The Crimean War letters of Captain Blackett
Alma Crimea Sep th 21st My dear Father, I have hardly a moment, but take the present opportunity of letting you know that all is […]
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Continue reading »Cambridge University Library is pleased to present two events for the 2012 Science Festival, to which you are warmly invited. The lectures are free, but […]
Continue reading »Recently added to the online catalogue of the Library’s Additional manuscripts on the Janus website are two collections of papers relating to Edmund Blunden (1896-1974), […]
Continue reading »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 […]
Continue reading »A treasure-trove for historians and teachers Many school teachers will already be familiar with the Royal Commonwealth Society’s essay competition. Held annually, and open to […]
Continue reading »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 »Hugh Pearson distinguished himself as Director of Surveys in Sudan between 1905 and 1922, mapping huge tracts of little known desert, forest, marsh and waterways. […]
Continue reading »On Friday afternoon it was my very great pleasure to attend the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the Nobel Prize winning biochemist Sir Frederick Gowland […]
Continue reading »As part of our programme of regular additions to Janus, the website for Cambridge archives catalogues, we have recently added a catalogue of the letters […]
Continue reading »This is the title of an important collection of letters recently acquired by the Royal Commonwealth Society department, RCMS 356. The author was the Royal […]
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