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Owl Punch Bowl, 1903 (detail) Salt-glazed stoneware decorated with blue, brown and sage-green slips Height: 103 cm

‘Picture This #7′ - Owl with a removable head, Fitzwilliam Museum.

08 Oct 2011

He had a lively imagination which gave rise to a procession of grotesque and humorous creatures masquerading as jugs, spoon warmers and toast-racks...

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A manuscript of Samuel Butler’s translation of the ancient Greek poem, the Odyssey (Butler/II/3/4).

‘Picture This #6′ – Samuel Butler's translation of the 'Odyssey', St John's College.

28 Sep 2011

Samuel Butler was a man with big ideas and a big imagination. He wrote on literature, science, art and religion, always thinking outside the box and...

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Handbag owned by Baroness Thatcher (THCR 9/1/1)

'Picture This #5' - Baroness Thatcher's handbag, Churchill Archive Centre.

14 Sep 2011

Belonging to a woman in a man's world there was intense curiosity and speculation about the contents of the Thatcher handbag.

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Hand-coloured proof of John Speed's map of Cambridgeshire. Atlas.2.61.1

‘Picture This #4’ – John Speed Map of Cambridgeshire, University Library.

31 Aug 2011

John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine is one of the world’s great cartographic treasures.

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Detail from a front cover of "The Blimp", 1917.

‘Picture This #3’ – 'The Blimp', Christ's College.

24 Aug 2011

‘The Blimp’ is one of the items telling the story of Christ’s College during the First World War.

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Manuscript N.24

‘Picture This #2’ – Lady Margaret's Prayer Book, St John’s College.

17 Aug 2011

In the second of a new series of short articles exploring images from around the University, we look at the 15th-century prayer book owned by Lady...

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Frontispiece to the Book of Numbers. Moses and Aaron number the people of Israel, CCCC MS 2, f. 70r.

‘Picture This #1’ – The Bury Bible, Corpus Christi College.

10 Aug 2011

In the first of a new series of short articles exploring images from around the University, we look at the 12th-century Bury Bible from the Parker...

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