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Image: Records relating to the Manor of Tottenham. FNL grant 2013.
Courtesy of Bruce Castle Museum/Haringey Archives.

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Title on first page of manuscript: 'A pamphlyt compile of Cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualitie, and goodness, of the same'Curd your enthusiasm....

18 Apr 2025

Papers from Turing's Delilah project archiveAlan Turing archive saved for the nation

8 Apr 2025

Sarum Master Bible, folio 585r. Apocalypse, with initial of St John as a medieval scribe, writing his Revelation.Sarum Master Bible welcomed home

25 Feb 2025

Elizabeth Barrett Browning letter to her sisters from Avignon, 2 October 1846. From the archive of the British Library (Add MS 89761)160 Barrett Browning letters acquired

25 Nov 2024
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