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A fortunate marriage, more fortunate in its great origin. The grafted offspring of the Sidney Sussex stem ". Giles Fletcher the elder, De Literis Antiquae Britanniae (Cambridge, 1633), p. ... 1589). Although the youngest of the old Cambridge colleges,

James Shirley, The Politician (acted 1639; printed 1655). St Catharine’s was founded in 1473, as the ninth College of the University of Cambridge. ... Further details can be found on theUniversity of Cambridge.

Born in 1767, Pond was trained by the veteran marine astronomer William Wales, who’d been on Cook’s second voyage, and was for some time enrolled at Cambridge University. ... of the Board of Longitude, requested clocks to be used by the young

The Macclesfield Collection remained in the library at Shirburn Castle, the ancestral home of Earls of Macclesfield until 1999 when they were bought through Sotheby’s by Cambridge University Library. ... Conservation and digitisation funded by the

You may be able to find what you are looking for at the eresources@cambridge website. ... Do you have any other questions? Please contact us using theUniversity of Cambridge.

History of the New Museums. History of the New Museums. neither more nor less than the history of the development of the study of the natural sciences in Cambridge". ... William Napier Shaw, on the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate. These two volumes

The Girton College Archive and Special Collections encapsulate the College’s history – from its foundation in 1869, through the admission of women to the University of Cambridge in 1948, the subsequent ... For information about our collections, and

Cambridge. In 1625 it admitted the young John Milton, who would become a leading Puritan apologist of the Civil War and one of the greats of English literature. ... While his world-renowned On the Origin of Species was published some thirty years later

In 1966 he gave the House and its contents to the University of Cambridge. ... A Cambridge Humanities Research Grant let Kettle’s Yard and the David Jones Research Center start work in 2021 on a digital edition of documents by and about Jones in

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This emphasis on the texts of the scriptures reflects Cambridge's historic position as a centre of Christian scholarship. ... University of Cambridge.

We are grateful for the support provided by:. The Perne Library, Peterhouse, Cambridge. ... The Whipple Library, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University’s Collection of Aerial Photographs, CUCAP, represents a unique, long and proud tradition of aerial survey and interpretation in the British Isles and Europe, started by the pioneering Roman ... The images are openly available

Cambridge Broadsides. Cambridge Broadsides. The piece, being universally approved, was … reprinted in Britain on a broadside, to be stuck up in houses". ... This collection showcases some of the rare and unique broadsides in the holdings of Cambridge

This project was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2018–20. ... Manuscript acquired with the support of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the National Libraries, the Anstruther Literary Trust for Rare

At the outbreak of the First World War, it disappeared, and was considered lost until 1936 when it was brought back to Cambridge. ... The palimpsest as presented here is in large part a result of her research.

Cambridge University Library holds the world's richest assemblage of Sassoon's manuscripts and archival papers. ... Born at Weirleigh, near Matfield in Kent, Sassoon read Law at Clare College, Cambridge, but left without taking a degree.

Project investigators and research associates included Richard Beadle, Colin Burrow, Andrew Zurcher, Christopher Burlinson, Sebastiaan Verweij, Angus Vine, and Raphael Lyne. ... Cambridge, Queens' College, MS 34). …Sir Thomas Smith's 'Inventaries';

What sort of holdings should a library have? This question could well have been raised when Cambridge University Library and the British Library acquired items for their extensive holdings of ephemeral ... Content of this collection has been funded by

While Cambridge resisted women’s calls for degrees, other universities were moving forward. ... In a rapidly changing educational landscape, Cambridge’s refusal to grant women equality stood out.

Moody. Research trips were also made to other parts of the world including Japan and Australia. ... This is now kept at Cambridge University’s Botanic Garden, where it is being catalogued.

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From 1978 to 1983 he was a research fellow at Peterhouse and subsequently at Darwin College, Cambridge. ... The strengths of the collection, reflecting Fowden's research and teaching interests at different periods, are:. -

Although Cambridge University Library has never set out to assemble a specific, single collection relating to Waterloo, the strength and breadth of our accessioning activity mean that over the course of ... reminiscences. An interactive BBC video of the

Wace himself. University of Cambridge.

and] a wainscote box with a glass door, in which stands the sceleton of a malefactor executed at the Castle of Cambridge". ... University of Cambridge.

