Royal Colonial Institute Photographic Portraits
We are happy to report that a catalogue of the photographic portrait collection of the Royal Colonial Institute has recently been published on Janus, Cambridge […]
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‘My dearest Siegfried’: The Egremont Sassoon Papers
Poet and author Siegfried Sassoon was a prolific letter writer and throughout his life maintained a close friendship and correspondence with his mother Georgiana Theresa […]
Continue reading »Unusual pictures from the Manuscripts Department as it launches Image of the Month
Today the Manuscripts Department launches its Image of the Month project. The Image of the Month will feature single images of interesting objects or information […]
Continue reading »The Allberry fragments: Manichaean texts rediscovered
A lecture by Professor Nils Arne Pedersen on ‘The Syriac-Manichaean “Allberry fragments”: how they were rediscovered, and what they can tell us’ will be held […]
Continue reading »‘It is a person’s privilege to go to hell’: how Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alice Ambrose fell out
It’s known that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein fell out with one of his most beloved students, the American logician Alice Ambrose. The source of the […]
Continue reading »‘… superb photographs of very great interest’: an album of New Guinea views in the RCS collection
A guest post by Antje Lübcke On a recent research trip to the UK I visited the Cambridge University Library in order to look through […]
Continue reading »The longitude problem: 300-year-old archive opened to the world
It was the conundrum that baffled some of the greatest and most eccentric experts of the 18th century—and captivated the British public during an era […]
Continue reading »The Royal Commonwealth Society Library and the Blitz
We are delighted to announce the publication of a detailed on-line catalogue for the archives of the Royal Commonwealth Society. This collection is composed of […]
Continue reading »The Trial of Jerry McGill
Fragments of history frequently emerge out of the collections kept in the Manuscripts Reading Room. While cataloguing the GE Moore collection, I stumbled across this […]
Continue reading »Introducing GE Moore
GE Moore was famous during his lifetime for his book Principia Ethica (1903), a founding text of analytic philosophy. Those familiar with Moore only through […]
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