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his year for Halloween we followed some rumours of haunted locations around campus and ended up in a small room with high ceilings, concealing books from the 1500s. Some were bound with animal skin and had spines which looked anatomically correct; and if that wasn’t eerie enough, we even stumbled upon dictionaries so old they were devoid of words like “yolo” and “selfie” - time capsules of the English language, contained in boxes to ensure the spiders were kept out.
We were incredibly lucky to be granted access to one of the oldest parts of the University, and would like to thank Caroline Brown, Sharon Kelly, and the rest of the University Archives team for helping us out; as well as Kirstin Bannon and Katie Jowett for aiding our organisation of this spooky campus tour. Thank you, all!
Happy Halloween!
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Please do not go looking for the abandoned places on campus! They are preserved for a reason and we’d like to keep them in this condition for many more years to come.
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Photography by Dom