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

Many of these items are uncaptioned, so we would be very grateful for assistance in identifying the people and places shown. . ... Two other important collections in this release relate to Samoa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,

It is well-known that Turkic people were active throughout Persianate Central and South Asia at that time. ... a verse from the Qur’an (Q 9:97) which says that “The desert Arabs are the most stubborn of all peoples in their disbelief and hypocrisy”.

16 Jul 2024: 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 research ... The University Library’s collection of

By way of showing solidarity with the people of Ukraine, Esslemont created this illustrated edition of the poem in book form to highlight the awful recurrent and ubiquitous nature of war,

16 Jul 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"

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 religious book in ... By the eighteenth century there was a vast number of recipe books, which not

16 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

16 Jul 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

16 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,

16 Jul 2024: 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 research ... The University Library’s collection of

RCMS 381_2 Three Sisters Plantation, British Solomon Islands, 1938. Although few in number, French’s letters from Australia and the Solomon Islands vividly portray the people and places he encountered. ... 1931, killing 46 people. .

16 Jul 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 /

16 Jul 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

16 Jul 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

16 Jul 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

Vincent’s volcano La Soufrière in May 1902. The event devastated much of the northern part of the island and killed approximately 1,600 people. ... The diverse population of the Caribbean, including the indigenous peoples of modern Honduras and Belize,

The third, from which photographs appear below, records the move of books and other paraphernalia from the old library to the new, focusing on the people involved (it is now ... Some of the people I recognised, if only by name. I had a lump in my throat

16 Jul 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

16 Jul 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