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16 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.

Westerplattes’ 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.

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

16 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

16 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.

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: 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

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

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

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: 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

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

16 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

16 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

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

16 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?

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

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

16 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.

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

16 Jul 2024: The idea that people would deface a centuries old sacred manuscript either with pictures or land charters is risible.

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,

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”.

16 Jul 2024: 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 research ... The University Library’s collection of

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: But I long for the physical. The collections of the UL were made by people, and are nothing without people. ... manuscripts of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (MS Kk.5.16)" width="300" height="202"

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

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

16 Jul 2024: His presentation traced the innovative, complex, contradictory and problematic ways Hirschfeld used images to advance his arguments for medical, legal, political and social respect for homosexual and transgender people./p pOur ... These were regular

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: 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 research ... The University Library’s collection of

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. .

16 Jul 2024: guest post is by a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/kate-falardeau" data-type="link" ... On the second day, people took turns pitching their initial ideas to the group as a whole – and then a mix-and-mingle /

16 Jul 2024: Royal 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 ... align: justify;"For many people the work of the

16 Jul 2024: His presentation traced the innovative, complex, contradictory and problematic ways Hirschfeld used images to advance his arguments for medical, legal, political and social respect for homosexual and transgender people./p pOur ... These were regular

16 Jul 2024: We can imagine it held or pinned up for a group of people to read or, in this case, sing from. ... cam.ac.uk/?p=3590 Before the days of the internet, television and widespread daily newspapers, how did people find out about acts of wrongdoing, and before

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,

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

16 Jul 2024: His presentation traced the innovative, complex, contradictory and problematic ways Hirschfeld used images to advance his arguments for medical, legal, political and social respect for homosexual and transgender people./p pOur ... These were regular

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

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: 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

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

16 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.

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

16 Jul 2024: Along with the photographic project, Fisher was also documenting the different landscapes and people of the British empire through his paintings. ... COVIC. Along with the photographic project, Fisher was also documenting the different landscapes and

16 Jul 2024: guest post is by a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/kate-falardeau" data-type="link" ... On the second day, people took turns pitching their initial ideas to the group as a whole – and then a mix-and-mingle /

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

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

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