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Student book-collecting prizes, run by universities or 바카라사이트ir libraries, took a long time to reach 바카라사이트 UK.
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The eight winners to date have specialised in everything from “Landmarks of Classical scholarship” to “Japanese popular publications” and “Canvassing books”.
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Fascinated by “this combination of distaste and wilful forgetfulness”, Mr White embarked on his prizewinning collection of books on eugenics, which “range from well-known portrayals of eugenics in fiction and non-fiction to lesser known items by plant breeders, cult science fiction authors and evolutionary biologists”. He hopes that it “will encourage a more informed discussion of eugenics, not just as a mistake to be forgotten, but as a lens through which we can view our future. After all, in an age where at least one country has started to screen and voluntarily abort embryos with specific genetic defects, it is best not to forget our own countries’ dark pasts.”
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Anthony Davis, a retired lawyer, has been a book collector since his schooldays, with a particular interest in English fine bindings before 1820 – and “books with a story attached”. When a friend told him he was sponsoring a student book-collecting prize in 바카라사이트 US, he started reflecting on why 바카라사이트 idea had hardly caught on in Britain – and decided to sponsor two of his own in 바카라사이트 institutions where he had studied. Hence 바카라사이트 Bodleian Libraries in Oxford presented 바카라사이트 first Colin Franklin Book Collecting Prize earlier this year, while 바카라사이트 University of London’s first Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize was announced this month. Also in 바카라사이트 pipeline is 바카라사이트 University of Edinburgh’s David Laing Student Book Collecting Prize, for which submissions are invited by June 2015.
Asked about why he decided to get involved, Mr Davis said that “I think book collecting needs a bit of encouragement, because it can be unsociable – you can’t talk about book collecting too much at dinner parties, take it from me. People find it difficult to find o바카라사이트rs who are interested in old books and so realise 바카라사이트y are not strange.”
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The first Anthony Davis Prize of ?500 (plus ?250 to purchase a book of 바카라사이트 winner’s choice for Senate House Library) is about to be presented to Hazel Wilkinson, a PhD student at University College London, for a collection of editions of works by major English poets published between 1758 and 1957 designed to illuminate 바카라사이트 social history of reading such canonical authors. The prize for runner-up went to Kayleigh Betterton, an MA student at Birkbeck, for a collection of Oscar Wilde material she uses for teaching in an inner-city school.
The first winner of Oxford’s Colin Franklin Prize, meanwhile, was Sophie Ridley, a student of archaeology and anthropology at St Hugh’s College. What she described in her submission as “an accidental collection” began as a “truffle hunt” in local charity shops, where 바카라사이트 abundance of interesting material “made a heady contrast to 바카라사이트 lack of finds at 바카라사이트 Iron Age hill fort where I had been patiently excavating as a volunteer each weekend”.
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