Journal of Dr Jonathan Troup:1788-1790, MS 2070
Jonathan Troup (c1764 - 1799), physician, of Aberdeen, Scotland and Dominica, West Indies.
Welcome to our activity page inspired by THE CREATIVE POWER OF BOOKS in the UoA Collections. There are fun activities to do from home and we hope you will be able to visit us again soon.
This year we are delighted to have received funding from the Scottish Book Trust to commission writer Alex McCall to create a brand new piece of Flash Fiction to celebrate Book Week Scotland at the University of Aberdeen. As part of the project Alex has also worked with us to create an animated version of himself for a five part series of micro tutorials on "How to Write Flash Fiction". You can read more about how this project came about in the blog Animating Alex.
Here's Alex in animated form...
And here's Alex's newly commissioned Flash Fiction story.
Flash Fiction Competitions
Now you've seen how you can get inspired to write, why not enter one of our Flash Fiction competion. Click on the links to find out how to enter.
Book Folk
Meet Jane Pirie as we Corner another Curator; and Alan Warner, the University of Aberdeen's newly appointed Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing,
Collecting your Thoughts
Journals in the UoA Collections
'Travels in Turkey' travel diary by an unknown author, MS 125
'Travels in Turkey', including accounts of voyages and details of people. Manuscript, with notes, 1773. The work is translated from Dutch.
Andrew Melville: Commonplace Book, MS 28
Commonplace book, including some music, recipes, lunar tables for Aberdeen, birth records (one of which includes Edward Raban d 1658, the printer, as godfather), proverbs, etc., 1621 - 1640.
James Fraser of Phopachy, clergyman: Triennial Travels, MS 2538
"A succinct and breefe narration of the journay and voyage of Master James Fraser through Scotland, England, all France, part of Spain, and over the Savoyan Alps to Italy, 1 June 1657 - April 1660."
Sir Alexander Ogston, personal and family papers, MS 3850
Ogston recorded his experiences in Serbia and Italy in two journals, including numerous sketches, plans, photographs and correspondence. These journals formed the basis of his book Reminiscences, 1919
To Our Future Readers
Competition
We want to see your best attempt at designing a Science Fiction book cover for Aldous Huxley's novel BRAVE NEW WORLD. Share your creation on social media with #BraveNewWorldCover and tag us. A winner will be chosen on Monday 14th December and will win a £20 book token!
Make & Play
Book Tree Tradition
It has become a tradition each Book Week Scotland for the Sir Duncan Rice Library team to build and decorate the Book Tree and this year is no exception. Loving the Book Week Baubles! To all our readers and writers, have a great Book Week and a Happy Festive Season.
