Sir Harold Bailey on film at the Trust

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Simon Pulleyn, a longstanding Friend of the Trust, recently drew our attention to a 1985 documentary, Queens’: A Cambridge College, in which the Trust and its first Chair, Sir Harold Bailey, appear in Episode 7, ‘Fellowship’. Two research students visit Sir Harold at the Trust. They are shown around his library in the Iran Room and given a taste of the Pahlavi Zoroastrian scripture, the Bundahišn. As he tells the students, he began work on that edition of the Bundahišn in 1933 but stopped and only resumed his work on …

Joe Cribb Honoured

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Our trustee Joe Cribb was honoured at an event at the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) on 18 April. The event was a celebration of Joe’s 75th birthday and the publication produced in recognition of his contribution to numismatics: Look at the Coins! Papers in Honour of Joe Cribb on his 75th Birthday. This title was chosen because of the frequency with which Joe has reminded fellow researchers to look at the coins themselves rather than relying on secondary sources. Joe’s colleagues Helen Wang, Robert Bracey and Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis all …

Marti Wilson 1931-2024

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By Brendan Griggs Marti Wilson, who died at the age of 92 in Tucson Arizona on 23 February, was a close friend of the Trust and will be greatly missed by all of us in Cambridge who knew her.  Marti was born and raised in New Richland, Minnesota. Trained as a therapist at the Adler Institute of Chicago, she married Howard Wilson, a distinguished scholar of comparative religions, with whom she travelled the world, visiting over 50 countries. They were married for 44 years, settling for a while in Cambridge, …

Bill Martin 1927-2024

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We were saddened to hear that Bill Martin, a longtime Friend of the Trust, passed away on on 17 February 2024 at the age of 96. Bill and and his wife, Sandra Mason, have been regular attendees of Trust events for many years. They also acted as Friends Coordinators for us in a voluntary capacity for ten years until 2018, organising Friends events and building support for the Trust’s work. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam was a particular passion of Bill’s. He was an avid collector of different editions and …

The Ashokan Pillar

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By James Cormick The Ashokan Pillar is up and running again.  Well, not exactly running, but reconstructed and in a different place:  further forward than before and easier to see and circumambulate.  It was made for us in 1996, in memory of Sir Harold Bailey, one of our founding trustees, who had died earlier that year, by Professor Ulf Hegewald of the University of Aachen in Germany.  He is now retired, but during his career as a teacher of design he also established a reputation as a creator of red …