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Comprises correspondence relating to requests to publish quotes or republish all of Bronowski's article on 'The Dilemma of the Scientist' (originally published 1954). Also includes an annotated photocopy of the article from The Listener (1 Jul 1954).

Comprises correspondence with Dr Andrew Robertson (senior research fellow, The University of Sussex, Science Policy Research Unit) on Bronowski assisting him in research about the development of smokeless fuels at the National Coal Board.

Includes a typescript draft of 'The Smokeless Fuel Shortage' by Andrew Robertson (May 1971) annotated [by Bronowski], and a typescript of an interview with Bronowski held in London (20 Feb 1972).

Also includes a copy of a letter to Sir William Hawthorne (Master, Churchill College, Cambridge) from Bronowski promising to write an account of the development of smokeless fuels for inclusion in the Churchill College archives [Churchill Archives Centre].

The David Crighton concert in the College Chapel on Sunday 17th February 2008 at 8.30pm

The David Crighton Concert held in the College Chapel on Sunday 23rd February 2014

The David Crighton Concert held in the College Chapel on Sunday 21st February at 8.30pm

The David Crighton Concert in the College Chapel on Sunday 19th February at 8.30pm

"The date of Eadgar's reform of the English coinage", by Michael Dolley, manuscript (photocopy), six pages on six folios (recto only), with note on the first page that reads "Notes from a seminar paper shown to me in Feb. 1974" and another on the last page that reads "3rd March 1974, from a paper prepared for a seminar 28.ii.1974".

Concert of mainly medieval music by The Cockerel Consort in the College Chapel on Sunday 2nd November 1975 at 8.30pm

Minute book.

"The Cuerdale Hoard: Catalogue of the coins from this hoard at Downham Hall, Clitheroe, Lancashire, 1973", typescript (copy), 31 pages on as many folios (recto only), including title page, eight pages of text, one of notes, one of abbreviations and references, and 20 pages of descriptions of the coins in the plates (which are not included with the paper), not otherwise dated, signed C.E.B., with a short note from CEB to say that he has given copies to CSSL [i.e. Stewart Lyon] and MMA [i.e. Marion Archibald]

Consists of a typescript of a paper by Bronowski including references [for publication], handwritten notes of changes to be made before publication, and draft typescripts of notes for a paper [early version of publication] read to H F Baker's class at Cambridge (9 Mar 1935).

Correspondence relating to the acquisition and ultimate gift of the artwork by Flanagan to the College.

Comprises handwritten notes by Bronowski and source material [used in preparation for Bronowski's lectures on 'The Imaginative Mind in Art' and 'The Imaginative Mind in Science' given for the Frank Gerstein Lectures on 'Imagination and the University' at York University in Toronto, 1963].

Source material comprises previous work by Bronowski in the same subject area as well as articles by other authors: a press cutting of 'Creativity, the facts behind the fad' by E J Tangerman ('Product Engineering', 24 Aug 1959); a press cutting of 'The Haunted Universe' by J W N Watkins (The Listener, 21 Nov 1957); a transcript of 'The Creative Mind' radio programme that Bronowski spoke on (WGBH-FM, Massachusetts, 1958); a reprint of 'A Moral for an Age of Plenty' by Bronowski (from The Saturday Evening Post, 1960); an annotated typescript of 'Science and Values' by Bronowski (contribution to a recorded debate in the '51 Society', Manchester, Mar 1952); and a press cutting of 'The Creative Process' (from Scientific American, Sep 1958, vol. 199, no. 3).

Also includes a letter from Horizon journal on the lectures that Bronowski was preparing to give in Canada.

Comprises a typescript and annotated proof pages for publication of a lecture given by Bronowski at a Nobel conference on 'Creativity' at Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter, Minnesota (7-8 January 1970).

Consists of an inscribed booklet including 'The Creative Process' by Bronowski.

