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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. 18 January 2023. by Special Collections. A guest post by Matthew Coulter In libraries across the world there are boxes and boxes of fragments from medieval texts. Between the 15th and […]. Posted on. 12

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. 27 February 2023. by Special Collections. Post by Alina Wanitzek (Assistant Librarian, Department of Psychology) In October 2022, San Francisco–based queer public historian and book dealer Gerard Koskovich

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

This treatise addressing lessons for rulers has been copied on different paper with different hand and ink (also “Red Lead” pigment). ... Providing instruction, lessons, patterns for rulers as well as giving general recommendations on statecraft, his

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

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

Often funny, frequently moving, always inspiring, here are lessons we might draw from history …. Thwarted travel plans. Many of us will have booked tickets and accommodation for adventures far from home, ... Shackleton’s Way: Leadership Lessons from

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.

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.

The twentieth century saw the greatest levels of emigration from Ukraine, for economic, social and political reasons.

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,

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

A transcontinental railway was considered essential for political unity and economic development, and for the opening of the western territories to emigration.

The personal papers of Michael Redhead, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science 1987-96, are at the London School of Economics Library.

methodologies. Although these new realms are incredibly exciting, it is important not to forget the lessons learnt.

Library of Economics in Cambridge – via the economist Piero Sraffa – from where it was eventually sent with other rare material to the University Library. .

presents a bird’s-eye view of the city revealing features that include the tightly enclosed core of the town centre, the economic and social centre around the Market Place (which

appears to be that the economics of magazine production made the rag mag increasingly unviable as a means of raising money.

Jenkinson gave her Greek lessons, and they discovered a shared passion for music and gardening; in 1887 she became close to his wife Marian (née Wetton).