In 1858 two ornithologists, John Wolley and Alfred Newton, travelled to Iceland in the hope of seeing a flightless seabird, the elusive great auk. Both […]
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January 1855. The British coalition government was in crisis over accusations of mismanagement in the Crimean war. In the literary world, the final installment of […]
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Guest post by David Jones (Lakenheath Heritage Group) This is an account of how an historic poster came into the possession of the Lakenheath Heritage […]
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Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1838-1907), the Victorian antiquary, had a colourful life and career as a soldier, explorer, geographer, archaeologist, artist and writer. His travels took […]
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TV viewers enjoying the tumultuous final episodes of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light may be interested in Thomas Cromwell’s impact on Cambridge in […]
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Taken from one of the diaries of Kathleen Scott, our image this month, apposite for the season, shows Kathleen’s son Peter ice skating with a […]
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Constance Gordon-Cumming drew this image of a pagoda for an article she published in The English Illustrated Magazine in 1888 entitled ‘Pagodas, Aurioles and Umbrellas.’ […]
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A guest post by Jonathan Spain. The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has recently catalogued a small archive relating to the First World War […]
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Guest post by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, an independent historian specialising in late 18th and early 19th century British political, military and naval history. Jacqueline received […]
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The astrologer, occultist, and alchemist John Dee (1527–1609) has long been associated with the art of necromancy – conjuring the spirits of the dead – […]
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