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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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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In the papers of Sir James George Scott there are a few photographs, including one of a football team featuring a mix of Burmese and […]
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Amongst the correspondence and papers of the Baldwin, Kipling, Burne-Jones, Poynter, and Macdonald families (MS Add.9974) can be found a folder of drawings and sketches […]
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As archivists, we spend many hours looking through much material in personal papers collections relating to the often mundane activities of day to day life; […]
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In 1898 the children of the Keynes and Glazebrook families produced an illustrated journal called The Gem. It included poems, stories, quizzes, sketches and paintings […]
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Robert (Robin) Hill was born in 1899. After reading natural sciences, and specializing in chemistry, at Cambridge, he had a successful career in biochemistry, becoming […]
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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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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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