Open Unwrapped – Night Before Christmas
The 12th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is a video ‘Night Before Christmas’. The video was created by George […]
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Open Unwrapped – Mahabharata
The 11th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the digitisation of the Mahabharata scroll in the CRC Collections at […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – OER Games
The 10th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is not one but two OER games created by staff and students […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Hugh Cleghorn painting
The 9th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is a digitised painting from the CRC Collections, collected by Scottish botanist and […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Mari Lwyd
The 8th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is Mari Lwyd, a folk custom from Wales. Dancing Mari Lwyd […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Snow fall quiz
The 7th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is a Snow Fall video quiz, created by Iraklis Pantopolous to test […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – a robin’s birdcall
The 6th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the song of a European Robin, or Robin Red Breast, from The British Library, and shared in the Europeana collection.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Callanish Stones
The 5th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is an image of the Callanish Stones on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Taken by our very own Lorna Campbell and uploaded to Wikipedia as part of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 event.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Daffodils in George Square
Bringing some sunshine to this winter day, the 4th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is an Open Media Snippet of Daffodils in George square.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Percy Shelley’s ‘The serpent is shut out from paradise’.
The 3rd of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the digital scan of the letters and manuscript of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘The serpent is shut out from paradise’. Addressed to Edward Williams, the poem is one of eleven Percy wrote for Jane Williams. In the note included with this manuscript Percy writes that Edward may read the poem to Jane “but to no one else”.
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