{"id":304,"date":"2012-06-12T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/specialcollections\/2012\/06\/12\/bgas-library-open-day\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T14:04:00","slug":"bgas-library-open-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/2012\/06\/12\/bgas-library-open-day\/","title":{"rendered":"BGAS Library Open Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;text-align:center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/468a7-img_5117.jpg\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/04\/468a7-img_5117.jpg?w=300\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align:center\">Sir Robert Atkyns&#8217;s &#8216;The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire (1712) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"text-align:left\">\ufeff<span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The University Archives and Special Collections will be holding an open day for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (BGAS) Library on Saturday 21st July, 10am &#8211; 4pm. We act as custodians for the Society&#8217;s extensive library, covering many aspects of history and archaeology in Bristol, Gloucestershire and beyond. Our oldest volume dates from 1520 and the Library is still expanding today.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">The open day is part of the Council for British Archaeology&#8217;s Festival of British Archaeology fortnight which sees events taking place across the country in July. You can search for this and other events\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/festival.britarch.ac.uk\/whatson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">We will have on display some of the Library&#8217;s oldest and rarest items, as well as providing access to the rest of the Library&#8217;s holdings with archive staff on hand to give advice. If you are beginning to take an interest in local history or are a fully-fledged historical researcher &#8211; the BGAS Library will have something to interest you.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">This year marks the 300th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Sir Robert Atkyn&#8217;s landmark text &#8216;The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire&#8217;. We will have our rare first edition on display at the open day.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">For more general information on the Library and how to search our holdings, please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/insight.glos.ac.uk\/departments\/lis\/archives\/Pages\/bgas.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BGAS Library web pages <\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Robert Atkyns&#8217;s &#8216;The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire (1712) \ufeffThe University Archives and Special Collections will be holding an open day for the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-displays-and-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}