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MA LIS student Isabel Evans was quoted in an article in yesterday’s Observer on a ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº research project that she has been involved in:

The project is a collaboration between ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Special Collections and the Bentham Project, and its aim is to identify books that survive from Jeremy Bentham’s bequest of ca. 4,000 volumes to what was then London University in our current rare book collections. Isabel has been volunteering with us since February, going through all of the books in the library accession registers that match current holdings to check them for signs of Bentham’s provenance. She has made several exciting discoveries so far, including a Euclid volume annotated by both Bentham and his younger brother, a 16thC historical work that contains a manuscript page in Bentham’s hand and an erased signature, and a French philosophical work in which a fragment of a letter in Bentham’s hand was used as a bookmark. I am really pleased to see that her work has been acknowledged in the article.

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