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A Quaker bequest to the University Library – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14434Dissatisfied with the Church of England’s teachings, George Fox (one of the movement’s founders) experienced a vision in 1652, spreading his belief that people could enjoy a direct experience ... The school, which still exists, is divided into four -
Every subject under the sun, or how to categorise archival enquiries…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15054But in an effort to understand our constituencies better, exactly what are people asking about? ... As anticipated, the majority of our enquiries, whether from within or without the University, relate to alumni. -
Broughton Parish Library: preservation and conservation – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=7905in 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. -
Manuscripts – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=manuscriptsHave you ever wondered what food and drink medieval people enjoyed during Christmastime? ... was kindly donated to the Library in 2018 and comprises 80 letters all of which were sent to William Kemp, an amateur geologist, […]. As part of the Alumni -
Richard Relhan Revealed: a guest post by Alexandra Saunders, John…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=22157In the medical hierarchy these were not highly regarded, but were the first resort in medical need for most people. ... This drawing shows a cart with 2 people on board, one a man in a blue coat who appears in several other drawings. Results that match 1 of 2 words
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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. -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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. -
In search of the erhu 尋覓二胡: an exhibition by Colin Huehns – Cambridge …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=4399to 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 -
Zodiac Men and Talking Books: two new online exhibitions – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=25492Since 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 -
Digging Deeper 2 launches today – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=9965There is also a forum for participants to share ideas and experiences; almost 5000 people signed up for the first course from 100 different countries. -
Liberation Lecture and Pop-up Exhibition – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15254For 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. -
Darwin Correspondence Project launches their new website on Darwin’s…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=11874people who wrote to him. -
Pictures, Perspectives and Plans – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=75041860). 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 -
Childbirth and charms: two new online exhibitions – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=28528Although 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, -
The Papers of Sir John Glover – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=71681865 when the Ijebu King would not allow white people to pass through his territory. -
Manuscripts – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?cat=6and drink medieval people enjoyed during Christmastime? -
A chance discovery: Guest post by Jason Scott-Warren – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15246And yet the well has cured old people, sick babies and barren women: ‘O Blessed place! -
Joyful Sounds of Salvation – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24070We can imagine it held or pinned up for a group of people to read or, in this case, sing from. -
Queer – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=queeran annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]. During February the University Library joined with a number of colleges -
Nineteenth-century Canadian pamphlets – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20483Manitoba in 1870, the North-West Rebellion of 1885, and comment upon the treatment of the region’s indigenous peoples. -
An Ottoman cosmography – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=1162He is considered to be one of the first people to introduce the Copernican view of the solar system to Ottoman readers. -
Henry Bradshaw: an Irish book collector? – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=25359For many people, some of the most interesting, and visually appealing, material in the collection is the Irish language material. -
A roaring success: the inaugural Cambridge Dissertation Fair! –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16865They chatted to people on various stalls for ages, even if the material held at that institution wasn’t directly relevant to them. -
Medieval manuscripts – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?cat=1376scholars have been writing about the importance of his personal library which arrived at […]. Have you ever wondered what food and drink medieval people enjoyed during Christmastime? -
World War Two – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?cat=1578During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the […]. Search for:. Categories. Categories. Select Category. 600th anniversary. Acquisitions. Anniversaries. Architecture. -
Shanghai and the May 30th Movement: guest post by Elena Fulgheri –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=17262The first, pictured at the left, declares: ‘Christianity, like hypnotism, is used by imperialists on weak peoples, making them lose their souls without knowing it.’. -
film – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=filmFor many people the work of the astronomers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory seems like the stuff of science fiction. -
Digitising the volumes of the South African Native Affairs Commission …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=25318The report, published in February 1905, advocated, amongst other things, for territorial and political separation along racial grounds, the industrial and manual education (as opposed to literary education) of African peoples, -
Near and Middle Eastern – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?cat=9During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the […]. 1…Search for:. Categories. Categories. Select Category. 600th anniversary. Acquisitions. Anniversaries. Architecture. -
Cape Town Anti-Convict Petition, 1849 – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20328signed by 450 people:. -
Anniversaries – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?cat=869the night of 14–15 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown became the first people to […]. The scenes of jubilation in Britain at the end of the -
John Wells – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?author=6Brown became the first people to […]. On Tuesday 28 May, at 2.15 p.m., Lise Jaillant will give a talk in the Milstein Room, University Library, West Road, on “Archival -
Shared digital curation of southern African collections – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24205Image from an album documenting the peoples of southern Africa, compiled by Killie Campbell (1881-1965), a collector of Africana (RCS/Y305O/36). -
Robert Hooke and his Micrographia – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=9478forever the way people thought about the world around them. -
Rare Caribbean pamphlets – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20038The RCS pamphlets shed light upon many other fields of Caribbean history, including early examinations of indigenous peoples, European settlement, the birth of ports and towns, and struggles to combat endemic -
Word & image in a sixteenth-century prayer book – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=21299This meant they could be acquired by people of more average means, and might be stuck up on walls in their homes or pasted into books, as here. -
Spain – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=spainBefore the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before reading for pleasure […]. Search for:. Categories. Categories. Select Category. -
kabuki – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=kabukiFebruary is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]. Search for:. Categories. Categories. Select Category. -
Broadsides – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=broadsidesBefore the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before reading for pleasure […]. Search for:. Categories. Categories. Select Category. -
Letters from Civil War America – Cambridge University Library Special …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=12925Stanley was appalled by what he saw, ‘it seemed as if life & energy, almost humanity, had been crushed out of the people’ (9 June 1864). -
Cambridge University Library Special Collections – Page 3
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?paged=3candidate in English Literature at the University […]. Have you ever wondered what food and drink medieval people enjoyed during Christmastime? -
Genizah – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=genizahFebruary is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]. Search for:. Categories. Categories. Select Category. -
Cambridge University history – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?cat=926During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the […]. By Jacqueline Cox (Keeper of University Archives) 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the election of the poet George -
Japanese – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?cat=14is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]. Celebrating 20 Years of the Aoi Pavilion: -
Boxing Clever, Round 1: Thinking inside the box – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=13788One especially large box we made recently required several people to help cover it!
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