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Category: Manuscripts Image of the Month

Horace Darwin’s Notebook

Posted on 13 July 2018 by Frank

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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Manuscripts Image of the Month – a sixteenth-century Book of Hours?

Posted on 2 August 2016 by Frank

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 […]

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Manuscripts Image of the Month – Spirit Drawings of Anna Mary Howitt

Posted on 7 July 2016 by Frank

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 […]

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Manuscripts Image of the Month – the Illustrations of James McBryde

Posted on 8 June 2016 by Frank

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 […]

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Manuscripts Image of the Month – The Maxim Airplane

Posted on 4 May 2016 by Frank

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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