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Author: Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

Blackout: war time school life

Posted on 7 May 2022 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

On 25th August 1939, the German pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein, under the pretext of making a courtesy visit, sailed into the Port of Gdansk, anchoring 150m from […]

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Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions, Special Collections, World War Two

A letter of gratitude

Posted on 17 November 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

The journey down memory lane through the Rare Books Department’s new collection of school magazines took me from our cool European climate to the much […]

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Rare Books, Royal Commonwealth Society, Special Collections

Training of Electrical Engineers – how it was done in 1894

Posted on 29 July 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

A very interesting process called electrification occurred in Britain and other countries from mid-1880 until around 1950. This process included the changeover from line shafts […]

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Library history, Photographs, Rare Books, Special Collections

The Signal: the magazine of the brave

Posted on 28 January 2016 by Agnieszka Drabek-Prime

We have a new collection coming to Rare Books. It will take some time before it will be available to see in our reading room, […]

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Collectors and collecting, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

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