A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers 2
RCMS 37/5/76 As promised, the restored text of Queen Victoria’s rebuke to Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers has been reproduced, as no cryptanalyst […]
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A challenge to amateur spies: the Hugh Childers papers
The Royal Commonwealth Society department is completing a detailed online description of the papers of the politician Hugh Childers (1827–1896). One of the most fascinating items […]
Continue reading »Thomas Attwood Walmisley’s Installation Odes
The University has a long standing tradition of performing music on the occasion of the installation of a new Chancellor (rather topical, now we are […]
Continue reading »William Bedwell: the tribulations of an Arabist
William Bedwell was an Arabic scholar and mathematician born in Great Hallingbury, Essex, in 1563. He is sometimes known as the father of Arabic studies […]
Continue reading »The riddle of the Syriac double dot: it’s the world’s earliest question mark
Manuscripts written in Syriac, an ancient language of the Middle East, are peppered with mysterious dots. Among them is the vertical double dot or zawga […]
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