Special Collections Exhibitions

This year sees the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific institution. An exhibition at the entrance to the Brotherton Library marks this occasion, displaying books and manuscripts from Special Collections, including works by Robert Hooke and Sir Isaac Newton.

There is also an exhibition in the Special Collections foyer which uses books, broadsheets and cartoons to illustrate the development of elections, electioneering and voting in Britain over the past 300 years.

Richard High (Special Collections)