Minister for Culture, Steven Linares, with project leaders, Dr Jennifer Ballantine Perera and Professor Andrew Canessa The Ministry of Culture is pleased to announce that Dr Andrew Canessa (University of Essex) and Dr Jennifer Ballantine Perera (Gibraltar Garrison Library) are recipients of a major award from the UK Economic and Social Research Council for their […]
18th – 30th June 2015 Morocco and Gibraltar have a long shared history. Col Thomas James in his Herculean Straits (1771), writes of these connections, describing the “hill of Gibraltar [as] the Mons Calpe of the Ancients” and commenting on the inscription on the Moorish castle as testament that the most ancient monuments of Gibraltar […]
The Garrison Library will be exhibiting a selection of their newspaper and periodical collection as from Monday 16th March – 17th April 2015. In today’s media driven world informed by twenty-four hour news channels, viewer will often receive news of events with an almost chilling immediacy, very often only moments after these have taken place. These […]
Thursday 19th March 2015 Music and words to remember The Great War of 1914 – 1918. A Cello Recital with recordings. Bach… Saint Saens… Haydn… Gendron… Casals Proceeds from the event will go to the Royal British Legion.
20th January 2014 Enjoy an epic tale of man against machine – including a full demonstration with the original WWII Enigma Machine – as Dr. James Grime illuminates the brilliant mathematical insights and innovative thinking of Alan Turing. Known as one of the 20th Century’s greatest mathematicians, Turing was a pioneer of computer science who […]
The Illustrated London News, Sept 25 1915 The Gibraltar Garrison Library is commemorating the Great War through a number of events and exhibitions planned between 2014 and 2018. We have a silent exhibition which we opened in 2014 with a declaration of war in August 4th 1914 published in The Gibraltar Chronicle. Since then, we have had […]
16th – 17th October 2014 The aim of this symposium is to explore questions of self-determination, devolution and independence, not necessarily as a continuum but to interrogate these definitions as they find expression in this 21st century. Despite it being a core legal principle of the international order, the actual politics of self-determination can nonetheless be a […]
“…and the fig trees in the Alameda Gardens” 13 November – 4 December 2013 Monday – Friday 10am-5pm The magnificent Gibraltar Garrison Library was established in 1793. Since then, the venue, with its fine collection of rare books and documents, has been a centre of international cultural life in Gibraltar. The exhibition brings together three […]
Thursday 10th October – Friday 11th October 2013 Tercentenary of the Treaty of Utrecht The Tercentenary of the Treaty of Utrecht in March and April this year will certainly strike a chord given the ever present reality of Article X as it relates to the status of Gibraltar not only as a British protected territory […]