Linder Sterling and the Society for Psychical Research
Last February Cambridge art gallery Kettle’s Yard contacted the Archives and Modern Manuscripts department with what they thought was a rather bizarre request. The artist […]
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Papers of Sir Peter Scott
The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts have completed a box list of a recent addition to the papers of Peter Scott, the artist, conservationist […]
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“We had a lovely time of it and did good work” – Captain E. D. Ridley and the Battle of Loos
26.9.15 – Dear Mother, The great battle began yesterday and we are now full of wild rumours. On the 25th of September 1915 the Loos-Artois […]
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Steffens’ War
24.11.1915 – No duties. Cleaning Guardroom. Corporal Gründler is shot in the head. If the issue of the ‘glorification’ of war has been pressing close […]
Continue reading »Horace Darwin’s Notebook
This image is taken from a notebook kept by Horace Darwin to record his ideas for all manner of mechanical devices, including a self-adjusting spanner, […]
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Judicial Combat
These drawings were made by John Stanford in 1841 while on a research trip to the libraries of Germany. They are copies taken from a […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – a sixteenth-century Book of Hours?
At first glance, it looks like a French Book of Hours made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century: it is written in humanistic […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – Spirit Drawings of Anna Mary Howitt
The latter half of the nineteenth century saw a rise in interest in Spiritualism, the belief that the spirits of the dead can, and indeed […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – the Illustrations of James McBryde
James McBryde came up to Cambridge in 1893 from Shrewsbury. Whilst at King’s College he joined the circle of friends surrounding the scholar M.R. James […]
Continue reading »Manuscripts Image of the Month – The Maxim Airplane
In 1894, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American born engineer and inventor of, amongst other things, the first machine gun, completed the construction of a ‘flying […]
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