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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=810229 Jun 2024: Some of the people I recognised, if only by name. I had a lump in my throat as I loved my 7 years at this wonderful place. ... Some of the people I recognised, if only by name. I had a lump in my throat as I loved my 7 years at this wonderful place./p By: -
Caribbean photographs – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=17872Vincent’s volcano La Soufrière in May 1902. The event devastated much of the northern part of the island and killed approximately 1,600 people. ... The diverse population of the Caribbean, including the indigenous peoples of modern Honduras and Belize, -
Completion of Royal Commonwealth Society glass plate project! –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=17410Westgate’s glass plates provide a vivid pictorial history of his work, and reflect his interest in the traditions and culture of the people among whom he lived, Y30469F/GN. ... Eastman’s slides also include impromptu street scenes capturing people -
Voices from SANAC – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=26715We have seen in the history of the people of other nations that this is a good system’ (Vol. ... Supplying information to my people. […] What is your object in doing that; do you want to enlighten them? – -
Historian’s thoughts turn to Gold: a guest post by Owain Richards –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=3594The collection captures the different levels of political and cultural engagement between colonial civil servants, local authorities and the local people themselves, particularly the Ashanti. ... Burns. Y30448Q/23 and 29 are, however, more characteristic -
Dirt, Dust and Dodgy Joists, or, Memoirs of a Determined Archivist –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16230People die and their relatives contact an archive service, a business closes down, a hospital moves to a new building, solicitors want to make some space. ... There is no doubt that the people who should take the credit for that ‘discovery’ is those -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=322529 Jun 2024: It is humbling to know people have not forgotten the tragedy of what happened to this city. ... pThank you for uploading these photographs. It is humbling to know people have not forgotten the tragedy of what happened to this city./p. -
Grief in a Time of Plague: Scripture and Therapeutics in…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=25605Do the jinn consciously intend to sting people, or does contagion occur through happenstance? ... How is it that people can contract the plague in the month of Ramadan, when the jinn are bound and fettered? -
Decolonising photographic practices: the outcomes of collaboration…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24482This is an untitled album assembled by Margaret ‘Killie’ Campbell (1881-1965) documenting the peoples of southern Africa. ... There are accompanying typescript captions and explanatory notes supplied by Campbell, some of which use anachronistic or -
Blackout: war time school life – Cambridge University Library Special …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23024Westerplattes’ defence inspired the Polish Army and people even as German advances continued elsewhere. ... Operation Pied Piper began on 1. st. September 1939 and officially relocated more than 3.5 million people. -
The return of Mary Jones’ Bible to Bala – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=12423When Mary met Rev Charles, her determination to have her own Bible in Welsh profoundly impacted on him, and he wanted to help other people who – like Mary – longed for bibles ... On Saturday 19 March over 1,000 people came between 10:00am and 4:00pm -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=746129 Jun 2024: It notes that he was from a family of Netherlandish stationers (a word used to describe people who dealt with the various aspects of book production and sale, including printers, binders -
‘… superb photographs of very great interest’: an album of New Guinea …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=5313Nelson, and it was Dyer’s task to document these (he also took general views of the villages, landscape and people). ... Dear Antje Lübcke,. I am writing a book about the lagatoi in history and these photographs would be a great addition to the people -
‘Moore Bede’ on TV and in ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2514The University Library’s famous ‘Moore Bede’ manuscript, featured in the first episode of Michael Wood’s new BBC2 series The Great British Story: A People’s History, is now on ... The Moore Bede’ (MS Kk.5.16), is the second oldest surviving -
Magnus Hirschfeld & sex reform – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24602These were regular people with their own lives and opinions, and they didn’t always agree with Hirschfeld’s medical conclusions about themselves. ... and sexuality, from ancient Greek statues to people hanging out at a lesbian bar in Weimar-era Berlin -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=webb26 Jun 2024: Westerplattes’ defence inspired the Polish Army and people even as German advances continued elsewhere. ... Operation Pied Piper began on 1supst/sup September 1939 and officially relocated more than 3.5 million people. -
Papers of a forgotten folklorist: Charles Dack – Cambridge University …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15100Popular beliefs, customs and legends that a generation earlier had been despised by virtually all educated people and earmarked for eradication became a matter of intense interest to genteel amateurs during ... Many people were eager to cling to the -
New Royal Commonwealth Society Glass Negatives and Lantern Slides –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15589Many of these items are uncaptioned, so we would be very grateful for assistance in identifying the people and places shown. . ... Two other important collections in this release relate to Samoa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, -
The Great Fire of London – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=13020poor people [stayed] in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then [ran] into boats … among other things, the poor pigeons, I perceive, were loth to ... Indeed. One collector lost his entire library and Pepys recorded that he -
Simon Armitage on Ukraine: a new acquisition – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23530By way of showing solidarity with the people of Ukraine, Esslemont created this illustrated edition of the poem in book form to highlight the awful recurrent and ubiquitous nature of war, -
Christmas cookery in the University Library – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=11402Since paper was scarce, people often scribbed recipes down on the endleaves of books in their possession, as in the example at the head of this post (a religious book in ... By the eighteenth century there was a vast number of recipe books, which not -
A Quaker bequest to the University Library – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14434Dissatisfied with the Church of England’s teachings, George Fox (one of the movement’s founders) experienced a vision in 1652, spreading his belief that people could enjoy a direct experience ... Usually on permanent display in Cumbria over 11,000 -
Secrets of the Erpenius copy of the Killing Story of Husain in…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24302It is well-known that Turkic people were active throughout Persianate Central and South Asia at that time. ... a verse from the Qur’an (Q 9:97) which says that “The desert Arabs are the most stubborn of all peoples in their disbelief and hypocrisy”. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=ashanti26 Jun 2024: The collection captures the different levels of political and cultural engagement between colonial civil servants, local authorities and the local people themselves, particularly the Ashanti./p pY30448Q/14 and 15 are ... Y30448Q/23 and 29 are, however, -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=bala26 Jun 2024: When Mary met Rev Charles, her determination to have her own Bible in Welsh profoundly impacted on him, and he wanted to help other people who – like Mary – longed for bibles ... On Saturday 19 March over 1,000 people came between 10:00am and 4:00pm -
