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26 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

In 1907 he was hired by the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee (COVIC) to document photographically the people and landscapes of the British Empire to facilitate school education. ... Fisher’s attention is on the human and on their occupation.

Texts about animals especially show a concern for warding off unwanted bugs, worms, and rodents, all creatures that could potentially endanger people’s livelihood and health. ... Whether through invoking saints or using holy water, these texts reflect

His five-volume Egypt’s Place in Universal History argued that ancient people migrated from East to West and brought languages with them. ... He attempted to show that “antedeluvian” people once migrated from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) as

26 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?

To use the words of Dr Jessica Gardner, today’s University Librarian, it reminds us that libraries are ‘profoundly people places’, and that a sense of place is part of what ... makes a library so special to the people who use it.

I told him outright that he wasn’t aware of how much of an egotist he was, that he doesn’t question his right to pass judgment about people, that he ... that he used his power over people to extract worship.

I usually spend my time on those relating to the relatives of enquirers or people of note believed to have attended Cambridge, but occasionally the questions are more complex; recently I ... Temporary transfer boxes – your days are numbered! 12.45pm:

26 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

26 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

The stretch of the Thames between Westminster and the City froze more than a dozen times between 1600 and 1750, a spectacle which drew people from far and wide; during one ... such event, a commentator noted that people came “from all parts forty miles

These were made by some of the people who owned these books during the 15th and 16th centuries – several of whom can be identified by name – and they offer revealing insights ... Brief list of useful introductory resources:. Erik Drigsdahl (†) and

26 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?

It reflects the society’s enduring aim to foster the creative talent of young people throughout the Commonwealth by encouraging literacy, self-expression and imagination.

26 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

are full of detail of the people he met – the Kazakh nomads, the Tatars, Kalmucks and, of course, the Russians. ... He also kept a detailed set of diaries in which he recorded day-to-day events, often making little pen portraits and sketches of the

Thank you for uploading these photographs. It is humbling to know people have not forgotten the tragedy of what happened to this city.

During this time he acquired a first-hand knowledge of the region and its peoples from the grass-roots perspective.

26 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?

Wednesday 27 February: ‘Nature for the people: George Combe’s “Constitution of man”‘.

1865 when the Ijebu King would not allow white people to pass through his territory.

Although the Parker Library contains hundreds of manuscripts given by Parker to Corpus, he did give manuscripts to other people and institutions.

26 Jun 2024: I want to show what was popular among real people, what they wanted to read. ... They are living objects, parts of people’s lives, and can carry those lives on their pages.

Even though it often seems the work of technology, digitisation is largely the work of people — people who sometimes make mistakes.

26 Jun 2024: But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without people.

System go live and training. Our partner organisations have been sending us information about the number of people they would like to receive training/access documentation about ArchivesSpace.

29 Jun 2024: 1859 and certainly had no role in hanging people in 1889, or in giving prizes. ... and, secondly, the British East India Company had surrendered any governing role in India to the British Government in 1859 and certainly had no role in hanging people in

Over 500 people visited the Make and Create tent during the afternoon and 125 concertina books were created.

26 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.

Tungika Atia Iiya Witu?’ (‘What Shall We Do, Our People?’) was a reflection upon contemporary ethics, philosophy and politics.

We call this provenance: tracing the history of single volumes or whole collections through the lives of the people who have owned them. ... reminded of the power such links – to great individuals long dead – can exercise upon people today: a

There is also a forum for participants to share ideas and experiences; almost 5000 people signed up for the first course from 100 different countries.

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26 Jun 2024: Many of these items are uncaptioned, so we would be very grateful for assistance in identifying the people and places shown./p div id="attachment_15600" style="width: 310px" ... this release relate to Samoa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth

For four years between 1940 and 1944, the French people had known him only through his broadcasts on the BBC – or through the vilification of Vichy propaganda.

29 Jun 2024: The idea that people would deface a centuries old sacred manuscript either with pictures or land charters is risible.

Since my intended audience was not necessarily academic, but rather people generally interested in astrology and history, most of the manuscripts I selected for the exhibition, and all of the recipes, ... Of course, there will always be people who click

26 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.

26 Jun 2024: But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without people.

Along with the photographic project, Fisher was also documenting the different landscapes and people of the British empire through his paintings.

Much of the script is devoted to umbrellas and the early role they played in lives of people in China, India, and Tibet.

It should become dirtiest in the parts that people desired to handle the most.

When Arthur arrived, British Honduras was a small, remote frontier settlement populated by about thirty European families, a few companies of the West India Regiment, nearly 1,000 free people of

26 Jun 2024: the people and places he encountered. ... 1931, killing 46 people./p div id="attachment_10858" style="width: 234px" class="wp-caption alignleft"a

26 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

The Archive, which continues to expand, contains minute books, financial records, printing ledgers, art work, author correspondence and photographs, all of which give evidence of the people and changing technologies of

Many of the volumes on display are association copies with important dedications, but it is the books themselves that are evidence of the importance that the French people attached to publishing

Bowen served in India between 1943 and 1947, travelling widely. One of the treasures of the collection is an album of drawings in pencil and related media depicting India’s people,

26 Jun 2024: But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without people.

list of fees paid to various people. ... Mainz. Gutenberg’s early books bore no dates or locations of printing (the first dated book is 1457) so for many years people tried to prove that Haarlem had got there