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The Royal Commonwealth Society collections have just added an on-line catalogue entry for a fascinating series of letters written from Civil War America by Edward Stanley (1839-1925), fourth Baron ... President Lincoln on battlefield of Antietam,

23 May 2024: round the world journey with Cambridge engineering graduate Thomas Kelsey in 1928 as part of an Empire Settlement Tour. ... John By on the construction of the Rideau Canal, a major engineering project connecting the Ottawa River with the naval arsenal at

A colourful character, Frank McClean was the only son of the renowned Belfast-born civil engineer John Robinson McClean (1813-1873). ... Frank McClean to his father, 1870, on giving up a career in engineering (MS Add.10348/5/1).

of the celebrations which greeted liberation of the camp and Singapore was written by William Churchill, a veteran of the Malayan Civil Service. ... I missed the arrival of Lord Mountbatten standing erect in his splendid Admiral’s uniform -white for

I am of course prepared to pay for researcher time looking at the document as appropriate. ... Curious Cures. Darwin Correspondence Project. Digital Resources. Digitisation. Ely assizes. Engineering.

In March 1895, Nansen disembarked when it became clear that Fram’s course would not carry it to the pole, and travelling with kayaks and dog sledges, set a record northerly ... The RCS holds the archives of one of the pioneers of civil aviation, Sir

Facilitated by Kerstin Hacker (Co-course leader, BA (Hons) Photography, ARU), Shaikh Bashir (associate lecturer, ARU) and Jenni Skinner (African Studies Library Manager), we were delighted to welcome the photography students ... Marnham collection

Medicine) in the University of Cambridge. The professorship was one of five founded by King Henry VIII in 1540 (the others being Civil Law, Divinity, Greek and Hebrew), which were known ... The ancient world is represented of course by the complete works

23 May 2024: papers of Frank McClean, astronomer and educational benefactor https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=21833 Sally Kent Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:34:47 0000 Acquisitions Archives Astronomy Engineering ... Kelvin was elected to the chair of Natural

23 May 2024: Engineering – Cambridge University Library Special Collections https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:09:20 0000 en-US hourly 1 ... Kelvin was elected to the chair of Natural Philosophy in 1846 and over the course of his 50