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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. -
Fragments, fragments, fragments – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23740people who are all passionate about increasing the visibility and availability of medieval manuscripts. -
Hard luck – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2055Bridgnorth people had actually have known, who, of those servants, took it from me they would not have told me. -
Festival of Ideas 2017 at the University Library – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15265The rapid growth of information and the numbers of people who can create it means that we need more sophisticated tools to process the news we receive. -
Chapbooks – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=chapbooksBefore 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. -
The CERL annual seminar on collaborative digital methods – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=19061as many people as possible. -
Jacky Cox – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?author=12During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the […]. Documenting what we do, what we see and how we feel, the first donations have arrived for the University -
Changi civilian internment digitisation project – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=11086Approximately 1,100 more people were interned at this time. Although Britons comprised the great majority, the final roll call of internees from Aug. -
Wrongdoing – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=wrongdoingBefore 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. -
Strength in adversity: The hidden stories of two Cambridge Martins –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=28678Centred on the importance of ‘ye people of God joyning together in a fellowship’ (Figure 3), these notes bring together references from each of the sammelband’s texts, alongside dozens of -
Vickers Vimy – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=vickers-vimyAlmost 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 […]. Search for:. Categories. Categories. Select -
Peter Treveris’ Grete herball of 1529 – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=4311The first herbals are believed to have been compiled in China in about 2700BC, and the Egyptian, Graeco-Roman and Arab peoples all produced them. -
The Trial of Jerry McGill – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=4645No longer a believer in Communist doctrine, McGill ‘agreed to supply any facts about [him]self, and to cooperate in any way except to give the names of people who had -
Cambridge University Library Special Collections – Page 63
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?paged=63While cataloguing the GE Moore collection, I stumbled across this […]. Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and -
Dr Emma Saunders – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?author=30and the director of the Royal Observatory […]. For many people the work of the astronomers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory seems like the stuff of science fiction. -
Cambridge University Library Special Collections – Page 23
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?paged=23Whitten Brown became the first people to […]. This is a regular update about the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) project. -
Cambridge University Library Special Collections – Page 48
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?paged=48The latest exhibition to occupy the Library’s Entrance Hall cases concerns Rupert Brooke, who died a century ago this year (23 April 1915) and was […]. For many people the work -
Rank rogues and errant thieves: slander and defamation in the Isle of …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20186Whatever the case, the sheer volume and persistence of cases of slander and defamation in the assizes surely speaks volumes of the desire of ordinary people to use the court system -
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 -
Cambridge University Library Special Collections – Page 26
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?paged=26February is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising […]. The Royal Commonwealth Society department has -
Cambridge University Library Special Collections – Page 12
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?paged=12During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the […]. This guest post by Dr Miranda Griffin (Fellow in French at Murray Edwards College) explores the imagery in two -
Egypt on a tourist’s mind – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14083As this knowledge, however, remained confined to written texts, it did not change the minds of the people who remained at home, and their imaginaries of a backward Orient were confirmed -
The Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15763563, f. 6r. One prominent theme arising from the studied manuscripts was the transfer of knowledge on the European continent, and its mediation by books and people. -
Spreadsheets, shelflists & scones: Special Collections works from …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=19956The project is throwing up lots of fascinating stories about the lives of everyday Fenland people, some of which have made it onto this blog already. -
LGBT History Month at the UL – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15924increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising awareness of matters affecting the LGBT+ community. -
A Journey in Isolation: A Postcard Travelogue – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20003Many postcards like this one of Kiyomizu-dera, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, also give us a interesting glimpse into the lives of people at the time. -
A. N. L. Munby’s Christmas ghost stories – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=11531The scene is described well by Munby, who speaks of a high wind which ‘made the hangings of the bed rustle and flutter…[giving] the illusion of people whispering in the -
The Oldest Javanese Islamic Text at Cambridge University Library –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=25175For example, a lunar eclipse in the third month of the Islamic calendar (Rabingulawal or Rabīʻ al-awwal) portends that many people will experience starvation, while the major Cĕnthini predicts many -
Construction of Lansdowne Bridge, Sukkur, 1885-1889 – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=142531859 and certainly had no role in hanging people in 1889, or in giving prizes. -
A letter of apology to Thomas Young – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=19538The decipherment of these Egyptian languages had proved to be a difficult problem, too difficult for any single scholar, and contributions were made by a number of people most notably -
New additions to the RCS archive catalogue – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=26517and interactions with Maasai peoples. -
The Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: A final farewell…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23049This connection to people from the past makes this binding special. -
The Pilgrims’ tale: the box that moved the Library – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=22437Yet libraries are places for all their people and the history of the library is equally the social history of those who use it and work for it, those stationed in -
The death of Captain Cook – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=8224The peoples of the Pacific, regarded as exotic and captivating in the eighteenth century, were increasingly imagined to be in need of civilisation as growing European empires sought to assume racial -
oral history – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=oral-historyFor many people the work of the astronomers at the Royal Greenwich Observatory seems like the stuff of science fiction. -
Teaching Geography through Illustrated Lectures and Textbooks –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16032He was hired to take photographs and make paintings in order to create a visual record of the people, landscapes and geography of the vast empire. -
Digitisation of the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project: a…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=20239When the photograph outlives the body — when people die, scenes change, trees grow or are chopped down — it becomes a memorial. -
Sir John Alcock – Cambridge University Library Special Collections
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?tag=sir-john-alcockAlmost 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 […]. Search for:. Categories. Categories. Select -
A census of sixteenth-century Venice – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=19725standard styles of handwriting were probably used for such records by a range of people). -
An early Cambridge binding by Nicholas Spierinck – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=7461It 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 -
Rupert Brooke: 100 years on – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=9982Bartholomew captured the mood in Cambridge when he wrote in diary some two months later that “People are losing their heads about him I think,” and two years later Virginia Woolf -
Digitisation – Page 6 – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?cat=89&paged=6Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before reading for pleasure […]. Important manuscripts by Isaac Newton are -
A crowd’s-eye view: the 1897 Cambridge vote for women’s degrees –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=28325The Senate House as University space, the mixed crowd outside the railings, every window and rooftop packed with people. -
A new acquisition from Gabriel Harvey’s library – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=21940Other than the simple pleasure of knowing that a book was once held by people like the Elizabethan polymath John Dee, the great seventeenth-century scientist Isaac Newton, or the -
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 -
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? – -
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 -
Archive Management System update – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=18329At the minimum, the AMS will use the same professional standards for archival catalogues as the Janus project and controlled access terms describing people, organisations, places and subjects will be shared -
Literature of the Liberation: the French experience in print…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=7969Many of the volumes on display are association copies with important dedications, but it is the books themselves that are evidence of the importance that the French people attached to publishing -
Conservation of the Cambridge University Press Archive – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14437The Archive, which continues to expand, contains minute books, financial records, printing ledgers, art work, author correspondence and photographs, all of which give evidence of the people and changing technologies of
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