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It was a wretched wet night, & very mild. [Richmond] Temple took me to dine with some people called Bigham (in Cheyne Walk) – B.

26 Jun 2024: But children are quick to perceive possibilities, potentialities: in a remark, perhaps in some remote context; in a glance, a smile. [… ] ... It was a wretched wet night, & very mild./p p[Richmond] Temple took me to dine with some people called Bigham

Some catalogues inform us that a few Islamic manuscripts were dedicated to him as the ruler of Shiraz,[5] nonetheless, whether he had a royal library or what sorts of materials ... The front cover also contains Erpenius’s index of terms and some notes

Aware of the extent to which its maps might aid foreign intelligence agencies, the Government wished to avoid showing sensitive sites on the imagery and issued censored sheets of some areas, ... More recently, the mosaics received wider attention when

In some instances, these words are shortened in the charm text to their first letters only. ... In some versions of the cipher, the third letter is ‘v’ rather than ‘b’: in the context of a charm against bleeding, this suggests that it might

Starting with a high ratio of alcohol to water and gradually reducing it has been shown to reduce some inks’ sensitivity to water. ... use of some useful stabilising properties that have been observed in interactions between Type-B gelatine and

Drawing on some of the themes developed in a new book by Susannah Gibson, The Spirit of Inquiry: How one extraordinary society shaped modern science (OUP, 2019), the exhibition highlights episodes ... Professorships in scientific subjects were

Its edges are rough and uneven; many leaves have been stained by damp and some corners have been heavily thumbed. ... Some amendments were incorporated into the King James Bible, others not – and MS Ward B sheds new light on how the work of an

26 Jun 2024: Its edges are rough and uneven; many leaves have been stained by damp and some corners have been heavily thumbed. ... Some amendments were incorporated into the King James Bible, others not – and MS Ward B sheds new light on how the work of an

26 Jun 2024: The exhibition includes some additional discoveries made as recently as the last two weeks. ... centuries through some of the more unorthodox artefacts which have found their way into its collections.