Monthly Archives: March 2020

Conserving the Richard Bright Collection

Posted on March 15, 2020 by

Dr Richard Bright is a key figure in the history of medicine and intellectual life, famous for his work in nephrology and discovery of Bright’s disease, but also active in other areas, including natural history, geology, anthropology and travel. Bright … Continue reading →

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Royal Greenwich Observatory

Posted on March 12, 2020 by

The ‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’ Project has received many collections for digitisation since it began. One such collection is the sound archives of the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO), currently housed within the Cambridge University Archives. This collection has a vast … Continue reading →

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Much Ado About Nothing?

Posted on March 7, 2020 by

A Letter from Edward Harbord 3rd Baron Suffield, to his sixteen-year-old son starts ‘With an aching heart and a trembling hand, I take up my pen to reply to your note…’ The eleven-page letter written in 1829 and held at … Continue reading →

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