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16 Jul 2024: 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

16 Jul 2024: Often funny, frequently moving, always inspiring, here are lessons we might draw from history …/p pstrongThwarted travel plans/strong/p pMany of us will have booked tickets and accommodation for adventures ... by Ernest Shackleton edited by Peter King

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. .

16 Jul 2024: p pFor the third part of the book, which considers the wider economic history, sources from a href="https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/official-publications" target="_blank" ... journal, a

16 Jul 2024: Often funny, frequently moving, always inspiring, here are lessons we might draw from history …/p pstrongThwarted travel plans/strong/p pMany of us will have booked tickets and accommodation for adventures ... by Ernest Shackleton edited by Peter King

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

16 Jul 2024: 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

16 Jul 2024: 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

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

16 Jul 2024: 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

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

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

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

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.

In 1970 the Union questioned the wisdom of entering the European Economic Community without sufficient safeguards.

Lime plantation, Roseau Valley, Dominica, 1880s, Daniel Morris, Y307G_31. There are many works of economic botany discussing the sugar industry and its decline, and the introduction and cultivation of cotton,