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Cambridge University Records & History: Founding, Colleges, and Genealogy Research Guides
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Title page of Oxford Men and their Colleges by Joseph Foster 1893 with Merton Chapel Tower engraving and Chancellor portrait

Oxford college team photographs 1893: the overlooked register that can identify every face in a Victorian group portrait

March 28, 2026

Group photographs of Oxford college football teams and torpid crews from 1893, with every man identifiable through Joseph Foster’s published register.

Harvard class 1860 photograph of Henry Livermore Abbott portrait from the Horace Howland yearbook album

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Harvard class 1860 photographs: the remarkable portraits of the Civil War generation that survived in a classmate’s album

March 28, 2026

Fifty-three named portraits from the Harvard Class of 1860 survive at the Library of Congress, annotated by a classmate who recorded each man’s fate in the Civil War.

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University of Glasgow history 1451: the remarkable bishop’s gamble that gave Scotland its greatest age of science
University of Cambridge history 1209: the remarkable Oxford exiles who built England’s second great university
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