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29 Oct 2024

The History of Lincoln Fundraising: A look at the Anglo-Norman Charters in the Lincoln Archives

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Australian Postage Stamp featuring Baldwin Spencer in the middle

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4 Jul 2024

Sir Baldwin Spencer, Anthropologist, Biologist, and Lincoln’s Forgotten Fellow

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Photo of Azimuth draft

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26 Apr 2023

Beat Beyond

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Page from Francesco Rivola’s 1633 Latin-Armenian dictionary, featuring the Armenian alphabet in Marshall’s hand, with the names of the letters and guides to pronunciation in columns to the right of it, on the front free endpaper.

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1 Dec 2022

Armenian books in a 17th century Oxford library

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Lincoln Concerts Hilary term card from 1946, with four events: Anglo-Saxon Minstrels by Prof. J.R.R. Tolkien, An Introduction to Contemporary Music by Dr. E.J. Wellesz, and two concerts

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16 Nov 2022

'Booking for Smoking Concerts Now': A Very Brief History of this Controversial Entertainment

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Page from the Lincoln College Order Book, from Chapter Day , November 6, 1886, Among the notices is a list of college officers, including the statement 'Mr Alexander was elected Domestic Bursar'.

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11 Jul 2022

Samuel Alexander (1859-1938): Lincoln College’s first Jewish Fellow

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A very long high set of bookshelves, with rows of old books

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6 Jun 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: The Bareham Collection

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Front page of a pamphlet titled 'Certain Propositions, whereby the distressed Protestants of Ireland, who have lost their goods, and personal estates there, by means of the present rebellion, may be relieved, if his Majesty and both Houses of Parliament shall so think fit (the title continues for several more lines). Printed in London for Joseph Hunscott on April 19, 1642.

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20 Mar 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: Refugees in Early Modern Europe

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An old book of Greek Gospels in the middle of a restoration process, depicted closed with several sheets of thin Japanese paper between the pages.

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17 Mar 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: Treasures restored

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Black and white image of a group of people, seven women in long dresses sitting on chairs with four men in suits and bowties standing around them

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16 Jan 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: Theory into practice

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Closed cover of a book, with a golden crest

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15 Jan 2022

Lincoln Unlocked: The library of a 17th century statesman

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19 Oct 2021

Music in the margins

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Engraving of Lincoln College depicting two quads, with people scattered all around inside and out.

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24 May 2021

Building ambition: grand designs for Lincoln College

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Brown binder cover of a book with etchings of daffodils

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1 Apr 2021

Spring comes to the Senior Library

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Indexes and records in the Archive

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19 Mar 2021

How indexes help to keep archive catalogues human

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Title page of an Arabic manuscript with illustrations of birds

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12 Feb 2021

Recently catalogued: an enigma in the Senior Library

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11 Nov 2020

Cataloguing literary and scientific papers in the Archive (part 2)

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A draft for Gavin Selerie’s Roxy

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28 Oct 2020

Cataloguing literary and scientific papers in the Archive (part 1)

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Nupur Patel pictured with her exhibition 'Early Modern Narratives of Indigenous People' at an Unlocking the Senior Library event

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8 Jul 2020

Early Modern Narratives of Indigenous People: Unlocking the Senior Library

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The Empress of Morocco. The book’s libretto is illustrated by printed engravings of the baroque proscenium arch of Christopher Wren’s Dorset Garden Theatre on Drury Lane.

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10 Jun 2020

‘Performance on the Page’ in the Senior Library’s collection

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An old locked metallic chest

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20 May 2020

Viral: Locked out of the Archive

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Vetus Registrum, folio 18v, handwritten text

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20 Apr 2020

Spot the Lincolnite: the 'King’s Great Cause'

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The Appendix page of Cosmographie in Four Bookes

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7 Mar 2020

World Book Day, or the World in a Book

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