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 […]
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 […]