, Happy Hallow’een

Margaret Dobbin, nee Cochrane, of Hilden, near Moira (MS 11354)
Margaret Dobbin, nee Cochrane, of Hilden, near Moira (MS 11354)

What better conduit between the quick and the dead can there be than a collection of historical records which purport to let the living hear the voices of those who have gone before? Today’s blog post selects a few items from among the Library’s historical manuscripts which really come into their own at Hallow’een. They include a vengeful seventeenth-century spirit, an old faithful, the classic ghostly ‘coach and pair’ and something genuinely weird from the pen of the great Edith Somerville. This last one will make you shudder.

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Martians, detectives and ghosts – all in a day’s work

In January the Department welcomed School of English students from the sophister option ‘Martians, Detectives and Ghosts’ to the reading room with Assistant Professor, Dr. Clare Clarke. The visit gave the group an opportunity to view early editions of core texts related to their course. For more about the visit and to learn what the students thought of their excursion, please see the School of English Facebook page.