COMING SOON!Forgers, Fakers, and Publisher-PiratesSeptember 2025 through March 2026Curator: Linda QuirkWhether print or digital, text or image, artistic or scientific, rare or common, historic or contemporary, most of the content we encounter contains accidental mistakes–ranging from typos to factual errors to errors arising from prejudicial assumptions–and a significant proportion...

 LIMITED SUMMER SERVICE (April through August 2025)From April 1st to September 1st, Peel’s exhibitions, workshops, and drop-in services are suspended to allow the team to focus on back end operations. During this time, limited remote research services continue to be available and...

Peel Workshops, Fall term 2025Peel Workshop participants have found it deeply rewarding to work with primary materials, to learn about the history of books and ideas in various disciplines, to hold special rare items in their hands, and to discover what kinds of knowledge can be gleaned...

Bruce Peel Special Collections offers a limited number of research appointments each week (September-March), but some researchers will want to consider using digital resources where possible, and professors who are planning classes are encouraged to make use of rare materials that can...

Explore early ideas about witchcraft by learning about a very rare (and sinister) fifteenth-century manuscript housed in University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections. Tinctor's Foul Treatise is an award-winning digital exhibition that unlocks the secrets of this...