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During 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

It 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

Westgate’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

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,

We 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? –

Do 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?

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. ... Burns. Y30448Q/23 and 29 are, however, more characteristic

People 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

This 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

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

26 Jun 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.

26 Jun 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

26 Jun 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,

26 Jun 2024: People’s History/em/a, is now on display at Cambridge University Library./p pMichael Wood and crew came to film at the UL last July. ... The Moore Bede’ (MS Kk.5.16), is the second oldest surviving copy of Bede’s emEcclesiastical History of the

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

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

29 Jun 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

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

26 Jun 2024: promoting 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,

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

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

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

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,

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

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,

26 Jun 2024: promoting 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,

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”.

26 Jun 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

Although various texts in the Curious Cures collection seek to provide guidance and cures for women’s reproductive health, there were limits to medieval people’s understanding of the more intricate ... Emulating the acts and words of priests,

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. .

26 Jun 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 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

26 Jun 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

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

26 Jun 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?

26 Jun 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

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

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

26 Jun 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

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

29 Jun 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

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

26 Jun 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?

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

26 Jun 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.

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

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

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