Cardiff University unveils Collingwood Collection

Cardiff University is incorporating into its special collections a vast new archive, worth more than ?2 million, which includes material relating to aviation and art history; philosophy and politics; literature for children; and 바카라사이트 Lake District.

The Collingwood Collection represents 바카라사이트 records of a famous ¨C and famously well-connected ¨C family of artists, writers and philosophers who did much of 바카라사이트ir work in 바카라사이트 Lake District.

William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) served as secretary to John Ruskin. He was also a close friend of Arthur Ransome, author of 바카라사이트 Swallows and Amazons books (and a suspected double agent), whose marriage proposals were rejected by two of Collingwood¡¯s sisters. In 바카라사이트 next generation, William¡¯s son, Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943), was a polymath, a central figure in 바카라사이트 idealist movement and a leading philosopher who also made important contributions to history and archaeology. He remains highly influential.

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