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Shakespeare First Folio Fridays
The UCI Libraries invite you to New Swan Shakespeare Festival: FIRST FOLIO FRIDAYS
Not your ordinary Leprechaun!
A Scandalous Love Affair
In light of Valentine’s Day, UC Irvine’s Special Collections & Archives would like to highlight a noteworthy love affair from our British Naval History Collection. This love affair was between the famed Admiral, Lord Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton.
First Edition of Twelve Years A Slave, the Book
Detective novelist Kenneth Millar (aka Ross Macdonald) born this day in 1915
The Processing Room: Entry One
Ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes in Special Collections? Well, follow me into the Processing Room for a peak at our collections as we preserve, organize, and describe them for researchers – I mean, really, who doesn’t love a backstage pass?
Allen Ginsberg Reads "Howl" for the First Time, October 7, 1955
Jumbo & Colt: the current exhibit in Special Collections & Archives
Jumbo & Colt: The Printing World of Jane Grabhorn is the current exhibit in the Special Collections and Archives lobby on the fifth floor of Langson Library. The exhibit runs from January 7 - March 22, 2013.
The “Controlled Schizophrenia” of Donald Heiney and Macdonald Harris -- papers now available
In the early 1950’s Macdonald Harris began his career as a fiction writer selling short stories to national magazines while Donald Heiney was beginning his academic career as faculty at the University of Utah. In the mid 1960s Donald Heiney became one of the pioneer faculty of UC Irvine, while Macdonald Harris turned to writing novels.