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Day 327. Flying fish and salt horse: a seafaring tale
22nd June 1860:
Friday 22nd. Blowing harder this morning,…
Main Library entrance doors and canopy building works begin 22nd June
Essential repairs to the front entrance of the Main Library will begin on Monday the 22nd of June. These works require the complete closure of the entrance until at least Thursday the 25th. We expect contractors to be…
Day 324. Flying fish and salt horse: a seafaring tale
19th June 1860:
Tuesday 19th. Still the same weather.…
Reading the Collections, Week 20: Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats
Those who know of John Ruskin (1819-1900) as Victorian Britain’s preeminent art critic and author of titles such as The Stones of Venice, Modern Painters and The Seven Lamps of […]
“A complete victory gained with great bloodshed”
Today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, when the British under the Duke of Wellington and their allies from the Netherlands, Hanover, Brunswick, and Nassau, joined with […]
