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These have the power to evoke our own memories of poetry at school, and they bear witness to changing ideas about young people and what they should be doing in school. ... Despised, adored or ignored, used school poetry anthologies have lots to tell us

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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.

14 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

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

14 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?

14 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

14 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.

14 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 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:

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

14 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.

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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

14 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

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.