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The aim of COVIC’s scheme was to create a series of lectures accompanied by lantern slides which could be used in geography lessons in schools; the texts along with the ... The pictures also depict economic activities and everyday lives in the countries

And herein lies the first lesson of this ‘collection of collections’: they are always greater than they appear on the surface, both compelling as medieval survivals, and deeply tied to the ... Herein the second lesson: fragments are invaluable

Category: Special Collections. Posted on. 12 January 2023. by Sally Kent. Creating new connections: shared digital curation of the RCS southern African collections at Cambridge University Library A two-year project is underway at Cambridge

Category: Manuscripts. Posted on. 31 December 2022. by Special Collections. This Christmas we bring you a spine-chilling ritual for conjuring spirits from the margins of a medieval manuscript that features in our current Curious Cures […]. A post

Author: Special Collections. Posted on. 20 February 2023. by Special Collections. Post by Sam Evans (Assistant Archivist, Archives & Modern Manuscripts) Last year, the University Library acquired a substantial part of the Paget family archive as […

Category: Medieval manuscripts. Posted on. 31 July 2023. by Liam Sims. This post is by the inaugural Oschinsky Research Associate, Dr James White. James is working with a core group of forty Arabic and Persian manuscripts which […]. This guest

It contains a dated record of lessons received from Charles Froud in 1729-30 by an aristocratic young pupil in rural Kent. ... Over a period of about six months, from January to June, forty-eight lessons took place, more than two per week.

Subject matter ranges from college lessons and sports teams to the 1939 Accra Earthquake and the visit of the Ashantehene. ... Geography lesson at Achimota College, RCS Y30448H/11. An aerial photograph of the college taken in the 1950s clearly shows the

However, bestiaries are not natural historical texts. The descriptions and depictions of animals are intended to serve a spiritual, didactic purpose: readers were to extrapolate specific moral or ethical lessons from ... It is not clear exactly what

more interested in the looks, the clothes, the gestures, of the individual teachers than I was in their lessons. ... Dear Miss Kay! of the cropped iron grey hair with fringe (and heavy black moustache!) … Hers was the expression ‘crème de la

of Consort Lessons (1599, reprinted 1611) and it also includes an important group of some thirty-five lute ‘treble’ duets. ... Mixed Consort. Thomas Morley, The First Book of Consort Lessons; La Caccia / Patrick Deneker, Philippe Malfeyt (Ricercar

Africa. They shed light upon the complex combination of political, economic, social and ideological forces within Britain, Europe and Africa, which drove imperial expansion during this period, beginning with the British ... Many authors discuss

some will take to it more quickly than others, and the duration of the lesson must depend on the learner himself and the amount of mechanical aptitude which he may be

You can see from the plan just how important fruit growing was to the economic life of the village at this time.

For the third part of the book, which considers the wider economic history, sources from Official Publications provided the basis for a detailed analysis. ... journal, Fruit Intelligence, produced by the Commonwealth Economics Unit, on the UK and global

Perhaps this calamitous experience proved a salutary lesson to Maxim because, though he continued his aeronautical research for some years hence, he and his craft never flew again.

Category: Fragmentarium project. Posted on. 4 August 2023. by Special Collections. This guest post is by Héléna Lagreou, who is studying for her PhD at the University of Cambridge. The work she describes here was conducted […]. Posted on. 18

They represent an invaluable record of a thousand years of the religious, social, economic and cultural life of the Mediterranean world.

The COVIC produced sets of lantern slides which were to be presented as a series of geography lessons to school children.

add considerably more to our understanding of the economics and aesthetics of engraved books than Peignot’s selection of literature and history. ... To start with, some of the more modest publications may have been produced as engraved books for simple