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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. 600th anniversary. Acquisitions. Anniversaries.

During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the […]. This is a regular report on the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) Project.

own experimental evidence and information sent to him by a network of correspondence with people around the world.

bySir John Alcock. 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 fly

There are no lines of derelict and deserted cars. Not very many people about yet but up against the sea wall a crowd of Asians, chiefly Chinese, is gathering looking eastwards

Margaret is the patron saint of people who are pregnant or in labour, and books containing the story of her life would often be present at births.

former member of the department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts, now a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University […]. Have you ever wondered what food and drink medieval people enjoyed

These 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

The 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

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

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

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

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”.

poor 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

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,

Nelson, 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

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. .

Chapman was appointed Official Photographer to the Government of British Columbia, and from 1912 until 1936, concentrated his photographic efforts on people, places and events associated with Victoria, Vancouver and the ... Other images feature British

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

He was interested in the African peoples he encountered during his work and travels. ... 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

The watercolours are dated, and together with frequent annotations, provide vivid impressions of the people and places that Allen encountered upon a long and arduous trip between January and March 1900. ... These include another album of Allen’s

The production of Books of Hours responded to a growing demand from literate lay people, both men and women, for devotional material for personal use. ... The additional texts in MS Ii.6.2 are the subject of a chapter in Professor Eamon Duffy’s Marking

Bush school, Queensland, 1910, Y3085O_8. Recognising that people would be its greatest resource, authors encouraged emigration to Australia to accelerate economic, social and political development. ... The pamphlets include works about Australia’s

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

They were kept in a thick binder bursting with black and white photos of long forgotten buildings and people. ... That file was full of other people just like him, their memories forever encapsulated in those old black and white photos, their stories

One of the earliest known manuscripts of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (MS Kk.5.16). ... As a medievalist by training, I simply had to include the eighth-century manuscript of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People

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,

On the second day, people took turns pitching their initial ideas to the group as a whole – and then a mix-and-mingle / speed-dating exercise saw four teams coalesce around ... Midwife, who was interested in places and people but not confident in using

People will always be people, with peculiar practices and weird and wonderful questions.

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

Hearing the dialect novel or farce sketch performed aloud formed a significant part of people’s leisure time, while also drawing upon and heightening the warm sense of local feeling among ... The University Library’s collection of nineteenth-century

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

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

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,

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

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.

by“Now wake little people dressed in white,.

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:

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Wednesday 27 February: ‘Nature for the people: George Combe’s “Constitution of man”‘.

Although the Parker Library contains hundreds of manuscripts given by Parker to Corpus, he did give manuscripts to other people and institutions.

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

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

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.