‘Our singular patron’: Thomas Cromwell and Cambridge University
TV viewers enjoying the tumultuous final episodes of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light may be interested in Thomas Cromwell’s impact on Cambridge in […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Peter Scott skating with a friend
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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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Pagoda at Pa-Li-Chuang
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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Charles Hamilton Sorley remembered
A guest post by Jonathan Spain. The Department of Archives and Modern Manuscripts has recently catalogued a small archive relating to the First World War […]
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Locks’ Press: When literature, printmaking, and art collide
Guest post by Dr Jacqueline Reiter, an independent historian specialising in late 18th and early 19th century British political, military and naval history. Jacqueline received […]
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A Cure from the Crypt: Weapon Salve in the Library of John Dee
The astrologer, occultist, and alchemist John Dee (1527–1609) has long been associated with the art of necromancy – conjuring the spirits of the dead – […]
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Finding Henry Morris in the Cambridge University Press archives
This post is by Anna Crutchley, an archivist and textile designer-maker who teaches workshops in adult education centres around the country, including weaving at Cottenham […]
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Binocular Testing and Bomb Drops: The Philip Laurie War Diaries and Records on the History of the Royal Greenwich Observatory
On 15th October 1940, the Royal Observatory Greenwich was rocked by a German bomb blast which destroyed the main entrance gates. It was the first […]
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Hilda L. Everett: A Twentieth-Century Fenland Poet
One of the primary benefits of legal deposit is that all sorts of obscure, locally published material makes its way safely into a national collection […]
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Archives and Modern Manuscripts Image of the Month: Football in Burma
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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