Childbirth and charms: two new online exhibitions – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=28528Although various texts in the Curious Cures collection seek to provide guidance and cures for women’s reproductive health, there were limits to medieval people’s understanding of the more intricate ... Emulating the acts and words of priests, -
‘World’s loneliest white man’ – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=10840RCMS 381_2 Three Sisters Plantation, British Solomon Islands, 1938. Although few in number, French’s letters from Australia and the Solomon Islands vividly portray the people and places he encountered. ... 1931, killing 46 people. . -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=michael-wood26 Jun 2024: People’s History/em/a, is now on display at Cambridge University Library./p pMichael Wood and crew came to film at the UL last July. ... The Moore Bede’ (MS Kk.5.16), is the second oldest surviving copy of Bede’s emEcclesiastical History of the -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=kabuki26 Jun 2024: promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising [.] pFebruary is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing ... the visibility of lesbian, -
Moving to the new University Library in 1934 – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=8102The third, from which photographs appear below, records the move of books and other paraphernalia from the old library to the new, focusing on the people involved (it is now ... Some of the people I recognised, if only by name. I had a lump in my throat -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=genizah26 Jun 2024: promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising [.] pFebruary is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing ... the visibility of lesbian, -
‘These tremendous years’ – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=11653Chapman was appointed Official Photographer to the Government of British Columbia, and from 1912 until 1936, concentrated his photographic efforts on people, places and events associated with Victoria, Vancouver and the ... Other images feature British -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=film26 Jun 2024: Royal Greenwich Observatory https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=10820 For many people the work of the astronomers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory seems like the stuff of science ... align: justify;"For many people the work of the -
Dear Archivist: A Compendium of Enquiries – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14845People will always be people, with peculiar practices and weird and wonderful questions. -
‘I dared not dream that this dream had come true’: musings on special …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20244But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without people. -
Missionary journey to Uganda in 1900 – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16577The watercolours are dated, and together with frequent annotations, provide vivid impressions of the people and places that Allen encountered upon a long and arduous trip between January and March 1900. ... These include another album of Allen’s -
Recent Acquisitions: Manuscript Books of Hours – Cambridge University …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=9196The production of Books of Hours responded to a growing demand from literate lay people, both men and women, for devotional material for personal use. ... The additional texts in MS Ii.6.2 are the subject of a chapter in Professor Eamon Duffy’s Marking -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=plague26 Jun 2024: Do the emjinn /emconsciously intend to sting people, or does contagion occur through happenstance? ... How is it that people can contract the plague in the month of Ramadan, when the emjinn /emare bound and fettered? -
Archives of John Seymour Benson – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=8929He was interested in the African peoples he encountered during his work and travels. ... One of the highlights of the collection is an album of photographs he created during this time, documenting the dress, dances and other customs of the people of the -
Nineteenth-century Australian pamphlets – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20744Bush 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 pamphlets include works about Australia’s -
Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition – Cambridge University Library …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=19248They were kept in a thick binder bursting with black and white photos of long forgotten buildings and people. ... That file was full of other people just like him, their memories forever encapsulated in those old black and white photos, their stories -
Nineteenth-century dialect writing – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20340Hearing the dialect novel or farce sketch performed aloud formed a significant part of people’s leisure time, while also drawing upon and heightening the warm sense of local feeling among ... The University Library’s collection of nineteenth-century -
His Royal Favour: the Books that Built the Library – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=11017One of the earliest known manuscripts of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (MS Kk.5.16). ... As a medievalist by training, I simply had to include the eighth-century manuscript of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People -
Cure This! Medieval maladies and the 2023 Hands:On Hackathon –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=26411On the second day, people took turns pitching their initial ideas to the group as a whole – and then a mix-and-mingle / speed-dating exercise saw four teams coalesce around ... Midwife, who was interested in places and people but not confident in using -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=wrongdoing26 Jun 2024: Library Digitisation Exhibitions Broadsides Chapbooks Spain Wrongdoing https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=3590 Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find ... div pBefore the days of the -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=pandemic26 Jun 2024: Do the emjinn /emconsciously intend to sting people, or does contagion occur through happenstance? ... How is it that people can contract the plague in the month of Ramadan, when the emjinn /emare bound and fettered? -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=type26 Jun 2024: Cambridge University Libraries staff involved in the project include,a href="https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/research-institute/people/maciej-pawlikowski"Maciej Pawlikowski/a(Co-Investigator) anda ... lib.cam.ac.uk/research-institute/people/liam-sims"Liam -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=folklore26 Jun 2024: Popular beliefs, customs and legends that a generation earlier had been despised by virtually all educated people and earmarked for eradication became a matter of intense interest to genteel amateurs during ... Many people were eager to cling to the -
Polar exploration – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=22787The Arctic explorers received invaluable assistance from the indigenous peoples of northern North America and Europe, who acted as guides, and taught them how to survive and travel in such a ... A traveler along the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Bering -
A Victorian Christmas Advent Calendar: 24th December – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=3986by“Now wake little people dressed in white,.
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