Consists of a photocopy of 1 page of handwritten notes on 'The Creative Act' [for a lecture to be given in] Minnesota, 19 May 1966.

Comprises typescripts and photocopied galley proofs of 'The Conscience of a Scientist' with correspondence with The New York Academy of Sciences on publishing the article in a sesquicentennial edition (150th year anniversary edition) of 'The Sciences'.

Also includes a photocopy of Bronowski's notes for a lecture on 'Science and Society' given in Madras (5 Nov 1966).

Mathematical conic sculpture designed by David Parr and made by an unknown woodworker from American walnut and padauk. Several sections are attached via brass pins and can be removed to form an ellipse, a parabola and two 'leaves' of a hyperbola. Also includes a laminated paper and plastic container, and information sheet.

Comprises correspondence on Japanese and Italian editions and possible German and Spanish editions of 'The Common Sense of Science', and on excerpts from 'The Common Sense of Science' being published in other books.

Comprises material relating to corrections to August 1965 and November 1965 reprints of 'The Common Sense of Science': correspondence, copies of articles and letters by other authors, notes and annotated photocopies of pages from the book.

Papal decretals; M. R. James's no. 6. Contains [numbered by the order in its contents list, following James]: (1) a contents list of (2) text and gloss of Decretales Gregorii Novi; (3) Constitutiones nove duo innocencij iiiti (incomplete); (4, interrupting 3) Constitutiones alexandri iiiiti; (5 - bound after 6) Decretalis bonifacii in sixto libro, entitled in the contents list "Expositio super id … et libro vj prout concernit visitationem episcopi dunelm et conventus dunelm"; (6) liber sixtus non glo[ssatus] (another copy of book 6 of the decretals of Boniface VIII, 1298, in another hand and with a table of chapters). With flyleaves from a 13C law ms.

Comprises correspondence, mainly with Alan Hill and others at William Heinemann Ltd (publishers) and Curtis Brown Ltd (literary agents), about publication including translations of 'The Common Sense of Science'. Correspondence with William Heinemann publishers also concerns Bronowski acting as the editor for a series of popular scientific books entitled 'Contemporary Science'.

Also includes correspondence with Dr Pierre Lépine (Institut Pasteur, Paris) on 'The Common Sense of Science' and Lépine agreeing to write a book on the present state of knowledge on viruses [for 'Contemporary Science' series] (Jun 1951).

Additionally includes: press cuttings about 'The Common Sense of Science'; letters from readers of 'The Common Sense of Science' and individuals Bronowski sent copies of the book to including Herbert Dingle (University College London), A J Ayer (University College London), Sir Henry Dale (Chairman, The Wellcome Trust) about the work of Leeuwenhoek on microscopes with a reply from Bronowski, [Henry] Tizard (Ministry of Defence), H P Robertson (Office of the Secretary of Defense, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, Washington D C), Harry Hoff (Civil Service Commission) [pen name William Cooper], and Joseph Zubin (Professor of Psychology, Columbia University and Principle Research Scientist in Biometrics, State of New York, Department of Mental Hygiene) about a text book on abnormal psychology; a copy of a letter in German from Bronowski to Dr Albert Einstein (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton); a paper on 'Trends in Operational Research' by R W Bevan (Department of the Scientific Adviser, United Kingdom); a copy of a letter to Professor H S M Coxeter from Bronowski about empirical findings for pi in Coxeter's edition of Rouse Ball's 'Mathematical Recreations'; and a letter from Celia Green (Director, The Psychophysical Research Unit, Oxford) making enquiries on behalf of J B Priestley (writer) about the physics of time.

Comprises correspondence with publishers about reprints and paperback editions of 'The Common Sense of Science'.

Also includes: correspondence on extracts from 'The Common Sense of Science' being published elsewhere, and on a Japanese edition of 'The Common Sense of Science'; and a copy of a letter sent to 'Nature' by [Hermann] Bondi (19 Apr 1952, vol. 169) on 'Relativity and Indeterminacy' [kept as commented on 'The Common Sense of Science'].