In 1428, Abbot Lytlington of Crowland Abbey near Peterborough was licensed by Letters Patent of King Henry VI to acquire the site to establish a hostel in Cambridge for Benedictine ... University of Cambridge.

turret clock escapement for Trinity College, Cambridge, the other showingThe remaining manuscripts include: a 1726 manuscript on finding longitude by Robert Wright, said to have been sent to Sir Isaac Newton; ... Includes content from the collections of

Wace himself. University of Cambridge.

It was assembled by the Montaigne scholar and financier Gilbert de Botton (1935–2000) and came to Cambridge University Library in 2008. ... The Montaigne Library at Cambridge also has a fine set of early printed editions of Montaigne’s works,

Cambridge University Library now holds over 2,000 handwritten books, as well as numerous rolls and documents, which altogether range in date from the 4th to the 16th centuries. ... The Foundation also provided a significant grant to digitise the medieval

B. Wace, and medium: cellulose nitrate negatives. The photos range in date from the summer of 1902, when Wace had just graduated from Cambridge as a newly minted classicist, to 1905, ... We are grateful to the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge,

The Faculty of Classics Archives collect, document, preserve, research and promote archival evidence of the study of the ancient Greek and Roman world. ... Hence his documentary legacy is a rich resource that far exceeds the bounds of pure archaeological

246. Corpus Christi College was founded in 1352, becoming the sixth College at Cambridge University. ... For all queries concerning images from Parker Library manuscripts, please contactUniversity of Cambridge.

In response to the news of the reform, peasants across Peru established agrarian reform defence committees to show their support for the reform and prevent local evasion by large landowners. ... Dr Anna Cant. Assistant Professor of Latin American History,

C.T. Bromwich, and that these birds showed phenotypic variation, which was the subject of Bateson’s research. ... Such activities would inevitably have affected the research programme. This archive documents historical animal experimentation, which

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Simon Schaffer. History and Philosophy of Science. University of Cambridge. The 'splash' icons found in the descriptions are links to relevant items in the online collections of the Royal Museums Greenwich. ... Images for the 'Account of John Harrison

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This collection illustrates and describes 45 bookbindings made in Cambridge during the handpress period, from the collections of the University Library. ... There are therefore many good reasons for honing our skills in recognising early Cambridge

The original manuscript, …Palimpsest of Homer and John Chrysostom (Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. ... The exhibition was generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation, and the Friends

Dr Emma Saunders. Cambridge University Library. University of Cambridge.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’ (1833). Cambridge is home to many of the most significant manuscripts of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809–92), Poet Laureate and one of the most influential figures in ... We are grateful both to the Master and Fellows of

miles apart: the Faculty of Classics and Pembroke College in Cambridge, England and the British School at Athens in Greece. ... We are grateful to the Friends of the British School at Athens and Cambridge Digital Humanities for assisting financially with

The growth of the Ethiopian manuscript collection at Cambridge University Library coincides with this development and consists primarily of Ethiopian works from the 14th to 20th century. ... University of Cambridge.

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After his death in 1931, Schnitzler's papers were saved from likely confiscation and destruction in Vienna in 1938 and brought to Cambridge, where the larger part of them is now ... And teams based in Germany, led by Professors Wolfgang Lukas and Michael

850-1000 and generally …Vie de seint Aedward le Rei (Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.3.59). ... It contains literary, historical, …Le Roman de la Rose (Cambridge, University Library, MS Gg.4.6).

Gillian Cooke (Group Archivist, Cambridge Assessment). We are also grateful to the following:. ... For more information on the conservation of the archive and blog posts about the collection, please refer to our departmentalUniversity of Cambridge.

Curious Objects runs from 3 November 2016-21 March 2017 at the Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University Library, and is free and open to all. ... This collection on the Cambridge Digital Library includes a selection of the star items.