Digital Showcase

Explore curated insights across Newcastle University Library's unique and distinctive collections.

Digital Showcase is a co-curation platform bringing together digital scholarship techniques and interpretations of digitised rare books and archives for online audiences. Curators include heritage professionals, expert communities, educators and researchers. These showcases are intended to engage and encourage further exploration into our collections.

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Research Collaboration

Evolving Hands

A collaborative digital scholarship project using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Text Encoded Initiative (TEI) to enhance the letters of explorer and colonial diplomat Gertrude Bell (1868-1926).

Community Engagement

University Heritage

First World War Surgical Logbook

Surgical operations carried out by Professor Frederick Charles Pybus at First Northern General Hospital from 1914 – 1919.

Education Outreach

GCSE History – Medicine in Britain

Engaging GCSE History students in primary source material on the history of medicine.

Gertrude Bell Photograph Albums

Photograph albums, personally curated and annotated by explorer Gertrude Bell (1868 – 1926), depicting her travels across Europe, North America, East Asia, and the Middle East in the early 20th Century.

Research Collaboration

Lord Petre's Gradual

Late-medieval illuminated service book associated with the Petre family of Essex, containing ecclesiastical chants and polyphonic pieces likely used by Renaissance composer William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623).

Research Collaboration

Recipe Books

The notation of culinary delights, surprises and remedies, represented in the handwritten recipe books of two Early Modern women, fifty years apart.

Research Collaboration

Trevelyan Albums

Albums of family photographs and ephemera depicting the private and public life of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan and Mary ‘Molly’ Trevelyan of Wallington from 1894 to 1950