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29 Jun 2024: Along with the photographic project, Fisher was also documenting the different landscapes and people of the British empire through his paintings. ... COVIC. Along with the photographic project, Fisher was also documenting the different landscapes and

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: album assembled by Margaret ‘Killie’ Campbell (1881-1965) documenting the peoples of southern Africa. ... album and its arrangement, in particular the use of the term ‘tribe’ and the homogenisation of groups of peoples.

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: 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?

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.

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.

26 Jun 2024: a series of guest posts by UL researchers, a href="https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/graduates/Georgia.Thurston"Georgia Thurston/a (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge) shares her ... The University Library’s collection of nineteenth-century

26 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,

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: 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

26 Jun 2024: But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without people. ... manuscripts of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (MS Kk.5.16)" width="300" height="202"

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.

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

III, William Blackwood: Edinburgh, 1868 (RA.24.41). By late February though he is writing to his father that, ‘it is somewhat premature of the people at home to [put?] us ... in all my life I never was in better health. People may talk of the uncertain

26 Jun 2024: history 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 ... justify;"For many people the work of the astronomers at

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

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

26 Jun 2024: a series of guest posts by UL researchers, a href="https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/graduates/Georgia.Thurston"Georgia Thurston/a (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge) shares her ... The University Library’s collection of nineteenth-century

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.

26 Jun 2024: His presentation traced the innovative, complex, contradictory and problematic ways Hirschfeld used images to advance his arguments for medical, legal, political and social respect for homosexual and transgender people./p pOur ... These were regular

26 Jun 2024: We can imagine it held or pinned up for a group of people to read or, in this case, sing from. ... cam.ac.uk/?p=3590 Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before

26 Jun 2024: guest post is by a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/kate-falardeau" data-type="link" ... On the second day, people took turns pitching their initial ideas to the group as a whole – and then a mix-and-mingle /

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.

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

people who wrote to him.

26 Jun 2024: His presentation traced the innovative, complex, contradictory and problematic ways Hirschfeld used images to advance his arguments for medical, legal, political and social respect for homosexual and transgender people./p pOur ... These were regular

26 Jun 2024: a large volume,’ fast asleep!/p pHowever, I’ll draw to a closewith the following conclusion: some things never change./p pPeople will always be people, with peculiar practices and weird

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: 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 country’s

26 Jun 2024: His presentation traced the innovative, complex, contradictory and problematic ways Hirschfeld used images to advance his arguments for medical, legal, political and social respect for homosexual and transgender people./p pOur ... These were regular

26 Jun 2024: Since 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 ... By the eighteenth century there was a vast number of recipe books, which not only brought together

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,

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

in 1684) after seeing too many young people in pubs and coffee houses. ... at this period) its contents were neglected by the local people for whom it had been established in favour of improved opportunities of learning and access to books.

26 Jun 2024: 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./p pNo prior knowledge of manuscripts

to it in shape; the Xi people like its music; regarding its construction: the two strings are rubbed by a bamboo strip in between them and sounded in this manner; it ... is used amongst the common people to this day; not perhaps a process of employing

1860). Maps.c.18.H.116. Although it didn’t catch on in great numbers, this shows that now increasingly detailed and accurate mapping was more widely available, people were discovering ... It is a process that must have involved thousands of people with

The story of his downfall is soon told; his belief in the Divine Right of Kings and apparent Catholic sympathies led to unpopularity with the people and Parliament, the ultimate result ... Dr Juxon’s comment echoes the sense of martyrdom felt by the

RCMS 371_5_424 Sakai hunters, Malaya, 1929. Hugh was an accomplished amateur photographer and artist, and the collection preserves over 800 photographs and postcards recording their travel and the people