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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. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=322516 Jul 2024: It is humbling to know people have not forgotten the tragedy of what happened to this city. ... pThank you for uploading these photographs. It is humbling to know people have not forgotten the tragedy of what happened to this city./p. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=webb16 Jul 2024: Westerplattes’ defence inspired the Polish Army and people even as German advances continued elsewhere. ... Operation Pied Piper began on 1supst/sup September 1939 and officially relocated more than 3.5 million people. -
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 -
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. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=746116 Jul 2024: It 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=ashanti16 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, -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=bala16 Jul 2024: 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 -
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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=michael-wood16 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=kabuki16 Jul 2024: equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising [.] pFebruary is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the ... visibility of lesbian, gay, -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=genizah16 Jul 2024: equality and diversity by increasing the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and raising [.] pFebruary is LGBT History Month, an annual event promoting equality and diversity by increasing the ... visibility of lesbian, gay, -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=film16 Jul 2024: 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 fiction. ... justify;"For many people the work of the astronomers -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=plague16 Jul 2024: Do the emjinn /emconsciously intend to sting people, or does contagion occur through happenstance? ... How is it that people can contract the plague in the month of Ramadan, when the emjinn /emare bound and fettered? -
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 -
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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=pandemic16 Jul 2024: Do the emjinn /emconsciously intend to sting people, or does contagion occur through happenstance? ... How is it that people can contract the plague in the month of Ramadan, when the emjinn /emare bound and fettered? -
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? – -
Completion of Royal Commonwealth Society glass plate project! –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=17410Westgate’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, Y30469F/GN. ... Eastman’s slides also include impromptu street scenes capturing people -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=wrongdoing16 Jul 2024: Library Digitisation Exhibitions Broadsides Chapbooks Spain Wrongdoing https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=3590 Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find ... div pBefore the days of the -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=folklore16 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=type16 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=oschinsky16 Jul 2024: Do the emjinn /emconsciously intend to sting people, or does contagion occur through happenstance? ... How is it that people can contract the plague in the month of Ramadan, when the emjinn /emare bound and fettered? -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=illustrated-books16 Jul 2024: I 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. -
Grief in a Time of Plague: Scripture and Therapeutics in…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=25605Do the jinn consciously intend to sting people, or does contagion occur through happenstance? ... How is it that people can contract the plague in the month of Ramadan, when the jinn are bound and fettered? -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=keats16 Jul 2024: But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without people. -
Historian’s thoughts turn to Gold: a guest post by Owain Richards –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=3594The collection captures the different levels of political and cultural engagement between colonial civil servants, local authorities and the local people themselves, particularly the Ashanti. ... Burns. Y30448Q/23 and 29 are, however, more characteristic -
Dirt, Dust and Dodgy Joists, or, Memoirs of a Determined Archivist –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=16230People die and their relatives contact an archive service, a business closes down, a hospital moves to a new building, solicitors want to make some space. ... There is no doubt that the people who should take the credit for that ‘discovery’ is those -
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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=george-i16 Jul 2024: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (MS Kk.5.16)" width="300" height="202" ... 11022" class="wp-caption-text"One of the earliest known manuscripts of Bede’s emEcclesiastical History of the English People/em (MS Kk.5.16)/p/div pAs a -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=school-life16 Jul 2024: Westerplattes’ defence inspired the Polish Army and people even as German advances continued elsewhere. ... Operation Pied Piper began on 1supst/sup September 1939 and officially relocated more than 3.5 million people. -
Blackout: war time school life – Cambridge University Library Special …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23024Westerplattes’ defence inspired the Polish Army and people even as German advances continued elsewhere. ... Operation Pied Piper began on 1. st. September 1939 and officially relocated more than 3.5 million people. -
The return of Mary Jones’ Bible to Bala – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=12423When 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=samoa16 Jul 2024: Many of these items are uncaptioned, so we would be very grateful for assistance in identifying the people and places shown./p div id="attachment_15600" style="width: 310px" ... this release relate to Samoa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=war-journals16 Jul 2024: Westerplattes’ defence inspired the Polish Army and people even as German advances continued elsewhere. ... Operation Pied Piper began on 1supst/sup September 1939 and officially relocated more than 3.5 million people. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=digital16 Jul 2024: But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without people. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=peterborough16 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=copra16 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 -
‘… superb photographs of very great interest’: an album of New Guinea …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=5313Nelson, 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=endymion16 Jul 2024: But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without people. -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=benson16 Jul 2024: 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 country’s -
Magnus Hirschfeld & sex reform – Cambridge University Library…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24602These 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=mining16 Jul 2024: 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 country’s -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=1425316 Jul 2024: 1859 and certainly had no role in hanging people in 1889, or in giving prizes. ... and, secondly, the British East India Company had surrendered any governing role in India to the British Government in 1859 and certainly had no role in hanging people in -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=john-clare16 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=black-death16 Jul 2024: Do the emjinn /emconsciously intend to sting people, or does contagion occur through happenstance? ... How is it that people can contract the plague in the month of Ramadan, when the emjinn /emare bound and fettered? -
‘Moore Bede’ on TV and in ‘Shelf Lives’ exhibition – Cambridge…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=2514The 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 -
The Great Fire of London – Cambridge University Library Special…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=13020poor 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 -
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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&tag=decolonisation16 Jul 2024: album assembled by Margaret ‘Killie’ Campbell (1881-1965) documenting the peoples of southern Africa. ... album and its arrangement, in particular the use of the term ‘tribe’ and the homogenisation of groups of peoples. -
Papers of a forgotten folklorist: Charles Dack – Cambridge University …
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15100Popular 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
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