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Sir Frederic Madden and the Battle of the Brass Rubbings
(2003)
Wright, C. J.
In 1844, brass-rubbings made by Lewis Pryce Madden in the west of England were acquired for the British Museum at the behest of his brother Sir Frederic Madden, Keeper of Manuscripts. No record of them survives in the current catalogues of either the British Museum or the British Library. The search for them uncovers the story of how the Museum's collection of brass-rubbings was assembled in the nineteenth century and how the collection became a battleground between the competing Departments of Manuscripts and Prints & Drawings. It also casts light on the theory and practice of brass-rubbing in the first half of the nineteenth century, as well discussing the problems posed to scholarly institutions in housing the rubbings which artists and antiquarians were producing in such large numbers.
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Emigration, Abolition and the Atlantic World in the Revolutionary Era
(2003)
Shaw, Matthew J.
The upheavals of the French Revolution not only affected France and Europe, but heralded crucial consequences for the Caribbean. Revolution in Saint-Domingue (modern-day Haiti) led to the collapse of slavery and the creation of Haiti as an independent republic. 'Jacobin' slaves fleeing the island carried word of Revolution to British territories such as Jamaica. These disturbances added urgency to French and British planter's calls for military assistance and, some felt, undermined the case of those opposed to the slave trade in the popular imagination. This article, which draws on material from British and Early Printed Collections and the Department of Manuscripts, draws attention to the connections between the French and British abolitionist movements and to the role played by ï¿½migrï¿½ communities in the debate on the colonies and slavery.
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Recent Acquisitions: a Rare Work by Jacobus Tevius
(2003)
Taylor, Barry
Jacobus Tevius (Diogo de Tieve) is a key figure in the Portuguese Renaissance. This note describes the contents of his Epodon siue Ia(m)bicorum carminum libri tres [...] Ad Sebastianum primum, inuictissimum Lusitaniae Regem (Lisbon: Francisco Correia, 1565) and examines the author's contacts with courtly and scholarly circles in sixteenth-century Portugal and beyond.
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'Everything Curious': Samuel Hieronymus Grimm and Sir Richard Kaye
(2003)
Dolman, Brett
The British Library's Manuscript Collections contain a wealth of British topographical drawings which reflect the collecting instincts of antiquarians with a passion for recording, in word and image, the urban and rural landscapes around them. One such collector was the ecclesiastic and baronet Sir Richard Kaye, who recorded his thoughts in notebooks and correspondence. Over a twenty-year period, Kaye employed the artist Samuel Hieronymus Grimm as a travel companion, to record 'everything curious' that they discovered on their journeys across the country. The notebooks and drawings survive in the Library's collections. For today's local historian, these parallel sources provide a rare opportunity to recover the lost and pre-industrial landscapes of late eighteenth-century England. In particular they open a window into the everyday lives of the inhabitants of Kirkby-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, where Kaye was rector and where Grimm visited on more than one occasion.
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Confiscated Nazi Books in the British Library
(2003)
Harvey, A.D.
The British Library possesses eleven or twelve thousand books seized from German libraries and institutions between June 1944, when Anglo-American forces invaded western Europe, and 1947. Nearly half the confiscated books came from a single library, that of the German Army's Kriegsschule (known in the British Library as the Hanover Military Library) and were offered to the British Museum, the institution of which the present British Library was then a part, by Brigadier H. B. Latham on behalf of the Joint Intelligence Committee of the Cabinet and the Minister of Defence in July 1946. The books are largely dispersed throughout the BL collections. This article identifies books in the BL seized at the end of the War and which still bear the signs of ownership of German institutions.
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