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The Anarchist Archive Collection contains select digitized material from the Anarchist Archive.
The Anarchist Archive is devoted to the study of anarchism, with a special focus on the history of the movement in Canada.
History and...
The Mary Butts Letters collection is composed primarily of correspondence between the modernist writer Mary Butts (1890-1937) and Douglas Goldring.
The letters are drawn from the UVic Libraries Special Collections - specifically the Douglas Goldring fonds:...
Sir Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968) was a poet, art historian, anarchist, literary critic, philosopher, prolific author, and champion of modern artists in Britain, including the English artist and sculptor Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975). Both were members of...
The Book Arts Collection features selections from Special Collections relevant to historical and contemporary book arts and print culture, including binding, calligraphy, design, printing, papermaking, publishing, illustration, and typography.
The purpose of this...
The St. John family includes the surgeon Valentine St. John (1883-1964) and his mother Aglae de Jora St. John. Aglae de Jora St. John was Romanian. Her husband, Dr. St. John's father, was a British diplomat and cousin of the 4th Viscount Bolingbroke.
The surgeon...
This exhibit features a series of photographs taken of James Joyce during his last years in Paris. The photographs were taken by Gisèle Freund and feature Joyce, his friends, family, and contemporaries including W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Henry Miller and Virginia Woolf....
Victoria to Vimy, sponsored by a World War Commemorations Community Fund grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage, is a digital collection of First World War materials held at the University of Victoria Libraries, Special Collections and Archives.
For this...
The collection consists of 36 letters from Sir William Orpen to Beatrice Elvery (Lady Beatrice Glenavy), all illustrated with ink or pencil sketches.
Sir William Orpen was born in Dublin in 1878. Although he has become a neglected figure in art history, between 1910...
The Modernism and Post-War Literature Collection is comprised of works created by authors associated with modernism, a literary movement with contested dates, but largely regarded as taking place between 1910 and 1940. Authors featured here include Mary Butts (1890-1937),...