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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=manuscripts16 Jul 2024: 26866 Have you ever wondered what food and drink medieval people enjoyed during Christmastime? ... Project Cataloguers Sarah Gilbert and Clarck Drieshen…/p pHave you ever wondered what food and drink medieval people enjoyed during Christmastime? -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=maps-216 Jul 2024: This includes both French and English authorities, many of which appear to have been donated from private collections curated by college alumni. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=francis-jenkinson16 Jul 2024: Francis Jenkinson – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:16:17 0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6 Thomas Richard Brown (1791-1875): poet, clergyman & -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=conservation16 Jul 2024: This connection to people from the past makes this binding special./p figure class="wp-block-image size-large"a Results that match 1 of 2 words
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Archive Management System update – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20670Documentation update. The AMS documentation for data contributors has been further updated with new guidance on creating agent records for people, corporate bodies and families. -
Queering the UL – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=17171February is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising awareness of matters affecting these communities. -
Make and Create – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=10742Over 500 people visited the Make and Create tent during the afternoon and 125 concertina books were created. -
Of hammers, bouts and bets: a guest post by Jaap Harskamp – Cambridge …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=5285Spring again showed his superiority. Some 20,000 people are said to have been present. . ... Such was his fame that his burial at Highgate Cemetery was attended by 10,000 people. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=531316 Jul 2024: 5313#comment-26391 Dear Antje Lübcke, I am writing a book about the lagatoi in history and these photographs would be a great addition to the people of Papua New Guinea. ... these photographs would be a great addition to the people of Papua New Guinea. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=indonesia16 Jul 2024: photographer and artist, and the collection preserves over 800 photographs and postcards recording their travel and the people they encountered, as well as images of Hugh’s paintings of butterflies, landscapes -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=2263716 Jul 2024: Sir James had written the first few chapters. He was only 3 months old at the time of the Festival so people must have talked about it for years afterwards or -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=716816 Jul 2024: white people to pass through his territory. ... 1865 when the Ijebu King would not allow white people to pass through his territory. -
Unusual pictures from the Manuscripts Department as it launches Image …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=6188The name ‘Manuscripts Department’ probably makes most people think of hand-written medieval parchment books with illustrations of a religious nature. ... We also have material relating to people and institutions less known but no less interesting. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=1302016 Jul 2024: Indeed. One collector lost his entire library and Pepys recorded that he died soon after, people said of a broken heart. ... that he died soon after, people said of a broken heart. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=810216 Jul 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: -
Newly-identified Cypriot letter: guest post by Vasiliki Vartholomaiou …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14636Cypriot independence letter, Y3018I_6. I am going to examine the use of language and how it informs our understanding of the struggles of the Cypriot people at this time. ... With this property Nikolaos has the means to proceed with any action that will -
The Rose Book Collecting prize 2022: Illustrated books from…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23398I 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. -
Help for all: alms-giving in 17th century Ely – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=18703Many of the gifts appear to be small amounts to people in need who were travelling through Ely, perhaps to pay for the next stage of their journey. ... What caught my attention was the variety of people being helped and the snapshot the accounts provide -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=322516 Jul 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. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=webb16 Jul 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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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=746116 Jul 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=ashanti16 Jul 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, -
Siegfried Sassoon on Armistice Day – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16833It was a wretched wet night, & very mild. [Richmond] Temple took me to dine with some people called Bigham (in Cheyne Walk) – B. ... Bigham & Godley argued that it is a very fine sight to see the people behaving in Bank Holiday style, & they got very -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=bala16 Jul 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 -
Grounds for enthusiasm: the University Library outside – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=21626During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the need to keep people safe also had an impact outside. ... The government’s 1941 ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign, which encouraged people to grow their own food at a time of rationing, saw -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=michael-wood16 Jul 2024: famous ‘Moore Bede’ manuscript, featured in the first episode of Michael Wood’s new BBC2 series a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00r12j3"emThe Great British Story: A ... The Moore Bede’ (MS Kk.5.16), is the second oldest surviving copy of -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=kabuki16 Jul 2024: 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, gay, -
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? – -
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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=genizah16 Jul 2024: 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, gay, -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=film16 Jul 2024: 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 fiction. ... justify;"For many people the work of the astronomers -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=plague16 Jul 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? -
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 -
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? -
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 -
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. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=pandemic16 Jul 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? -
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&tag=wrongdoing16 Jul 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=folklore16 Jul 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=type16 Jul 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=oschinsky16 Jul 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=illustrated-books16 Jul 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. -
‘… 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 -
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=keats16 Jul 2024: But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without 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 -
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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=george-i16 Jul 2024: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (MS Kk.5.16)" width="300" height="202" ... 11022" class="wp-caption-text"One of the earliest known manuscripts of Bede’s emEcclesiastical History of the English People/em (MS Kk.5.16)/p/div pAs a
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