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Challenges and their Lessons: Digitising the Collection of Greek Papyri at the British Library.

The primary lesson learned from this was that it is vitally important to follow all steps of the instructions; failing to sharpen the folds led to tangled pop-outs and frustration,

Geismar, Haidy, Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age (London: UCL Press, 2018).

turns. They were probably also directed by their teacher to consider pace, rhythm and volume in preparing their performance, perhaps a lesson activity, perhaps part of a Christmas event in school.

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

From these images COVIC produced a series of illustrated lectures and textbooks which were to be presented as geography lessons to schoolchildren.

University records reveal Thomas Hobson, largely, as a measured operator. Economic expansion and wider access to education during this era assisted the emergence of an increasingly sophisticated urban merchant class. ... As such, his encounters with the

It deals with knowledge and perfection and offers lessons on poetics, grammar, rhetoric, and philosophy.

An example of lessons and songs from the Black Horse Drove School, 1894 (MS Add.10442).

Many of the names indicate the person’s professional or social status, giving an insight into the vibrant and varied economic life of this important medieval town: for example, ‘Willelmus Carpentarius’ (=

An eighteenth-century French work on human understanding referencing Rousseau, Locke and Helvétius, and concentrating particularly on legal and economic systems. .

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

He also spent time in London and, in 1701, visited Halle where he remained for four years giving lessons in Arabic, among others, to the orientalists Christian Benedikt Michaelis and Johann

Metal working, Mayo School, 1908, H. Fisher, Fisher 6_846. Agriculture, economic botany, and the development of important crops such as tea featured prominently.

His papers shed light upon political, military and economic conditions within the country, where Britain was engaged in a significant aid programme.

Thames Gold Fields, Daniel Mundy, 1870, Y3089A/4. Pamphlets encouraged economic growth, in particular the application of new refrigeration technology for the export of frozen meat following William Soltau Davidson’s

used in other fields such as writing, sculpture and architecture, and the cultural, technical and economic factors that have had an influence on their development.

Ortelius had in fact begun his cartographical career out of economic necessity: the early death of his father, when Abraham was only twelve, prompted his mother to make a living selling

They will be an invaluable source for researchers working in economic history, development studies and other disciplines.

Bush school, Queensland, 1910, Y3085O_8. Recognising that people would be its greatest resource, authors encouraged emigration to Australia to accelerate economic, social and political development.