World War One – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

Surgeons at war: the Fairbank papers

Posted on 5 July 2016 by Special Collections

Sir (Harold Arthur) Thomas Fairbank (1876-1961) and his son Thomas John Fairbank (1912-1998) were orthopaedic surgeons and each saw service with the Royal Army Medical […]

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A serendipitous Riddell: discovered by chance in the UL’s manuscripts collection

Posted on 27 June 2016 by Special Collections

I have been researching the history and men of the Cambridgeshire Regiment for over twenty years now and the Library has been an invaluable source […]