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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

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.

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

by“Now wake little people dressed in white,.

16 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

16 Jul 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

16 Jul 2024: 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 help the Cypriot people.

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

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

16 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

16 Jul 2024: vividly portray the people and places he encountered. ... 1931, killing 46 people./p div id="attachment_10858" style="width: 234px" class="wp-caption alignleft"a

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

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.

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.

16 Jul 2024: The Arctic explorers received invaluable assistance from the indigenous peoples of northern North America and Europe, who acted as guides, and taught them how to survive and travel in such a ... A traveler along the Trans-Siberian Railway to the Bering

16 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

16 Jul 2024: also have material relating to people and institutions less known but no less interesting. ... More locally Huntingdon Library and Archive has a display of photographs from The Whitney Collection of Huntingdonshire places, buildings, events and people

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:

16 Jul 2024: first in 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) ... The University Library’s collection of nineteenth-century

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

16 Jul 2024: war-dead/casualty/2339756/FITZWILLIAMS-HYDE,%20ANTHONY%20JOHN"Major Tony Fitzwilliam-Hyde/a[emsic/em] it says, “The people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits”.

16 Jul 2024: 500 people visited the Make and Create tent during the afternoon and 125 concertina books were created.

16 Jul 2024: the people and places he encountered. ... 1931, killing 46 people./p div id="attachment_10858" style="width: 234px" class="wp-caption alignleft"a

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: 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 ... people are up to when we think we’re teaching them poetry.

16 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

16 Jul 2024: p=18063 Almost a hundred years ago, over the night of 14–15 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown became the first people to [.] div ... Sir John Alcock/p/div pAlmost a hundred years ago, over the night of 14–15 June 1919,

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

16 Jul 2024: Westgate’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, a ... Eastman’s slides also include impromptu street scenes capturing people going about

16 Jul 2024: life and times of Charles Darwin and the people who wrote to him.

16 Jul 2024: 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.

16 Jul 2024: Westgate’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, a ... Eastman’s slides also include impromptu street scenes capturing people going about

Although various texts in the Curious Cures collection seek to provide guidance and cures for women’s reproductive health, there were limits to medieval people’s understanding of the more intricate ... Emulating the acts and words of priests,

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

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 ... transfer boxes – your days are numbered!/p/div

1. Although only one operator is depicted in the image, Thomson clarifies in his talk that it would have required at least two people to operate the rope dynamometer in the

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.

16 Jul 2024: 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: 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. ... Caribbean, including the indigenous peoples of modern a href="https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PH-Y-03078

16 Jul 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

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

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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

16 Jul 2024: of indigenous peoples in the Americas: his emBrief Account of the Destruction of the Indies /emwas reprinted in Protestant Europe as a propaganda weapon against Catholic Spain; while his account of

Thank you for uploading these photographs. It is humbling to know people have not forgotten the tragedy of what happened to this city.

16 Jul 2024: 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.

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

16 Jul 2024: Paul’s Cathedral, Guy’s Hospital, Chelsea Hospital and Christie’s. Casualties were light considering that there were 74 people in the RES building at the time.

16 Jul 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