A binding for the organist John Bull (1562/3-1628)
The virtuoso composer, musician and organ builder John Bull (who probably spent some time at the University of Cambridge) died on this day in 1628. […]
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How (and when) to visit the Fitzwilliam museum…in the 1850s.
Many of you will have seen that the Fitzwilliam museum turned 200 earlier this month. How would visitors born, like the museum, 200 years ago, […]
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The ghostly world of M. R. James
Among the Library’s recent acquisitions is a privately printed ghost story by M. R. James, who died on this day in 1936. It is the […]
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