This is a short film made for teachers and school pupils by UCL Special Collections and the Orwell Youth Prize. The film explores the life and legacy of George Orwell, focussing on his journalistic career, and takes a moment to ask some present day writers about journalism today.'
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1/4/2023
Dante Alighieri: Ein Dantekranz aus hundert Blättern / ein Führer durch die "Commedia" von Paul Pochhammer ; mit 100 Federzeichnungen von Franz Stassen und drei Plänen (Berlin: G. Grote, 1906). Pochhammer's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy into German appears in excerpts in this edition, illustrated by Stassen. UCL Special Collections hold over 3,000 rare editions, translations and illustrations of Dante's writings. Find out more about the UCL Dante Collection at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/barlow-dante.
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4/13/2021
The vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri. Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, and illustrated with the designs of M. Gustave Doré (London: Cassell and Company Limited, [no date]). Doré's illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy have proved to be some of the most popular since they were first printed in the 19th century, as was Cary's English translation until recently. UCL Special Collections hold over 3,000 rare editions, translations and illustrations of Dante's writings. Find out more about the UCL Dante Collection at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/barlow-dante.
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4/13/2021
Compositions of John Flaxman, sculptor, R.A., from the Divine poem of Dante Alighieri, containing Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. With quotations from the Italian, and translations from the version of the Reverend H. Boyd, to each plate (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807). UCL Special Collections hold over 3,000 rare editions, translations and illustrations of Dante's writings. Find out more about the UCL Dante Collection at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/barlow-dante.
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4/13/2021
Dante Alighieri, La comedia di Dante Aligieri con la nova espositione di Alessandro Vellvtello (Venice: Per Francesco Marcolini, 1544). This edition of Dante's Divine Comedy includes a commentary by Vellutello and beautiful woodcut illustrations. UCL Special Collections hold over 3,000 rare editions, translations and illustrations of Dante's writings. Find out more about the UCL Dante Collection at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/barlow-dante.
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4/13/2021
Dante Alighieri, Comento di chriſtophoro Landino fiorentino ſopra la comedia di Danthe alighieri poeta fiorentino (Venice: Petrus de Plasiis, Cremonensis, 1491). This was the first fully illustrated edition of Dante's Divine Comedy to be printed, and contains a woodcut illustration for each canto of Inferno, Paradiso and Purgatorio. UCL Special Collections hold over 3,000 rare editions, translations and illustrations of Dante's writings. Find out more about the UCL Dante Collection at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/barlow-dante.
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4/13/2021
Dante Alighieri: La Commedia (Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1477)
This is the 5th edition of Dante's Divine Comedy to have been printed, and the first to be printed with a commentary (by Jacopo Della Lana, but attributed in the colophon to Benvenuto d'Imola). UCL Special Collections holds over 3,000 rare Dante editions, translations and illustrations. Find out more about the UCL Dante Collection at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections/a-z/barlow-dante.
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4/13/2021
A short film in which Kathryn Hannan, IOE Archivist, talks about the Medd furniture - model furniture from the David and Mary Medd Archive. It was used in planning and designing classroom spaces in the 1970s, linked to ideas about progressive education. Produced for the module 'The Worlds of UCL: Critical Histories of Education, Nation and Empire'.
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2/26/2021