Comprises material relating to 'The Common Sense of Science' (first published 1951).

Comprises correspondence with the Colorado College (Colorado Springs) relating to Bronowski giving a lecture on 'Imagination in Science and in the Arts' (25 Apr 1966) for a faculty seminar on 'Science and the Liberal Arts', and meeting students and staff during his visit.

Also includes: a programme for the seminar (Feb-May 1966), a letter from Philip LeCuyer thanking Bronowski for reading his essay, itineraries for Bronowski's visit to Colorado Springs, a leaflet on a 1965 Colorado College symposium on 'The New Science', and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].

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Reproduced from David Loggan's Cantabrigia Illustrata of 1688.

"The coinage of Southern England, 765-796: the evidence reviewed", by Hugh Pagan, typescript (photocopy), thirty-eight pages on as many folios (recto only), with some corrections, unpublished and undated.

"The Coinage of Richard III", by Tim Webb Ware, typescript, eleven pages on eleven folios, summarising the coinage of Richard during his twenty-six month reign, from 26 June 1483 until his death on 22 August 1485. The paper is "signed" on the last page, in typescript, "TGWW 6/87". On the first page, in the upper right corner, there is a note pencilled in: "TWW BNS 23.6.87".

"The coinage of Edward the Elder", by Stewart Lyon, copy of typescript, seven pages on four folios (recto & verso), marked "Draft", undated but datable to no later than 2001 when the paper was published as Chapter 5 in the edited book Edward the Elder, 899-924.

This was a College music group that formed in 1974 and was directed by Andrew Parkinson. It quickly became one of the leading Cambridge ensembles in the field of Medieval music and its termly concerts were well attended. When its members left College in 1976 it did not continue. Records relating to its performances have been catalogued under the Musical Society

Framed watercolour of 'the Cock herring'

Minute book from the foundation to the 75th meeting. With two printed membership lists, for 1947-54 and 1947-58; the first of these includes a list of the committee in 1954 and a description of the foundation and purpose of the Club.

Consists of an annotated script of a play for radio by Bronowski, set around the end of the Second World War.

Comprises correspondence, notes and source material (articles by others) relating to Bronowski's article on 'The Clock Paradox' about Einstein's theory of relativity (Scientific American, Feb 1963, vol. 208, no. 2).

Also includes: copies of the article; correspondence and press cuttings on an academic dispute about relativity between Herbert Dingle and Bronowski started by an experiment shown in Bronowski's 'Insight' television series (c.1961); a typescript of 'Paradox Proved' by Bronowski (for Scientific American, Dec 1960); and 2 annotated typescripts entitled "Cosmic Time - Aldus Books (Dummy Only)" (Jan 1963).

Comprises correspondence on inviting Bronowski to give the Clark Lectures in 1975/6 and his acceptance, a list of Clark Lecturers from 1922-1974/5, and a record about the engagement created for the file.

Consists of a letter from Ruth Porter, Deputy Director of the Ciba Foundation for the Promotion of International Co-operation in Medical and Chemical Research, on meeting Bronowski at a dinner and thanking him for sending her ['William Blake and the Age of Revolution'].

"The Church's one foundation" for organ and voices in unison. Key: E major.

"The Church type of Athelstan", by Ian Stewart,manuscript (photocopy), single page, signed "IS" and dated 30 July 1981. There are six numbered points that deal with the St Peter coinage and the York coinage of Athelstan (10th century). Attached is a photocopy of a plate of coin photographs, but the source is not acknowledged. The plate is identified only as "Plate 9", showing images of 36 coins (obv. & rev.) numbered 802-840 (with numbers 824, 827 & 830 not shown). The manuscript and photocopy were originally associated with a copy of correspondence from Ian Stewart to Mark Blackburn from 1976.