Special Collections & Archives : Exhibitions

Special Collections and Archives curates and displays around three exhibitions a year, drawing upon the rich and varied material available within the collections here at SCA. The exhibitions are available to view in our dedicated display cases on the Ground Floor Grove Wing. For more information on our past exhibitions see the links provided.

We also create various digital exhibitions throughout the year. 

If you have any queries regarding our exhibitions please do not hesitate to contact us at scastaff@liverpool.ac.uk.

• Banned, Binned, Bombed: selection and survival in Special Collections & Archives
• Cunard 175 revisited
• Liverpool University Press
• Travels in Europe
• Behind the scenes: Student encounters with Special Collections and Archives
• 'A gift from Greenbank': reconstructing the Rathbone Library
• Puzzles, Poetry and Playground Games
• Seeing Euclid
• The University of Liverpool: A History through Archives
• Roscoe's University: Liverpool Royal Institution 1817-2017
• Thomas Rickman (1776-1841) Architect and Antiquary
• At the Sign of the Dial: Charles Ricketts and the Vale Press 1896-1903
• Smokescreen: The Victorian Vogue for Tobacco, John Fraser (1836-1902)
• Return of the Triffids: From the John Wyndham Archive
• Picturing Gypsies: From the Gypsy Lore Society Archive
• The Art of the Book: Rare printed books