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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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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