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https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=1302029 Jun 2024: Indeed. One collector lost his entire library and Pepys recorded that he died soon after, people said of a broken heart. ... that he died soon after, people said of a broken heart. -
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? – -
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=8102
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=810229 Jun 2024: Some of the people I recognised, if only by name. I had a lump in my throat as I loved my 7 years at this wonderful place. ... Some of the people I recognised, if only by name. I had a lump in my throat as I loved my 7 years at this wonderful place./p By: -
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? -
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 -
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 -
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=3225
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?feed=rss2&p=322529 Jun 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. -
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 -
‘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 -
‘… 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&p=746129 Jun 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 -
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 -
Simon Armitage on Ukraine: a new acquisition – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23530By 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, -
Christmas cookery in the University Library – Cambridge University…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=11402Since 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 -
New Royal Commonwealth Society Glass Negatives and Lantern Slides –…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=15589Many 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, -
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 -
Secrets of the Erpenius copy of the Killing Story of Husain in…
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24302It 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”.
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